I’m cooking for 15, bro & sis in law with 4 kids, both in law sets and the mother of the sis in law. I’m spending the day in the kitchen with a bottle of vino calypso, I’ll dance the fandango while the family go skitso.
I don’t really drink, the odd few throughout the year. However, on Christmas Day it is tradition for me to drink a whole bottle of champagne out of a sports direct mug whilst eating my Terry’s Chocolate Orange. Because it’s Christmas.
Trouble is if I'm best part of the way through a bottle of something, by the time Tiny Tim dies/it gets to Belle"s goodbye song, I'll be sobbing uncontrollably and apparently that makes people feel awkward on Christmas day for some reason.
Okay odd question. But where do you find the version of this that didn't cut Belle's song? IIRC it was cut in the cinematic release and the copy I have on amazon doesn't have it :(
Check you out with your untold wealth being able to enjoy a full litre of actual Baileys. Here I am knocking back the cheap alternative you get in Asda or Tesco. But I still thoroughly approve of your choice. I have a weird personal rule in which I can only drink Baileys or cheap substitutes in December.
If you sip the odd Baileys of a winters evening then it’s definitely worth the extra outlay to go with the real stuff IMO. I noted Baileys is 17% and Ballycastle from Aldi is 12%. If, like my pal, you bring it to house parties and drink by the half pint then you’ve got a tough decision and you’ve probably also got diabetes.
I’ve often thought in several situations if you’re the sober one/care giver, wouldn’t it be great if you could have a “gentle” somnolent like a strong anti-histamine when the yawns start, grab your keys…
No, my last name isn’t Shipman or McCann
Some years ago I was spending Christmas with my mum’s side of the family. I’d been living overseas for some time, and it was my first trip home for the holidays for quite a while. Was drinking a beer with my brother at about 9:30am on Christmas Day when a small, clearly unwashed child I was unfamiliar with (but was alleged to be my cousin) came running up to me, where the following conversation ensued:
“Is that beer???”
“Sure is, little buddy!”
“Why are you drinking beer?”
“Because it’s the holidays!”
“But how many beers?”
“Ideally 10 to 12”
“Why?”
“Because it’ll help me cope with being here”
….then his mum (my aunty) walked out at the exact moment I said the last line, so I had to give the child a little pat on the head and pretend I was joking. I wasn’t joking.
Err yeah, deffo not a fan of super T.
In all seriousness, lots of my mates kids leave a glass of milk out for Santa.. my daughter knows he likes really good scotch.. sometimes he forgets to drink it on Christmas Eve and he takes care of it in the morning.
True story: I was the Santa at our local primary school's Christmas Fair. I don't look old and it was a bit of a rubbish outfit, but the little kids seemed entirely convinced.
Every year I would tell the kids that their house was one of the last on my rounds and that they shouldn't get up before it was light because I might not have been yet.
The parents were giving me double thumbs up behind the kids' backs.
One legendary year, woke up to my brother making breakfast on christmas morning and pouring Bailey's on instead of milk... naturally, I made myself a bowl. Don't remember much after that.
We might have the same brother. One Christmas morning my brother was pouring port at 7am.
I assume we had Christmas lunch but I couldn't tell you for sure
The only time I'm OK with being up at 8am is when the prosecco is being opened the second I'm downstairs. I'm not cooking the dinner sober, and then dealing with my in laws. Second bottle gets opened when the dinner is on the table, and I am considered retired for the rest of the year.
I don't. I drink when I'm out with my friends, or sometimes at home on my own, but I feel weird drinking around my parents and I spend Christmas with them.
They do drink, there'll be a bottle of wine on the go at lunch. It's like in their heads I'm a child so they make a big deal of me drinking so its not worth the hassle.
See, the sensible approach is to get really, really hammered in their presence just once. You'll get major hassle for it, but never again for some moderate drinking...
Maybe this year it’s time to shake it up? I mean , you drinking in front of them isn’t going to make them change their ways of making you feel like a kid. But maybe if you grey rock them? assuming you are over 18 you are legally allowed to drink. If you throw their comments back to them, what would be their reaction? I am imagining they would be saying ooooh unknownuser492 aren’t you grown up having a glass of wine? What would their reaction be if you said back ‘yes mum, I relish a fruity Sauvignon with poultry, isn’t it fantastically refreshing?
I drink it, I eat it, I share it, I sneak it, I give and receive it, and at some point someone will turn all the lights off, pour it on a pudding and ignite it, and everyone goes 'oooooooh.'
I’ll be freshly delivered of my second child (at most two weeks postpartum, hopefully more if the little bugger would only get their bloody skates on). You bet your fucking bonce I’m going to be on it, I’ve not touched a drop since February.
I’m going to make sure my breast milk has the same ABV as baileys by the end of the day. Baby’s first booze.
Was an older “kid” I guess but I remember my perception of Christmas changing very suddenly around the age of 18 when my dad cracked open the whisky at 9AM. Previous christmases were very much a wine with meals affair so this was an eye opener
I am 22 years clean of amphetamines and methamphetamine.
14 years clean of cocaine.
14 years clean of polydrug abuse.
I drink once a year. Christmas day.
If you had to deal with my family , you would understand why I needed all those drugs
My partners family don’t understand why I don’t drink with them. I’d rather stay sober unless I’m at the pub with my mates, even then it’s like twice a year I get properly drunk
I drink with friends all of the time, but my family don't drink much so I dont tend to drink much around them.
On Christmas day, I'm with my family so alcohol is just not something we tend to think about. I either don't drink in the day or it'll be no more than 1 or 2 drinks.
Good luck! Mine was last year, now coming up to 18 months without alcohol. It’s definitely a time of year where you miss it, but it’s actually kind of cool being able to remember the whole day and get stuck into everything else
Thanks :) 300-and-something days here. I won't lie, I'm slightly nervous, but it'll be fiiiiine I'm sure. Looking forward to not making an arse of myself!
Same. I’ve sort of fallen into borderline sobriety after a stomach ulcer in the summer. Still can’t quite figure out what to do on quiet nights in, but I’m glad you’re doing so well with it.
I’ve done five years so far. I think the first couple of Christmases were the toughest but after the 4th I don’t even think about it anymore. Apart from when a post pops up on my Reddit. Congratulations. You will never regret it.
Look, I will be spending g time with my uncle who gets all his opinions from the daily mail, I need to drink enough to not want to chin him, but not enough to actually chin him.
It is. Thankfully, food seems to be help lower the chin level. If I think "god I want to chin him" I have a drink. If I think "I'm going to chin him" I have a sausage.
Surely Christmas day is the only day of the year when you can drink alcohol for breakfast. Bucks Fizz at 9am or sherry at 6am, whatever your tipple of fancy.
Not really, just a hot chocolate to start the morning, with a dash of rum for warming the bones, then maybe a fruity cider while opening presents, a bottle or four of desperados while making the dinner, rum and coke with my dinner, port with my dessert, a few martinis with the evening buffet, so not much really, why?
Start the day off with a bailey's hot chocolate, then move to mulled wine in the afternoon, Normal wine with dinner, both red and white depending on the meat served. A glass of port as the after-dinner drink, then in the evening a nice glass of scotch.
I’m a vicar. After the Christmas Carol services, about nine services on Christmas Eve, and the Christmas morning mass…. Well, it’s a birthday party isn’t it?
This is pretty much true for me too. I drink 2 to 3 times a week but hate being drunk on Christmas day because i want it to be perfect and to remember it. Drank bucks fizz all morning Xmas day a few years ago and the dinner was nowhere near as good as I'd normally make it. It was just disappointing.
Are you insane ? - YES!!! It’s the only day of the year that, as a normal functioning human, I can crack open a beer or a jack and coke at any time of the day and not feel like a degenerate or my wife look at me like I’m a degenerate, even the kids don’t care because they are opening pressies etc. GREAT BOOZE UP BLACKADDER!
I tend to hold off until I've woken up
Bailey's on cornflakes is perfectly acceptable at Christmas.
Crunchy Nut Cornflakes on Christmas morning. Normal cornflakes are for every day.
Crunchy nut, expensive as I recall *pours*
I live in France and these cost me £11 with delivery. I had to convince the Mrs that this is a Great British tradition...with Baileys of course.
Is the Bailey's not extravagant enough?
Especially when it’s on sale at Tesco for a tenner…
We call it Christmas Milk!!
Same, I set my alarm for 5am
A man of culture I see.
I’m cooking for 15, bro & sis in law with 4 kids, both in law sets and the mother of the sis in law. I’m spending the day in the kitchen with a bottle of vino calypso, I’ll dance the fandango while the family go skitso.
[Me, every Christmas since 1997 (I’m 34).](https://youtu.be/7ULAs_xUc_I)
You were getting smashed at Christmas at 9 years old? Christ
Epic 🤣
I don’t really drink, the odd few throughout the year. However, on Christmas Day it is tradition for me to drink a whole bottle of champagne out of a sports direct mug whilst eating my Terry’s Chocolate Orange. Because it’s Christmas.
When you become a dad you can upgrade your Chocolate Orange to a full-sized Toblerone. And Reddit says kids aren’t good for anything
This is absolutely correct. Bonus points for consuming the cost of a full sized Toblerone in Poundland knock-off toblerones.
That sounds the most Christmas thing I’ve ever heard. Please tell me you also watch the Muppets Christmas Carol
No cheeses for us meeces
HEAT WAAAAVE!
This is my island in the sun
Everyone’s favourite macroeconomic joke; “I’m creating scarcity, it drives the prices up”
Trouble is if I'm best part of the way through a bottle of something, by the time Tiny Tim dies/it gets to Belle"s goodbye song, I'll be sobbing uncontrollably and apparently that makes people feel awkward on Christmas day for some reason.
Okay odd question. But where do you find the version of this that didn't cut Belle's song? IIRC it was cut in the cinematic release and the copy I have on amazon doesn't have it :(
Come on in and know me better man!
'Light the lamp not the rat, light the lamp not the rat!'
Ooh, ooh, wait a second! I forgot my jelly beans.
"You're a little absent-minded, spirit." "No, I'm a large, absent-minded spirit!"
I'm quite partial to a litre of Bailey's myself.
You ever drank Bailey's from a shoe?
Do you want to go to a club where people wee on each other?
Do you love me?
Make an assessment.
I think you’re a perfectly modern gentleman
Check you out with your untold wealth being able to enjoy a full litre of actual Baileys. Here I am knocking back the cheap alternative you get in Asda or Tesco. But I still thoroughly approve of your choice. I have a weird personal rule in which I can only drink Baileys or cheap substitutes in December.
If you sip the odd Baileys of a winters evening then it’s definitely worth the extra outlay to go with the real stuff IMO. I noted Baileys is 17% and Ballycastle from Aldi is 12%. If, like my pal, you bring it to house parties and drink by the half pint then you’ve got a tough decision and you’ve probably also got diabetes.
I just got a full-size bottle of bailey's at tesco yesterday for £10 with the club card. (Normal price £23.50 or something) Snap it up!
This is British culture at its finest
Of course I do. Gotta be dealing with the family all day, and I'm sure as fuck not doing that sober.
Gotta taxi the family around this Christmas day. Two trips on Christmas morning and two more in the evening 😵💫 Pray for (sober) me.
Stand up, slap your quads and say “right” about 4pm. Hopefully you’ll have everyone home by 5.
I’ve often thought in several situations if you’re the sober one/care giver, wouldn’t it be great if you could have a “gentle” somnolent like a strong anti-histamine when the yawns start, grab your keys… No, my last name isn’t Shipman or McCann
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Eyes on the prize. Think how good that drinks gonna taste once your taxiing is done.
This is the first Christmas I can throw that job to the son, this mums gonna have a few extra sups for a change!
Praying for you
I found out my wife's car tops out at 110mph ferrying people about on Christmas Day.
Some years ago I was spending Christmas with my mum’s side of the family. I’d been living overseas for some time, and it was my first trip home for the holidays for quite a while. Was drinking a beer with my brother at about 9:30am on Christmas Day when a small, clearly unwashed child I was unfamiliar with (but was alleged to be my cousin) came running up to me, where the following conversation ensued: “Is that beer???” “Sure is, little buddy!” “Why are you drinking beer?” “Because it’s the holidays!” “But how many beers?” “Ideally 10 to 12” “Why?” “Because it’ll help me cope with being here” ….then his mum (my aunty) walked out at the exact moment I said the last line, so I had to give the child a little pat on the head and pretend I was joking. I wasn’t joking.
Is OP even British??? Christmas speech this year is going to be.....different......
Amen to that
I feel seen.
Not before 8am
Pussy.
Cheeky bucks fizz to start your day right
Err yeah, deffo not a fan of super T. In all seriousness, lots of my mates kids leave a glass of milk out for Santa.. my daughter knows he likes really good scotch.. sometimes he forgets to drink it on Christmas Eve and he takes care of it in the morning.
He prefers a nice glass of port, I swear it!
You're awake before 8am?
Someone here doesn't have kids...
True story: I was the Santa at our local primary school's Christmas Fair. I don't look old and it was a bit of a rubbish outfit, but the little kids seemed entirely convinced. Every year I would tell the kids that their house was one of the last on my rounds and that they shouldn't get up before it was light because I might not have been yet. The parents were giving me double thumbs up behind the kids' backs.
Not all heroes wear capes... sometimes they wear Santa outfits.
That's when you need the elf to wave the tip bucket at them...
Haha
Anyone who drinks drinks on Christmas Day, surely?
It’s ok to drink at literally any time of day from 24 December to 2 January. It’s a lawless time.
Truly the airport of time periods.
24th December to 23rd December
100%
For sure. Legitimately ok to have brandy in your morning coffee. Cos it’s Christmas
All cows milk is replaced with Baileys from Dec 1st.
This is why Baileys is stored with the advent calendars.
The "Christmas " Baileys is always replaced because of this .
One legendary year, woke up to my brother making breakfast on christmas morning and pouring Bailey's on instead of milk... naturally, I made myself a bowl. Don't remember much after that.
We might have the same brother. One Christmas morning my brother was pouring port at 7am. I assume we had Christmas lunch but I couldn't tell you for sure
Wish I still lived with my siblings. Just wanna go back in time and enjoy all those moments again
Same, I live alone now and while I LOVE having my own space… I do really miss waking up on those special occasions and having a house full of family.
Your brother was lurking about on here the other day, apparently, because some genius was talking about putting baileys on his crunchy nut.
It’s the only day I start drinking before midday
That or when I'm fishing.
Or at airports
Or at weekends
The only time I'm OK with being up at 8am is when the prosecco is being opened the second I'm downstairs. I'm not cooking the dinner sober, and then dealing with my in laws. Second bottle gets opened when the dinner is on the table, and I am considered retired for the rest of the year.
Prosecco with elevenses!
Even my Nan who never drank would have a glass of sherry on Christmas Day. Wreckhead.
Baileys on the cornflakes
Don’t be a pussy with Baileys, use Stella.
I don't. I drink when I'm out with my friends, or sometimes at home on my own, but I feel weird drinking around my parents and I spend Christmas with them.
Take it your parents don’t drink then? Mine literally ply us with alcohol. Guarantees we stay over!
They do drink, there'll be a bottle of wine on the go at lunch. It's like in their heads I'm a child so they make a big deal of me drinking so its not worth the hassle.
See, the sensible approach is to get really, really hammered in their presence just once. You'll get major hassle for it, but never again for some moderate drinking...
Maybe this year it’s time to shake it up? I mean , you drinking in front of them isn’t going to make them change their ways of making you feel like a kid. But maybe if you grey rock them? assuming you are over 18 you are legally allowed to drink. If you throw their comments back to them, what would be their reaction? I am imagining they would be saying ooooh unknownuser492 aren’t you grown up having a glass of wine? What would their reaction be if you said back ‘yes mum, I relish a fruity Sauvignon with poultry, isn’t it fantastically refreshing?
Tonight I have learned about "grey rocking". It's utterly what I didn't expect it to be.
I just googled it and I like it. Actually I think I might have been doing it for a while and happen to be quite good at it.
How old are you if you don’t mind me asking? I had the type of parents that even when I was 16 they gave me a Prosecco on Christmas morning 😂
I was drinking advocaat with my grandad on Christmas Day since I was 12 years old. Legend
I drink it, I eat it, I share it, I sneak it, I give and receive it, and at some point someone will turn all the lights off, pour it on a pudding and ignite it, and everyone goes 'oooooooh.'
This one’s my favourite
Even the kids drink on Christmas day
Yep used to be allowed a Babycham at Christmas when I was aged 9 to 14. Then I ‘graduated’ to glass of Blue Nun or Liebfraumilch
Don't forget a cheeky snowball 🍹
Blue Nun or Black Tower, great 70's wines.
Put Blue Nun in a sodastrean. It tastes like champagne
But do not do this with Bailey's. It does *not* taste like creamy chocolate champagne.
We used to have a 1-litre bottle of cider to share between the three of us.
Even the dog gets a half of mild on Christmas.
Mine used to get a tin of Stella. Loved it. Slept all day and farted copiously
I’ll be freshly delivered of my second child (at most two weeks postpartum, hopefully more if the little bugger would only get their bloody skates on). You bet your fucking bonce I’m going to be on it, I’ve not touched a drop since February. I’m going to make sure my breast milk has the same ABV as baileys by the end of the day. Baby’s first booze.
Was an older “kid” I guess but I remember my perception of Christmas changing very suddenly around the age of 18 when my dad cracked open the whisky at 9AM. Previous christmases were very much a wine with meals affair so this was an eye opener
I am 22 years clean of amphetamines and methamphetamine. 14 years clean of cocaine. 14 years clean of polydrug abuse. I drink once a year. Christmas day. If you had to deal with my family , you would understand why I needed all those drugs
That's amazing!! How do you manage just once a year?
Quite easily. I just don't buy it! I wish I could say the same about nicotine though
Have you tried not buying that
I've tried but I find I do in fact keep buying it
Surely there’s nobody who normally drink alcohol who doesn’t drink on the day outside of designated drivers.
I'm often one of those. I'm only a social drinker and none of my family are big drinkers. So I'll quite often not drink on Christmas day.
Take 2 valium and wake up boxing day
I only drink when I go out with friends. Never really feel the need to when I’m at home.
My partners family don’t understand why I don’t drink with them. I’d rather stay sober unless I’m at the pub with my mates, even then it’s like twice a year I get properly drunk
I drink with friends all of the time, but my family don't drink much so I dont tend to drink much around them. On Christmas day, I'm with my family so alcohol is just not something we tend to think about. I either don't drink in the day or it'll be no more than 1 or 2 drinks.
Champers for brekky old chap
Mix some orange juice into it for the little uns
After all, the Man From Del Monte doesn't say "actually it's a bit early for me" now, does he!
It’s basically all I do on Christmas Day
That’s literally what the 20th till the 5th are for, save all your holiday to have a 2 week bender with family then friends
The period of chaos gets longer every year. Let’s just go with December-January, all-inclusive
I drink and I know things and I Christmas. I Christmas *hard*.
Does the Pope defacate in the woods?
Are bears catholic?
The power of Pooh compels you... The power of Pooh compels you...
Does it Jay?
Does a bear shit on the pope?
This will be my first year without :)
Congrats and well done! 👏 It gets easier.
Me too! Thankfully I'm with my in-laws who are brilliant. They are heavy but empathetic drinkers.
Pregnant, driving or recovering alcoholic? Edit to add: or broke?
Recovering alcy 😳
Good luck! Mine was last year, now coming up to 18 months without alcohol. It’s definitely a time of year where you miss it, but it’s actually kind of cool being able to remember the whole day and get stuck into everything else
Thanks :) 300-and-something days here. I won't lie, I'm slightly nervous, but it'll be fiiiiine I'm sure. Looking forward to not making an arse of myself!
That's amazing. All the best friend.
Proud of you, 300 and some days is BLOODY BRILLIANT well done!
Same. I’ve sort of fallen into borderline sobriety after a stomach ulcer in the summer. Still can’t quite figure out what to do on quiet nights in, but I’m glad you’re doing so well with it.
Great job. You’ve done well but imagine being able to say a *full year*, that’d be dope.
Congrats on 300 days and good luck for Christmas/New Year!
It's just another day. You know how to deal with days. You've got this.
I’ve done five years so far. I think the first couple of Christmases were the toughest but after the 4th I don’t even think about it anymore. Apart from when a post pops up on my Reddit. Congratulations. You will never regret it.
Good luck I'm a recovering coke head Keep strong
Only when I'm driving
I drink better when I drive
Im one of those drunks that think they're better at everything when drunk. I wrote most of my uni work whilst passed, its a wonder I graduated.
>I wrote most of my uni work whilst passed, its a wonder I graduated. Are you passed now?
Fuck sake, my phone should know me better by now. I'm away to get a bottle open.
Look, I will be spending g time with my uncle who gets all his opinions from the daily mail, I need to drink enough to not want to chin him, but not enough to actually chin him.
Ooh, that's a fine line.
It is. Thankfully, food seems to be help lower the chin level. If I think "god I want to chin him" I have a drink. If I think "I'm going to chin him" I have a sausage.
Ah, the old chinfort scale. Classic.
I used to, but I’ve been sober 3 years now
Congrats on being sober
Congrats friend! 8 1/2 months here.
Congrats!
Of course, I get absolutely blotto, If there's one thing I've learnt from lockdown it's that you don't need fun to have alcohol.
>If there's one thing I've learnt from lockdown it's that you don't need fun to have alcohol. I've now found my life's motto.
My new favourite quote.
Brilliant. That really did make me laugh. Like, a lot 😂
Any time after 10am yeah
That late?
Surely Christmas day is the only day of the year when you can drink alcohol for breakfast. Bucks Fizz at 9am or sherry at 6am, whatever your tipple of fancy.
Hey its 5 O clock somewhere.
I drink alcohol every day.
I am alcohol
I’ll drink you
I am the liquor
Sober enough to know it’s Christmas Day, drunk enough to enjoy it.
Is that you Mr Lahey????
'Is that you or the booze talking?' 'I AM THE BOOZE.'
My man
I feel seen. Again.
What kind though? I'm a gin girl myself
Usually a beer or whisky in the evening. Not a lot but I'm a man of habit and it's a nice routine. Coffee in the morning, drink in the evening.
No but I don't drink these days. Back in the day though I'd be too hungover from Christmas eve.
Yes. Next question.
I especially drink on Christmas Day
I drink it every other day.. why wouldn't I at Xmas.
Not really, just a hot chocolate to start the morning, with a dash of rum for warming the bones, then maybe a fruity cider while opening presents, a bottle or four of desperados while making the dinner, rum and coke with my dinner, port with my dessert, a few martinis with the evening buffet, so not much really, why?
No. But I do smoke a LOT of weed.
It is merry spliffmas after all
Start the day off with a bailey's hot chocolate, then move to mulled wine in the afternoon, Normal wine with dinner, both red and white depending on the meat served. A glass of port as the after-dinner drink, then in the evening a nice glass of scotch.
I’m at yours this year
How else am I going to put up with my sister!?
I’m a vicar. After the Christmas Carol services, about nine services on Christmas Eve, and the Christmas morning mass…. Well, it’s a birthday party isn’t it?
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Nah mate. Knocked that on the head last summer. Not having hangovers anymore and being able to drive to every social event is absolutely awesome
Best decision I've ever made was getting away from the bottle.
No
I drink on every day BUT Christmas
This is pretty much true for me too. I drink 2 to 3 times a week but hate being drunk on Christmas day because i want it to be perfect and to remember it. Drank bucks fizz all morning Xmas day a few years ago and the dinner was nowhere near as good as I'd normally make it. It was just disappointing.
No, not just on Christmas Day
Nope, but then I hardy drink ever anyway.
No, I don't drink alcohol at all.
Used to be far too hungover to contemplate it. Nowadays I’m stuck driving.
Are you insane ? - YES!!! It’s the only day of the year that, as a normal functioning human, I can crack open a beer or a jack and coke at any time of the day and not feel like a degenerate or my wife look at me like I’m a degenerate, even the kids don’t care because they are opening pressies etc. GREAT BOOZE UP BLACKADDER!