i was at a wedding last night
and my father and brother/fiancee borrowed my flat as they were at a football match in london yesterday. we all met up at westfield this morning for a bit of christmas shopping and lunch (we saw bill bailey in the new lego shop, which is as cool as it got).

it is safe to say that my dad is not in his natural habitat in a shopping mall. in fact, it is safe to say that he fucking hates them, and then add a bit more rage, by which point you might be halfway there.

so we've been around a few shops and he has bought christmas stuff for my nieces and nephew, and we are having the world's most exotic pizzas in the brilliant 'fire and stone' (who are actually doing a christmas pizza with turkey, stuffing, roast potatoes etc on top... wtf). and i asked my dad what he thought of westfield. he looked around europe's biggest shopping mall, with its hundreds of shops, tens of restaurants, truly brilliant parking system, thousands of shoppers, and pronounced:

"WELL. IT'S JUST UNNECESSARY ISN'T IT?"
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 28 Nov 2010, 15:00, 14 replies)

Good man!
I couldn't agree more with him. Britain...once a nation of shopkeepers, now a nation of shoppers.
(Mao's stepson is doing his bit for East/West relation's, Sun 28 Nov 2010, 15:33, closed)

Well,
he's got a good point.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Sun 28 Nov 2010, 15:36, closed)

Your Dad
Could quite well be the leader of the Four Yorkshiremen of the Apocalypse.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Sun 28 Nov 2010, 16:08, closed)

He's right
It is completely unnecessary.

I hate Christmas until about a week beforehand when the 5-year-old in my head wakes up and realises he is going to get presents.
(BearWithLittleBrain, Sun 28 Nov 2010, 18:08, closed)

Is it just me,
that can't work that first bit out? Brother/Fiancee? Really?! :/

I'm with him though. I did Winter Wonderland today, very dull.
( Jimbuktu See? Right here, Sun 28 Nov 2010, 20:10, closed)

incest
A game for all the family
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 29 Nov 2010, 3:31, closed)

are you marrying your brother?

( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Sun 28 Nov 2010, 21:44, closed)

no, that would have been fiance, wouldn't it?
come on, if you're going to pedant me, do it properly! :)
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 28 Nov 2010, 21:57, closed)

Lesbian wedding
to your brother who's had a sex change, then, is it?
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Sun 28 Nov 2010, 23:50, closed)

In that case...
Fiancé, fiancée.

Consider yourself properly pedanted :)
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Mon 29 Nov 2010, 9:01, closed)

I read it. Re-read it and promptly gave up.
I considered your brother can be in whatever odd relationship he wants. Nothing to do with me.
( Another_tragic_case wished he hadn't eaten all the cake, Mon 29 Nov 2010, 9:45, closed)

Yeah.
She's Bert's sister.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 29 Nov 2010, 10:47, closed)

He's right, you know.

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 29 Nov 2010, 10:47, closed)

I too don't get the "brother/fiancee" bit other than it sounding horribly Norfolk.
I mean - I'm from Somerset and even we wouldn't go that far, or at least not admit to it.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 29 Nov 2010, 12:55, closed)