Xmas decorations - Page 2

shillelagh · 17-12-2007, 21:45

Couldnt have cashy the fire engines where still in the fire station!!

MargaretR · 17-12-2007, 22:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by shillelagh

Couldnt have cashy the fire engines where still in the fire station!!

and I have been home all day

jambutty · 19-12-2007, 16:10

Xmas – the time when people suddenly become nice to everyone around except when shopping. Then it is every person for themselves and devil take the hindmost. Why can’t people be nice to each other all year round?

Xmas – the time when people rush around buying presents that they can’t really afford to buy, to give to someone who doesn’t really want that present, yet they smile sweetly to declare, “just what I’ve always wanted.” Except for presents from children to their parents or grandparents. Those gifts have meaning and are given in the true spirit of Xmas.

Xmas – the time when people send greetings cards to people they hardly know and then panic like mad if they get a card from someone that they haven’t sent a card to.

Xmas – the time when people eat and drink far too much and try to convince themselves that they are having a swell time, with relatives that they cannot abide. Whilst surreptitiously reaching for the Rennies.

Xmas – the time when people celebrate a person’s birth months after the actual date. Some say that Jesus was born in September and some insist that it was October but all agree that it wasn’t the 25th December.

As for the lights – well why not and to heck with the carbon footprint. The Parliament buildings are lit up all night long with floodlights and what is good for the goose is good for the gander.

Any lights wouldn’t bother me whilst I am sleeping. But then I close my eyes when I sleep and the bedroom curtains. Noise doesn’t bother me either. After all I live in a ground floor flat on a fairly busy road so there is traffic going up and down day and night all the year round. I used to live next to the main railway line from Blackpool Central and the trains going by day and night never bothered me one bit and certainly didn’t wake me. What did wake me sometimes was when a train DIDN’T go past at the expected time. But then in those far off days trains were on time and weren’t put off by the ‘wrong kind of snow’ or leaves on the line.

The only problem that I have with houses being decorated with festive lights on the outside is that it could distract a driver and cause an accident. But then so could a Xmas tree in a window.

cashman · 19-12-2007, 16:14

so i take it yer a christmas fan jambutty?

cashman · 19-12-2007, 16:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by shillelagh

Couldnt have cashy the fire engines where still in the fire station!!

so its the firemen that burn em jen?

Eric · 19-12-2007, 19:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by mani

shocking really. some people really cant fathom the festive period

has anyone seen the santa in manchester town hall? awesome - this huge teddy bear like santa

It's called Muhammed, right

Eric · 19-12-2007, 19:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by emamum23

i thought christmas was about jesus?

Sort of; but B might be confusing St. Lucy's Day and Christmas Day ... or she might just be wrong ... The shortest day of the year is St. Lucy's Day. Ironically named of course. The root of Lucy is the same as that for Lucifer, bringer of light. Donne wrote a poem about it "A Nocturnal Upon Saint Lucy's Day, Being The Shortest Day."