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Godamnit it all to hell
18 years ago
Damnit, I am fucking SICK of Christmas. And what is it, November 6th? Christmas is more than a month and a half away. Every store in town had Christmas decorations for sale a month ago, in the middle of October. Pre-decorated trees and snowmen right next to the inflatable jack-o-lanterns and ghosts. How did this happen? Wasn't there some kind of unwritten rule that corporate America wouldn't start assaulting our sensibilities until after Thanksgiving? As soon as November 1st rolled around, the blitzkrieg started in full. Commercials went from a subdued fall theme to WHITE AND HAPPY! The advertising women with the fake smiles went from wearing orange sweaters and tossing dead leaves in the air to wearing red coats and playing in the snow.
So why so early this year? I'm guessing it has something to do with rock-bottom consumer confidence and the fact that every toy on the planet is MADE OUT OF POISON. Except instead of maybe doing something about it and improving public relations, companies are like "HAHA! Noooo, there's NOTHING WRONG! Hey, LOOK BEHIND YOU! Christmas is coming! BETTER BUY THOSE FUCKING TOYS!"
It's just ... all so depressing. Fake chemical cheer is oozing forth from every crevice in the earth, trying desperately to cover the fact that we're surrounded by endless tragedy.
So why so early this year? I'm guessing it has something to do with rock-bottom consumer confidence and the fact that every toy on the planet is MADE OUT OF POISON. Except instead of maybe doing something about it and improving public relations, companies are like "HAHA! Noooo, there's NOTHING WRONG! Hey, LOOK BEHIND YOU! Christmas is coming! BETTER BUY THOSE FUCKING TOYS!"
It's just ... all so depressing. Fake chemical cheer is oozing forth from every crevice in the earth, trying desperately to cover the fact that we're surrounded by endless tragedy.
You are 100% right, of course. But even fake chemical (rein)deer make me squeee!
Forget it, dude! Let's get an XBOX and Guitar Hero 2, and dominate the Leaderboard.
Though, since christmas IS coming, the only thing i care about is the gifts and the food...and my family of course and close friends.
All those toys get tested by one person. I'm sure they love xmas more than you.
i mean there wasnt _ANY_ mention of thanks giving anywhere, to the point i literaly forgot about it until that day
Also, why do I always get the feeling that some people watched and took "Walking Life" way too seriously ^,^;;
It's fricking November 6th already, and somewhere in my head I'm thinking it should still be September. =P
ICP - santa's a fat bitch ;D love this song!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjHDMdBMkKw
It's unsettling to say the least.
Halloween this year I almost missed in many ways. I knew it was coming, I had spooky music for class and such. The day of, kindergarteners wore costumes. Then, on my way home from work, I forgot about it and got confused when a road was closed off in the middle of town and there were dozens of people walking around.
Mostly, I like getting time off from work. I'm very indifferent to most of the holiday stuff now, whatever holiday it is.
I love how we're afraid of our own shadows because of corporate America. We can't drink foreign water because we've weakened our immune systems by giving them nothing to fight off, so lets declare tap water unsafe and start bottling it.
Feh. As George Carlin put it, I like a little cancer in my water.
And if it can make some other people happy to feel chhristmas coming whatever the mean, well, that's just extra bonus for me, BE HAPPY !!!!!
Err. Yeah. YEAH! Usually I can be apathetic about pretty much anything. But COMMERCIALS ... commercials just rub me the wrong way. And Christmas is just one big months-long commercial.
'cides, its a BS holiday anyways. And yeah, they've been advertising for it since mid October.
They didn't even wait for Thanksgiving! They're always trying to bump back Black Friday by a month!
May god have mercy on us all...
Don't pay any attention to that shit, ZC. It's not the kind of thing that's made for you or me. It was expertly concocted to ensnare a weaker mind. We are insusceptible to distractions of this kind. With sophisticated imaginations like yours and mine, we needn't sell ourselves to any corporate pick-up line. Come the twenty-fifth this month remember to give thanks, that you have the rationality to break consumer ranks. You have express ability to forge your own tradition. I think it best we leave these sheep (so at least we'll quit our bitchin')!
:D
Happy Impending Thanksgiving-that-is-NOT-CHRISTMAS-YET!
Holy crap, I just realized your comment rhymed. Haha! Awesome!
Funny how my mental state is always that of someone who hasn't slept in a week. Maybe I should buy some more vitamin D capsules. But that would mean going to the STORE! NO!
But on the other hand, I am rather apathetic towards it.
I like that fake-ass cheer. If I were a horrible dictator, I would enforce it by penalty of death. It's the time of year when people pretend not to be a dick for 30 days.
I don't have a TV and I never go to malls. I'm spared from the commercialism that is probably source of your anguish.
However I don't live in America, I think that makes it worse doesn't it? :(
One massive migrain
Two an earloads of jingles
Three Jingling Salvation Army stations
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119 Christmas clearances
120 stores gearing up for next christmas
....yeah.... somethign like that. I complain to store managers any time I have to endure that blasphemous music before November.