On Friday, November 20, 2020 at 8:59:33 AM UTC-6, T i m wrote:
On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 14:26:18 +0000, gareth evans
wrote:

Whenever I have wanted something, usually from Amazon on the
Prime next-day delivery facility, I've gone ahead and ordered it.
Cool isn't it. When stepdaughter was in the hospice with terminal
cancer we had some stuff primed to her that arrived the same day.

Now, my wife is in a tizzy because she cannot find anything to
put in my Christmas stocking.
Are you both 'religious' then OOI?

I might have to make do with a chocolate Father Christmas!
And why not. Given most of us can generally have what we want, when we
want it, it seems a bit silly to continue the tradition///////habit of
wasting time, money and resources by giving other people things they
often don't need or want just 'because'?

We have managed to cut the Xmyth cards down to nearly none (and have
sent none for 30 years (waste of paper, cardboard and postage)), don't
waste time and money with any decorations or on buying stuff for
others who pretend to be thankful ... before sticking it in the
charity shop in the new year (for the very reason you site).

Not to say that we might pass the greeting 'Happy Christmas' at the
right time / place (mostly out of politeness) but we really don't feel
the need to get caught up in all the commercial *******isation of it.

Cheers, T i m

you are going to hell aren't you.

For the past decade or more, former very powerful but now meToo disgraced Fox USA talking head Bill O'reilly maintained that the "left" was conducting a "war on Christmas."

Why Rupert Murdoch ever allowed this nonsense I do not know.

I thought he was crazy as I had seen no evidence of any kind of antiXmas. In fact, the holiday seemed to get more and more commercial in the USA, not less so. "Black Friday" shopping sales normally started the day after Thanksgiving (last Thursday in November), but every year since the war had started, Black Friday kept being held earlier and earlier, so you would see sales in October.

Then Trump, on his first xmas in office, alleged he had won the war. Not sure what was different about xmas during his reign other than the alleged black Friday sales would occur in October. He put up the same decorations and tree that his immediate left leaning predecessor had.

Well Trump is an idiot.

People would often josh that Xmas was arriving earlier and earlier every year, to which i would reply yeah, this year, they held xmas was in 1926.

Great. Now I will go to hell.

mk5000

Cliff Lawton: Malcolm!
Malcolm Tucker: Elvis! Sorry, sorry, Cliff. Where are you off to?
Cliff Lawton: I'm actually off to see and old colleague, you know, back from the old days, before you asked me to resign.--"The Thick of It" Spinners and Losers (TV Episode 2007) P)