No More Starbucks till next year

[howeird]

Once again the serial marketing greedmongers at everyone's favorite huge chain coffee shop have put up their Christmas decorations and switched to Christmas designs on their paper cups two weeks before Thanksgiving. And they are playing Jesus music. So, I won't be patronizing them till they recover from this dread disease.

Comments

[svashtar.livejournal.com]

Don't get me started. Christmas started sometime directly after BayCon at the local Longs. It will probably end about Easter.

Yet if you put on a costume on November 1, people will invariably tell you, "It's too LATE for Halloween! OMGZ!"

It makes me a sad Wonka that Halloween doesn't linger the way Christmas does. It is the superior holiday.

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

I take it that you're also skipping Macy's, the mall, and most grocery stores?

(at least, around here in Contra Costa, they ALL put up their decorations between Nov 1 and 5th. I hate it too, but I kinda need things like butter and breakfast cereal...)

[howeird]

As a matter of fact, yes. As soon as I hear Jesus music in a store, I stop going to that store. Safeway delivers, and there's a pair muzak-free 7-11 stores nearby. I do most of my other shopping online anyway.

Down here only Starbucks has actual Xmas decorations up. Everyone else is still working on Turkey Day.

[cinchntouch.livejournal.com]

Peets is better anyway.

Just wait though, after having Christmas inflicted on us starting sometime in October some moron will go on Fox News and say there is a "WAR AGAINST CHRISTMAS!" (DUH DUH DUD) *Dramatic drumroll*

[howeird]

Peets is not open late enough, and doesn't have wireless.

What's wrong with a war against Christmas?

[cinchntouch.livejournal.com]

We need Christmas because Doctor Who has Christmas Specials! That what the holiday is all about: Trees that kill people.

[finding-meggan.livejournal.com]

I agree it is disturbing. I have not heard the ‘jesus’ music yet… We still play jazz, etc. at my store. I have to wear a red shirt on Saturdays. I’m not religious…
I think of it this way: what do reindeer, penguins, and trees have to do with birth of Jesus? I honestly find the pagan symbolism and capitalism of “Christian” amusing…
I also like not Jesu-fied Christmas songs. Frosty the Snowman! Jingle Bells!

[howeird]

Red is the Chinese color for good luck...

You have penguins? They are the symbol for the birth of Linux, another false messiah.

I think you have been in Moldova/Colorado too long. Jingle Bells and Frosty the Snowman in LA? Absurd.