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Happy December, people!!

22:30 / 30.11.02

Right. So. December. Let's all do the December dance.

But why is December so good, oh Pinny one? (stop laughing at the back there!)

Because I get presents ALL THE TIME in December. it totally rocks! Plus there's advent calenders, which this year is a Buffy one and goes on for a heathen and point-missing 32 DAYS!!

Plus I can drink and have anal sex legally, which given my current life is all so very very academic.

I will report back in the morning, once I have opened my calender, to tell you whch season's hair style Buffy I got. I pray for an Oz, but I will never get an Oz...

Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes

22:48 / 30.11.02

I didn’t know that you could have anal sex legally in December? Why not in other months?

23:02 / 30.11.02

Ha! Still November here!! We'll resist so long as we've got fight left in us!

Hmmmm. Anal, you say...
I'm seeing a sudden drop in November morale.

23:36 / 30.11.02

Anal sex is so last month, _pin. Everybody's doing it now, so you need to investigate some entirely new sexual practice and set the trend. Plus, nothing's ever as much fun again, once it's legitimate. We're all counting on you, as leading light of the Barbelith Youth Wing.

Happy December though! Hope you remain blissfully happy and garlanded in presents throughout.

04:53 / 01.12.02

All right, I see how things are on this side. I give in to December bliss (and hey, I turn 21 on New Years Eve!)

07:41 / 01.12.02

I on the other hand, absolutely hate December.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

10:55 / 01.12.02

I'm normally not too much of a December guy (though I love Christmas) but, in a bizarre coincidence kind of thing, I've been looking forward to today for most of the last month so I could see the last picture on my Buffy calendar...

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

11:40 / 01.12.02

Pin! Buffy advent (and new year) calendar snap! Yussss!

Plus, I spy a gamecube hidden in a cupboard (quite poorly, seeing as I have to go in that cupboard ALL the time).

Rollo Kim, on location

12:15 / 01.12.02

Sometimes you people can be about as subversive as Songs of Praise. ; )

20:16 / 01.12.02

Weirdly, today was Father Christmas in the Great Buffy Chocolatey Goodness board. And then there was a cartoon drawing of her kicking something.

I love cheap merchandising

Tryphena Absent

21:26 / 01.12.02

Happy December to you, happy December to you, happy December dear _piiinnnnnn, happy December to you!

15:35 / 02.12.02

My December fun has waned. It's cold and someone opened their car door into me so I couldn't be bothered, in the end, to get my hair cut. So it don't look too hot.

It's the fucking second! And I'm not happy any more! How pathetic is that??

But thank you everyone for getting in on my happiness. It's very nice of you.

17:09 / 02.12.02

Ah, but that was our devious Barbelite plan all along, you see, to steal away your decembrile exuberance and keep ourselves warm and gleeful with it in the fag end of the year instead.

But you should care - you're the one who looks like sex god Ainslie, after all. Now that would be enough to make me smile all year long.
& there still will be presents!

17:13 / 02.12.02

Happy December is a great concept. I am fucking fed up of Christmas already. Christmas, by my count, is in 22-and-a-bit-days. At the moment we have only just entered into Advent, and that's got a fair way to run yet.

I get accused of being grumpy or Scroogelike, and I find this infuriating. I love Christmas too. But just... not... yet....

And don't get me started on people who take decorations down on the second. [/middleagedradio4listenervalues]

gentleman loser

18:32 / 02.12.02

Screw Christmas. Christmas needs a hydrogen bomb dropped square onto its annoying commercial head. I adore December though. It's cold. It's dark. It keeps people indoors who would usually annoy the piss out of me with their faux happy bullshit lives. Hooray!

20:53 / 02.12.02

Yes, but do i actually look like him, or did I tell you someone told me I did? I am genuinly curious about this, but yes, mostly I'm fishing for compliments.

21:20 / 02.12.02

Yes, there is a resemblance. Apart from your height and your not being Scottish... And you can smile.

Have never seen you writhe on the stage in leather and then fling yourself heedlessly into a non-existent moshpit, though.

I think it would be a waste to carry on being unreasonably happy this early in the month of December, btw. Need to conserve some of your serotonin to see you through the long dark teatime of the soul that is the so-called Festive Season. That taxes the strongest of us with all the ****ing hohoho crap.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

23:51 / 02.12.02

Yes, but how will I manage to go on knowing there is a gamecube sitting in the cupboard when I have absolutely nothing to do? And all the choccy fell out of my Buffy advent calendar. I opened todays, and there was just an empty space, and all the chocolate languishes at the bottom of the little cardboard box type thing.

And I don't get the coat that will actually keep me warm until Christmas!

And.. and..... arrrrrrrrrrrgh! Hellish, I tell you. Hellish.

11:29 / 03.12.02

Whoo hoo! I am pleased with looking like him.

And Jonny- it was a chocolate-shaped square with a present on it, today. And yes, the calender is atrociously bad at actually keeping the coclatre in one place. I managed to fix most of it (with my eyes shut, so as to not spoil the surprise), but there's still one downt he bottom that's fucky.

And my teacher has a hernia, so I can leave school early today. I'll be depressed tomorrow. Or something. Telling me I look like Malachi would deppress me, that's for sure...

15:03 / 03.12.02

Aaaahhh Christmas!

Chairman Mao is working nights again, so I had to buy and decorate his Kathulumas tree today. He still hasn't woken up and seen it yet.

All hail commercialism and the great consumer!

Tryphena Absent

22:55 / 03.12.02

I've got a WWF advent calender. I felt it was about as far from me as possible. Where the hell do you get a Buffy one or are you American?

09:09 / 04.12.02

I want a WWF calender... bah

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

10:29 / 04.12.02

Only just got back to this thread (unfortunately AFTER Helmschmied left the country) but I do have to say... the tree rocks. (I have vague memories of him showing it to me yesterday afternoon when I got up to... ahem... use the lavatory... well, okay, go for a piss, and I'm pretty sure I said thanks then, but thanks again anyway, H.)

11:30 / 04.12.02

Erm... I don't know where the Buffy calender came from, as my parents brought it for me. But both me and Suede are Englanders.

It honestly is the cheapest piece of merchandising I think I ahve ever seen. It's great! Tho that said, the WWF (I thought it wasn't called the WWF anymore... ) sounds pretty tat-tasicular too.

And Ellis- just what is yr damn problem with December?? Joy! And presents! And ageing! Rock!

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

14:14 / 04.12.02

WWE just isn't right. Why should the Panda win? I remember people making jokes about the two WWF's when I was in primary school - why now? Why change history? Rarrrgh!

I love my buffy calendar. Today, it said something like "in every generation, there can only be one" or some shit. Superb.

It's probably merchandise like this that leads everyone to believe Buffy is a shite show however.

However, my December is going downhill by means of me developing a rash and an ear infection and probably having to start a job soon (after a fancy dress party no less). Goddamn timing. Things like this really piss me off.

15:18 / 04.12.02

Pin, reasons for me to hate December:

My birthday- never understood what it is I am celebrating here, what, myself? A "Hoorah for me party" always seems so egotistical and embarassing yet my friends want to put me through it. But only after I reminded them that it was my birthday soon all last week. (I want it acknowledged at least).

Christmas: Have to go home.

Exams are straight after Christmas, which wouldn't be a problem if I hadn't missed the last few weeks of lectures because...

I can't walk. I can't go to work, I can't socialise. I am in constant pain due to a trapped nerve which just won't go away. All day is spent laying in bed, barely able to move. I almost broke my jaw on the toilet yesterday. My doctor is lousy and told me to just take normal paracetamol (which gave me hallucinations and i am sure they aren't meant to do that...) My flatmates (god bless them all) think I am faking and enjoy actively fucking with my mind.

I have had my job for a year now and no one thought to do anything about it. They will probably forget my birthday too.

However, reasons for me to love December:

Going to New York for New Years.

Get to go home for Christmas and see cat.

I bought some really good presents for my friends for Christmas.

15:32 / 04.12.02

Good grief. I remember Pin and Ellis' last birthday like it was yesterday. Best wishes to you both, and I hope you get well soon, Ellis.

I thought I would hate December - I hated last December, I was miserable and missing my ex, but this time round it's no problem. Think I'm lucky in that my family are not interested in Christmas; we're going for a picnic on the cliffs on Christmas Day.

And I'm going to celebrate the Winter Solstice at Men-an-tol. Great!

19:00 / 04.12.02

Without wishing to call in to doubt you and yr families sanity... Cliffs! On Christmas Day! Bloody freezing!

And actually, today's Buffy quote was "I have a strategy, and you're not in it". The fuck??

And my birthday present is as funny as fuck for you, Ellis... just gimme yr new address!

And it wasn't two WWF's, the other one was WCW and was crappy. I can't cope with the idea of only one now tho. It's like my childhood never happened...

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

23:12 / 04.12.02

Ah yes. Another classic Buffy quote. The one I mentioned was from the day before.

But pin! One WWF was all about PANDAS you dolt. They suddenly decided it was their name and the wrestling WWF was forced to become WWE.

The childhood jokes stemmed from this. Pandas! Wrestlers! HAHA!

11:40 / 06.12.02

December has gotten better...

Spent all last night dancing at work christmas party (I love the way my body really pulls itself out of the shit when I need it to).