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The fact that the On The Beach ad uses a Christmas song all year round drives me insane.
The lyrics (it's the most wonderful time of the year) is from a Christmas song, so how do they even get away with it?
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By get away with it, I meant how are they getting away with using a Christmas song all year round?
It's widely know to be bad luck to play or sing a Christmas song when it's not the Christmas period.
The saying goes: Playing songs out of season, brings bad luck for no reason.
But aside from that it gets on my nerves hearing a Christmas song all year round.
I would never book with On the beach in protest.
davebro3,
My parents drilled that into us as kids, that we should never sing or play a Christmas song outside of the period.
They used to think it was bad luck to put the decorations and tree up too early too, we typically put them up on 20th of December and they had to be down by the 6th of January.
A lot of these old wives tales are dying out these days.
davebro3,
I just googled about this, and it is widely concidered to be bad luck to sing or use Christmas songs out of season.
So whether my parents were being daft or not they were probably just following sayings or traditions from their parents and so on.
The problem is these days kids would take no notice of their parents anyway, seems to be the norm now doesn't it?
Hence why all these old wives tales are dying off.
One sticks in my head about you should never walk under a ladder as it's bad luck, but there is logic to this as it could mean something on the ladder or from the person working on the ladder could drop something on your head.
Thats why I think some bad luck sayings were invented so that things like that stuck in your head to make you aware of the dangers around. So they had a use.
A bit like an antient form of AI