Christmas

[roversdude]

Can't believe it - had to go into town today ..... only selling bleeding Christmas cards already

[glosterred]

In Debenhams last week and the Christmas crap is starting to appear!

[roversdude]

Mentioned it to shop girl who looked fed up already

[winegums]

Tesco have had the Christmas tubs of sweets in for a few weeks

[Donnywolf]

Boyes all tooled up with Christmas Cards. I did a "pact" at work. I wont send you a Card and you dont send me a Card and then we donate all the money we would have spent to Bluebell Wood

Lets face it - I send a Card to a woman and her husband and I have never met either of them - and I have done for over 30 years yet I dont send one to my best Mates (Is that not a bit ironic)

Only the Card makers and the Royal Mail make money and it would be better if we all did the above and gave money to Charities instead

Anyway I went to Skeggy in September last year. It was about the 8th and a day later they were erecting all the Xmas Grotto in 75 c temperatures in the local Garden Centre - unbelievable Jeff

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How on earth can xmass crap  be on sale in whatever shops ,way before Halloween aka trick or treat night and bonfire night products have had their slot.

[Donnywolf]

.... because (they will say) the Public like to get ahead of the game by buying early and so they (the Shops) are providing that service. Good for them

In the same way the justify having nonentities in the Papers all the time because we (the Public) want to read about them but that is not true generally either

[idler]

How on earth can xmass crap  be on sale in whatever shops ,way before Halloween aka trick or treat night and bonfire night products have had their slot.

It's easy, once profit became more important than prophet. Making money is all that matters to companies now, nothing else matters.

[glosterred]

I was in Whitby yesterday and santa was out and about, well someone dressed like him. He was on a stall raising money for a Christmas fair later in the year. Get back to Lapland fella you should be resting up for the big day!

[Mike_F]

A lot of stuff is price establishing. The rules on this changed a few years back so they have to put stuff out earlier.

Previously, if something had been for sale at the higher price for 28 consecutive days, it could then be advertised as "reduced" for (IIRC) an unspecified period, usually about 90 days therefore stock could be merchandised in October and sold as reduced throughout November and December.

Now you can only claim an offer for the same amount of time that the product has been available at the higher price therefore stock needs to be out for the whole of September and October at the inflated price so that it can be advertised as reduced throughout the months of November and December.

[MrFrost]

Tut n Shive have Christmas decorations up.

[i_ateallthepies]

They're last year's crimbo decorations Frosty.

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Is this something that first started in America and within time ended up on U.K. High streets.

[Donnywolf]

No I believe as a "festival" in Europe it hugely pre dates the United States by a long long way and would have been introduced there by the huge amount of immigrants to the "Country"

Us for sure - then the largest swathe of immigrants - the Germans where Christmas is BIG for sure. Undoubtedly the USA has been instrumental in the commercialisation of nearly everything including Christmas Halloween / Trick or Treat , Mothers Day Fathers Day Valentines Day Prom Day Black Friday .... etc  etc etc . If you can make money from anything they find a way to do it

Thanksgiving will soon be here but I suppose its LESS alien to us that St Patricks Day

[redwine]

No I believe as a "festival" in Europe it hugely pre dates the United States by a long long way and would have been introduced there by the huge amount of immigrants to the "Country"

Us for sure - then the largest swathe of immigrants - the Germans where Christmas is BIG for sure. Undoubtedly the USA has been instrumental in the commercialisation of nearly everything including Christmas Halloween / Trick or Treat , Mothers Day Fathers Day Valentines Day Prom Day Black Friday .... etc  etc etc . If you can make money from anything they find a way to do it

Thanksgiving will soon be here but I suppose its LESS alien to us that St Patricks Day

Yes, I'm sure we will celebrate and give thanks that those godbotherers decamped to America on the Mayflower

[Glyn_Wigley]

No I believe as a "festival" in Europe it hugely pre dates the United States by a long long way and would have been introduced there by the huge amount of immigrants to the "Country"

Us for sure - then the largest swathe of immigrants - the Germans where Christmas is BIG for sure. Undoubtedly the USA has been instrumental in the commercialisation of nearly everything including Christmas Halloween / Trick or Treat , Mothers Day Fathers Day Valentines Day Prom Day Black Friday .... etc  etc etc . If you can make money from anything they find a way to do it

Thanksgiving will soon be here but I suppose its LESS alien to us that St Patricks Day

Yet it's immigrants that get blamed for changing 'British culture' when the biggest culprits are the Americans. And they don't have to send people here, just their tv programmes. Funny how the EDL etc. don't get in a lather about that.

[RedJ]

It's fine if they're white and speak English as a first language.

[Yargo]

No I believe as a "festival" in Europe it hugely pre dates the United States by a long long way and would have been introduced there by the huge amount of immigrants to the "Country"

Us for sure - then the largest swathe of immigrants - the Germans where Christmas is BIG for sure. Undoubtedly the USA has been instrumental in the commercialisation of nearly everything including Christmas Halloween / Trick or Treat , Mothers Day Fathers Day Valentines Day Prom Day Black Friday .... etc  etc etc . If you can make money from anything they find a way to do it

Thanksgiving will soon be here but I suppose its LESS alien to us that St Patricks Day

Yet it's immigrants that get blamed for changing 'British culture' when the biggest culprits are the Americans. And they don't have to send people here, just their tv programmes. Funny how the EDL etc. don't get in a lather about that.

Yeah cos when gangs put on rucksacks and become suicide bombers or run a vehicle into people before jumping out with knives and axes to kill as many as possible they jump out shouting Fred Flintstone and not Allahu Akbar.
Maybe  Sarah Champion wouldn't have got sacked by Old Man Steptoe had she  explained that Britain has a problem with rape/grooming gangs as a result of Tom & Jerry and Scooby Doo

[Glyn_Wigley]

Yes, because terrorism and changing British culture are exactly the same thing, aren't they? Jesus wept.

[RedJ]

Surprised he hasn't randomly brought the EU into it...

[Bentley Bullet]

I've read some b*llocks on this forum over the years but this really does take the Hobnob.

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I've read some b*llocks on this forum over the years but this really does take the Hobnob.

Them left wing toots try to get into your mindset via a form of osmosis ,by typing whatever shite they stand by and make out that they are above you .

Then they pull out a massive spade and try to beat you down by claiming your racist ,and whenever you mention the racist word it makes others turn their heads and jump in line behind them as they don't want to be tagged racist.

Suppose it all comes under the general rule of thumb of pushing and ramming PC attitudes down our throats.

[RedJ]

"Grr lefties".

[wing commander]

   Well we've all just finished our summer holidays..The last bank holiday has come and gone and most of us are sat looking at best part of a 4 month slog till the next holidays or time off....So it will take a lot more than a few early Christmas decors and products to get me in the spirit....

[roversdude]

Ffs lads I only mentioned that they were selling Christmas cards in August

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Ffs lads I only mentioned that they were selling Christmas cards in August

It allways shows a thread has legs when the bitching kicks in and cat fights erupt in and
around the thread .

[Bentley Bullet]

The thread became b*llocks when the EDL and racism were brought into it.

[bahrain rover]

Wing Commander, Our holiday Eid Al Adah as also just finished. We have have 9.5 months to slog it out to our next one Eid Al Fitr on 15th of June is'sh after Ramadan.

[roversdude]

I know bank holidays were timed to not interfere in farming but surely it would make sense in either creating a new one (often mooted but nothing happened) or moving one to say October
I know there was talk of ? Trafalgar Day but apparently this was offensive

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I know bank holidays were timed to not interfere in farming but surely it would make sense in either creating a new one (often mooted but nothing happened) or moving one to say October
I know there was talk of ? Trafalgar Day but apparently this was offensive

Let me guess the PC knobs and left wing minded toadstills