How to shock the nation with disgraceful scenes of drunken behaviour, but at home

TONIGHT photographers will be prowling to catch shameful scenes of pissed-up Britain showing its knickers and urinating publicly. But how can you do this at home? 

Wear distressingly little

Women should be in lime-green bandages criss-crossed around purple, goosebumped flesh. Men should be shirtless and roaring. Do all this in the kitchen while the children play a boardgame. Neck the Stellas.

Shout

Turn music up – any aggressively generic dance mix of awful pop will do – to maximum and holler above it. Make swearwords that extra bit louder and spittle-flecked. Enter enmity easily. Inform the f**king neighbours they can get the f**king filth round if they want, you do not give a f**k.

Hire a photographer

It takes a real snapper to capture those moments when your eyes are half-closed, your top’s transparent from the flash and you’re climbing a curb with your tongue out. He needs no moral standards, extreme misanthropy and a big Nikon. There’s loads of them, just look online.

Get mortal

You have finished work for as much as a whole week. It is your responsibility as an adult and a Christian to commemorate this by shotgunniung most of your festive stash. This is also approximately bedtime for the kids, which will be achieved by slurred threats and staggering.

Get a kebab

No catalogue of drunken depravity equalling St Mary Street, Cardiff can be complete without blind-hammered attempts to eat vile food. Whether oven chips, a disintegrating air-fried kebab or a pizza box you repeatedly drop, pick up and eat, these make the best shots. Keep a fag in your mouth and pose outside your own downstairs toilet for best effect.

Get the Daily Mail tomorrow morning and tut

Wake up on your own soiled sofa, vomit in the kitchen sink and pop out for a Mail. A double-page spread of you feeding onion rings to your dog, pissing behind the Christmas tree and sprawling, laughing, at the foot of your stairs with your fanny out will be inside. Shake your head sadly.

Why you're a weird, socially-dysfunctional Christmas guest. By your in-laws

WE’RE not the ones who ruin Christmas with our weird behaviour and by being out-of-touch dinosaurs – you’re the problem. Here’s why.

You insist on us following your deranged traditions

We do Christmas properly in our house. That means waking up at 4am, going for a freezing early morning swim, and pointedly not opening our presents until after the King’s Speech. When you are our guest it’s a pain having to do abnormal things like not unwrapping presents one at a time in front of a room of silent onlookers. We’d disown you if we could.

You burden us with your exhausting list of dietary requirements

Traditional Christmas dinners include sprouts, parsnips and whatever fad trendy chefs have recommended in newspaper supplements. Then you arrogantly barge in, daring to heat up the vegetarian alternative you pre-made at home to avoid any fuss. You don’t think about how we feel having to sit there watching you eat it, do you? And don’t get us started on your so-called ‘nut allergy’. You probably wouldn’t start asphyxiating if you just pulled yourself together.

You don’t enjoy a bit of festive bigotry

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without nan reciting the latest Richard Littlejohn column, complete with impressions. It’s as festive as watching The Snowman or a stocking full of presents. But no, when you’re around we’re forbidden from bringing up our simmering prejudices, lest we incur your wrathful sighing. If you don’t like it here, why don’t you forget about Christmas with us and go back to where you came from?

You hate us asking uncomfortable, probing questions

It’s impossible trying to engage you in conversation. We can’t ask whether you’re planning to get married and have children any time soon because apparently that’s taboo, and then you say it’s rude to enquire about your financial situation or comment on your weight. If you had it your weird way we’d just sit quietly enjoying a film and eating nice chocolates. Wouldn’t you rather have an awkward conversation about women’s fertility declining until they become ‘barren’?

You don’t love our interminable, highly-competitive board game sessions

You’re such a killjoy snowflake that incredibly heated afternoons spent hunched over the Monopoly board fill you with dread. Who cares if we all gang up on you and force you to do forfeits you never agreed to if you lose? It’s just a bit of fun. And if you show the slightest sign of not enjoying it we’ll later tell everyone you single-handedly ruined Christmas, you unreasonable, awful guest.