tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488826927992195485.post2740035180451567456..comments2023-09-06T09:27:43.866-07:00Comments on fazzledown: A Last Gasp of Madness for 2014.pa_broon74http://www.blogger.com/profile/01915208411019621104noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488826927992195485.post-80128569173977491312014-12-26T13:01:10.785-08:002014-12-26T13:01:10.785-08:00Hey Bruce.
Aye, agree with that. And you're r...Hey Bruce.<br /><br />Aye, agree with that. And you're right about the royals and their daft maneuverings on Xmas day. I cannot comprehend why any one still gives a fuck about what the queen thinks.<br /><br />I think the coming year will be interesting from a political pov, can;t speak for other aspects of it - we just have to take it as it comes.<br /><br />Have a good one.<br /><br />Paul.pa_broon74https://www.blogger.com/profile/01915208411019621104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488826927992195485.post-53049362297823774892014-12-26T12:24:27.815-08:002014-12-26T12:24:27.815-08:00Paul
Merry Christmas, sorry couldn't resist. ...Paul<br /><br />Merry Christmas, sorry couldn't resist. Must admit Christmas is normally a time I enjoy as I have my Mum and brothers over for the day at the same time and some friends sometimes and that is all good. This year I was not looking forward to it at all but it has been ok.<br /><br />I don't do debt at Christmas at all and never have, if I don't have the money then I can't afford it and it's that simple but I appreciate that many don't share that view and will get themselves in deep this year, like any other year, and for those people they have bought into the whole commercial bullshit. I am a Christian so there is a religious element for myself but I also see it as a chance to be thankful for my family and I enjoy that.<br /><br />However, there are many alone at this time of year as Tris noted and for many of them this is a horrible time of the year not helped by the shit we are served up everywhere. Her Maj Christmas day bullshit and her trolls attending Church where they won't even walk past the spirit of Christmas. It's just their photo call to ensure they keep their opulent benefits system. They make me sick and while I avoid seeing any of it like the plague the good EBC will show it for months to keep those on Benefit Street in their place. The whole thing stinks to high water and many just put up with it or give it little thought when in fact they should despise everything it stands for.<br /><br />Anyway shitty year over all and glad to see the back of it. Next year brings opportunities and I hope that the voters of Scotland take advantage this time or I will just give up and be Mr Selfish, because you can only take stupid and ignorant for so long.<br /><br />Have a good holiday where possible.<br /><br />Bruce<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488826927992195485.post-1534946301695886562014-12-25T13:36:22.858-08:002014-12-25T13:36:22.858-08:00Totally agree Tris - its an opera of fakery on a g...Totally agree Tris - its an opera of fakery on a grand scale. People mock me when I say I hate it - I don't get called scrooge so much as grinch.<br /><br />The thing is, I'm not actually joking; it is shit - for all the reason you point out and because there is not much that is more condescending than being told to enjoy something you hate by some bubbly overcompensating screaming-on-the-inside half wit.<br /><br />This year I swapped presents most probably for the last time with one parent and received a sinister threat from my only sibling.<br /><br />Our xmas's look nothing like the crap in the adverts on the telly either, but I appreciate my reality probably wouldn't be an adequate vehicle for selling their tat to the masses.<br /><br />Other than that, its been fine.<br /><br />;-)pa_broon74https://www.blogger.com/profile/01915208411019621104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488826927992195485.post-85941152090284154642014-12-25T04:29:01.088-08:002014-12-25T04:29:01.088-08:00To be entirely honest, I loathe Christmas. Everyth...To be entirely honest, I loathe Christmas. Everything about it is false. <br /><br />From years ago when I started buying my own presents, and had to suffer the rush around the shops, trying to fit everything into my limited budget, it seemed to me like it was such a waste of everyone’s time and money.<br /><br />Getting presents from people who absolutely loathe you doesn’t fool anyone. Giving them is a waste of money that could be better used.<br /><br />But over the years I’ve worked in “quartiers désherités” and I’ve watched as people struggled with pay day loans and loans from those folk that come round your door in poor areas… just to pay for a couple of days, which in the end no one much enjoys.<br /><br />I’ve heard them complain that they haven’t paid off last year’s loan yet, but have to take out a new loan, and for what?<br /><br />Do they believe in Christmas? Do they believe in Jesus’s birth? Because for 90% and more, it’s nothing to do with that. It’s about corporate greed.<br /><br />And you’re right. Some people, lonely, alone, poor, old, whatever, have a rotten life at the best of times, and in the middle of winter with every tv, radio, paper telling us all to be merry and have a good time, is it any wonder that they are even more unhappy, suicidal even, around now.<br /><br />We can’t stop it of course. Bug business needs us to spend spend spend at this time of the year. The government isn’t ever going to discourage it. The power of advertising. Most people hate it, yet, they say they are looking forward to it, because to do otherwise makes you sound like “Scrooge”.<br /><br />Someone on one of the blogs on my blog roll (a food bank manager) compared the Christmas that we see in the ads (busy shopping street, little shops with Victorian feel, perfect turkey and beautiful veg, happy children opening wrapped gifts, happy old folk looking on with warm smiles, mother in the kitchen all dressed up and with make up on)… with the reality of British High Streets being full of phone shops, betting shops, charity shops and pound shops, and most Christmas shopping being done in supermarkets, mother struggling over undercooked or overcooked turkey, soggy Brussels, children getting cross because they been up to long, grandparents sleeping, and father pissed.)<br /><br />But still every year people expect it to be wonderful. We are promised it will be by people who want us to spend 10% of our annual income on it.<br /><br />And then there’s all these people criticising that someone has dared to call it Wintermass or whatever, presumably in order not to offend a person of another faith, or none… (90% of us), utterly ignorant of the fact that the Church hitched Christmas to the pagan festivals of the winter solstice … and seemingly having never read in the Bible that Christ scattered the tables of money dealers trying to operate within the temple… (ie people making money out of religion.)<br /><br />Oh irony!<br /><br />Rant over. Enjoy that 4th bottle. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com