Originally Posted by Paedantic Basterd

I'm awful about Christmas music. If a song even says the word "Christmas" in it, but is otherwise completely unrelated to the holiday, I'll be slightly put-off.

I don't even hate Christmas, I'm just easily annoyed by the novelty and commercialization of it.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.