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sunday song – do they know it’s christmas? 2014 vs 1984

30 Sunday Nov 2014

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Good grief! The ONLY people I recognised in this new version were Bob Geldoff and effing Bono. Also, you know me… usually the crazy happy Christmas person that Humbugs find annoying. But this video, aimed at “stopping the virus”, is just dreadful.

I’ll stick with the original – 30 year old! – version (though I didn’t remember it being so “male-dominated”)…

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winning

19 Wednesday Nov 2014

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Here in Spain Christmas lottery tickets cost 20 euros each. An out of work guy couldn’t afford to buy a lottery ticket for the first time and – yep – the neighbourhood bar where he’s always bought them in the past ends up winning the big prize. Millions. And his wife convinces him to go down and congratulate the bar owner and all the others who’d bought their tickets there. And then I ended up in a flood of tears…