Motu and the Ghost of Christmas Presents

[Ms Piggy]

Least it's warm for you guys, freezing here!!!

That's where you're wrong! Bloody freezing, raining & blowing a gale!

See: http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ight=complaint

[Eddieb]

In went Blind Melon, just for a mellow change.

An excellent choice of sounds., A shame Shannon Hoon disappeared.

I could do without Xmas as well, pressy shopiing is just too much stress.

[Ghost Lemur]

Hey, that's the only one I like (the rest just stink of dog shit).

Ditto, growing up going on holidays at Christmas it was the only tape everyone could agree too. I can still handle it more than any other (more for nostilgia than anything else).

With Motu's luck the boys will became Metrosexuals and really love the lipstick (as long as it has moisturiser and is the right colour). His girls probabaly already like the smell of oil and think it is aftershave.

[James Deuce]

An excellent choice of sounds., A shame Shannon Hoon disappeared.

Commited Suicide.

[El Dopa]

I'd respectfully suggest that anyone who thinks things are bad here should go over to the UK for Christmas. Take it from me, it's ten times worse. And it starts in September.

So go over there, have a 'stroll' down Oxford Street, preferably on Christmas Eve, just to really get the flavour of the season. Have a go at doing your shopping there, attempt to not fly into a homicidal rage with every single person you see by the end of the day, attempt not to get knocked over and trampled in the crushes in the shops. Go home, attempt to retain some sanity in the face of brain-wilting christmas TV programming and advertising (a real cathode-tube lobotomy).

There is nothing else to do in the UK this time of year except hibernate and watch shitty Christmas TV, apart from perhaps looking forward to a few days cooped up (cabin-fever style) with rellies you normally spend time trying to avoid.

The whole 'Christmas-is-coming-unless-you-spend-loads-of-money-it's-going-to-be-a-disappointment' experience is rammed down your throat every time you step outside your front door, literally from about September/October onwards. And because there is nothing to do except watch TV, it's rammed down your throat on the inside of your front door, too.

Believe me, it's a fuckin' breeze here. If I didn't have some time off to look forward to, i'd find it easy to ignore the fact it was happening altogether.

Over here, we've got daylight until 9:00 PM (dark by 4:00PM in the UK this time of year). Yeah, the weather's been (unseasonably) crap recently, but the sun just came out after all the shit thats been chucking down recently.

Oh, and my Christmas bonus will just about get my bike back on the road, and i've got a bit of time to actually do some riding. So all in all, my glass is at least half-full.

So please please please quit yer bitchin'. You've never had it so good

Seasons greetings to one and all.

[Skunk]

I don't hate Christmas - I hate the 'you must buy presents and sing carols' crap. This is a *religous* holiday not a merchandising period.

So I say "Fuck it"