BA
Yes. Clearly I should sympathise with the horrid plight of getting Christmas Day off over those who selflessly work on Christmas Day.
What would shutting physical stores actually achieve? The event will be just as commercialised, an entire day's sales will be made online only, and you pass the burden onto warehouse workers.
If people want the event to be less commercialised, and less of a burden, then spread happiness, joy, and the spirit of giving throughout the year, spend the day itself in good company, and don't think that one day of peacocking and one-upmanship with presents will absolve them from a year of meanness.
I think we've found TV Forum's Scrooge.
Yes. Clearly I should sympathise with the horrid plight of getting Christmas Day off over those who selflessly work on Christmas Day.
What would shutting physical stores actually achieve? The event will be just as commercialised, an entire day's sales will be made online only, and you pass the burden onto warehouse workers.
If people want the event to be less commercialised, and less of a burden, then spread happiness, joy, and the spirit of giving throughout the year, spend the day itself in good company, and don't think that one day of peacocking and one-upmanship with presents will absolve them from a year of meanness.
BR
I think the point is many people would like to spend the day with those they love rather than those they work with but have no choice purely due to the commercialisation you're complaining about. I suspect most of those signing the petition do not need absolving from a "year of meanness".
BA
Personally I don't think it is over-commercialised, but a lot of people are claiming that it is and this will solve it. But giving some people an special extra day off through a piece of legislation does nothing to stop that.
All I object to is that somehow retail workers are particularly hard done by and somehow deserve an extra day off, through legislation, over and above plenty of other, more difficult, professions.
I think the point is many people would like to spend the day with those they love rather than those they work with but have no choice purely due to the commercialisation you're complaining about. I suspect most of those signing the petition do not need absolving from a "year of meanness".
Personally I don't think it is over-commercialised, but a lot of people are claiming that it is and this will solve it. But giving some people an special extra day off through a piece of legislation does nothing to stop that.
All I object to is that somehow retail workers are particularly hard done by and somehow deserve an extra day off, through legislation, over and above plenty of other, more difficult, professions.
IN
Is tonight the first night of the 'Holidays are Coming' campaign?
It's always great to see it but it annoys me how they keep playing out this version with the climax of the song chopped off (presumably to obscure the sung 'always Coca-Cola' slogan).
It's always great to see it but it annoys me how they keep playing out this version with the climax of the song chopped off (presumably to obscure the sung 'always Coca-Cola' slogan).
DA
I don't get why they're bears.
Nor why an airport would advertise. It's not like people pick them on their merits.
("Well it's an extra 40 minutes on the bus but Heathrow looks lovely ...")
Coming Home for Christmas | Heathrow Airport
I don't get why they're bears.
Nor why an airport would advertise. It's not like people pick them on their merits.
("Well it's an extra 40 minutes on the bus but Heathrow looks lovely ...")
BA
I don't get why they're bears.
Nor why an airport would advertise. It's not like people pick them on their merits.
("Well it's an extra 40 minutes on the bus but Heathrow looks lovely ...")
You'd be surprised. What if two airports you could use are equidistant from where you live?
Coming Home for Christmas | Heathrow Airport
I don't get why they're bears.
Nor why an airport would advertise. It's not like people pick them on their merits.
("Well it's an extra 40 minutes on the bus but Heathrow looks lovely ...")
You'd be surprised. What if two airports you could use are equidistant from where you live?
DA
You'd be surprised. What if two airports you could use are equidistant from where you live?
Then there are still several other factors (availability and times to/from destination airport, cost of said flights) that would separate the two before I get down to which made the twee-est Xmas advert.
- Douglas Adams
You'd be surprised. What if two airports you could use are equidistant from where you live?
Then there are still several other factors (availability and times to/from destination airport, cost of said flights) that would separate the two before I get down to which made the twee-est Xmas advert.
Quote:
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the phrase, "as pretty as an airport."
- Douglas Adams
JA
Depends which one has the cheapest flights
Lovely seeing the T5 baggage reclaim hall in that ad, brings back memories of April when I was there with a chest infection and could barely walk
You'd be surprised. What if two airports you could use are equidistant from where you live?
Depends which one has the cheapest flights
Lovely seeing the T5 baggage reclaim hall in that ad, brings back memories of April when I was there with a chest infection and could barely walk
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