Yay

Not eyelids surely

They've been showing Christmas movies since September and I saw an Christmas ad back then as well!

Is that a euphemism?

It’s really hard to find a ******* breakfast meal that isn’t a ******* pastry when Europe.

The "improved" Amazon Music Prime benefit. They call it improved and in so much as you have access to the entire library it is but now it's a shuffle service so invariably you wait for an age to hear the track you've selected, that's if you're lucky, whilst meanwhile you have to sit through a load of so called related tracks from similar bands. I far preferred the previous limited range of tracks but being able to listen to a specific band or album. Basically it's now Amazon radio.

Having to think of Xmas presents for myself.
If I want/need something I just buy it.
Trying to think of things I don't really need is annoying.

I am consistently amazed by Mrs Maz's ability to come up with presents I never knew I needed.

The point of Christmas gifts is not necessarily to satisfy a need or a want, but simply to delight.

Or so I read somewhere once.

But not necessarily achieving any of those. Paul Merton once told a story on HIGNFY about an uncle opening a present only to exclaim "F**k me, socks!"

Ditto with Mrs Richard - and I then feel awful, because I am hopeless at reciprocating.

I like this, very good

I love getting socks for Xmas, something that is actually useful and isnt just going to clutter up my house or sit in a drawer for years! Getting old :(

Christmas is all about socks.

Especially brightly coloured ones, that delight.

But not Christmas-themed socks please.

These poppy police arseholes really get my goat these days I have to say.

Some people just seem to go through life funding stuff to get angry about.

Not at all.

Short ride was along Frith Road and back.
For an extra few pennies (old money) there was the long ride that went round the corner along Keeley Road past the Swap Shop and back again.

The key to all this is SHOPS. Can't do that on line, though I'm sure some make-a-quick-few-quid a/h could invent a virtual donkey ride for while you are waiting to process your on-line order :rolleyes:

Maidstoned down the pub.

I think that's enough said about a "virtual donkey ride":D

Bullshit.

Not just the pub, squire.

This with baubles on. I am ridiculously poor in this department.

Not sure if this deserves it's own thread but it's the beginning of the end:
"Bounty bars removed from Celebrations tubs.l.
Bounty hunters may have their work cut out this Christmas, after chocolate manufacturer Mars Wrigley said it would be eliminating the sweet from some of its tubs.

The coconut-flavoured treat may be marketed as a slice of paradise, but nearly 40% of us hate them, Mars says.

So a limited run of "No Bounty" tubs will go on sale at 40 Tesco stores in the run-up to Christmas

Red Bounty were the absolute shit, the bees’ knees of confectionery. They’ve already been supplanted by the inferior blue, so it’s hard for me to care about this.

Just the sight of your parading around in your salmon trousers should be enough for any partner.

Bounty are shit.
But it surprises me not that they are the choc of choice of fey public school boys.
Admittedly based on a numerically low sample.

I’m with you - but only if the Red Bounty is from the fridge.

I like Marathons as well. Though not as much.
Exotic flavoured KitKats do it for me, as well - and that’s pretty much it.

Yes re fridge.

People who describe Bounty bars as red or blue.

What’s wrong with the normal milk and plain descriptions you weirdos.

:D

What are you, colourblind?

I see what you did there.

Missing goals when it's my shout at the football. 2 last game 1 this game.

BTW ever seen a poor game where you win 4-0 ? Last night was a dire spectacle for Popovics Melbourne Victory. 15 to 20 mins of decent football, the rest a lot like Roy ball I'd say.

People who use November 4th as Guy Fawkes night.

I didn’t.

Have you ever been to Japan? They have some incredible flavours of Kit-Kats there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Kats_in_Japan

Do they still call them Marathons in Spain?

Yes. Though I spent nearly the whole time in record shops - the best in the world, I think.

I think this was the one for soft-headed posh boys:

In 2015, 500 single-finger bitter chocolate bars were sold with gold leaf wrapping for about $16 in high-end retail shops

Wasabi one looks interesting.

EFA

I'm the same - if I need something I buy it, if I want something I spend a while trying to justify if "want" should become "need", if it does I buy it, if it doesn't I don't. I've turned into my Dad, who always said "peace & quiet" when asked what he wanted for Christmas - one year I bought him some earplugs and a bag of frozen peas!

When family ask me what I want I just ask for a record. They're usually around the £20 mark so not an unreasonable request and it's something I will genuinely look forward to. Books are in the same category, if you're at a loss on what to get someone, a book on a subject close to their heart is usually a winner, shows a little thought went into it, and another at a decent price.

Anyway, I'm heading back over to Mumsnet where the real action is.

Nemone on 6 Music. That voice… I can’t listen to it…

I made the mistake of getting my wife a diet book one year... didn't go down too well!

Recently I've been getting her a certificate for a day at the spa... this worked well for many years until she went and got herself an annual pass to go all year round - kinda ruined that one.

Back to racking my brains for the next two months.

Plenty of McDonald's on the continent. The one in Salzburg is even posher than the lovechild of Richard and El Aguila and there's one in Rome that has a section of the Servian Wall in it. Alternatively you could go to Lineker's Bar with Maidstoned.

I didn't realise that anyone (apart from weltkasse who obviously doesn't count) still did this.

No need...

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-sear...%27s-handbook/

I don't see how the over and early commercialisation of Christmas will help families to give their kids a decent Christmas experience. I would suggest that by persuading them to spend on stuff they don't need it takes away any budget they have for a good christmas. Spread out, they would be better putting the cash into a Christmas fund.

Somehow, I doubt there will be many in the UK going without this Yuletide. Mainly because people have their priorities wrong.

There is a channel that shows Christmas movies all day, every day.

The hooky site that I used to use had such a number of new release Christmas crap every year you truly wonder where they hell they get the finance from.

Found this on google for 2021 - 'This year will see a record 146 new Christmas movies air before Santa even parks his sleigh on our roofs, and that alone is reason to celebrate the spirit of the season.'

and for 2022 a new record 155 https://ew.com/tv/christmas-movies-2022-how-to-watch/

My sister-in-law got me a Joe Wicks diet book a couple of Christmases back. Bloody cheek.

Why? Don't you have the imagination or the drive to come up with a gift that your other half will enjoy.

To all posters who have said this.

With a couple of months to think about it and a whole world of internet shopping it shouldn't be hard to find something for a person I suggest one should know really well, cherish, and think about all the time.

Failing that have a conversation - buy each other a trinket of a gift (choccies or somesuch) and spend the cash on a very decent long weekend away somewhere classy.

The language trend of adding 'you know what' to sentences when there is no need.

This is her dream and (you know what) she is ready.
I told him to f**k off and (you know what) he did.
I get paid monthly and (you know what) it goes straight into my bank account.
When it rains (you know what) you get wet.

Buy her a calendar of his missus in return.

Fireworks night. What a load of sh!t. And the loud bangs going off all night freak out my cat.

617 years we've been celebrating the state crushing an attempt to blow up its favourite house of compliance and you say what a load of shit:p

Flies. Bastard things.

417 surely, it is still 2022 not 2222.

I've got the dog shivering under my desk because of all the noise of fireworks and what is even more annoying is that the buggers don't confine it to the 5th either.

When we used to live in the suburbs of Nottingham we had about 2 weeks solid of fireworks.
They seem to be let off for Diwali, Halloween, Bonfire Night and another religious festival (can't remember which one).
Now we are in the countryside things are much quieter.

We’re in Lewes… usual carnage. 1 x Putin and at least 2 Liz Trusses being blown up later…

Button ones aren't too bad but those zips can be dangerous if you don't watch yourself.

Spiders are your friend.

Not a Funnell Web Spider - you wouldn't want to meet up with one of those.

Cars that don't have CD players. On my 3rd replacement hire car this year (2 accidents not my fault and 1 stolen car). None had CD players and to make it worse I can't get my usual DAB station on the current one.

“Frank and beans!!!”

My last two vehicles have had CD players (over 15 years) and I can't remember the last time I used them, or played a CD at home for that matter.

At the time I thought CD's were the future, but in reality they probably have lasted less time than cassettes.

Technology eh?

Stream from your phone?

Go Subaru…

Having left Sussex, I still really miss the Lewis Bonfire celebrations, mayhem and all.

Filthy orange hun bastard.

We've got holograms to come yet HH :) circa 20 years away. I'm hanging on for those for sure.

Erling Haarland of Man City saying that taking the last minute penalty against Fulham was one of the most nervous situations he'd ever faced in his life.
Yes, he's likeable and a great player but come on. Crossing the Somme or walking down The Shoreditch High street pre-1980's might make one nervous, but a spot kick against F in Fulham.
If he missed, they'd still have drawn. They would still have led the table. They're still going to win the league with over a 100 points and the way he's going he's going to end up with 113 goals, allowing a goal or two for for exaggeration.
So let's get the whole, "most nervous situation in the whole wide world," put into perspective please.

I'm not sure I'll be ready for Michael Jackson performing in my living room! :eek:

Now Olivia Newton John... maybe.

Fair play, Bonfire night is done, it’s reasonable enough to dust your ‘Grinch’ off ready for Xmas.

……That reminds me.

The whole Grinch thing annoys me, the movie, the book etc.

Odd because I like Jim C and can handle Santa, elves and reindeer stories of all shapes and sizes but the Grinch just rubs me up the wrong way for some reason.

Probably because he spoiled/stole Christmas?

Well, now you do.

Train apps that when you put ‘arrive by’ massively add loads of time so that the options you want to look at are at the bottom or have to load another page.

I allow my own mess up time, I dont need an app to add time for me.

I try to beat the app and add an hour and it still isnt right.

You need to get more aware (or you will find yourself not counting.)

People listening to music on loudspeaker on trains. The bloke just gave some kids some headphones on the train Im on but yet they are still listening to some shite music.

Michael McIntyre

Nothing whatsoever today.

This has to be one the most posted annoyances.

Delight when my new neighbor tells me she is half English…turning to total annoyance when she says her Dad supports Chelsea.

Not noticing signs for a special event clear way and having my van towed.

Absolutely. This & middle-lane drivers (which, if I recall correctly, has its own thread) :p

Thomas Frank chewing gum

It is a funny thing - it went out of fashion for a few years (perhaps people thought better of it) but is now commonplace again.
I reckon it is all part of the post-pandemic couldn't-give-a-stuff lairiness that's going around.

Common courtesy doesn't seem to be much of a thing anymore. Very rare I have a journey on public transport that doesn't have at least one of someone blasting music, watching loud shit tik tok videos, having a conversation on speaker, or parents putting some crap like Peppa Pig on a tablet for their little darlings.

Peppa Pig is high culture compared to some of the shite one sees and hears on trains.

Shoelaces. In recent years they seem to wear out about every couple of months. I used to have to get heels/soles redone before the laces went, but now they fray and snap after just a few decent pulls.

https://i.ibb.co/tcM8CJQ/8-E656-ABA-...E8131-FD41.jpg

Apologies, it took me a bit to find it this season. :)

Toilet paper holders in offices and other public places where the loose end of the roll is forever disappearing back into the dispenser.

The leading story on the BBC news website is now almost always a live reporting thread. Tell me what the main story is in a self-contained article setting out what has happened instead of a thread I have to scroll through. I find it really lazy journalism.

The Monday Night Club on 5Live…. Self indulgent banter… w@nkers.

Simpsons (not the Strand one) being forced to close by its landlord.

Some Bermuda based hedge fund wankers.

Ditto:

https://64.media.tumblr.com/35470a1a...hjido1_400.jpg

Yes, he'd give fat Samuel a run for his money. Sam, constantly had half a double cheeseburger and two packets of Wrigley spearmints being simultaneously chomped up and down by his National healthers.

The train strike was cancelled - yet the companies are running DAY 2 of their strike timetable.

This means the first train again today is at 8 am - so I am already an hour late for work.

Can they really not just switch to what they should have been running today?