xmas in november?

xmas in november?

been listeninig to radio 1 this week(the colin and edith show) and it seems to me that they've got the right idea, there trying to get all there listeners to sign a petition to ban people advertising xmas before december 1st which seems to me to be spot on!

now dont get me wrong, i love xmas as much as next person but there starting to advertise earlier and earlier. seen somebodys decorations up on the 1st of november, you might all be thinking shut up eberneezer, but in my own personal opinion i dont want to see xmas adverts on the telly and shops full of xmas trees and decorations or xmas albums on the radio in the first week of november. wot do you think?

yes

no

Christmas pisses me off. Its a commercial piss-take. If I was a religious god botherer I would find it all slightly hypocritical and missing the point! It should be banned before dec 1st, its not as if we're all gonna forget!

Bah fucking humbug

(still like prezzies tho! )

I think Colin and Edith should be banned all year round!

November the first is a bit early....but if people are happy gettin into the spirit of things that early....then let them be i supppose ! Christmas is so commercial now.......but as long as we all remember wot its really for....and hav fun at the same time......its not a problem with me personally

Uuugh I hate the run up to Christmas.

It was good when you were a bairn and just had to get more and more excited.

Now it's all about avoiding the crowds to buy presents for people just for the sake of it. It's rare these days that I see something and think "wow, <whoever> would really like that"..

I hate seeing shops have their decorations up dead early etc.

stupid idea.

if i sold fairy lights id be up in arms!!!

Christmas is capitalism and consumerism at it's best. Let's buy those pressies, send those cards, stock up the shelves with expensive xmas food, put up those decorations, watch the delightful xmas adverts during the Bond film, fill up the car with lots of petrol to visit Aunty Flo, go out to the xmas parties, and don't forget to get your dog a xmas pressie too! Then spend January wondering where the last of your disposable income went...


For all my cynicism, I do love the pretty lights everywhere...

pah, shushh the lot of ya. xmas is class. i love it.

:laugh:

moaning old goat!

wait till you've got kids... it's their time of year and making it exciting for them is what it's all about...


saying that, our lass wants to put the decs up this weekend?!?! :S

santa hat - tinsle round monitor - advent calender on desk - 2 weeks time!!

im gonna hav 3 advent calendars this yr.

thats the spirit! grab a tenner, go to poundstretcher and buy as much cheap, tacky, over the top poisonous taiwan made xmas decs are possible then completely cover every inch of your office!

typical... more excuses for lasses to bang on about chocolate

we dont really need excuses to be fair tho.

one of my mates was really spoilt every year at xmas, she used to hav a huge material advent calendar with little pockets and she got a pressie every day. the were mint ones tho like earings and cds and a watch!!

gona snow spray the bosses monitor...

aaargh! Commercialism at its worst.....if I have to listen to the shit coming from Fenwick's window one more time I swear I'll put a bin through the window!

and then there's the hordes of shoppers just milling about with no purpose, so you get a headache even before you leave your house...

And Dec 25th isn't JC's birthday - that's the date of the old Pagan festival of Sol Invictus, a celebration of the return of shorter nights in preparation for spring time. (LOL read the Da Vinci Code for more useful nuggets of info)

Fookin' religious shite! Good for getting pissed and eating lots whilst watching telly - bad for relatives you don't really want to see.

remind me again, i forgot

nowadays it has less and less to do with religion - it's just a national holiday.....

haha, im a bit of a whinger nowadays, must be the yorkshire in me

Got loads of nephews and neices so I can still see the fun they have, which is cool (and expensive), but the defining chrimbo memory I have is never getting the teenage mutant turtles blimp... destroyed my childhood

However I will enjoy unwrapping the many pairs of socks I will inevitably receive... and terry's choc oranges