Sniffy Advent: Day, the eighteenth

Happy birthday to you!
The religious festival of Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ our saviour a little over 2000 years ago. It coincides with the old Pagan mid-winter festival of Yule and I think this has something to do with the Romans keeping people happy. Something like that anyway.

So the Pagans are celebrating Yule and the Christians are celebrating the birth of our saviour the Lord Jesus Christ.

How selfish is it for people get pregnant at the end of March and hijack Little Baby Jesus's birthday celebrations with those of their own offspring?

I know people with birthdays on: 17th, 18th, 26th and 27th December. This means that I have to buy both birthday and Christmas presents for them and it's almost impossible to buy birthday cards from October onwards, what with the shops being 100% devoted to Christmas from August onwards.

People whose birthdays fall within a week or so either side of the 25th of December should be given the option to change their birthday to a more sensible date; it doesn't do them any favours having their birthdays diluted by other celebrations either.

Of course, the fault lies solely with the selfish parents (as fucking usual): if people had a little more control over their sex drives, they'd be able to hold off and not create this dilemma in the first place. Something is sadly lacking in sex education and life skills classes in our schools.

"Merry birthday! I only got you the one present, I hope you don't mind."