It’s that time of year again! Pretty lights are being strung
up over the dreariest streets, jingling bells have been added to the
Pop Master theme tune, shopping centres are becoming Panic Zones, couples are arguing about whose parents they’ll be spending the day with this time round, unsuspecting babies are being dressed up in absurd yet adorable costumes, and folks my age are regretting
offering to host their extended families for the first time.
Yes, it’s a great time of year when all sorts of lovely things
happen and awful traditions are enacted. Another thing that has been
happening for the past few years on social media is people throwing out buzzwords and Hot Takes
that, frankly, we are all sick of hearing. So here, let me give you a
little guide to each of them (in case you missed any, because you
have no access to the internet apparently – in which case, how did
you get here?! Whoa), and debunk things a bit.
'Love,
Actually' is problematic, actually.
Yes,
we’ve all read those Buzzfeed articles and seen the influencer
retweets and basically, YAWN. We get it. This modern classic
Christmas film penned by Richard Curtis with editing done by his wife,
Emma Freud, may actually have been one of the last good eggs in the
seemingly endless era of rom coms – don’t @ me – and while so
many of us hold it so dearly and insist ‘it’s not Christmas until
I’ve seen that scene with the signs on the doorstep’, over the
past few years more and more of us are realising it’s really quite
horrible in some bits.
