Merry Christmas!

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Merry Christmas!

Usually I'm not much into Christmas, but this year is different. When Belgian state-funded public radio VRT and weekly radio and tv magazine Humo campaigned to let the Christmas shopping season start not earlier than 15 December...

"For God's sake, no Christmas hassle before December 15!"

... I campaigned against it with "Christmas Every Day".

So, as a statement against the anticonsumerist enemies of Christmas, here's a Christmas greeting from The Great Communicator.

published on Monday 24 December 2007 @ 16:51 CET - Share on Facebook

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joe

Wednesday 26 December 2007 @ 13:36 CET - #57144

I always call him The Great Masturbator

Flemish American

Saturday 29 December 2007 @ 01:21 CET - #57407

Well, that was hardly the educated response I'd expect from readers of this site. Perhaps you should save your comments for those Britney Spears & Paris Hilton fan sites you usually frequent.

We are starting to cross a threshhold where Christians will begin reclaiming their holiday. Already a strong push is being made to say "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays" and not spell the holiday with an "X".

Check out this music video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Granted, this movement is strongest in the States, but I'm seeing elements of it all around Europe as well.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

joe

Saturday 29 December 2007 @ 15:02 CET - #57443

Thanks, Flemish American. For you as well Happy Holidays!

traveller

Sunday 30 December 2007 @ 19:03 CET - #57516

@ Flemish American

Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

Nicolas

Wednesday 02 January 2008 @ 21:43 CET - #57696

So, this is Xmas, and what have you done, Joe.

johan vandepopuliere

Monday 21 January 2008 @ 16:37 CET - #58822

The campaign by Radio 1 and Humo was ironically counterproductive. Never has there been so much talk about Christmas as this time. They released a horrible song on the already overexposed theme "Shut your eyes" with the equally overexposed Axl Peleman on disturbing vocals and not too clever lyrics either.

The campaign was "sick in the same bed" as we say in Flanders: please celebrate Christmas as you please or not, but don't inflict it on the rest of us.

Yes, I long for those days when Christmas was celebrated at home and not omnipresent with terrible music in shops and stores, or at Radio 1.

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