OT aaaaaaarggghh!! (Xmas)

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MartinM said:

The first Christmas card junk mail has just arrived at work today.
I daren't go to a garden centre now for fear of finding a Satan's
grotto!

Ouch!

We need some kind of consumer-reaction to this [censored]. Maybe a big
campaign to boycott the first supermarket[1] to stock a line of xmas
[censored] and/or put up 'decorations'? Coordinate it online, and run it
nationwide from the time of the first confirmed sighting until the
start of the following year. If no such [censored] is seen before Decemeber,
then no boycott: the campaign is successful.

[1] Likewise "shop of type XYZ" in however many categories can
be identified and organised for.

--
Nick Kew

Nick Kew said:

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The first Christmas card junk mail has just arrived at work today.

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We need some kind of consumer-reaction to this [censored]. Maybe a big
campaign to boycott the first supermarket[1] to stock a line of xmas
[censored] and/or put up 'decorations'?

September is the month when one of the local DIY sheds usually puts up its
Chritsmas displays. I make a point of going to the duty manager, noting
that there is still a quarter of a year to go before Christmas, and that I
will not be shopping there again until the New Year.

This is only worthwhile if enough people do it, of course.

Guy
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MartinM said:

The first Christmas card junk mail has just arrived at work today.
I daren't go to a garden centre now for fear of finding a Satan's
grotto!

Asda now stocking Xmas puddings, cakes, mince pies, wrapping paper,
cards, tinsel, decorations etc.

Happy Christmas

ps Could not see any Easter Eggs though .....

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MartinM said:

The first Christmas card junk mail has just arrived at work today.
I daren't go to a garden centre now for fear of finding a Satan's
grotto!

Asda now stocking Xmas puddings, cakes, mince pies, wrapping paper,
cards, tinsel, decorations etc.

Happy Christmas

ps Could not see any Easter Eggs though .....

You'll need to wait until January 1st for them.

Juliette
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Juliette <[email hidden]>typed

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ps Could not see any Easter Eggs though .....

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You'll need to wait until January 1st for them.

ITYM December 26th...

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Helen D. Vecht: [email hidden]
Edgware.

"MartinM" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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The first Christmas card junk mail has just arrived at work today.
I daren't go to a garden centre now for fear of finding a Satan's
grotto!

On a shopping trip after work last night, I did notice boxes of mince
pies in Sainsbury's; can't be too long before the local branch of
Woolies is knee-deep in tinsel....

David E. belcher

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Jack Ouzzi said:

Asda now stocking Xmas puddings, cakes, mince pies, wrapping paper,
cards, tinsel, decorations etc.

Since when? If it's things they have all year without being in-your-face
they're excused. If it's now-to-end-of-year and obnoxious we have
a candidate.

--
Nick Kew

David E. Belcher said:

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The first Christmas card junk mail has just arrived at work today.
I daren't go to a garden centre now for fear of finding a Satan's
grotto!

On a shopping trip after work last night, I did notice boxes of mince
pies in Sainsbury's; can't be too long before the local branch of
Woolies is knee-deep in tinsel....

David E. belcher

You urbanites must be way behind. Up here in Sticksville we now have a
"christmas shop" that's open 12 months of the year (although I believe it
closes for the christmas holidays...)

--
Brian G

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If it's now-to-end-of-year and obnoxious we have
a candidate.

You've another. In Tesco tonight - various Christmas cakes, Christmas
puddings... mince pies... In another local shop, I spotted people buying
Christmas cards...

Cheers, helen s

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You urbanites must be way behind. Up here in Sticksville we now have a
"christmas shop" that's open 12 months of the year (although I believe it
closes for the christmas holidays...)

When I'm Queen I'll put a tax on Xmas decorations, they'll be free for
twelve nights from 24th December, taxed for the rest of December and
January, double rate in November, triple in October, astronomical the
rest of the year.

The money'll go to good causes like giving the hospitals a proper clean.

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Sue ];(🙂

dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers said:

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If it's now-to-end-of-year and obnoxious we have
a candidate.

You've another. In Tesco tonight - various Christmas cakes, Christmas
puddings... mince pies... In another local shop, I spotted people buying
Christmas cards...

Cheers, helen s

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Spotted posters for a local panto in shop windows on monday 🙁

Stan cox

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Sue said:

When I'm Queen

If your highness will allow a humble commoner to say a word ...

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I'll put a tax on Xmas decorations,

Them's not xmas decorations, maam. Oh no, definitely not.

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Nick Kew

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In article <[email hidden]>,

Sue said:

When I'm Queen

If your highness will allow a humble commoner to say a word ...

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I'll put a tax on Xmas decorations,

Them's not xmas decorations, maam. Oh no, definitely not.

Can we also have a rebate for folk like me that go and get theirs from the
woods?

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Quoted message said:

If it's now-to-end-of-year and obnoxious we have
a candidate.

You've another. In Tesco tonight - various Christmas cakes, Christmas
puddings... mince pies... In another local shop, I spotted people buying
Christmas cards...

The trick is to buy cards for the *following* Christmas in the January
sales, as there are bargains to be had; my Mum has been doing this for
years (likewise with crackers, wrapping paper) and saves a fortune!

David E. Belcher

David E. Belcher <[email hidden]> wrote:

: The trick is to buy cards for the *following* Christmas in the January
: sales, as there are bargains to be had; my Mum has been doing this for
: years (likewise with crackers, wrapping paper) and saves a fortune!

I think life is too short to have useless tat cluttering up your
house for the next 11 months, but that's just me 🙂

--
Arthur Clune http://www.clune.org
"Technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect"
- Paulina Borsook

Arthur Clune said:

I think life is too short to have useless tat cluttering up your
house for the next 11 months, but that's just me 🙂

I think it's a bit negative to think of yourself in that way. :-)

--
Dave...

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live. - Mark Twain

In message <[email hidden]>, MartinM
<[email hidden]> writes

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When I'm Queen

If your highness will allow a humble commoner to say a word ...

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I'll put a tax on Xmas decorations,

Them's not xmas decorations, maam. Oh no, definitely not.

Can we also have a rebate for folk like me that go and get theirs from the
woods?

Or a flogging for peasants who pinch stuff from one's woods, depending
if you have Rights of Common or not.

--
Sue ];(🙂

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In message <[email hidden]>, MartinM
<[email hidden]> writes

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> When I'm Queen

If your highness will allow a humble commoner to say a word ...

> I'll put a tax on Xmas decorations,

Them's not xmas decorations, maam. Oh no, definitely not.

Can we also have a rebate for folk like me that go and get theirs from

the

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woods?

Or a flogging for peasants who pinch stuff from one's woods, depending
if you have Rights of Common or not.

No but I have a big sack and a pair of secauteurs! always time it to be at
one of the bridges as one of the Santa Special steam trains of the Bluebell
railway pass underneath and the boys shout "Can we go home and do the PS2
now? it's freezing"

In message <[email hidden]>, MartinM
<[email hidden]> writes

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No but I have a big sack and a pair of secauteurs! always time it to be at
one of the bridges as one of the Santa Special steam trains of the Bluebell
railway pass underneath and the boys shout "Can we go home and do the PS2
now? it's freezing"

So what exactly can you remove from a steam train with a pair of
secateurs?

--
Sue ]8(🙂

Just curious...