Reference :- It's time for everybody to shoulder their responsibility to buy the usual Christmas junk. Thousands of tons of colourful plastic from China are waiting for us in the stores , and that is just the packaging .
I am quite impressed by such a specific figure . Why 449 dollars , and not 450 ? It has a very " marketing " flavour , in my view . Anyway , good research I guess , although studies have shown that 86.52 % of all quoted statistics are unrealistically precise . But getting back to Christmas , there sure is a lot of talk about the annual shopping spree and the retail figures . Our leaders would like to see us spend more this year than last , pushing the annual figure to around 53 Billion . Apparently that will be great for the flagging economy , although some of that moola will possibly end up in China.
There hasn't been much talk about Christ , and his sacrifice , and the season of goodwill and so forth , but I am sure Mr Morrison will remind us about all that in due course . As a devout Christian, he is probably offended by the shabby commercialisation of the most important religious event on the calendar . My son , Ken junior , doesn't have much truck with religion . In fact , when I questioned him about Christmas he said it was totally copied from some Pagan festival , where there was feasting and the exchange of gifts , called Saturnalia . I told him that he can't be right , since during Saturnalia the rich would often change places with the poor and allow the poor to live the good life for a few days . I really can't imagine the bankers letting homeless people live on their yachts for the weekend . How would they get the smell out ? At least it has got me off the hook with presents , since the last time I had access to 449 quid Dame Edna Everage's husband Norm still had his prostate .
Your comrade , Ken .
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