xmas wish list?

[Leon]

http://www.steves-digicams.com/knowledge-center/the-most-expensive-digital-cameras-in-production.html#b

Dont know how old this is but what money can get you!!

[Heather]

i know i want a new camera body and a decent tripod but dont think santa will run to those lol

[Korky]

I want the government to make the world a better place by only allowing Christmas every five years. And then phasing it out altogether.

Or am I just a miserable sod?

Korky

[Black Pearl]

I can't decide between a Mondaine or a Tissot automatic watch.

[Barbara]

I want the government to make the world a better place by only allowing Christmas every five years. And then phasing it out altogether.

Or am I just a miserable sod?

Korky

With you on this one.....Maybe it could be phased out after just three years :) :)

[Heather]

i will be happy with it being shoved back to december and making it illegal to mention it in any other month lol

[Korky]

Could we make just the 25th of December? If so I'll ease off on pressing David Cameron to phase it out.

Korky

[Guest DaveW]

In 10 years time, being digital, all those expensive cameras will be obsolete and only hold their price if they are considered collectors cameras to display in glass cases. Their technology will be entry level by then, just as with computers, which is what they really are nowadays, computers with lenses. I wonder how many of them will keep being used for decades like the old film cameras?

At least they are not as useless as gold plated cameras, which unless you are an oil sheik you dare not use in case they get scuffed!

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Camera-China-Republic-Gold-Limited,news-5659.html

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=gold+plated+cameras&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bpcl=38625945&biw=1536&bih=862&wrapid=tlif135343645014110&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=Ms2rUJmIDKKc0AWm1IHACA

Gold plated cameras are about as pointless as a gold plated hammer to knock nails in with!

DaveW :laughing:

[fuzzyedges]

I want the government to make the world a better place by only allowing Christmas every five years. And then phasing it out altogether.

Or am I just a miserable sod?

Korky

Probably yes

I just want the goverment to stop trying to help me into poverty with their half baked ideas

[Heather]

Could we make just the 25th of December? If so I'll ease off on pressing David Cameron to phase it out.

make it 24th 25th and 26th only you got a deal ;)

[Guest Salvatore]

December for me :

16th.....wifes birthday

23rd.....Wedding Anniversary

25th......Xmas day

26th.....grandchilds 1st birthday

I really do hate Crimbo with a passion.

LOL

[colinb]

December for me :

16th.....wifes birthday

23rd.....Wedding Anniversary

25th......Xmas day

26th.....grandchilds 1st birthday

I really do hate Crimbo with a passion.

LOL

yes, but to be fair two of the dates are a little self inflicted :-)

[Guest Salvatore]

Haha.......only the anniversary but what the heck

I'm just a miserable old goat at this time of the year as I work for a company that respects all religious festivities other than that of christians.

That's another story though .

[Guest DaveW]

Decades ago some of the newer immigrants to the UK were claiming their religions should also have their religious holidays in addition to the Christian ones already recognised. A chap I knew who was a Catholic said if they had a holiday for each of their saints days they would never be at work! I am afraid in the modern world holidays need to be set for the majority need of populations and industries, not the antiquated religious practices of all faiths. In the todays world you cannot give people time off to keep praying every few hours in working time, your religion needs to be practiced in your own time since it's unfair to other workers who do not get the same time out of their working day. I can also see that other "antiquated religion" smoking, where people are having a smoking break outside whilst non smokers are still working will also being ended as unfair in future. If we intend to let all these out dated observances rule our supposedly secular society, maybe we should adopt Voodoo work breaks as well?

Even many of the supposed Christian religious holidays are a fraud. "Christmas" is simply a pagan festival Christians adopted, because whenever Christ was born it was not December 25th, plus even if it had of been since Christ's time the callendar dates we then used were changed anyway. In S. America, since the Catholics could not stop the population celebrating festivals like the Inca "Day of the Dead" they adopted it on the old principle "if you cant beat em join em", something religions have always done. Even religious teaching is modified over time as science proves it's old beliefs fallacious. Moving their gods from up in the clouds where they used to dwell and since proved wrong in the space age, to somewhere out in the universe not yet reached which cannot yet be contradicted. Creationism has largely been replaced by Darwinism among most thinking persons and religions are modifying their beliefs to accommodate it.

By all means keep religious values, but even these often predated the religion and are often shared by most religions, but cut out the mumbo jumbo surrounding them in a secular society. Whilst we may hold whatever religious beliefs and rituals we want in private, we should not try and impose them on others. Lets enjoy Christmas for whatever it always was in Britain, a traditional winter feast that predated Christianity and most other religions here.

http://www.novelier.com/xmas.html

Happy Christmas winter break to all religions, including those without any!

DaveW