Who would gladly support a ban.....

mickoregan

....on all forms of Christmas decoration and advertising until Dec 1 each year?
I WOULD.

I love Christmas. It's a wonderful time of the year, but it should be kept to Christmastime. No matter what people may like to think it's not Christmas in November.

CardBordWindow

Any anyone with Christmas ads/decorations before Halloween should be given a long jail sentence!

mathie

mickoregan wrote: »

....on all forms of Christmas decoration and advertising until Dec 1 each year?
I WOULD.

I love Christmas. It's a wonderful time of the year, but it should be kept to Christmastime. No matter what people may like to think it's not Christmas in November.

I agree 100%

shannon_tek

An post have made it worse sayin "the moment u send a card It's Christmas" there fore its Christmas all year round

mathie

mickoregan wrote: »

....on all forms of Christmas decoration and advertising until Dec 1 each year?
I WOULD.

I love Christmas. It's a wonderful time of the year, but it should be kept to Christmastime. No matter what people may like to think it's not Christmas in November.

I disagree 100%

Teyla Emmagan

Definitely.

Retailers gonna want to Retail though. Especially the last few years, anything to get them in the doors must be welcomed.

Caveman1

The people who are puttin decorations up this early are most likely the one who try show off to the neighbours by being the 1st, there's one on every street

mickoregan

Caveman1 wrote: »

The people who are puttin decorations up this early are most likely the one who try show off to the neighbours by being the 1st, there's one on every street

Yeah, you're right but I was referring more to stores.

Guy:Incognito

Ditch Halloween, its a nothing holiday/festival etc and start Chrismas the day after Easter Monday.

stovelid

Christmas doesn't need your permission or indeed is it bothered by piteous bitch cries.

Christmas rocks.

/puts on xmas greates hits.

who the fug

Why not do what I do, send complaing emails to any venue that has them up in December.

mickoregan

stovelid wrote: »

Christmas doesn't need your permission...

No, it does not. But it does need to take place at Christmastime.

If you don't like it, simply boycott any shops that put them up early and send the manager a note explaining this (or stick it on the front door!)

danniemcq

i'd support a ban on christmas threads till Dec 1st

scotty_irish

mickoregan wrote: »

....on all forms of Christmas decoration and advertising until Dec 1 each year?
I WOULD.

I love Christmas. It's a wonderful time of the year, but it should be kept to Christmastime. No matter what people may like to think it's not Christmas in November.

December 1st? More like 18/19th. Christmas starts way too early. Too weeks is loads for the tree.

donalg1

Totally agree with a ban, I would even want it banned until the 8th December its way out of control now and starting to get very annoying, almost to the point where I now dislike Christmas and fell very Victor Meldrew for it

corktina

definately should be a ban on ****e christmas songs on the radio, most of which arent even about christmas.....soldiers on battlefields, junkies in new york, ex-girlfriends (or allegedly so in view of what we know now) that sort of crépe

mickoregan

scotty_irish wrote: »

December 1st? More like 18/19th. Christmas starts way too early. Too weeks is loads for the tree.

Absolutely, I agree totally with that. Our tree goes up 1 week before Christmas. But, I was aiming for a compromise.

orourkeda

Yiz are all a pack of grinchy bastards

skinny90

if this ever happend,retailers will find a loop hole regarding advertising,their would some certain way to advertise and get away with it,alot of retailers depend on christmas to determine whether or not they make a profit be it clothes, electical,toys etc

RachaelVO

who the fug wrote: »

Why not do what I do, send complaing emails to any venue that has them up in December.

In December? Did you mean November?

couldn't agree more OP

absolutely love christmas but dec 1 onwards please

who the fug

RachaelVO wrote: »

In December? Did you mean November?

Yes sorry November

stovelid

mickoregan wrote: »

No, it does not. But it does need to take place at Christmastime.

Christmastime is in our hearts. I feel it. Therefore it's Christmastime.

now, I'll take my leave of you buzz killers to go out for a walk and look at the decorations.

im invisible

Its the most, wonderful time, of the year...

Big Nasty

Christmas is for Christmas, not life.

srsly78

They actually have laws similar to this in some european countries. Not sure on details, but here is one example: in Belgium they have laws stating when January sales can start. Shops can get fined if they put up SALE posters before this date. Not like here when the signs go up on Steven's day

http://www.brussels.be/artdet.cfm/5141

ScumLord

I'm all for the ban, but it's not as bad once you don't watch tele.

Wetai

A ban until AT LEAST 1st November - early advertising is one thing, doing it before Halloween is another thing..

mickoregan

LiamN wrote: »

A ban until AT LEAST 1st November - early advertising is one thing, doing it before Halloween is another thing..

Yeah, but...y'see it's not Christmas in November. D'ya get it?

44leto

Ban the stupid piped xmas songs as well, beside aren't decorations meant to decorate an area not make it look worse, so xmas decorations is misleading BAN THEM as litter.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Yes most definately. It can an awful time of year for some people and they don't need it dragged out any longer than it already is. A friend of mine is in dire straits at the moment over how he's going to afford Christmas for his partner and 2 kids this year. The barrage of advertisments from early Nov onwards doesn't help, Imagine been in that position where you can't give your child the Christmas you want to give them.

Logical Fallacy

I was in Tesco the other day and they were play Christmas muzak that sounded like it was being played on a cheap Casio keyboard.

I can foresee a high rate of staff suicides this year.

ThelotusKid

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

I was in Tesco the other day and they were play Christmas muzak that sounded like it was being played on a cheap Casio keyboard.

I can foresee a high rate of staff suicides this year.

Or a rise in the sale of cheap Casio keyboards.

mickoregan

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Yes most definately. It can an awful time of year for some people and they don't need it dragged out any longer than it already is. A friend of mine is in dire straits at the moment over how he's going to afford Christmas for his partner and 2 kids this year. The barrage of advertisments from early Nov onwards doesn't help, Imagine been in that position where you can't give your child the Christmas you want to give them.

Yeah, that's another aspect - one which I hadn't actually considered. Nice post.

sbsquarepants

I love christmas, but for fúck sake enough is enough. If you put your tree/decorations up in the middle of november and leave them up till the middle of january, that means it's christmas for roughly 17% of the entire year! :mad:
It's a 2 week thing at best - and even that is stretching it.

bah humbug etc etc

RichieC

it is stupid putting them up so early but banning it? yea...okay. :rolleyes:

John Doe1

"christmas time, misteltoe and wine, children sing in................

Scruffles

technicaly,people who put up christmas decorations early in their shop or home are no less unrealistic or disrespectful to the christmas season than christmas itself.
the birth of jesus was never officialy known,and the christmas as we know it was a hijacking of the popular pagan festival; the winter solstice.
the only thing that putting up decorations early and selling christmas related goods make a mockery of is the season traditions.

Flukey

I agree absolutely. Why on earth would anyone want Christmas decorations up at this time of year? Wait until the 1st of December... and even that is a bit early. I love Christmas, but it is not even near it yet. It would be much more magical if they started it later. Seeing Christmas decorations and hearing Christmas songs so early annoys most people, not put them into a festive spirit. "Oh God, not already!" is the reaction of most people when they hear their first Christmas songs being played in shops, even from people who absolutely love Christmas. There would be a much more positive reaction if they started later.

When will the vast majority of people do the vast majority of their Christmas shopping? In those final few days, about the 18th to 25th of December. Will we do our Christmas shopping? Yes. So no matter when decorations go up or advertising starts, we will do our Christmas shopping, so the shops will get their business anyway. We are not going to do any more shopping because the decorations are up now or advertising started weeks ago. So the shops won't lose money by waiting until at least the 1st of December. In fact, they'd save money by not doing all that needless advertising in September, October and November.

The other side of it is that you start seeing decorations coming down and Christmas trees being thrown out from about the 27th of December. Although we've been hearing the 12 Days of Christmas being sung for weeks, people suddenly forget that Christmas lasts that long. People start asking you "How was your Christmas?" as early as the 26th of December. I always answer "Not too bad, so far." After all it is only getting started, so you can't say how it was until after it is finished. So we have the crazy situation of people starting Christmas way before it begins, and ending it long before if finishes.

Christmas is wonderful, but let's wait until near Christmas before we start it and then let it go on throughout Christmas. For a change, it would be lovely to have Christmas, during Christmas. So when you see people on the 7th of January, then you can start to ask "How was your Christmas?"

WoollyRedHat

stovelid wrote: »

Christmas doesn't need your permission or indeed is it bothered by piteous bitch cries.

Christmas rocks.

/puts on xmas greates hits.

NO!
*Shoots Stovelid in head*

who the fug wrote: »

Why not do what I do, send complaing emails to any venue that has them up in December.

Better yet, let's picket the bastards!

Chuck Stone

We love banning shit in this cuntry.

No more fucking bans.

Namlub

Scruffles wrote: »

technicaly,people who put up christmas decorations early in their shop or home are no less unrealistic or disrespectful to the christmas season than christmas itself.
the birth of jesus was never officialy known,and the christmas as we know it was a hijacking of the popular pagan festival; the winter solstice.
the only thing that putting up decorations early and selling christmas related goods make a mockery of is the season traditions.

Yes, we've all lost sight of the true meaning of Christmas...the birth of Santa

corktina

Namlub wrote: »

Yes, we've all lost sight of the true meaning of Christmas...the birth of Santa

nah we haven't someone said that yesterday I'm sure.:eek:

saa

I agree, I can understand that retailers want to extend the period of Christmas spending but really.. really do we need advertisements and decorations to remind us to spread out our spending, we're not that stupid.

This, like many other things need to be regulated in this county.

I declare the Department of Christmas Cheer.

vicwatson

We love banning shit in this cuntry.

No more fucking bans.

Ban Banning I say :rolleyes:

mickoregan

Let's start the "BAN DE BAN" movement right here and now.

Robdude

mickoregan wrote: »

....on all forms of Christmas decoration and advertising until Dec 1 each year?
I WOULD.

I love Christmas. It's a wonderful time of the year, but it should be kept to Christmastime. No matter what people may like to think it's not Christmas in November.

I agree. I think anyone who enjoys something or does something that I don't, or who goes about it in a way I wouldn't should be treated as a criminal. I support laws to mandate everyone do what I do.

I also think not going to Church should be illegal. And pre-marital sex should be illegal. I also think suit jackets and tennis shoes should be illegal. And fish, I don't like fish, it should be illegal.

Twee.

Ugh my neighbours have started Stage 2 of their decorations today. Stage 1 was the window decorations, 2 is the porch, 3 will be the outside lights. Makes my house look miserable!

Dudess

Around now is fine for getting Christmassy IMO but early November I don't agree with - not to be a killjoy, I love Christmas, but because it's more fun if there's a longer build-up to it.

Da Shins Kelly

I agree. December 1st should be the date people start sticking up decorations and such. Before that is too early. My housemates are currently playing Christmas songs, and it's driving me crazy. I absolutely love Christmas, but I feel like it kinda ruins the magic if people are celebrating waaay before it's time. I'm bored of the songs and the decorations by the time Christmas has actually arrived.