View Full Version : Christmas shit hits the shops
gbsuey
09-09-2011, 03:18 PM
We got chocolate santas and everything in my local supermarket. I'm most displeased.
NicRN77
09-09-2011, 03:33 PM
what??? even before Halloween?
gbsuey
09-09-2011, 03:36 PM
Yes! It's not such a huge thing here anyway and i've seen some of that stuff in another shop but this is just blatant taking the piss.
jabumbo
09-09-2011, 03:37 PM
And I thought it was weird to see the candy corn already...
I'm doing a car boot on sunday and I'm gonna try and sell all my christmas stuff
gbsuey
09-09-2011, 03:53 PM
Well it would appear now is the time to do so :mad:
kaiser soze
09-09-2011, 07:19 PM
its not even October yet (n)
why don't we just have christmas shit up all year round!?!?
hardnox71
09-09-2011, 07:40 PM
why don't we just have christmas shit up all year round!?!?
That's not too far off, I'm sure.
FunkyHiFi
09-09-2011, 08:29 PM
I'm doing a car boot on sunday and I'm gonna try and sell all my christmas stuffWhat's a "car boot"? Sorry, never been to the U.K. :o
silence7
09-09-2011, 08:43 PM
What's a "car boot"? Sorry, never been to the U.K. :o
Swap Meet, Flea Market.....or Yard Sale I suppose...
Swap Meet, Flea Market.....or Yard Sale I suppose...
this.
You go to a field, open your car boot (trunk) and sell the shit you put in it and people with little to do and too much money on Sundays buy it.
Guy Incognito
09-10-2011, 02:21 AM
its the same in supermarkets "seasonal" section every year people. every year. Summer stuff gets sold cheap, then its" back to school" for a bit then out come the quality street.
gbsuey
09-10-2011, 03:45 AM
Yeah i noticed a few days ago they were flogging roses and notquality street half price and packing up school stuff. Would like to have the time/money/patience to use ye olde greengrocer and such and to never have to use supermarkets and thus want to sit on the floor and lose the will to live. Or i could just not let our descent into disgusting mindless consumerism get to me
Lyman Zerga
09-15-2011, 07:10 AM
it's christmas!
it's christmas! in heaven!
hip hip
hip hip
hooray!
FunkyHiFi
09-15-2011, 05:47 PM
Swap Meet, Flea Market.....or Yard Sale I suppose...this.
You go to a field, open your car boot (trunk) and sell the shit you put in it and people with little to do and too much money on Sundays buy it.Thanks for the language education! :)
FunkyHiFi
09-15-2011, 06:23 PM
Sort of off-topic post.......
Or i could just not let our descent into disgusting mindless consumerism get to meit's christmas!
it's christmas! in heaven!
hip hip
hip hip
hooray!This reminded me of a 1998 Simpsons episode called "Trash Of The Titans", which begins with a managers meeting of a local department store called Costingtons. The store manager wants ideas for another made-up holiday to help them sell more merchandise which is when a assistant manager excitedly speaks up and reminds them how well their sales went the previous spring with "Christmas II". The manager continues & says something like "We need something cute and fuzzy, so we can sell cards, gifts and other assorted gougeables (<--- that word made me laugh in spite of its greedy meaning), something like umm.....Love Day......but not so lame." Though Love Day DOES end up :rolleyes::D being the name of the made-up holiday they use to sell more crap.
Yea I liked this episode :p but really more for the main story about Homer fighting with the sanitation department. Btw the shows from around 1993 to 1999 are what I consider the best years of The Simpsons. After that they started slipping and to me the past 5 years have sucked and basically I never watch anymore. :(
* so you know the Simpsons writers know how greedy many real companies can be: at the very beginning of the scene a young guy is going over a chart outlining how much money they've made during the last year up to the summer, concluding with "Well profits are down but hey, we've made enough money so far, right?" This is followed by total silence in the room. Then the store manager nods slightly and two sunglass-wearing security guards drag him out of the conference room.
checkyourprez
09-15-2011, 09:58 PM
word they had halloween and "back to school" candy up at the places around me august first.
no christmas stuff yet though. that will be up november first no doubt.
Mr. Plow, that's my name that name again is Mr. Plow
silence7
09-16-2011, 01:42 AM
Local Target does Back to School, Halloween, and Christmas all at the same time. Being as I'm not in school, and Halloween is my favorite holiday, it pisses me off that Christmas has like 5 aisles, of crap, and Halloween is reduced to like 3... A MONTH BEFORE HALLOWEEN!!!!!!! WTF!!! The day after Halloween is over, F-ing Thanksgiving takes over it's space.. I'd give thanks if Halloween got the respect it deserves.
Christmas lights on the shelf next to skulls and witches, almost makes me wanna' puke.
gbsuey
09-16-2011, 09:24 AM
When i was in california last month a halloween costume catalogue came through the door, it was insane. Whoever was making those costumes made one for almost everything you could think of. Mostly designed to make your children look like they're walking the streets for reasons other than trick or treating.
JoLovesMCA
09-16-2011, 12:48 PM
Local Target does Back to School, Halloween, and Christmas all at the same time. Being as I'm not in school, and Halloween is my favorite holiday, it pisses me off that Christmas has like 5 aisles, of crap, and Halloween is reduced to like 3... A MONTH BEFORE HALLOWEEN!!!!!!! WTF!!! The day after Halloween is over, F-ing Thanksgiving takes over it's space.. I'd give thanks if Halloween got the respect it deserves.
Christmas lights on the shelf next to skulls and witches, almost makes me wanna' puke.
(y)
Halloween trumps Christmas by a landslide.
I was thinking of offering a christmas coffee - it'll be my normal coffee but like selling from November for coffee roasted at the last possible minute before christmas to be delivered for Christmas Eve. I could get labels made with a special personalised christmas message the customers choose. All totally possible if I have enough lead time (like two/three weeks before last order).
But if I do, does it mean I'm a sell out christmas hack or am I just trying to score a living?
edit: fuck it, I'm gonna do that actually - first time I wrote out the idea; it'd be cool little present I think.
Guy Incognito
09-16-2011, 01:49 PM
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But if I do, does it mean I'm a sell out christmas hack or am I just trying to score a living?
no it means you are moving to london and you could make a fair bit of money of you sorted it out and did the right bits of the city. It costs more to live down there bruv...a lot more.
Yeah, that London means I'll have to get a job, I doubt I can sustain myself with roasting coffee without expanding which means more risks and more to lose.
Bleh, jobs - I'm terrible at working for people, I have a real problem with authority (it's why I lost my last job and had to quit the previous).
Lyman Zerga
09-18-2011, 07:09 AM
Sort of off-topic post.......
This reminded me of a 1998 Simpsons episode called "Trash Of The Titans", which begins with a managers meeting of a local department store called Costingtons. The store manager wants ideas for another made-up holiday to help them sell more merchandise which is when a assistant manager excitedly speaks up and reminds them how well their sales went the previous spring with "Christmas II". The manager continues & says something like "We need something cute and fuzzy, so we can sell cards, gifts and other assorted gougeables (<--- that word made me laugh in spite of its greedy meaning), something like umm.....Love Day......but not so lame." Though Love Day DOES end up :rolleyes::D being the name of the made-up holiday they use to sell more crap.
Yea I liked this episode :p but really more for the main story about Homer fighting with the sanitation department. Btw the shows from around 1993 to 1999 are what I consider the best years of The Simpsons. After that they started slipping and to me the past 5 years have sucked and basically I never watch anymore. :(
* so you know the Simpsons writers know how greedy many real companies can be: at the very beginning of the scene a young guy is going over a chart outlining how much money they've made during the last year up to the summer, concluding with "Well profits are down but hey, we've made enough money so far, right?" This is followed by total silence in the room. Then the store manager nods slightly and two sunglass-wearing security guards drag him out of the conference room.
ja, the newer simpsons seasons suck more than the too early x mas booming
and p.s. you were writing about one of my favorite simpsons episodes (y)
Guy Incognito
09-18-2011, 08:00 AM
i've had about a five year break from the simpsons but recently my daughter watched the movie so we have ben watching a few. theres plenty i havent seen. sure some of the situations are really daft or rehashes but the jokes are still there. frinstance, smithers convinced Moe to turn his bar into a bar for the older gay men in springfield. So Moe goes up to the roof and removes the "E" from the bar sign.
*sprints back over to the topic*
i barely think about xmas until december. October and november are when all the birthdays are in my family, so i have to sort out that stuff first
MCAadROCKMiKEd7
09-18-2011, 01:06 PM
Local Target does Back to School, Halloween, and Christmas all at the same time. Being as I'm not in school, and Halloween is my favorite holiday, it pisses me off that Christmas has like 5 aisles, of crap, and Halloween is reduced to like 3... A MONTH BEFORE HALLOWEEN!!!!!!! WTF!!! The day after Halloween is over, F-ing Thanksgiving takes over it's space.. I'd give thanks if Halloween got the respect it deserves.
Christmas lights on the shelf next to skulls and witches, almost makes me wanna' puke.
Christmas trees up at the Kohls I work at.
They skipped Halloween all together, they didnt decorate for it,
They only put up a few things for Thanksgiving and then Christmas.
Fucking september.
Plus I had to help put them up, I guess its time to celebrate Christmas now.
Break out the noggggg.
gbsuey
09-18-2011, 02:32 PM
Hiiiiiiiiiiideho. I think there should be a new law, similar to the one baby only law in China, that only one gift is be given per person at xmas. Or at least one gift received per person. The bbmb secret santa would sort out xmas properly for all of us.
Speaking of which, you'd best still be wearing your splendid hat Camo. Notice I said "still wearing"!
nodanaonlyzuul
09-19-2011, 06:31 PM
I have yet to witness the Christmas stuff. I'm not looking forward to it. Even seeing pumpkin spice stuff even bothers me right now. Oakland skipped having a summer this year. The warmest it's been in 70 with a very cold wind.
I am very upset about so I don't like the reminders about fall. Could I at least have a summer, damn it?
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