Xmas countdown : Son of the xmas countdown

Season of goodwill? My arse!

Went to the hellhole that is asda. Coming out some little bastard shouts at me "cut your hair and get a job".

Now in an ideal world, I would be like the terminator and quickly choose an appropriate response:

Choices:
Ignore.
Kick child.
"There is no Santa".
"I have a job. F***ing your Mum"
"F**k you asshole".

Sadly I'm not very good at the human thing and spent too long thinking about it, and only managed a half hearted "F**k you". ~sigh~


More lazy blogging:
Band Aid - Do they know it's Christmas?



Top trumps time:

Number of xmas cd's featured on: all of them.
Number of xmas words in the lyrics: 1
Number of winter / snow etc words: 1
Probability of being played on asda in store fm: 87.9%
Relationship to xmas? : More related to Geldof's ego. Midge Ure hardly gets a look in.

Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you.

This has bugger all to do with Xmas. It was a method for extracting cash much the same as the local brass band playing and rattling tins outside tescos. You're supposed to give them money and pretend you care, feel good about yourself and then a few weeks later forget they exist.

But the artists, record companies etc did it all for nowt and helped the poor people... Oh yeah? And the record labels haven't made it back 10 times over in royalties for the song appearing on every bloody xmas compilation album, playing on the radio etc.... They only handed over the dosh from the single sales.

The truth is, we're really not remotely interested in helping the 3rd world. The 1st world is already using more than the planet can provide, so even if it was possible to instantly "upgrade" them to our standards it wouldn't be done.

Perhaps the Macc Lads had the truth with their "alternative" version of this song:
Feed your face, don't give them a second thought.

Rant ends....