Christmas killed off; By on-line shopping?

Computerised address entry often can't cope with flat numbers which are duplicated in a nearby block if they are the same postcode. And even if they aren't letters can be misdelivered.

Then the recipient "helpfully" puts, "Not known at this address," and the sender thinks you don't live at the stated address any more.

Well I /thought/ about sending you a present; and it's the thought that counts.

You're not in a good position to talk about trying (vainly) to pressure people into joining in with your "habit".

(And "no one" means "no humans" BTW.)

People who devise names for residential streets lack imagination. They think of a name and append Road, Street, Avenue, Mews, Crescent, Close &c. to it, regardless of the nature of the road.

(Avenue is basically from the French "à venue" meaning the driveway approaching a big house, often lined with trees both sides, which is what it is /supposed/ to mean in street names.)

I lived in a town with a street called 'Boulevard'. Just that.

Kevin the Carrot ?.

Here in Chippenham (The Wiltshire one and not t'other) (England) there are a large number of Meads and Closes which are named from the historical fields and enclosures in which they are built.

think yourself lucky

I got Father Christmas handkerchiefs

anyhow

Coming up to the Christmas period I just deferred a couple of purchases that I would have gone out and bought for myself, to put on my Xmas list

Just needs to be a long term need and not something that you need today

I thought they were cheating with perspective to exaggerate the size

until he picked it up

Geeeeeeeze

Well, other than me not 'doing Xmyth' isn't going to affect anyone, there are no victims, unlike killing and exploiting animals etc.

Only to you. To many, a cow isn't an it it's a one.

But no, I understand that you don't care about animals and therefore I'm not sure why you bother to try to join in?

It would be like you piping up during the second world war in support of the German gas chambers.

Cheers, T i m

Which "many"? "There's no-one in the field." "Oh yes there is, there are several cows." Who would say that?

T r o l l would, obvs, just as he's being fitted with the white coat with the extra long sleeves.

All the vegans.

Cheers, T i m

But not to be sneezed at, though!

Sneezing and nose blowing are still allowed, even in public. Fortunately I'm not susceptible to coughing.

It's not the cough that carries you off ...

... It's the coffin they carry you off in.

the latter is difficult when wearing a mask

Perhaps a variation on the only way to get your own back is to piss into the wind?