Don't know if anyones seen this, but it has my support anyway.
I particlarly like the wording of the flyer to put through the doors of those houses with the rideculous displays. Just polite enough.
DaveP
I'll tell you sommat else as well, how many of those who criticise our gas guzzling 4WD's think about what there conspicous consumption is doing to the environment? All that Christmas tat ends up on the rubbish heap somewhere and all those lights are creating CO2 to generate the electricity.
I prefer to see my Christmas trees growing in the woods, and I am off tommorow to spend my Christmas amongst the trees, mountains and lakes (while they are still there)
What a spot on point - I bet Red Ken hasn't thought that throught with all the extra lights up in the capital!
Si
...and Nige spake unto the tribes of Usenet, saying...
So what is the "real" meaning of Christmas? Before we had the current over-commercialised three-month spend-fest, we had a simple religious celebration with carols, a present each, and a hearty family meal. And before the Christians came along we had the Viking Jul or Anglo-Saxon Yule (drink, food, holly and mistletoe for distictly pagan reasons) and before that the Romans had Saturnalia (drink, food and repeated attempts to cop off with thy neighbour's wife). No doubt they had something similar in the Bronze and Iron Ages. Before that, archaeology suggests they all got Stoned anyway. All held around the end of December, coincidentally. Take your pick. I'll go for something around AD600, with plenty of food and drink to brighten up the dull weather and lousy television.
Oh, and I have been given official permission to get on with replacing the swivels and brake pipes on the Series on Xmas Eve and Boxing Day as long as I make myself available for Xmas day itself with the M-in-L. Deal.
the Christians came along
The 'real' meaning is whatever it means to whoever in my book!
-- Subaru WRX Range Rover LSE (Bob)
'"gimme the f*ckin' money"
"Richard Brookman" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net:
I agree the sentiment but think you have missed the point.
Like a lot of grumpy old bachelors, I used to HATE Christmas.
Then someone pointed out that it is the old pagan festival of light. From now on the days get longer and the nights get shorter.
Now THAT I can live with!! These days I actually look forward to Christmas!
Derry
...and Derry Argue spake unto the tribes of Usenet, saying...
Well, that's more or less what I was saying... Take your pick of what Christmas means, and enjoy it in whatever way you like. What I was objecting to was the way that people talk about the "real" meaning of Xmas, when what they mean is a particular construct which has only obtained for a few hundred years of the tens of thousands that this island has been inhabited (and its inhabitants getting slammed around the time of the shortest day).
I think you misunderstood me mate, i menat exactly the same!
Nige
-- Subaru WRX Range Rover LSE (Bob)
'"gimme the f*ckin' money"
...and Nige spake unto the tribes of Usenet, saying...
No, you misunderstand me - I understood you. You understood what I said, and I understood you to be agreeing with me. I thought that Derry had perhaps misunderstood me, so I replied to his post explaining what I understood by what I said, and how if he understood differently, then maybe he misunderstood me. But if I misunderstood him, and he DIDN'T misunderstand me, then the misunderstanding was my fault for not explaining myself more clearly in the first place.
OK?
I say, this Bateman's Victory Ale is *rather* good...
Are you sure you know that i know that you know that i know that you know?
LOL!! Carlsberg Export is also very nice with a few Jamesons chasers!
-- Subaru WRX Range Rover LSE (Bob)
'"gimme the f*ckin' money"
We've always used a live Xmas tree, then planted it out in the garden after it's all over. Doesn't have to be a pine tree either. That way we have a nice Xmas tree and it BENEFITS the environment.
Karen
Karen Gallagher uttered summat worrerz funny about:
yeah ditto here too, Plastic in the house, Real one in the south wing conservatory which will be planted in the rear paddock after Christmas :-) . Keeps the Garden centre, foresters and me in work while cleaning up the environment at the same time. Everyones a winner!
Lee
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