All you sheeple need to start your Xmas spending very soon, as Tesco today has put up its Xmas decorations, which should tell you all its now ok to max out your credit cards, buying crap that no one really wants, and which you cant afford!

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:04:07 -0800 (PST), Steerpike wrote:

All you sheeple need to start your Xmas spending very soon, as Tesco
today has put up its Xmas decorations,

Yoru Tesco was late, they've had Christmas stuff in the ones I go to for
over a month. If you look carefully there is Easter stuff as well!

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Cheers
Dave.

On Wednesday, November 14, 2012 9:43:04 AM UTC, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:04:07 -0800 (PST), Steerpike wrote:



All you sheeple need to start your Xmas spending very soon, as Tesco

today has put up its Xmas decorations,



Yoru Tesco was late, they've had Christmas stuff in the ones I go to for

over a month. If you look carefully there is Easter stuff as well!



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Cheers

Dave.

Did the one you go to have Xmas decorations up a month back though? If so please let me know where it is, as it might be fun to write to Tesco and complain about my local store being so tardy in getting the festivities under way............I will post their reply on here of course, which might be an amusing read..........

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:22:25 -0800 (PST), Steerpike wrote:

All you sheeple need to start your Xmas spending very soon, as Tesco
today has put up its Xmas decorations,

Yoru Tesco was late, they've had Christmas stuff in the ones I go to
for over a month. If you look carefully there is Easter stuff as well!

Did the one you go to have Xmas decorations up a month back though?

Wasn't fake trees, lights etc. I think it was crackers, wrapping paper,
chocolate santas that sort of thing. I tried not to pay much attention
being that I detest the commercialisation of Christmas.

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Dave.

"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:22:25 -0800 (PST), Steerpike wrote:

All you sheeple need to start your Xmas spending very soon, as Tesco
today has put up its Xmas decorations,

Yoru Tesco was late, they've had Christmas stuff in the ones I go to
for over a month. If you look carefully there is Easter stuff as well!

Did the one you go to have Xmas decorations up a month back though?

Wasn't fake trees, lights etc. I think it was crackers, wrapping paper,
chocolate santas that sort of thing. I tried not to pay much attention
being that I detest the commercialisation of Christmas.


I'm shopping for Christmas already, just orders 5 x 18m strings of lights
for the garden display :-)

Mike

On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:03:49 -0000, Muddymike wrote:

I'm shopping for Christmas already, just orders 5 x 18m strings of
lights for the garden display :-)

I took down the old LED lights that have been outside for the last 4
years or so and are now not very happy. Can't decide if spending a day
cutting open the heatshrink to find the bad connections and
remaking/shrinking them is worth the effort or just buy another set.

I think I might go for another set, hopefully of the same design type, so
I have spares. One LED top just crumbled to dust when I touched it so not
100% certain that it's just wiring faults or water into the actual LEDs
as well.

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Dave.

"Dave Liquorice" wrote in
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On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:03:49 -0000, Muddymike wrote:

I'm shopping for Christmas already, just orders 5 x 18m strings of
lights for the garden display :-)

I took down the old LED lights that have been outside for the last 4
years or so and are now not very happy. Can't decide if spending a day
cutting open the heatshrink to find the bad connections and
remaking/shrinking them is worth the effort or just buy another set.

I think I might go for another set, hopefully of the same design type,
so I have spares. One LED top just crumbled to dust when I touched it
so not 100% certain that it's just wiring faults or water into the
actual LEDs as well.


I detest the commercialisation of Christmas, you said within this topic. I
share the same view too, but keeping Christmas lights outside your house
for 4 years is a bit of a contradiction I think.;-)
Please don't take any offence, I am not knocking you, I think it is great
to keep traditions alive.

All the best
Baz

I detest the commercialisation of Christmas, you said within this topic. I
share the same view too, but keeping Christmas lights outside your house
for 4 years is a bit of a contradiction I think.;-)
Please don't take any offence, I am not knocking you, I think it is great
to keep traditions alive.

All the best
Baz


Well the Bible does say "And there shall come a great profit unto the land"

Martin wrote in
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On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:30:25 GMT, Baz wrote:

"Dave Liquorice" wrote in
hill.co.uk:

On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:03:49 -0000, Muddymike wrote:

I'm shopping for Christmas already, just orders 5 x 18m strings of
lights for the garden display :-)

I took down the old LED lights that have been outside for the last 4
years or so and are now not very happy. Can't decide if spending a
day cutting open the heatshrink to find the bad connections and
remaking/shrinking them is worth the effort or just buy another set.

I think I might go for another set, hopefully of the same design
type, so I have spares. One LED top just crumbled to dust when I
touched it so not 100% certain that it's just wiring faults or water
into the actual LEDs as well.


I detest the commercialisation of Christmas, you said within this
topic. I share the same view too, but keeping Christmas lights outside
your house for 4 years is a bit of a contradiction I think.;-)
Please don't take any offence, I am not knocking you, I think it is
great to keep traditions alive.

In the 1960s, did you ever see the house, on the other side of the
road to the Chequers in Knebsworth, that amongst other oddities had a
Santa permanently nailed to a chimney?

Was it nailed? or just screwed? Well you mentioned Chequers, that is what
comes to mind for some of us. A bad, bad place where decisions are made by
louts for future louts, over a skinfull of alcohol and then a pied-a-terre
shows up out of thin air. Very nice work, if you can get it.

Baz

On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:30:25 GMT, Baz wrote:

I detest the commercialisation of Christmas, you said within this
topic. I share the same view too, but keeping Christmas lights outside
your house for 4 years is a bit of a contradiction I think.;-)

Only on for the few weeks around Christmas... Being LED and "outdoor" I
didn't see the need to take them down, wrong.

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Dave.

In article , Baz
writes
I detest the commercialisation of Christmas, you said within this topic. I
share the same view too, but keeping Christmas lights outside your house
for 4 years is a bit of a contradiction I think.;-)
Please don't take any offence, I am not knocking you, I think it is great
to keep traditions alive.

How long standing does something have to be to be seen as a 'tradition'?

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regards andyw