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| #1  14-Sep-2004, 21:26 | ||||
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| 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  ).Take a tip if you want to enjoy christmas Don't work for a large retail company it's going to be a long 3 months till christmas |
| #4 15-Sep-2004, 12:43 | |||
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| 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 !!! Aaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhh ! The horror of it ! |
| #8 15-Sep-2004, 16:54 | ||||
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| 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.  |
| #9 15-Sep-2004, 17:32 | ||||
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| 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:  :"Cor, you should've seen the crowds in Tesco, and the traffic going into Bedford...never seen anything like it" :"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" "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 "Good grief, it's just taken me three hours to do a journey that normally takes ten minutes""Ah yes, but we've had it bad over our way... it took me three hours to walk down my front path""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""Ah yes, but we had it worse over our way..you couldn't even see our house...it was completely buried""That's what you get when you and your two brothers build it out of sticks you tw...." |
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