Nobody cares if it is the most wonderful time of the year. The X-mas 2021 thread.

[Caete]

 

[Free]

 

[WolfEyes]

Gah. There is no comma. Merry is an adjective describing gentlemen, not an adverb.

An adjective is a part of speech that modifies a noun or pronoun. Adjectives usually tell what kind, how many, or which about nouns or pronouns. An adverb is a part of speech that modifies another adverb, a verb, or an adjective.

 

[Free]

Gah. There is no comma.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Meet the man who created the ‘Christmas is cancelled’ myth

In 1998, Michael Chubb’s team at Birmingham city council came up with ‘Winterval’ – and the backlash is still being felt today

www.theguardian.com

Evernote link

That particular "story too good to check" about TWOT wouldn't have legs nowadays, because of social media, I think. I remember at the time arguing with people about it, and trying to tell them that I didn't care what they'd read in The Sun or The Mail, because I frequently had to travel to Birmingham on business, and could see with my own eyes that, no matter what anyone said, there were Christmas decorations and a Christmas Market in the main square, and Santa and everything, same as always.

Now, it would simply be debunked by the City Council and everyone else on Twitter.

 

[Romana]

 

[Free]

Lizard Jon Cryer in a Radio Flyer?

 

[Free]

Meet the man who created the ‘Christmas is cancelled’ myth

In 1998, Michael Chubb’s team at Birmingham city council came up with ‘Winterval’ – and the backlash is still being felt today

www.theguardian.com

A Winterval for the rest of all!

Doesn't quite work...

 

[Noodles]

Happy Festivus Everyone!

 

[danielravennest]

 

[Free]

There's been an upgrade on Santa's elves.

 

[Sid]

Looks more like a likable Santa update.

 

[Sid]

Pro tip for tonight:

If possible with pineapple of course.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

'Of course there's a black Santa'

Alexander Richards, aka Black Santa, has been spreading festive cheer across the East Midlands.

www.bbc.co.uk

He's not the first black Santa in Nottingham (my home town), certainly -- my late partner hired the guy we think was the city's first black Santa back in the late 1990s for one of the big shopping centres there, and he was a huge success.

(They didn't hire him because he was black, but because the regular Santa had cancelled at the last minute because of a family tragedy, and this guy was available).

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Caete]

 

[Free]

Looks more like a likable Santa update.

I've never really liked Santa. All that naughty and nice list keeping, watching everything I'm doing. I've always been a fan of the elves. They do all the real work. Santa is just the delivery guy.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

 

[Caete]

 

[Innula Zenovka]