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[MaximumZero]

Hear hear! Bah humbug!

Also, add on the fact that social coercion makes gift-giving meaningless.  I'd much rather receive a tiny gift, at any time of the year, than have friends and family blow their rent and food budgets out of a feeling of obligation.

I tend to just grab small things to give to friends as I see them and have the extra pocket-change to do something nice.  Usually while shopping for books, but that's just me.

Le sigh.

Whenever I try to make points like these, I just get called a grinch or grumpy or whatever. Then again, I usually launch profanity laden tirades to make the point, so that may have something to do with it.

[kaijyuu]

I'll concede the gift giving is dumb. Past that, chrismas, eff yeah! Should be year around.

[Owlbread]

Well we give gifts to each other all through the year in my family. Whenever I'm on holiday, or my family are on holiday, they get gifts for everyone. We get gifts on our birthdays, sometimes at New Year and basically any time we see something they might like/need and it's not too close to Christmas or their birthday, e.g. you're out shopping and you see a cookery book your mother might like or something like that. When I was a wee boy my dad used to buy me gifts just because he'd been away working abroad for a week, when I was much, much younger he sometimes brought back stuff from work. It would be unsustainable to get/buy any more gifts than that.

[MaximumZero]

I'll concede the gift giving is dumb. Past that, chrismas, eff yeah! Should be year around.

I would kill someone if I had to listen to the music and hype year round.

[Graknorke]

I'll concede the gift giving is dumb. Past that, chrismas, eff yeah! Should be year around.

I would kill someone if I had to listen to the music and hype year round.

Winter should be a time of quiet and cold and 6 hour days. If people want to be noisy and stupid then they can do it in summer.

[Frumple]

Winter should be a time of quiet and cold and 6 hour days. If people want to be noisy and stupid then they can do it in summer.

Nah, spring or fall. Summer's too hot to move/breath/exist and winter's too nice. In between periods is probably better, plus most everyone's at work or whatev' so any noise is likely away from people trying to get along with life. Exile that stuff to the seasons no one seems to feel particularly strongly about.

[WoobMonkey]

I really feel like linking to 'A Christmas Carol' as some sort of judgemental troll tactic thing.

Go for it.  The only xmas film worth watching is Gremlins, anyways.

[Elephant Parade]

I really feel like linking to 'A Christmas Carol' as some sort of judgemental troll tactic thing.

Go for it.  The only xmas film worth watching is Gremlins, anyways.

Agreed.

[scrdest]

So, the radio I've been listening to for the last five years is basically committing radio-suicide in an hour. They sold all the broadcast stations outside of the capital and are moving to Internet. Oh, and they already fired two of the very popular DJs.

It was one of the two listenable-to stations (translation: was not stuck fifty years in the past and wasn't raping my ears with pop).

Much, much sadness to be had.

[Dutchling]

So, the radio I've been listening to for the last five years is basically committing radio-suicide in an hour. They sold all the broadcast stations outside of the capital and are moving to Internet. Oh, and they already fired two of the very popular DJs.

It was one of the two listenable-to stations (translation: was not stuck fifty years in the past and wasn't raping my ears with pop).

Much, much sadness to be had.

Rah-Dio?

[scrdest]

So, the radio I've been listening to for the last five years is basically committing radio-suicide in an hour. They sold all the broadcast stations outside of the capital and are moving to Internet. Oh, and they already fired two of the very popular DJs.

It was one of the two listenable-to stations (translation: was not stuck fifty years in the past and wasn't raping my ears with pop).

Much, much sadness to be had.

Rah-Dio?

Although it flatters me that you cannot tell, I'm Polish (or, as I prefer to put it to confuse people, I am a pole). So yeah, not like it's going to tell you much.

[WoobMonkey]

Just watched The Butler.  What an amazing, thoughtful, and I daresay important film.

Spoiler: if you haven't seen it, don't click.  You were warned. (click to show/hide)

I never thought that the idea of Oprah dying would bring me anything other than joy.  *sniffles*  Coincidental to the scene, some dust jumped into my eyes...

[scrdest]

Oh bloody hell. The radio just aired a song the band altered for them, then 'Always Look on The Bright Side of Life' and now The Doors' 'The End'. EVERY-FUCKING-BODY knows it's over, except the execs claim they're just moving to the internet because of the growing audience there.

GodDAMMIT.


E: Dead now. Replaced by a pop station. I didn't think it would feel so sad, I almost felt like crying.

[WoobMonkey]

Oh bloody hell. The radio just aired a song the band altered for them, then 'Always Look on The Bright Side of Life' and now The Doors' 'The End'. EVERY-FUCKING-BODY knows it's over, except the execs claim they're just moving to the internet because of the growing audience there.

GodDAMMIT.

Wow.  Any station that would play Monty Python and the Doors is truly one to be missed.  Reminds me of when the local rock station was bought out by a multinational, and changed formats to pop-country.

I feel your pain.

[Sirus]

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