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What I HATE about Christmas is shopping in town for presents. There's LOADS of people, all in their own world, some of them with double pushchairs! ARGH!
It's not just the hideous crowds, it's the shops.
Christmas started in Newbury in late August! Before Halloween! it's stupid. Then there's the Christmas music from every shop. And the heat of the shops is unbearable.
It's freezing outside, so you layer on the clothes, you get in the shop and it's so hot you feel sick. Ugh.
Thank god for Amazon!!
Hoppers are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
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Hoppers are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
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Absoloutly manic!
All I wanted was a bloody pair of bloody jeans and a new coat!
Santas grotto angers me most. A que that goes for miles full of screaming little children running around their parents, taking half the space in the shopping center.
And then, to anger me even more, a group of 'organised' children placed at the back of the grotto, in front of a microphone literally screaming carols into it, which is being pumped around the center.
Aaaarrrrgh!
Somebody wake me up after christmas has been and gone please.
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some of them with double pushchairs! ARGH!
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You were in one of those once if i'm not mistaken... so 
let other children enjoy xmas shopping whilst their young and enjoying it... after all xmas is all about kids and having fun..This will be my first xmas as a dad.. i hate xmas time but im sure gonna make sure my son has a good one...
PK.
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In giving love there is an equal grace.
Nor need one seek the aura in the face,
As love unveils the beauty of all things."
*Francois Couperin.
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kids, it's their inconsiderate parents that annoy me! Two kids in a double pushchair, whilst their mum is staring at some gift, oblivious to all the other customers! Grrr!Hoppers are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
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sorry. i dont think im going to get over my horrible chirstmas this year.
will gladly swap for christmas shopping horrors!!!!
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
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Apart from that, the crowds of Christmas shoppers we were singing Christmas songs for today gave us hundreds of pounds for the blind school, so there's something nice about it, too
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we can both have non-christmas christmases in Asia 
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
actually my school is going to hold a sort-of Christmas party, they want me to spin poi for them. And I'm doing lessons on Xmas next week! Going to miss hugging friends and family the most I reckon! Where are you at in Asia？Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant
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I take it you're teaching english?
And I just did a performance at a christmas-type party this afternoon!
My mother sent me a little paper chrissy tree and some tinsel so i could put them up in my room here and feel "more at home" *melts cos my mother thinks of EVERYTHING*
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
nice one on the decorations: the other teacher here shared some decorations she got sent with me, so I need to put them up in my flat..
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Yeah, it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey here. snow on the mountains already and snow on the flat due any time now.
Today's forecast was -2 to 7! And back home right now they're sweltering in 40deg and fighting some of the worst bushfires in history!
what a contrast!i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
Considering purchasing a thing that you plug into the wall and put your feet into to keep them warm: like static electrified warm slippers!
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for Rougie and Guy! this thread is ranting about trying to Christmas shop in town, not the dilemmas of living in Asia! Hoppers are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
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Maybe initiating an "alternative Christmas" some time in September would be a good idea.
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If i was organised, I'd sort Chrimbo shopping out in advance.
But I'm not organised, and I don't like crowds, so I'm going to moan about it
Hoppers are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
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*jealousy* I'll trade, I'll trade, pick me!!!!
On the subject of mall Santas:
I wish I had a picture of the Santa in Cumberland Mall that was nestled between JCPenny's frilly and "gift" underwear section and a Frederick's of Hollywood.
On the subject of Chrimmas shopping:
Nothing gets me worse than what happened yesterday. See, I'll put up with the crowds, the obnoxious children running around begging for practically everything on the shelves, parents bickering- but what I absolutely can't stand happened again yesterday. Todlers and babies crying and shrieking their little heads off until they're blue in the face, but the parents keep on dragging them through the shops.
*sigh* I just wanted to turn and shout at them to take their child home and let them have the nap they seem to so desperately need.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
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I don't like crowds either, but I'm better now than I used to be. I know the signs of "right, I need to get out of this shopping centre in the next 10 minutes or I'll feel the urge to either run away or scream or hit somebody"
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I'm a jolly kinda girl and I love Chrimbo, getting pressies, wrapping them up nicely. I like baking mince pies and making loads of nice Christmassy food
What I HATE about Christmas is shopping in town for presents. There's LOADS of people, all in their own world, some of them with double pushchairs! ARGH!
It's not just the hideous crowds, it's the shops.
Christmas started in Newbury in late August! Before Halloween! it's stupid. Then there's the Christmas music from every shop. And the heat of the shops is unbearable.
It's freezing outside, so you layer on the clothes, you get in the shop and it's so hot you feel sick. Ugh.
welcome to my world jo i absolutley do not like crimbo shopping!
i do not enjoy my shins acting as bumpers for silly women with prams, nor do i enjoy the morons that walk infront of me then come to a dead stop simply to oggle stuff in a shop. i do notlike the spoilt childeren these paretnts insist on dragging around with them.
just call me the GRINCH
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What gets me is that everyone knows Christmas will be coming up somewhat regularly, but leaves the shopping until the last 4 weekends, and then wonders about the crowds
*sigh*
I haven`t started christmas shopping yet...
got to get it ALL done next weekend... --pogo (pat) [forever and always]
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