{Reposting this from waaay back in the achieves from 2008}
This has had my blood boiling every year at this time. Makes me feel all stabby! I just farkin hate it…does my head in. Those that know me, I can hear you bloody groaning..you know where I am going with this..well just shut up smarty pants!
I would like to put forward a petition to Mr Rudd Ms Gillard, to ban this item from sale and or display in Australia at Christmas. It is highly offensive and just down right un Australian! Maybe we could also get Senator Conroy to add it into his wonderful new filter.
What is it you ask? What is this awful thing that is so offensive and 100 kinds of wrong?
Snow….at Christmas…in Australia!
Snowmen, decorations covered in snow or of bloody snow flakes, spray on snow in a can ( sucko tho, cause that shit doesn’t come off..serves you right for using it!) cotton wool on your Christmas tree to make it look like snow (yes mum..I am looking at YOU!) white Christmas trees…Christmas cards with snowy scenes on them. I could go on, but the eye twitch is getting worse.
They should all be banned..the lot of them!
Then there are those people who like to say, but it isn’t Christmas without a bit of snow or those of you outside Australia that say , oh you must be sad you don’t get snow and Christmas…no we bloody well aren’t!!! You don’t want to know what I propose for you. If you are an immigrant from the northern hemisphere you can be slightly forgiven..only just!
It doesn’t snow here at Christmas people! (ok, so I have seen pics of it snowing in some freaky woop woop mountains in Victoria at Christmas..but they don’t count!) About the only flakey stuff thats going to be falling from the sky is ash and burnt leaves. We enjoy Christmas quite fine with out it…don’t we?!
So come on, embrace your Australianism..snow..just say no!
P.S Did you know it’s only 33 days until Christmas… *faint*
Go Leigh…..actually I have always said that we have the more realistic Xmas weather.
I would like to expand it to Easter Bunnies……not when they are full of created by the CSIRO viruses….no thanks…..I’ll stick to Bilbies, Chickens and Eggs.
Don’t get me started on Easter, we don’t do it at all. Just hate it we aren’t religious at all so there is no point to it. Where Christmas has become more about special time with family…I can sort of handle that.
Yes! The Easter bunny, why do none of them have their eyes hanging out from myxomatosis??
Here I was thinking wow a petition it must be of huge importance is Leigh is so upset, then I read it LMAO to funny…
Is it weird that I thought this was going to be about the Pony in a Wig petition (unsure) …
The pony post is coming….be patient
Oh where do I sign ?? bloody snow, snowmen & penguins just aint Christmas!
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oh I am so with you!!!
Perhaps we should introduce a fireman santa while we are at it……….
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I’m with you on the snow hate.
Cross stitching is a hobby of mine and I hate that the vast majority of Christmas patterns involve snow of some sort.
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I’m glad I wasn’t the only one to think that this was to be about the wig-wearing pony.
Say no to SNOW, say no to SNOW! Yup that’s got a real ring to it for me.
I am so with you Leigh, get rid of it, get rid of it all. And if I have to see that big fat man in the red suit one for time I’m gonna punch his lights out and then put him on a strict diet.
Considering that Jesus was born in Bethlehem where it really doesn’t snow and is more like Australian weather, I’d say that we are being more true to the tradition than anyone else.
o.O What is up with snow ???? It’s all xmasie dont you know .Were did you get the need to purge Australia of snowy things ???
LOL! You would hate my house come Christmas, I make a point to buy as much snow-themed stuff as possible in a desperate attempt to create a “proper” Christmas like we have back home. I’m afraid I’m going to have to start a counter petition
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Go Leigh! I didn’t know they even market that stuff over there. Even I know it is summer for you during Christmas time. I think it is a bit insensitive. But you are not alone. We dont get snow here either, and for the most part it is rather warm, so no sweaters, scarves of mittens for us.
You know I live near those freaky woop woop mountains in Victoria, right?
And they did have snow a couple of years ago.
But I am with you, WTF? You know I saw fake snow (just add water, WHAT!!!) in Kmart the other day.
well i agree about the shops selling all that fake snow but jesus, does it have to be like 40 bloody degrees on Christmas day i mean thats just too hot for anyone lol
I don’t think ya should be picking on the Easter Bunny either
I agree 100% about the snow thing when I was a kid we used to go for a swim Chrissie day I think we should have our own traditions what the hell has snow got to do with Christmas in Australia.
I agree with everything except the isolation and indemnification of snowflakes.
Without Christmas I wouldn’t have all my gorgeous snowflake paraphernalia – that is on display year round I might add.
YES!! When I lived in Australia, the fake snow in all the shop windows just annoyed the hell out of me. In fact most of the Christmas decorations that are put up in Australia are just totally wrong considering that Christmas there is in the Summer. Let Santa wear a red t-shirt & shorts instead of a full woollen suit!
Now I’m in Germany, they also put fake snow in all the shop windows. It still looks tacky, but at least, well, it does snow here, so I’ll forgive them.
Happy New Year 2012!