Six Christmas traditions from the late 20th century to befuddle Gen Z
CHRISTMAS has many fun traditions, but ones from ancient times like the 1980s may confuse youngsters. Here are some of those strange practices explained for the Gen Z reader.
TINDER has rolled out a seasonal desperation mode to connect users who are anxious to get laid by the first of January.
A PENSIONER has once again spent Christmas alone because he has alienated everyone in his life by being a bastard, it has emerged.
Turns out if you both resolve to lie back and think of England, sex will be even worse.
A VEGAN visiting her family for Christmas has been asked if this is the year medical science has finally come up with a cure for her unfortunate condition.
THE wonderful, embracing decision to invite a son’s boyfriend for a Christmas meal has been spoiled by said boyfriend being an arsehole.
A STUDENT who failed to win a family game of Trivial Pursuit at Christmas has proved university is a pointless activity for ponces, his relatives feel.
A MOTHER believes every present she has opened from her husband and children to be a covert critique on her personality and parenting.
KING Charles is to instruct the nation to look around at their family, decide who the bastard is and send them into exile in Norfolk.
A BOY who had his heart set on getting dry markers and ugly paints for Christmas is amazed to find them under the Christmas tree.
Politics
RIGHT-WINGERS are calling for a merger between the Conservatives and Reform. But what could be the name of such an unholy union?
THE BBC has searched its archives but cannot find any trace of an offensive 1970s sitcom about how much better life would be if Hitler had won the war.
EVERYBODY loves Reform, while everybody hates prominent Conservatives who lost their seats at the last election. But are there similarities between the two?
DEAR angry patriots. We regret that certain unhelpful government polices mean that your rage and loathing must be recalibrated toward a new sector of society.
Society
LONDONERS have confirmed the bloody lights and Christmas markets are bad enough, but the soot-covered chimney sweeps performing upbeat musical numbers are worse.
BANKS have confirmed that repeatedly tapping the wrong bit of the contactless card reader before angrily entering your PIN will not change.
A PET dog has admitted the annual period where he is forced to wear antlers to be a miniature canine reindeer haunts him for the rest of the year.
TO begin with, I should have been Joseph. But my father’s endowment is apparently less deserving than Barnaby Haversham-Finch’s grandfather donating the full cost of the new stables.
COUNCIL enforcement officers have fined a man £250 for ‘openly and wantonly’ shedding skin cells in a lay-by.
A WOMAN is confident that every failure or shortcoming in her existence is ultimately the fault of men.
Lifestyle
CHRISTMAS is but days away, and around the country families are getting together to do dizzyingly weird shit they think is normal. What’s your bizarre tradition?
A WOMAN in her 30s has been left traumatised after realising her friends are starting to look and sound like their parents she remembers from childhood.
WHILE you sit around eating Hob-Nobs, one hard-working Welsh couple have just won £1 million on the lottery for the second time. Here’s how you can be more like them.
AN intense eight-year-old has spent an entire weekend herding sheep in preparation for his role in today’s nativity play.
A MAN thoughtfully chosen as a stand-in parent is confident it is all a totally meaningless gesture.
A MAN who organises his life with military precision has a laminated printout of favourite masturbation fantasies working on a 21-day rotating schedule.
Relationships
ASKING boyfriends to meet certain basic requirements can ruin a woman’s chances of love. Single man Martin Bishop explains why it’s time to stop being so picky.
A MAN’S erotic texts have improved a hundredfold now he runs his sentiments through an large language model AI, his girlfriend has confirmed.
A MAN has managed to secure a girlfriend at least four levels hotter than he is by wooing a foreign woman unable to recognise his knobhead qualities.
UNRAVELLING your over-insulated partner for sexual frolics can be a race against losing interest. Here’s how to get there with the mood intact.
READY to have your heart warmed? This couple didn’t meet on the apps, but by the old-fashioned tried-and-true method of being unfaithful to.
Science & Technology
NOT sure if the worst ideas you’ve ever had are in fact brilliant? Your supportive friend ChatGPT is here to endorse them.
AUSTRALIAN teens are the first demographic to be banned from social media, but they shouldn’t be the last. These six have no right to intrude on your evening doomscroll.
A RETIRED 80-year-old with no social media presence is understandably afraid his likeness will be stolen to generate pornographic deepfakes on the dark web.
GRAND Theft Auto VI will not now be released until next November. How will you slake your degenerate urges until then?
Arts & Entertainment
THREE years ago, I and my fellow critics gave Avatar II a kicking. Then it made $2.3 billion. We have never felt so powerless, and now it’s going to happen again.
NEW Doctor Who spin-off The War Between the Land and the Sea centres around a man banging a Sea Devil. Fair enough, because you wouldn’t kick these out of bed.
XMAS by Kylie looks set to be the Christmas number one, but many tracks which achieved the same feat never get featured on Christmas playlists. Specifically these.
YOU quite liked it. Then it was in an advert, and 200+ involuntary listens curdled that into hate. These are the songs you can no longer hear without your mind adding the relevant slogan.
NETFLIX is inviting viewers to imagine their favourite Warner Bros properties turned into prestige TV shows with moody lighting and no plot development.
OLD man? Look again, because according to my Spotify Wrapped, I am a svelte and fresh-faced 19. Here’s how you can get a musical age in the tantalising teens.
Celebrity
KELLY LeBrock has been talking about her new career in ranching, but attempting to watch her films is a bit of a slog. Here are more sex symbols you have to be very committed to ogling.
KATE Winslet has followed appearing in a film with her daughter by starring in a film written by her son. She, and these celebrities, should realise talent isn’t genetic.
NIGEL Farage should be glad of my support. I’m practically a household name, I have a strong work ethic, and I'm not out of touch with young people, many of whom I have f**ked.
I'VE decided to leave the lawless criminal dystopia that is Britain in 2025 and move to Dubai, a location I chose solely on the basis of international crime statistics.
THE Queen has caught the UK unawares with her full-throated support of posh people with horses and houses all joyously committing adultery.
Work
A YEAR of simmering flirtation, suggestive Slack messages and provocatively reloaded printers spectacularly detonated last night at the Wexford Consulting Christmas event.
ARE you the one grafting all the way through the festive period? Want everyone to know it? These lines will leave nobody in any doubt as to how vitally important you are.
AGREED to the office Secret Santa and were handed an entirely unfamiliar name? And now you’ve got to buy them a present? Consider these cursory gifts.
A FATHER explaining to his sons that he coupled school with 13 hours of twilight manual labour a week has realised in hindsight how bizarre that was.
ANYONE over 50 is perplexed by younger people’s delusions that work should be anything other than a thankless slog endured in order to buy things.
PUTTING up a bit of tinsel to bring festive cheer to your corporate gulag? Best consider these issues first lest you fall foul of overzealous human resources.
Alcohol
AN OFFICE manager has been invited to buy his round at this week’s office Christmas party and then leave so everybody can hate him.
CHRISTMAS is coming, yet unaccountably all our Christmas songs fail to mention the unstinting alcohol abuse which is the hallmark of the season. That can be fixed.
HOME from the pub but don’t want the party to end yet? Behold, five questionable mixers you can make without nipping back out to the corner shop.
ANYONE else sick of gym bros saying you need to give up booze to get shredded? I’ve made heavy drinking part of my workout and I’m fitter than a Navy SEAL. You can be too.