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Wed, 14 Nov 2007

Christmas decorations

[Originally posted on 25 Oct 2007]

I see that some shops are beginning to sprout Christmas decorations. The following businesses are therefore on my shit list for crimes against the calendar:

  • Next
  • Debenhams
  • Fortnum and Mason (added 7 Nov)
  • Oxford Street (added 12 Nov)
  • Japan Centre (added 14 Nov)
  • Hatchards (added 14 Nov)
  • Jermyn Street (added 14 Nov)
Posted at 22:39 by David Cantrell
keywords: bastards | rant
Permalink | 7 Comments

Though to be honest, I never had you down as a Debenhams customer anyway ...

Posted by Richard Fairhurst on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 at 10:13:21


GAH! You said the C word!

Have you not seen the memo?

Its now known as the 'The Holiday Season'

Posted by elliot Moore on Thu, 8 Nov 2007 at 22:25:46


you are never happy are you? :-)

when should the christmas decorations come out of storage? Early December possibly?

Posted by mary on Fri, 9 Nov 2007 at 00:02:36


I wasn't allowed to put the 'Holiday Season' decorations up until we broke up from school, so now I cry when it's the 1st of November and the TV ads are everywhere.

Posted by Ben on Fri, 9 Nov 2007 at 15:09:20


As an atheist I find the high jacking of the midwinter festival first by the religious mob and now marting droids most annoying...
It's not a special midwinter festival if it starts in late August and runs well into January...!
Decorations should only come out in December anything earlier is just hateful silliness!

Posted by Adam on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 at 16:03:42


is that really all you've seen so far? I haven't checked myself, but I would imagine that it's a much higher proportion. And why stop at physical shops, Amazon is looking a bit christmassy too.

Posted by se71 on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 at 08:35:37


I think, they just confused Halloween with Christmas. After all, OCT 31 = DEC 25

Posted by Daniel A. Nagy on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 at 02:14:14


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