Christmas should be biannual
Discuss...
I skipped and ignored Christmas last year as I really wasn't in the mood for it, and this year I'm well into the Christmas swing of things, loving the music, the TV, the radio, the adverts, the get-togethers, the Xmas markets and Xmas shopping.
As the Christmas season now lasts three months, maybe everyone *needs* a 21-month gap before facing it again? Either that or ban anything Christmassy until Dec 1st each year.
I skipped and ignored Christmas last year as I really wasn't in the mood for it, and this year I'm well into the Christmas swing of things, loving the music, the TV, the radio, the adverts, the get-togethers, the Xmas markets and Xmas shopping.
As the Christmas season now lasts three months, maybe everyone *needs* a 21-month gap before facing it again? Either that or ban anything Christmassy until Dec 1st each year.
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besides you cant celebrate the birth of little baby jesus every two years. imagine if you had to celebrate your b'day every two years. it'd be a pain keeping track of your age.
i can;t imagine this ever happening anyway, unless the country is taken over by a supervillian.
Anyway, Christmas isn't about Jesus (I'm not into religion at all). Instead it's about food, alcohol and presents. :)
Necros.
that's the first christmas, the wise men brough the messiah some presents, ate his food, and most probably got pissed. (you have to be pissed to follow a star.)
christmas is about mooching.
You buy a new console every year? There's only about three in a five year generation, surely you'd run out of consoles to buy?
When I was a child Christmas seemed to come once every three years. Now it comes once every two months.
What on earth is this country coming to.
That all started when the term "Seasons Greetings" was coined... sometime in the 70's by some loved up "Free love" types who were not sure what religion to follow. Strumming their guitars and banging their tambourines singing loved up tripe" All of the people, living together...loving each other."
...that and tiny numbers of people who thought they had to go out of their way to remove anything that anyone could possibly find offensive, whether there was any real justification for being offended or not.
IMHO we should be celebrating everyone's particular festival rather than nobody's. Anything that gives me an excuse to gorge myself on exotic foreign foods has to be a good thing... :)
Necros.
Having said that, can anyone name all the consoles (including handhelds ) released over the last 5 years?
There should at least be some by-laws which says no Xmas stuff on sale or display until Dec 1st.
also i buy dead great presents for people with loads of thought put in, and what do i get back, a bunch of tat. I know i should be greatful for the gift, but i have to put this shite in my house. what do you think the chances of anyone clubbing together to get me a wii, fuck all. you might be thinking what an ungreatfull c*nt im being, but really no one seems to care. Last year my mate re-gifted me something, and it was pap to begin with. i do know a few who buy me good stuff, and i always look forward to them. but some i just think are taking the piss.
that rant has nothing to do with the fact that despite my best efforts i am still single for the holidays.
GameBoy Advance SP
GameBoy Micro
Nintendo DS
Nintendo DS Lite
Wii
X-Box 360
PSP - yup, Sony released Paint Shop Pro :-P
PS3
That'd be 8. Although the DS and the DS Lite are the same except Lite being smaller, the GBA SP is a more robust version of the GBA, and the GB Micro is just a tiny GB that looks like a naff LCD game thing so the total should really only be 5.
4 if you don't include the PS3 as it's only been released in Japan and the US so far.
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
https://www.youtube.com/user/VincentTSFP
Without this persons generosity, his tidy beard, and bringing gifts to the needy and most deserving, there would be no Christmas at all - despite the ill-treatment and suffering he endured from the masses.
So I say praise Noel Edmonds - up the top of your post office tower this yuletide morn.
May all of your Deal or No Deal boxes have ?250,000 in them for evermore.
No.
But I'll have a go.
Gamecube
Xbox
Xbox 360
Nintendo DS & Lite
Nintendo Wii
PSP
Game Wave Family Entertainment System
Atari Flashback 1+2
Generation NEX
FC Twin Video Game System
Sony PlayStation 3
Mattel HyperScan
Evo: Phase One
GP2X
Gizmondo
GP32
Nintendo Game Boy Advance
Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP
Nintendo Game Boy Micro
N-Gage
N-Gage QD
Tapwave Zodiac
Bandai SwanCrystal
Good idea Karingal.. Just be grateful that next Christmas you won't have 2 buy presents for a 9 year old girl, a 3 year old girl and (if things go well with this pregnancy) two 7 month old twin girls..
The Gift thing is a whole different matter and Christmas is an expensive excersise nowadays - I wouldn't say I go around spending thousands on presents, though some people do!
The only set back is the Children, man they know their supposed to get something each year - has anyone done the ol' burnt charcoal when their kids were bad one year?!?
Besides that - perhaps if it were Biannual the first year could be to set aside some money and in the second year get something with a bit more value to it? That'd be good.
the only real looser at xmas time is mother earth, all those trees being cut down to make wrapping paper and xmas trees. all its little creature being senselessly killed to feed overweight families. far too much waste goes on imo.
Not in the land of 'oz, those Radiata Pines are a nuisance and just spring up everywhere - if anything they have the potential to invade our local trees like She-Oaks, Cherry Ballart, White Cyperus and remove the habitat (since nothing grows under Pines).
Sadily though a couple of Pine Plantations I've seen when the Pines were removed just had grassy weeds invading (might of have something to do with how they were planted on mass - which I would say involved using heavy machinery disturbing the soil).
Other invasive plants (in Australia) which have a meaning to Christmas are Holly and English Ivy (there might be a few more though).
Sorry can't do anything like that - I just wish everyone a Happy Christmas/Solstice (which is today I believe)/etc and a Merry new orbit!
CP/M User.
cheers
dead easy to do, and cheap. :)
Look its a musical toilet roll holder that plays the theme tune to 'only fools and horses.' How novel, how classy!!.. Yay just what I allways wanted :roll: