tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488826927992195485.post7939916372552622804..comments2023-09-06T09:27:43.866-07:00Comments on fazzledown: 'Tis the season to get ranty.pa_broon74http://www.blogger.com/profile/01915208411019621104noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488826927992195485.post-30743387774177241332013-12-09T01:45:22.176-08:002013-12-09T01:45:22.176-08:00The thing is, I wouldn't want to stop it as su...The thing is, I wouldn't want to stop it as such because kids do enjoy it and they're not all horrid little shits.<br /><br />Don't know what I'd do with it, the faux cheer comes from advertising which I think also fuels the grasping nature of the season.<br /><br />If we could get rid of that and some how persuade some people (the bubbly ones) to wind their fucking necks in a bit - I think it would be much improved.<br /><br />I'd be interested to hear from any adults who still like it but not for the obvious reasons like having kids around.<br /><br />I genuinely don't get it, even when you do strip out all the fuckwittery.pa_broon74https://www.blogger.com/profile/01915208411019621104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488826927992195485.post-87292268663815724702013-12-08T15:48:50.590-08:002013-12-08T15:48:50.590-08:00Oh dear... wore than you Pa... God, that IS bad.
...Oh dear... wore than you Pa... God, that IS bad.<br /><br />Yes, it's fake. Happy Christmas they call to you (adding under their breath, miserable bastard). And god knows it's tacky, plastic and cheap (in the taste sense of teh word, because it's anything but cheap in the expense sense of the word<br /><br />But it's the misery it causes for people who already have enough of that in their lives.<br /><br />And it is in the interests on no one who counts to bring it to a halt.<br /><br />Big business loves it; the government loves it; even the churches get a few extra drunks through their doors at midnight to sing carols.<br /><br />I literally detest it.<br /><br />I wish it was April!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488826927992195485.post-53211366214764177402013-12-08T14:43:07.585-08:002013-12-08T14:43:07.585-08:00Heck.
I think you may be even further down the ro...Heck.<br /><br />I think you may be even further down the road than me Tris.<br /><br />Here's a good news story though, I ask the young folk I know what's on their xmas lists expecting a litany of expensive gadgetry and other assorted paraphernalia. These lists are usually quite long, although whether they're always fulfilled...<br /><br />So I asked one lad what he was getting, he said a Playstation 4. He then went on to say; except, I saved up some money and bought it myself so i'm not sure what's happening now.<br /><br />Quite refreshing I thought, he could of waited and got it from his parents but he saved up his paper round money.<br /><br />Its rare though.<br /><br />Its the fakery that gets me, its all so plastic and crap.pa_broon74https://www.blogger.com/profile/01915208411019621104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488826927992195485.post-7335702072264684942013-12-06T13:44:48.961-08:002013-12-06T13:44:48.961-08:00I used to like Christmas, when I was about 7 or 8....I used to like Christmas, when I was about 7 or 8.<br /><br />I got bikes and games and sweets and sometimes even money; stamps for my collection and the odd book.<br /><br />But it was downhill from then on.<br /><br />I never believed, well not after 5, the rubbish about Santa Claus and Rudolf the red nosed whatsit.<br /><br />As I have grown older I have watched Christmas become a festival of greed and rapaciousness which utterly sickens me.<br /><br />I’ve spent something like 10 years working with people who are poor, ive in shocking houses and don’t have work, or do, but it it is so pathetically badly paid that they can’t even pay their rent without help.<br /><br />But faithfully every year they say that they are going to have to take on debt and give their family the best ever Christmas because it only comes once a year.<br /><br />The movies and the songs and the store ads paint a picture of a Christmas that just never was and most assuredly isn’t now. People make themselves ill with the work preparing for the day. The standard meal is something most people don’t like (or they would have it more than once a year). Presents are bought for everyone and (quite literally) the dog. It is deemed necessary to spend the day with your family, most of which you can’t abide. Everybody has too much to drink and rows break out. The tv, which is the only possible break from the awfulness of the day, is all repeats. Morecombe and Wise Christmas how again. I mean you’d have thought that with all the bloody money we pour into the BBC they’d have saved some from their executive salary bill to make a show a little bit more up to date that a 30 year old special.<br /><br />And the aftermath? The families I was working with have debt up to their eyeballs. Mainly from people loaning money at silly rates because they can’t get anything from the bank.<br /><br />Around 20% of the population hasn’t paid off this year’s loans.<br />Who wins?<br /><br />Big business. Tesco and their likes are rubbing their greedy corporate hands together.<br /><br />I wish people could see that a sodding con it is (I intend that in the English and French meanings of the word).<br /><br />So I’m with you all the way. Nightmare, utter nightmare.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488826927992195485.post-8873919578745793042013-12-06T08:40:26.121-08:002013-12-06T08:40:26.121-08:00I didn't want to go overboard and invoke a Cur...I didn't want to go overboard and invoke a Curran.<br /><br />And anyway, we're only at the 6th of December, plenty of time for things to deteriorate.<br /><br />As I feel certain they will.pa_broon74https://www.blogger.com/profile/01915208411019621104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488826927992195485.post-58547218212005474492013-12-06T08:18:16.916-08:002013-12-06T08:18:16.916-08:00Why use Munch when you can use Maggie Curren? I d...Why use Munch when you can use Maggie Curren? I don't know if I've spelt that wrongly, but I don't munch care. John Brownliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03248027418059598116noreply@blogger.com