My True Love Is A Wealthy Chap
Buying all the items mentioned in the carol, The Twelve days of Christmas would cost the true love $34,588.65 according to financial services firm PNC Wealth Management. Or maybe you could do it more cheaply as another firm said that its 78 gifts in the song (which is what it adds up to) and therefore a bargain at £25,765 .....
But one newspaper reported it as totalling £117,461.51 which seems to have been a bit high by any standards and is not what is on the PNC website ......
...... A true love indeed at that price.
We Overspend Every Year
Britons are expected to spend £19billion on presents this Christmas. They are also predicted to travel 5.9 billion miles worldwide to see families and friends. 308million slices of turkey will be eaten and an average of two board games each will be played ..... One of those games will cause a row. These predictions were from a British Airways survey.
No Partridge In The Pear Tree
But not Partridges in the tree .... a flock of partridges was stolen from a farm in Reigate Surrey.
Champagne Christmas
But, never mind that partridge and its pear tree ... 13 Co-Op convenience stores are going to stock Gold Wrapped Crystal Champagne at £160 each. This drink is apparently favoured by 'stars' such as JAY-Z and Jennifer Aniston ... cant see this taking off in Bolton.
Silly Cow
A nativity scenes cow, did a runner and escaped twice from a church in Philadelphia USA. 'Storming' as she was called, was pursued on to a freeway (motorway) before being caught on the fourth floor of a multi-storey car park.
Freedom Flight
Dozens of Christmas turkeys made a dash for freedom after their transporter tipped over on a motorway slip road. They scattered across Junction 5 of the M5 motorway and it took police, firemen, RSPCA officers several hours to round them up. A few went to Turkey heaven 10 days earlier than had been planned. Its believed that none of the 640 Turkeys got away or were unaccounted for.
Deerly Missed
Monopoly and Drambuie are two reindeer who forsook the magic of a showbusiness career in a winter wonderland event at the Wildwoods Paintballing centre Munlochy, Black Isle, Scotland .... and did a Dasher and Dancer impression, by leaping fencing and doing a runner for freedom. They were recaptured outside the Black Isle Brewery.
Santa Suit Haram
Indonesian hard-line islamic (are there any other types?) group 'Islamic Defenders Front' are threatening to raid businesses to check that Muslims are not being 'forced to wear Santa or Christmas outfits'.
The Force Was With Him
A Star Wars fan in Lafayette, California has built a 29 foot replica of the Millennium Falcon as a Christmas roof decoration.
Colby Powell and his family and friends have previous on this .... two years ago they built a 23 foot replica of the Death Star.
Life's Work Wasted
Justo Gallego Martinez, a 92 year old former monk has spent 56 years building his own 'cathederal' in Mejorada del Campo, Spain .... however it could be a life work in vain as it has no building permission, nor architects certificates and will likely be demolished when he dies. .
(Orc) Thugs Attack Elves
Its a sad day in broken Britain when Santa has to be protected from being attacked. But we have now reached that new low, well in Bridlington, East Riding Yorkshire, where a Santa was touring for the local round table charity. Santa and his little (elf) helpers were surrounded by at least 10 chav teenage thugs from a local estate.
They first abused Santa as "a Paedo", then threw cans (presumably emptied of the lager they undoubtedly had contained), at him and then demanded that the collection buckets be handed over to them or the kids would be beaten up .... some of Santa's helpers were as young as five. It took volunteers forming a ring around them and Santa, to allow them to escape. One of the volunteers said "Its a sad state of affairs".
A message on the Round Table's Facebook page said: "Thanks to everyone who came out to see Santa tonight. Unfortunately, the night was spoilt towards the end. It is NOT acceptable nor human behaviour to throw cans at our volunteers, nor is it to spit, swear and try steal money and sweets off our volunteers - especially from the children committing the above."
"Our volunteers do NOT do this to be abused in anyway and certainly do not expect it. When we have to put our children in the car for their safety it is a bad day. If this happens again, the latter part of tonight’s route will be cut."
"We appreciate they are in the minority and it would be a shame if all the appreciative individuals had to miss out on Santa’s visit due to the stupidity of a few."
Buying all the items mentioned in the carol, The Twelve days of Christmas would cost the true love $34,588.65 according to financial services firm PNC Wealth Management. Or maybe you could do it more cheaply as another firm said that its 78 gifts in the song (which is what it adds up to) and therefore a bargain at £25,765 .....
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| The Twelve Days Of Christmas Are Not Cheap |
But one newspaper reported it as totalling £117,461.51 which seems to have been a bit high by any standards and is not what is on the PNC website ......
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| Costly Christmas Indeed ...... |
...... A true love indeed at that price.
We Overspend Every Year
Britons are expected to spend £19billion on presents this Christmas. They are also predicted to travel 5.9 billion miles worldwide to see families and friends. 308million slices of turkey will be eaten and an average of two board games each will be played ..... One of those games will cause a row. These predictions were from a British Airways survey.
No Partridge In The Pear Tree
But not Partridges in the tree .... a flock of partridges was stolen from a farm in Reigate Surrey.
Champagne Christmas
But, never mind that partridge and its pear tree ... 13 Co-Op convenience stores are going to stock Gold Wrapped Crystal Champagne at £160 each. This drink is apparently favoured by 'stars' such as JAY-Z and Jennifer Aniston ... cant see this taking off in Bolton.
Silly Cow
A nativity scenes cow, did a runner and escaped twice from a church in Philadelphia USA. 'Storming' as she was called, was pursued on to a freeway (motorway) before being caught on the fourth floor of a multi-storey car park.
Freedom Flight
Dozens of Christmas turkeys made a dash for freedom after their transporter tipped over on a motorway slip road. They scattered across Junction 5 of the M5 motorway and it took police, firemen, RSPCA officers several hours to round them up. A few went to Turkey heaven 10 days earlier than had been planned. Its believed that none of the 640 Turkeys got away or were unaccounted for.
Deerly Missed
Monopoly and Drambuie are two reindeer who forsook the magic of a showbusiness career in a winter wonderland event at the Wildwoods Paintballing centre Munlochy, Black Isle, Scotland .... and did a Dasher and Dancer impression, by leaping fencing and doing a runner for freedom. They were recaptured outside the Black Isle Brewery.
Santa Suit Haram
Indonesian hard-line islamic (are there any other types?) group 'Islamic Defenders Front' are threatening to raid businesses to check that Muslims are not being 'forced to wear Santa or Christmas outfits'.
The Force Was With Him
A Star Wars fan in Lafayette, California has built a 29 foot replica of the Millennium Falcon as a Christmas roof decoration.
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| The Force Was Strong This Christmas |
Colby Powell and his family and friends have previous on this .... two years ago they built a 23 foot replica of the Death Star.
Life's Work Wasted
Justo Gallego Martinez, a 92 year old former monk has spent 56 years building his own 'cathederal' in Mejorada del Campo, Spain .... however it could be a life work in vain as it has no building permission, nor architects certificates and will likely be demolished when he dies. .
(Orc) Thugs Attack Elves
Its a sad day in broken Britain when Santa has to be protected from being attacked. But we have now reached that new low, well in Bridlington, East Riding Yorkshire, where a Santa was touring for the local round table charity. Santa and his little (elf) helpers were surrounded by at least 10 chav teenage thugs from a local estate.
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| Santa's Helpers - Started Out Happy .... |
They first abused Santa as "a Paedo", then threw cans (presumably emptied of the lager they undoubtedly had contained), at him and then demanded that the collection buckets be handed over to them or the kids would be beaten up .... some of Santa's helpers were as young as five. It took volunteers forming a ring around them and Santa, to allow them to escape. One of the volunteers said "Its a sad state of affairs".
A message on the Round Table's Facebook page said: "Thanks to everyone who came out to see Santa tonight. Unfortunately, the night was spoilt towards the end. It is NOT acceptable nor human behaviour to throw cans at our volunteers, nor is it to spit, swear and try steal money and sweets off our volunteers - especially from the children committing the above."
"Our volunteers do NOT do this to be abused in anyway and certainly do not expect it. When we have to put our children in the car for their safety it is a bad day. If this happens again, the latter part of tonight’s route will be cut."
"We appreciate they are in the minority and it would be a shame if all the appreciative individuals had to miss out on Santa’s visit due to the stupidity of a few."
What a depressing story about broken Britain. What have we come to when the council estates are full of such people?
ReplyDeleteThe politics of bringing every one down to the lowest level of aspiration and manners is reaping it's rewards in the new Britain.
Depressing, yes. Unexpected, no. Thanks for the comment.
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