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Christmas Out of Season 2020

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,475 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    DvB wrote: »
    Love actually on tonight at 9pm on comedy central.

    Was on again last night. Managed to resist the temptation though :)
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,351 ✭✭✭Littlehorny


    Just out of curiosity, what story is everyone's favorite story in Love Actually?
    Mine is Colin Firth and the Portugese maid :)

    Also two Christmas episodes on telly last night. At about 6pm there was a Christmas edition of something called "Save Money, Eat Well"? The chef had to make Christmas dinner for a family of 8 for less than a fiver a head.
    At 10pm on E4 , the Christmas edition of The Inbetweeners was on.

    Two totally different types of shows I'll grant you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,475 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Just out of curiosity, what story is everyone's favorite story in Love Actually?
    Mine is Colin Firth and the Portugese maid :)

    Also two Christmas episodes on telly last night. At about 6pm there was a Christmas edition of something called "Save Money, Eat Well"? The chef had to make Christmas dinner for a family of 8 for less than a fiver a head.
    At 10pm on E4 , the Christmas edition of The Inbetweeners was on.

    Two totally different types of shows I'll grant you.

    always disliked the Liam Neeson one, and the one with yer man heading to Milwaukee and pulling every c list celeb with a pulse.

    Dont like the kiera Knightley one either. That whole video thing and banoffi pie and the craic with the cards... nah.

    Love the Bill Nighy (billy mac) one, and the colin Firth one. And surely everyone likes the high grant one? The emma Thompson and laura linney ones I find sad but add a good balance.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,809 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    In Love actually I like Natalie and the Prime Ministers story. I just love the swearing and banter between them. Whist it's totally unbelievable.

    The are lots of elements in the film I like such as the weekly count downer in it and the generally vibe. It's not to American.


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Totally too late to push this.

    https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/christmas-in-may-tickets-104233083960

    but there is a Christmas in May event tonight for the Simon community. I say it would be great craic.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Was a movie day yesterday afternoon and Elf1 & 2 picked out Muppets Christmas Carol to watch :)

    Really cheered me up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,475 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Was down doing the weekly grocery shop on Friday evening & joined the queue outside dunnes stores a far bit away from the entrance, the queue moved quickly enough though so no real trouble, thing was I was stopped for a bit outside CAssidy Travel and they had a poster in their window or trips to Lapland to see Santa for Christmas 2020... I thought to myself, whoa thats early, then copped, its May, and with these trips far from cheap you'd need to be planning that a few months in advance... still, was nice to see a christmas poster already!
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭CheerLouth


    Found these on H&M:

    https://www2.hm.com/en_ie/productpage.0813300001.html

    I debated getting them.....


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    CheerLouth wrote: »
    Found these on H&M:

    https://www2.hm.com/en_ie/productpage.0813300001.html

    I debated getting them.....

    ...Did you get them? :D I'd be tempted myself but am only allowed window shop this week.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    CheerLouth wrote: »
    Found these on H&M:

    https://www2.hm.com/en_ie/productpage.0813300001.html

    I debated getting them.....

    Half the sizes sold out so lots of people cheering themselves up :D

    Hope you and the little one are doing well CL and you're getting some sleep!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭CheerLouth


    ...Did you get them? :D I'd be tempted myself but am only allowed window shop this week.

    No :( I decided I had better stick to getting some clothes for now that might actually fit me...I'll defo revisit them closer to Christmas!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,131 ✭✭✭pigtail33


    Listening to Radio Nova yesterday morning, and they played a clip of Silent Night. Apparently Bing Crosby recorded it on June 8th in 1942!! I wouldn't usually be one for listening to Christmas Carols in June, but it's nice to unexpectedly hear a clip of one at any time of the year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,322 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    Think I'm gonna listen to some Christmas tunes tonight on spotify, to remind me of days gone by and of hopefully better days to come and an amazing Christmas 2020 :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    leahyl wrote: »
    Think I'm gonna listen to some Christmas tunes tonight on spotify, to remind me of days gone by and of hopefully better days to come and an amazing Christmas 2020 :)

    Christmas FM app is also good for that as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,139 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    Needed something fluffy to watch. Found I'd recorded RTE's Christmas panto as my neighbour's little girl was in it and some of my friends. So leaving aside that it's a Tuesday in June, lunchtime and I'm 43 I've put it on. Even leaving the ads play :D


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    pigtail33 wrote: »
    Listening to Radio Nova yesterday morning, and they played a clip of Silent Night. Apparently Bing Crosby recorded it on June 8th in 1942!! I wouldn't usually be one for listening to Christmas Carols in June, but it's nice to unexpectedly hear a clip of one at any time of the year.

    Love this bit of trivia and I love when you hear an unexpected clip of Christmas throughout the off season.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,475 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    On that note, The Christmas song (sang by Nat King Cole) was written by Mel Torme in the middle of a blazing hot summer.

    From wikipedia:

    According to Tormé, the song was written during a blistering hot summer. In an effort to "stay cool by thinking cool", the most-performed (according to BMI) Christmas song was born.[1] "I saw a spiral pad on his (Wells's) piano with four lines written in pencil", Tormé recalled. "They started, 'Chestnuts roasting..., Jack Frost nipping..., Yuletide carols..., Folks dressed up like Eskimos.' Bob didn't think he was writing a song lyric. He said he thought if he could immerse himself in winter he could cool off. Forty minutes later that song was written. I wrote all the music and some of the lyrics."

    Mad to think a song so identifiable with winter & christmas was conceived in the middle of summer, so its not just us here that think about Christmas all year round :)
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    DvB wrote: »
    Mad to think a song so identifiable with winter & christmas was conceived in the middle of summer, so its not just us here that think about Christmas all year round :)

    Just wish I could turn my love of Christmas into something so famous and make a lot of money!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,475 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Was doing my ironing yesterday and had the TV on in the background, ended up watching an only fools and horses Christmas special on gold, to be fair there's one on every other weekend but this was one of the specials actually set at Christmas with Slades merry Christmas being belted out.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,475 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,641 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Oooooh. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,139 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    Am I the only one who thinks it should have a (festive) facemask :D


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    DvB wrote: »

    Adorable!
    Caranica wrote: »
    Am I the only one who thinks it should have a (festive) facemask :D

    And LOL, but you can guarantee festive facemasks will defo be a thing this year!


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Loughc wrote: »
    And LOL, but you can guarantee festive facemasks will defo be a thing this year!

    I think Santa will have to wear one!

    https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-santa-wearing-a-protective-mask-on-a-car-park-in-the-uk-12116969.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,475 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    I see movies 24 (sky channels 325 & 326) switches to Christmas in July mode on July 1st...
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    DvB wrote: »
    I see movies 24 (sky channels 325 & 326) switches to Christmas in July mode on July 1st...

    Nice :)


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    DvB wrote: »
    I see movies 24 (sky channels 325 & 326) switches to Christmas in July mode on July 1st...

    It’s most likely just for the month for Christmas in July.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Was channel surfing last night and came across Home Alone so though would have a quick watch just for old times sake. Was not Home Alone at all and some horror series about bad things that happen to people when they are home alone! (or so google told me). :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,475 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Loughc wrote: »
    It’s most likely just for the month for Christmas in July.

    To be fair unlikely they'd be changing over to christmas for 6 months of the year, that would be Christmas creep on steroids!!:D

    To be fair i'm not a fan of the christmas movie channels, most of the films are really not that good, the Mrs watches the odd one, though I prefer to just repeat watch the old faithful classics myself.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    Christmas product launch
    It' not a pudding, it's not mince pies...

    It's a ..........vegan cheeseboard

    Source:https://www.veganfoodandliving.com/news/applewood-to-launch-a-vegan-christmas-cheeseboard-with-three-new-flavours/

    Applewood-vegan-cheeseboard.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    DvB wrote: »
    To be fair i'm not a fan of the christmas movie channels, most of the films are really not that good......

    You can be guaranteed that Clark Kent will make an appearance though :D


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    TRS30 wrote: »
    You can be guaranteed that Clark Kent will make an appearance though :D

    I love how everyone just calls him Clark Kent :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    I love how everyone just calls him Clark Kent :D

    To be honest I couldn't remember his real name however more people will probably know who I'm talking about if say CK!! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,475 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    The christmas tree in work came up for discussion today due to us moving office recently, and where to store it in the new one... the funny thing was it was raised by the biggest 'bah humbug' in the company who hates the mention of the 'c' word before December 21st or suchlike :D
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,641 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    The weather right now is genuinely making me think this is November!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    DvB wrote: »
    The christmas tree in work came up for discussion today due to us moving office recently, and where to store it in the new one... the funny thing was it was raised by the biggest 'bah humbug' in the company who hates the mention of the 'c' word before December 21st or suchlike :D

    Its the quiet ones you have to watch!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Posy wrote: »
    The weather right now is genuinely making me think this is November!

    Wish it was Posy. We would be in the thick of it :)


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,641 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Well if the rest of the year flies like the beginning of the year, it'll be November in about a month!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,475 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Die hard 2 on Sony movies tonight at 9.00pm.

    I know some here consider this also to be a Christmas movie.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    DvB wrote: »
    Die hard 2 on Sony movies tonight at 9.00pm.

    I know some here consider this also to be a Christmas movie.

    Caught the end of it. They play 'Let it Snow' as the closing credits are rolling so guess that makes it qualify :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,475 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    TRS30 wrote: »
    Caught the end of it. They play 'Let it Snow' as the closing credits are rolling so guess that makes it qualify :D

    Funnily enough I always considered Die Hard II more of a Christmas film than the first. Maybe its the snow:pac:
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    DvB wrote: »
    Funnily enough I always considered Die Hard II more of a Christmas film than the first. Maybe its the snow:pac:

    I guess it's the age old debate around what constitutes a Christmas movie. Both are set at Christmas time so to me that is probably enough to get in.

    I'm now thinking about shooting a helicopter with a car! :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,351 ✭✭✭Littlehorny


    Came in from work yesterday evening and caught the last ten minutes of The Repair Shop Christmas edition, two brothers got a Raleigh Chopper restored from when they were kids 44 years ago. The delight on their faces when they saw the bike done up was great to see, they looked like they were kids again on Christmas morning.

    Later in the evening I noticed Christmas editions of Brooklyn Nine Nine and Friends were on when I was channel hoping, does anyone else notice this? Christmas editions of shows seem to pop up in 2's and 3's of an evening on the telly.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Later in the evening I noticed Christmas editions of Brooklyn Nine Nine and Friends were on when I was channel hoping, does anyone else notice this? Christmas editions of shows seem to pop up in 2's and 3's of an evening on the telly.

    They are like buses :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,475 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Home alone on film 4 this evening at 4.55pm... just in case anyone is in the mood of some christmas fun!
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,809 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    DvB wrote: »
    Home alone on film 4 this evening at 4.55pm... just in case anyone is in the mood of some christmas fun!

    If I close up early at work I wonder will they notice?


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Got a big bag of clothes/shoes for the kids off my sister over the weekend. My wife opened it last night when we got home and was a pair of reindeer slippers for the young lad. He put them straight on and wouldn't take then off. Was running around singing Jingle Bells and asking me how long till Santa would be coming! Bless him, really made me smile :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,475 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Saw there that the tesco Christmas advert was bring shot this weekend... and earlist sighting yet of the Christmas tubs of sweets, celebrations spotted in various stores in the UK this weekend. Suspect it'll be a couple of months before we see them over here.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,809 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    DvB wrote: »
    Saw there that the tesco Christmas advert was bring shot this weekend... and earlist sighting yet of the Christmas tubs of sweets, celebrations spotted in various stores in the UK this weekend. Suspect it'll be a couple of months before we see them over here.

    I was just on Twitter.
    How long goes it take to get to TESCO'S KLAXON from Cork?


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Tesco is currently fully stocked with back to school items which always reminds me of the run up to Christmas.


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