Jingle on this...

(Originally posted Wednesday 26th November 2008)

Well, they managed it again this year. We're still more than a month away from xmas and the advertising industry has already managed to make me tired and irritated by the mention of the holiday. All I want for xmas is either to sleep through until it's all over or somehow escape from the incessant ads urging me to rush out on some crazed shopping trip like all the other poor bastards trying to get a bargain before the shops close.

In the UK one could miss the point of the season of goodwill entirely and instead think it was something vaguelly to do with buying a Nintendo Wii, watching awful comedy specials on ITV and listening to the Queen demonstrate her total lack of connection with the real world with her annual speech. All that considered, one can really start to see the sense of the heavy drinking that goes on around this time of year.

No doubt we'll also be treated to another round of silly stories in the media intended to foster the delusion that secular institutions are trying to remove the "religious message" from the holiday.

Amazing how many people who couldn't give a toss about faith and wouldn't know the inside of a church from the inside of a strip-club crawl out of the woodwork and moan about the fact that their kid's school has decided to put on something other than the nativety this xmas.

Arseholes.

"You can't spell Christmas without 'Christ'!" they blather.

Well, all I can say to that is thank Dawkins for the word "xmas" and the fact that people on these islands were happy to call it "Yule" long before the lunacy of the Christian religion infected our minds!