i know it makes me sound like an old person, but this seems a bit silly. it's only just october. we haven't even had halloween. or bonfire night. or other holidays that i'm probably forgetting.
does this bother other people as well?
has christmas stuff been up in the states for weeks, then? i suspect it's worse over there, but that's just a theory.
― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― C J (C J), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)
(mmm, stollen)
― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)
(badoom-tish)
(was it just my mum who always bought a packet of dates and a bag of brazil nuts at Christmas, and never at any other time during the year)
― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 11:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)
ok, so it's not just me. this article makes it sound like it's happening at least a couple weeks earlier than last year.
― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)
I'm going to see what proportion of my Xmas presents I can buy on eBay. Cheap and FUN! I just found a nineteenth century engraving of my father's home island, but I've decided against it as it doesn't actually look like any part of the island I recognise.
(NB I am not employed by eBay as a guerilla marketeer)
― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― Magic City (ano ano), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― alfalfa romeo (natepatrin), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― alfalfa romeo (natepatrin), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)
It's when we celebrate the failure of a Catholic terrorist plot to bomb the State Opening of Parliament, by letting off fireworks and burning effigies of one of the terrorists, or of the Pope.
― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― Magic City (ano ano), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)
are these effigies made of marshmallow and therefore delicious?
No, these effigies look like the scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz (though some toastng of marshmallows does go on too)
― C J (C J), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― Simon (flameproof) (Flameproof), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― Senor Embargo (blueski), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)
*is all ears*
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.scottishfoodoverseas.com/lady-christmas-hamper.html
sixty quid for a bear and a bottle of champagne. p-ss off.
* a silly arsed uk idea where u save all year for a big treat at xmas. some treat.
― piscesboy, Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)
And end up paying more for it than it would cost if you paid for it all at once, of course.
(My mother used to get one, until I pointed out that she could save quite a bit of money by putting the equivalent amount of money into a special bank account every week, then spending it all on Christmas food)
― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)
Anyway, the big bummer here is that you can already get chocolate Santas, but St. Nicholas and his devil buddy (Krampus, Knecht Ruprecht) are nowhere to be found in chocolate. Austria still stands by St. Nick.
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)
this position is incompatible with being a cheese-eater
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)
OTOH the last time I went to a shop was about 3 weeks ago.
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)
I have to hurt you now.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ever-Ready Daisy Chain (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 7 October 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)
(Oh, and I have some Christmas presents squirreled away.)
(I think the rest will just get homemade Christmas cookies.)
(Can't get the ingredients until December, though. Want them fresh.)
(Also can't start in on the baking until December, either.)
(So....)
― Ever-Ready Daisy Chain (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 7 October 2004 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)
Usually i think it's a whimsical idea for people to have xmas lights around their homes any time of the year. But now im already sick of it.
― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Thursday, 7 October 2004 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)
(it's a sampler from a company that sells them but still...)
― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)
-Grinch
― recovering optimist (Royal Bed Bouncer), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)
― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)
― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)
― ai lien (kold_krush), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)
It’ll be beautiful with snow everywhere, children will be playing outside and parents will put aside their marital differences and smile at each other over the golden turkey that’s surrounded by mountains of steaming vegetables and roast potatoes. Grandparents will travel from afar to be with their sons and daughter-in-laws that they haven’t seen since last Christmas. In the background the queen will be giving her speech and telling us that it’s been another monstrous carbuncle of a year.
― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)
― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)
I don't want to go to any of the three potential sets of parents without Matt (or indeed with him) so will be holding court at home for disillusioned friends I think.
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)
You can have my spare room at a reasonable price, as long as you don't mind sharing with a wabbit...
― smee (smee), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)
However, I was thinking of going somewhere quite remote. Maybe Inverness. Maybe Skara Brae. Somewhere my family will never reach me.
― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)
I used to think it was winter - but then I figured out that I don't mind winter, suspiciously, after January 1 -- I really just hate the holidays -- that month between thanksgiving and christmas is hell.
― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)
Awww - everyone is welcome at my gaff, I declare open house for Christmas,you can all be miserable together! (I'll go up the road and get drunk with my parents)
― smee (smee), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)
― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)
Or computer kens.
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)
― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)
― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)
2. mandee-let's get one of these rich ilxers to fly us overseas for the holidays. wait, is there such a thing as a rich ilxer?
― ai lien (kold_krush), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)
*starts programming computer kens
how not to be miserable at xmas: have your family living abroad, and do as you please on xmas day! get drunk, run around the flat, play games, dance, eat yummy food.
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)
― ai lien (kold_krush), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)
― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)
And I don't have a PS2 any more! Or indeed a television! So you would have to bring all the necessary equipment.
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)
I will once more be using my dogs as an excuse to leave early. In previous years I've had to spend the night, but I can't leave the dogs on their own, not on Christmas...
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)
― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)
however, i already have my plane tix for both thanksgiving and christmas, since i have to fly to michigan and tennessee, respectively.
― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)
I am sure I'll be spending Xmas lonely at home watching the same Morecambe & Wise shows for the 15th time. This is of course miles better than having to be with my family.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)
― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Friday, 9 September 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 9 September 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)
― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)
― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)
― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)
― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)
― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)
― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)
― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 23:40 (nineteen years ago)
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 23:48 (nineteen years ago)
Pls tell me you're serious LB =) I mean I know you grew up in Krazy Kristian Korner-land, so I'd believe it!
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 06:17 (nineteen years ago)
I think businesses are getting more savvy to the fact people just get pissed off with early Christmas stuff. Seems in the early-mid 90s we would be bombarded with it the second summer choked its last gasp, but not so much any more. I guess Christmas just sneaks up on me these days and I end up having to get ready for it at last minute.
― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 07:16 (nineteen years ago)
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)
just heard mele kalikimaka in the tim horton's
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 15 November 2019 20:20 (six years ago)
great revive
― actor Robert de Niro disguised as an Uzbek homeopath (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 15 November 2019 20:33 (six years ago)
merry xmas
― ciderpress, Friday, 15 November 2019 20:33 (six years ago)