Dear Merchants,
I’ve spent over $1,000 for XMAS gifts this year—all OUTSIDE of Nova Scotia. Why? Because you lame ass merchants don’t carry simple, popular items.
I can’t find a bit of sugar free candy anywhere. The candy places here laugh at me when I ask for it. Try buying something from the farmers’ market with debit… Nope! “Because it costs me to have one” said one lame-ass joker. OK, I thought, what would you rather… the $0.50 expense or a $70 purchase?
So, I bought gifts during my travels this year and online from merchants in Ontario and Alberta (BTW, free shipping)!
So fuck you Halifax merchants! I got what I wanted, sitting naked at home whilst enjoying a glass of wine.
And you wonder why no one is spending their money? —Mr. Rich Bitch
This article appears in Nov 22-28, 2012.
i would imagine the merchants of halifax forgo debit just to avoid the dubious pleasure of seeing your dangly bits, if that is your preferred shopping attire.
however, ditto on the debit bitch. i prefer it to carrying cash, but do both, in case.
I see Cyber Monday is in full swing.
What did ya get me, OB??!!
http://i.chzbgr.com/completestore/2011/8/2…
As I’ve said many times….there is the big problem IMO with Christmas ” I have spent over so far $1000.00 on Christmas gifts”
For too many people its all about presents, when it should actually be about Family/friends, acquaintences & neighbors, being nice to one another. Getting together with those you care for, enjoying some hospitality, & yes I believe there should be presents at least for the kids, but ask yourself ,do they really need multiple presents, do adults need to get one another another tie ? her 6th purse ? or 15th pair of shoes ??? Oh I know , a fuckin’ gift card ! Now that’s a caring gift eh ? That’s definately showing attention to the needs of those you supposedly care about !
Because of the attitude of ‘christmas is about giving presents’ it has gone from a extended family together time & instead its turned into a commercial payday for the store owners, a nightmare for shoppers & let us not forget the painful hurt caused to those who cannot afford the latest & “greatest” fad for christmas advertised this year ! The depression & increased suicide caused by all the hype about truely, nothing all that great.
As a matter of fact, if I didn’t have my friends & family, I wouldn’t even note the day of christmas, it would just be the 25th day of the last month of our year, no different than the 25th of November, or 25th August , just another day.
Fuck ya. All my shopping is going to be from the comfort of my computer. Farmers Market? You have to go through as much traffic to get to that money pit as you do to get to the BLIP, probably more. Idiots.
hey, how about just not buying anything for anyone except kids? in my family adults do not exchange presents. kids get presents.
and especially partners. no present exchange. the last thing i want is someone i care about getting frantic to find something that would please me, be something i want/don’t have already. it’s unneccesary anxiety. it was an ad by a watch company that got me on that road, decades ago. where the husband presents his wife with a lovely watch, and she turns aside and says ‘oh, (sigh) but i wanted a l*ngines’. i was so disgusted at the tone of that ad, and saw it in some degree everywhere. so i opted out. it has taken some convincing with my last few mates, but once they see i am serious, it becomes a more relaxed christmas (same with birthdays – no presents) and to heck with anyone on the outside who thinks it is odd.
a present should be an unexpected gift. a surprise. not blackmail by retailers.
(food items are in a different ballpark – i cook like a fiend)
Since I was a kid, I’ve been bombarded with ‘The true meaning of Christmas’ messages. Through books, church, kids TV, movies, and all sorts of media, the message has always been that Christmas isn’t about the material, but the immaterial.
Now, I don’t understand what the fuck happened to those ideals. It seems like it’s all a fairy tale that we tell kids, like the Tooth Fairy or Santa, it turns out that reality is much different. Kids should understand that the season is about giving (not receiving), hospitality, family and friends. But adults exhibit the attitude that it’s about spending money, stress, staying up to date with the latest fad, and having to endure time spent with the extended family.
Fake.
To me it is a lot of pressure to find stuff that people don’t really want. A time to spend a lot of money that people don’t really have. Most of the kids toys are broken or discarded due to lack of interest about a week after Christmas. IMO it is commercialism at its finest. I have cut way, way, down in order to maintain some sense of sanity.
Hey Blow: I got a nice red ribbon for you though honey!!!
I can see sugar-free candies being popular with those who are older or have diet restrictions, but even a diet conscious person like my self likes to be able to enjoy the taste of some homemade candies, sugar and all:D So it is understandable that sugar free candies are not as readily available as the regular kind. But seriously? I thought it was common knowledge to always bring cash with you to the market or any market for that matter, not your debit. Plus there is an ATM machine there, so you can go and take cash out. I would comment on the REAL meaning of christmas but i feel everyone else has pretty much said everything i would have. So happy holidays and blah blah blah. Gah Christmas makes me so depressed sometimes:(
I am heading into my season-affected dark period and Christmas does nothing but add to it. I’m with GDM, gifts for the kiddies only and keep even that to a minimum. People get financially submarined just to keep up appearances to friends and family. It’s all twisted and so sad and so depressing.
Of course there’s always Terry’s Chocolate Orange.
yeah, you can have mine
@More
“For too many people its all about presents, when it should actually be about Family/friends, acquaintances & neighbors, being nice to one another. Getting together with those you care for, enjoying some hospitality, & yes I believe there should be presents at least for the kids, but ask yourself ,do they really need multiple presents, do adults need to get one another another tie ? her 6th purse ? or 15th pair of shoes ??? Oh I know , a fuckin’ gift card ! Now that’s a caring gift eh ? “
The bitch isn’t about the meaning of Christmas. Its about a company who doesn’t use debit machines… its to MERCHANTS. Why would you take this completely out of context.. if it was someone’s birthday or a wedding gift and he wrote the same bitch, would you start talking about the meaning of those as well??
Anyway, good bitch, valid point, OP. Halifax sucks in many aspects..It’s visually appealing (somewhat), but the merchants here carry way over priced items, we are behind in fashion (for those who care about that), we are just a slow city.. we are snails, metaphorically speaking. I always use e-bay or online stores. They always tell us to support local companies..perhaps the local companies would give us more of a reason to support them, like not breaking our bank, or our 20 dollar bills because they don’t want to rent a debit machine.
I agree 100%
bitching is a fluid thing, much like diarrhea down your leg, it tends to snake in many paths. so the meander down christmas lane is very valid (esp since it is one i took myself)
I’ve taken a more marketable approach this year….
been as bad as I can be.
I plan to sell the inevitable coal windfall to NSP for a tidy profit….
And what the hell are you talking about?
You can buy diabetic candy at superstore, sobeys, walmart, lawtons, etc…
@ Coastreviewer, I have never been in a place besides a farmers market or a Flea/yard sale, that doesn’t accept debit !
So I can’t even grasp that concept (by the way …where are these places) … guess it shows just how little shopping I do & I can use my severed diget to count all the ‘malls’ I’ve been to this year ! Which btw will leave me space to count to 1 , in case I do go to one (ummmm….not happening unless someone pays me to go) Although to be fair I zip by Mic Mac all the time when going to visit my folks ! But I don’t consider driving by at 80/90 klicks to be shopping at a mall ~:)
o.p., a grand don’t buy fuck anymore, here or anywhere else. i have seen me spend that much in a day, and still have shit to get for people. nowadays, a couple of games systems and games, bring you to that, real quick. this year is going to be lean for a lot of people, self included.
here avast0, put your own order in.
http://www.portablenorthpole.com/home
http://magicsanta.ca/homepage.html
don’t bother to thank me.
hey sweetie, want me with or without the wrapping. it can be easily arranged. but yeah, christmas isn’t the same anymore. my little one looks forward toly one thing at that time of year, she gets to spend a whole week with her grampy.
but i do buy the odd thing here and there. i have told everyone this yeah, that i only want gummies. any kind will do.bears, sharks, worms, whatever. get your mind out of the gutter ivan.
Kids are usually easier to shop for. I’m to the point of just getting gift cards for adults and they can get what they want rather than stressing over what to get everyone.
If there’s no sugar-free candy, why the hell do I run into it all the time while I’m looking for the good stuff. Shelves and shelves of that splenda shit. Debit transactions don’t cost just the .50c or so. They have to pay rental or lease fees to have the terminal, plus the cost of the phone/cable line it runs on, plus paper.
Also, you sound like a shitty little ponce.
lego for all my friends *sob*
Those stupid business people are the same ones, on the downtown business council, that lobbied to have two forty eight floor buildings filled with pedestrian traffic squashed. And they say we have a defeatist attitude… nope, we’re just plain stupid!!!!!!!
SUMMIT: Dec 9th. Watch for notification soon, guys.
Anyone else wanting to come email prettykittylady@gmail.com
Many a benny shall be had.
Any chance they make morning mimosa’s?
oh yeah and they have good bloodies too. i have a driver^^
Mmm love Eggs Benny.
I will 100% be at this summit. I hope GDM and BLOW ME go to, so they can see what a tubby skinny needle dick pitted souless creature I really am. I need to figure out a way to prove I am really me though. PK, I think I still get summit emails, I will send you one.
Hmm, and what do you do for a living? A strong local economy matters.
it’s possible that i might go, but only if i can bring woggie.
Oh Gary, how cute you are. Well, I might go. I put in an email to PK for the particulars. Maybe she will answer me soon. I’ll let you know sweetie….. 🙂
“I need to figure out a way to prove I am really me though” – Easy, we’ll just look for the guy wearing chaps and smoking a joint (jk) 😉
Excellent! I’ll be able to get in a round of Summit Talks and a dose of Eggs Benny before the world ends a few weeks later.
It might even end BEFORE the summit. Ever think of that Leebob?
haha, there we go. The chaps are assless, of course. Oh and I have a tramp stamp that reads ‘The Cunnilingus Kid’ in tribal thorny lettering. And the joint, for sure.
😉
“The chaps are assless, of course. Oh and I have a tramp stamp that reads ‘The Cunnilingus Kid’ in tribal thorny lettering.”
Like travelling under the radar do you Furious.
Blow and Woggie at the summmit? I’ll put twenty down that chairs will be flying within 15 minutes. lol
FYI: Non-assless chaps are called pants. Chaps by their very definition ARE assless. Saying “assless chaps” is like saying “wet water”. Just thought you’d like to know tf.
Nope. But thanks!
Saying assless chaps makes it clear that there are no pants under the chaps, as saying ‘chaps with no pants under them so my bumbum is visible’ lacks a certain something.
Well I hope not, wogdog! I don’t want to greet the end of the world on an empty stomach 🙁
why would you say that troo?woggie and i are close friends, and the closer, the better, wink,wink. but i’ll try to behave.
sigh, no it doesn’t make it clear fs. maybe in your own mind. to actually state your intent would be ‘chaps with no pants’. because, as oc pointed out, ‘assless chaps’ by definition have no seat. they are just leggings, joined. perhaps you could take remedial english after your creative writing class. you may be bouncing around in a cart sans horse.
and do bring a wee towel to sit on at the summit. i may want to visit that restaurant at some time, and don’t want your will-nots stuck to the upholstery of the chair on which i may be sitting.
I’m gonna get everyone an ashtray from an antique store. Except my boyfriend, I’ll probably get him the stuffed ET that’s been in the window of the antique shop forever.
I love the Lego idea PG. I actually got my 25-year-old brother some Lego for Christmas last year, so he would be reminded of how Christmas was when we were younger :D! I’m hoping to get some looseleaf and laundry detergent from my parents this year… my 7-year-old, Grape-Escape-Getting self just vomited. Anyone remember Grape Escape :D?
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?feature=youtu…
YESSSS. I hope that link works.. I’m on my phone
Sorry to burst your bubble there, noob. I have been commenting on this site for a year and a half. The idea that I arbitrarily and without reason created a fat hating alter ego to argue with myself is fucking ridiculous. As I said in my bang on criticism of you on a another thread, you are a know it all. You make connections in your mind, and fit the pieces around them. And your poem was fucking terrible. I will continue to say assless chaps, and continue to not care about people correcting me. And your comments about how I would never ignore such an insult show just how little you know about trolls. Gotta love 60 year olds discovering the internet.
I think Oceanckick was talking to me Furious as she ended her post with ‘tf’. In fact, I was just applying a direct quote from Furious to which I made a somewhat sarcastic reply.
To be sure Oceanchick I was not challenging the veracity of the ‘assless chaps’ redundancy as put forth by yourself and GDM.
I believe Furious (the real one) used the term ‘assless chaps’ because if he said was going to be wearing a pair of chaps, folks might think
he was going to arrive with a man on each arm.
Of course ‘assless chaps’ could be men with flat behinds. Anyway, I wanted to post this before any confusion came out of the matter.
Oh yeah, Blow, when I was talking about chairs flying, I was thinking more of you and Woggie versus the rest of the bitchers.
Hopefully nothing like that happens. Nothing worse than having your face pushed into your Eggs Benedict because there’s a melee going on around you.
who on earth is fs posting to now? not sure how many other 60 year olds there are in this discussion but since i am an IT mgr and wrote in fortran IV for an ibm 360 in 1969 it can’t be me.
silly boy.
and yeh TF, oceanchick used your initials, but her posting was directed at our barely literate friend.
I swear to god, if someone fucks with my Eggs Benedict, there WILL be a melee going on!
How about we schedule the Riot for dessert? I usually don’t eat dessert anyways, so I’d be a much more jolly rioter 🙂
any fisticuffs and no cookies for anyone
i thought the riotous behaviour was about blow-me and woggie getting frisky on the table top. or under it. doin’ the thumper thing.
I understood what he meant by “assless”…made me think of this scene =)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=playe…
I am sure I saw you post your age as 60 at some point. My apologies. Either way, you get the idea. I was responding top your assertion that if my doppleganger was in fact real, I would be raging in protest. Foolishness. My posts are 100% irreverant self amusement. I am having fun, writing things I find funny into the ether. What you, or anyone else thinks about what I write means very, very little. I think I drop gems like pearls and rubies, for boys made of puppy dog tail, and girls with boobies.
Don’t like it? There is a handy dandy feature to show your displeasure. I don’t give a care. Nothing of who I really am as a person comes across through my posts. They are very rarely to be taken seriously. But I can read you like a book, you so and so. I know for example, that you were married and have children, but are now a lesbian. Using just that info, I could make some fairly good assumptions about who you are. But I won’t. Instead I will repost my poem.
^^^ argh…i miss candy! he could recite a grocery list and make me laugh
‘you so-and-so’ ??? lol. back at ya..
nincompoop! poopy-head! stinky-bum!
fs, your judgement was so very flawed about my ‘internet’ experience that if i were you, i would really start to doubt my thought processes.
hugo, what’s that scene from? this scene always makes me laugh http://movieclips.com/BpmYP-uncle-buck-mov…
you don’t have to worry about me going off on anyone. i am in control of my self, and woggie is in control of herself too. hmmmm, gdm, under the table? brings up all kinds of ideas here, as to tabletop, nah, too much of a show i would think.
as long as everyone stays civil, i can be too. i miss seeing ivan and hugo, and a few more. but my going is dependant on my honey, woggie.
No.
who are you speaking to? you don’t like john candy? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrCPIrs90eg
here’s quarter to pay a rat to gnaw that thing off your face. That answer your question? It should, if you are also a fan.
Why do I have a feeling that nukka and his ‘homies’ are gonna crash the summit and shoot up the place?
It’d still be a good last meal though…
Kitty, you had better have some proper screening in place before letting the world know where this is going down…
Sounds like my typical family reunion.
Actually, GDM, my comment was directed at tf and anyone who says “assless chaps” as opposed to “pantsless chaps” which correctly conjures the image of naked buttocks visible in chaps. Assless chaps don’t make that distinction as the wearer could be attired in anything underneath, not nothing.
I’m with Cap. someone gonna get a hurt on if they fuck with my Eggs Benny. :p
NO ONE TOUCHES ANYONE’S EGGS BENNY WITHOUT WRITTEN CONSENT. I will join you in the melee Cap’n, because you can’t spell melee without Mel!!
Bahahaha, you can’t spell Melee without Mel. Nice one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VopC0g5UViM
paingirl – Armed and Dangerous
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090660/
I think we have it now OC. The very nature of chaps is to have no ass so ‘assless chaps’ is meaningless. But, and this is a big but, if you no pants under said chaps and no underwear, there you have it. Cheeks for the world to see. Very good.
Just be forewarned that I will be flogging this dead horse again in the not-to-distant future. Just because.
I must be a freak, because I love buying Christmas presents for people I care about.
Which has what to do with pantsless chaps Brenda?
What’s it like to be a consumer whore? You’re an idiot.