Yesterday a friend posted on facebook that she had heard Jingle bells on the radio at work. There was a lot of talk that it might have been a joke or something at the radio station.
Today I was walking around a store and sleigh ride was playing. I brought it up to the cashier and she said "yeah, I have been hearing a bunch of christmas songs today, I don't know why". Apparently the music is piped in from corporate and they have no control of it.
Has someone decided that september is now the acceptable date to start the worst music ever written? This is unacceptable.
It is 83 degrees out. It isn't lovely weather for a sleigh ride anywhere. It is lovely weather for a BBQ and beers and playing guitars in the backyard.
/rant off
Labor Day is the new Halloween? 
berkeleying commercialism. pretty much has destroyed the holiday and sucked the fun out of it.
Halloween candy was on display in the grocery store this evening. They were playing their usual awful choice of crap on the radio though.
Halloween candy out at Wally World here. Signs of the corporately determined "Fall" decorations out. Winter clothes hitting the shelves despite the fact it's still 90 here.
I saw Christmas stuff on sale at Cracker Barrel yesterday. (And don't judge me... I like their hash brown casserole.)
Margie
Marjorie Suddard wrote:
I saw Christmas stuff on sale at Cracker Barrel yesterday. (And don't judge me... I like their hash brown casserole.)
Margie
Honestly, there aren't that many good restaurants on this side of town and we have kids, so we frequent Cracker Barrel pretty often, as in maybe once a month since we really don't eat out much. I can't say I've ever had a bad meal there. I mean, it is what it is, and it ain't bad. 
But yeah, Christmas music at this time of year sounds ridiculous.
Oh, did I mention we bought some animated, lighted reindeer at a yard sale today?
mndsm
PowerDork
9/1/12 7:56 p.m.
I dig Cracker Barrel. Best place chain-wise to get homestyle grub. No matter where I am, I know the food will be good there.
Only christmas song worth a E36 M3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUId5f1-KbE
DrBoost wrote:
What would Jesus do??
He wouldn't get beaten up. I learned that much today.
Never eaten at Cracker barrel, but I had heard that they're better than the other similar chains. They were always too busy, and I was on a road trip and in a hurry.
I've been seeing Christmas decorations for sale in Sams & Costco now for almost a month.
Bluebell has an ice cream out called Christmas Cookies.
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In July.
Grtechguy wrote:
berkeleying commercialism. pretty much has destroyed the holiday and sucked the fun out of it.
The fun part for kids... Santa... (if you said Jesus your childhood christmases musta sucked hard) That whole bag of E36 M3 was pretty much a Coca Cola marketing campaign so successful that we start buying assloads of crap we don't need in August 115yrs later.
berkeleying commercialism indeed.
mtn
PowerDork
9/1/12 10:18 p.m.
Nothing wrong with Cracker Barrel. Nothing particularly great about it, but it is consistently decent.
As for Christmas music, I love it, but it had better not come on before Thanksgiving day.
By the way... if you need an xmas tune to hang your hat on...
Iron Maiden - Another Rock and Roll Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_IZPe4GrjI
JtspellS wrote:
Only christmas song worth a E36 M3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUId5f1-KbE
I see your rock 'n' roll version and raise you a better version, on you know... actual bells
HappyAndy wrote:
DrBoost wrote:
What would Jesus do??
Why is Abraham Lincoln dressed in a toga? I thought he was self-educated, and never went to college.
I was at my neighborhood dive bar at the end of July. The High fa-looting touch screen MP3 jukebox played E36 M3ty X-mis music. I bagged to the owner. He told me, "The Juke Box owner paid him a fee to lease the space perhaps E36 M3ty music plays so people will play stuff that doesn't suck... He then said there was nothing he could do about it. Fortunately, I could do something about it. I unplugged it then plugged it back in. It took 45 minutes for it to restart. In the meantime the radio kicked in...
ok... when christmas music starts at halloween.. I am near psychotic by Christmas due to the music... and I do not work in a mall or a store where I have to list to the stuff 8 hours or more a day.
4 months of it... we are going to see shootings
Does this mean there will be Easter Peeps by Christmas?
On a slightly related note, I judge season changes by the displays at Tractor Supply. They currently have a handful of wood stoves so I know fall is coming.
logdog wrote:
Does this mean there will be Easter Peeps by Christmas?
On a slightly related note, I judge season changes by the displays at Tractor Supply. They currently have a handful of wood stoves so I know fall is coming.
The Carhartt coats and overalls were coming out as well.
In reply to RealMiniDriver:
I wonder how many tons that rig weighs!
Grtechguy wrote:
berkeleying commercialism. pretty much has destroyed the holiday and sucked the fun out of it.
For troof. [curmudgeon]I have gotten to where I dislike the Christmas season and its 'OMFGWTFIMHOBBQ YOU HAVE TO SPEND MONEY YOU DON'T HAVE GIVING CHINESE MADE CRAP AWAY SO YOU WILL BE LOVED!' message. [/curmudgeon] At least it seems those damn Lexus 'December to Remember' ads got toned down.
http://www.adforum.com/creative-work/ad/player/34442034
I guess it percolated into their heads that maybe, just maybe, it was a little too crass.
