It’s nearly that, it’s just missing a few details.
“quitte” here is a false friend that looks like “quit”, but it has a very different meaning in this context.
The sentence is actually recommending to get rid of TV broadcast and not replace it with anything. But then, if you really need a replacement, then it’s suggesting to turn to Netflix and other streaming services.
Ads have been introduced in some countries, on the cheapest “base” plan for Netflix, who also scrapped their “Standard” plan, so it’s ads, or paying for the premium subscription each month.
Yeah, since we don’t have have Thanksgiving and we pretty much don’t celebrate Halloween, it’s just open hunting season for marketing people to start shoving Christmas down our throats.
And then, as soon as Christmas is gone, it’s time for shops to get filled with mountains of chocolate Easter eggs…
In the US it used to be that Christmas advertising didn’t start until the day after Thanksgiving. Unfortunately once someone broke the truce Christmas started expanding.
Remember remember the 3rd Thursday of November. The first casualty in the war against Christmas and it’s desire to consume the full year.
That’s kind of ironic; Amazon has taught us that I can order everything for Christmas on the 23rd and it will arrive with the 24th. Why exactly do I need two months and change of Christmas?
I assume it really is one of those 1960s-like black projects which are testing out sanity and how to break it. They seem to be succeeding.
I mean, usually, music in that kind of place is allready shitty. So, a new kind of shit for a few month, meh.
Matt
8 months ago
In the name of all that is holy thank whichever deity listens that the world understands the need to not hear Christmas/holiday music till December at the earliest.
I knew Ethan was sane. just like Chef Brian.
Antique Alien
8 months ago
Someone above me has been blasting Christmas music way to loud. I’m in the dorm below them, and I can hear it clearly. It’s way to early for this/
trust me…that question is a understatement of the CENTURY. we get cringe christmas songs as early as november 1st, and big name (and a lot of small name) stores set up christmas decorations and products as early as OCTOBER 1st. they say its to “keep ahead of the holiday rush” and is on orders from “upper management” i talked with a few employees, they dont like doing it, they dont like the customers being unhappy about a holiday change 2 months or more in advance, especially when people are coming there for a holiday during a specific month, but they… Read more »
Can 12 months, 365 days of Christmas be far away? We’ve had Hallmark type romantic Christmas movies on TV here in July. July! JULYYYYY!!!!!!!
I mean, they’re escapist fun for those that like it. But it is odd to be sitting in 30 C and watching people in snowy settings….
21stCenturyPeon
8 months ago
We need to work together to replace it with Run DMC’s “Christmas in Hollis” in the seasonal playlists. We can do it, people! Write to your elected officials! Lobby your branch managers!
Or maybe some of Weird Al’s works: “Christmas at Ground Zero” and “The Night Santa went Crazy” would be a nice counterpoint to most of the songs that are coming our way…
There’s also the album Punk goes Christmas. It’s got a lot of fun Christmas adjacent music, and it’s actually got almost all of the (non traditional) Christmas music I like there.
I’m partial to the Lovecraft Mythos-remixed carols. They’re spooky and some are really catchy, easy to find on Youtube!
Gonfrask
8 months ago
Well, I worked in a toy mall store for years, so my sanity is mostly gone… in fact I even enjoy the song
Last edited 8 months ago by Gonfrask
Urainkhali
8 months ago
Ethan is the hero we need. The illegal occupation of November and nowadays of October by Christmas must stop!
DanVzare
8 months ago
Considering I’m starting to see Christmas decorations at the end of August, I think it’s safe to say that we lost the war against people who continue to celebrate Christmas earlier and earlier every year.
One day Christmas is just going to be year round.
Sigh… I never thought I’d say this, but I miss when people used to consider the 1st of November the time to start the Christmas season.
Actually offering Christmas stuff year round might be the answer to de-power it. It’s like knowing you have chocolate cake available as dessert for every meal. Sooner or later you’re going to get sick of it and it’ll just fade into the daily noise of life. The commercialism side of Christmas is only powerful in it’s scarcity. If we’re saturated year round….
I’m all for SPIRIT of Christmas to be seasonal, but the commercialism needs to be knocked down a few pegs.
Hunter
8 months ago
Working in retail ruined Christmas for me. The same songs repeated over and over again. 5 years… 5 Christmases.
I now get PTSD when the Christmas music starts.
Ashi
8 months ago
Why do I get flashbacks to CAD 1.0’s “Damnit Ethan, stop breaking shit!”
Will he flood all stores playing Christmas music too early?
Have the first born sons of the owners killed?
Or just outright raze the stores and (somehow) turn anyone watching into a pillar of salt?
Bwauder
8 months ago
Its as bad as Hot Cross buns being available from Boxing Day, but that zoomed past and reached straight jacket level a couple of years back when they decided “they’re such a popular item we’ll make them available all year round”
I don’t know Hot Cross (guess they are not present over here), but if they are selling the stuff year round, doesn’t that make it just one more regular product, losing any Christmas connotations?
They have Easter connotations: a spiced fruit bun with dough laid over the top in the shape of a cross.
As mentioned by GP, the window for marketing them has recently expanded to fill all twelve months of the year.
AustynSN
8 months ago
Ethan isn’t the hero we deserve, but he is the hero we need.
Kenju
8 months ago
Tim, it’s not coming, it’s already here. They started playing Christmas music two days ago on the east coast….even worse, it was in fact *THAT* song.
FireballDragon
8 months ago
The only thing more inhumane than that is the actual physical violence during Black Friday sales.
Tim
8 months ago
Ah, the time of year when earbuds become standard shopping gear. I can’t hear holiday abominations on repeat if I’m flooding my grey matter with hardcore EDM.
Crestlinger
8 months ago
Personally I would like to have All Christmas stuff banned. Not ‘not played’ or ‘decorations set up’ BANNED with a $100000 fine per Store at least until After November 11 for Remembrance Day up here out of respect for our heroes who earned us all this.
Aaron Morano
8 months ago
Where the hell have you been?!? They have had Xmas stuff up since before Halloween here in Michigan. F-in ridiculous.
Shenodin
8 months ago
That last panel kinda looks like Lucas is a dude with brown hair wearing a Lucas mask…
VibrantEvolution
8 months ago
Half octobre I was looking for halloween stuff and could barely find anything cuz they said “I was early”. Meanwhile there were already christmastree-decorations on the shelves. Soon they’ll just leave everything all year round x_x
RblDiver
8 months ago
At least it didn’t start before Halloween!
Gerry
8 months ago
Winter…is coming
Last edited 8 months ago by Gerry
KillerDragon989
8 months ago
Personally to get through the holidays I will listen to some Christmas music, however, a majority of Christmas music would be Twisted Christmas carols. Aaaand listening to A Christmas Carol narrated by Sir Patrick Stewart at least twice while I go about my day.
Sianist
8 months ago
And that’s why i always wear my headset with loud metal while shopping… no annoyance by unsolicited Christmas muzak
West
8 months ago
I’m with Ethan on this one.
Merida
8 months ago
Ironically, I have seen more about this song on webcomics and imgur bashing early Christmas than actually hearing or seeing it in person. At this point the satire has become part of the early Christmas and pushing awareness of the holiday far earlier.
Pulse
8 months ago
im with ethan, until turkey has been served i better not hear any christmas music.
kristoffer
8 months ago
Coming? It’s already here 🙁
Kevin Greenbaum
8 months ago
Now I need to know about the meatball incident.
Verdiekus
8 months ago
Fuck that, I’m on Ethan’s side here!
Mr_Meng
8 months ago
As someone who’s always been unfazed by holiday music starting in November(I still enjoy hearing ‘Wonderful Christmastime’) it’s always funny to see people absolutely lose their crap over it.
Last edited 8 months ago by Mr_Meng
Anonymous 2.0
8 months ago
No Christmas till after thanksgiving. Miss those days.
Nibelung
8 months ago
I’m not from USA, and I don’t recognize the song. Can someone give me a title?
You start at a disadvantage down there, what with all this Western media praising a wintery Christmas while you’re in the middle of summer.
Scarsdale
8 months ago
I worked as a greeter at Walmart for just over a year, X-mas displays started to go up mid-September. They barely showed anything about Halloween or Thanksgiving, just a single isle of candy’s and costumes, the same with the decorations for Thanksgiving.The VERY next day after Halloween the music started…. (head thudding on the wall…)
Chibi-Acer
8 months ago
At least it makes me feel less guilty about wearing my xmas “ugly sweater” fuzzy leggings to keep warm. Hehe?
James Kite
8 months ago
Halloween has finally become more of a thing here in Australia, and I am grateful, because now Christmas starts being obnoxious 1st of November, where as it was beginning late September.
So this year has been a massive improvement.
Even if Christmas decorations did begin showing up early-mid October on the shelves.
Kaelin
8 months ago
As someone who works in a grocery store, I wholely approve of this move.
Vukodlak
8 months ago
I think Mr Wintermas who created a second Christmas has no right to judge.
Charly-I-Don'-Want-A-Lot-For...
8 months ago
If you can’t win them, join them – let’s go for the Singularity.
Only this song. All year. Lights never get taken down. Santas never leave entrances. First we announce Summer Christmas. Then smaller Christmas each month. Then pre-Christmas training Christmas each Friday… And then .. One day we’ll sit down for Christmas feast, red-eyed and tired from all the jolly and miseltoe and more and more wine each day… and we’ll never get up again.
Basically Matrix meets Wall-E, only voluntary, red and green, and financed by Amazon and what not. 🙂
night
8 months ago
More self-aggrandising superhero nonsense. It’s just unreadable. Let’s pray it’s a short stint and then back to starcaster… or anything else really.
Frizbee
8 months ago
I walked into a store in August that had christmas stuff up and for sale.
Foxhood
8 months ago
We dutch get at least somewhat of a buffer in the form of Sinterklaas which is like a progenitor to modern Christmas. Has its own insufferable songs. But variation numbs the insanity
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That’s why I dont go inside store, but order online and take it to go. This protects my sanity.
Ethan understands the concept of sanity. Interesting…
I mean, “sanity”
Just because he understands the CONCEPT of sanity doesn’t mean he actively practices it!
In Ethan’s defense, I suspect at this point people who put THAT song in public places KNOW what they’re doing, and therefore they are villains.
I wonder what percentage of readers know the song without looking it up. Sadly i knew instantly.
Apparently I would need to look it up. On the other hand, I know a bit about Hogmanay and First Footing. Just different backgrounds.
I stand by Ethan. He’s a true hero. It’s the FIRST WEEK OF NOVEMBER dang namit!
I don’t know in the US but in France, every kid related media is PLAGGED by christmas adds since at least early October…
Idée: couper la TV, quitte à remplacer par netflix ou assimilé.
I don’t know French but was that “Idea: Quit tv and replace with Netflix”?
It’s nearly that, it’s just missing a few details.
“quitte” here is a false friend that looks like “quit”, but it has a very different meaning in this context.
The sentence is actually recommending to get rid of TV broadcast and not replace it with anything. But then, if you really need a replacement, then it’s suggesting to turn to Netflix and other streaming services.
Which also have Christmas ads…
I dont have ads on netflix?!
Ads have been introduced in some countries, on the cheapest “base” plan for Netflix, who also scrapped their “Standard” plan, so it’s ads, or paying for the premium subscription each month.
Same in the US. Plus Christmas songs at some places early to mid October….
Yeah, since we don’t have have Thanksgiving and we pretty much don’t celebrate Halloween, it’s just open hunting season for marketing people to start shoving Christmas down our throats.
And then, as soon as Christmas is gone, it’s time for shops to get filled with mountains of chocolate Easter eggs…
In the US it used to be that Christmas advertising didn’t start until the day after Thanksgiving. Unfortunately once someone broke the truce Christmas started expanding.
Remember remember the 3rd Thursday of November. The first casualty in the war against Christmas and it’s desire to consume the full year.
4th Thursday of November.
That’s kind of ironic; Amazon has taught us that I can order everything for Christmas on the 23rd and it will arrive with the 24th. Why exactly do I need two months and change of Christmas?
I assume it really is one of those 1960s-like black projects which are testing out sanity and how to break it. They seem to be succeeding.
I mean, usually, music in that kind of place is allready shitty. So, a new kind of shit for a few month, meh.
In the name of all that is holy thank whichever deity listens that the world understands the need to not hear Christmas/holiday music till December at the earliest.
I knew Ethan was sane. just like Chef Brian.
Someone above me has been blasting Christmas music way to loud. I’m in the dorm below them, and I can hear it clearly. It’s way to early for this/
Homicide, it’s their only way out.
Well, if you don’t want to terminate yourself…
Respond by blaring metal covers to children’s songs. Baby Shark is a good one.
Baby metal
There’s a metal cover of Baby Shark? Now I’m torn between looking it up and being afraid of doing so. 😉
Honestly, me too.
I think ‘Let It Go!’ from Frozen would be about as potent. Or the Lego Movie’s ‘Everyone is Awesome!’.
I guess we all agree that Ethan is doing the right thing. The real question here is: what happened during the meatball accident?
It’s a Calvin & Hobbes reference
The noodle incident! They never proved that was Calvin!
That would explain all the sirens around noon.
Stay strong my brothers and sisters. It’s going to be a long two months
Oh gosh, this means it’s whamagedden 2023 already
No, the whamfather has decreed Whamaggedon only begins Dec 1st. Any Whamming before then is non-lethal.
All i want from christmas ….
…is to start at the first of december and end at the 26th at night and then forgotten about it.
Is playing cringe Christmas songs in stores something common in America?
trust me…that question is a understatement of the CENTURY. we get cringe christmas songs as early as november 1st, and big name (and a lot of small name) stores set up christmas decorations and products as early as OCTOBER 1st. they say its to “keep ahead of the holiday rush” and is on orders from “upper management” i talked with a few employees, they dont like doing it, they dont like the customers being unhappy about a holiday change 2 months or more in advance, especially when people are coming there for a holiday during a specific month, but they… Read more »
October??? I saw Christmas crap in my local CostCo back in August. Cracker Barrel had that shit out in July.
Can 12 months, 365 days of Christmas be far away? We’ve had Hallmark type romantic Christmas movies on TV here in July. July! JULYYYYY!!!!!!!
I mean, they’re escapist fun for those that like it. But it is odd to be sitting in 30 C and watching people in snowy settings….
We need to work together to replace it with Run DMC’s “Christmas in Hollis” in the seasonal playlists. We can do it, people! Write to your elected officials! Lobby your branch managers!
Or maybe some of Weird Al’s works: “Christmas at Ground Zero” and “The Night Santa went Crazy” would be a nice counterpoint to most of the songs that are coming our way…
There’s also the album Punk goes Christmas. It’s got a lot of fun Christmas adjacent music, and it’s actually got almost all of the (non traditional) Christmas music I like there.
I’m partial to the Lovecraft Mythos-remixed carols. They’re spooky and some are really catchy, easy to find on Youtube!
Well, I worked in a toy mall store for years, so my sanity is mostly gone… in fact I even enjoy the song
Ethan is the hero we need. The illegal occupation of November and nowadays of October by Christmas must stop!
Considering I’m starting to see Christmas decorations at the end of August, I think it’s safe to say that we lost the war against people who continue to celebrate Christmas earlier and earlier every year.
One day Christmas is just going to be year round.
Sigh… I never thought I’d say this, but I miss when people used to consider the 1st of November the time to start the Christmas season.
Actually offering Christmas stuff year round might be the answer to de-power it. It’s like knowing you have chocolate cake available as dessert for every meal. Sooner or later you’re going to get sick of it and it’ll just fade into the daily noise of life. The commercialism side of Christmas is only powerful in it’s scarcity. If we’re saturated year round….
I’m all for SPIRIT of Christmas to be seasonal, but the commercialism needs to be knocked down a few pegs.
Working in retail ruined Christmas for me. The same songs repeated over and over again. 5 years… 5 Christmases.
I now get PTSD when the Christmas music starts.
Why do I get flashbacks to CAD 1.0’s “Damnit Ethan, stop breaking shit!”
OK, that’s “random acts of insanity” Ethan. This Ethan is doing God’s work.
Will he flood all stores playing Christmas music too early?
Have the first born sons of the owners killed?
Or just outright raze the stores and (somehow) turn anyone watching into a pillar of salt?
Its as bad as Hot Cross buns being available from Boxing Day, but that zoomed past and reached straight jacket level a couple of years back when they decided “they’re such a popular item we’ll make them available all year round”
I don’t know Hot Cross (guess they are not present over here), but if they are selling the stuff year round, doesn’t that make it just one more regular product, losing any Christmas connotations?
They have Easter connotations: a spiced fruit bun with dough laid over the top in the shape of a cross.
As mentioned by GP, the window for marketing them has recently expanded to fill all twelve months of the year.
Ethan isn’t the hero we deserve, but he is the hero we need.
Tim, it’s not coming, it’s already here. They started playing Christmas music two days ago on the east coast….even worse, it was in fact *THAT* song.
The only thing more inhumane than that is the actual physical violence during Black Friday sales.
Ah, the time of year when earbuds become standard shopping gear. I can’t hear holiday abominations on repeat if I’m flooding my grey matter with hardcore EDM.
Personally I would like to have All Christmas stuff banned. Not ‘not played’ or ‘decorations set up’ BANNED with a $100000 fine per Store at least until After November 11 for Remembrance Day up here out of respect for our heroes who earned us all this.
Where the hell have you been?!? They have had Xmas stuff up since before Halloween here in Michigan. F-in ridiculous.
That last panel kinda looks like Lucas is a dude with brown hair wearing a Lucas mask…
Half octobre I was looking for halloween stuff and could barely find anything cuz they said “I was early”. Meanwhile there were already christmastree-decorations on the shelves. Soon they’ll just leave everything all year round x_x
At least it didn’t start before Halloween!
Winter…is coming
Personally to get through the holidays I will listen to some Christmas music, however, a majority of Christmas music would be Twisted Christmas carols. Aaaand listening to A Christmas Carol narrated by Sir Patrick Stewart at least twice while I go about my day.
And that’s why i always wear my headset with loud metal while shopping… no annoyance by unsolicited Christmas muzak
I’m with Ethan on this one.
Ironically, I have seen more about this song on webcomics and imgur bashing early Christmas than actually hearing or seeing it in person. At this point the satire has become part of the early Christmas and pushing awareness of the holiday far earlier.
im with ethan, until turkey has been served i better not hear any christmas music.
Coming? It’s already here 🙁
Now I need to know about the meatball incident.
Fuck that, I’m on Ethan’s side here!
As someone who’s always been unfazed by holiday music starting in November(I still enjoy hearing ‘Wonderful Christmastime’) it’s always funny to see people absolutely lose their crap over it.
No Christmas till after thanksgiving. Miss those days.
I’m not from USA, and I don’t recognize the song. Can someone give me a title?
It’s probably I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas.
All I Want for Christmas is You, by Mariah Carey.
I’ll let you decide whether you want to seek it out and listen to it. (Wikipedia may be a safer place to start.)
I’m sure you meant to say, she’s coming…
In Australia, Christmas starts in September with a brief interlude for Halloween candy. We just had a Christmas pageant this morning.
You start at a disadvantage down there, what with all this Western media praising a wintery Christmas while you’re in the middle of summer.
I worked as a greeter at Walmart for just over a year, X-mas displays started to go up mid-September. They barely showed anything about Halloween or Thanksgiving, just a single isle of candy’s and costumes, the same with the decorations for Thanksgiving.The VERY next day after Halloween the music started…. (head thudding on the wall…)
At least it makes me feel less guilty about wearing my xmas “ugly sweater” fuzzy leggings to keep warm. Hehe?
Halloween has finally become more of a thing here in Australia, and I am grateful, because now Christmas starts being obnoxious 1st of November, where as it was beginning late September.
So this year has been a massive improvement.
Even if Christmas decorations did begin showing up early-mid October on the shelves.
As someone who works in a grocery store, I wholely approve of this move.
I think Mr Wintermas who created a second Christmas has no right to judge.
If you can’t win them, join them – let’s go for the Singularity.
Only this song. All year. Lights never get taken down. Santas never leave entrances. First we announce Summer Christmas. Then smaller Christmas each month. Then pre-Christmas training Christmas each Friday… And then .. One day we’ll sit down for Christmas feast, red-eyed and tired from all the jolly and miseltoe and more and more wine each day… and we’ll never get up again.
Basically Matrix meets Wall-E, only voluntary, red and green, and financed by Amazon and what not. 🙂
More self-aggrandising superhero nonsense. It’s just unreadable. Let’s pray it’s a short stint and then back to starcaster… or anything else really.
I walked into a store in August that had christmas stuff up and for sale.
We dutch get at least somewhat of a buffer in the form of Sinterklaas which is like a progenitor to modern Christmas. Has its own insufferable songs. But variation numbs the insanity