Long-time readers of this site may know that I don’t send Xmas cards to people for a variety of reasons: they create landfill and extra pollution is caused moving millions of them around I’m a Christmas-hating bah-humbugger irreligious pinko it’s a waste of money, which is criminal when so many people have so little. What [...]
Last year, I sent no Xmas cards – and friends kept talking to me, clients kept hiring me, and gorgeous women kept admiring me. The reason wasn’t pure humbuggery , but a dislike of the waste of money sending a small piece of paper, often by highly-polluting air travel, so the recipient can look at [...]
Now, I freely confess that I am a 100% bah-humbugger when it comes to Christmas, but xmas music still drives me wild with fury. Confusingly, from an atheist who would rather get testicular leprosy than religion, the least offensive Christmas music that can be broadcast at you when you’re walking around the supermarket is traditional [...]