I believe Dragwyr was referring to Venus Envy’s album, I’ll be a Homo for Christmas, with tracks such as The 12 Gays of Christmas, and Silent Dyke.
You mistyped “Fa, la, la, la.”
Hey, someone had to say it!
You’re missing a “la.”
Esprix
That’s perfectly normal. For some strange reason, most magazines are dated not by the date they go on sale, but by the date they are taken off the shelves.
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Sorry about the confusion. It’s just that when I start thinking about this, I get really irked!
I say we organize and fight back. Who would like to introduce the “Out of Season Advertising” bill?
If only this were true. But Halloween is like the third-most-spendish holiday, after Easter and Christmas. Seriously. People increasinlgy buy more and more stuff (decorations, etc.)
Legomancer is dead on, too. WHO is it who likes seeing this crap early? Who is it? Can these retailers produce one person who likes thinking (in the retail sense) about Christmas in September?
They don’t care if we like thinking about it, as long as we are thinking about it. This reinforces the idea htat A) Christmas is primarily a retail event (I mean, hey, they are the ones who decide when it is, right?) and B) maximies the chances that we will lose our heads and buy something we wouldn’t have if we had had less time to see it.
I want to start a Go Giftless! movement.
Yes, but Dubya says it’s our patriotic duty to spend money this year, and the sooner we get started the better…
In years to come, we will probably look back and say, “Yes, in the fall of 2001 it looked like the American economy was headed straight into the global dumpster, and the only thing that saved us was the fact that, all over America, Wal-Marts already had their Garden Centers changed over to Christmas Departments.”
[sub]and would it be too much of a downer if I mentioned how incredibly trivial it all seems this year, and how guilty I’m going to feel buying presents for MY kids, when there are kids who…I saw an estimate somewhere that those 6,000 deaths meant there are something like 15,000 kids directly affected[/sub]
What also gets me is how the stores can’t wait for it to begin, and eventually it will start in April, but come 12:01am, December 26th, their dumpsters are overflowing and there are not even trace amounts of Christmas anywhere in the store. Once Dec. 25 is done, they want nothing to do with it.
By then they have the Valentine’s Day stuff stocked. Cause nothing says “I love you” more than two-month-old candy.
I too am disheartened when I walk into Wal-Mart in a t-shirt and shorts and am confronted by twinkling lights and a 16 inch tall plastic Santa playing the saxophone. However, if I want to provide Christmas presents for my family, and maybe wrap them up all pretty, and do a little bit of decorating, I HAVE to start buying stuff by October at the latest. Us po’folks gotta git along the best we can.
Annoys me to no end as well, but I at least get a little bit of enjoyment out of it in my own special way:
Candy Canes for trick-or-treaters. Always makes me laugh.