Three cheers to JUST picture calanders.... i don't want none of that plastic posing as chocolate.. i want the pure excitement and antispication of opening my calander door and seeing a little robin with some berries in their mouth. I think these Simpson, rugrat crap calanders packed full with nasty chocolate is yet another way for people to make money and take the magic away from christmas! Give me a artsy calander any day.. over all that comercial crap! I feel very strongly about this, kids are spoilt enough and over fed enough as it is... why give them more fuel, to be irratable .. and eating so much they explode before christmas eve. Picture Calanders are the most magic... Whos with me?
HEATHEN! you'll destroy everything good and pure at christmas if you take away choclate in advent calenders......
No, you'll destroy everything that is good and pure about christmas if you incourage kids to eat chocolate... with caffiene in it which is... ooh its an addictive substance.... Is heathen always going to be your insult.. titty? *yawns* not very scary are you?
its the whole point of christmas, get them good and tanked up on e numbers and sugar from the beginging of december, so by the evening of the 24th, their over active, annoying brats, that piss off everyone in your familly, and wont get to bed, because some sexually repressed fat pedophile in a red cola out fit is gonna come in their room and leave them "presents"!!!!!!11 calenders are godly and futher more, my insult shall no longer be heathen, but rather it will be "ZOOT-ALLORE!"
hahaa i'm going to agree with miss dandy here chocolate just makes every day predictable and completely takes the excitment out of it! where's the "ooooh oooh i wonder what picture i'm going to get today?" it's even better when you share the picture opening. jaz
So with you Dandy My two youngest weren't pleased that they have advent calendars with pictures not chocolates in....but my theory is that you get the same damned chocolate every day, but the picture brings a bit of excitement and variation each day ( wow I am a sad muppet )
I'm with you too Dandy... The chocolate is just nasty! We used to get one to share as children betyween 3 of us We also used to guess what its going to be before we opened them Ahhhh!
it is a simple ploy to make the kids addicted. Thinking on the business man's wavelength, it is fantastic! Ingredients for cheapy cartoony plastic-chocolatey calendars being popular: ~ Much loved characters posing beautifully with their toothy smiles ~ An addictive substance behind each day, deliciously filled with chemicals that will stay in the system for just long enough before the next morning when the withdrawal symptoms call for you to search for the next window. ~ Bright colours drawing those lovely every day consumers into the store ~ Chocolate is an anti depressant of course! ~ It is a common thought that is fed to the children that having chocolate evvvvery day against mummy's will is great fun :-D. So the excuse that it is for christmas is great. Personally i prefer the arty paper ones - much less wastage and my body doesn't have any scary affects from them!
Yeah I've got chocs, pictures and a game The chocolates are pretty nasty, but it's not like there's a great deal of it! I think that, since whenever I've had an advent calendar it's been a chocholate one, I wouldn't be happy with not getting a lil something out of it each day. But I wouldn't mind something other than chocolate...Don't know what that could be though! Spices, or Seeds for like holly and mistletoe, it'd have to be pretty tiny anyway. Health wise those selection boxes are much worse. More dodgy packaging too so disposal wise they're a hell of a waste.
I can't find one with just pictures for my daughter, they've all got that nasty tasting chocolate in them... :$ Ah, the memories of the double door on Christmas Eve... opening to the Nativity....:& Eeeeee, when ah wer' a lass, we got an apple, orange and half a crown and were happy ......
