As it has been since the third month ending in "ber".

Anyway, as usual, I'm not all excited. Not really even slightly pleased. It's amazing how excited kids get at Christmas.

I'd like to be, but I'm a miserable sod.

 

Anyway, one thing I do enjoy about christmas is how people act so stupidly - and spend money on tat. A lot of money. It's the only time of the year that people act quite so retarded, except possibly for comic relief or - something equally suspicious.

 

Anyway, today I saw something hilarious; see the picture at the end of this post. The jewellery store I passed in Telf... let's not reveal that... the store I passed, had something that caught my eye - a nativity set. But this was no ordinary nativity set, this was made of china. Or porcelin or something. And despite it being obviously the cheapest possible crap available, it was priced at an extortionate amount.

 

The Baby Jesus, which you can see in my picture? £85! And he's the size of a large toad, in a soap dish - or a small ashtray. And no, he's not gold or silver, he's just your bog basic china Jesus.

 

I mean yeah, if you look at his arms he's like "Yo! What's happ'nin'?!"... but if I want something that does that I'll just buy a subscription to sky, at least that way I can turn over if the sitcoms start to grate on me. (which they instantly would)

 

hehe, guess how much Balthazar was. Almost £400. And he was to the same scale, and not made any better. And he's not even a major character!

 

I also saw a van whose decals annoyed me. The signwriter was clearly illiterate - "sumo's" is not the plural of "sumo". It's "sumos" you frickin idiot. And on the back... oh don't get me started... took me 10 minutes to finish talking about all the mistakes on there.

 

I watched Home Alone 2 this afternoon, which is a wonderfully christmasy film, filled with hilarious amounts of excruiating (thank you Lorna) pain. I hope at least one channel shows: