X-mas already?...NOOO!!

Last I heard, they were offering cheezburgers

Ah i just love power wheels, i think we should all have 1 for xmas!! Toys are so much cooler than they used to be. and saves buying a very expensive car....

been browsing a site with power wheels pics and info, check it out

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Salanis wrote:

mad_machine wrote: as if christmas music was not already insidious

I hate Christmas music. I mean, really, if it were worth listening to, you aught to be able to play it year round, not just subject people to it during a single season. No other holidays get their own crappy music like Christmas. Okay, New Year's has "Auld Lang Syne" (sp?), but that's something you sing at one moment, like "Happy Birthday", not make people listen to all month. With Halloween has some monster/spooky themed songs, but people aren't going to look at you like a moron if you play "The Monster Mash" at a party in the middle of July. Only Christmas song that's really worth while is the "Carol of the Bells", preferably by Trans Siberian Orchestra. That's cool enough that you can play it "out of season". /rant

I digress:

Run DMC Christmas in Hollis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XdYApx8z7w

I could listen to this ALL year.

My brothers and sisters, those who feel it's too early for X-mas... I have sinned. I bought a box of Christmas cookies today, for they are tasty and I am weak in the face of sugary goodness...

mad_machine wrote: just imagine being some low paid sales clerk.. forced to endure christmas music 8 hours a day for the next three months... I am amazed more do not snap and start shooting people

I was a low-paid 8-12-hour-a-day sales clerk at a major pharmacy chain and at a major department store. I hated, despised, abhorred, detested, loathed, and plain ol' didn't like working during the holiday season AT ALL. Customers became bigger shiny happy people than they normally are, there were more of said shiny happy people, they left huge messes that meant staying late at night, they stole things left and right, my coworkers became just as burned-out as I was, and both stores played the most horrid of horrid X-mas music over and over again with no breaks. It took everything I had not to rip the PA system out of the ceilings after hearing 5 different Disneypop versions of "Winter Wonderland" in a 30-minute span; or melancholic slit-your-wrist E36 M3 like "Do They Know It's Christmas?" or "Christmas Catalogue."

I'm so grateful I don't work in the retail industry anymore.

My favorite X-mas song: "Father Christmas" by The Kinks.

RexSeven wrote: My favorite X-mas song: "Father Christmas" by The Kinks.

Oh, yeah!

Lesley wrote: I despise Christmas. I'm all for making it just about getting together with food.

That's what wifey and I do. Problem is, our relatives don't buy into our crap and we're still on the hook for giving/getting stuff....

friedgreencorrado wrote:

RexSeven wrote: My favorite X-mas song: "Father Christmas" by The Kinks.

Oh, yeah!

Same here!

I have gotten to the point where I am rebelling against the holiday season as well. I don't mind giving gifts, I just detest being told by advertisers that in order to be loved I have to go flat busted and that makes me not want to buy gifts.

mndsm wrote:

Keith wrote: Dude, there are year-round Christmas theme parks scattered around the continent.

The man is right. I stumbled upon one once in my travels.... scarier than any halloween themed attraction you can imagine.

Just outside of Cherokee, NC.

http://www.santaslandnc.com/

JFX001 wrote: Jeez Guys...it's Christmas.

No its not. Its commercialism on meth.

I have my shopping figured out. A season of Mash for Mom, youngest nephew gets hot wheels, 4 other neices and nephews get gift cards, and the fiance gets an iTunes card. That will be about 1/2 a pay check total.

Back on topic, in the seasonal mercandise isle at my work has fake trees and all the tacky out door decorations set up across from the halloween candy.

And the part I hate the most, live berkeleying eels. The one creature that makes me squemish we get in live. Hopefully the manager will skin them all once the come in.