🍺 PUB TEST: How Do You Feel About Christmas Becoming A Competition?

Does a competitive Christmas pass the pub test?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda Jamny down.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
To the Jersey no matter of arms for the pub test.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
And I really wish Amanda was here today because I
would have liked her thoughts on this competitive Christmas. Does
it pass the pub test? I don't think it's a
bad thing. We're seeing more and more Christmas lights up.
It looks nicer, Gary Martin and the Telegraph has written
that we're getting away from Christmas, the true meaning thereof,
and it's become a competition. Christmas competition, an arms race

(00:26):
of bigger, more expensive or more impressive gifts. And it's
all for the gram, it's all for the WhatsApp, it's
all for everything.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
Although I must admit, on my way into work this morning,
seeing that house in Long Reef and all the big
trees in the d Y Terminus yes lit up finally,
it did make me. It did make me a little
bit jollyful.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
I'm just joyful Brian, that you brought up for d
Y Terminus. Yeah, that was great, and it's interesting. I've
got some friends, I've got a Nativity scene and the
little baby Jesus is it's proportionate to everyone else in
the Nativity scene. The three Wise Men would be probably
about half a foot tall. Little baby Jesus would be
about two foot in length in the manger, right, So

(01:12):
it's just it's like a gigantic baby Jesus.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
So he's part of the Netlom, Is that what you're saying?

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Right, of course he is. What do you think competitive Christmas?
Does it pass the pub test? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:25):
I don't have a problem with it. I used to
decorate my whole house when my kids were young, get
the hobby up on the roof, put as many decorations.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
As I put in the front garden, and I loved it.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
So I think if people want to go crazy at
Christmas bright.

Speaker 5 (01:39):
No, I reckon everyone sort of stopped making a bit
of an effort, including myself when the kids are a
bit younger. I bothered getting up on the roof and
putting everything up there. But no, I think we've I
think we've lost the spirit of Christmas there a little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
I think everyone's gone a little bit craykraz. I think
that we kind of need to tone it down a
little bit and get back to maybe just the basics
of Christmas.

Speaker 5 (02:03):
Looks.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
The lights are great, don't get me wrong, They're fantastic.
But I just think we're just going a little bit
too much. Let's just enjoy our loved one and enjoy.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Christmas and at least have proportionate characters in the inddativity say.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
I'd like to see us get a little bit more
into it. I want to see Christmas lights on the
Harbor Bridge.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
I think they already do that. No, No, I mean like, oh,
you mean someone goes down to Bunnings and pice of
rope light.

Speaker 5 (02:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, I think that's something we could do on the weekend.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Something We'll get some petty cash Amanda's away. I'd be great.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
I've got the work credit card by the way.