Carol Singers... no sign here!

[SquareDaff]

'I saw 3 sh*ts come sailing in....'

It adds a whole new meaning to the term "Yule Log"

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

It adds a whole new meaning to the term "Yule Log"

Rudolph the brown nosed reindeer

 

[oiljam]

Kids don't go out anymore, especially in the cold, they're too wrapped up in their computer games and X Factor.

 

[GrasB]

do kids singing carols still go round the houses?

not seen any for years... and years... and years.

I don't need a hand to count the number of kids in my village.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I don't need a hand to count the number of kids in my village.

Can you manage on your own then?

 

[welsh dragon]

I live in the sticks, so don't get any carol singers. Thank god.

 

[SquareDaff]

Rudolph the brown nosed reindeer

You've missed the all time classic; "Silent Sh1te"

 

[theclaud]

I blame Thatcher. Srsly.

 

[numbnuts]

Most of the kids in my area can't even speak the Queens English and as for carols they wouldn’t know what they are.

 

[MontyVeda]

I blame Thatcher. Srsly.

did she tax their earnings?

 

[theclaud]

did she tax their earnings?

I've quoted this before, I think. It's Julian Barnes writing for the New Yorker. And a kind of bingo for @zimzum42...

I used to think that the official saturation of the country with market values was a reversible phenomenon; a little skin cancer perhaps, but no irradiation of the soul. I abandoned this belief a few Christmases ago, and when I want an image of what Mrs Thatcher has done to Britain I think of the carol singers. At the time she came to power they would, as they always had, stand outside your house, sing a carol or two, then ring the bell and, if you answered, sing some more. Halfway through the rule of Thatch, I began noticing that they wouldn't start singing until they had first rung the bell and checked that you were there to listen and pay up. After she had been in power for about ten years, I opened the door one Christmas and peered out. There were two small boys some distance from the house already, unwilling to waste their time if they got a negative response. "Carols?" one of them asked, spreading his hands in a business-like gesture, as if he had just acquired a job lot of tunes off the back of a lorry and could perhaps be persuaded to cut me in.​

 

[cosmicbike]

We had our first, and so far only, lot of carol singers about 2 weeks ago. Like most, they know one line, don't try very hard, and expect money. So we gave them sweets, you could almost hear the disappointment....

 

[Salad Dodger]

I know when I used to sing in a few choirs that all the local groups used to meet up in the hospital on Xmas Eve and walk around the wards singing. I've never experienced it from a patients perspective but they've told me it was good to hear to sound of the carols travelling along the corridors as we got closer. I presume it's still done. I don't live in Scunthorpe anymore so don't know for certain.

I used to belong to a guitar club, which sent a deputation every Christmas to the local old folks home, to sing a few carols and wish them complements of the season. The home was on 3 floors, so we would start on the ground floor, do 2 or 3 carols and then move on to the next floor.

Last time we went (the home has now closed) we emerged from the lift onto the top floor, to be met by an assembled multitude of biddies, all sitting waiting for God. One old lady took one look at us, in our Santa hats and Christmas jumpers, and said "Have you come to sing us some carols?"

Our leader smiled and said "Yes"

Whereupon the old lady looked around the group and said "F*ck off!"

Everyone's a critic.......

 

[welsh dragon]

I used to belong to a guitar club, which sent a deputation every Christmas to the local old folks home, to sing a few carols and wish them complements of the season. The home was on 3 floors, so we would start on the ground floor, do 2 or 3 carols and then move on to the next floor.

Last time we went (the home has now closed) we emerged from the lift onto the top floor, to be met by an assembled multitude of biddies, all sitting waiting for God. One old lady took one look at us, in our Santa hats and Christmas jumpers, and said "Have you come to sing us some carols?"

Our leader smiled and said "Yes"

Whereupon the old lady looked around the group and said "F*ck off!"

Everyone's a critic.......

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I don't get any where I live, either. But with moderately steep hills around here (8%, 15% grades are common), they'd probably be too out of breath to sing!