The Christmas Commercial Insanity Everyone's Lost Their Marbles Thread 2024

[Drago]

Shakin' Stevens and Noddy Holder are looking at Merc brochures and wondering what they'll spend their Royalties on.

Noddy Holder earns about £600k a year in royalties from that alone. Fair play to him.

 

[Dave7]

My daughter started her "Chrismas List" last night

My granddaughter went to town yesterday in order to work out what to buy for presents.

 

[Drago]

I dunno about you fine folk, but if there's anything I want or need I just go and get it. That being the case I tell the family not to bother buying among the adults and just buy for the kids.

 

[FrankCrank]

Early eighties I saw Slade at the Rank in Reading, just a few days before Xmas.
You can guess what they played at the end, but the icing on the cake was it had snowed outside during the concert, unbeknownst to us.
As we left we got the perfect seasonal display, something I'll never forget.

 

[Drago]

2003, I was out on foot patrol in my tit hat and bumped into Noddy Holder walking through Kingsley in Northampton of all places. Had a brief chat, nice fellow.

 

[PeteXXX]

I have some pressies to buy for the Ipswich nieces and nephews branch of the family to deliver when I meet up with my sister in early November.. Saves postage 📯

 

[Alex321]

I noticed Mince Pies in the Co-Op opposite the office this morning.

 

[oldwheels]

I'm pretty sure Asda had selection boxes out for sale yesterday and they definitely had Christmas puddings.

Aldi in Oban had Christmas puddings and other related stuff on sale about a month ago.

 

[oldwheels]

In my distillery days we gave out bottles of whisky tailored to the importance of the recipient to our business.
The local fire station got a full case delivered and the two nearest police stations got a case each. Local tradesmen got one or two bottles depending on what they had done for us
In return I did quite well as suppliers gave me presents depending on how much we had spent with them.

 

[stephec]

Sure it's not Halloween. We've got two neighbours with stuff out since end September

Same here, and considering the good old British weather we've been having all that flimsy plastic and cloth now looks like it's been attacked by an angry poltergeist.

 

[lazybloke]

The community facebook page has set expectations for everyone in the road to festoon their houses with lights; a November date and time has been announced for the grand switch-on.

What happened to putting up a small tree on 24th Dec?

 

[Beebo]

I dunno about you fine folk, but if there's anything I want or need I just go and get it. That being the case I tell the family not to bother buying among the adults and just buy for the kids.

We do £5 per adult. No one I know actually needs anything.
And I don’t want anyone wasting money buying me stuff I neither want nor need.

 

[captain nemo1701]

We've put off arranging the office Xmas bash until now....well, places get booked. One of my movie channels started screening those god-awful sugary Xmas made-for-tv movies weeks ago.

 

[Drago]

Oh, and never get involved in the secret santa.

After I'd had an op to screw my elbow back together I got dumped in rhe force control room for a spell.

Coming up to Christmas there was a secret santa thing going on, but not really knowing anyone I politely declined.

Well, one of the female staff received a dildo and there was a huge inquisition to try and identify the sender and I was the only person on the entire shift that wasn't under suspicion. Lesson learned.

 

[Electric_Andy]

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I dunno about you fine folk, but if there's anything I want or need I just go and get it. That being the case I tell the family not to bother buying among the adults and just buy for the kids.

We're trying to do the same, have been for years. But my sister always ruins it by spending loads on us adults. I have tried to limit it to £20 for her and BIL, and spend £25-30 on my niece. But sister doesn't get the message. She's just naturally generous towards family and it shows the rest of us up!