The Christmas Commercial Insanity Everyone's Lost Their Marbles Thread 2024

[gbb]

Blimey, they were soft on you in your day.

In my day I still had to my my shift down the pit, then go back down a second time to dig out some more with which to cook my Christmas gruel.

Eeee, that were nowt....

 

[oldwheels]

That’s almost Dickensian.
My mum was a midwife and always used to work, but babies don’t know what day it is.
No one needs post on Christmas Day.

I think that was only in Scotland where New Year was the main holiday whereas the heathen English paid no attention to New Year but revered Christmas.
The advent of English biased tv started the rot until now Christmas and New Year are run together for a longer holiday.
When I was farming nobody told the cows who had to be milked as normal.
In my distillery days it was a bit of a nightmare as it took a few days to wind down and then more to get started again. We worked 24/7 in those days but our suppliers tended to be a bit erratic.

 

[oldwheels]

I don't ever remember post being delivered on Christmas day, so that must have been a LONG time ago.

Only in Scotland and it would have been 1950’s

 

[oldwheels]

mid 1800's I believe

I am not THAT old.

 

[Alex321]

Only in Scotland and it would have been 1950’s

Still before I was born then (1959), and I didn't live in Scotland until I was 9, 1968-1970 (when my dad was stationed at Kinloss).

No wionder I don't remember it

 

[markemark]

Who cares?

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I'm pretty sure Asda had selection boxes out for sale yesterday and they definitely had Christmas puddings.

 

[Drago]

the heathen English

For the love of God, don't wind them up while I'm stuck living among them!

 

[dicko]

Mariah Carey is defrosting as we speak. All I want for Christmas song any time…….now.

 

[lazybloke]

My daughter started her "Chrismas List" last night

 

[Drago]

Who cares?

The shareholders? Santa? Those that dislike the rampant commercilism of a religious festival? And and Dec?

 

[tyred]

Shakin' Stevens and Noddy Holder are looking at Merc brochures and wondering what they'll spend their Royalties on.

 

[screenman]

Pam used to buy Christmas and birthday presents for around fifty people, I have the list, not including her customers, who all got a small gift, the list is going to be a lot shorter this year with her gone.

 

[Accy cyclist]

A few houses never take them down.
They just don’t turn them on.

I had one such house in my window cleaning days. The house had fragile figures like Rudolph the red nosed reindeer covered in small light bulbs, which inhibited my ladder positioning. Every year those lights became less and less as I broke more and more with my ladder.

 

[steveindenmark]

This was a month ago in Denmark. When I came here 21 years ago. You would see nothing of Christmas until 1st December.