Q: What's the worst part of the holidays? A: Children singing

[LostInAnomie]

There is nothing worse than children singing.

[fizzgig]

1. it's worse if it's on an answering machine

i've worked in an outbound call center during the holidays and there are few things more grating than small children shrieking christmas carols as an answering machine greeting.

[LoveMyCali]

2. Ha, you haven't heard my sister

but she really enjoys singing Christmas carols so what can you do? :shrug:

[pokerfan]

3. It depends

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ccTnKZWKQw

[Arugula Latte]

4. Steve Martin begs to differ:

A Holiday Wish

If I had one wish that I could wish this holiday season, it would be that all the children to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace. If I had two wishes I could make this holiday season, the first would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing in the spirit of harmony and peace. And the second would be for 30 million dollars a month to be given to me, tax-free in a Swiss bank account. You know, if I had three wishes I could make this holiday season, the first, of course, would be for all the children of the world to get together and sing, the second would be for the 30 million dollars every month to me, and the third would be for encompassing power over every living being in the entire universe. And if I had four wishes that I could make this holiday season, the first would be the crap about the kids definitely, the second would be for the 30 million, the third would be for all the power, and the fourth would be to set aside one month each year to have an extended 31-day orgasm, to be brought out slowly by Rosanna Arquette and that model Paulina-somebody, I can't think of her name. Of course my lovely wife can come too and she's behind me one hundred percent here, I guarantee it. Wait a minute, maybe the sex thing should be the first wish, so if I made that the first wish, because it could all go boom tomorrow, then what do you got, y'know? No, no, the kids, the kids singing would be great, that would be nice. But wait a minute, who am I kidding? They're not going to be able to get all those kids together. I mean, the logistics of the thing is impossible, more trouble than it's worth! So -- we reorganize! Here we go. First, the sex thing. We go with that. Second, the money. No, we got with the power second, then the money. And then the kids. Oh wait, oh jeez, I forgot about revenge against my enemies! Okay, I need revenge against all my enemies, they should die like pigs in hell! That would be my fourth wish. And, of course, my fifth wish would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace. Thank you everybody and Merry Christmas.

[Zavulon]

5. Any and all Christmas music sucks.

I'm not kidding when I say I'd rather listen to country or rap, and I hate both. But you're right, when kids sing it it's intolerable.

[Mojambo]

9. hell yes.

Christmas music is fucking awful.

[MilesColtrane]

6. Unless they are the Bulgarian National Radio Children's Choir...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnBJ2Ap77nE

[JVS]

7. Those sellouts aren't even singing it in Bulgarian

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. That's because Americans think that children shouting is "cute singing"

Actually, children can be taught to sing like angels.

Here's an example, the boy trebles of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, singing Benjamin Britten's Balulalow. (The boy singing the solo is one of four brothers who were all excellent singers as children.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3s-Q1zyxYE&feature=related

I tried to find a good video of the Salisbury Cathedral Girls' Choir, but there wasn't one, so here's the Obernkirchen Children's Choir, which flourished during the 1950s in Germany and popularized the song "The Happy Wanderer." In this choir, the girls outnumbered the boys four to one, so it's a different, less homogeneous sound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK28MpUepa4

[arbusto_baboso]

10. Hell is children singing/screaming "Jingle Bells" off-key.

I'm pretty sure Dante mentioned that somewhere.

[kwassa]

11. I like children singing. The worst part of the holiday is shopping.

[fishnfla]

12. I was in the Palm Gardens nursing home on Mon. the schoolkids were singing

Christmas songs for the residents like they do evry year. It was, I felt, very touching. The staff, the residents, and the kids themselves enjoyed the show.

I work in nursing homes throughout Central Florida. There are many things much worse than children singing, trust me

[KamaAina]

13. The correct answer is "sixty or so children riding the light rail to a holiday fair"

"while KamaAina is on his way back from the doctor's". :grr: :banghead:

There was one --one -- seat left in the entire car. At ten in the morning. Just rent a damn yellow school bus, already! :eyes:

Although I suppose it would actually have been worse if they had been singing.