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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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LittleJingleBellas · 03/12/2008 21:16

LOL
I've always wondered if you get a charity goat for christmas, do you get to name them, does anyone know?

Sorry for the hijack, but I've wondered this for quite a while

TheCrackFox · 03/12/2008 21:16

We could file this article under "I was a much better parent than you could ever wish to be" or, alternatively, "smug drivel".

pointydog · 03/12/2008 21:16

I fully agree with libby. 100%

LittleJingleBellas · 03/12/2008 21:17

The Times hasn't been a proper newspaper for an awfully long time now

motherinferior · 03/12/2008 21:17

If you get three, do you get a free troll thrown in as well?

georgimama · 03/12/2008 21:17

If someone gave some Bolivian farmer a charity goat for my Christmas present I would be seriously fecked off. The Three Wise Men gave presents to baby Jesus, not a Bolivian goat farmer.

Can you imagine Ephiphany like that?

"Hey Jesus, we had some gold, frankincense and myrrh for you but we swapped it for a lavatory for an Ethiopian school".

Oh goody.

NCRedBreastedBirdy · 03/12/2008 21:17

Gmama - should we run that past Libby? I am sure she will have the definative answer on that!

devoutsceptic · 03/12/2008 21:18

nobody ever buys ME a goat.

pointydog · 03/12/2008 21:18

I don't mind chocolate at all. We have chocolate figures on teh tree and the kids can have one each evening. But a chocolate advent calendar is so crappy. All the excitement is in the pretty pictures

amerryscot · 03/12/2008 21:18

wow - took a while for the troll card to be played.

Hulababy · 03/12/2008 21:19

I love the idea that "chocolate advent calendars epitomize everything that is wrong with the world today "

Yes, that tiny piece of chocolate - t is responsible for so much: economic melt down, terrorism, gang culture, over crowded prison, failing education systems, devastation in other countries such as the Congo, children dying because of failings in or authoritieis...

Heck, it has a lot to answer for that it of csdbury's (or fair trade version for those more ethical amongst us)! Who'd have thought!

LittleJingleBellas · 03/12/2008 21:19

I don't see what's wrong with a goat tbh

Most of the presents people buy you wouldn't really notice if you didn't get them

Not that I'm ungrateful, but honestly I can't remember what my presents were last year. If I'd had a goat, I'd remember.

NCRedBreastedBirdy · 03/12/2008 21:20

MI that was quite funny

NO, I am ANGRY

Oh forget it

Thank you for the reality check MI!

georgimama · 03/12/2008 21:20

No Pointydog, all the excitement is in the 21 month old who has ingested E numbers for breakfast. No pretty picture could be more exciting for him than the little square of cheap chocolate, believe me.

motherinferior · 03/12/2008 21:20

Eh? Yes, I made a joke about a troll. Because, er, there were these three goats in the story, and LittleBella made a joking remark about a goat, and I said...

...oh forget it. I'm off to eternal damnation bed.

NCRedBreastedBirdy · 03/12/2008 21:21

Merry - she meant 3 goats....

Mutt · 03/12/2008 21:21

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georgimama · 03/12/2008 21:23

I agree Mutt, I think it is a bit passive-aggresive actually. It seems to say "I couldn't be arsed to think of something to get you so I have made a statement on your behalf, don't be annoyed or feel like you've missed out because that would be incredibly vulgar and self seeking of you."

LittleJingleBellas · 03/12/2008 21:23

D'you reckon?

What if you bought a goat along with a "proper" present?

I am exemplary. I buy friends of mine a subscription to Private Eye. They larve it.

(Am waiting for someone to return the favour but no one ever does. Bastards. )

Hulababy · 03/12/2008 21:24

I also don;t really "get" the idea of giving a charity gift as a present to someone else, unless they have asked you to do so. I do charity donations in my own name, from me. Also 6y DD did the 100 free school dinners for a card for her teacher and her class. However this will bea ccompanied with an actual gift for her teacher. The charity thing was for DD's benefit in her name, not on behalf of someone else.

NotanOtter · 03/12/2008 21:24

i agree with libby

georgimama · 03/12/2008 21:25

Subscriptions are great presents. DH gets one for "The Chap" (a fabulous publication, I heartily recommend it) from DB every year. He loves it when it turns up bi-monthly.

I suppose it depends on the recipient. MI would clearly love it. I would be narked off.

pointydog · 03/12/2008 21:25

but you can get chocolate from so many other sources, like tree novelties or home made treats if you're a true Yule Mama. Why put bits if rubbishy chocolate in bits of ugly plastic behind a duffo picture. All you end up looking at is fake plastic calendars. They wear you down.

LittleJingleBellas · 03/12/2008 21:26

LOL at how worn out you look pointy

You have been sauntering round WHS being worn out by the advent calendars

LittleJingleBellas · 03/12/2008 21:27

Someone once bought me a subscription to Glamour Magazine

I felt soiled every month. But read it voraciously