‘For 364 days you’ve been avoiding these tossers and then you have to buy them a present’ – PJ Gallagher on why he hates Christmas | Independent.ie

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  1. Ah PJ, don’t make me disagree with you. You’re just in the baby fog and feeling down on everyone who doesn’t have to do that shit.

  3. Except you don’t, PJ. You could just not buy them a present?

  4. Ah PJ – Somethings should be left unsaid, I can’t help feel he’s alienated a few people that care about him in this article.

    The bloke is obviously going through something.

  6. I agree with him for the most part. The pressure (financial, mental and physical) that some people put themselves under is wrong.

  8. The idea is that its the one day a year you don’t treat others like tossers. Don’t participate if you don’t want to. Go on holiday or something say you are on a retreat or something. You don’t have to buy anyone a present as far as I know. You have to compost your waste now and recycle more stuff, thats more of a problem

  9. Say it as you see it and avoid the toxic positivity that some tried to enforce

  10. This chap is forever washing his wares in public, no matter how dull or undignified. Anything for relevance or a few bob. Must be due a gender change soon.

  11. ‘…he says jokingly.’ Just clickbait shite from the paper as usual. Feel sorry for anyone that spent Christmas with him seeing just that headline because it’s not what he actually meant at all. Christmas is stressful, and a pain in the arse and over-commercialised but they’ve focused on that sensationalist quote to try make him sound like an even bigger cunt. It’s an art form really

  12. Thing is, and this is what people REALLY need to cop on to, is to do Christmas on YOUR terms.

    Used to always do a big Christmas morning breakfast for my in laws here before they all went to mass.

    This year just decided, no, kids are getting older and not getting up at the crack of dawn, so not doing it. This was much to my MIL’s diamay and “Michael loves his fry on a Christmas morning”, sound shur just go to a later mass, or better still late mass the night before “no, no, Michael will only go to Christmas mass on Christmas morning”. (honestly I swear Bernard O’Shea lived with them for a year and based Bridget and Eamon on them 🤣🤣)

    Now, in fairness it was a nice tradition, but like I said, people need to start doing the holiday on their terms and not putting pressure on themselves to please others.

  13. Comedian does observational humour on Christmas, and people act like he is speaking the gospel.

  15. If you come across a tosser in the morning, you met a tosser. If you’re meeting tossers all day…

  17. That headline is unfairly maligning him to be honest, it’s clear that he’s saying that comment tongue-in-cheek.

    If you read it though, he’s one of those people who blames everyone else for making him feel like shit at Christmas time. If you feel pressure, if you feel hard done by, that’s your bullshit coming through.

    There are plenty of people who ignore it and are happy. And plenty of people who go all-in and love it. If you allow yourself to go all-in and you hate it, then nobody is doing that to you except yourself.

  19. Pretty sure I saw him shopping in the Killkenny shop on Nassau st. last week
    He looked suitably disgruntled

  20. Ha ha the joke is on you PJ. Wait until your babies are bigger and the elf on the shelf comes out and it’s Christmas play time in school and you are hearing carols being sung over and over… all from.december 1st. You better suck it up hehe hehe hehe. I love Christmas by the way…. and pj had better learn to love it too cos the kiddies will not stand for a grinch dad ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|facepalm)

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