The Supermarkets Advert Race for Christmas #1

Also, as well as giving Sainsbury's a lot of advertising as people discuss their ad, it's giving the RBL lots of air time as well. Given the number of former service personnel living with ptsd, alcoholism, homelessness etc, it seems good to keep their needs in the public eye.

WOW! Thank you all for your contributions I'd forgotten about the post, (having been ill, lame excuse I know)
but I really appreciate your input, Iam64 et al, especially PRINTMISS for considering the employment of others in these austere times.

But alas Black Friday really does go to show how sheeplike humans are when it comes to the commercialisation of Christmas, I was disgusted by the scenes across the news and we discussed it on our show Nana's Natter -you can listen to it here:

www.podcasts.canstream.co.uk/manchesterfm/index.php?page=2

just scroll down to the first and second hours, we will be revisiting commercialisation and how to combat it on Friday 5th Dec and your views will be most welcome.

I once or twice became so fed up with commercialism at Christmas that I decided to up sticks with the family and I naively felt that a Muslim country would not celebrate Christmas. How wrong I was? In Marrakesh the hotel was festooned with lights and with the French connection celebrated on Christmas Eve. It was still Ramadan so on trips out we came across many surly presumably hungry people who disliked any refusal not to enter their shop or buy their stuff. The next time I booked aNile Cruise thinking combining culture with austerity. Then there was the horrible massacre at Hatshepsut 's temple and the British Gov said don't go so we went to Jordan and the was the worlds most un Father Christmassy FC and a cabaret of wailing undulating women. We did have a totally magical Christmas Eve in a Bedouin tent purely by accident which redeemed it all. So now I'm happy with the ads when I see how others torture the meaning of
Christmas.

I still haven't seen any of the TV Christmas ads and I more or less completed my Christmas shopping before Black Friday. One of the advantages of country living is that I only go shopping once a week to the supermarket in my local small town so the tide of commercialism that is supposed to surround Christmas never reaches me.

I actually think that Christmas is as commercial or as uncommercial as you choose to make it. If you are not into competitive or frenzied gift giving and catering then you are no more likely to respond Christmas commercialism and hype than one is likely to go from total boredom with football to total involvement just because you saw the advertising surrounding the world cup.