This is easily the *stupidest* thing I have ever seen in my life. Upside-down Christmas trees. Those of you in the states have probably already heard about this ridiculous “trend”, but as they say here in jolly ol’, i was gobsmacked to hear about this.

Now I’ve seen everything. I understand reinventing products to capture a niche of a market, but who the fuck turns a tree upside down?!? They say it has to do with some 12th century tradition of hanging a tree from a ceiling. The reason they stopped doing it in the 12th century? Because it was d-u-m-b.

Trees are (despite the fact that we dress them up) not in-and-of-themselves, a product. They’re trees. They grow that way. This reminds me of the “square tomato” idea. Just flat out moronic.

Part of me thinks this whole idea started as a joke to see if they could prove p.t. barnum’s assertion that “there’s a sucker born every minute”.

Americans really are dumb as a bunch of rocks, sometimes. And yes: apparently, we *will* buy anything. And pay a lot for it.

In case you haven’t seen this lemming-like phenomenon…

in other dumb news, the big news story of the day here in london:

Severe wintry weather is being forecast for the UK, with as much as 20cm of snow ……
Snow, sleet and hail will be coupled with gale force icy winds and wind chill temperatures as low as -10C.

for those of you in boston, 20cm is a little less than 8 inches, and -10C is 14F. here’s what i think of snow in london.

Go on, you can laugh now…

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