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Did my ears deceive me this morning

  • 29-08-2012 12:25pm
    #1
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭


    Are brown thomas opening their Christmas stores today? its AUGUST - people are still swimming when the weather is warm.
    Halloween hasn't come yet
    Kids are not back to school from their SUMMER holidays yet.

    This is bizarre and should be banned. (and I am a LOVER of Christmas). :mad:


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  • #2
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Cool, I need a new tree!


  • #3
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


    In before christmas2012...


  • #4
    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    It's starting way too early every year. At least wait til Halloween.


  • #5
    RikkFlair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,109 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


    Seasons greetings everyone. Time to get sh1tfaced on the sherry...


  • #6
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Brown Thomas have always worn their c*ntiness proudly on their over-priced sleeves but this is just taking the piss.


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  • #7
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    eh its only 117 days 11 hours 29 minutes and 36 seconds til Christmas !!


  • #8
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


    Might as well get in the spirit...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLb213lak5s


  • #9
    BBDBB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    jeez I have to start to be good this year even earlier???? :(


  • #10
    Gongoozler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    Well that's my custom they won't be getting from now on






    :pac:


  • #11
    cute_cow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 636 ✭✭✭cute_cow


    Nope, your ears are functioning properly.

    http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/bt-decks-out-its-shops-for-christmas-118-days-to-go-205699.html

    This is ridiculous. Why even bother closing the Christmas shop, sure leave it open all year round :rolleyes:

    I mean I am all for Chtistmas, but not in August! If I was really honest, would turn me off going into the store (I know its petty, but don't wanna have Christmas stores in August!)


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  • #12
    cgpg5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,656 ✭✭✭cgpg5


    KKkitty wrote: »
    It's starting way too early every year. At least wait til Halloween.

    With respect they'd hardly open this early unless they knew they'd actually get customers. Blame the customers for buying Christmas related things this early as opposed to shops


  • #13
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    fishy fishy wrote: »
    Are brown thomas

    I read that as brown trout...


  • #14
    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    davet82 wrote: »
    eh its only 117 days 11 hours 29 minutes and 36 seconds til Christmas !!
    Not that you're counting though :D


  • #15
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Christmas stuff is usually on sale in September in Australia. I wouldn't mind but Christmas is just not possible in Australia due to the heat.


  • #16
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    cgpg5 wrote: »
    With respect they'd hardly open this early unless they knew they'd actually get customers. Blame the customers for buying Christmas related things this early as opposed to shops

    who on earth is looking for a christmas shop to open in August - its a marketing ploy, nothing else.

    Shame on them. People can hardly make ends meet, and yet BT decides to turn the pressure up. Greedy sods.


  • #17
    cgpg5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,656 ✭✭✭cgpg5


    fishy fishy wrote: »
    who on earth is looking for a christmas shop to open in August - its a marketing ploy, nothing else.

    Shame on them. People can hardly make ends meet, and yet BT decides to turn the pressure up. Greedy sods.

    Oh I'm not denying that but there is clowns who will no doubt buy the stuff in the coming weeks.

    A tesco near myself is bringing in its Christmas stock next week too


  • #18
    summerskin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    Confab wrote: »
    Christmas stuff is usually on sale in September in Australia. I wouldn't mind but Christmas is just not possible in Australia due to the heat.

    Yep, because it was certainly freezing in Bethlehem...

    "Strewth Sheila, send back all those prezzies for the kids, it's 35 degrees outside, Christmas is cancelled!"


  • #19
    Heroditas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,559 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    From the link:
    One woman looked stung when a helpful salesperson offered to sell one of the Christmas trees on display in Grafton Street yesterday.

    "I don’t do Christmas," she said, before turning quickly to leave the area.

    ....as she hurriedly rearranged her hijab!


  • #20
    AeoNGriM
    Registered Users Posts: 712 ✭✭✭AeoNGriM


    BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »
    Might as well get in the spirit...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLb213lak5s

    Not a Christmas song, don't care what you or anyone else says!

    Just a song that is played at Christmas, nothing more.

    :pac:


  • #21
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    fishy fishy wrote: »
    who on earth is looking for a christmas shop to open in August - its a marketing ploy, nothing else.

    Shame on them. People can hardly make ends meet, and yet BT decides to turn the pressure up. Greedy sods.

    Might take a look one day next week. Hope all the good stuff isn't gone by then though.


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  • #22
    cgpg5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,656 ✭✭✭cgpg5


    AeoNGriM wrote: »
    Not a Christmas song, don't care what you or anyone else says!

    Just a song that is played at Christmas, nothing more.

    :pac:

    Like Stop the Cavalry!


  • #23
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    We (wife and I) have already started collecting Christmas toys for the kids.


  • #24
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    Biggins wrote: »
    We (wife and I) have already started collecting Christmas toys for the kids.

    as deppressing as it is so have we :(


  • #25
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


    AeoNGriM wrote: »
    Not a Christmas song, don't care what you or anyone else says!

    Just a song that is played at Christmas, nothing more.

    :pac:

    Are you the grinch?


  • #26
    Rigol
    Registered Users Posts: 465 ✭✭Rigol


    oh ffs not that word again


  • #27
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    KKkitty wrote: »
    It's starting way too early every year. At least wait til Halloween.

    Feck that, December, wait till December!


  • #28
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Biggins wrote: »
    We (wife and I) have already started collecting Christmas toys for the kids.
    davet82 wrote: »
    as deppressing as it is so have we :(

    They'll all be 'into' something else by November :pac:


  • #29
    hardCopy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    Feck that, December, wait till December!

    I'm still holding out for one more sunny spell. We got good weather in October last year, I won't concede my summer just yet.


  • #30
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    same people whinging about said Christmas shops being open too early are the same people who come in on Christmas Eve looking for X Y & Z, and lose the head when you don't have them.


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  • #31
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    cgpg5 wrote: »
    Like Stop the Cavalry!

    Great song, will have to dig out my Christmas iTunes playlist early this year.


  • #32
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Don't we have a rule here (think we did last year anyhow) of no Christmas threads before Nov. 1 or something?

    Needs to be enforced again methinks! ;)


  • #33
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


    juan.kerr wrote: »
    Great song, will have to dig out my Christmas iTunes playlist early this year.

    My christmas playist is Fairytale of newyork stuck on replay.. :pac:


  • #34
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    the groutch wrote: »
    and lose the head when you don't have them.

    because the grouch stole them?


  • #35
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    juan.kerr wrote: »
    because the grouch stole them?

    no, that was my brother The Grinch


  • #36
    later12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭✭later12


    Seems to be a particularly festive day, I was having lunch out in the sun behind my brother's house in Portobello earlier and heard the military band playing "Christmas in Killarney" down at Cathal Brugha Barracks:eek:


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  • #37
    mconigol
    Registered Users Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭mconigol


    KKkitty wrote: »
    It's starting way too early every year. At least wait til Halloween.

    Sure I hear the Christmas 2013 shop will be opening this December!


  • #38
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    the groutch wrote: »
    no, that was my brother The Grinch

    :o Damn, I feel stupid now.


  • #39
    kingtubby
    Registered Users Posts: 173 ✭✭kingtubby


    People annoying me by bitching about Christmas starting too early seems to be happening earlier every year that goes by.


  • #40
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    kingtubby wrote: »
    People annoying me by bitching about Christmas starting too early seems to be happening earlier every year that goes by.

    Yeah, I think it's the people who are too tight to spend Christmas...


  • #41
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    kfallon wrote: »
    They'll all be 'into' something else by November :pac:

    i hate when they do that! :pac:

    'but the elves have already started making the toys so shut up and go to bed' :P


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  • #42
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    fishy fishy wrote: »
    who on earth is looking for a christmas shop to open in August - its a marketing ploy, nothing else.

    Shame on them. People can hardly make ends meet, and yet BT decides to turn the pressure up. Greedy sods.

    you know people do actually start buying stuff for christmas this early?


  • #43
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    fishy fishy wrote: »
    Shame on them. People can hardly make ends meet, and yet BT decides to turn the pressure up. Greedy sods.

    If the can't make ends meet, what are doing in BT?


  • #44
    CB19Kevo
    Registered Users Posts: 800 ✭✭✭CB19Kevo


    This completely ruins Christmas.
    There should be legislation brought in to stop decorations in stores before November 1st.
    Do we really need to be looking at lights and hearing carol's for 2 months solid?

    I love Christmas but when i worked in retail it did taint the holiday,
    But sure it's all about money these days... Common since is long forgotten..


  • #45
    westendgirlie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭westendgirlie


    :(

    Prozac anyone?


  • #46
    dan1895
    Registered Users Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    cgpg5 wrote: »
    With respect they'd hardly open this early unless they knew they'd actually get customers. Blame the customers for buying Christmas related things this early as opposed to shops

    You mean cuntomers


  • #47
    BillyMitchel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    Do they play Christmas music too?!


  • #48
    pete dee
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭pete dee


    YEP.ITS A FACT. HEARD IT ON RAY DARCY SHOW.ON THE BALL THAT BT CROWD.


  • #49
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Just don't give them custom if it bothers people so much.


  • #50
    pete dee
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭pete dee


    WONT BE GETTING MY DOSH . NOT IN THIS RECESSION . IT WILL BE LIDLS OR ALDI. BLESS EM LOL


  • #51
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    the groutch wrote: »
    same people whinging about said Christmas shops being open too early are the same people who come in on Christmas Eve looking for X Y & Z, and lose the head when you don't have them.

    I have never lost the head over something so trivial as "christmas". I save my "losing the head" for life situations, not a marketing ploy made up by coca cola :)


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