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Post by schmindie on Nov 21, 2007 14:55:36 GMT
Saw it this afternoon - if it wasn't all grey and rainy here and my central heating hadn't broken this morning I'd feel full of the joys of Christmas!
Anyone know a cheap boiler repair type company?
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Post by SweatShop on Nov 22, 2007 4:06:02 GMT
My mum said that they've changed the Morrisons advert with Lulu's sudden accent change at the end. Is this true?
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Post by Legend on Nov 23, 2007 14:56:52 GMT
I see that "The Spice Girls' comeback single looks set to be the lowest-selling Children In Need Record." (popbitch)
Shame.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2007 15:31:13 GMT
I see that "The Spice Girls' comeback single looks set to be the lowest-selling Children In Need Record." (popbitch) Shame. I'm sure that they'll console themselves with the many millions they'll make from a few months work.
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Post by malaika delicatula on Nov 25, 2007 20:33:33 GMT
Yes, that's what the world needs - more people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Having POTS AND POTS OF LOVELY CASH is the key to a happy and worthwhile life. Everyone knows that. Self-respect is over-rated.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2007 20:51:49 GMT
Yes, that's what the world needs - more people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Having POTS AND POTS OF LOVELY CASH is the key to a happy and worthwhile life. Everyone knows that. Self-respect is over-rated. Ahh but you're forgetting that happiness isn't exclusive to the poor, and that money opens up the possibilities and experiences that someone who is "poor" couldn't have.
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Post by malaika delicatula on Nov 25, 2007 22:34:37 GMT
You stay there with your nose pressed up against the window, matey. They're welcome to it all.
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Post by pauliepoos on Nov 25, 2007 22:44:04 GMT
It's official! Christmas is here.
My tasteless neighbour has filled the front of his house with horrible, ugly flashing things, so naturally the people opposite will try and make their own house even uglier. Each year thy compete to make their house the most grotesquely decorated as possible. The reindeer on the roof stay on all year round now, but only get switched on this time of year.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2007 1:03:31 GMT
It's official! Christmas is here. My tasteless neighbour has filled the front of his house with horrible, ugly flashing things, so naturally the people opposite will try and make their own house even uglier. Each year thy compete to make their house the most grotesquely decorated as possible. The reindeer on the roof stay on all year round now, but only get switched on this time of year. We have a neighbour like that, he used to take them all down in January but now, like yours, keeps them up but doesn't switch them on. Hopefully he wont be switching them on this year though as the primary school opposite did a petition, of the children, to say that they'd rather the world didn't end due to global warming and that it's all his fault. I'm paraphrasing obviously, but if it stops him from illuminating all of Manchester, then i'm all for it. Although in saying that, a few years ago he fell off his roof trying to fix a snowman, and even a spell in hospital didn't stop him. Although i'm hoping that fate will keep trying.
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Post by scallywagxx1 on Nov 27, 2007 13:00:34 GMT
There's a man not too far from me who keeps his lights up all year round but only switches them on at Christmas and he is semi-famous around Manchester for having the most over-the-top decorations ever seen. Its that extravagant that he has a box outside his house for donations to his electricity bill. Camdenpirate it may be the same man you were talking about (Droylsden Road?). Anyway its not Christmas for me until those babies are blazing!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2007 13:28:16 GMT
There's a man not too far from me who keeps his lights up all year round but only switches them on at Christmas and he is semi-famous around Manchester for having the most over-the-top decorations ever seen. Its that extravagant that he has a box outside his house for donations to his electricity bill. Camdenpirate it may be the same man you were talking about (Droylsden Road?). Anyway its not Christmas for me until those babies are blazing! It's not the same man as i'm talking about, but I do know the man that you're talking about! He has the little balcony thing with a snowman on! The one i'm talking about is famous for being a twat. Roman road, has a Union Jack on full height mast in his garden.
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Post by LoveMusic on Nov 27, 2007 14:44:27 GMT
I did see one house decorated. It feels way too early for me
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Post by LoveMusic on Nov 29, 2007 17:52:06 GMT
Itc clear why the rest of the spice girls like Victoria, she buys them an IPod whilst Emma looks at jumpers and Geri at bubblebath for her.
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Post by boxedjoy on Nov 29, 2007 19:37:56 GMT
She can afford to: I'm not convinced about the others.
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Post by pauliepoos on Nov 29, 2007 20:00:40 GMT
I've just unwrapped my Kylie Who advent candle from TK Maxx (£5.99 - bargain!) and it's there's a crack all the way through between the 18th and 19th, which makes me sad.
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Post by mackenzie on Nov 30, 2007 9:46:41 GMT
Has everyone seen the new Spicey Tesco ad?
I particularly like Victoria calorie-counting.
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Post by pauliepoos on Nov 30, 2007 9:56:12 GMT
"I prefer beef".
Don't we all, dear.
(Was I the only person who immediately thought "curtains" when she said that?)
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Post by Ugly Netty on Nov 30, 2007 18:46:16 GMT
I'm so excited! I've just bought 2 Lindt advent calendars in Asda for a fiver!
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Post by David on Dec 2, 2007 2:07:17 GMT
Saw this on telly for the first time tonight - it really is Christmas when they start rolling this Guinness ad out - does it air in the UK too? It almost makes me tear up My old house in Galway is in that ad - I'm glad it's still being shown, it's almost a Christmas tradition in Ireland now.
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Post by Cherubic on Dec 2, 2007 10:08:10 GMT
It's a bit bloody twee. Do you not get the firebreathing over the top £70 million Guiness extravaganzas over there?
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Post by jode* on Dec 2, 2007 10:45:27 GMT
Saw the scary Coca-cola CGI paedo-santa last night.
I thought they were dumping it in favour of Holidays are Coming? (Which I might add I have only seen twice so far, and for the amount of TV I watch that's a travesty)
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Post by FeelsLikeKellyCrabtree on Dec 2, 2007 13:28:16 GMT
There was a woman in Tescos earlier telling her two children that they'd have to wait another week before she got them an advent calendar because "they'll be at least a quid cheaper then".
It's nice to see the spirit of Christmas has reached the North.
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Post by Cherubic on Dec 2, 2007 13:58:15 GMT
The North is a land of sensible people not willing to pay over the odds for cheap chocolate and illustrated Disney characters. Hooray to that woman, her children will learn a valuable lesson.
When I was a child my Mum embroidered her own advent calendar and sewed quality street to it. I had to share the chocolate with my brother, but I always thought it more exciting removing green triangles with scissors than opening a little door and nibbling on Princess Jasmine's grainy molded face.
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Post by SweatShop on Dec 2, 2007 14:38:13 GMT
I've got an M&S food advent calendar. It came with an advent candle and has a organic milk chocolate piece behind every door.
SO much better than those shitty Kinnerton ones.
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Post by pauliepoos on Dec 2, 2007 16:28:05 GMT
I made cranberry sauce this afternoon. It's unbelievably easy and tastes better than shop bought sauce.
And on the subject of food, can I recommend Paxo's apricot and walnut stuffing as the best stuffing in the world. It really is good.
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