Tuesday 26 December 2006

MISANTHROPY RULES OK

Once more and once less. It’s over, folks. The day of the year most eagerly anticipated by the bucolic majority, deplored by the misanthropic minority, and ignored by the tiny but resolute band of antiChristmasians.

So what was it all in aid of for you, that laborious inscribing of cards, wrapping up of presents, hours spent in the kitchen slaving away over a hot bird – read that how you will - the last-minute dash to the thronged shops? The inordinate guzzling and boozing, the hollow-hearted backslapping and insincere joviality exchanged between family members and acquaintances you haven’t set eyes on since last Christmas, or maybe even longer, and have no intention of keeping in regular touch with? And now the hangover?

Here in the burrow we carried on as normal, with just a touch or two of festive fare. No-one ate or drank too much, but we all had plenty. We are not pissed off.

But almost everyone else seems to be:

Children – who of course rule this particular roost – are pissed off because they didn’t get all the prezzies they hankered after.

Parents are pissed off because, after all their frantic efforts and overheated spending “for the sake of the kids”, the kids are still pissed off.

Shopkeepers are pissed off because the punters didn’t spend “enough” this year [they never do, according to the trade associations].

The Queen is pissed off because not even Alf Garnett stands to attention for her Christmas broadcast any more.

Christians are pissed off because nonbelievers have once again “hijacked” Christmas, and some devilish Politically Correct trolls are even scheming to abolish it and hand it back to the Pagans, from whom the Christians originally stole it.

Non-Christians are pissed off because of all the moans and wails of the Christians, and the latters’ insistence that the “real” meaning of Christmas is all the Gospel mumbo-jumbo about virgin births, no room at the inn, three wise men, Herod’s paedophobic spree, etc. etc.

Santa is pissed off because there are scarcely any chimneys left that are wide enough for his Santamobile to descend, so he has to clamber down himself getting all sooty and dirty. Also, he has to stable and feed the reindeer for all the rest of the year with little productive result except mounds of reindeer shit.

The reindeer are pissed off because Rudolf made it big to stardom, and they are still just walk-on parts.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

'The Queen is pissed off because not even Alf Garnett stands to attention for her Christmas broadcast any more.'
She still does that does she?.
Wonderful, I didn't realise.

Jose said...

I don't think the king here has realised that he is still a decorative, though costly, figure. The same thing with him as with Blonde Albion's queen.

And I'd say only the naive, gullible people still watch those scenes with awe.

Life is like that, alas!

anticant said...

Jose, I think that your king has played a constructive role in the transition from fascism to democracy.

And, being interested in history, it's remarkable what a survival value the House of Bourbon has managed to achieve. Louis XIV would be gratified! [And he, by the way, is said to have been the son of Cardinal Mazarin, not of Louis XIII. Too late for DNA samples, unfortunately.]

As for our own monarchy, they do provide a national soap opera and tourist attraction. Although a republican in principle, I've yet to be convinced that President Blair or whoever would be better. As Winston Churchill said of parliamentary democracy, it's far from perfect but everything else would almost cetainly be worse.

zola a social thing said...

Anticant : Your WC guy said that before noon.

anticant said...

He also said to a woman MP who accused him of being disgustingly drunk: "Madam, you are disgustingly ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning."

zola a social thing said...

In the morning I shall remain ugly and drunk and happy with it.
So there.

Anonymous said...

Zola said it, we didn't !!

Anonymous said...

Deploring Christmas "misanthropic"?

Don't make me laugh!