Stop the lunacy
I heard on the radio during the religious news section (I’m amazed the PC brigade even allow that, but they have the odd Rabbi on for the talky bit afterwards so I guess that counts as multi-faith) that churches are being encouraged to hold midnight mass at 8pm to stop drunken people disrupting them. I’m sorry?! Much as I detest Christmas this is a Christian country and if people want to go to midnight mass then fair do’s, as far as I’m concerned they can go as nuts as they like over the whole Christmas thing since they’re not being hypocritical. Anyone who wants to disrupt that should be shot. Plain and simple. It’s not big, it’s not funny, it’s just a damning indictment on how low this country has sunk. The same news segment told me that countries in the middle east were all geared up for Christmas in the shops, hotels and homes of the ex-pats (and even some locals) and all seemed to be happy about it, none of this hiding behind ‘happy holidays’ and other embarrassed claptrap that tries it’s hardest to keep everyone happy. Meanwhile people here are buying 36 (yes, 4 lots of 9) rolls of toilet paper in order to tide them over the Christmas holiday. HELLO?! The shops are closed for 2 days. TWO. Unless you’re planning for a large meal with a shed load of amoebic dysentery you’re probably going just a tiny bit overboard here. 3 trolley loads of shopping is also a tad excessive, although if you’re going to need ‘ammo’ for those bogrolls then I guess you’re on target there. I think some people need to get a grip and regain some perspective.
Oh! but we’ll need three trolleys for the parsnips alone.
Well, true, and a trolley for the lighter fluid, and a box of matches, but surely it’s easier to just ban them than buying them all up and burning them.
If you’re burning the Parsnips can you burn the Brussel sprouts at the same time?
I must admit that it’s as though there
is a panic switch that gets hit once a year in the run up to Christmas where everyone wants at least 3 of EVERYTHING even if they cant physically carry it (without the aforementioned three trolleys) let alone actually fit it in the car boot to get it home….
And you know just looking at these people running round grabbing stuff off shelves that nearly all of them will have forgotten to buy the batteries needed for the children’s toys on Christmas morning…
I bought some mince (x2, it was on offer), some Clementine’s (x2, they were also on offer), some veg (no mange tout this week annoyingly so got some asparagus and mini leeks instead), some stir in sauces, some drinks, mars choc ices and a few other bits and bobs. I expect this last me well over a week and I could carry it all home without the need to resort to some form of lorry.
I don’t think it’s a shop closing thing. The shops here, as far as I can tell, are not really closing, maybe for a couple of hours from the normal 24×7x52 that we get but no more, yet still I see people buying food as though they are entertaining the entire populous of a contraceptive challenged family.
Actually, given that this is CT…
I think they’re only actually closed for one day. Strangely most shops close on Easter Sunday but there isnt the same kind of panic. Still I think it’s sad that people dont have the ability to pull parsnips right out of the ground, and lamb out of the freezer-full they got from slaughtering in November. Though saying that, I dont want any more people out here in the country, so perhaps I should lobby to have shops open on Christmas day as well.
And just to be clear, while I acknoweldge that perhaps having armed militias protecting places of worship might prevent some annoying drunken japes, there are a number of places where it demonstrably causes other trouble.
Final point, since when did you start listening to religious news? I find that disturbing.
I was thinking more armed police than armed malitias given the problem with reliability with malitias (ok, it’s no better than the police in this country but at least there is some acountability with the police).
I listen to radio 2 in the morning and if I am running late I get to listen to the religious section on Sarah Kenedy’s show. I don’t actually mind hearing what people have to say on religion, I find the whole thing endlessly fascinating, it’s ramming it down my throat I don’t like.