Perhaps there isn't a God after all....

[DCat]

Was in town today, and M&S and BHS were putting out their Christmas stuff.

I had a Victor Meldrew moment.......

[Bill W]

I can't believe this!!!!

[Skin_and_Muscle]

Four months of reminders to people that it's christmas (because a :censored: calendar wouldn't do that) for people still to go out last minute on christmas eve and mindlessly buy rubbish for what is essentially a nothing holiday...my favourite time of the year

[Kinoulton]

And what is it with these Christmas hotel breaks? If you hate Christmas so much that you would go to a hotel to away from your family, then just stay home and do nothing. Much cheaper than spending money on a room you don't need and having a tacky meal with a bunch of similarly lost strangers.

[Rizzo]

Coo, we are all Victor Meldrew today!

Be a pagan instead, celebrate Yule without plastic lights and animatronic Santas, but with cakes and ale and casting spells on people you dislike


the latter part - not really

[Kinoulton]

Well like you Rizzo, I don't believe in all this corrupted Catholicism rubbish that passes for religion, but I really do think that Christmas is a splendid British tradition.

But for gawd's sake. Buy nice little presents for kids you like, invite some people round for a pleasant dinner, make your house look pretty, and have done with it.

There really is no need to start worrying about the best way to cook sprouts when there are people (like me) that haven't even had a summer break yet.

[Gray]

I work for a parcel company and we've been delivering the Christmas stuff -especially cards - into various shops since June (ie before the schools broke up for the summer holidays....)

And I've still not got around to putting the sprouts on to boil - how many reminders has Sarah Kennedy given out?

[Bill W]

OMG. I haven't ordered my goose yet!

[Surfing Tigress]

Christmas day is way too stressful. Do what makes you happy, rather than tradition that makes the day hard work (unless that makes you happy ). Life is too short to worry about perfection created by clever marketing.

[cornish tigress]

Oh DCat what have you done! I can't believe we have a forum post about Christmas already. Shame on you!

[DCat]

[Sue Donim]

My sister-in-law used to work in a garden centre.
They only put the Christmas things out after at least 10 separate customers had asked for them ... usually around mid-September!!
Just wrong!

tho I quite like the sound of Rizzo's pagan celebration ...

[Gate]

Look on the bright side - at least there's no rubbish about how many shopping days until Christmas. Every day's a shopping day now, so there's no damn excuse for not having bought all that kak that Delia reckons you should be stirring once a week for that Satan's turd known as Christmas pud.

Does anyone actually eat that stuff? And brandy butter - why? Why not butter for your bread, or to make the sprouts edible, and brandy in a glass? And bread sauce. Jaysus.

[Bill W]

I eat that stuff!

And now yer got me counting - how many days to Xmas?

[Gate]

What? You actually eat Christmas pud?

Eeuwww.

Still, I suppose someone has to, or the landfills would be overflowing with leaden balls of mulched-down ... stuff. And brandy butter. Eeeuuwww.