Sorry
for rambling on about a load of old nonsense yesterday. I have no idea why that
fellow bothered me so much, nor why I spent the rest of the day simmering my
hatred for him in an internalised cauldron of resentment, nor why I felt the
need to poison your eyes with my bitterness. I can only put it down to tiredness,
irritability and middle-aged, soon-to-be-a-parent grumpiness.
Today
I’ve been much calmer, humbler and more forgiving, and I hope that will be
reflected in this blog posting.
The
supermarket is now full of Christmas. Credit to them for waiting until after
Bonfire Night, but my God they’ve made up for lost time, and then some. We have
a Christmas tree the size of Belgium in the foyer, a mountain of chocolate
fingers near the entrance and three aisles packed full of FESTIVE SPECIALS.
(mostly things they have in the shop all the time, just re-packaged to
incorporate snowflakes and costing double the price.) The tills all look like
they’ve been blocked in behind walls of £2 advent calendars and there’s so much
tinsel around it’s like Santa himself has vomited over the shelves.
Not
sure why I think Santa’s vomit would be tinselly, but there you go….
We
have less than 7 weeks until Christmas and the BUY STUFF NOW onslaught has
begun. Have you noticed that approximately 70% of all adverts in TV breaks are
already acting like it’s December 23rd? Bastards. No wonder ‘The Magic’ is fading. No
wonder kids get loopy and leery. Can we really expect them to behave and not
have breakdowns when they’re forced to think about something exciting that is
still a good two months away?
I’m
boycotting Channel 4 until the end of the year, by the way. I was already of
the opinion that, The Simpsons aside, everything on that poxy channel is a bottom-of-the-barrel,
lowest-denominator, unchallenging, bringing-back-the-concept-of-the-Victorian-freak-show
shitemare, but the straw that broke the Chesworth back was this:
Since
November 1st each of their programmes has been preceded by an advert that
states “Festive entertainment, brought to you by (insert current sponsor name here)”
FESTIVE ENTERTAINMENT…. On
November 1st!!!!!!!
It
makes me want to walk naked to their offices and annihilate them all with a
chainsaw, but legally I can’t do that, so instead I’m refusing to watch their
on-screen outpourings of effluence.
See –
that was a much less moany blog post than yesterday!!!!!
RC 8-11-18
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