Annus Horribilis!

When I first heard the Latin phrase annus horribilis, I imagined a horrible arse ailment. Call me puerile if you want, but, annus does have an anal ring to it and horribilis sounds pretty damned unpleasant. Oddly, the real meaning fits very well with my perception, which is exactly how I feel. It's been a horrible year and a pain in the arse.

In brief. Fucking recession, fucking business, fucking money and fucking teenager! 

Anyway, Christmas is a time for celebration, although I really don't have a clue as to what we're supposed to be celebrating. It used to be a religious festival in commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ, but that has become so diluted that it just hangs on the fringes of Christmas spirit these days. I'll admit I'm sceptical about the whole Christianity thing anyway, but it gives Christmas a purpose, irrespective of whether it's true or not. The soul of Christmas is slowly disappearing and an obsessive compulsion to spunk as much money as possible has replaced it.

Christmas has become nothing more than a total indulgence of Spend, spend fucking spend. We're dictated to via advertising and virtually ordered to consume Christmas materialism. The gullible go for it like rats lured by the Pied Piper. This week, supermarkets will be congested by trollies overloaded with gratuitous amounts of fuck all and precincts will be heaving with shoppers parting with huge sums of money, that in many cases doesn't even belong to them, in their quests to prove how generous they are. It's all bollocks really.

To top it all, even before it actually begins we are being bombarded by our dictators to spend more as soon as the day itself is over. Last night, adverts appeared on the TV for holidays and the sales. It'll be Cadbury's cream eggs next. Give us a fucking break!


So, partly down to our annus horribilis, which has ended with 'eight' late payments, and the fact that I am absolutely pissed off with Christmas being rammed down my throat, I haven't bought one single present. 


Bah fucking humbug, my arse!


Merry Christmas!