# Minor Holiday Rants that Don't Merit Their Own Thread

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 17, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-holiday-rants-that-dont-merit-their-own-thread/280405 "2004-12-17T19:58:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shrinking\_Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Shrinking\_Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shrinking_Violet)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-holiday-rants-that-dont-merit-their-own-thread/280405/141 "2004-12-27T21:47:45Z")

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> [@Lathe of Heaven](#):
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> And I really liked putting on a charming old tune like the Shetlands tune “Christmas Day In The Morning” precisely _because_ it hadn’t been done to death.

If you mean [this one](http://www.carols.org.uk/i_saw_three_ships.htm) be glad you don’t live in the UK - it’s been done to death here at least since the 60s.

My pitting:

The craziest packaging I’ve ever seen, on my daughter’s Phillips CD Player. It was vacuum-sealed with the **hardest plastic ever** , and when you cut into it the edges were _lethal_. After approx half an hour of both of us struggling, _each_ sustaining cut fingers and broken scissors … we finally managed to liberate what was within. :mad:

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**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2004, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-holiday-rants-that-dont-merit-their-own-thread/280405/142 "2004-12-28T00:55:24Z")

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My FIL plans to kill packaging developers (those who invent bad and stupid and potentially lethal ways of packing things) right after he kills the inventor of shopping malls.

After he got some batteries out of a package he spent five minutes jumping on the packaging. I love him.

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