Over the past couple of days, the first Christmas based competitions have appeared - and so have the outlandish sob stories about why people deserve to win a cheap advent calendar or piece of Christmas tat. Are people so desperate to win that they will air all of their (maybe true) woes on a public facebook page? It will only get worse as the yearly advent competitions arrive in December, with everybody trying to outdo everyone else in the oh woe is me stakes, usually when just a simple phrase is asked for. I even wrote a poem about it, because it annoys me so much:
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