Styles Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 I want an apple, an orange, some pants and some socks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 I want an apple, an orange, some pants and some socks. I got that every year growing up, found it really annoying. Now I'm older and could certainly benefit from new clean underwear and some fruit in my diet, no sausage'll come we it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjool Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 if you take a step back and ignore the hard sell, then the cheesy adverts and company sponsored Xmas lights If only! Certain shops in Lerwick started putting tinsel up at the start of sodding October! And there's only so many times a person can hear assorted Christmas pop tunes before feeling compelled to step out infront of a lorry to escape... I agree with you though that there are some positive aspects. It's just that none of them need to involve spending money you don't have. It's the 'conspicuous consumption' part I object to, not the sentiment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marjolein Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 I'd like a digital camera. I spend way to much money on disposables and me good old camera is broken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peeriebryan Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 I want an apple, an orange, some pants and some socks. I would also like an Apple and an Orange I remember one year when I didn't get any socks or drawers. I had to buy my own in the January sales! the humiliation.... In case any relatives are reading this, I'm almost finished the last of my Lynx deodorant / shower gel combos. But make sure it's not the cans of oxter doctor with the stupid kinda push forward-y buttons on the top. They do my nut in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeMascus Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 Boycott Xmas is the kind of mildly irritating political sloganeering that I'd have happily engaged in when I was 18, oblivious to that fact that I was annoying the hell out of everyone else with my holier-than-thou chat... 10 years later (ok, eleven years later) I'm a little more comfortable with the whole thing. So you are quite happy bugging the hell out of people with your holier-than-thow chat now. that's a step forward. However, if you take a step back and ignore the hard sell, then the cheesy adverts and company sponsored Xmas lights can serve as a pleasant back-drop, an inoffensive reminder that we're approaching one of the happier dates (for many of us) in the western calender. No, no, not a step back you might just trip over a 2 foot fibreglass dwarf or worse still get entangled in some faux-plastic tree! I have to disagree with you on the inoffensive part I find most of it garish. The part of it that I have to disagree with most which isn't really the fault of business but is the intense pressure to buy present that people don't particularly want and definitely don't need, and it's not in the interest of any retail company to do anything about that. Xmas to me is an opportunity to go back home and spend the day mildly drunk in the company of people I actually like, rather than being at work. It's something I look forward to and appreciate, despite the associated garbage surrounding it, corporate, religious or otherwise. So there. I agree Ally, but I would take 'mildly irritating' over 'offensively cynical' any day. What do I want for Christmas?Nothing, except to spend some quality time with my family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 So you are quite happy bugging the hell out of people with your holier-than-thow chat now. that's a step forward. You're bummed that I mocked the "Boycott Xmas" thing aren't you? Go on, admit it! It wasn't an attack on you, bud - I just get a bit tired of the old "Xmas is too commercial these days" thing that everyone's been saying every Xmas for as long as I can remember. I completely agree with the statement, it's just that to me it's a given. No, no, not a step back you might just trip over a 2 foot fibreglass dwarf or worse still get entangled in some faux-plastic tree! I have to disagree with you on the inoffensive part I find most of it garish. The part of it that I have to disagree with most which isn't really the fault of business but is the intense pressure to buy present that people don't particularly want and definitely don't need, and it's not in the interest of any retail company to do anything about that. Fibreglass dwarfs and plastic trees I can handle. That guy who lives near the skippydock who goes way over board every year with the garden decorations, for example. It may be garish and tacky in the eyes of many, but I can't help but like it. All I was trying to say was that yes, Xmas is ridiculously commercialised, but instead of getting bitter about something you will never be able to control, you can just take it as a daily reminder that yes, xmas is coming and yes, it should be a good one. The rest is just crap - certainly not worth feeling pressured about. What do I want for Christmas? A millennium falcon and an A-Team van. I saw them on the telly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeMascus Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 You're bummed that I mocked the "Boycott Xmas" thing aren't you? Go on, admit it! The wise man mocks the man, the mocked man mocks the mocker. It wasn't an attack on you, bud - I just get a bit tired of the old "Xmas is too commercial these days" thing that everyone's been saying every Xmas for as long as I can remember. I completely agree with the statement, it's just that to me it's a given. I'm aware of that, kiddo - But i'm sure you are aware that most of my posts are tainted with a certian ideology, I just can't help it. Fibreglass dwarfs and plastic trees I can handle. That guy who lives near the skippydock who goes way over board every year with the garden decorations, for example. It may be garish and tacky in the eyes of many, but I can't help but like it. I love that too. He is doing it for a totally different reason than a shopping centre, which is the point, you can say his decorations are garish and taky because you will see sleaker and trendier decorations in malls around the country, but i'm sure they don't have half as much love put into them. All I was trying to say was that yes, Xmas is ridiculously commercialised, but instead of getting bitter about something you will never be able to control, you can just take it as a daily reminder that yes, xmas is coming and yes, it should be a good one. The rest is just crap - certainly not worth feeling pressured about. Did I come across as bitter? i hope not. I am generally optimistic. I would rather voice my concerns and talk about them than ruin Christmas. Bah, Humbug! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 So we're agreed - a truce then! "Then from both sides men came running, crossing into no man's landThrough the barbed wire, mud and shell-holes, shyly stood there shaking handsAlly he brought cigars and brandy, DeMascus brought corned beef and fagsAnd as they stood there quietly talking, the moon shone down on no man's land Then Christmas Day we all played football in the mud of no man's landAlly brought some Christmas pudding, DeMascus brought out a German bandAnd when they beat us at the football we shared all our grub and drinkThen DeMascus showed me a tattered photo of a brown-haired girl back in Berlin For four days after no side fired, not one shot disturbed the nightFor old Ally and DeMascus, they'd both lost their will to fightSo they withdrew us from the trenches, sent us back behind the linesThey brought fresh troops to take our places and told the guns, Prepare to fire The next night in 1914, flak was beaming, beaming brightThe orders came, Prepare offensive! Over the top we go tonightAnd men stood waiting in the trenches, gazed out across our football parkAs all along the Western front the Christmas guns began tae bark" *http://mysongbook.de/msb/songs/c/christma.html (with a few subtle changes). Sorry DeMascus, I took the liberty of making you the German Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marjolein Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 http://www.dontencouragethem.net/share/xmas-resistance.gif No! No! No! This is just like letting the Grinch win! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 (**Moderator edit - removed link to the "CHRISTMAS RESISTANCE" image which was posted earlier in this thread. It's too big for me laptop screen!**) Where do you buy one of these posters ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeMascus Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 Where do you buy one of these posters ? Any big chain anti-capitalist poster store, every major city has one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Where do you buy one of these posters ? Any big chain anti-capitalist poster store, every major city has one. ....or the Christmasresistance web site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fifi Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 ..you will see sleaker and trendier decorations in malls around the country, but i'm sure they don't have half as much love put into them.Malls?! Malls?! First our Halloween guising becomes 'Trick or Treat'. <?> Now we have "malls"? Aaaaagh. Shoot me, someone.. Bah Humbug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trout Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Thats something that grabs my goat too! As well as: red sauce / tomato sauce -> ketchup!!rubbish / litter -> trash!!mobile phone -> cell phone!! Pesky American culture pervading our society! Don't trust anyone that can't say aluminium properly!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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