Do Americans also have to suffer Christmas, Christmas decorations/lights, and non-stop piped Xmas songs in their shops and towns from mid November or earlier, right through to late January? 'Tis no wonder that most shop assistants in the UK appear brain dead from February onwards.
It’s a pain buying anything in a shop in at this time of year, but just imagine what it must be like to actually have to work in a non stop airborne soup of Slade and jingle bells.
Even at 12 days Xmas is far too long. Maybe it is also time for the Greenies to attack Christmas.
An example…and not an isolated example either:
In B&Q today I bought a 75 metre length of rope, to the background strains of “Mary’s Boy Child” playing over the tannoy system. B&Q normally sell rope by the metre, but this was a “reduced to £20.50 offer” for the whole reel. The shop assistant dutifully went through the on screen prompts: code, price, length etc, and as a result came up with a price of £1,537.50 for the old rope, and then asked me how I should like to pay. Only after I called for the manager would he accept that the on-screen price could possibly have been incorrect.
Has the power of simple thought and common sense been removed genetically from the population at large, or is the Xmas Carol responsible for reducing their brains to mush?
There was a “stressful working environment” lawsuit in the making last year from someone working next to a display of plastic xmas trees which would play “jingle bells” each time a customer walked past. I think they had a good case.
Yes JJugle, that’s Slade, they’ve just brought out a best hits albumn, there is no high street in Britain that does not have their most famous song playing in at least one shop at any one time over the xmas period (september 'til january).
There’s a ton of great music out there. A lot of it contains Christian references and a lot of it has profanity. There’s also a lot of crap out there and a lot of it contains Christian references and a lot of it has profanity. I try not to let any of it offend me. For the most part I’m not much of one for listening to lyrics anyway. I’m more of a chords and melody listener. Where I do get offended is when somebody tries to shove their values down my throat (preaching). When a piece of music does offend me I exercise my right to not listen to it. (BTW, I fall into the ‘Don’t believe in god’ catagory and feel that religious zeal is responsible for a lot of what’s wrong with the world).
You got my drift, buddy. I really have no objection to GOD in songs.
Many of the others don’t know I’m no Atheist–they haven’t been reading those threads. And it’'s always good to get people talking…
Thanks!!
MEHER BABA: “I have come to sow the seed of love in your hearts so that in spite of all superficial diversity which your life in illusion must experience and endure, the feeling of Oneness through love is brought about amongst all nations, creeds, sects and castes of the world.” – MEHER BABA
In Malvern at the weekend (November 26th) there was a group of carol singers in the town centre. I would have thought they of all people should know better…
Out of the 2500 gods I’ve heard about, I’ve never heard of a god called oops. What does this oops god represent? What culture did it originate in and where?
I am unable to remember what they LOOK like, and have never, ever, read a teen pop magazine. I have too much respect for my retinas. But yes indeed the guys in the picture are the culprits. They are dragged out of some Morecombe bus shelter at ten past September each year and forced to sing continually until February. And some idiots out there think we like it. Everyone I know hates non stop XMAS songs, I bet the people with their fingers on the shop CD player buttons also hate them. Time to register the concensus folks, and ban the damn things. An hour or so on Christmas Eve, on one of the lesser known SKY channels might just be acceptable, but apart from that NO XMAS SONGS PLEASE. And you know what you can do with your tinsel too.
It represents the uncertainty and joy with which I view life (and included is the concept of general clumsiness). It originated in the culture of unicyle.com’s Just Conversation.
You’re missing the point. The warning stickers are for “explicit lyrics.” They do not even address what sort of worldview or religion (or absence of) that a person may posses. You are advocating warning people against a person’s viewpoint, rather than the way in which they express it (as the PA warnings do). If you want warning stickers for every viewpoint, start printing up athiest, agnostic, hindu, daoist, jainist, sikh, Mahavirian, syncretic, Wiccan, Christian, secular humanist, etc. stickers. Bottom line, if a “Christian” artist decides to use explicit language, by all means warn the parents with a sticker. Don’t start a secular Inquisition, though. That’s not what the stickers are for.
P.S. Maestro8, explicit, of course, means explicit sexual content, explicit violence, and explicit “foul language.”
One entry found for explicit.
Main Entry: ex·plic·it
Pronunciation: ik-'spli-s&t
Function: adjective
Etymology: French or Medieval Latin; French explicite, from Medieval Latin explicitus, from Latin, past participle of explicare
1 a : fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent <explicit instructions> b : open in the depiction of nudity or sexuality <explicit books and films>
2 : fully developed or formulated <an explicit plan> <an explicit notion of our objective>
3 : unambiguous in expression <was very explicit on how we are to behave>
4 of a mathematical function : defined by an expression containing only independent variables – compare IMPLICIT 1c
ex·plic·it·ly adverb
ex·plic·it·ness noun
[From Merriam Webster’s online]
There it is. Definition 1b. I guess it doesn’t cover violent content, though.
On our playlist, Slade’s “Merry Xmas Everybody” is Cart Number XC01.
We also play the Dianna Krall version of Jingle Bells.
The Xmas music of Boney M is also disturbingly popular. NANDO’S, a fast-food chicken outlet known for their chicken as much as their edgyadvertising, ran a campaign two years ago promising to donate a portion of their Xmas takings to the ‘Ban BoneyM In Shopping Centers Campaign’.
That was a typo, Gilby. The god in question is Yoops, not oops. Yoops is the God of the Upper Peninsula. He represents family, humor, and van ownership.
