Christmas Cheer!

Apparently, this year we're going to see more supermarkets than usual open on Boxing Day.

Brilliant.

Just what you fucking need when you've spent a week prior to Christmas running around shop after shop buying everything from socks, through toys for the kids to the festive meal. Is there really anyone tragic enough in this fair isle to awake on Boxing Day morning, stomach still full of food and cheap booze from the day before that actually thinks "I know, lets go to the supermarket, that will be nice, won't it Diedre?"

Really, as if the quaint little pagan festival of bringing a tree indoors that's now been hijacked by the weak of mind as an eternal birthday party for a particularly talented tradesman needed to get any more commercial or any more convenient. I'm a capitalist through and through but even I can see that opening your largest shops on Boxing Day isn't a convenience. Its a ploy, a ploy to get cretins high on cheap brandy to purchase awful televisions because they're on offer. It matters not how shit they are of course, as long as they're cheap, thats all that matters.

This is what the supermarket culture has brought, its brought society an expectation of instant gratification. ultimate convenience and slaughtering service at the altar of price.

Ho, ho, fucking ho.

V.