Tuesday, 15 November 2011

Christmas Scouting: Chatham

From exotic and sun-kissed Gillingham, to exotic and sun-kissed Chatham. This tour never stops reaching the heights of society.


Who wouldn't want a giant bow? That lights up? And is apparently made from mohair?


Oh, for fuck's sake.


What is it? Apart from "nightmarish"?


This isn't sexy. £5.99 is never sexy. Nor, in my experience, are "aprons".


Charlie: Why does he have a spade?
Brad: Because he's just...built...himself?

Monday, 14 November 2011

Christmas Scouting: Gillingham

The scouting continues...this time to the wonderful and exotic Gillingham, Kent. To visit their high-class swankery shop: Wilkinsons.

If you think that's a joke, you obviously never been to Gillingham.


Charlie: Wouldn't it just confuse Santa, having a tree-topper that looks like him?
Brad: Why?
Charlie: I don't know.
Brad: I'm glad you thought that through. It's just, if Santa was easily bamboozled by artistic representations of himself, I don't think he'd have lasted all that long at the job. The first time Rudolph gave him a card with a picture of himself on it, he'd have had an aneurysm.
Charlie: How do you know there's only one Santa?
Brad: There were lots of them, but they all fought each other in a series of sword-fights, know as "The Gathering". Now, there's only one.
Charlie: Ah, there can be only one.
Brad: Can you imagine the chaos if you're original theory was correct? A hundred Santas all converge on New York city, get one look at each other, and collapse?
Charlie: Everyone has their own patch. They never meet.
Brad: Fine.


Charlie: It looks like Christmas haemorrhoids.
Brad: Hmm.
Charlie: So, you put a small tree on top of another tree? What's the point in that?
Brad: I don't know.
Charlie: Also, it looks like poo.
Brad: Terrifying poo.


Charlie: Actually, I kind-of wish we'd bought this one. Who wouldn't want a clock that chimes a different Christmassy sound, on the hour, every hour.
Brad: What constitutes a Christmassy sound?
Charlie: I don't know! We didn't buy it! *cries*

Sunday, 13 November 2011

Christmas Scouting: Bluewater

We (Brad and Charlie) have taken it upon ourselves to get into the festive spirit by finding the worst Christmas decorations available in the local area. Some of these decorations are spectacularly horrible, and some of them are just funny. We even managed to buy one of them (because it wasn't that bad, really...in fact it was quite brilliant. See if you can guess which one it is.).


The first thing we saw was this bear. And his frosty balls.


In Luxembourg, Santa is portrayed as a hiking hobo, who turns up in the middle of the night, clutching a bouquet of miscellaneous purple.


Charlie: Why does a frog need a bikini?
Brad: Would you rather it was naked? Is that better?
Charlie: Why a frog?
Brad: Racist.


Heh. You get to wipe your feet on Santa's beard. And he gets to see your genitals.