Not a lot @pansyface, but if you don't believe that child was special and/or born into poverty, who cares? If you believe he did exist but wasn't the son of a god it doesn't matter either.
People like to eat and drink and people like to think they're getting a bargain so it serves the great god mammon.
Have my cynical head on today. Black November is alive and well in France and they don't even do Thanksgiving to start with. The stores have switched oernight form Halloween (which is only recently a thing here) and gone into full Xmas mode tho they haven't yet started on the Xmas musak with everything. Our local Xmas market is on the 26th and will be food and tat.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
@Rubytoo We used to have elderly neighbours, and I not only kept their garden tidy (which I benefitted from), I also used to take out the wheelie bin of garden refuse, and return it after. They wouldn't let me do the general refuse, but I often had the gentleman on the doorstep with a jar of this or that, which he couldn't open. Since he died, and his wife went into a home, I've had a couple from across the road come with jars. I'm not strong - just willing, and available. That's what good neighbours should be. We just have a couple of households (next door being one of them) who think that being neighbourly, means putting up a six-foot fence, not communicating with those around them, except when they come to pick up parcels.
I quite agree @pansyface. What's worse is that most pf that plastic crap will have come all the way from China and have been made with little regard to the environmental cost, let alone the people making them. Think Ouija slaves, political prisoners and appalling working conditions.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Advert on the radio yesterday went something like "Black Friday Week, 17th to 27th November." So Friday has now become a week, but that week is actually 11 days!
An electric stuff retailer has been advertising black November. According to Which? The majority of ' bargains' last year were cheaper at some point before or after BF
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People like to eat and drink and people like to think they're getting a bargain so it serves the great god mammon.
Have my cynical head on today. Black November is alive and well in France and they don't even do Thanksgiving to start with. The stores have switched oernight form Halloween (which is only recently a thing here) and gone into full Xmas mode tho they haven't yet started on the Xmas musak with everything. Our local Xmas market is on the 26th and will be food and tat.
We used to have elderly neighbours, and I not only kept their garden tidy (which I benefitted from), I also used to take out the wheelie bin of garden refuse, and return it after.
They wouldn't let me do the general refuse, but I often had the gentleman on the doorstep with a jar of this or that, which he couldn't open.
Since he died, and his wife went into a home, I've had a couple from across the road come with jars. I'm not strong - just willing, and available.
That's what good neighbours should be. We just have a couple of households (next door being one of them) who think that being neighbourly, means putting up a six-foot fence, not communicating with those around them, except when they come to pick up parcels.