Into the festive season...
Greetings one and all.
After disappearing for a few weeks (and consuming plenty of Pimms) Jiblets and I have returned to provide you all with some 'Post Christmas' entertainment.
Which brings me on to rant and rave point number one (it's been a while, much venting of spleen may occur): WHY IS THERE NO LONGER A GAP BETWEEN CHRISTMAS SALES AND POST CHRISTMAS SALES??? I mean, we all know hoe commercial our great religious festival has become at the hands of (apologies here) stupid people but do we really need that, "Oh the gift giving frenzy is over... so the shops have all dropped their prices... so we CAN KEEP SHOPPING!!!" Uh huh?
And while on the subject of CHRISTmas, I know literacy rates are falling in our population (JW, please feel free to correct me on this) but do we have to pretend - perhaps to avoid OFFENDING people - that we cannot remember whose birthdfay we are celebrating??? Oh, we just celebrate the birth of X. SO we shall forever call it XMAS now. Hmmm... fine.
Impatience is what it all comes down to (perhaps) like asking someone to wait five minutes when you are performing micro-surgery on a very large database. That went down like a glass of warm vinegar! I guess I should breath a sigh of relief though: at least no one will try to nail me to a tree for suggesting it would be a good idea to be nice to people for a change. Something has changed in the last 2000 years atleast, beyond the advent of digital watches...
On the off chance that there are some fans of HHGTTG out there, the references were quite deliberate. But don't be worried about my current state of aggression... I am afterall...
MOSTLY HARMLESS.
Stay tuned for the Jiblets holiday scrap-book - including the famous DIRTY ANGEL...
posted by Beleobus @ 2:59 PM
1 Comments:
It is interesting that the religeous fraternity actually acknowledge the use of X. If my failing memory serves me to some extent, it has something to do with the letter X in Greek meaning the same as Christ. Not certain, but I know my own strong objections to the abbreviation were molified by a discussion with one of my priestly friends. Similar to the fishy symbol Icthios, and I know that has been stuffed up mercilessly, (where the hell is the spell check on this?) But I do have to agree, why on earth would anyone not buy on sale, as they happen all the time. And do they have sales in Sale down in Gipsland, or is it something else? Ah, I'm beginning to see the effects of holiday lassitude, definitely having a worse effect on the brain than the grape.
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