next year: the beach
Xmas same as last year only with more arguments about tv and 'comedy' naughty-old-man racism from pa. new bonus features include "I can't watch any BBC because it's communist propaganda" and demanding subtitles for anyone with any sort of foreign accent. Oh, and Alan Turing shouldn't have been pardoned because he did commit what was a crime at that time, even though pa has never been homophobic. Thing is, he doesn't really seriously believe all this stuff, he's just partly brainwashed by the Daily Mail and partly trying to get a rise out of people like a thirteen-year-old.
Also going to the pub instead of eating lunch and having no pudding, just like three sad old men, me included. Nobody's life is ever going to change.
(the tv thing was just as annoying in a different way. Nobody would commit to watching a particular show or even a copy of a film but simply bitched about other people's choices. So I spent xmas eve watching 'Midsomer Murders' and all of the next day fielding the DecisiveParadox ("Anyone got any ideas what to watch? You? But you always choose! Anyone? Anyone?" because I can either enjoy, metacrit or hatewatch *anything* and have never in my life said "There's nothing on!")
I think I've done my post-mother's-death duty and will take a year off from family fun to sit on a beach. Anywhere.
Also going to the pub instead of eating lunch and having no pudding, just like three sad old men, me included. Nobody's life is ever going to change.
(the tv thing was just as annoying in a different way. Nobody would commit to watching a particular show or even a copy of a film but simply bitched about other people's choices. So I spent xmas eve watching 'Midsomer Murders' and all of the next day fielding the DecisiveParadox ("Anyone got any ideas what to watch? You? But you always choose! Anyone? Anyone?" because I can either enjoy, metacrit or hatewatch *anything* and have never in my life said "There's nothing on!")
I think I've done my post-mother's-death duty and will take a year off from family fun to sit on a beach. Anywhere.