Whenever I have wanted something, usually from Amazon on the
Prime next-day delivery facility, I've gone ahead and ordered it.

Now, my wife is in a tizzy because she cannot find anything to
put in my Christmas stocking.

I might have to make do with a chocolate Father Christmas!

On 20/11/2020 14:26, 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.

Now, my wife is in a tizzy because she cannot find anything to
put in my Christmas stocking.

I might have to make do with a chocolate Father Christmas!
or an orange and an apple like we used to get ....

On 20/11/2020 14:26, gareth evans wrote:


I might have to make do with a chocolate Father Christmas!

Is that a euphamism?

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

On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 14:35:24 +0000, "Jim GM4DHJ ..."
wrote:

snip

I might have to make do with a chocolate Father Christmas!

or an orange and an apple like we used to get ....

Exactly, 'a token' to celebrate the event (if that's your thing) that
it's both healthy and vegan. ;-)

Actually, I think, as a kid I spent more time being creative with the
cardboard boxes than I ever did most of the presents (except Meccano /
Lego of course). ;-)

Cheers, T i m

On 20/11/2020 15:04, T i m wrote:
On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 14:35:24 +0000, "Jim GM4DHJ ..."
wrote:

snip

I might have to make do with a chocolate Father Christmas!

or an orange and an apple like we used to get ....

Exactly, 'a token' to celebrate the event (if that's your thing) that
it's both healthy and vegan. ;-)

Actually, I think, as a kid I spent more time being creative with the
cardboard boxes than I ever did most of the presents (except Meccano /
Lego of course). ;-)

Cheers, T i m

I have a cardboard box fetish because of that ....

Does it really matter that much? I mean, surely love is enough?
Brian

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Whenever I have wanted something, usually from Amazon on the
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Now, my wife is in a tizzy because she cannot find anything to
put in my Christmas stocking.

I might have to make do with a chocolate Father Christmas!

You have been listening to too many Bob Rivers Christmas albums obviously!
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I might have to make do with a chocolate Father Christmas!

Is that a euphamism?

Yes, I normally make a donation to charity, usually an unusual one, as I
feel that may just do somebody some good.
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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

On 20/11/2020 14:35, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:
On 20/11/2020 14:26, 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.

Now, my wife is in a tizzy because she cannot find anything to
put in my Christmas stocking.

I might have to make do with a chocolate Father Christmas!

or an orange and an apple like we used to get ....

A very good point, Jim, from the days when the only time
there would be any fresh fruit in the house would
be at Christmastide.

There'd be a neat bowl of fruit on the table, but you weren't expected
ever to help yourself to one!

In sharp contrast to today's weekly shop where I bought grapes,
bananas, nectarines, clemetines, oranges and pears.

Not apples, though, as we've a glut this year from the
couple of espaliers in the back garden.

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.

Now, my wife is in a tizzy because she cannot find anything to
put in my Christmas stocking.

I might have to make do with a chocolate Father Christmas!

I always thought Santa operated in the cloud anyway :-)

On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:16:46 -0000, "Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)"
wrote:

Yes, I normally make a donation to charity, usually an unusual one, as I
feel that may just do somebody some good.

Commendable Brian. We do the same, often to the Isabel Hospice in lieu
of the Xmyth cards we don't send.

Cheers, T i m

On 20/11/2020 14:59, 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?

Religion is the world of make-believe and IMHO anyone who
immerses themselves in make-belief is a certifiable loony.

But where the rest of us have historically been oppressed
into Christianity they can hardly complain when we retain
their name for the Saturnalia!

Most hypocritical is the organisation of Christianity where
there is widespread disobedience of the ruling not to
have any graven images; witness the world-wide
hand-wringing that followed the fire at the cathedral
of Notre-Dame, or the Roman Catholics with their
statues of the "Virgin".

/BEE IN THE BONNET

On 20/11/2020 15:29, T i m wrote:
On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:16:46 -0000, "Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)"
wrote:

Yes, I normally make a donation to charity, usually an unusual one, as I
feel that may just do somebody some good.

Commendable Brian. We do the same, often to the Isabel Hospice in lieu
of the Xmyth cards we don't send.

I do not support any charities at all because whereas those who do,
do so from the best, but misguided, motives, any charity work enables
the government to Welsh**** on its responsibilites to the Welfare State.

***** Habitual racism to myself there! Dw I yn dysgu siarad Cymraeg.

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.

Now, my wife is in a tizzy because she cannot find anything to
put in my Christmas stocking.

I'm not sure that Amazon can really be blamed. For some time I
have been in the fortunate position that if something small
appeals to me, after rigorously investigating the options, I can
buy it. If it is too expensive for this solution, then it is out
of the scope for presents.

Chris
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In article ,
gareth evans wrote:
I do not support any charities at all because whereas those who do,
do so from the best, but misguided, motives, any charity work enables
the government to Welsh**** on its responsibilites to the Welfare State.

Which is what the voters want, given the large Tory majority.

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In article ,
gareth evans wrote:
On 20/11/2020 15:29, T i m wrote:
On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:16:46 -0000, "Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)"
wrote:

Yes, I normally make a donation to charity, usually an unusual one, as I
feel that may just do somebody some good.

Commendable Brian. We do the same, often to the Isabel Hospice in lieu
of the Xmyth cards we don't send.

I do not support any charities at all because whereas those who do,
do so from the best, but misguided, motives, any charity work enables
the government to Welsh**** on its responsibilites to the Welfare State.

Not all charities replace the welfare state.

--
from KT24 in Surrey, England
"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

gareth evans wrote:
On 20/11/2020 15:29, T i m wrote:
On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:16:46 -0000, "Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)"
wrote:

Yes, I normally make a donation to charity, usually an unusual one, as I
feel that may just do somebody some good.

Commendable Brian. We do the same, often to the Isabel Hospice in lieu
of the Xmyth cards we don't send.

I do not support any charities at all because whereas those who do,
do so from the best, but misguided, motives, any charity work enables
the government to Welsh**** on its responsibilites to the Welfare State.

***** Habitual racism to myself there! Dw I yn dysgu siarad Cymraeg.




The word is welch.

gareth evans wrote:
On 20/11/2020 14:59, 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?

Religion is the world of make-believe and IMHO anyone who
immerses themselves in make-belief is a certifiable loony.

But where the rest of us have historically been oppressed
into Christianity they can hardly complain when we retain
their name for the Saturnalia!

Most hypocritical is the organisation of Christianity where
there is widespread disobedience of the ruling not to
have any graven images; witness the world-wide
hand-wringing that followed the fire at the cathedral
of Notre-Dame, or the Roman Catholics with their
statues of the "Virgin".

/BEE IN THE BONNET




If you dont share the belief dont celebrating the festivals is hypocrisy.

On 20/11/2020 17:13, Radio Man wrote:
gareth evans wrote:
On 20/11/2020 15:29, T i m wrote:
On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:16:46 -0000, "Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)"
wrote:

Yes, I normally make a donation to charity, usually an unusual one, as I
feel that may just do somebody some good.

Commendable Brian. We do the same, often to the Isabel Hospice in lieu
of the Xmyth cards we don't send.

I do not support any charities at all because whereas those who do,
do so from the best, but misguided, motives, any charity work enables
the government to Welsh**** on its responsibilites to the Welfare State.

***** Habitual racism to myself there! Dw I yn dysgu siarad Cymraeg.




The word is welch.


No, the word is English. If it were Welsh, it would be Cymry.

Welch is a variant spelling of Welsh, in English, at least.

On 20/11/2020 17:13, Radio Man wrote:
gareth evans wrote:
On 20/11/2020 14:59, 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?

Religion is the world of make-believe and IMHO anyone who
immerses themselves in make-belief is a certifiable loony.

But where the rest of us have historically been oppressed
into Christianity they can hardly complain when we retain
their name for the Saturnalia!

Most hypocritical is the organisation of Christianity where
there is widespread disobedience of the ruling not to
have any graven images; witness the world-wide
hand-wringing that followed the fire at the cathedral
of Notre-Dame, or the Roman Catholics with their
statues of the "Virgin".

/BEE IN THE BONNET




If you dont share the belief dont celebrating the festivals is hypocrisy.



Sorry, but could you rephrase that in English, please?

On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:50:05 +0000, Chris J Dixon
wrote:

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.

Now, my wife is in a tizzy because she cannot find anything to
put in my Christmas stocking.

I'm not sure that Amazon can really be blamed. For some time I
have been in the fortunate position that if something small
appeals to me, after rigorously investigating the options, I can
buy it.

+1

But then we don't smoke, the Mrs doesn't drink, we haven't been on
holiday for maybe 15 years and so it all balances out.

If it is too expensive for this solution, then it is out
of the scope for presents.

Good logic.

I have always thought it strange that we would (traditionally) buy our
kids bikes for Xmyth ... when it's freezing cold and ****ing down with
rain and they can't use them. We would typically get our kids / family
the sort of things they would find useful, when it was most likely to
be useful.

Cheers, T i m

On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:36:36 +0000, gareth evans
wrote:

On 20/11/2020 15:29, T i m wrote:
On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:16:46 -0000, "Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)"
wrote:

Yes, I normally make a donation to charity, usually an unusual one, as I
feel that may just do somebody some good.

Commendable Brian. We do the same, often to the Isabel Hospice in lieu
of the Xmyth cards we don't send.

I do not support any charities at all because whereas those who do,
do so from the best, but misguided, motives, any charity work enables
the government to Welsh**** on its responsibilites to the Welfare State.

Except, many simply wouldn't exist and so the people they support
would suffer, 'the government' wouldn't do more than they are, just
because they weren't being supported by the charities?

And what difference does it make in any case ... we pay our taxes and
the government gives some of it to support others or we pay less taxes
and give the money to the charities that support others directly
instead (and probably cheaper for us)? It's *ALL* our money in any
case?

***** Habitual racism to myself there! Dw I yn dysgu siarad Cymraeg.


I don't think welsh / welch is the same word meaning as Welsh so no
racism applies. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

On 20/11/2020 17:44, T i m wrote:

I have always thought it strange that we would (traditionally) buy our
kids bikes for Xmyth

Xmyth ... that's a good moniker!


Almost as good as ... Crapmas!

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

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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)

On Friday, November 20, 2020 at 9:31:24 AM UTC-6, gareth evans wrote:
On 20/11/2020 14:59, 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?
Religion is the world of make-believe and IMHO anyone who
immerses themselves in make-belief is a certifiable loony.

But where the rest of us have historically been oppressed
into Christianity they can hardly complain when we retain
their name for the Saturnalia!

Most hypocritical is the organisation of Christianity where
there is widespread disobedience of the ruling not to
have any graven images; witness the world-wide
hand-wringing that followed the fire at the cathedral
of Notre-Dame, or the Roman Catholics with their
statues of the "Virgin".

/BEE IN THE BONNET

religion notwithstanding, the statues are works of art, a regrettable loss

My sister had a very bad ceramic statue of Saint Theresa she made in seventh grade.

When we were moving, I had to throw things away, and had the hardest time disposing of the statue, some kind of bad luck taboo in my head and also, i thought it was a cute little memory she might want to keep

My sister encouraged me to nonetheless throw it away.

I told her, If you want to throw her away you have to do it yourself

she never did, so I made a little grotto for her in the yard together with a few other weird things, a curved crystal horn shaped vase about two feet long, top of a flag pole, etc

I hope the guy who moved in is enjoying my grotto

mk5000

I felt that I knew Christ personally through him. He always spoke of Him as his dearest friend, and he always lived in perfect, loving allegiance to God in Him. Now I know him as I know Christ, €” as a spirit only, and his sudden withdrawal is only an ascension to Him, in the immortal life. Shut into my sick-room, I have seen none of the gloom of the burial; I know him alive, with Christ, from the dead, forevermore. Where he is, life must be. He lived only in realities here, and he is entering into the heart of them now. --
Lucy Larcom, in her Diary (20 February 1893), published in Lucy Larcom : Life, Letters, and Diary (1895) edited by Daniel Dulany Addison, Ch. 12 : Last Years.

On Friday, November 20, 2020 at 11:44:09 AM UTC-6, T i m wrote:
On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:50:05 +0000, Chris J Dixon
wrote:
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.

Now, my wife is in a tizzy because she cannot find anything to
put in my Christmas stocking.

I'm not sure that Amazon can really be blamed. For some time I
have been in the fortunate position that if something small
appeals to me, after rigorously investigating the options, I can
buy it.
+1

But then we don't smoke, the Mrs doesn't drink, we haven't been on
holiday for maybe 15 years and so it all balances out.
If it is too expensive for this solution, then it is out
of the scope for presents.
Good logic.

I have always thought it strange that we would (traditionally) buy our
kids bikes for Xmyth ... when it's freezing cold and ****ing down with
rain and they can't use them. We would typically get our kids / family
the sort of things they would find useful, when it was most likely to
be useful.

Cheers, T i m

my father used to buy very nonuseful things, especially if it was on sale.

One of them was a concrete bird that had its tail broken off, it has a feather in its butt, that he put in there to substitute for the original concrete one. It now sits in my grotto, as a grave marker for the chickens and other birds who passed. The bird is named Pataki, after the former governor of New York,

I guess my sister and I inherited that trait. That ceramic statue i mentioned is Saint Theresa little flower, thats why shes holding flowers.
My sister used her as a microphone, often.
She also used her as a rocket ship launching occasionally.
She was a ceramic joke for her and my parents

mk5000

1. Art is a fusion of various dimensions, as if the cosmic exoticism of thinking. 2. Designated as a horse carousel, each has its own seating shape. 3.. Loneliness is a very beautiful, romantic depression of reality. 4. The intuition of the subconscious is the mother of all arts - this is the navigator of the imagination leading to innovation. 5. All the romantics in the soul and mind are too mature. 6. Thought is the stage of the death of egoism and the transition to eternity of romance. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

gareth evans wrote:
On 20/11/2020 14:35, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:
On 20/11/2020 14:26, 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.

Now, my wife is in a tizzy because she cannot find anything to
put in my Christmas stocking.

I might have to make do with a chocolate Father Christmas!

or an orange and an apple like we used to get ....

A very good point, Jim, from the days when the only time
there would be any fresh fruit in the house would
be at Christmastide.

There'd be a neat bowl of fruit on the table, but you weren't expected
ever to help yourself to one!

In sharp contrast to today's weekly shop where I bought meths.


IFYPFY, OM. HTH.

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On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 10:21:07 -0800 (PST), marika
wrote:

snip

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.


you are going to hell aren't you.

More than likely.

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."

Ok.

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.

Yup.

"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.

Ok.

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.

Ok ... ?

Well Trump is an idiot.

So it seems.

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.

Ok?

Great. Now I will go to hell.

See you there then. ;-)

The thing is, you don't have to 'believe in' anything to do what you
(or most non-selfish / psychopaths / left brainers) know is right.

They happen to be basically what was laid out in things like the 10
Commandments and what many religions are based on, if it weren't for
those who choose to interpret them they way they want, rather than how
they were meant.

Like any dominion we were given over the other animals we share this
rock with was so that we could care for and protect them, not make
them suffer in huge number and treat like chattels or just food.

Cheers, T i m

On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 17:55:31 +0000, gareth evans
wrote:

On 20/11/2020 17:44, T i m wrote:

I have always thought it strange that we would (traditionally) buy our
kids bikes for Xmyth

Xmyth ... that's a good moniker!

It is (with respect to those who believe in it etc), but it's not
mine.


Almost as good as ... Crapmas!


I actually feel sorry for all those who need excuses to be happy, like
having a big wedding when the cost of doing so stops them getting on
the housing ladder for 20 years and they are divorced 5 years later.
;-(

What makes me laugh is all those who give *me* the 'bah humbug' line
when it's them who have bought into the whole commercialism and
*******isation of the (alleged?) event, albeit at a different time in
the year. On top of that they stress themselves out rushing about to
get crap no one wants and buy enough food to feed a small city.

Aww, but they love all the epileptic lights and the fire risk
decorations. ;-)

But I can forgive them as they don't really know what they are doing
or why they are doing it. ;-)

Did they ban glitter on cards, something that was always a major issue
if the Mrs got some under her contact lenses. ;-(

Cheers, T i m

On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 09:59:45 -0800 (PST), Owain Lastname
wrote:

On Friday, 20 November 2020 at 17:55:15 UTC, T i m wrote:
I don't think welsh / welch is the same word meaning as Welsh so no
racism applies. ;-)

Welsh comes from the Old English waleas, meaning foreigner or thief (in those days the two categories were probably considered indistinguishable.

So are you saying that the name for those who live in Wales suggests
that they are all foreigners or thieves?

Welsh on a debt is probably the same root but I can't be bothered looking it up right now.

I would have said 'welch on a debt'.

Cheers, T i m

On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 10:38:07 -0800 (PST), marika
wrote:
snip

my father used to buy very nonuseful things, especially if it was on sale.

I've done the same with things I *thought* would be useful but turned
out not to be. ;-(

One of them was a concrete bird that had its tail broken off, it has a feather in its butt, that he put in there to substitute for the original concrete one.

;-)

It now sits in my grotto, as a grave marker for the chickens and other birds who passed.

Aww.

The bird is named Pataki, after the former governor of New York,

Ok. ;-)

I guess my sister and I inherited that trait. That ceramic statue i mentioned is Saint Theresa little flower, that’s why she’s holding flowers.

Ok, so there is some sort of logical pattern at least. ;-)

My sister used her as a microphone, often.

Like they do.

She also used her as a rocket ship launching occasionally.

And why not.

She was a ceramic joke for her and my parents

It's good to have a hobby. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

On 20/11/2020 14:26, 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.

Now, my wife is in a tizzy because she cannot find anything to
put in my Christmas stocking.



Get her to buy some sexy stockings and then find something to put in her.



--
Adam

On 20/11/2020 19:56, T i m wrote:
I actually feel sorry for all those who need excuses to be happy, like
having a big wedding when the cost of doing so stops them getting on
the housing ladder for 20 years and they are divorced 5 years later.
;-(

What makes me laugh is all those who give*me* the 'bah humbug' line
when it's them who have bought into the whole commercialism and
*******isation of the (alleged?) event, albeit at a different time in
the year. On top of that they stress themselves out rushing about to
get crap no one wants and buy enough food to feed a small city.

Tim, different things make different people happy. Live and let live.

Bill

On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:13:41 +0000, Brian Gaff \(Sofa\) wrote:

Does it really matter that much? I mean, surely love is enough?
Brian


That's what I tell all the girls.

On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 22:10:23 -0800 (PST), Owain Lastname
wrote:

On Friday, 20 November 2020 at 20:04:29 UTC, T i m wrote:
Welsh comes from the Old English waleas, meaning foreigner or thief (in those days the two categories were probably considered indistinguishable.
So are you saying that the name for those who live in Wales suggests
that they are all foreigners or thieves?

Indeed.

Oooerr. ;-)

Bear in mind that in border areas raiding and sheep-rustling was common.

Yeah, like many other instances where the geography or circumstances
impacted how things were known then called. Long lane, Bath, Bradford,
Chestnut Avenue, Six Mile Bottom? ;-)

Cheers, T i m

On Sat, 21 Nov 2020 05:15:37 +0000, williamwright
wrote:

On 20/11/2020 19:56, T i m wrote:
I actually feel sorry for all those who need excuses to be happy, like
having a big wedding when the cost of doing so stops them getting on
the housing ladder for 20 years and they are divorced 5 years later.
;-(

What makes me laugh is all those who give*me* the 'bah humbug' line
when it's them who have bought into the whole commercialism and
*******isation of the (alleged?) event, albeit at a different time in
the year. On top of that they stress themselves out rushing about to
get crap no one wants and buy enough food to feed a small city.

Tim, different things make different people happy.

But they often aren't happy. They are simply conditioned to do what
they do and don't stop for a second and think about why they do what
they do ... and what drives many to kill themselves whilst under the
social / psychological pressure of it all.

Live and let live.

And I wish they would ... rather than trying to pressure me into
joining in with their habit / beliefs when I don't want to and no one
is suffering because I'm not?

And how many people (in round numbers) do you think I have influenced
(or tried to) with my comments above?

Remember, my comment above was on the comments I have to endure when
people aren't happy I'm not joining in their celebrations when for the
most part they don't have a clue what or why they are celebrating?

Just as I believe they should have a 'For people buying fuel only'
tills in *Petrol Stations* that also sell groceries (they may exist
but not round ere), they should have 'Christmas Shoppers' only
checkouts at the supermarkets so that the people with two trolleys
full of excess can't hold me up when I'm still / just doing my weekly
shop. Live and let me get on with my *normal* life! ;-)

Cheers, T i m

On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 20:33:18 +0000, ARW wrote:

On 20/11/2020 14:26, 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.

Now, my wife is in a tizzy because she cannot find anything to put in
my Christmas stocking.



Get her to buy some sexy stockings and then find something to put in
her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUQLSEzBXjA

In article ,
T i m wrote:
On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 22:10:23 -0800 (PST), Owain Lastname
wrote:

On Friday, 20 November 2020 at 20:04:29 UTC, T i m wrote:
Welsh comes from the Old English waleas, meaning foreigner or thief (in those days the two categories were probably considered indistinguishable.
So are you saying that the name for those who live in Wales suggests
that they are all foreigners or thieves?

Indeed.

Oooerr. ;-)

Bear in mind that in border areas raiding and sheep-rustling was common.

Yeah, like many other instances where the geography or circumstances
impacted how things were known then called. Long lane, Bath, Bradford,
Chestnut Avenue, Six Mile Bottom? ;-)

Cheers, T i m

I knew someone who lived in Hogs' Turd Lane.

--
from KT24 in Surrey, England
"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

On Sat, 21 Nov 2020 11:07:10 +0000 (GMT), charles
wrote:

snip

Yeah, like many other instances where the geography or circumstances
impacted how things were known then called. Long lane, Bath, Bradford,
Chestnut Avenue, Six Mile Bottom? ;-)


I knew someone who lived in Hogs' Turd Lane.

A good example of how something so literal and simple can 'become'
something that lasts. ;-)

I knew a girl whose surname was Dredge and was looking forward to
getting married and changing it. She did ... and became Drain. ;-(

Cheers, T i m