.Is it me ...............or do others find the dreary Bing Crosby type Xmas music horribly depressing when played in the shops? I am beginning to prefer Noddie Holder shouting "It's Christmas!"
Then you get home and there are adverts on TV for Xmas Hits - Boney M, etc.
Now, what will I buy to help me enjoy Xmas - a bottle of Scotch - or a Xmas Hits CD? A new tool or gadget - or a Bing Crosby CD
In the original Meet me in St Louis version the song goes Have yourself a merry little Christmas It may be your last Next year we may all be living in the past
and-- Faithful friends who were dear to us Will be near to us no more.
Makes you want to top yourself doesn't it? No wonder the lyrics were later changed.
Did you see Breakfast TV Thurs or Fri - at a pub in Essex there is a Bah Humbug club who believe Christmas is for Christmas Day and 'Reindeer' is on the menu before Christmas. They are not all negative however as they raise hundreds of pounds for childrens charities. Perhaps the organisation should go national?
Ideally, Christmas should be what you want it to be (for us a non-event) but I guess, being a Christian country (?) the great unwashed will continue to do what they are programmed to do.
For most of said unwashed I believe the Christmas thing has been lost and it's just some time they buy / get presents and get drunk (more) and eat too much (still).
As TNP says, it's also a time of extra stress / anguish / pain for many (especially for those who are actually trapped by / into the whole thing, primarily by commercial pressures).
The problem though is being strong enough to stand up to those who have eyes and do not see, tarred with the 'humbug / spoilsport' thing, simply because you don't bring a tree into your house or want to put £5 into some 'secret Santa collection for the privilege of getting some tat in return?
Don't forget that Xmas is optional. It's not a hurricane on its way. Chain the women up somewhere and it disappears into thin air. Notice I don't include the children who, IME don't give a toss about Xmas, but always get the blame
I missed the Scottish accent reference and didn't get that for some time...
But in a similar vein (what the hell, we're OT anyway):
Geordie to Dr: "A've fallen off a ladder like. I've really hort ma leeg" Dr: "Can you walk?" Geordie: "Work man? I canna hardly even wark".
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Yorkshireman to jeweller: "Can tha mek a gold statue o' mi dog?" Jeweller: "Aye, reckon a can... does tha want it eighteen carat?" Yorkshireman: "Neigh, I want it chewin' a bone".
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