On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 08:12:30AM +0000, Timothy Collinson wrote:
> Out of interest, does that you mean you escape the ridiculousness of how
> long our run up to Christmas is?

Unfortunately not.

Commercial Christmas starts just after commercial Halloween, is
immediately followed by post-Christmas sales advertised through to
mid-January.

Then there's some Australia Day advertising but mostly "Back to
School" sales through to the end of February with a week or so
advertising for Valentine's Day, then straight into the lead up to
Easter, followed by Mother's Day, stocktake sales, end of financial
year sales, start of financial year sales, Father's Day and by then
it's about time for Halloween advertising again.

I'm sure to anyone outside our commercial culture it looks completely
ludicrous -- and to quite a lot of people within it.

- Tim