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Nov 20 2009, 09:45 AM
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QUOTE (TallDarkAndHandsome @ Nov 20 2009, 09:37 AM) Love it or Hate it?
What's the best thing about Christmas and what is the worst thing? The best thing for me is the coming together of the family to enjoy each others company. The worst thing is the rampant commercialism.
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Nov 20 2009, 09:47 AM
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Worst = Mince Pies, Shopping, the shops are only closed for a day you'd think they were closed for a month the way people fill their trolleys. Credit Card Bills. WORKING!! Best = All my family playing stupid games that never come out of the cupboard any other time of the year. Working, people are generally in a good mood and less likely to try and punch me in the head! Watching the dog trying to get the wrapping paper off the bone! Everything actually I love it.
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Nov 20 2009, 09:55 AM
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QUOTE (Bloggo @ Nov 20 2009, 09:45 AM) The best thing for me is the coming together of the family to enjoy each others company. The worst thing is the rampant commercialism. Totally agree. Rammed down your throat for 3 months of the year is just too much! (The rampant commercialism that is - not the family) HUMBUG!
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Nov 20 2009, 09:57 AM
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QUOTE (Bloggo @ Nov 20 2009, 09:45 AM) The best thing for me is the coming together of the family to enjoy each others company. The worst thing is the rampant commercialism. Depends on who your family is!
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Nov 20 2009, 10:25 AM
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QUOTE (Jacklets @ Nov 20 2009, 09:57 AM) Depends on who your family is! That's true I guess but the Bloggo familyall like a good time and have a lot of respect for each other. So there will be a few beers, a lot of food and some very corny games. Great!!!! I even stop moaning.
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Nov 20 2009, 02:28 PM
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QUOTE (Biker1 @ Nov 20 2009, 09:55 AM) Totally agree.
Rammed down your throat for 3 months of the year is just too much! (The rampant commercialism that is - not the family)
HUMBUG! Then on Boxing day they start trying to sell Summer Holidays and pretty soon after that Easter Eggs! Trying to keep all family happy by visiting them in equal measures and not being able to have a drink until the evening due to driving, oh hang on Mrs Bill1 is pregnant so not drinking.......WHOPEEEEEE!
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Nov 20 2009, 02:34 PM
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QUOTE (Bill1 @ Nov 20 2009, 02:28 PM) Then on Boxing day they start trying to sell Summer Holidays And Christmas hamper saving schemes for the following Christmas!!!!!!!
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Nov 20 2009, 03:39 PM
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QUOTE (Bill1 @ Nov 20 2009, 02:28 PM) Then on Boxing day they start trying to sell Summer Holidays and pretty soon after that Easter Eggs! Trying to keep all family happy by visiting them in equal measures and not being able to have a drink until the evening due to driving, oh hang on Mrs Bill1 is pregnant so not drinking.......WHOPEEEEEE! This years competition will be to see at what point over the christmas period you see the first summer holiday advert. You must name the block of adverts as either before, during, or after the particular tv show and post on here after the christmas holidays!! Ho, ho, ho!
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Nov 20 2009, 04:39 PM
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To be perfectly honest I find it rather difficult to come up with anything positive about Christmas . It starts in August and finishes just before Easter , it makes anyone who doesn't run up a credit card bill the size of a banana republics' GNP a pariah , and then criticises them for doing so . It is held at the coldest time of the year yet we are expected to light big carbon footprint fires to roast small nuts .We buy the biggest turkey we can stuff in our supermarket trolley then spend the next 6 weeks eating it . It is all done in the name of some chap who supposedly lived 2000 years ago who they thought so much of they killed him . No Christmas is great for kids and snogging strange women , but everything else is bah humbug !
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