Christmas: Do people never learn?

So, we have just entered possibly the worst recession for 70 years and yet people are still het up about Christmas shopping. January/February the purge will be more extreme than ever as people lurch from over-indulgence to self imposed calvinism.

So why on earth do people do it? Is it the mark of a juvenile and retarded mentality, the desire to please their children for 2 mins with the latest filth from Sony, Apple etc and then pay for it by living on virtually bugger all for the next three months.

Obviously it is much more desirable to have a more regular pattern of spending, even at the best of times cash flow figures go helter skelter Nov-Feb. A moratorium on Christmas makes sense. Sorry chaps, Ramadhan is just about the purest festival in existence.

Vag Jones wrote: So, we have just entered possibly the worst recession for 70 years and yet people are still het up about Christmas shopping. January/February the purge will be more extreme than ever as people lurch from over-indulgence to self imposed calvinism.

So why on earth do people do it? Is it the mark of a juvenile and retarded mentality, the desire to please their children for 2 mins with the latest filth from Sony, Apple etc and then pay for it by living on virtually bugger all for the next three months.

Obviously it is much more desirable to have a more regular pattern of spending, even at the best of times cash flow figures go helter skelter Nov-Feb. A moratorium on Christmas makes sense. Sorry chaps, Ramadhan is just about the purest festival in existence.

3 questions:

what make is your PC and what is your job please?

and you got your chrismas tree up yet? you know you love it

:D :D

p.s sorry about answering this guy, i promise i'll ignore him after this

E=MC Hammer wrote:

Vag Jones wrote: So, we have just entered possibly the worst recession for 70 years and yet people are still het up about Christmas shopping. January/February the purge will be more extreme than ever as people lurch from over-indulgence to self imposed calvinism.

So why on earth do people do it? Is it the mark of a juvenile and retarded mentality, the desire to please their children for 2 mins with the latest filth from Sony, Apple etc and then pay for it by living on virtually bugger all for the next three months.

Obviously it is much more desirable to have a more regular pattern of spending, even at the best of times cash flow figures go helter skelter Nov-Feb. A moratorium on Christmas makes sense. Sorry chaps, Ramadhan is just about the purest festival in existence.

3 questions:

what make is your PC and what is your job please?

and you got your chrismas tree up yet? you know you love it

:D :D

p.s sorry about answering this guy, i promise i'll ignore him after this

Marple was Wilson's stomping ground right?

Not the most impoverished district in the world

Vag Jones wrote:

Obviously it is much more desirable to have a more regular pattern of spending...

That's why I spend shit loads of money at all times of the year

Vag Jones wrote: Sorry chaps, Ramadhan is just about the purest festival in existence.

What exactly is so great about only eating when it's dark? It's not really fasting when every Muslim I know stuffs themselves silly the minute the sun goes down and in the half hour before it comes back up. And then there's the two chaps I know who work permenant Nights...

Vag Jones wrote:

E=MC Hammer wrote:

Vag Jones wrote: So, we have just entered possibly the worst recession for 70 years and yet people are still het up about Christmas shopping. January/February the purge will be more extreme than ever as people lurch from over-indulgence to self imposed calvinism.

So why on earth do people do it? Is it the mark of a juvenile and retarded mentality, the desire to please their children for 2 mins with the latest filth from Sony, Apple etc and then pay for it by living on virtually bugger all for the next three months.

Obviously it is much more desirable to have a more regular pattern of spending, even at the best of times cash flow figures go helter skelter Nov-Feb. A moratorium on Christmas makes sense. Sorry chaps, Ramadhan is just about the purest festival in existence.

3 questions:

what make is your PC and what is your job please?

and you got your chrismas tree up yet? you know you love it

:D :D

p.s sorry about answering this guy, i promise i'll ignore him after this

Marple was Wilson's stomping ground right?

Not the most impoverished district in the world

yes, home to many others too...

well yes your right, we do have running water, elecky and even a summerfield. as to what your impling your missing the two council estates hell even drugs are in abunance, they are much better off places. still what pc you have and what job do you have please?

LeggyD wrote:

Vag Jones wrote:

Obviously it is much more desirable to have a more regular pattern of spending...

That's why I spend shit loads of money at all times of the year

Vag Jones wrote: Sorry chaps, Ramadhan is just about the purest festival in existence.

What exactly is so great about only eating when it's dark? It's not really fasting when every Muslim I know stuffs themselves silly the minute the sun goes down and in the half hour before it comes back up. And then there's the two chaps I know who work permenant Nights...

Compared with Christmas, which has no sacrifices at all. Lent is alright, but that barely cancels out the excesses of December.

E=MC Hammer wrote: what is your job please?

He's a student...

Vag Jones wrote:

LeggyD wrote:

Vag Jones wrote:

Obviously it is much more desirable to have a more regular pattern of spending...

That's why I spend shit loads of money at all times of the year

Vag Jones wrote: Sorry chaps, Ramadhan is just about the purest festival in existence.

What exactly is so great about only eating when it's dark? It's not really fasting when every Muslim I know stuffs themselves silly the minute the sun goes down and in the half hour before it comes back up. And then there's the two chaps I know who work permenant Nights...

Compared with Christmas, which has no sacrifices at all. Lent is alright, but that barely cancels out the excesses of December.

So, all religious festivals/celebrations must involve sacrice? Dick.

You should try studying religious festivals world wide you plank.

I'm the most atheistic cunt imaginable and even I have time for Christmas, putting smiles on faces is just SOOOOO evil isn't it?

Pleasure seeking is the norm rather than the exception. Even if for a short time, that 12 hours or so of fasting has a useful function. Although listening to New Order no doubt is haraam.

thought you'd ignore Al's post.

How predictable.

Vag Jones wrote:

LeggyD wrote:

Vag Jones wrote:

Obviously it is much more desirable to have a more regular pattern of spending...

That's why I spend shit loads of money at all times of the year

Vag Jones wrote: Sorry chaps, Ramadhan is just about the purest festival in existence.

What exactly is so great about only eating when it's dark? It's not really fasting when every Muslim I know stuffs themselves silly the minute the sun goes down and in the half hour before it comes back up. And then there's the two chaps I know who work permenant Nights...

Compared with Christmas, which has no sacrifices at all. Lent is alright, but that barely cancels out the excesses of December.

So its better to have a fast during the day, then go into complete excesses and parties in the evenings, 30 days in a row?

I have no problem with Ramadan, but calling it the "pureset festival" is an assinine statement...

Cunts. Long ball, every time, off Sidibe's head, back of the fucking net. What you going to do about that, ISLAM???????

Tony KNOWS.

Gayers.

Doctor? wrote: thought you'd ignore Al's post.

How predictable.

He ignored a similar reasoning statement on another forum where he posted exactly the same question...

Don't worry, they think he's a twat there, too! :p

Nick King wrote:

E=MC Hammer wrote: what is your job please?

He's a student...

eh...

it can be hard, i have to get up at 7:30 on tuesdays:(

he gives us an even worse name

Don't feed the troll.

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I make it a policy never to argue with a 9000 series as they are, by any practical definition of the terms, foolproof and incapable of error.

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i cant help it, sorry, i really do try to ignore it

Christmas is simply the time of year where people of all religions come together to celebrate the birth of santa.

I figure instead of spending money, be creative- I write my Gran a christmas story every year and tell it round the fireplace. I couldn't really buy her stuff anyway- its generally hard to buy gifts for people of different generations.

borstal scum wrote: Christmas is simply the time of year where people of all religions come together to celebrate the birth of santa.

I figure instead of spending money, be creative- I write my Gran a christmas story every year and tell it round the fireplace. I couldn't really buy her stuff anyway- its generally hard to buy gifts for people of different generations.

Poor old dear's probably sitting there thinking...."All the other girls in the drop in centre get socks, hats and huge tins of bickies and shortbread from their grandkids.....and all I get's a fookin story, I told that daughter if mine to drown em at birth but she wouldn't listen"

Vag Jones wrote: So, we have just entered possibly the worst recession for 70 years and yet people are still het up about Christmas shopping. January/February the purge will be more extreme than ever as people lurch from over-indulgence to self imposed calvinism.

So why on earth do people do it? Is it the mark of a juvenile and retarded mentality, the desire to please their children for 2 mins with the latest filth from Sony, Apple etc and then pay for it by living on virtually bugger all for the next three months.

Obviously it is much more desirable to have a more regular pattern of spending, even at the best of times cash flow figures go helter skelter Nov-Feb. A moratorium on Christmas makes sense. Sorry chaps, Ramadhan is just about the purest festival in existence.

Hang on, so because people overspend at Christmas, this makes Ramadan the "purest religous fesitival" around?

WHAT A LOAD OF COMPLETE BOLLOCKS.

What about Eid- THE MAIN ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL.

What about all the Hindu, Bddhist, Sikh and Jewish festivals. Becuase you dont like other people spending money at Christmas, this reflects bad on other religious festivals.

You really are a collasal turd.

Uncle Liam wrote: You really are a collasal turd.

Liam, despite your bad press, i think your great .