28 Bizarre Things That Are Only Acceptable At Christmas

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28 Bizarre Things That Are Only Acceptable At Christmas

1. Allowing Christmas Eve Eve to become a holiday

2. Commenting on how well a priest does his job

3. Wearing offensively patterned knitwear with pride

4. Putting on your best clothes to sit around the house for the day

5. Shoving Quality Street into your mouth at 7am

6. Shifting someone you went to school with in the local

7. Listening to the same five songs for a whole month

8. Setting your dessert on fire

9. Getting back into your pyjamas at 5pm

10. Enormous indoor shrubbery

11. Buying the RTÉ Guide just because

12. Asking your mum can you eat certain biscuits

13. Putting a 'the' in front of 'Christmas'

14. Kicking our electricity bill up a shit tonne for the buzz

15. Getting the shift cause a plant says so

16. Drinking hot wine

17. Comparing all of the TV ads in the world

18. Putting hats on to eat dinner

19. Singing the national anthem of gold digging and being okay with it

20. Sending pictures like this of yourself to your staff

21. Eating a sweet every day just because you bought a calendar

22. Listening to Mariah Carey 24 hours a day

23. Napping pre and post dinner

24. Using the word 'Twas'

25. Dressing as an overweight man who breaks into your gaff

26. Leaving a pint out overnight for said intruder

27. Fighting with your siblings over what type of potatoes should be served at dinner

28. And finally, you make a cake for the big day three months prior

1. Allowing Christmas Eve Eve to become a holiday

2. Commenting on how well a priest does his job

3. Wearing offensively patterned knitwear with pride

4. Putting on your best clothes to sit around the house for the day

5. Shoving Quality Street into your mouth at 7am

6. Shifting someone you went to school with in the local

7. Listening to the same five songs for a whole month

8. Setting your dessert on fire

9. Getting back into your pyjamas at 5pm

10. Enormous indoor shrubbery

11. Buying the RTÉ Guide just because

12. Asking your mum can you eat certain biscuits

13. Putting a 'the' in front of 'Christmas'

14. Kicking our electricity bill up a shit tonne for the buzz

15. Getting the shift cause a plant says so

16. Drinking hot wine

17. Comparing all of the TV ads in the world

18. Putting hats on to eat dinner

19. Singing the national anthem of gold digging and being okay with it

20. Sending pictures like this of yourself to your staff

21. Eating a sweet every day just because you bought a calendar

22. Listening to Mariah Carey 24 hours a day

23. Napping pre and post dinner

24. Using the word 'Twas'

25. Dressing as an overweight man who breaks into your gaff

26. Leaving a pint out overnight for said intruder

27. Fighting with your siblings over what type of potatoes should be served at dinner

28. And finally, you make a cake for the big day three months prior