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[–] 38 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Xmas music is manipulative. I don't like to be manipulated into hyper capitalism and religious bigotry.

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    Genuinely Christmas would be so good if we had a rule that presents were abolished the minute you became an adult. I love Christmas but I genuinely hate the wanky consumerism associated with it, and the stress of Christmas shopping. It's just a bunch of manipulative bullshit to get your wallet out for Bezos.

    Let's just get drunk and stuff ourselves with turkey, bollocks to consumerism.

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  • [–] 72 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    Also:

    • Pop Country
    • Drake
    • Taylor swift
    • Love island
    • Housewives of *some bullshit
    • Any advertisement
    • “I asked Chat GPT”

    The list goes on.

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  • [–] 58 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Hmm... Do you think adding tiddies to a Charlie Kirk statue might be taking things a bit too far?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

    What is the name of this piece?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    See, I tried that and now I pee blood, but still have no statue.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I like to listen to Christmas music in season. I don't start until after Thanksgiving is over, and I end on midnight of Christmas day.

    I listen pretty much all day everywhere. At home, at work, in the car.

    People have complained.

    I explain that I spend all year wanting to murder everyone around me, and listening to Christmas music reminds me of a time when I didn't believe everyone deserved to be murdered. It's an annual mood reset that takes me back to a child-like baseline of kumbaya bullshit where everyone can be kind and love each other.

    It doesn't always work. There have been years when the ignorance and cruelty interfere with the reset and I stop the music and embrace the hate.

    Those are not good years.

    Listening to a month of Christmas music seems a small price to pay.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    I don’t start until after Thanksgiving is over, and I end on midnight of Christmas day.

    Christmas music listening does not start until the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. That's always my first Christmas gig. It ends the 26th.

    I've had years where we spent August-November preparing 50ish Christmas gigs. As long as it stays in rehearsal (and at-home practice) i can stand it. If it breaks containment, may crab god have mercy on whoever did it.

    I still can't listen to Jingle Bell Rock because this one dingleberry decided to prank me with it for a year.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    Oh dear God I did not read this it's not happening no no no NO NO NO

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I some times give a pass to Trans Siberian orchestra. But only the not uber christmas songs

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    Why I keep a pair of headphones in my satchel whenever I go out malling.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    I want this fountain

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Was shopping for glue, 2 weeks ago. So, firmly September. Already isles of xmas tat. FFS. Let us just have one commercial, face stuffing, and totes unconnected to ANY actual holiday rubbed into our noses at a time. I'm tired of being treated like a bad puppy for not over consuming. I really enjoy holy days. I'm not even just celebrating my own holy days. I just really enjoy celebrations and how they bring ppl together. But having it SHOVED in my ears, eyes, and pocketbook is obscene. The AI neutered slop playing in stores is so objectionable I only go when forced to. Also, a reminder that if you find something on Cramazon, it's most likely on a legit stores site for a better price. Spend less, encourage legit vending!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    This is me entering a mall in the Philippines from September 1st onwards

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    When he is off to work but I am probably sitting there blood on my tiddies.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Can you do this fountain but with marshmallow fluff infused chocolate sauce?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago*

    You will never get me to not recommend Sufjan Stevens' "Songs for Christmas"

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    So that's how the blood ritual they use looks. I always wondered how they brought back Mariah Carey ever year.

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  • I'm a school bus driver and a couple of years ago the director of transportation banned Christmas decorations on the buses. This of course caused an enormous shitstorm, and the director defended herself by saying that some parents had complained about Christianity being pushed on their kids by the buses. This sounded like an utterly ludicrous claim, but it turned out that the culprit was me, because I had tried to get the kids on my bus to sing "Little Drummer Boy". Ironically, I'm an atheist but I just like that fucking song.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Yeah, but... the Temptations Christmas album is literally elite

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Bantha is coming to town boys.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    James Brown "Funky Christmas". The only x-mas music for me.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Might take a bit more than some jaunty yule tunes to shift that statue's mood from choleric to sanguine

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    They usually don't play Christmas music in the stores until after halloween

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