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season of goodwill
The BBC reports what has to be one of the most repulsive stories around at the moment. Here's the start of it:
US stores lure hard-up shoppers
US stores have opened early and offered steep discounts to encourage consumers to part with their cash as the Christmas shopping season kicks off.
Crowds of shoppers turned up at dawn to snare the best deals.
A worker died and at least three people were injured after being trampled by a crowd of shoppers at a Wal-Mart in the New York suburbs.
Season of greed, more like -- pure, unadulterated, and now murderous. And people ask me why I loathe Christmas so much . . .
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"Same page."
But, have you noticed, whenever we voice this opinion there's huge peer pressure to the effect that we're spoilsports, sourpusses, Scrooges, you name it.
But consider another example. I love snow -- I love its falling, I love going out and romping in it, I love throwing snowballs. Gimme a sledge and you're a friend for life. By contrast, Pam really dislikes snow.
I say that's fair enough: we're all different. Yet would all the folks who think you and I are grinches for loathing Christmas say the same about Pam's dislike of snow?
No, obviously: and neither should they. I defend to the death, etc., her right to have that extraordinarily irriational dislike. Yet Christmas seems to exert on all of us this curious emotional blackmail whereby we're somehow reprehensible if we think the whole repulsive quagmire is just plain disgusting. (You have no idea of the self-censorship that went into that last sentence.)
On a related subject, you might be amused by this: http://www.nypost.com/seven/11262008/news/politics/let_santa_light_the_menorah_140965.htm.
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Don't know about the SLEDGE part, but I, too, love snow -- I love it like a young child loves Christmas. Glad to know you are a fellow adorer!
Poor Pam, she just doesn't get it, does she? haha
And I so agree about the greed being so repulsive. My God, someone DIED because of it. Horrifying.
sorry for rambling!
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You're right, though; everyone thinks I'm a Scrooge about it.
"(You have no idea of the self-censorship that went into that last sentence.)"
I can imagine.
Unsurprising about the White House gaff.
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"Unsurprising about the White House gaff."
Too right. He's the man who put the "ass" in asshole".