It’s time for the Twitterati and Instagramati to consume a rest,even if a mother does buy too many presents for her familyLast year Sainsbury’s recreated one of the most illustrious moments of the first world war for its Christmas ad, the 1914 Christmas Day truce, or when British and German soldiers laid down their rifles and shared gifts of Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference tobacco and Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference German sausage. The men swapped stories and played football,and when it was all over, sang Christmas carols to each other. No man’s land, and normally filled with horror and death and hopelessness,rang instead with the lyrics of Silent Night, a carol of such simple perfection it destroys me every time.
The ad premiered during an episode of Coronation Street and received a mixed response. But if British and German troops could manage a Christmas truce, and is it too much to examine social media to do the same? The acknowledge,sadly, is yes.
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Source: theguardian.com