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Oct. 7th, 2012 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hirezVisited the large shop of American horrors this arvo. It is already filled with objects of a yule-based nature.
(Tangent - there's a 'party shop' a few streets away. Although it's more a deserted hangar where good intentions go to be tortured to death. I've never been inside something like that before, so since I was feeling rather adventurous I wandered in. Then I wandered through, mostly keeping my eyes averted so that I would not become infected by the awfulness, and indeed wandered out at a fair clip ditto.)
One of the objects was an allegedly wooden advent calendar. It seems to me that objects like that are selling an idealised yule-based experience that has only ever existed in the head of a particularly annoying product-marketing executive who has likely watched 'It's a wonderful life' once too often (ie - once).
There were also six-foot 'wooden' 'soldiers' with teeth like meat-grinders. I have no clear idea what those would be for, other than providing the next generation with a valid excuse for hating the yule-based period and thus repeating the cycle of marketing-based hope over terrible reality.
In short: homburg.
(Tangent - there's a 'party shop' a few streets away. Although it's more a deserted hangar where good intentions go to be tortured to death. I've never been inside something like that before, so since I was feeling rather adventurous I wandered in. Then I wandered through, mostly keeping my eyes averted so that I would not become infected by the awfulness, and indeed wandered out at a fair clip ditto.)
One of the objects was an allegedly wooden advent calendar. It seems to me that objects like that are selling an idealised yule-based experience that has only ever existed in the head of a particularly annoying product-marketing executive who has likely watched 'It's a wonderful life' once too often (ie - once).
There were also six-foot 'wooden' 'soldiers' with teeth like meat-grinders. I have no clear idea what those would be for, other than providing the next generation with a valid excuse for hating the yule-based period and thus repeating the cycle of marketing-based hope over terrible reality.
In short: homburg.
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Date: 2012-10-07 07:45 pm (UTC)Pretend nutcrackers?
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Date: 2012-10-07 07:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-07 08:08 pm (UTC)What are those things? I mean, I know what nutcrackers are - things like pliers but with the hinge at the end rather than in the middle. But I can't see how you'd crack nuts with something like that, unless you lined up a bag on a hard floor and pushed the thing over onto them. Even then you'd mostly get shrapnel injuries.
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Date: 2012-10-07 08:27 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-10-07 09:34 pm (UTC)They sell almost everything: large screen televisions, clothing, household appliances, tires, liquor, etc., and have their own butchers, bakery and fresh & frozen foods. We go every 6 weeks or so to get various foodstuffs at a much cheaper price than supermarkets. Some is their own brand but most is name brand.
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Date: 2012-10-08 03:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-08 08:20 am (UTC)2: Return to shop
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4: Hilarity!
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Date: 2012-10-08 09:21 am (UTC)Then I realised that buying one of those objects would only encourage them.
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Date: 2012-10-08 09:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-08 09:43 am (UTC)The triumph of laser cutting over taste.
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Date: 2012-10-08 10:29 am (UTC)We've a few here (bought a two footer last week). Rachel's mum collects them.
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