{"id":1264,"date":"2014-12-14T23:40:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T04:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2023-05-29T17:18:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T22:18:56","slug":"holiday-whining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2014\/12\/14\/holiday-whining","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Whining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People complain way too much about this time of year. I do too, I suppose. Complaining about complaining is especially annoying. But, fuck it, I&#8217;m doing it anyway. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p>So here are some responses to all the bullcrap you people keep bitching about this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jesus is the reason for the season!&#8221;<br \/>\nShove a nativity set up your ass.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything about Christmas is stolen from pagans!&#8221;<br \/>\nEat the above-mentioned nativity set.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s too early for Christmas music\/decorations! It&#8217;s only December 20!&#8221;<br \/>\nConsider a diet consisting solely of poinsettia petals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Christmas is so commercial!&#8221;<br \/>\nYet you&#8217;re making an awful lot of money saying exactly that in Christmas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2012\/12\/18\/commercialism\" class=\"post\" title=\"Shut Up, Charlie Brown\">specials<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RXCEdrnaFlY\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"post\" title=\"I Believe in Father Christmas, by Greg Lake\" rel=\"noopener\">songs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jesus was definitely not born on December 25!&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd you should definitely not have been born at all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why don&#8217;t stores say &#8216;Merry Christmas&#8217; anymore? Why?&#8221;<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s almost half a gallon left of last year&#8217;s egg nog. Why don&#8217;t you finish it off?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t call it Christmas. I call it Yule.&#8221;<br \/>\nI wish &#8220;you&#8217;ll&#8221; shut the hell up and die.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Remember what Christmas is all about.&#8221;<br \/>\nFor you, I hope it involves choking on a candy cane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I heard three seconds of &#8216;Jingle Bell Rock&#8217; while at the store! I&#8217;m so sick of Christmas music!&#8221;<br \/>\nMaybe you should be tied down and forced to listen to FOUR seconds of it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there is a Christmas tree here, there should be a menorah, too! Why isn&#8217;t there a menorah?&#8221;<br \/>\nI hope some of that latke grease flies up and hits you in the eye.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why is there a menorah here? Why are we catering to the Jews?&#8221;<br \/>\nI hope the one who got latke grease in the eye runs you over while driving around blindly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Christmas is about family, not presents and stuff!&#8221;<br \/>\nI hope your family realizes you&#8217;re an asshat and abandons you in a snow drift this year. Without a coat or anything because that&#8217;s just &#8220;stuff&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t get what I wanted for Christmas!&#8221;<br \/>\nNeither did I. Which was for you to get impaled on a holly branch.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/stringlights.gif\" title=\"Merry Christmas!\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People complain way too much about this time of year. I do too, I suppose. Complaining about complaining is especially annoying. But, fuck it, I&#8217;m doing it anyway. \ud83d\ude1b So here are some responses to all the bullcrap you people keep bitching about this season. &#8220;Jesus is the reason for the season!&#8221; Shove a nativity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2014\/12\/14\/holiday-whining\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Holiday Whining&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-time","tag-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2334,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/2334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}