Xmas Music Everywhere - Will It Ever Stop?

[Martinus]

Ok so with Poland being always late to the party, only few years ago we started to go into a full Xmas mode, with Jingle Bells and White Christmas playing all the time everywhere - at shops, malls, gyms, restaurants, cafes etc.

So my question to people from more advanced countries is this: does it ever roll back or will it just get worse and worse each year?

[The Brain]

Restaurants? Jesus.

[Liep]

It'll get better as more and more people are fed up with it. There's a small Christmas tree sale on the square, but besides that there's surprisingly no Christmas decorations near where I live, not in the cafés or shops at least. There's the occasional light decoration in apartment windows.

In the country side it's horrible though, it seems every other house is alit with fancy decorations.

[Josquius]

It keeps getting earlier and earlier. The only thing standing in its way is Halloween.
If it wasn't for the tacky Halloween shit being flogged at the end of October, and Easter, then it would only be a matter of time before Christmas formed a loop with itself.

[garbon]

Look at these whiny bitches.

[mongers]

Look at these whiny bitches.

It's nice that Languish is finally becoming a more professional sport, with its own full time players, experienced commentators etc.

[Liep]

Personally I thought I really performed more dynamically than usual, putting in a little optimism here and only some whining there.

Just taking it one post at time, focusing on my own writing.

[merithyn]

it would only be a matter of time before Christmas formed a loop with itself.

This would be a bad thing?

[FunkMonk]

Look at these whiny bitches.

I can understand why people get fed up with the way Christmas is thrown in their faces this time of year, but it doesn't bother me at all and I think if someone like me can live with it so can they. I've rather come to enjoy this time of year, after all.

[dps]

it would only be a matter of time before Christmas formed a loop with itself.

This would be a bad thing?

Well, it would offend the Euroweenies, so--no.

[Syt]

The x-mas music isn't the problem. Kids already playing with firecrackers is.

Sale of firecrackers is open in Austria in the week (or 2?) before New Year's Eve, and it's officially allowed to set them off for a few hours on 31st Dec.

Still, kids get their hands on the stuff imported from the Wild East and turn the town gradually into an acoustic re-enactment of the Vienna Offensive, culminating in the immediate week before and the ten days after New Year's.

[The Brain]

I thought Xmas was limited to African-Americans?

[DontSayBanana]

Jon Stewart made a great comment on the Daily Show a week or two ago: "Christmas is getting so big it's eating other holidays- watch out, Halloween, you're next."

I don't think he realized quite how accurate he was.  Most of us entertainment retailers started gearing up for Christmas all the way back on November 1.  I've already had to listen to Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" thousands of times this season (not a huge exaggeration- hundreds, at least!), and there are still a couple weeks left to go!

[derspiess]

I like it. I don't pay any attention to it til right after Thanksgiving, and I don't really tire of it. Kinda adds something when you have kids, even neices and nephews.

[Grey Fox]

It starts on November 1st & it should never end!