Christmas

[cani]

MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR.
I would like to wish all members the seasons greetings and a happy New Year. Let’s hope that it is better than the previous few years have been.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR. From Cani.

[stu675]

Cani:
MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR.
I would like to wish all members the seasons greetings and a happy New Year. Let’s hope that it is better than the previous few years have been.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR. From Cani.

Thank you! And Merry Christmas to you and yours. [emoji319]

[kempston]

Yes I echo the above, have a good one everybody.

[lawrence_dunbar]

Yes hopefully it will be a merry xmas and a happy new year, All the very best to everyone on TNUK, ,Cheers Old Larry.

[ew_car_truck_amp_bus]

Yes let us all have a far better Christmas than last few, best wishes to all on here for a very happy Christmas and a happy and healthy 2023.

Me, i am going to find it interesting / strange as my 1st Xmas retired at 62 yrs of age following 46 yrs in the retail motor industry

Been retired coming up 6 months end of month, so just finding my feet for all this me time!

Merry Christmas one and all.

E.W.

[buzzer]

Well Ime against the norm here, waste of money a lot do not have and borrow to make a show. It goes on for 3 weeks nowadays unless your a builder then its 4 weeks. Everybody is moaning about the cost of living at the moment but they have to spend big just for the big day, I for one am a Bah Humbug and I know there are others on here who feel the same, how much food do you want to stuff down your gullet when if you look at sensibly its just another day in the calendar and normal rations will do, I will retire now with me tin hat on and await the flack, think we best get under the stairs Buzzer

[mushroomman]

I know what you mean Buzzer, Christmases just don’t feel the same as they did 70 years ago.
And where is the Bah Humbug thread when you need it.

[5thwheel]

All the best for Christmas and a prosperous New Year to all those TNUK members and their families,it is also a time to look back and remember those less fortunate than we are,and of course those that didn’t make Christmas 2022.

David

[erf-ngc-european]

Wishing you all a sweet and peaceful Christmas period.

[Artwork by Mike Jeffries]

[les_sylphides]

Here’s to a pERFect Xmas!

Les

[remy]

Merry Christmas to you too.

[dennis_javelin]

ERF-NGC-European:
Wishing you all a sweet and peaceful Christmas period.

[Artwork by Mike Jeffries]

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That truck looks like it’s about to burst into tears.

[zac_a]

Buzzer:
Well Ime against the norm here, waste of money a lot do not have and borrow to make a show. It goes on for 3 weeks nowadays unless your a builder then its 4 weeks. Everybody is moaning about the cost of living at the moment but they have to spend big just for the big day, I for one am a Bah Humbug and I know there are others on here who feel the same, how much food do you want to stuff down your gullet when if you look at sensibly its just another day in the calendar and normal rations will do, I will retire now with me tin hat on and await the flack, think we best get under the stairs Buzzer

Yes and no: I agree it does go on too long, or rather it starts too early!. The day after Halloween, some of my neighbours had the Xmas decs up The media hype the life out of it, and the retail industry bombard the masses with heavy-handed advertising, making the gullible feel compelled to spend what they don’t have, as you have indicated.

I used to be very “Bah! Humbug” because I spent several years working in retail management in my youth, the unabashed commercialism eliminated any notion of the alleged true spirit of Xmas. For years afterwards Xmas was pretty much a non-event. Working 4 on 4 off in the waste and recycling industry was no fun either, working on Boxing Day dealing with the public’s misuse of recycling facilities as a bog-standard rubbish dump - disgusting.

It wasn’t until my kids were old enough to enjoy Xmas (and when I moved out of recycling!) that I could see Xmas as special in any way.

[fodenway]

I echo Buzzer. A few years ago I worked in “logistics” - or storage and distribution for those of more senior years. From early August we would have between 7 and 10 forty foot containers a day coming in from China, full of Christmas cards, wrapping paper, gift tags, trimmings and rubbish novelties which eventually filled three of our four large warehouses to bursting point - fill all the racks, then double- and triple-stack the pallets down the aisles. In mid-October they would start going out to various supermarkets and chain retailers, until by early December virtually all that was left was the damaged stock. The sight of all that stuff, thousands upon thousands of cubic yards of it, and most destined for landfill or recycling by the time the New Year came around, was truly sickening. I’m no Christian, but this amount of commercialism in the name of a Christian occasion makes me sick. Bah Humbug.

[erf-ngc-european]

Dennis Javelin:

ERF-NGC-European:
Wishing you all a sweet and peaceful Christmas period.

[Artwork by Mike Jeffries]

That truck looks like it’s about to burst into tears.

I used to think the same about BMMO buses

[buzzer]

fodenway:
I echo Buzzer. A few years ago I worked in “logistics” - or storage and distribution for those of more senior years. From early August we would have between 7 and 10 forty foot containers a day coming in from China, full of Christmas cards, wrapping paper, gift tags, trimmings and rubbish novelties which eventually filled three of our four large warehouses to bursting point - fill all the racks, then double- and triple-stack the pallets down the aisles. In mid-October they would start going out to various supermarkets and chain retailers, until by early December virtually all that was left was the damaged stock. The sight of all that stuff, thousands upon thousands of cubic yards of it, and most destined for landfill or recycling by the time the New Year came around, was truly sickening. I’m no Christian, but this amount of commercialism in the name of a Christian occasion makes me sick. Bah Humbug.

BUT THERE IS NO MONEY ABOUT MY ■■■, I KNOW I’ME LIVING IN THE AFFLUENT SOUTH BUT CAN ASSURE ONE AND ALL THAT IS NOT THE CASE DOWN HERE, EVERY WHERE YOU GO ITS HEAVING AT THE MOMENT EVERY ONE SCRAMBLING IN CASE THEY MISS OUT. THERE IS NOUGHT ABOUT CHRISTIANITY INVOLVED NOT THAT I AM THAT WAY INCLINED JUST A FULL ON COMMERCIAL ONSLAUGHT & ALL OVER IN A DAY, GONE ARE THE DAYS OF A STOCKING HANGING AT THE FOOT OF YOUR BED TO AWAKE CHRISTMAS DAY MORNING TO DISCOVER AN ORANGE AND MAYBE A SUGAR MOUSE WITHIN IF YOU HAD BEEN A GOOD BOY, Buzzer

[jmc_jnr]

Despite the doom and gloom - Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all. Jim.

[star_down_under]

Buzzer:

fodenway:
I echo Buzzer. A few years ago I worked in “logistics” - or storage and distribution for those of more senior years. From early August we would have between 7 and 10 forty foot containers a day coming in from China, full of Christmas cards, wrapping paper, gift tags, trimmings and rubbish novelties which eventually filled three of our four large warehouses to bursting point - fill all the racks, then double- and triple-stack the pallets down the aisles. In mid-October they would start going out to various supermarkets and chain retailers, until by early December virtually all that was left was the damaged stock. The sight of all that stuff, thousands upon thousands of cubic yards of it, and most destined for landfill or recycling by the time the New Year came around, was truly sickening. I’m no Christian, but this amount of commercialism in the name of a Christian occasion makes me sick. Bah Humbug.

BUT THERE IS NO MONEY ABOUT MY ■■■, I KNOW I’ME LIVING IN THE AFFLUENT SOUTH BUT CAN ASSURE ONE AND ALL THAT IS NOT THE CASE DOWN HERE, EVERY WHERE YOU GO ITS HEAVING AT THE MOMENT EVERY ONE SCRAMBLING IN CASE THEY MISS OUT. THERE IS NOUGHT ABOUT CHRISTIANITY INVOLVED NOT THAT I AM THAT WAY INCLINED JUST A FULL ON COMMERCIAL ONSLAUGHT & ALL OVER IN A DAY, GONE ARE THE DAYS OF A STOCKING HANGING AT THE FOOT OF YOUR BED TO AWAKE CHRISTMAS DAY MORNING TO DISCOVER AN ORANGE AND MAYBE A SUGAR MOUSE WITHIN IF YOU HAD BEEN A GOOD BOY, Buzzer

Buzzer, were you ever good enough to receive said orange and sugar mouse?

[zac_a]

fodenway:
IThe sight of all that stuff, thousands upon thousands of cubic yards of it, and most destined for landfill or recycling

Landfill only, all that glittery shiny rubbish is not recyclable, despite it getting dumped at recycling facilities year after year

[zac_a]

Sugar mouse? We got oranges (more accurately clementines) with nuts & raisins.
As long as we got something under the tree for our Action Man we counted it as a good Xmas