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Happy Christmas, Happy Birthday...
Posted By : Dan Owen, 10-Nov-2006, 11:28am
Is it just me that's sick of xmas already? Like those adverts on tele promising you can have a new sofa delivered in time for the commencement of
hostilities - I should bloody well hope so when it's not even December yet. And all the puddings, mice pies, tins full of vile, sickly biscuits to give you
the bellyache, nuts, selection boxes, lights, tinsel, fake trees etc etc etc in the shops that we all know they'll be flogging off at half price or less
until Easter and means the stuff you actually want is out of stock. Not to mention of course the relentless sell, sell, sell everywhere you look and all
the doom merchants telling you how much debt everyone's going to be in come January - You know what? Nobody's forcing you to go out and buy all this crap -
Get real! Has your local town got the lights up yet? We have a blissful respite for now as the weather obviously caught the council unawares but it can't
be long before the traffic lights and cherrypickers are out in force, giving the chavs something to shoot at with their airguns. Ken Bruce is already
playing xmas records and Noddy Holder must be rubbing his hands with glee at the thought of the royalty cheques to come.
Ok rant over! For now anyway...
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Posted By : Keith Dandridge, 10-Nov-2006,
11:37am
Ah. A radio 2 listener !
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Posted By : Michael Charlton, 10-Nov-2006,
12:39pm
Sorry....
The Dolly and the Ivy
Away in a Triumph
We Three Kings (of cracking old Cars)
Good Kingpin Wenceslas
O Come all ye Triumphs
Hark the Herald
We wish you a Merry Vitesse.
..........
Mike
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Posted By : Graham Peter Senior,
10-Nov-2006, 12:54pm
Not coming to yours if you're serving 'mice pies' !
(signed)
Emma Dreaming, Arthur White, Chris Mass.
with Avery Kriss, Moss Carr, Dai Wright.
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Posted By : Vin Poonwassie,
10-Nov-2006, 01:13pm
Funnily enough the year before last it was two weekends before xmas when I decided to get the ladders out and put the xmas lights up, the
weather was not good. last year we missed out on putting the lights up,
this year the schedule has been devised to incorporate any delays, this weekend sees the bulk of the lights go on the house, next weekend
in reserve for any tweaking.
spent last weekend pruning the minuture trees in the front garden in preparation.
have needed to budget for LED blue icicles for the roof line,
the other lights we have are glowing moons, glowing stars, rope light, 3x pea lights, 2d santa & sleigh (for the peak of the roof)
pics to follow.......
what are other petrol heads doing?
oh, and on a petrol head note, the Spitfire Aces are having their xmas party at Oulton Marshals Track Day on the 21st of November!
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Posted By : Jonathan
Binnington, 10-Nov-2006, 07:17pm
Graham, Ho said "anything about" Mice p'Eyes?
after all
Ho's on first base...?
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Posted By : Chris Taylor,
11-Nov-2006, 00:18am
I thought the carol "Hark the Herald angels spin" was a reference to swing axles?!! Or just icy roads!
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Posted By : Danial Phoenix, 10-Nov-2006,
05:56pm
buy smaller presents, just nice jesture thoghtfull ones, dont watch so much telly as adverts are in your face and depresive, use ther extra time to
work on your car or to watch certin programs, dont flick throgh the chanels say nothings on then watch the best of the worst even if its a reapeat!
like my wife does. stop reading newspaper as it full of doom and gloom, also it doesent matter who is in what debt just make sure its not you.
good points of christmas, you get time off work, you get free food if you make sure your at someone elses for christmas, more people are spending more
on pressys and less on car bits so its cheaper on ebay, the roads are less busy on christmas day, when its all over things are at discounted prices,
you get goose for dinner,
and if your me, then all the pipes frezing, and people wanting there heating fixed gives me more work to do. (plumber)
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Posted By : Dan Owen, 13-Nov-2006,
11:33am
That's it, make 'em pay through the nose, I certainly would (mercenary b@$t@rd). Maybe I was soured by last year's experience, couldn't work in the
garage as my heater packed up the week before and I certainly wasn't going to Q all day to get a new one!