Home-Country Ghosts of Christmas Past: Do you miss them?

[GammaGlobulin]

39 minutes ago, Airalee said:

It would have been better if the sweater was my size 😅

 

Definitely not a happy Christmas-Past story.

Life is not fair, and neither is Santa.

 

The best solution might be to abolish Christmas.

Or, have Christmas happen once per decade.

 

 

[Evil Penevil]

I actually found the spirit of Ebenezer Scrooge to be much more dominant in Pattaya than in the U.S.  I saw hundreds of Scrooges sitting in  bars and restaurants with their bowls of gruel every night, not just Christmas Eve.  They went around muttering  "Bah! Humbug!"  about everything connected with Thailand.

 

 

Their message to the Tiny Thai Girls is always the same, even though the girls  cheerfully say . 'Buddha bless us, every one!"

 

 

If you haven't read it, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol  gives great insight into the spirit of Christmas in the West, but the state of relations between resident Pattaya ex-pats and Thais.  The Pattaya Scrooges will never be visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present or future, as these ghosts consider Pattaya's numerous Scrooges to be hopeless cases, doomed to wander bound with the chains of stinginess they forged in life.

BTW, the 1951 version of Scrooge with Alastair Sim is an excellent Christmas movie, maybe the best.

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

1 minute ago, Evil Penevil said:

BTW, the 1951 version of Scrooge with Alastair Sim is an excellent Christmas movie, maybe the best.

 

Thanks.

I will watch it.

Probably this evening, just in case the world ends before the 25th.

PB has it, no doubt.

 

[Evil Penevil]

Just now, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Thanks.

I will watch it.

Probably this evening, just in case the world ends before the 25th.

PB has it, no doubt.

 

 It's on YouTube for free as well.  Alastair Sim is a great actor, one of the best.