Christmas time is officially here

[Kobold-Bard]

For me anyway.

The Coca Cola truck advert (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogetBqMgau0) has been aired. Since as far back as I can remember this has been my starters gun for festivities :biggrin:

[Keld Denar]

Wal-Mart has been playing Christmas music for over 3 weeks already. Since before Halloween...

You know, if the trend stays, we are gonna start hearing Christmas music in August in about 20-30 years. That will make me sad.

[Mordokai]

It already does make me sad. No wait, that's not the word... enraged is more closer to what I'm feeling. Every year we start hearing christmas carols and the like, along with the christmas light and trees sooner then the year before. Quite frankly, I'm getting sick of it and I'm getting sick of it fast. By the time the actual Christmas rolls around, I'm already sick of it.

[Mando Knight]

You know, if the trend stays, we are gonna start hearing Christmas music in August in about 20-30 years. That will make me sad.

I sue (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeXQBHLIPcw) Nieman Marcus for putting up their Christmas decorations way out of season!
I sue Ben Affleck...
...
...Awwww, do I even need a reason?!

[Kobold-Bard]

Wal-Mart has been playing Christmas music for over 3 weeks already. Since before Halloween...

...

My branch of Card Factory was deemed too small to warrent Halloween decorations being distributed to us so we moved straight into Christmas mid-September. That was an unpleasant couple of months.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Is is December yet? I thiiiink not! Therefore, christmas time has not arrived!:smallfurious:

My logic is infallible.

[Kobold-Bard]

Is is December yet? I thiiiink not! Therefore, christmas time has not arrived!:smallfurious:

My logic is infallible.

Bah!! Mere mortal means such as time & date mean nothing before the almighty power of the Coca Cola truck advert!!!

[Prospekt]

Wal-Mart has been playing Christmas music for over 3 weeks already. Since before Halloween...

You know, if the trend stays, we are gonna start hearing Christmas music in August in about 20-30 years. That will make me sad.

Actually, probably only a couple months after Christmas at that point.

My sister plays Christmas music in the house, I didn't start hearing it until after Halloween at least, but I knew it was playing in stores. Thankfully, they don't play it in the Army Surplus Store or the Waffle House, it wasn't until I went clothes shopping the other day that I heard it. And it's a pain. It's like we can't enjoy Thanksgiving, even if we have to spend it with people who annoy the crap out of us.

[742]

{Scrubbed}

those abominations of upbeat jazz remixes of xmas songs *shudders* thank joss whedons zombie that i got my MP3 player fixed in time. but no noise cancelling! now i need a nail to take out my eardrums :smallfrown:

[shumoko]

{Scrubbed}

[Dr.Epic]

You know what really bugs me? Sure, people advertising for Christmas the moment Halloween is over, but ABC Family (a channel I don't watch, but I have a younger sister and this is how I know this) does 25 days of Christmas, but they also apparently do a countdown to 25 days of Christmas. So we have 25 Days of Christmas which is pretty much a countdown when you think about it, then an official countdown to that, and they advertise the countdown to 25 Days of Christmas so that in theory (to some degree) can be called a countdown. So we have a countdown to a countdown to a countdown. Are they so desperate to celebrate Christmas before Thanksgiving and at the same time try to cover it up that they make up some ridiculous countdown? I'm sorry if my ranting seems annoying and dumb, but really, I just had to vent the stupidity of what they're doing.

[Elder Tsofu]

Think of the people without Halloween nor Thanksgiving before Christmas - they have a whole autumn to fill up with something else.
In Sweden we have midsummer (June) and then St. Lucy's day on December 13, but that's more or less part of the Christmas celebrations.

But conservative as I am I believe that first of advent is the time for the decorations. That's when the stores "traditionally" put theirs up too.

[averagejoe]

The Mod They Call Me: I would like to remind everybody that, no matter what the thread's topic is, discussion of real world religion is inappropriate for these boards.

[Lord_Gareth]

Hey now. For some of us, Yule time is here :p

I'll agree that it's annoying that the Christmas stuff comes out earlier and earlier. For that matter, the song renditions get worse and worse - if I ever hear Do You See What I See? again, its original composer is going on my time travel hit list.

[Moonshadow]

Christmas can go to bleck :smallyuk: I tire of all the commericialism that surrounds it.

Seeing all the decorations and other crap for sale like, 2 months before hand just annoys me terribly.

[Castel]

I guess christmas starts early here in Mexico, then (or at least my city)... a lot of places/houses already have the decorations up and the christmas music fills the stores since the beginning of the week.

Oh well, sorry if the early christmas avatar bothers people! :smallwink:

[shumoko]

right well to shorten my scrubbed post and still get my point across,

i like the spirit of the holiday just so long as it starts after thanksgiving

[doctor_wu]

Why is it always big coming up to the holidays I do not get. Why do we just abandon after the holiday seems stupid. I mean I like christmas after the holiday. I enjoy reading or playing with my presents more. Seriously you are sure what you want all this time before christmas.

[Eon]

Hmm... I think the holiday season starts when it snows... So... Last week. :smalleek:

I need a new system...

[lesser_minion]

I don't think there's been any egregious use of Christmas songs around here yet, but most stores do have their decorations up already.

But despite World AIDS Day being almost here, nobody's selling ribbons.

[Kastanok]

I've successfully avoided most Christmas-related media so far, but I happened to by in a Mcdonalds last night (sue me, I was hungry and it was the only thing open) and Fairytale of New York came on. It's definitely in my top 3 favourite Christmas songs and I couldn't resist letting a little of the seasonal spirit in to my heart. Melancholy spirit, but spirit none the less.

[AshDesert]

For my family, the weekend after Thanksgiving is for taking down autumn decorum (yes, my mom has different decorations for every time of year:smallsigh:) and putting up Christmas decorations. I get really annoyed by stores putting up Christmas stuff before Halloween though, I don't even see why they do it. I can't imagine that the Christmas sales start to pick up until mid-November at the earliest, why put your Christmas stuff out in October?

[Mauve Shirt]

I never get the carol hatred. I'm always excited for the day after Thanksgiving, because I can take out my favorite Christmas music. I rarely notice the stuff playing while I'm shopping.

[mangosta71]

You know, if the trend stays, we are gonna start hearing Christmas music in August in about 20-30 years. That will make me sad.

It's made even worse by the fact that there have been so few new Christmas songs made in the past few decades. I've heard all the songs hundreds of times; I'm bored with them even before they start playing. By the time the actual holiday arrives, I'm out of my mind with rage.

[Kobold-Bard]

It's made even worse by the fact that there have been so few new Christmas songs made in the past few decades. I've heard all the songs hundreds of times; I'm bored with them even before they start playing. By the time the actual holiday arrives, I'm out of my mind with rage.

There are loads made every year, but they're either rubbish by comparison or all about mocking the commercialisation of Christmas etc. so no fun.

Add to that X-Factor's domination of the Christmas charts and I guess there's no desire to make one anymore.

[CynicalAvocado]

macys parade. as soon as santa goes down 34th street, it will be time

[Kobold-Bard]

Didn't know today was Thanksgiving (Britlander), coincidentally it snowed for the first time today here.

Christmas is on it's way alright.

[CynicalAvocado]

damn, keep forgetting it's an american holiday

[Castaras]

Silly people. I can (kind of) understand it being Christmas at the 1st December, but I still don't really hold with it. If you put your decorations up on the 1st, by the time it gets to the 25th they aren't special any more, or new, or have that spark. Not to mention how tatty decorations can get in 25 days... Huzzah for putting the decorations up the weekend before.

[Kobold-Bard]

Silly people. I can (kind of) understand it being Christmas at the 1st December, but I still don't really hold with it. If you put your decorations up on the 1st, by the time it gets to the 25th they aren't special any more, or new, or have that spark. Not to mention how tatty decorations can get in 25 days... Huzzah for putting the decorations up the weekend before.

My rule is the 14th of December, because my mum's b'day is the 13th and she hates getting Christmas mixed in with her birthday.

[Miklus]

For me anyway.

The Coca Cola truck advert (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogetBqMgau0) has been aired. Since as far back as I can remember this has been my starters gun for festivities :biggrin:

For me it's this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4wGb0PRnE8

(There's beer in the truck, of cause)