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[Tha_Phantom]

Aploughse

[GoktimusPrime]

Happy Palindromic Pi Day, everyone!

[griffin]

It's still August.... still winter.... and Woolies already has out a large assortment of Christmas baked foods.

[Tha_Phantom]

It's still August.... still winter.... and Woolies already has out a large assortment of Christmas baked foods.

I don't know why, but someone has put out a sled ornament on the kitchen table at work and it bothers me to see it out so far away from December.
I can deal with Christmas being shoved down my throat during the final month or so of the year, but give it a rest for the other 10-11 months.

[griffin]

This was puzzling yesterday.
In Kmart I noticed that they were almost completely out of stock of their Hotwheels/Matchbox cars from Mattel. It's not like kmart are no longer wanting to sell them, because they still had the shelf tags up... it's almost like Mattel has run out of stock, for a long enough time for Kmart to run out, and in the quiet time of year for toys too. It shouldn't have anything to do with supply disruptions from covid, as other Mattel toylines are still being released, and other toylines in general... so it is just their cars that seems to be affected by something at the moment.

I don't know why, but someone has put out a sled ornament on the kitchen table at work and it bothers me to see it out so far away from December.
I can deal with Christmas being shoved down my throat during the final month or so of the year, but give it a rest for the other 10-11 months.

I know how you feel... back in the last few days of September, one of the radio stations that I had on in the car was telling people to start getting their Christmas Lights ready for this year's christmas lights competition. That's just way too early... not just for getting the christmas lights out, but also to be hearing about it on the radio already. It just makes the sphincter tighten, as it just conjures up all those negative feelings of only recently being sick of hearing and seeing christmas stuff constantly on the radio, on tv, and in stores, in the lead up to december 25th. It's supposed to be a wonderful, exciting day to look forward to (like us oldies did as kids, unable to go to sleep christmas eve because of the big day to come), but now it is a day of dread, that I spend weeks looking forward to it being over. Capitalism as ruined it, as retailers and advertisers try to outdo each other, not to propagate the true meaning of christmas (of family and giving), but to make money off a religious event that most don't even acknowledge or respect anyway.

[DELTAprime]

I know at work a few weeks back we were very low or even out of all but the basic Hot Wheels. Maybe they have a supply issue. 🤷*♀️

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Thinking of plastic inspired from the packaging thread and I thought, one massive source of microplastic that we are probably subjected to would be all the particles that peel off from car tyres. The amount of stuff that we breathe in must be horrible.