Banter TRTT Part 13: 2021 Goodbye (To 2022)

[JimmyBC]

Just tell the kids the Santa at the magic cave isn't the real one.

 

[bomberclifford]

 

[chiwigi]

I am an enemy of capitalism except for today when I scored a Dickies padded flannel for a cool 44 oz dollars on Amazon

Wait, capitalism is Ok because you paid more than 20 times the cost of a product to Amazon?

They’ve got to you maaaan!

 

[Grave Danger]

For some reason my <thing that blocks ads> has started blocking tweets that people post here. I blame Musk/Trump.

 

[Festerz]

lol the magic cave now costs money to visit, for the first time in its history. Starts at $25 bucks. This will be popular.

Commercialisation comes to Christmas. WTF??

Just tell the kids the Santa at the magic cave isn't the real one.

This.

And that the fat guy with the ill fitting santa suit and alcoholic breath who looks a lot like Uncle Colin, who you saw at the family Xmas get together really IS the real one.

 

[Del165198]

Surprising facts: London is further north than pretty much every major Canadian city.

 

[Festerz]

Surprising facts: London is further north than pretty much every major Canadian city.

It is surprising.

I reckon most people, including me, equate latitude with weather and having visited London and several cities in Canada and northern US Toronto in my younger years I would definitely have thought that London was further south just because London does not have the snow and other frequent cold weather extremes as cities like New York, Colorado, Toronto etc.

The one time I visited Scotland in winter (Christmas visit to my partner's family) there was not a drop of snow anywhere! A more recent visit to Denver at Christmas found the city snow bound. Edinburgh 56° N/Denver 40° N.

But as I found out relatively recently the answer lies in the Gulf Stream – an oceanic current that moves warmer water north and east from the Gulf of Mexico up towards the UK and the rest of northwest Europe.

Without it Britain's climate would be considerably cooler, and it's this that often gives people a false sense of just how northerly (or not) Britain is situated compared to the rest of the world.

 

[Lawnchair Larry]

Commercialisation comes to Christmas. WTF??


This.

And that the fat guy with the ill fitting santa suit and alcoholic breath who looks a lot like Uncle Colin, who you saw at the family Xmas get together really IS the real one.

Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa is my favourite Santa.
Especially when a kid sneezes chocolate into his beard.
And when he back scuttles some woman in a change room booth.
I wish this upon our $25 Santa.

 

[Festerz]

Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa is my favourite Santa.
Especially when a kid sneezes chocolate into his beard.
And when he back scuttles some woman in a change room booth.
I wish this upon our $25 Santa.

Sad thing is the $25 Father Christmas will still get award wages just like he did in previous years. Not sure where the $25 goes - but it ain't to the fat guy (or at least not the fat guy in the red suit).

And tbh - having your kid sitting on a stranger's lap dressed in a disguise is kinda weird these days isn't it?

The Santa Claus thing was really a fantasy of the parents not the kids. No one believed that BS did they?

I look at pics of me and my sister sitting on Santa's lap at the Magic cave when I was a kid and I don't see much joy there- we did it because our parents wanted the photo and we got some cheap arse Christmas stocking as a reward- filled with tooth destroying sugar filled lollies that tasted like crap that I'm now paying big $$$ to my dentist to remove. No tooth fairy to help me out with that bill btw!

Yeah. Happy Feckin Christmas Everyone.

 

[JimmyBC]

Yea I'd say Santa is close to getting cancelled just from the modern fear of everything.

 

[Del165198]

He'll always be father Christmas to me

 

[chiwigi]

Yea I'd say Santa is close to getting cancelled just from the modern fear of everything.

Or the post modern realisation that it’s ****ing shit and there’s better things to do.

 

[Festerz]

Yea I'd say Santa is close to getting cancelled just from the modern fear of everything.

Yea - that would be why.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Official clique position on Santa is below:

 

[Festerz]

 

[edgie]

DARKNESS
IMPRISONING ME
ALL THAT I SEE
ABSOLUTE HORROR
Living in a land down under

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[Dylan8]

Wait, capitalism is Ok because you paid more than 20 times the cost of a product to Amazon?

They’ve got to you maaaan!

I'm a total rube! Thank you Mr Bezos for your premium brands at low low prices!

 

[davesnothere]

 

[Kingfish73]

 

[JimmyBC]

Or the post modern realisation that it’s ******* s**t and there’s better things to do.

You don't have to celebrate Christmas no one is forcing you.

I just don't see a huge problem with kids having something silly & fun like Father Christmas to believe in for 5 minutes before they become grumpy jaded adults like Fez & think every jolly old geezer is a sex pest.

 

[Visenfest]

Just let kids have fun. Life will never be as fun as the time when you had f**k all responsibilities to worry about.

 

[chiwigi]

You don't have to celebrate Christmas no one is forcing you.

I just don't see a huge problem with kids having something silly & fun like Father Christmas to believe in for 5 minutes before they become grumpy jaded adults like Fez & think every jolly old geezer is a sex pest.

Wasn’t talking about Xmas snowflake. I ****ing love it.

Just the mall Santa’s. Which are really, really shit if one thinks about them for even a second.

 

[JimmyBC]

Snowflake lol righto

 

[Dylan8]

So good not going on Murdoch news sites, living in real life and realising that none of the things they say that have been banned or cancelled have been banned or cancelled

 

[Capital Power]

When I was a kid Christmas lasted a week and was a magic time looked forward to by all. Now the Christmas aisles in the shops open in August and store Santas appear in early November, making the whole thing a stressful, painfully drawn-out chore.

Bah Humbug.