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Here it comes..Xmas...

  • 05-11-2015 03:28AM
    #1
    chillin117
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 731 ✭✭✭


    The retailers can't wait for Holleween to be out of the way....Now the onslaught ? Looks strange typed. Kinda pisses me off, Get's earlier each year.
    I do love Christmas but it's full on now. Think I'll hide for 3 more weeks..Cu..'s:(


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  • #2
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Lidl have their ads on the telly,fcuking sickening.


  • #3
    woodchuck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,411 ✭✭✭✭woodchuck


    Stephens Green shopping centre have all their decorations up already.


  • #4
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Loads of ads on the telly and the shops have been stocking Christmas stuff for weeks now. But worst of all was the opening of the Pennies Christmas shop in Nutgrove at the end of Sept/start of October.


  • #5
    Copa Mundial
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 225 ✭✭Copa Mundial


    It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone at this stage. Halloween starts on October 1st and Christmas starts on November 1st.

    It's been that way in recent years. Just the nature of the beast.


  • #6
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Copa Mundial wrote: »
    It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone at this stage. Halloween starts on October 1st and Christmas starts on November 1st.

    It's been that way in recent years. Just the nature of the beast.
    But a full week before Halloween I went in to woodies and all the Halloween stuff was 50% in a corner while the main display area was full of Christmas trees and 10ft Santa statues.


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  • #7
    Into The Blue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭Into The Blue


    What are ye shïteing on about?? Christmas is next month!!


  • #8
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,439 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    chillin117 wrote: »
    The retailers can't wait for Holleween to be out of the way....Now the onslaught ? Looks strange typed. Kinda pisses me off, Get's earlier each year.
    I do love Christmas but it's full on now. Think I'll hide for 3 more weeks..Cu..'s:(


    Starts a thread two months before Christmas on how Christmas is coming... and then fecks off?

    Well, Merry Christmas to you too OP! :pac:


  • #9
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,422 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    It's been ages since I had an Easter egg!!


  • #10
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Lucretias wrote: »
    Would you care to provide evidence that Christmas gets earlier each year?

    I'd wager that Christmas is no earlier this year than it was in 2002.
    I don't ever recall seeing Christmas shops opening in Sept in 2002


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 12,694 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I know its easier said that done but don't engage with it so much, I walked part of the Wicklow way last weekend absolutely fabulous and no evidence of Christmas any where unless you count the pine trees :p I am not a shopper and don't work near any shopping centres so easy enough for me to avoid it until i want to take part.


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  • #12
    Kev W
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭Kev W


    smash wrote: »
    I don't ever recall seeing Christmas shops opening in Sept in 2002

    Were Christmas shops even around in 2002? It feels like only the last few years since pop-up shops have existed at all.


  • #13
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    If you don't like it just walk past it.
    Just don't go whinging if you go to buy X Y or Z a week before and they're sold out.


  • #14
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    'It gets earlier every year.'

    I feel like I've been hearing that my whole life and yet when I want to buy a Christmas tree in March there's not one fcuking Christmas item to be found in the shops. :mad:


  • #15
    Into The Blue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭Into The Blue


    Toto Wolfcastle wrote: »
    yet when I want to buy a Christmas tree in March
    Wiclow mountains.. loads up there.. and for free!!!!









    Which is nice.


  • #16
    chillin117
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 731 ✭✭✭chillin117


    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    Starts a thread two months before Christmas on how Christmas is coming... and then fecks off?

    Well, Merry Christmas to you too OP! :pac:
    I Didn't feck off, Look I'm here !


  • #17
    Into The Blue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭Into The Blue


    chillin117 wrote: »
    I Didn't feck off, Look I'm here !

    Howrya


  • #18
    Dr.Internet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 465 ✭✭Dr.Internet


    Finished present shopping 2 weeks ago. Still trying to persuade the partner it's not too early to put the tree up, but apparently i'd be a knob if i put it up before december


  • #19
    Kev W
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭Kev W


    Dr.Internet wrote: »
    Finished present shopping 2 weeks ago. Still trying to persuade the partner it's not too early to put the tree up, but apparently i'd be a knob if i put it up before december

    If it's up for a sixth of the year, it's hardly special is it? Wouldn't you be just used to it by Christmas?


  • #20
    Lights On
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,752 ✭✭✭Lights On


    You know Christmas is coming when you start hearing people complaining that Christmas is coming!


  • #21
    Dr.Internet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 465 ✭✭Dr.Internet


    Kev W wrote: »
    If it's up for a sixth of the year, it's hardly special is it? Wouldn't you be just used to it by Christmas?

    One sixth of the year......i'd leave it up till March if I could!


    I never tire of walking in to the room and the magic of christmas in your face


    I LOVE chrimbo :)


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  • #22
    Kev W
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭Kev W


    Dr.Internet wrote: »
    One sixth of the year......i'd leave it up till March if I could!


    I never tire of walking in to the room and the magic of christmas in your face


    I LOVE chrimbo :)


    But if it was all the time it wouldn't be magical, would it? It would be mundane. It would be wallpaper or oxygen. You'd stop noticing. Also the fact that it's confined to a particular part of the year means there's only so much of a window for that horrible Paul McCartney song.

    I love Christmas but I despise the word "chrimbo". It's the "It does exactly what it says on the tin" of seasons.


  • #23
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 19,923 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I don't really mind it, November is a pretty shít month. No bank holidays etc. At least it reminds you there's something to look forward to next month.


  • #24
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Are you hanging up the stocking on your wall?


  • #25
    Dr.Internet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 465 ✭✭Dr.Internet


    Kev W wrote: »
    But if it was all the time it wouldn't be magical, would it? It would be mundane. It would be wallpaper or oxygen. You'd stop noticing. Also the fact that it's confined to a particular part of the year means there's only so much of a window for that horrible Paul McCartney song.

    I love Christmas but I despise the word "chrimbo". It's the "It does exactly what it says on the tin" of seasons.
    You sound like my partner.


  • #26
    Kev W
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭Kev W


    Dr.Internet wrote: »
    You sound like my partner.

    Your partner sounds pretty great. :)


  • #27
    OU812
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,114 ✭✭✭OU812


    Put Xmas back in the box. This is Turkey month. Thanksgiving.

    The run up to Xmas can take place from the 27th November.

    http://i.imgur.com/q7ZeIeZ.jpg


  • #28
    Firefox11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭Firefox11


    smash wrote: »
    But a full week before Halloween I went in to woodies and all the Halloween stuff was 50% in a corner while the main display area was full of Christmas trees and 10ft Santa statues.

    Tescos have had Christmas stuff in their shops since the beginning of September.


  • #29
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,706 ✭✭✭valoren


    I wonder what ad will be "Most Annoying Xmas Ad 2015".

    For me the 2014 Vodafone ad was a deserved winner.

    "Have a holly, jolly Christmas....it's the best time of the year"


  • #30
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,097 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Fuck Christmas.


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  • #31
    Kev W
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭Kev W


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    Fuck Christmas.

    Oh you're a mean one, Mr Grinch.


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