Christmas Shopping: Argos Strikes Back
- I’ve done four people already, including my sister (second hardest person to shop for in the known universe) and Abbi (hardest person to shop for in the known Universe).
- I’ve actually started with a decent amount of money, which means I can buy expensive enough presents to make the person I’ve bought for feel bad for getting me something rubbish (note for people who take this shit seriously: I’m joking).
- No-one attempted to polish my fingernails.
- Starbucks was not that packed. Although this was pleasing at first, the shock of the smallness of the queue has since made me re-consider everything I thought I knew about Starbucks, Retail, People, God and the Universe.
- Uhhhhh…
- The time spent during the journey to and from town allows me to reflect on how awful my idea of not ranting for two months was. Expect few updates.
As much as I hate to point this out, you said:
“I am not going to post a single negative post from now until Christmas Day.”
So, although I am enjoying the friendlier tone of the blog, technically you can post as many negative comments as you like. They just have to be outweighed by positive comments in each post, so the post itself is not negative.
How you rate negativity/positivity so that you could do this, I’m not sure.
I was having an argument about this with someone else a few weeks ago. Personally I define a post as either positive or negative based on the general tone of the post, which combines a lot of different things, rather than just the numerical amount of postive/negative statements.
I’m sure there’s some kind of algebraic equation to work it out, but I’m not nearly that dull.