Xmas already
 

When does Christmas begin for you ?? for me it officially begins on the 15th of September (although the stock has been rolling in already and is already on the shelves:o ).

Take a tip if you want to enjoy christmas Don't work for a large retail company :o:o:o it's going to be a long 3 months till christmas

Thats Sad.:cool:

xmas eve
when i start the shoping

Just come back from my weekly punishment ( shopping in Tesco's ) and they already have their ' Seasonal aisle ' up and running..... It even had blooming christmas puddings on the shelf !!!:o:o:o:o


Aaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhh ! The horror of it !

Baah Humbug!

Christmas is bo11ox! You spend more money than you can afford on people that you don't like & even then, they don't bl00dy appreciate it!

Saw Advent Calenders in the supermarket on Monday!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!

I don't do xmas, it's all a load of bollox.

Festive bollox though Desmondo...

I'm with Glyn on this one. My kids have left home now, but when they were small we used to wait until Christmas Eve and then put up the Christmas tree and let them decorate it. That was a magical time, and they remember it fondly. Last year on the other hand I was in the shops in late November and overheard a Mum talking to her kids..."Only a month to go till Christmas now, are you getting excited?" Yeah right luv..like kids can sustain their excitement for a month, even if you are stupid enough to keep winding them up to a frenzy.

Another thing. Why do I go into the Supermarket any time in the week before Christmas and see families running round with a fleet of shopping trollies stuffed to overflowing? Fer chrissakes why do people do that? Most shops are only closed for two days, and some of 'em are even open on Boxing Day now...it's not a siege! Except it might as well be 'cos the checkout queue is 5 miles long and stuffed with old dears saying things like "Are you ready for Christmas then" and with a big sigh one of the others will say "Oh just about, but I've still got to get my crackers".

Arrrrrrggggghhhhhhh. It's just an endurance test. People don't really enjoy the festivities, it's just a chance to outdo each other on the amount of adversity they had to put up with....

Arrrrrrggggghhhhhhh. It's just an endurance test. People don't really enjoy the festivities, it's just a chance to outdo each other on the amount of adversity they had to put up with....

Get it off you're chest Jools old bean. :lol:

It's true though, people revel in the personal struggle they had over the arduous task of getting the Christmas shopping....

Conversations go a bit like:

:rodent::"Cor, you should've seen the crowds in Tesco, and the traffic going into Bedford...never seen anything like it"

:pig::"That's nothing. I was in Asda in Milton Keynes and they had guards on the door stopping any more coming in. Traffic was so bad they had to get the Police helicopter out"

:rodent: "Oh you had it easy then...in Bedford we had people qeueing for 14 miles for mince pies, some of them had been there since August"

It's just like that Monty Python sketch where the Yorkshire blokes are trying to outdo each other on how tough they had it.

It'll be the same when the first sprinkling of snow comes, there will be a millimetre of the stuff on the road and people will be coming in to work saying

:rodent:"Good grief, it's just taken me three hours to do a journey that normally takes ten minutes"

:pig:"Ah yes, but we've had it bad over our way... it took me three hours to walk down my front path"

:rodent:"Well, I say three hours for a ten minute journey, but that was after I'd struggled for 14 hours to get down our hallway, the wind had blown it all in through the letterbox and there were drifts ten feet deep up the stairs"

:pig:"Ah yes, but we had it worse over our way..you couldn't even see our house...it was completely buried"

:rodent:"That's what you get when you and your two brothers build it out of sticks you tw...."

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Couldn't agree more - it used to be fun... these days it's just an excuse to eat too much and drink too much... :puzzled: maybe it's not so bad after all....

[Edited on 15-9-2004 by Urban996]

Christmas starts officially for me on the 1st dec...The kids in my classes would NOT DARE mention it before.
Then it's the 3 weeks winding them up with xmas parties, santa, nativity etc
Then I come home and I'm knackered!:(
Everybody basical;ly gets whats left on the shelf on Xmas eve...In fact, it's a great time to shop...Everyone's in the pub and the prices are already on 50% off for the january sale!

For goodness sake...It's only 2 or 3 days!...Thank god/allah I don't do Eid as well!...(But obviously for YOU Dad....;))

Christmas, the season of insincerity................................

Two Ronnies sketch: Christmas Eve in the off-licence
 

I'll have two bottles of scotch ...

Yep

Three of Port - the good stuff ...

OK

A bottle of rum ...

Sure

Two cases of Stella ...

You get 3 for the price of two.

OK, 3 it is. A case of the Chardonnay ...

Right

Gallon of stout ...

Yep

4 packets of Hamlet ..

OK

Oh, and 3 bottles each of sweet sherry, vermouth and Baileys.

Looking forward to Christmas?

Nah ... if it weren't for the kids we wouldn't bother.

I blame all this shopping on people who like all things "yellow":pig:

I'm with Jools on this-Christmas-Bah Humbug!

John:flame:

im so chuffed im not the only one with a bah humbug attitude towards xmas, my missus knows not to mention until 1st december now

it is just a excuse to eat loads and drink even more, a good idea but why spend over £200 and 3hrs in tesco's for 1 day,everythings open on boxing day now

last september my local woolworths had xmas carols playing. thats annoying
:flame:

12 weeks to go, or so the Weight Watchers advert read that I saw at the gym today, they are recruiting pre-christmas now. I can't wait for that Christmas roast turkey............