Dpolenz Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 (edited) Yes that's right,love it here,loved it New York,loved it in Miami.Loved it in Sydeny,loved in London,and loved it in Dublin.And Today i have put up my christmas tree with all the lights,looks great.Another Happy Christmas in pattaya.HAPPY CHRSTMASS EVERYBODY,HO HO HO. Wheere will everybody be eating there dinner in Pattaya this year? Edited November 25, 2009 by Dpolenz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAceFace Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 I will be celebrating in the foodcourt at tops...care to join, I will reserve you a stool and a chang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dpolenz Posted November 25, 2009 Author Share Posted November 25, 2009 I will be celebrating in the foodcourt at tops...care to join, I will reserve you a stool and a chang. Make mine vodka red bull,TheAceface did you know that The word Christmas originated as a compound meaning "Christ's Mass? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabcbroon Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 (edited) I love xmas too. But what about this miserable git: POST BAG Christmas nightmare [*]Published: 25/11/2009 at 12:00 AM [ It's really insane to be confronted all over Bangkok in all the shopping malls with the Christmas Nightmare and Santa Claus Syndrome. Why are we being attacked so early with the same stupid Christmas songs (White Christmas, Jingle Bells, etc) staged by screaming kids and some old guys from another country, when we are still suffering ear damage from last year? Thailand is a nice country with many beautiful trees and other natural products you can display in the shopping malls until Christmas arrives in December. But now we are being attacked with the most funny and ugly Christmas Trees all over Bangkok and really far too early _ the real Christmas feeling in the Western world starts between Dec 1 and 5 and lasts till Dec 26. Then it is over, but in some places may go on till the end of January so we may still need to pull the plugs by ourselves in the shopping malls, to be freed finally of all the Christmas noise. I think Thailand and the Thai people have better and nicer things to show in the malls than this nightmare returning every year. HUBBIE LOWLANDS Edited November 25, 2009 by rabcbroon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAceFace Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 I will be celebrating in the foodcourt at tops...care to join, I will reserve you a stool and a chang. Make mine vodka red bull,TheAceface did you know that The word Christmas originated as a compound meaning "Christ's Mass? No I did not please enlighten me....ps...only jesting about Tops.hehehehe. Parsons nose for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dpolenz Posted November 25, 2009 Author Share Posted November 25, 2009 I love xmas too. But what about this miserable git:POST BAG Christmas nightmare Published: 25/11/2009 at 12:00 AM Newspaper section: News tweetmeme_url = window.location; tweetmeme_service = 'digg.com'; tweetmeme_source = "BPopinion"; It's really insane to be confronted all over Bangkok in all the shopping malls with the Christmas Nightmare and Santa Claus Syndrome. Why are we being attacked so early with the same stupid Christmas songs (White Christmas, Jingle Bells, etc) staged by screaming kids and some old guys from another country, when we are still suffering ear damage from last year? Thailand is a nice country with many beautiful trees and other natural products you can display in the shopping malls until Christmas arrives in December. But now we are being attacked with the most funny and ugly Christmas Trees all over Bangkok and really far too early _ the real Christmas feeling in the Western world starts between Dec 1 and 5 and lasts till Dec 26. Then it is over, but in some places may go on till the end of January so we may still need to pull the plugs by ourselves in the shopping malls, to be freed finally of all the Christmas noise. I think Thailand and the Thai people have better and nicer things to show in the malls than this nightmare returning every year. HUBBIE LOWLANDS Who the fek is Hubbie Lowlands lol,why so anti xxmas,it must be something to do when they were kids.Please everyone share your experiences,bad and negative,postive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dpolenz Posted November 25, 2009 Author Share Posted November 25, 2009 I will be celebrating in the foodcourt at tops...care to join, I will reserve you a stool and a chang. Make mine vodka red bull,TheAceface did you know that The word Christmas originated as a compound meaning "Christ's Mass? No I did not please enlighten me....ps...only jesting about Tops.hehehehe. Parsons nose for me It is derived from the Middle English Christemasse and Old English Cristes mæsse, a phrase first recorded in 1038 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverdie Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 I loathe Christmas & all the bullshite, stupidity and traffic it generates. Its so commercial, Christmas shites me and so do people that carry on about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dpolenz Posted November 25, 2009 Author Share Posted November 25, 2009 I loathe Christmas & all the bullshite, stupidity and traffic it generates. Its so commercial, Christmas shites me and so do people that carry on about it I was waiting for you to show up scrooge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverdie Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 ^I hope I didnt let you down. But seriously the true meaning behind Christmas has been totally lost in all this retail crap that goes on. I bet if you asked half the children around these days about christmas they would talk about things like toys and mommy getting drunk down at the trailer park & coming home with 3 daddies and so forth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAceFace Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 I loathe Christmas & all the bullshite, stupidity and traffic it generates. Its so commercial, Christmas shites me and so do people that carry on about it F#ck...fair enough. On a serious note I would not miss it for the world just to see the look on my kids faces on xmas morn. Hope your happy in your own little way. Fancy pulling a cracker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dpolenz Posted November 25, 2009 Author Share Posted November 25, 2009 ^I hope I didnt let you down. But seriously the true meaning behind Christmas has been totally lost in all this retail crap that goes on. I bet if you asked half the children around these days about christmas they would talk about things like toys and mommy getting drunk down at the trailer park & coming home with 3 daddies and so forth. I bet your an old romantic really,behind that tough hardened cynical persona lol.HAPPY CHRISTMAS NEVERDIE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dpolenz Posted November 25, 2009 Author Share Posted November 25, 2009 Im off out now to but more lights cuz some aint work,see you latr and happy xmas everybody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabcbroon Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 ^I hope I didnt let you down. But seriously the true meaning behind Christmas has been totally lost in all this retail crap that goes on. I bet if you asked half the children around these days about christmas they would talk about things like toys and mommy getting drunk down at the trailer park & coming home with 3 daddies and so forth. Neverdie AKA HUBBIE LOWLANDS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverdie Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 (edited) ^I hope I didnt let you down. But seriously the true meaning behind Christmas has been totally lost in all this retail crap that goes on. I bet if you asked half the children around these days about christmas they would talk about things like toys and mommy getting drunk down at the trailer park & coming home with 3 daddies and so forth. I bet your an old romantic really,behind that tough hardened cynical persona lol.HAPPY CHRISTMAS NEVERDIE Na, well thats one bet you lost Dpolenz. I'm that prick that picks you up and pole drives you into the pavement just because you looked sideways at me .... & you know where you can stick that happy christmas crap. I do like one christmas jingle tho: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPIbLManOzs Edited November 25, 2009 by neverdie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAceFace Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 I can sense some Bha Humbug here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdman Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Think and check: Who in my environment is really in need. Then organise and manage to get at least a little bit to make him, them or it happier. And all that on Christmas eve. I can assure you that this will be the best Christmas you ever had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAceFace Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Think and check: Who in my environment is really in need. Then organise and manage to get at least a little bit to make him, them or it happier. And all that on Christmas eve. I can assure you that this will be the best Christmas you ever had. I'll have one of them what you've had Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarqin Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Christmas was lost to commercialism in the West decades ago. It never was anything but commercial in Thailand because their Buddhist by God (pun intended). If you fancy a bit of harmless fun offer a bar girl 100 baht if she can tell you what Christmas is supposed to be about. As an interesting aside a friend of mine is a senior executive with Tescos in UK. The next thing they are working on is selling Thanksgiving to the British. To quite him 'once we got them to buy in to Halloween we knew anything was possible'. I will be on Koh Larn with a carefully selected tour guide. Someone who knows all the right places... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAceFace Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Christmas was lost to commercialism in the West decades ago. It never was anything but commercial in Thailand because their Buddhist by God (pun intended).If you fancy a bit of harmless fun offer a bar girl 100 baht if she can tell you what Christmas is supposed to be about. As an interesting aside a friend of mine is a senior executive with Tescos in UK. The next thing they are working on is selling Thanksgiving to the British. To quite him 'once we got them to buy in to Halloween we knew anything was possible'. I will be on Koh Larn with a carefully selected tour guide. Someone who knows all the right places... There really is a lack of xmas spirit in here...do most people need to escape that much....if your so pi$$ed off, start a pi$$ed off xmas thread. For those about to celebrate..I salute you..as Angus would say Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dpolenz Posted November 25, 2009 Author Share Posted November 25, 2009 Ace Face join me on xmas eve,i will be down soi 6 signing xmas carols Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathanpattaya Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 The better half and myself still haven't decided where we will be having Christmas dinner this year. Any suggestions please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Same same as back home. Christmas means CHINESE FOOD! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salty Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 It will be my 2nd Christmas in Thailand. Very happy not having to be closeted with relatives over the "festive" period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiSunshine Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 When I lived in Pattaya years ago I always spent Christmas Eve at the Admirals Pub in Jomtien. Does it still exist?? They used to make Danish Christmas food: Roasted Duck with brown sauce, red gabbage and brown patatoes! LOVE IT Considering very heavily returning this year, just for the sake of the food! If you're Scandinavian or northern european you will love this food! I don't care much about the commercial "Christmas", but I still love the food associated with this time of year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backsoon Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 HO-HO-HO! Hold your horses, guys. I am not anti-X-Mas. I put a x-mas tree up in my lounge, decorate it with lights etc. HOWEVER !... I join the people comlaining about the way it is commercialised, planned and campaigned. Too many days before X-Mas I start choking on Jingle Bells, Holy Night and feel like strangling the innocent Red Nose raindeer. There is no escaping it even here in a Buddhist country. THIS COMMERCIALISM is really disgusting. And TV? All the sloppy, snorty movies showing for weeks before. Such agressive everpresent advertising is opressive and counterproductive. As is overindulgence,- food, drink, sweets, etc. Ideally, X-Mas is supposed to be a spiritual experience. It has lost this meaning, drowned in commerse. Oh, one more thing. Do not forget, Christ was a Jew. He preached to his fellow Jews. But since the time immemorial, Christianity was by the very people He hated and who hated Jews. Sort of funny and ironic... Have a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! Love and Peace! Why do you think it never happens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmac Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 One of the great incidental benefits of moving to Thailand was the escape from the commercialism of Christmas. Now, unfortunately, it has caught up with us over here. I shall be eating my Christmas dinner with the "Bah Humbugs" in the food court, or MacDonalds or wherever I don't have to pay an overinflated price for a poorly cooked, bulk produced meal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theoldgit Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 I shall be eating my Christmas dinner with the "Bah Humbugs" in the food court, or MacDonalds or wherever I don't have to pay an overinflated price for a poorly cooked, bulk produced meal! Ah the famous McDonald's "Turkey and Sprout Burger". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farangpattaya Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 One of the great incidental benefits of moving to Thailand was the escape from the commercialism of Christmas. Now, unfortunately, it has caught up with us over here. I shall be eating my Christmas dinner with the "Bah Humbugs" in the food court, or MacDonalds or wherever I don't have to pay an overinflated price for a poorly cooked, bulk produced meal! Commercializing XMas? And what about Easter, Halloween, St. Patrick's Day, Thanksgiving and of course Valentine Day. 90% of the people are celebrating in one way or the other and they don't know what they're celebrating. But ok, regarding XMas: This period starts with the Advent, some weeks before the actual XMas days. Usually the XMas decorations will be set up on the 24th of December (a family-gathering) and will last until the 6th of January (3 Kings.....something). I'm just anxiously waiting for a commericialized version of the Islam sugarfest! Last year a friend from Europe came to celebrate New Year. Unfortunately, things went wrong and she came a few weeks later. A bit disappointed about the fact that we missed the New Year's festivities, we found an alternative: The Independance of Samoa Islands followed by a holy-day from Nepal. Lots of days to choose from. In fact, in the 3 weeks that my friend was here, we did have 15 days to celebrate some kind of event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmac Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 I shall be eating my Christmas dinner with the "Bah Humbugs" in the food court, or MacDonalds or wherever I don't have to pay an overinflated price for a poorly cooked, bulk produced meal! Ah the famous McDonald's "Turkey and Sprout Burger". Yes, but it'll only cost 150 Baht rather than 1000 Baht+, won't include a glass or two of cheap plonk they can't sell any other time of year, it'll be hot when it turns up and I'll be in and out in 10 minutes, and all without a party hat!! It may taste like sh!t but at least it'll be cheap sh!t!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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