Ah, the first day of autumn...

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Leaves changing colors.
Sleeping with the window open.
No elevated A/C electric bill.
Football two days a week.
Coeds in sweaters.
Evenings on the porch.
Chili.
Santa fucking Claus?!?

13 hours ago, it was fucking summer! You know, days at the pool, sweating your balls off mowing the lawn, bad movies, baseball strikes, TV reruns and BBQ? Well I’m walking around downtown at lunch today, and the fucking Rockettes and Santa Claus are out at the Circle whooping it up and promoting the Christmas season! For crying out loud, at least give us a chance to piss in the snow or at least see 1/2 of the new season premiere shows on TV!

Santa, you can kiss my ass, you reindeer-felching elf fancier.

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Wow, lovely rant!

I myself find it a bit repulsive that retailers start to haul out the plastic raindeer and twinkly lights round about July. At least let us have Halloween first! I really hate how salad-shootery and chia-petful Christmas is. I’m not saying it has to be a huge spiritual/religious thing - it sure isn’t for me - but can we just enjoy the season for a couple of weeks, have our turkey, open our prezzies, and not have tinsel and tree-toppers thrust in our faces all day, every day, for three months straight? That would be great.

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I was prepared for a rant about not wanting to rake leaves or something.

Screw Halloween, what about Thanksgiving? Mmm…cranberry sauce…

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Actually here in Lancaster ca most places put out xmas stuff right after the back to school stuff was cleared

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And the first day of autumn can feltch goats for the cold the change in weather gave me :slight_smile:

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Fall used to be my favorite season: cool weather, leaves changing color and falling, longer nights, Thanksgiving food (pumpkin pie, honey glazed ham, stuffing drenched in homemade gravy), cooking lots of stews and soups, great drinking weather.

But now fall gets treated like a Christmas warmup session. Yes, retailers, I know that’s when you make a big chunk of your revenue. But if I spend all my money now, I won’t have any to spend when the actual Yuletime gets here.

Give me back my season and maybe I’ll shop a little more, ya bastards!

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Oh god, I was all good until I read that line… now my monitor is covered in the hot tea I was drinking. Thanks mate!

Max

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Relax, Munch. Soon all you’ll have to worry about is whether your VCR is working right.

:wink:

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Speaking of my VCR, it’s sick. Santa, if you want to even make your way to being in my good graces, you’ll advance-gift me with a new one. Otherwise, you can polish Rudolph’s “nose” with that jolly-ass smile of yours, you fucking half-wit.

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Ahh, the first day of autumn

Running the A/C all day
Triple digit temperatures
Fire burning out of control mere miles away
And the 22 day of Santa Claus (this year he emerged in Wal-Mart around Labor Day.)

I fucking hate So Cal sometimes.

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here at L.L. Bean, we are already packing and sending out the winter catalog, which tankfully does NOT have a Christmas type them on the cover.

But I have seen Xmas stuff in a few stores.

I don’t ask for much, (well at least most of the time) but why can’t we wait until AFTER HALLOWEEN to drag out the XMAS stuff. That still gives you nearly 2 months to throw it in our faces.

Sheesh.

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I would consider that a racist remark and would hope that you mentioned that to her.

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oops… if the above post is mine It’s because I was posting to to threads at once. Please ignore.

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I honestly don’t understand why this upsets people so much. I mean, it’s not like there’s more crass and insipid advertising out there, it’s just that for the next three months it’s color-coded.

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Turn off the TV–except during football games, of course–and enjoy the fall. Leaves changing! (Around here, unlike most of the country, we’ve an unusually rainy year, so our fall leaves should be gorgeous.) Cool weather! Halloween! THANKSGIVING! That’s my favorite holiday, because all you do is show up, eat, and watch the Cowboys and the Lions games! No gifts, no pressure. I make my world-famous mashed potatoes and I show up and eat. Sometimes I make a turkey too; I first did it a few years ago, and wow, it turns out it’s easy with the pop-up turkey timers and all (thank you, Butterball!). I also like to buy a turkey the day after Thanksgiving, when they’re cheap, and eat it for weeks. And when it’s down to a carcass, I make soup stock of it. Mmmmmm…

The best thing about fall, though, is of course my birthday. Sure, I’m getting older (31 this year), but I still harbor the nostalgic notion that my birthday is a special day, and I treat myself well and do cool, introspective things like walk in the park in the falling leaves and write in my birthday journal–I don’t have the patience for a daily journal, so I keep a birthday journal, in which I write every year on Nov. 3 while eating lunch.

I, for one, am tremendously glad fall is here. And the cool weather arrived exactly on the first day of fall, oddly enough.

Gee, if I’m not careful, this thread will get moved to MPSIMS… :cool:

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Starting to warm up here in Sydney. It’s looking like another bugger of a summer for fires.

So how are the American fires now? Any still burning in Colorado, or is it only California now?

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Snort. Giggle. Consider yourself lucky. The grocery stores here in Germany had Christmas stuff (cookies and candies, etc.) in the stores at the end of August. I shit you not. Right out of the swimming pool, stop at the grocery store for a couple of things its like, WTF? Christmas stuff already?

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I find not having a teevee, not being Christian, and avoiding malls helps with this problem. Not much, but it helps.

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101 degrees yesterday.

But just try to find shorts or sunscreen in the whole city of Tucson.

No way.

They moved that stuff out to make room for wool sweaters and scarfs.

Don’t the people who stock the stores have any idea that everywhere is not Boston weather?