The Glory of a “White Christmas” Ancient ritual dating back as long ago as 1942.
It’s also a time for remembering to forget.
Here at pcbycp, we’ve been forgetting events almost as soon as they happened. This keeps all of us in the editorial department in a positive frame of mind. So, when it’s time to put up the Chrissy lights, decorate the windows with tinsel and shop, we delight in the experience as if it were new. Life affirming! One of the most noble rituals beyond the Anzac Day march.
Chaddy, Visible from MARS!
That’s why we willingly swarm to Chaddy. Yes folks Chaddy, the biggest supermarket complex in the southern hemisphere, lures us with the force of a gravitronic tractor beam. We asked for one over the counter, but were told they haven’t been invented yet. Instead, we busied ourselves with buying stuff that would augment landfill. There’s plum puddings at Aldi a steal at $5.95, and infant milk formula for $6.95, (with a limit of 12 tins per customer), and the christmas chocolate, and coffee, fair trade at $14.95 is an absolute steal. So we filled the trolley to overflowing and made our mark.
Cos Christmas is all about shopping. And it’s been that way more or less for over ONE HUNDRED YEARS!!
That makes it ancient as a tradition. And the whole god thingy if you look back to the Egyptians and the Neanderthals who weren’t invested with shopping it goes back thousands, Some say tens of thousands.
Afghanistan. Now the yanks have pulled out soldier takes selfie of ” last man standing”.
But we like to be selective at pcbycp, that’s what wins awards. The monotheistic grey bearded old bloke who started the Christian religion is meant to be about six thousand years old. Cos that’s what the bible says. Now that’s a really long time. And Jesus who died so that we may be deeply flawed, died over two thousand years ago.
For some of you, these figures are incomprehensively large.
Let’s put that in shopping time. That’s assuming the shopping centre is open seven days a week with the odd holiday, (on which the workers are fairly docked the holiday loading by those luminaries in the Fair work Commission) That’s about 4,368 hrs of shopping for the year. And since the immaculate conception, we’ve calculated it to be about 8,736,000 hours of shopping. And that’s just on a twelve hour week. If the new enterprise agreement is fixed we can expect 14, or even 18 hr days and the workers will be docked if they slack off.
Christmas. MATE-SHIP!
That’s what Christmas is truly about! Numbers! Beautiful figures!
As the PM said, “Go out and Shop”!
As for numbers……
It was fifty years ago man took the first photo of his planet and the entire world.
We realised that we were a fragile bubble held in the blackness of space.
Insignificant, Petty, less than a full stop to the shorthand of the universe and everything.
But spare a thought for the most distant object. It’s called
Proposed Chaddy on Mars.
“MACS0647”. Its age is equivalent to a light travel distance of 13.3 billion light-years (4 billion parsecs).
EARTH. Fifty years before we knew we were WELL AND TRULY FUCKED!!!
You’d think that was astounding, but there’s no shopping beyond our atmosphere, and free parking questionable. You wonder why we’d bother with Mars and space exploration in the first place.