I've just realised I'm gonna be alone at Christmas for the first time ever...

[Adam]

...its lucky the pubs will be open for a bit :(

[na§tee]

if you tell people, you will be swamped with invites. i was going to be on my own one christmas at uni and i had random people i didn't really know in my psychology study group inviting me to their homes for christmas, such is the emotional attachment people have with this season. they hate to see people lonely.

so fret ye not, tell some people and you'll get at least a couple of invites. failing that, it's not so bad. get a shit hot meal on the go and get pleasantly drunk.

[TAL]

I was alone last year, and it was the best Christmas ever! I didn't do anything special. It was just another normal day.
This year my parents aren't going away, so I have to spend it with them and my brother.

[Knuckles]

I was alone last year, and it was the best Christmas ever! I didn't do anything special. It was just another normal day.
This year my parents aren't going away, so I have to spend it with them and my brother.

TAL is a grinch!


I agree with nastee. You should definitely try and find someone to take you in. I'm sure there are loads of people that would.

Sounds like TAL and his folks are going to be home... :D

[hpdrifter]

If you want to come out to Seattle you can hang with me and my drunk cousins.

[Adam]

I'm not sure how I feel about it yet - this thread was just a realisation. I hate the all the random family stuff at christmas. I always used to be at my parents and family. My two sisters are pretty much serious boyfriends they'll be with. My brother is a retard. I'll have places to go, I doubt I'd want to force myself on some1 tho. Hmmms. Something to think about! It could end up being a real nice day.

[ScarySquirrel]

I think hanging out with some random family on Christmas that wasn't your own would be extremely awkward. Do you have to buy presents for everyone there? Are they going to buy you presents? What fun would it be just sitting around watching everyone else open their presents?

Chillin' with a bunch of people you have no emotional attachment to would be really weird, methinks. Get smashed by yourself then walk around town and gaze into the windows of happy families with a sad look on your face - just like in the movies.

[TAL]

TAL is a grinch!
No.

[Adam]

Get smashed by yourself then walk around town and gaze into the windows of happy families with a sad look on your face - just like in the movies.

I am so doing that. Then if any1 offers me a meal or something I'll get on my vegetarian high horse and try and upset the kids that its just like eating thier new puppy. Which'll mean that they'll have a 100 kilos of christmas meat rotting in thier fridge cus no1 will eat it!

Maybe I'll write a screenplay. 'My first christmas alone'. Just me masturbating towards a glowing laptop.

[saz]

try to get together with one of your sisters for xmas, because being alone on such a day sounds too incredibly depressing.

[marsdaddy]

A Scrooge?
No.

[Randetica]

...its lucky the pubs will be open for a bit :(

*huggles*


actually my first thought was that his christmas must be depressive as hell when i read the thread about your mother


well unless the pubs are open for real

[Dorothy Wood]

I've spent a few christmases alone. they weren't so bad. I pretty much just got drunk and did whatever I wanted. it's definitely good to hang out with some friends on christmas eve at least. one year, a bunch of my friends came over and hung out with me and opened presents my family sent. it was pretty fun. I had a tree and decorations and lights though, so it felt very christmasy. the next time, I hung out with my best friend's cousin on christmas night and we drove around looking at christmas lights and went to an irish pub and drank guiness and talked about our messed up families for hours. we became great friends that night.

no matter what, it's going to be a little sad, just make it a day where you relax and do what you want and it will be kind of nice. :)

[JesusChrist]

You will not be alone,

for I will be with you.

Amen, bless Jezissus

[Tone Capone]

Dude ENJOY IT! It's a gift in itself(y)

[Matt]

Maybe I'll write a screenplay. 'My first christmas alone'. Just me masturbating towards a glowing laptop.

for two hours?

[Adam]

for two hours?

I have stamina.

Yes the pubs are open Christmas Day. Well from about midday. Its basically so the men can go to the pub while the women clean up and cook.

Our family never really had a traditional Christmas when we all stop believing in Jesus Christ... Most of us was vegetarians so we didn't have a major lunch to make our insides hurt and we used to do stuff like drive to the coast and have a day out there. Obviously everything is closed being on the beach almost alone is cool and cold.

Like I say; I'm obviously gonna miss my mum and dad but all the other stuff like having to deal with random relatives the days before and after I won't miss. Worse case scenario will be part of my catholic family invite me over or something, now that would suck and I'd need a damn good excuse to get out of it. I can't just say I'm gonna stay in alone.

[Matt]

I have stamina.

Yes the pubs are open Christmas Day. Well from about midday. Its basically so the men can go to the pub while the women clean up and cook.

Our family never really had a traditional Christmas when we all stop believing in Jesus Christ... Most of us was vegetarians so we didn't have a major lunch to make our insides hurt and we used to do stuff like drive to the coast and have a day out there. Obviously everything is closed being on the beach almost alone is cool and cold.

Like I say; I'm obviously gonna miss my mum and dad but all the other stuff like having to deal with random relatives the days before and after I won't miss. Worse case scenario will be part of my catholic family invite me over or something, now that would suck and I'd need a damn good excuse to get out of it. I can't just say I'm gonna stay in alone.

Tell them you'd rather drink alone. The leave the phone off the hook and take a long bath like I saw in that soap opera once.

[gbsuey]

hmm.. i think Christmas is over-rated and commercialism tries to heap a tonne of shmaltz and disney fluffy snow cosy family nicey-nicey crap on what is really just another day. unfortunately these days i have to sell my soul a little bit and suck it up coz i have kids and i haven't really shielded them from the xmas bullshit.

i spent a lot of christmasses away from any family-just with a bunch of friends and it always felt like i was trying to pretend it wasn't xmas because we never did the commercial thing. but we would just drink a bit more than normal-someone might get it together to cook a big meal and just being with some mates was good enough.

not sure if i've made a point to try and help in your decision! i say don't be alone or force yourself to try and see family you don't really want to-see some friends and get drunk:)

oh and surely you'll go blind???

[camo]

Buy a PS3, with Little Big Planet and come and make some massive ramps and rocket powered cars with me.

[Adam]

I have a PS3 but haven't played it for months. Don't have that game tho. I should start playing that again but haven't had time for so so long.

I remember a few years back when I use to play WoW a lot to - fudge knows how I found time to play that so much for so long. And why I played it!?!?

[camo]

Go out and buy it. it's so funny. Stephen Fry does the tutorial and that alone is worth the asking price.

Add me as a friend on the PSN: camo_kill.

[MC Moot]

Whoa...that's tuff...but like na§tee say's open yourself up and the world will give you a pearl from it's oyster so to speak...I've been alone by choice while abroad and I found it exciting to be in a culture that barely blinked an eye on the 25th...and I've been alone after a change in the city I lived in and after a divorce...that was harder than hell...people opened ther homes up but I couldn't accept their hospitality...felt like an outsider or a sappy charity case...regardless,I really hope you find yourself in front a warm hearth with good people,good tidings and good humor...(y)

[Myu-to]

Adam you can stay with me for Christmas. I won't even make you go to mass. Just bring me a shit load of Cadbury Buttons, my connection here is dry, and I'm hurting. Damn delicious little fuckers. Damn you Yorkie for getting me hooked.

[Adam]

Well I have a plan for Christmas now.

I have some friends and we are gonna go wild camping in hope valley. We are also gonna buy a ounce of pot and a gram of coke and blur the whole 3 days away. (y)

[BangkokB]

I was in the dumps months back and thought I'd watch some Christmas morning videos I made 2 years ago to cheer me up and it was pitiful. Forced pleasantries. Piss on that. It made me wish that I'd put on a Santa hat- left the house and not come back til New Years Eve and then only to change clothes.


Last Christmas I hit a Prostitute on Christmas Eve and kept driving. That's one to remember.

So things could be worse

[AceFace]

a friend of mine has a party for "strays". it's pretty nice. even though we're not strays, we still attend after the family things are over.

[rirv]

Get a cheap flight to a foreign city, get drunk.

[Adam]

Get a cheap flight to a foreign city, get drunk.

We are doing the camping thing. But we might not do it wild camping, we've found a few campsites instead. As long as we can take drugs, drink and build a big fire we'll be happy :)