Black Friday Starts Now! Annual Thread re: Consumer Christmas Craziness

The_RivThe_Riv Shipmate
Well, here we are again, and as my email Inbox has advised me twice today -- a Thursday -- "Black Friday Starts Now!" Yes, Christmas decorations have been up at my local big box home improvement store for a few weeks, and yes, I saw the first billboard for an upcoming homespun Christmas Market back in early September. But (and I'm grasping here), digital marketing people couldn't schedule these emails for... tomorrow -- a Friday? That would have the benefit of being at least minutely ironic.

Stay tuned for the resurrection of a thread bemoaning the insulting quality of lyric re-writing for Holiday commercials a.k.a. "How witless can 'Carol of the Bells' sound?"

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  • The Tom Lehrer Christmas Carol, 1959.

    https://youtu.be/DtZR3lJobjw?si=mONrPTJ5rv6EAKPS
  • We had mince pies in September. Unfortunately the diabetic cat got hold of one of them - possibly as a protest - so we will always wait until October in future.
  • :lol:

    Thanks @ChastMastr - as usual, Tom Lehrer hits the spot...

    Our local Tesco has Christmas cards on sale, but the majority of the Yuletide Tat won't appear until about 30 seconds after Pumpkintide is over. It's a comparatively small store, and they haven't the room, I guess.

    A local church is already advertising its Christmas Fayre (aka Bazaar/Market/Sale), taking place sometime next month (November), presumably on the *if you can't beat 'em, join 'em* principle!
  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    I make my own cards and I make my own pudding and cake. Christmas starts a couple of months ago for me.
  • Hugal wrote: »
    I make my own cards and I make my own pudding and cake. Christmas starts a couple of months ago for me.

    that's neat, and I get it. My soft rant, tho, was more along the lines of decrying abject consumerism.
  • BoogieBoogie Heaven Host
    I make my own cards too and start around now.

    I just need an idea please!
  • DoublethinkDoublethink Admin, 8th Day Host
    edited October 2024
    How about something based on this phenomenon on a snowy mountain. - but the shadows could be Christmassy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-67696501

    In the article, it shows how this works for a place overflying clouds - imagine how it would look with Santa’s sleigh.
  • Boogie wrote: »
    I make my own cards too and start around now.

    I just need an idea please!

    Just recycle with some tippex.
  • The Christmas stuff is encroaching the Halloween stuff already here.
  • SpikeSpike Ecclesiantics & MW Host, Admin Emeritus
    edited October 2024
    ChastMastr wrote: »
    The Christmas stuff is encroaching the Halloween stuff already here.

    Over here, Halloween wasn’t really a big thing until relatively recently. I first visited the USA in October 1993. All the houses had Halloween decorations which is something I’d never seen before. We had Halloween in the UK, but only for one evening (31st October) and houses definitely weren’t decorated.

    Now it lasts for the whole of October and has overshadowed Bonfire Night/Guy Fawkes Night/Fireworks Night (or whatever you like to call it) on November 5th
  • SpikeSpike Ecclesiantics & MW Host, Admin Emeritus
    Hugal wrote: »
    I make my own cards and I make my own pudding and cake. Christmas starts a couple of months ago for me.

    I made the Christmas Pud a couple of months ago. It’s now sitting at the back of a dark cupboard
  • How about something based on this phenomenon on a snowy mountain. - but the shadows could be Christmassy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-67696501

    In the article, it shows how this works for a place overflying clouds - imagine how it would look with Santa’s sleigh.

    Believe it or not, I've seen a Brocken Spectre in North Oxford, elevation circa 58 metres above mean sea level. The sun had just popped over the horizon and cast our shadows onto a bank of mist over the Thames. Just to the right of the middle tree: https://flic.kr/p/aNsHoH
  • DoublethinkDoublethink Admin, 8th Day Host
    Neat !
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