Today must be the day for it, as I saw a friend post on Facebook earlier in outrage at seeing a Christmas tree.
FFS!
I saw my first one last Sunday...was still October then!
we have a pub locally to us and its had its outside wall xmas decorations up for 4 years now ... only lit up december till new year but still they are there all year round
1st , 2 houses locally,bloody numpties
there is a house down the road from me and it still has last years xmas tree waiting to be collected. I was thinking of decorating it.
On the way home from fireworks last night ... it can't be i said to myself ... it was!
One house all lit up and ready for Xmas and we hadn't even finished "celebrating" the death of Guy Fawkes !
It should be made illegal until at least the advent calenders kick in
Suede (Scrooge)
I could think of a more sobering scenario...for instance, assuming christmas to be very important in your household...you may wish to bring it forward for a loved one who wasn't expected to last much longer. In which case they have our blessings.
The local off licence has the flashing rope light's all around the building.
I haven't come across any houses that have them up yet, but i do know that 1 street not far away from us will have them up very soon, you know the sort ........ cant see the house for xmas decorations.
And it's a case of who can have the most :silly:
I put ours up around the 1st/2nd week in December.
New years day they come down!
Now we don't want anyone to think that we are in any way Anti-Christmas - we're not - we love Christmas - it's fabulous,
BUT
Any form of decoration in public places should be banned before 1st Dec (and we would include the inside of any shop or other premises that encourages the public to enter) and offenders would be forced to wear a full set of reindeer antlers attached by piercings to their genitals or nipples (which ever is most sensitive)
No one should be putting up Christmas decorations at home till 18th December or the last day of school (whichever comes latest), on pain of having there sprouts inserted rectally (6 per day for the whole 12 days of Christmas).
The purchasing of wrapping paper and Christmas cards would be illegal before mid-november and anyone found with a "stash" would have all the items burnt around the stake to which they should be tied.
These measures are in no way suggested to diminish the joy of Christmas, or even to limit it in any way whatsoever - they are put forward to encourage us to remember that Christmas does not start till 24th December, and that the entire Christmas/New Year period does not last 3 months but 8 days - which is surely a long enough period to celebrate anything on an annual basis
We spotted our first sighting of christmas lights at a private property two weeks ago. The house is always the first to have any up, but they don't look good so not sure why they bother unless its for some young children.
