I think I could deal with that much Christmas music as long as some of the overly-cutesy ones stopped after boxing day. ("Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" is hilarious the first time you hear it, and amusing the first time each winter after that, but gets old quickly if repeated frequently, for example.)
It's the commercials setting banal jingles to Christmas melodies that would drive me nuts over that kind of timespan.
I don't mind lawn displays (the DS loves the giant inflatable moving things, especially the snow globes (he calls them "kador hagadol," which means "the big ball" -I like how each one gets a definite article, and I believe he thinks they're intended to be kicked around like a soccer ball, which I think I'd like to see him try, being that they're all five or six or more times his size. Although he did ask once how the people got inside) - and I even like the lights (I prefer to use them on sukkot, but to each their own, yah?), don't mind candy canes, being wished merry christmas incessantly, or the colors of red and green.
But between the Christmas music starting around Halloween this year, its all I can do to go out in public from November to January. I don't mind the non-humorous music - but anything with Santa in it, should be... I can't think of anything bad enough to do to it. Please, even church music for all of december and part of january would be okay with me (I can't allow it in November though, I'm sorry, not if it mentions anything to do with Christmas) in any language whatsoever, but no Santas, no reindeer, no white anything- and I am really bugged that most of those songs appear to have been written by my (at least nominal) co-religionists.
Please, can't we put the Christ back in Christmas?
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It's the commercials setting banal jingles to Christmas melodies that would drive me nuts over that kind of timespan.
oh, yeah, and...
But between the Christmas music starting around Halloween this year, its all I can do to go out in public from November to January. I don't mind the non-humorous music - but anything with Santa in it, should be... I can't think of anything bad enough to do to it. Please, even church music for all of december and part of january would be okay with me (I can't allow it in November though, I'm sorry, not if it mentions anything to do with Christmas) in any language whatsoever, but no Santas, no reindeer, no white anything- and I am really bugged that most of those songs appear to have been written by my (at least nominal) co-religionists.
Please, can't we put the Christ back in Christmas?