XMAS Music, Nov 1st

Wertz · 31-10-2007 07:31PM

l3LoWnA wrote: »

I'm lucky enough to still be able to enjoy christmas without mourning the loss of a loved one. Alot of my friends have lost people very close to them (mothers/daughters/brothers etc) and so Christmas is never the same for them. I'm going to get as much as possible out of Christmas while I still have everyone I love around me and my daugter is still young enough to believe in the baby jesus and santa claus

That's a very, very good point and I'm lucky enough to be in the same boat.
I don't subscribe to the consumerist scramble that makes up what chirstmas is apparently "about" in the modern age, I hate the money grabbing aspect of it, how it starts earlier every year, pressure on poor people to borrow/spend, etc etc etc, but the aspects of christmas I enjoy are having my family and friends around, the whole dinner thing, getting tipsy on baileys and just being nostalgic for christmases past.
Somethings you just can't buy which is very comforting in this land of conspicuous consumption...

pretty-in-pink · 31-10-2007 07:44PM

Christmas starts in september now. Its so very odd seeing halloween stuff next to Christmas stuff. Some things need to be planned ahead, however as I no longer work in a shop, I dont have to endure 2+ months of christmas songs and those singing animals people set off 50 times a day, usually doing a few together.

Rob_l · 31-10-2007 07:52PM

pretty-in-pink wrote: »

and those singing animals people set off 50 times a day, usually doing a few together.

yeah i do that tis great fun
funny how that shop staff dont find it quite as funny as me

pretty-in-pink · 31-10-2007 07:57PM

No, it fills them with rage. and the jokes...oh man, so glad I got out of public service. 90% of the time its fine, its the oher 10% thats awful

Holmer · 31-10-2007 08:02PM

Steyr wrote: »

Unfortunately.... Best song though is "drivin home for christmas" by Chris Rea..:p

too right Chris made it all worthwhile! I too worked in Dunnes and it could be soul destroying at Xmas.... Stupid old piss-smelly baxtards who thought if it wasn't on the shelf you could "give Ben Dunne a call" and get it the next day. Workin with the public makes you realise that they're generally not that bright

Mrs. MacGyver · 31-10-2007 08:02PM

I so agree. Christmas is comeing in earlier each year and by the time December comes theres no fuzzy Christmas feelings left since you are hypnotised with the nusic since October!

The one song i wouldn't mind hearing in a shop November the first is Shakin Stevens - Merry Christmas everyone.

Rob_l · 31-10-2007 08:04PM

pretty-in-pink wrote: »

No, it fills them with rage. and the jokes...oh man, so glad I got out of public service. 90% of the time its fine, its the oher 10% thats awful

thats really too bad

for them:D

pretty-in-pink · 31-10-2007 08:08PM

lol

Kintarō Hattori · 01-11-2007 01:58AM

Mossy Monk wrote: »

So all shops should go Christmassy tomorrow?

I prefer December 16th.

Well obviously not November 1st, say the last week of November.

XMAS Music, Nov 1st

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