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Recently a mate said that I seemed angry while I was preaching. A lot does make me angry but I also know how shallow I am. Angry and Shallow sums me up in a lot of ways. So as an angry and shallow man I will be making weekly (or maybe more often) comments on things I think we need to face and that I want to say. I also want to hear what you think about them.

There has been a story in our local media about a marquee company that sent a person getting married a rude email when they pulled out of using them for their wedding. http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3865605a11275,00.html Part of the company’s email said “Your wedding sounded cheap, nasty and tacky anyway, so we only ever considered you time wasters”. While this is amazingly bad taste the response has been amazing. To prove that their wedding was not tacky they and local media showed how much was being spent, what ‘flash’ stuff they were having at it etc. This comes at the same time that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are getting married in a multi million dollar exercise in Italy….all on the pages of all our newspapers!

So what is ‘cheap, nasty and tacky?’ Surely this is totally personal taste. If you want plastic flowers, cheap wine and meat pies I say go for it…and enjoy it to the max if it’s your choice. We cannot let $ decide what is tacky and not tacky. The company was way out of line….but to prove them wrong by showing what money is spent etc is just as dumb.

This entry was posted by Angry and Shallow, on Tuesday, November 21, 2006. You can leave your response.

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  1. Blogger KLJ Says:
    10:20 am  

    Well said.
    I'm plannig my wedding right now, and I'll not have rampant consumerism be part of this ritual that is meant to be a symbol and celebration of our love of each other (not of each other's appliances.)
    I can't believe what people spend on money these days. Rididulous.

  2. Blogger Angry and Shallow Says:
    5:17 pm  

    I like your style Keith.....I like your web page too. Good stuff. i
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