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I for one am starting my Xmas shopping this week.
I'll get the choccies, and the kid's stuff.
This year we will have an 18 month old and a six week old baby. True, a bit young but still lovely. Not to eat, to mollycoddle.
One year i went to Thailand in March, did most of my Christmas shopping then! Different stuff, that would cost a fortune here.
Scrooges, the lot of youse!!
Oops, he asked for a twelve inch prick.
I can't blame the spell checker. I'm off to the 7/11 now. Gf has a hold on me.
Santa wont have his reindeers this year. He's switched to Uber taxis, who are cheaper and faster
Its always nice to be ahead on our Christmas shopping Pat.
I have been lazy in the last 2 years...... Instead of buying gifts, I usually host a party for my friends, neighbors and others...... planning on doing it again this year. Its always fun to just take it easy, enjoy the moment, eat + drink some, and sing-along in the videoke. Good times....
This year I'm psyching myself into actually eating the fish eyes in the ant /ant egg soup, that is if it's on offer. I figure you only live once, so what if it kills me. Anyone ever try it, it's supposed to be a delicacy. I guess your allowed to spit out the retina as its a bit tough.
I guess all I should be wishing for are safe travels for all. Someone has to do a travel picture thread. I have a bet with cold pizza that I'd beat him to it. Or did I win with the kayak jack bit. No, I think not as I never left the niebor hood. Still time to pull it off yet pizza. Any pic of Arizona would do as long as you took it. Ready, set, go!
Ebenezer I'm not nor is the gf, I can see at least one of our bags vanishing along the way. I expect the bag handler to rub us for a fee to get the gifts out of the airport. We shall see. This time I'll pay more attention to the gf the bags and her cash at that time. She coughed up fifty pretty quickly last time just to move us on. I think I'll try the gopro on the way through this time. Buggers may want to confiscate that then. Should be interesting either way. Will not be going with the flow this time. Wish us luck....
the fish
Enjoy Fish!
Hoi Taught I saw a puddy cat?Quote:
Originally Posted by GracelessFawn
Xmas in Thailand is pretty shit.
Even with the Xmas trees at shopping malls, there's no atmosphere whatsoever. It's on a Sunday this year, so may feel a little more festive without everyone going to work.
I know, I may have to settle for a snow cone. It sure is strange to me when the children wear sweat shirts and heavy jackets when it's 70°f.
I was in Mexico a while ago and saw the same thing. As Im out of the north so wearing shorts and a shirt and they have wool hats ect. I was taken aback in Pakse when they had a Christmas tree on the city sidewalk. Weird I thought but alas I guess commercialism rules the day with an anything for a buck attitude.
In a related story, Buddhist New Year is shit in Lancashire.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dillinger
not for Mathos, perhaps you lost in the latrine of life and are Tyke?Quote:
Originally Posted by UrbanMan
Most wish to be reincarnated in Liverpool to be reunited with their worldly possessions
Yeah... though I am bored of Xmas, and the kids don't seem that bothered either. I think they like the decorations and the spectacle, but they seem less bothered about the toys and the food or what's on telly... well I haven't had a normal telly for many years, and the kids seem happy with old computers, old lego, old books, and more interested in going out somewhere for some kind of family experience. Xmas has been relegated to no more than Halloween/Bonny Night, Easter, and new Year.
Fucin Darwin Airport have Christmas decorations up in the International departure lounge.
It's fucin October for christs sake - yes, an oxymoron if ever there was one. :)
^ they prolly sell turkeys there as well.. :)
It was weird to see sparkly hues of purples, pinks, blues, etc in the Christmas decors used in Thailand.
I had this weird belief that red, green, silver, white and a bit of yellow are the Christmas colors.
I hear Burl Ives singing silver and gold, silver and gold in the back of my mind for some reason as I read that.
Yes of course ,white as a fresh snowfall, red for your cold rosy cheeks. Silver as moonlight reflecting into the green pines off the ice on the lake at the shoreline.
I can see my breath as condensate dissipating in the cool crisp darkness as I gaze upon the stars melting into the aurora borealis and for a moment truely feel alive.
So this was a flashback of my childhood in January before I became......................the fish.