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Let's talk about Christmas, Thanksgiving be damned
GarandMarine:
That pun was incredible Akima.
Welu:
Finally bought my first Christmas gifts and I'm really proud of them because the person just mentioned them in passing, to someone else, so it's something I know they want but it will still be a surprise. At least I'm fairly sure they weren't just heavy-hinting because they already told me some stuff they wanted but I know they've also told those ideas to other people and I don't want to end up getting them something someone else wants to get them.
The Seldom Killer:
I used to rail against the commercialisation of Christmas but I've come to the acceptance of it as part of our culture. After all we commercialise everything else to breaking point, Christmas isn't so special that it doesn't deserve the same treatment.
Last night on TV in the space of a couple of minutes I watched about how a buying a certain car would ensure I sleep with a beautiful woman and have wonderful children, how women really need to wash their vaginas to avoid some unspecified social faux pas, how a celebrity has gotten too fat and how shopping at a particular supermarket should be my only concern because I could save money and sleep with the checkout person.
Year on year I see more and more people literally crumbling under the strain of it all. People haemorrhaging money because they feel like they'd feel bad if they don't do what the commercialisation tells them too. Families becoming further embittered because they feel forced together rather than seeking each others company out of choice. There's small respite in organisations offering some relief to those who can't afford even the smallest things and small companies cornering that niche of people who don't want every little thing for two months straight to be dressed up as Christmassy. But what really gets me is that in the face of all of the stress, damage and misery that the current practice of Christmas brings is the abject failure of the greatest potential agency for change to do anything about it. The collective will of the Christian churches is limited to some paltry sermonising to existing congregations about how the real meaning of Christmas shouldn't get lost in the October to December spendfest. Yet the heads of each branch of the faith could easily command the ear of the media and the people to openly condemn and divorce themselves from this. It's a shame that they don't have the spine to do so.
Thrillho:
Well my Christmas plans are now sorted but I am now doing nothing for New Year. :psyduck:
Barmymoo:
It amazes me that we seem to have a culture where it honestly isn't seen as weird that people pay for things with money they don't have.
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