I am so sick to death of the same old xmas songs every year

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  • Serious Cat
    Serious Cat Posts: 489
    pinarello001 wrote:
    I would much prefer to celebrate the winter solstice and the beginning of the days getting longer.


    Im raising a toast to celebrate this along with you.
    This serious internet site..............I serious cat
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,364
    Serious Cat wrote:
    pinarello001 wrote:
    I would much prefer to celebrate the winter solstice and the beginning of the days getting longer.


    Im raising a toast to celebrate this along with you.

    We'll have to paint ourselves blue and drink homebrew elderberry wine, cider and mead though. We''ll just have to.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • mrfpb
    mrfpb Posts: 4,569
    I was in my local shopping centre t'other day, when amongst the usual Christmas numbers I heard "Ring Out, Solstice Bells" by Jethro Tull. That put a smile on my face for three minutes.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qcPS-J0HTg
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    You know Christmas is coming when this one comes up, usually about the beginning of October...

    http://youtu.be/EOe18JcatZo

    God I hate this song
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    Ooh love jethro Tull... Saw them once. Never come across this vid before
  • mrfpb
    mrfpb Posts: 4,569
    Mikey23 wrote:
    Ooh love jethro Tull... Saw them once. Never come across this vid before

    You might enjoy this then Mikey

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jethro-Christma ... +christmas

    Also available on Spotify
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    Ta, I have spotify premium so I will get that later...
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    I still like this one

    http://youtu.be/JPm6CheT6rs

    Anti commercialism not anti Christmas
  • Serious Cat
    Serious Cat Posts: 489
    Pick up a copy of the Jethro Tull album Aqualung while you are at it, that's a quality record.
    This serious internet site..............I serious cat
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    I have it... Aqualung is a classic
  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    pinarello001 wrote:
    Serious Cat wrote:
    pinarello001 wrote:
    I would much prefer to celebrate the winter solstice and the beginning of the days getting longer.


    Im raising a toast to celebrate this along with you.

    We'll have to paint ourselves blue and drink homebrew elderberry wine, cider and mead though. We''ll just have to.
    Wassail!
    Ecrasez l’infame
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    Which is exactly what we would be doing if them blooming Christians hadn't grabbed it. I heard that they wanted his actual birth date which was in March but it clashed with X factor and one of the Belgian classics. So the rest is history

    Doesn't everybody do that woad thing?
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    Mikey23 wrote:
    Which is exactly what we would be doing if them blooming Christians hadn't grabbed it. I heard that they wanted his actual birth date which was in March but it clashed with X factor and one of the Belgian classics. So the rest is history

    Doesn't everybody do that woad thing?
    September.
    You are mixing it up with Easter. That clashes with the classics.
    Booming Christians, always rely on them ruining a perfectly good party!
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    Aah, I knew there were some gaps in my theology :-)

    Reminds me of a wine and wisdom run by the Methodists recently which had squash instead of wine. It was not a lot of fun

    There's a thought. Perhaps we could celebrate the birth of JC with a wine and wisdom? I'm rambling now. Time for my mid morning medication
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,364
    .and whilst we are at Christian bashing, Easter is a pagan ritual, hijacked by Christians. Baskets, the lot of them.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,364
    Mikey23 wrote:

    Doesn't everybody do that woad thing?

    Does anyone actually grow the plant anymore?
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    Ah well, the general population is claiming them back...

    I get mine from woad r us

    We do a kind of naked pagan ritual with Methodist overtones at this time of year. Goes down rather well here...
  • AlexMac1973
    AlexMac1973 Posts: 406
    Back on topic (ish)

    Slade is one of those songs that you know it's that's time of year (even if it is only October), but if Wizard wishes it could be xmas every day there's a bloke who's never had to deal with the aftermath namely washing up.
    Scott S40 Speedster
    Dialled Stay Strong MX20R

    I no longer live in an ivory tower, these days it's vintage white :shock:
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    Aah that's for the missus
  • AlexMac1973
    AlexMac1973 Posts: 406
    Mikey23 wrote:
    Aah that's for the missus

    Not in my house it aint, I always end up having to do it again afterwards. She doesn't so much as clean the washing up, it's more like a light tickling :lol:
    Scott S40 Speedster
    Dialled Stay Strong MX20R

    I no longer live in an ivory tower, these days it's vintage white :shock:
  • seanoconn
    seanoconn Posts: 11,416
    AlexMac1973 wrote:
    Mikey23 wrote:
    Aah that's for the missus

    Not in my house it aint, I always end up having to do it again afterwards. She doesn't so much as clean the washing up, it's more like a light tickling :lol:
    When I'm dishing up dinner, I always give the most grubby plate to the Missus. Her fault for not washing up properly :lol:
    Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי
  • MichaelW
    MichaelW Posts: 2,164
    Christmas seems to be getting bigger, longer, louder and more commercial than ever.
    bah humbug <Gets coat, kicks little Timmy's crutch away as he leaves>
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,588
    daviesee wrote:
    Mikey23 wrote:
    Which is exactly what we would be doing if them blooming Christians hadn't grabbed it. I heard that they wanted his actual birth date which was in March but it clashed with X factor and one of the Belgian classics. So the rest is history

    Doesn't everybody do that woad thing?
    September.
    You are mixing it up with Easter. That clashes with the classics.
    Booming Christians, always rely on them ruining a perfectly good party!

    September? Is that because Mary and Joe had a few drinks the previous Christmas and forgot to take precautions?

    On the song front as well as The Pogues I can tolerate Merry Christmas, War Is Over and the spaceman one by Chris De Burgh but Kevin Bloody Wilson's Santa Claus You **** is lovely tune that really captures the festive spirit but for some reason never gets played in shops, pubs or radio for some reason :?

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