Are you sick of Christmas already? What do you think of Christmas stuff appearing in the shops in October? Anything Christmas-related that you'd like to have a good rant about?
Do you believe in Santa Claus?
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Christmas Ding-dong merrily on high. An alternative Fight Thread.
Started by Lady Die, Nov 10 2005 01:59 PM
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Posted 10 November 2005 - 02:07 PM
Lady Die, on Nov 10 2005, 02:59 PM, said:
Are you sick of Christmas already? What do you think of Christmas stuff appearing in the shops in October? Anything Christmas-related that you'd like to have a good rant about?
Do you believe in Santa Claus?
Do you believe in Santa Claus?
I hate it!
Lots!
Of course!
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Posted 10 November 2005 - 02:42 PM
Lady Die, on Nov 10 2005, 01:59 PM, said:
Are you sick of Christmas already? What do you think of Christmas stuff appearing in the shops in October? Anything Christmas-related that you'd like to have a good rant about?
Do you believe in Santa Claus?
Do you believe in Santa Claus?
Don't care - just ignore it. I buy what I want to, thanks very much.
Not really. It's a good excuse for a few days off work, to eat and drink too much and argue with the family.
No. He doesn't need believing in, he just IS.
When you're younger, you can eat what you like, drink what you like and still climb into your 26 inch waist trousers and zip them closed. Then you reach that age, 24, 25, when your muscles give up, they wave a little white flag and then without any warning at all, you're suddenly a fat bastard.
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Posted 10 November 2005 - 03:56 PM
Lady Die, on Nov 10 2005, 03:44 PM, said:
DevonDeathTrip, on Nov 10 2005, 03:42 PM, said:
Any Deathlisters working on Christmas Day?
I am
I am
What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow;
What are brief? Today and tomorrow;
What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth;
What are deep? The ocean and truth.
Christina Rossetti
What are brief? Today and tomorrow;
What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth;
What are deep? The ocean and truth.
Christina Rossetti
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Posted 10 November 2005 - 04:14 PM
Yes.
Unhappy about it.
"Christmas" music, aka any old bloody music that's lying around, with the delightful "ching ching ching" sound of sleigh bells added. That sound, specifically, actually raises my pulse rate and not in a good way. rant rant rant rant rant. Bloody Christmas music. rant. Aaaggh. Sleigh Bells. AaAaagh...
No, I don't believe in Santa. Nor does Charley Farley. But then, he doesn't believe in "Innocent Until Proven Guilty" or "Right To Legal Counsel" or "Right To Know The Charges Against You" or other such minor inconveniences like that, either. rant rant rant. He probably has sleigh bells as the ringtone on his mobile. rant.
Unhappy about it.
"Christmas" music, aka any old bloody music that's lying around, with the delightful "ching ching ching" sound of sleigh bells added. That sound, specifically, actually raises my pulse rate and not in a good way. rant rant rant rant rant. Bloody Christmas music. rant. Aaaggh. Sleigh Bells. AaAaagh...
No, I don't believe in Santa. Nor does Charley Farley. But then, he doesn't believe in "Innocent Until Proven Guilty" or "Right To Legal Counsel" or "Right To Know The Charges Against You" or other such minor inconveniences like that, either. rant rant rant. He probably has sleigh bells as the ringtone on his mobile. rant.
A lesson from history.
Tdonkleys snakc on Cnocolate and Cumcumber
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'Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength'
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Posted 10 November 2005 - 04:31 PM
Star Crossed, on Nov 10 2005, 04:14 PM, said:
No, I don't believe in Santa. Nor does Charley Farley. But then, he doesn't believe in "Innocent Until Proven Guilty" or "Right To Legal Counsel" or "Right To Know The Charges Against You" or other such minor inconveniences like that, either. rant rant rant. He probably has sleigh bells as the ringtone on his mobile. rant.
There were three of us in the morgue so it was rather crowded
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Posted 10 November 2005 - 05:25 PM
At what age do we stop loving Christmas and start hating it? I remember as a kid being so excited I couldn't sleep on Christmas Eve. How my Dad, I mean Santa, I mean Father Christmas, managed to sneak past my room and pile the presents up under the tree I'll never know.
Now, it's just three days of wrapping presents that people already know they're getting, getting crappy gifts that you'd never want, visits round to relatives no one likes, and eating far too much mediocre food. Fruit cake is supposed to be a treat?
Now, it's just three days of wrapping presents that people already know they're getting, getting crappy gifts that you'd never want, visits round to relatives no one likes, and eating far too much mediocre food. Fruit cake is supposed to be a treat?
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Posted 10 November 2005 - 05:58 PM
Cowboy Ronnie, on Nov 10 2005, 05:25 PM, said:
Now, it's just three days of wrapping presents that people already know they're getting, getting crappy gifts that you'd never want, visits round to relatives no one likes, and eating far too much mediocre food. Fruit cake is supposed to be a treat?
the less your heart has shrunken smaller then even
the grinches own.
It seems a couple of bad holiday seasons drove
you into thinking this way. On my Christmas i usually
see the whole big faimly and there is food ordered and
food cooked which overall it is quite tasty.
As for gifts - Honestly i usually receive better then i give.
Then one of the best parts is watching my grandfather
who is in his mid 80's get drunk off numerous glasses
of whisky and smoke his holiday cigar.
"Good thread Lady Die" - You beat me to it.
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Posted 10 November 2005 - 06:20 PM
Might be working on Christmas Day. Will be working Christmas Eve though
Alternative 50 in no particular order
1.Nelson Mandela 2.Margaret Thatcher 3. Jeremy Thorpe 4. Bill Pertwee 5. John Freeman 6.Guenther Grass 7. Oswald Morris 8. Glynis Johns 9. Zizi Jeanmaire 10. April Ashley
11. Allan Arbus 12. Siegfried Lenz 13. Helmut Kohl 14.Walter Scheel 15.Hywel Bennet 16.Clive James 17. Tamara Press 18.Dave Swarbrick 19. Gretel Bergmann 20. Paul Danquah
21. Fenella Fielding 22. Peter Sallis 23. Dannie Abse 24.Ronnie Biggs 25. Jovanka Broz 26. Bernie Nolan 27. Ron Moody 28. Vivian Pickles 29. Dave Davies 30. Nexhmije Hoxha
31. Doris Lessing 32. Henry Morgenthaler 33. Al Molinaro 34.Gil Taylor 35. Denis Healey 36. Gabriel Garcia Marquez 37. George Blake 38. Brian Cant 39. Fidel Castro 40. Kirk Douglas
41. Aretha Franklin 42.Annette Funicello 43.Bob Godfrey 44. Rev Billy Graham 45.Wojiech Jaruzelski 46.Irving Kanarek 47.Hiroo Onoda 48. Reg Pressley 49. Ariel Sharon 50. Duncan Norvelle.
"Wehat shall we do with the wisswass tdonkleys?" "Throw them in the turwetts til they've diwed."
Vote Karen Carpenter as most significant celebrity death of 1983
1.Nelson Mandela 2.
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21. Fenella Fielding 22. Peter Sallis 23. Dannie Abse 24.Ronnie Biggs 25. Jovanka Broz 26. Bernie Nolan 27. Ron Moody 28. Vivian Pickles 29. Dave Davies 30. Nexhmije Hoxha
31. Doris Lessing 32. Henry Morgenthaler 33. Al Molinaro 34.Gil Taylor 35. Denis Healey 36. Gabriel Garcia Marquez 37. George Blake 38. Brian Cant 39. Fidel Castro 40. Kirk Douglas
41. Aretha Franklin 42.
"Wehat shall we do with the wisswass tdonkleys?" "Throw them in the turwetts til they've diwed."
Vote Karen Carpenter as most significant celebrity death of 1983
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Posted 10 November 2005 - 07:31 PM
handrejka, on Nov 10 2005, 06:20 PM, said:
Might be working on Christmas Day. Will be working Christmas Eve though
This is true my form is something odd,
But blaming me is blaming God;
Could I create myself anew
I would not fail in pleasing you.
But blaming me is blaming God;
Could I create myself anew
I would not fail in pleasing you.
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Posted 10 November 2005 - 07:46 PM
A druid one with a wolf animal companion
Alternative 50 in no particular order
1.Nelson Mandela 2.Margaret Thatcher 3. Jeremy Thorpe 4. Bill Pertwee 5. John Freeman 6.Guenther Grass 7. Oswald Morris 8. Glynis Johns 9. Zizi Jeanmaire 10. April Ashley
11. Allan Arbus 12. Siegfried Lenz 13. Helmut Kohl 14.Walter Scheel 15.Hywel Bennet 16.Clive James 17. Tamara Press 18.Dave Swarbrick 19. Gretel Bergmann 20. Paul Danquah
21. Fenella Fielding 22. Peter Sallis 23. Dannie Abse 24.Ronnie Biggs 25. Jovanka Broz 26. Bernie Nolan 27. Ron Moody 28. Vivian Pickles 29. Dave Davies 30. Nexhmije Hoxha
31. Doris Lessing 32. Henry Morgenthaler 33. Al Molinaro 34.Gil Taylor 35. Denis Healey 36. Gabriel Garcia Marquez 37. George Blake 38. Brian Cant 39. Fidel Castro 40. Kirk Douglas
41. Aretha Franklin 42.Annette Funicello 43.Bob Godfrey 44. Rev Billy Graham 45.Wojiech Jaruzelski 46.Irving Kanarek 47.Hiroo Onoda 48. Reg Pressley 49. Ariel Sharon 50. Duncan Norvelle.
"Wehat shall we do with the wisswass tdonkleys?" "Throw them in the turwetts til they've diwed."
Vote Karen Carpenter as most significant celebrity death of 1983
1.Nelson Mandela 2.
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21. Fenella Fielding 22. Peter Sallis 23. Dannie Abse 24.Ronnie Biggs 25. Jovanka Broz 26. Bernie Nolan 27. Ron Moody 28. Vivian Pickles 29. Dave Davies 30. Nexhmije Hoxha
31. Doris Lessing 32. Henry Morgenthaler 33. Al Molinaro 34.Gil Taylor 35. Denis Healey 36. Gabriel Garcia Marquez 37. George Blake 38. Brian Cant 39. Fidel Castro 40. Kirk Douglas
41. Aretha Franklin 42.
"Wehat shall we do with the wisswass tdonkleys?" "Throw them in the turwetts til they've diwed."
Vote Karen Carpenter as most significant celebrity death of 1983
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Posted 10 November 2005 - 08:29 PM
Christmas is a good time for celebs to croak it. I can remember Bob Monkhouse, Alan Bates and Jason Robards all went in that period. And didn't Charlie Chaplin hang up his moustache on the big day in 1977?
So maybe there's hope that one of the list might go in the holiday period. Brooke Astor bestowing one last philanthropic gift perhaps?
So maybe there's hope that one of the list might go in the holiday period. Brooke Astor bestowing one last philanthropic gift perhaps?
Derby Dead Pool showrunner...
"We're today's scrambled creatures, locked in tomorrow's double feature
Heaven's on the pillow, its silence competes with hell
It's a twenty-four hour service, guaranteed to make you tell
And the streets are full of press men
Bent on getting hung and buried
And the legendary curtains are drawn 'round Baby Bankrupt
Who sucks you while you're sleeping
It's the theatre of financiers
Count them, fifty 'round a table
White and dressed to kill."
David Bowie - We Are The Dead (1974)
"We're today's scrambled creatures, locked in tomorrow's double feature
Heaven's on the pillow, its silence competes with hell
It's a twenty-four hour service, guaranteed to make you tell
And the streets are full of press men
Bent on getting hung and buried
And the legendary curtains are drawn 'round Baby Bankrupt
Who sucks you while you're sleeping
It's the theatre of financiers
Count them, fifty 'round a table
White and dressed to kill."
David Bowie - We Are The Dead (1974)
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Posted 10 November 2005 - 08:35 PM
Cowboy Ronnie, on Nov 10 2005, 06:25 PM, said:
At what age do we stop loving Christmas and start hating it? ............
"If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear...." Jacqui Smith - Ex-Home Secretary (and many other misguided fools)
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"I fear having to prove I have nothing to hide." Josco
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves".
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Shaw's Principle: "Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it."
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Posted 10 November 2005 - 08:38 PM
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At what age do we stop loving Christmas and start hating it?
Hasn't happened yet...
"Every process, event, happening - call it what you will; in a word, everything that is going on in Nature means an increase of the entropy of the part of the world where it is going on. Thus a living organism continually increases its entropy - or, as you may say, produces positive entropy - and thus tends to approach the dangerous state of maximum entropy, which is death."
- Erwin Schrodinger, "What is Life?", Cambridge University Press, 1944
- Erwin Schrodinger, "What is Life?", Cambridge University Press, 1944
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Posted 10 November 2005 - 08:38 PM
[quote name='themaninblack' date='Nov 10 2005, 08:29 PM']Christmas is a good time for celebs to croak it. I can remember Bob Monkhouse, Alan Bates and Jason Robards all went in that period. And didn't Charlie Chaplin hang up his moustache on the big day in 1977?
So maybe there's hope that one of the list might go in the holiday period. Brooke Astor bestowing one last philanthropic gift perhaps?[/quote]
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Don't forget Dean Martin too
So maybe there's hope that one of the list might go in the holiday period. Brooke Astor bestowing one last philanthropic gift perhaps?[/quote]
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Don't forget Dean Martin too
Alternative 50 in no particular order
1.Nelson Mandela 2.Margaret Thatcher 3. Jeremy Thorpe 4. Bill Pertwee 5. John Freeman 6.Guenther Grass 7. Oswald Morris 8. Glynis Johns 9. Zizi Jeanmaire 10. April Ashley
11. Allan Arbus 12. Siegfried Lenz 13. Helmut Kohl 14.Walter Scheel 15.Hywel Bennet 16.Clive James 17. Tamara Press 18.Dave Swarbrick 19. Gretel Bergmann 20. Paul Danquah
21. Fenella Fielding 22. Peter Sallis 23. Dannie Abse 24.Ronnie Biggs 25. Jovanka Broz 26. Bernie Nolan 27. Ron Moody 28. Vivian Pickles 29. Dave Davies 30. Nexhmije Hoxha
31. Doris Lessing 32. Henry Morgenthaler 33. Al Molinaro 34.Gil Taylor 35. Denis Healey 36. Gabriel Garcia Marquez 37. George Blake 38. Brian Cant 39. Fidel Castro 40. Kirk Douglas
41. Aretha Franklin 42.Annette Funicello 43.Bob Godfrey 44. Rev Billy Graham 45.Wojiech Jaruzelski 46.Irving Kanarek 47.Hiroo Onoda 48. Reg Pressley 49. Ariel Sharon 50. Duncan Norvelle.
"Wehat shall we do with the wisswass tdonkleys?" "Throw them in the turwetts til they've diwed."
Vote Karen Carpenter as most significant celebrity death of 1983
1.Nelson Mandela 2.
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21. Fenella Fielding 22. Peter Sallis 23. Dannie Abse 24.Ronnie Biggs 25. Jovanka Broz 26. Bernie Nolan 27. Ron Moody 28. Vivian Pickles 29. Dave Davies 30. Nexhmije Hoxha
31. Doris Lessing 32. Henry Morgenthaler 33. Al Molinaro 34.Gil Taylor 35. Denis Healey 36. Gabriel Garcia Marquez 37. George Blake 38. Brian Cant 39. Fidel Castro 40. Kirk Douglas
41. Aretha Franklin 42.
"Wehat shall we do with the wisswass tdonkleys?" "Throw them in the turwetts til they've diwed."
Vote Karen Carpenter as most significant celebrity death of 1983
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Posted 10 November 2005 - 08:41 PM
Perhaps you should change the title of this thread to, "Winter Holiday", Lady Die.
Although people of non-Christian faiths may have no problem with it, it might offend a white, middle-class, lefty graduate who's been on too many equality and diversity courses wthout ever actually speaking to to somebody from a minority group.
Although people of non-Christian faiths may have no problem with it, it might offend a white, middle-class, lefty graduate who's been on too many equality and diversity courses wthout ever actually speaking to to somebody from a minority group.
Valar morghulis.
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Posted 10 November 2005 - 08:43 PM
Entropy, on Nov 10 2005, 07:38 PM, said:
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At what age do we stop loving Christmas and start hating it?
Hasn't happened yet...
I'm not amused with Channel 4's alternative Christmas message.
Shadow List 2013.
Hugo Chavez, Brian Shivers, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Michael Winner, Jo Bryant, Sir Henry Cecil, Anne Williams, Tariq Aziz, Ronnie Biggs, Gough Whitlam, Saif al-Islam, John Nkomo, Nelson Mandela, George H. W. Bush, John Derbyshire, Chopper Read, Leslie Phillips, Robert Mugabe, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Margaret Thatcher, Hosni Mubarak, Clive James, Gabriel G. Marquez, Jeremy Thorpe, Damon Harris, Christopher Lee, Ian Paisley, Dora Bryan, John Bardon, Billy Graham, Muhammad Ali, Jalal Talabani, Mikail Kalashnikov, Rochus Misch, Fidel Castro, Denis Healy, Robert G. Edwards, Bob Dole, Nancy Reagan, Stephen Hawking, Jacques Chirac, Bashar al-Assad, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Bonnie Franklin, Ariel Sharon, Princess Lilian, Grand Duke Jean, Queen Fabiola, Bhumibol Abdulyadej, Fred Phelps
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Hugo Chavez, Brian Shivers, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Michael Winner, Jo Bryant, Sir Henry Cecil, Anne Williams, Tariq Aziz, Ronnie Biggs, Gough Whitlam, Saif al-Islam, John Nkomo, Nelson Mandela, George H. W. Bush, John Derbyshire, Chopper Read, Leslie Phillips, Robert Mugabe, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Margaret Thatcher, Hosni Mubarak, Clive James, Gabriel G. Marquez, Jeremy Thorpe, Damon Harris, Christopher Lee, Ian Paisley, Dora Bryan, John Bardon, Billy Graham, Muhammad Ali, Jalal Talabani, Mikail Kalashnikov, Rochus Misch, Fidel Castro, Denis Healy, Robert G. Edwards, Bob Dole, Nancy Reagan, Stephen Hawking, Jacques Chirac, Bashar al-Assad, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Bonnie Franklin, Ariel Sharon, Princess Lilian, Grand Duke Jean, Queen Fabiola, Bhumibol Abdulyadej, Fred Phelps
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