T'was The Best Christmas Ever

AllForIt

No Christmas mania

No manic shopping

No Christmas advertising starting in late October

No expectations to perform for xmas and get in the xmas mood by grown up children reliving their youth.

No St. Stephens day sales when it's supposed to a f*ckin national holiday - like yeah, even for lowly shop cashiers, duh!

No football on St. Stephen's day (like can we not have a couple of days off football instead of doing a football xmas special when it's on all year round).

But the one thing we didn't escape I noticed was the moral media talking about the homeless as they do every time this season. Bonus points to the meida for taking the edge of a few days of happiness we try to muster because we don't quite deserve it for benefiting from a capitalist system which if we didn't have we'd all be living in a socialist squalor.

What did you get for xmas hmm?

I know what I got. One less headache.

EmmetSpiceland

I got an Apple Watch. Great stuff.

punisher5112

But there was manic shopping

Crowds


Traffic

Dullnes


Covid etc etc....

This year has been a complete right off ....

pgj2015

There was a few premier league games on today.

85603

AllForIt wrote: »

No Christmas mania

No manic shopping

No Christmas advertising starting in late October

No expectations to perform for xmas and get in the xmas mood by grown up children reliving their youth.

No St. Stephens day sales when it's supposed to a f*ckin national holiday - like yeah, even for lowly shop cashiers, duh!

No football on St. Stephen's day (like can we not have a couple of days off football instead of doing a football xmas special when it's on all year round).

But the one thing we didn't escape I noticed was the moral media talking about the homeless as they do every time this season. Bonus points to the meida for taking the edge of a few days of happiness we try to muster because we don't quite deserve it for benefiting from a capitalist system which if we didn't have we'd all be living in a socialist squalor.

What did you get for xmas hmm?

I know what I got. One less headache.

Doing so well up to the capitalism socialism shyte.

But yeah, no bullsht christmas is the best.

Got nothing for anyone, received nothing, didn't stand in a single queue, didn't go within a km of any crowd. Watched some good tv, ate, chilled, no visitors, non-consumerist christmas is great.

dxhound2005

Maybe the media will not go into their usual January frenzy about trolley numbers in hospitals. It always struck me as odd that that 500 or 600 on trolleys in May or August warrants no publicity whatever. But 700 in January leads every news bulletin and front page for three weeks.

I see sheep

AllForIt wrote: »

No Christmas mania

No manic shopping

No Christmas advertising starting in late October

No expectations to perform for xmas and get in the xmas mood by grown up children reliving their youth.

No St. Stephens day sales when it's supposed to a f*ckin national holiday - like yeah, even for lowly shop cashiers, duh!

No football on St. Stephen's day (like can we not have a couple of days off football instead of doing a football xmas special when it's on all year round).

But the one thing we didn't escape I noticed was the moral media talking about the homeless as they do every time this season. Bonus points to the meida for taking the edge of a few days of happiness we try to muster because we don't quite deserve it for benefiting from a capitalist system which if we didn't have we'd all be living in a socialist squalor.

What did you get for xmas hmm?

I know what I got. One less headache.

What a load of guff, you're incorrect on every point you make, that might be a record.

Ubbquittious

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Maybe the media will not go into their usual January frenzy about trolley numbers in hospitals. It always struck me as odd that that 500 or 600 on trolleys in May or August warrants no publicity whatever. But 700 in January leads every news bulletin and front page for three weeks.

Ah but May or August are the touristy-spendy times of the year. The time they try to look good for the tourists


January you are just after pigging out on capitalism, sugar and instant gratification so you need to be made feel bad in order to get you to pay more tax

Your Face

Id take busy roads and sales madness over quiet roads with people sick and dying from Covid.

Ubbquittious

Your Face wrote: »

Id take busy roads and sales madness over quiet roads with people sick and dying from Covid.

If they bring back the busy roads they'll be dieing from normal flu and other infectious diseases instead

Your Face

Ubbquittious wrote: »

If they bring back the busy roads they'll be dieing from normal flu and other infectious diseases instead

No they won't.

Rubberchikken

I got an iPad.
I also had a lovely peaceful day with the family members that mean everything to me.
The media doesn’t affect me so whatever whining or guilting they were trying to do about the homeless was lost on me.

It’s a lovely Christmas but then I’ve enjoyed everything one so far.

theguzman

I would see nothing wrong with forms of Christmas regulation after all this, no lights until Dec 1st minimum and same in shops etc. There needs to be a severe clampdown of the mindless unnecessary consumerism that happens in December, I'd have no problem with raising VAT to 33% each month of December also. Christmas is an absolutely grotesque affair which has totally destroyed what it was and is supposed to be. Enough food wasted to feed thousands and enough junk from Pennys etc to clothe a small african country. I have a big problem with the excesses of Christmas over all.

Was the worst year in years for getting around and shopping I found. Between reduced numbers and people going out more than they needed in defiance and out of nosiness most places were bunged.

theguzman

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Was the worst year in years for getting around and shopping I found. Between reduced numbers and people going out more than they needed in defiance and out of nosiness most places were bunged.

Here where I live in Kerry it rained almost non-stop for over 3 weeks with only Christmas eve as the only 24 hour period without precipitation in the month of December so far. The worst month of non-stop rain I think I have ever encountered.

Ubbquittious

Your Face wrote: »

No they won't.

I am glad you will be single-handedly keeping them all alive


For me it was the best Christmas because I discovered pine needle tea. During the summer I love a spot of wild camping but I was forever losing bags of Barrys or them getting dirty in the bottom of my rucksack. Now I won't be bringing them anymore

EmmetSpiceland

Ubbquittious wrote: »

I am glad you will be single-handedly keeping them all alive


For me it was the best Christmas because I discovered pine needle tea. During the summer I love a spot of wild camping but I was forever losing bags of Barrys or them getting dirty in the bottom of my rucksack. Now I won't be bringing them anymore

Do you just chuck a bunch of pine needles in a mug of boiling water or do you have to brew it up for a bit in a pot?

Ubbquittious

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Do you just chuck a bunch of pine needles in a mug of boiling water or do you have to brew it up for a bit in a pot?

You have to brew it for a while and boiling is not good apparently


https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/how-to-make-pine-needle-tea/

AllForIt

I see sheep wrote: »

What a load of guff, you're incorrect on every point you make, that might be a record.

wow

dxhound2005

Just as a back up, carry some tea bags in a plastic zip bag in your rucksack. That should stop them from getting dirty.

AllForIt

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

I got an Apple Watch. Great stuff.

Yeah well the reason it's called a watch is because Apple is watching you.

Enjoy

AllForIt

85603 wrote: »

Doing so well up to the capitalism socialism shyte.

But yeah, no bullsht christmas is the best.

Got nothing for anyone, received nothing, didn't stand in a single queue, didn't go within a km of any crowd. Watched some good tv, ate, chilled, no visitors, non-consumerist christmas is great.

I know, I went on a tangent there. Ruined my own thread.

EmmetSpiceland

AllForIt wrote: »

Yeah well the reason it's called a watch is because Apple is watching you.

Enjoy

But sure they’re already watching through my phone, tv, laptop and iPad. Think my iPod is too old to have any monitoring “capabilities”.

At this stage, you either “unplug” or you pick a provider you trust more than the others. I don’t have any non-Apple “devices” so they’re the one with the goods on me, I’d see them as the best of a bad lot.

But the watch is great fun.

riclad

The reason for the headlines every year is the winter is the peak time for flu , so we get 100s of people on trolleys ,
Now people are just worried about covid.
Every year certain things are in the headlines , hospital trolleys, homeless crisis, some celeb caught having an affair.
No Paper will have a front page , oh there's not much news today
Next year there ll probably be headlines about the economic
Crisis caused by covid, and brexit
Journalism does not have to creative they report what's happening even if some of it is boring
Every month there seems to be a big hack
millions of user accounts exposed user data not
encrypted weak passwords used company x security is not
good

The good thing about the year and about Christmas is the shift in perspective. I don't care about gifts or parties or anything else as long as my family gets through the next few unvaccinated months without anyone else getting sick, or worse. Nothing else is even close to being as important.

The year hasn't been a total write off, but I'll be glad to see the back of it. Things won't be magically better on 1st January, but this time next year should be much improved and I'll really enjoy seeing the entire family, getting loads of hugs, squabbling stupidly over silly things, and not having a cloud of dread cross my mind when I think of my older relatives.

Ubbquittious

Candie wrote: »

Things won't be magically better on 1st January,

They certainly won't. It will be a tough slog ahead for the next few months. Better lace up your sturdiest pair of boots, don your warmest coat and wolf down a few goose eggs and rye bread for strength.

ShatterAlan

Ubbquittious wrote: »

I am glad you will be single-handedly keeping them all alive


For me it was the best Christmas because I discovered pine needle tea. During the summer I love a spot of wild camping but I was forever losing bags of Barrys or them getting dirty in the bottom of my rucksack. Now I won't be bringing them anymore

Never occurred to you to put the tea bags in a tupperware container to stop them getting dirty in your filthy rucksack?