NationStates Jolt Archive

I give up. Like the multinational corporations which rule my life, I will treat the month of November as the beginning of the "Holiday Season."
So, what do people here want for Christmas? You don't have to celebrate Christmas, anyone who suffers from Seasonal Greed is welcome to post their wishes. If you've been good, the Mods will make them come true. I guarantee that.

I want some socks.
Not that I'll get any, though. No, it'll be ponies and speedboats like it is every year, and I'll have another 12 months of horrible blisters all over my feet.

I want people to stop talking about christmas two months before the holiday.

I want people to stop talking about christmas two months before the holiday.

Erm, it's just a wee bit over a month to the holiday.

To have the gifts I give be well received.

Erm, it's just a wee bit over a month to the holiday.

I've been hearing about it since 3 weeks before Halloween.

I want tenure.

I want a car.

I've been hearing about it since 3 weeks before Halloween.

Several years ago I stopped watching TV and listening to the radio. That cut out about 90% of it.

I want smiles and hugs, and for the kids in my life to be happy and healthy.

Then I wanna get down on the floor and play with all the neat stuff I bought them. ;) With them, of course!

Several years ago I stopped watching TV and listening to the radio. That cut out about 90% of it.
I never listen to the radio, and rarely actually watch TV...I just have a few friends who talk about it constantly. One already has a fake tree up in their apartment.
I want smiles and hugs, and for the kids in my life to be happy and healthy.

Then I wanna get down on the floor and play with all the neat stuff I bought them. ;) With them, of course!

Thats alot of kids for a teacher ;)


I'm not looking for anything. My family is going on a cruise...it will be good, but beyond that, I want nothing.

Can I get some clarification here? Does it have to be one of those reasonable answers like the multitude of calenders and kinda fancy but not really chocolate that we all get every year. Or can it be one of those totally not gonna happen in a million years cause they don't sell badass hovertanks to people like me type answers? 'Cause if it's the latter, I want a badass hovertank that shouldn't be anywhere near me.... filled with shitty chocolate and like 5 calenders, including that kinda dumb motivational one with the dude on top of the mountain that you know you could never climb cause your to busy raining hell on Earth with a snazzy new hovertank.

I never listen to the radio, and rarely actually watch TV...I just have a few friends who talk about it constantly. One already has a fake tree up in their apartment.

Wow. Luckily, all my friends are as annoyed with Christmas' constant annexation of calendar space as I am.

As for what I actually want, nothing really. I've never been really big into presents. I only buy presents for my niece and nephew and have asked my family to either get me nothing or to just give me cash. I try to keep the amount of extraneous stuff I have to a bare minimum.

World peace and all governments renouncing the use of force and disbanding their armies.

Also, 20 kilograms of uranium-235.

*evil laughter*

I seriously doubt all the mods and the kitchen sink could get me the Mac Pro I've been lusting after...

I wouldn't say no to a few hundred feet of Det-Cord or an EMP generator though, I have a school PA system I've been dying to get rid of as well as the Dells in the computer labs! :D (insert maniacal laugh here)

Don't we all want a monkey? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeqPaI9TCM4&feature=related) :(

I want an army of clones, all of them clones of me...I also want them fully moblilsed for my dastardly deeds....:cool:bwahahahahaha MUWHAHAHAHAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Ummm why are you guys staring?

I also want the new HK MP7 (http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/wii_zapper_3.jpg).

I'd also like a few hot girls I know but I know I won't get that. :(

Stuff I'll never have:

http://www.newpiper.com/aircraft/images/headers/archer1.jpg

Piper Archer III

Stuff that I'll have: I just want my girlfriend, family and friends to be healthy and happy.

Recognition that Chanukah's in fifteen days?

Roomba! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqhIMFQNGCg

Roomba! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqhIMFQNGCg

Is that for real?!?! :eek:

My family needs one. :D

For Christmas I want a job working in the cheese section of Whole Foods Market. I've applied already, so cross your fingers.

Books.

A trip to Bodyflight Bedford :

http://www.bodyflight.net/potw-bodyflightbedford005.jpg

You shouldn't care that corporate America is willing to force Christmas (or whichever holiday is of your choosing) down our merry throats. What you really should care about is how Americans are so willingly accepting such a marketing blitz and feeling the need to go buy things 2-3 months before they should.

Since America's corporations are driven by the pocketbooks of consumers, they have to deal with two competing solutions - either allow American consumers to dictate their sales or create another way of marketing to consumers such that they will spend money on things they wouldn't or spend that money at a time they normally wouldn't. So, essentially, by creating an awareness of the coming of the December holidays, they implant the consumers with the idea that they must either get their shopping done now or get it done during a rush.

This is, unfortunately, how major corporations work. However, like I said previously, you really shouldn't concern yourself over American corporations - only the sheep that shell out their money to them.

I want people to stop talking about christmas two months before the holiday.

Amen to that, brother. *bows*

I give up. Like the multinational corporations which rule my life, I will treat the month of November as the beginning of the "Holiday Season."
So, what do people here want for Christmas? You don't have to celebrate Christmas, anyone who suffers from Seasonal Greed is welcome to post their wishes. If you've been good, the Mods will make them come true. I guarantee that.

Can we just cancel the whole thing? It's ridiculously expensive, a big inconvenience to everyone, unhealthy and rather bad for the environment.

Can we just cancel the whole thing? It's ridiculously expensive, a big inconvenience to everyone, unhealthy and rather bad for the environment.

Why don't you just refuse to take part?

Why don't you just refuse to take part?

I do. But that doesn't get me out of the traffic jams on the way back from work (cause everybody needs to go to and buy presents), and it doesn't get me away from the dreadful chrismas tunes that have been playing at Tescos for the past 2 months now, and it most certainly doesn't get me away from being hassled by neighbours and relatives on "christmas visits".

I give up. Like the multinational corporations which rule my life, I will treat the month of November as the beginning of the "Holiday Season."
So, what do people here want for Christmas? You don't have to celebrate Christmas, anyone who suffers from Seasonal Greed is welcome to post their wishes. If you've been good, the Mods will make them come true. I guarantee that.

To be another species entirely. :(

Or a Nintendo Wii.

Can we just cancel the whole thing? It's ridiculously expensive, a big inconvenience to everyone, unhealthy and rather bad for the environment.

No. I happen to like Christmas. But then again, I'm lucky. My family is big and all in the area, and I like pretty much everyone in it, and we do very traditional festive Christmas parties. Like, three of them in a row. Wait, no, four.

i want everyone who thinks symbolic value is a default condition of the universe to stop demonizing everyone who does not. and powerful nations who for the past decade have done nothing but destroy to start remembering how build and do so in harmony with nature instead. honestly and truely replacing the infrastructure of nations they have graduitously and deliberately destroyed with actually improved transportation and energy networks. and those not dependent on people indenturing themselves for personal vehicules anywhere, nor upon the use of combustion in any form to generate the energy neccessary to do so.

(and the same, not just to replace what they've so callusly and unneccessarily destroyed elsewhere but for their own homelands as well)

i want to live in a world where creating and exploring are encouraged and aggressiveness is NOT romantacized nor rewarded.

i want midwinter's eve to be called midwinter's eve and celibrated on the winter solstice. (and the birthday of that religeous leader to be arround the middle of the TENTH month, where it MUCH MORE likely happened, if it absolutely must be at all).

i'd also like to be allowed to build and live in a very unconventional very small house out in the boonies and without having to indenture myself to anyone in order to do so. (and everyone else be allowed also to build one, wherever it might be sensible to do so, instead of being forced to do so where it might not by having to own/indenture themselves for, the land to build it on).

a midi keyboard for myself, and maybe a good amp and speakers, and wi-fi equiped laptops for the homeless. and warm places and good food for everyone who needs it too. and not just for one day or night either.

=^^=
.../\...

Books.

Yay!

Kari Byron pop-up books!
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>.>

i want everyone who thinks symbolic value is a default condition of the universe to stop demonizing everyone who does not. and powerful nations who for the past decade have done nothing but destroy to start remembering how build and do so in harmony with nature instead. honestly and truely replacing the infrastructure of nations they have graduitously and deliberately destroyed with actually improved transportation and energy networks. and those not dependent on people indenturing themselves for personal vehicules anywhere, nor upon the use of combustion in any form to generate the energy neccessary to do so.

(and the same, not just to replace what they've so callusly and unneccessarily destroyed elsewhere but for their own homelands as well)

i want to live in a world where creating and exploring are encouraged and aggressiveness is NOT romantacized nor rewarded.

i want midwinter's eve to be called midwinter's eve and celibrated on the winter solstice. (and the birthday of that religeous leader to be arround the middle of the TENTH month, where it MUCH MORE likely happened, if it absolutely must be at all).

i'd also like to be allowed to build and live in a very unconventional very small house out in the boonies and without having to indenture myself to anyone in order to do so. (and everyone else be allowed also to build one, wherever it might be sensible to do so, instead of being forced to do so where it might not by having to own/indenture themselves for, the land to build it on).

a midi keyboard for myself, and maybe a good amp and speakers, and wi-fi equiped laptops for the homeless. and warm places and good food for everyone who needs it too. and not just for one day or night either.

=^^=
.../\...

I thought the purported religious leader was born in March.

For the most part, I agree with you.

Not to be near North Pole

Not to be near North Pole

Shouldn't you be in a hot mineral spring somewhere in your skivvies with a hot brunette or something, being reminded where her eyes actually are?
Some people's priorities ... :rolleyes:

Lebensraum.

I want George Dubya Dush with AssQuake(TM) (http://www.celebritybuttplugs.com/products.html#).

Um, I want the following for Christmas

The Republicans to win the US Presidental Elections
The Conservative Party to win the Canadian Elections with a majority
The National Party to win the New Zealand Elections
The Liberal Party to win the Australian Elections

I just want the world to be covered blue with Conservatism :D

I want a lightsaber (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NE5elL30w4)

Shouldn't you be in a hot mineral spring somewhere in your skivvies with a hot brunette or something, being reminded where her eyes actually are?
Some people's priorities ... :rolleyes:

...they have eyes now?!

Is that for real?!?! :eek:

My family needs one. :D

My grandma got one a couple of years ago for Christmas. Every time I visit I spend at least 10 minutes just pressing buttons.

I've been hearing about it since 3 weeks before Halloween.

I have too, and it's annoying as anything. But I finally realized the way to happiness led not in rejecting the allure of commercialism, but embracing it. I now exist in a nirvana-like state of greed, opulence, and plastic. It's...it's beautiful.

i want a printed photo album of my favourite pics

I want a hug.

I want a hug.

*hugs*

Having watched the Gadget Show last night, an Innespace Dolphin

http://www.innespace.com/VidShastaLake

Years ago I used to give presents, and found they didn't exactly like them or found they were duplicates. 2 years ago I gave vouchers to everyone; they liked them but found they were rather constrictive. For last Christmas I just gave everyone cash. They were all happy; they could buy what they wanted and only had themselves to blame if they didn't like what they got.

Oh, one exception, my grand parents whom I purchased a complete Ella Fitzgerald song books cd set which they love - they listen to it when they go on holidays in their camper van.

*hugs*
*hugs back*

Thank you, thank you! :)

An iPod.

I'm sorry, but it's true.

Don't hurt me.

I give up. Like the multinational corporations which rule my life, I will treat the month of November as the beginning of the "Holiday Season."
So, what do people here want for Christmas? You don't have to celebrate Christmas, anyone who suffers from Seasonal Greed is welcome to post their wishes. If you've been good, the Mods will make them come true. I guarantee that.

The Orange Box.

I'm a simple man.

I saw reindeer skins at the markets last week. I quite like them, unfortunately they were too much for my meagre income, especially at this time of forced expenditure :(

A ticket to the Nightwish concert early next year.

I want a Billion Dollars......

....or a PS3

I want to quit my job. I'm even going to get that. My last day is December 21. Yay!

Other than that, I would like to have Seether's new CD or maybe a voucher for a yarn store so I can get knitting needles and yarn when I have time to knit again.

...they have eyes now?!

That's what the guidebook says!

Um, I want the following for Christmas

The Republicans to win the US Presidental ElectionsYou'll get coal instead. Poor, poor choice.
:mad:

I just want the world to be covered blue with Conservatism :D
Blue? As in, autoerotic asphyxiation?

You'll get coal instead. Poor, poor choice.
:mad:

Why is it so bad? Actually, thinking about it, the Democratic Party will wreck the US Economy, and that must be good for New Zealand :D

I want Jesus to fly back down to earth & by me a beer.

You'll get coal instead. Poor, poor choice.
:mad:

Blue? As in, autoerotic asphyxiation?

No, blue as in the colour of the Republican party...

No, blue as in the colour of the Republican party...

Are you talking about the American party? They're red, the Democrats are blue.

I give up. Like the multinational corporations which rule my life, I will treat the month of November as the beginning of the "Holiday Season."
So, what do people here want for Christmas? You don't have to celebrate Christmas, anyone who suffers from Seasonal Greed is welcome to post their wishes. If you've been good, the Mods will make them come true. I guarantee that.

A mortgage payment

Are you talking about the American Party? They're red, the Democrats are blue.

I'll take that as a shot and a miss then...

I give up. Like the multinational corporations which rule my life, I will treat the month of November as the beginning of the "Holiday Season."
So, what do people here want for Christmas? You don't have to celebrate Christmas, anyone who suffers from Seasonal Greed is welcome to post their wishes. If you've been good, the Mods will make them come true. I guarantee that.

I want Lebensraum! And I will take it from whoever gets in my way!