The angry thread

[guest311]

let me be honest...

I HATE CHRISTMAS !

it starts in august, has no relationship with the true theme, and is basically an excuse for supermarkets to move everything around so you can't find what you want, and if you can it has been repackaged, and of course repriced upwards, for christmas.

just returned from the bane of my life, Tesco, with SWMBO.

when I shop, it's a list / trolley / filled / paid and out of the door in under 30 minutes.

she came with me 

nearly an hour later I finally managed to get her out of the doors, with about twice what we needed / wanted and a much lighter wallet 

"its christmas" was the continueing refrain, ignoreing my repeatedly pointing out that christmas is in december, and we still are not halfway through november.

am I just a miserable old git, or do I have a valid point

[Trainfish]

am I just a miserable old git?

Yes   

do I have a valid point

Yes 

[dannyboy]

As John says - 'Yes' and 'Yes'. Although if it was up to me, Christmas shopping would begin on the first weekend in December - no earlier!

[guest311]

THANK YOU....

when I were a lad, christmas was exciting, started early december, all a rush to get things done, carol services etc,

now, to be honest, by october I am FED UP with christmas.

bears no relationship to the real thing, grossly consumerised, and just an excuse to sell tons of tat that will probably go straight in the bin.

at least I now know it is not just me being a grumpy old git for no reason, I DO HAVE A VALID REASON 

oh for the days of my [innocent] youth.

and an expanding list of those who are, or are not, my friends 

[emjaybee]

seconded 

You just can't get the staff.

sorry, must have missed the e-mail advising me that I'd be elected to the chair, having been sat in/on it for so long.

not sure I am happy about it, seems we are getting to like politics, the one at the top has a chair, the rest sit on the step / benches.

I move for an equal quality of seating for all members !

Call it 'length of service' status if you will, not a case of the 'one at the top', just 'the one that's been on it longest'.

[guest311]

is it not a great reflection on this superb forum that even on the 'angry thread' we can have such a laugh ?

[emjaybee]

If I didn't laugh at some of the things that made me angry, quite frankly I'd probably have been arrested a few times by now.

[joe cassidy]

when I were a lad, christmas was exciting, started early december, all a rush to get things done, carol services etc,

now, to be honest, by october I am FED UP with christmas.

You need to watch the film "Love Actually" with Hugh Grant 

[guest311]

I DO NOT BELIEVE IT 

our youngest daughter put a home shopping order to Sainsbury's, two of her sons are at present isolating due to positive covid tests, so she couldn't do a shop herself.

what is the problem you say ?

one of the items she ordered was cat food.

apparently out of stock, so a replacement supplied


CAPRI SUN 
what cretin thought that packets of orange juice was a replacement for cat food ?

needless to say she couldn't get any reply from them, and I don't see either her, or any of her friends, using Sainsburys again.

[Trainfish]

It's a well known fact that cats don't like the smell of orange although 1 of mine does but she's weird.

Mine generally prefer the lemon flavour Capri-sun though so why on earth would Sainsburys put orange flavour in?   

[Newportnobby]

Can someone inform the  living in this area that Firework night was 5th November and not something for the entire month?

[guest311]

Mick @Newportnobby,

there is one upside of this,

my next door neighbour is a keen gardener and over the last month or so HB and I have managed to collect quite a pile of wooden sticks, usually about 3 ft long and around 1/2 inch square, on our walks, which have been given to her to use as stakes for her plants 

mind you, one was 3 ft long and around 3/4 inch square, would have done anyone it hit when it landed no good at all, but of course the cretins don't think of where their debris will land, or what injury or damage it could do.

they just like the bangs ......

mind you, I used to like the bangs as well, Browning 9mm, Sterling 9mm, Lee Enfield .303.

perhaps I should renew my enjoyment of said things 

[stevewalker]

... the cretins don't think of where their debris will land, or what injury or damage it could do.

I remember being impressed, as a child, when one of our rockets fell back onto next-door's roof. It turned out that we'd done much better than that and they found it in the fireplace the next morning!

It does worry me how many places have plastic roofed conservatories nowadays.

[Newportnobby]

Many years ago myself, eldest Sis and her bloke went to a firework display at the Blists Hill Museum.
Part way through the evening she was struck by a burning piece of firework 1" below her left eye which left a circular burn mark.
Luckily there was a St.Johns Ambulance First Aid station on site, but that 1 inch higher and she could have lost the sight in her left eye.
I've hated fireworks ever since and give a monthly donation to St. Johns

[Bealman]

No backyard fireworks here, banned since the nineteen eighties. 

We don't celebrate Guy Fawkes anyway.