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chocolate advent calendars epitomize everything that is wrong with the world today

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emkana · 03/12/2008 20:37

bit OTT non?

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devoutsceptic · 03/12/2008 21:06

Ach, Christmas IS a tat-fest, light-fest, pagan sod-the-dark fest. Now THAT is tradition.

amerryscot · 03/12/2008 21:07

How comforting that you see salvation in a piece of cheap chocolate.

Does the EU even allow you to call it chocolate?

Hulababy · 03/12/2008 21:08

You can have chocolate at ANY time! at suggestion that chocolate is not suitable for mornings What about Christmas morning - I though selection box chocolate was the ONLY breakfast permittable, surely?!

motherinferior · 03/12/2008 21:08

oh for heavens' sake, yes, I do mind about the conditions in which my consumer goods were produced. I have consumer options about some of those goods. I exercise those options. It's called conscience. And politics. Actually I thought that people who felt strongly about Christ/ianity felt quite strongly about that sort of thing too.

themildmanneredjanitor · 03/12/2008 21:09

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IwishIwasamermaid · 03/12/2008 21:09

My DCs have picture advent calendars and the picture DS got behind his door this morning was of a man smoking a pipe, surprisingly.

Mutt · 03/12/2008 21:09

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devoutsceptic · 03/12/2008 21:09

laughing at the idea that there is such a thing as 'salvation' especially if can be bought, presumably, by expensive chocolate.
Nobody ever eaten a pain au chocolat for breakfast? or a hot chocolate? I recommend it.

LittleJingleBellas · 03/12/2008 21:10

This thread has all the makings of a mumsnet classic

motherinferior · 03/12/2008 21:10

I see salvation - in its broadest sense - in our own, collective and individual, actions. I am gloomily coming to the conclusion it isn't going to happen. It's not going to be from a Deus ex Machina, that's for sure.

georgimama · 03/12/2008 21:10

Are you saying the chocolate in the IgglePiggle calendar isn't fairtrade MI?

Gosh, what shall I do?

christMAScomesbutonceayear · 03/12/2008 21:10

I agree totally with Libby Purves - chocolate Advent calendars are just WRONG !

southeastastra · 03/12/2008 21:10

i think she just sounds a bit loopy, though i've never heard of her.

is she related to peter purves

Hulababy · 03/12/2008 21:11

"advent is about looking forward to the birth of christ, not about eating chocolate "

We are able to incorporate both happily into our household.

As I said, each to their own when it comes to advent calanders, If it is really that important to someone that another child might be allowed a tiny bit of chocolate behing their calanders window then I would think it a bit strange TBH.

I thinkt he article is extremely OTT. But then let's face it - it is supposed to be.

CapricaSix · 03/12/2008 21:11

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NCRedBreastedBirdy · 03/12/2008 21:12

Why do they have to be mutually exclusive?

IMO children don't need chocolate to look forward to christmas, it is just a nice bonus!

Children also don't need pudding but I am sure no-one would be stupid enough to suggest that getting it makes them retarded as adults

As for all of you banging on about the message of christmas... it is not an exclusive holiday in fact it has its roots in a completly different "religon". Just because you choose to see it as being about the birth of christ does not mean we have to as well.

Whilst you are on your high moral ground can you please tell me where you stand on buying presents for your children - I am guessing they don't get anything from non Christian santa? Oh and they won't get anything they don't need will they - after all that is not the idea of christmas is it?

I wounder what will be under Libby's tree this year...

Anna8888 · 03/12/2008 21:13

Oh I hate chocolate advent calendars with a vengeance. I have a non-religious one this year, as a concession to DP and to make up for a heavily laden Christmas tree (including stars and angels) and something that could almost be construed as a crèche.

I'll sneak a more religious one in at some point, when DD is able to take it on board and DP has got a bit more used to Christianity in his own home.

TheCrackFox · 03/12/2008 21:13

This article sums up exactly why I stopped buying the Times. Self indulgent naval gazing. It is rapidly morphing into the Daily Mail. Could The Times please return to being a proper paper?

RubberDuck · 03/12/2008 21:13

I dread to think what her pronouncement would be on our lego advent calendars...

devoutsceptic · 03/12/2008 21:14

Idiot Libby. Talks about chocolate advent calendars dating from 50s as if this contrasts with ancient rite. Commercial advent calendars invented in 1903, apparently. Hardly the dawn of time!

Mutt · 03/12/2008 21:14

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georgimama · 03/12/2008 21:15

NCR, the chocolate would be OK if it was fairtrade apparently...

motherinferior · 03/12/2008 21:15

I am actually buying a charity goat . Or possibly a charity midwife. I like that kind of thing.

NCRedBreastedBirdy · 03/12/2008 21:16

Mutt, I hate newspapers, I refuse to read then because of this kind a crap and it does get me really angry. I have no idea why of course, it is pretty stupid really

hecate · 03/12/2008 21:16

Do you have to choose? choc in an advent calender OR raising your children well and teaching them the meaning of Christmas? I didn't realise. Nobody told me you had to choose. How was I to know? what to do what to do

I can't believe, my friends, that you are getting yourselves het up over this.