My Santee never replied, or indeed posted since November.
I was worried that he wouldn't like the stuff I got him, but now I'm not bothered - though I still worry that he might have died or been kidnapped or something.
So, I am a tool and due to 1) A shipping error on my part and 2) Funding issues because I wrecked my car, my present didn't go out until today. I let my Santee know beforehand, though, but I still feel terrible. Hopefully they will forgive me if the presents are neat enough.
Also JESUS CHRIST amazon charges a fucking boatload for Canadian shipping. And both of mine were in Canadia. And it still takes fucking forever!
Did you consider ordering it from Amazon.ca?
(I've ordered from Amazon.com before to Canada and it wasn't especially expensive)
Apparently there is a mood afoot that you're a jerk santee if you don't post here.
Well, er, sorry? I got some wonderful stuff even. I talked about it with my santa privately and thought that was a done deal. I didn't have the organizational skill to photo and document my
- iPhone dock adapters
- iPhone case
- copy of The Time Travellers Wife
so I kind of thought posting in here was pointless.
Apparently there is a mood afoot that you're a jerk santee if you don't post here.
Well, er, sorry? I got some wonderful stuff even. I talked about it with my santa privately and thought that was a done deal. I didn't have the organizational skill to photo and document my
- iPhone dock adapters
- iPhone case
- copy of The Time Travellers Wife
so I kind of thought posting in here was pointless.
I don't think you have to post publicly but my santee has not even sent me a pm.
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Apparently there is a mood afoot that you're a jerk santee if you don't post here.
Well, er, sorry? I got some wonderful stuff even. I talked about it with my santa privately and thought that was a done deal. I didn't have the organizational skill to photo and document my
- iPhone dock adapters
- iPhone case
- copy of The Time Travellers Wife
so I kind of thought posting in here was pointless.
No, the idea was that some Santees have not let their Santas know the package has arrived, yet alone said thank you. It's common god damned decency to say "thanks" when someone gives you a gift, be it a PM or post on the thread. Fuck, I say thank you when the cashier at the grocery store hands me back my credit card.
i) Your Santee is likely wondering if the package has even made it to you or if they need to call the post office and report it lost.
ii) Your Santee is wondering if you actually liked the things you were given.
iii) Saying 'thank you' is just the bees knees. All the cool kids are doing it. It's like huffing paint.
So, I am a tool and due to 1) A shipping error on my part and 2) Funding issues because I wrecked my car, my present didn't go out until today. I let my Santee know beforehand, though, but I still feel terrible. Hopefully they will forgive me if the presents are neat enough.
Also JESUS CHRIST amazon charges a fucking boatload for Canadian shipping. And both of mine were in Canadia. And it still takes fucking forever!
Did you consider ordering it from Amazon.ca?
(I've ordered from Amazon.com before to Canada and it wasn't especially expensive)
The base prices were more expensive for the items in question (and yes, I converted the currency) so it wouldn't have made the total any cheaper, sadly.
Apparently there is a mood afoot that you're a jerk santee if you don't post here.
Well, er, sorry? I got some wonderful stuff even. I talked about it with my santa privately and thought that was a done deal. I didn't have the organizational skill to photo and document my
- iPhone dock adapters
- iPhone case
- copy of The Time Travellers Wife
so I kind of thought posting in here was pointless.
See this is where you are right. Your posting here was pointless.
You actually let your Santa know, so he isn't one of the people complaining that they don't have a fucking clue as to whats going on with their santee.
No, the idea was that some Santees have not let their Santas know the package has arrived, yet alone said thank you. It's common god damned decency to say "thanks" when someone gives you a gift, be it a PM or post on the thread. Fuck, I say thank you when the cashier at the grocery store hands me back my credit card.
i) Your Santee is likely wondering if the package has even made it to you or if they need to call the post office and report it lost.
ii) Your Santee is wondering if you actually liked the things you were given.
iii) Saying 'thank you' is just the bees knees. All the cool kids are doing it. It's like huffing paint.
Yeah, I didn't think this concept was too hard to understand either. But in the Deadbeat Santee thread the idea is just getting bent over the table and violated without lube.
Seriously, is it too much to ask for your Santee to let you know in public OR private PM that they at least received their present?
Is this a hard concept for people to fucking grasp in their heads?
I am just really lucky that I got a awesome santa and santee this year.
I had a mystery Santa. My loot was a WoW Rogue shirt and a steel-cast Bender from Futurama. I'm quite happy with my loot. So I repeat my thanks to whomever it was that had me.
That was all me up ins. I kinda forgot to mention that part.
I want to thank my Santa properly, but I don't know who they are.
Uh, that was me. :oops:
Sorry for it being so late. I could expound at great lengths on all the reasons I didn't get it to you on time, but the important thing is that you got it and you seem to be happy with it.
Pretty embarrassing to come in late for the event I organized (pretty poorly this time around, I feel). This last couple of months have been highly weird for me.
I think *WITH THE APPROVAL OF CAPT K * that all non-getters should mention this fact to K, and he can post the single list of deadbeat santas for the world to see.
we are 3 weeks into January.. holiday break is over, people should have their gifts. its been said before, if you couldn't scrape up $10 from NOVEMBER, then you had no business signing up.
Your gift just arrived on my doorstep. This is strange to me, as it was sent to your doorstep.
Further investigation reveals that I am a complete tool and wrote your address down wrong. It got sent a very long way back to me (across an ocean even). I promise to rectify this situation as soon as I am able.
Your gift just arrived on my doorstep. This is strange to me, as it was sent to your doorstep.
Further investigation reveals that I am a complete tool and wrote your address down wrong. It got sent a very long way back to me (across an ocean even). I promise to rectify this situation as soon as I am able.
Yours truly,
Dumbass Santa
At this point the time for secrets is over. I'd name the guy so he knows it's all still in hand and he doesn't need to fret.
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Your gift just arrived on my doorstep. This is strange to me, as it was sent to your doorstep.
Further investigation reveals that I am a complete tool and wrote your address down wrong. It got sent a very long way back to me (across an ocean even). I promise to rectify this situation as soon as I am able.
Yours truly,
Dumbass Santa
At this point the time for secrets is over. I'd name the guy so he knows it's all still in hand and he doesn't need to fret.
Your gift just arrived on my doorstep. This is strange to me, as it was sent to your doorstep.
Further investigation reveals that I am a complete tool and wrote your address down wrong. It got sent a very long way back to me (across an ocean even). I promise to rectify this situation as soon as I am able.
Yours truly,
Dumbass Santa
I can just see this happening:
"Oh man, a present, for me?
Fuck."
Also, To My Santa: Nothing yet. The mailroom remains quite empty (of things for me).
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I want to thank my Santa properly, but I don't know who they are.
Uh, that was me. :oops:
Sorry for it being so late. I could expound at great lengths on all the reasons I didn't get it to you on time, but the important thing is that you got it and you seem to be happy with it.
Pretty embarrassing to come in late for the event I organized (pretty poorly this time around, I feel). This last couple of months have been highly weird for me.
No worries, it didn't bother me that it was late. The gift is wonderful anyway, so that maker it all the better. You rock, K!
I knew it was you (from your PM and the name on the box gave me a hunch) but I didn't wanna venture a guess in case I was wrong and look like an idiot. Thanks again!
I'm not sure where I'd be crossing the line between "patiently waiting but wondering" and "whiny bitch," but if my Santa has sent something, I never got it. Last year I didn't get a letter until mid-March, but the guy PMed me and explained why he wouldn't be able to scrape up enough to participate until then, which was considerate. I haven't even received an apology this year.
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also apparently whenever barclay needed help or got stuck he actually went and talked with gemmell in person about it, so i guess they were friends and what not in real life. Pretty neat.
Oh my god, that's awesome. I'll try and find this cable because I want you to appreciate just how huge these books are. I've had about 10 books for Christmas, I think you could fit the other 8 into these two.
i'm really excited to see these now, i hope you can find the cable!
Last year I didn't get a letter until mid-March, but the guy PMed me and explained why he wouldn't be able to scrape up enough to participate until then, which was considerate.
This is the most ridiculous thing I've heard this week. What on earth were they doing participating in last years event if they were so utterly incapable of ... jesus ... anything, apparently.
Last year I didn't get a letter until mid-March, but the guy PMed me and explained why he wouldn't be able to scrape up enough to participate until then, which was considerate.
This is the most ridiculous thing I've heard this week. What on earth were they doing participating in last years event if they were so utterly incapable of ... jesus ... anything, apparently.
Well, to be fair, even though the minimum is ten dollars, some of the gifts here have been so good and clearly over that minimum that a lot of people would feel like jerks sending a small ten dollar gift. Then again, you probably would feel a jerk sending something till march anyways.
Are we ever getting a list of deadbeat santas? You know, so we can shun them and all?
Last year I didn't get a letter until mid-March, but the guy PMed me and explained why he wouldn't be able to scrape up enough to participate until then, which was considerate.
This is the most ridiculous thing I've heard this week. What on earth were they doing participating in last years event if they were so utterly incapable of ... jesus ... anything, apparently.
Well, to be fair, even though the minimum is ten dollars, some of the gifts here have been so good and clearly over that minimum that a lot of people would feel like jerks sending a small ten dollar gift. Then again, you probably would feel a jerk sending something till march anyways.
Are we ever getting a list of deadbeat santas? You know, so we can shun them and all?
As you implied, it's much worse to wait weeks or months after the deadline than send a $10 gift on time. Besides, everyone that signed up knew the minimum was $10. If you send someone a $100 gift and get a $10 gift card to Toys R Us, you can't really complain.
Shit.. now I'm getting a $10 gift card to Toys r Us next year. Fuck.
My hair's fairly white anyway - least it would be without the hair dye! I think I'm fairly unshockable, and I probably know most of the words Lewie does. I think I'll probably (maybe) avoid his posts in future, but watch out for this year's secret santa, I am sooooooooooooooooooo in.
heehee. "so in". spoken like a true G and Ter.
what if Lewie gets his mom, and vice versa? Will the world implode?
OK ladies and gentlemen. I have offered to the pressure off K and take over the post Christmas clean up. He has accepted and will be sending me the match up lists soon. As such I propose we procede thusly:
If you have received no gift then please send me a PM including the latest status re: communication from your Santa. I shall then atempt to contact him and find out what is going on.
If you are a Santa who has not sent out a gift yet then feel free to pre-emptively contact me with your explanations.
Hopefully we can get this all sorted out shortly and return the jolliness which has been worryingly lacking from the thread of late. After sufficient time I shall try to sort out the idea that was floating around of organising highly generous people to be back up Santas.
So, I managed to get engaged right at the same time that both my G&T and SE++ gifts arrived so I was running around like mad and only barely remembered to jump into SE++ to mention my gift to WaM.
I don't think I ever came in here to say that I got my gift and that makes me a tremendous ass.
Jeez, it's sad that some people are having problems getting their gifts to begin with
I'm just one of those deadbeats who insists on posting things with pictures but is busy planning for a wedding/school so every time I go to my fiance's house to get my camera back, I get sidetracked and forget all about it
Lame excuse I know but what I received requires pictures as I will look very fancy when I'm done.
I stumbled downstairs in a post-sleep haze, and in my ham-fisted bumblings I come across a package that had been brought inside and laid gently on the couch.
"Hurmmm," I tiredly rumbled, "I do not recall ordering something from Amazon."
I hefted the package, which was of respectable size. With an exclamation, I wondered if I had forgotten ordering a textbook.
No! I had forgotten no such thing, for PikaPuff had gifted me two gargantuan hardcover volumes of the Robert Kirkman comic The Walking Dead. Not only is it an excellent comic, but it is one I had only a few issues of. Not only do I now own 24 collected issues, but I own them in a format weighty enough to crush a zombie's skull.
I lack the cameras necessary to display these books with my cat sitting on them or being swung violently and in glee at someone who just wants to be left alone, so allow me to present you all with an artist's rendition:
PikaPuff points out in included text that zombie books are appropriate when Secret Santa is long since dead, but I counter with an assertion of the year-round appropriateness of zombie apocalypse.
Those should be Vol 1 and Vol 3, with Vol 2 from some third party site on its way. So expect one more book in the coming months (damn random sites).
I'm jealous myself, because I remember The hard cover volume 1 coming with a special extra comic not included anywhere else. The other volumes probably have them too.
Glad you like it. Sad you already have some of them. You didn't list it in your "I like obscure comics" list.
Those should be Vol 1 and Vol 3, with Vol 2 from some third party site on its way. So expect one more book in the coming months (damn random sites).
I'm jealous myself, because I remember The hard cover volume 1 coming with a special extra comic not included anywhere else. The other volumes probably have them too.
Glad you like it. Sad you already have some of them. You didn't list it in your "I like obscure comics" list.
It had slipped my mind, but I am in no way unhappy with the gift! These are incredible books and the overlap is minimal at best. I had picked up those Walking Dead issues at a relatively cash-strapped time, so I never followed up on it despite absolutely loving it.
what if Lewie gets his mom, and vice versa? Will the world implode?
Well, if we do, it'll be a lot cheaper that sending stuff to Seattle, and if he doesn't deliver on time, no turkey for him!!! (well, last year it was a chicken in a duck in a turkey in a goose, not bad for an ex vegan (me) and veggie (Lewie), so who knows what it might be this year). Apologies to all you veggies/vegans out there, the lure of bacon was too great for my weak will (that and you can't get decent vegan chocolate, What is carob about anyway!!!!)
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I was worried that he wouldn't like the stuff I got him, but now I'm not bothered - though I still worry that he might have died or been kidnapped or something.
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Did you consider ordering it from Amazon.ca?
(I've ordered from Amazon.com before to Canada and it wasn't especially expensive)
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Well, er, sorry? I got some wonderful stuff even. I talked about it with my santa privately and thought that was a done deal. I didn't have the organizational skill to photo and document my
- iPhone dock adapters
- iPhone case
- copy of The Time Travellers Wife
so I kind of thought posting in here was pointless.
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I don't think you have to post publicly but my santee has not even sent me a pm.
No, the idea was that some Santees have not let their Santas know the package has arrived, yet alone said thank you. It's common god damned decency to say "thanks" when someone gives you a gift, be it a PM or post on the thread. Fuck, I say thank you when the cashier at the grocery store hands me back my credit card.
i) Your Santee is likely wondering if the package has even made it to you or if they need to call the post office and report it lost.
ii) Your Santee is wondering if you actually liked the things you were given.
iii) Saying 'thank you' is just the bees knees. All the cool kids are doing it. It's like huffing paint.
The base prices were more expensive for the items in question (and yes, I converted the currency) so it wouldn't have made the total any cheaper, sadly.
See this is where you are right. Your posting here was pointless.
You actually let your Santa know, so he isn't one of the people complaining that they don't have a fucking clue as to whats going on with their santee.
So no, you are not a jerk. Yay for you!
Exactly the point.
Yeah, I didn't think this concept was too hard to understand either. But in the Deadbeat Santee thread the idea is just getting bent over the table and violated without lube.
Seriously, is it too much to ask for your Santee to let you know in public OR private PM that they at least received their present?
Is this a hard concept for people to fucking grasp in their heads?
I am just really lucky that I got a awesome santa and santee this year.
Meh.
Isn't he a sweetheart like that?
That was all me up ins. I kinda forgot to mention that part.
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Uh, that was me. :oops:
Sorry for it being so late. I could expound at great lengths on all the reasons I didn't get it to you on time, but the important thing is that you got it and you seem to be happy with it.
Pretty embarrassing to come in late for the event I organized (pretty poorly this time around, I feel). This last couple of months have been highly weird for me.
we are 3 weeks into January.. holiday break is over, people should have their gifts. its been said before, if you couldn't scrape up $10 from NOVEMBER, then you had no business signing up.
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Go on.
Your gift just arrived on my doorstep. This is strange to me, as it was sent to your doorstep.
Further investigation reveals that I am a complete tool and wrote your address down wrong. It got sent a very long way back to me (across an ocean even). I promise to rectify this situation as soon as I am able.
Yours truly,
Dumbass Santa
At this point the time for secrets is over. I'd name the guy so he knows it's all still in hand and he doesn't need to fret.
Or PM the guy (or gal).
I can just see this happening:
"Oh man, a present, for me?
Fuck."
Also, To My Santa: Nothing yet. The mailroom remains quite empty (of things for me).
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No worries, it didn't bother me that it was late. The gift is wonderful anyway, so that maker it all the better. You rock, K!
I knew it was you (from your PM and the name on the box gave me a hunch) but I didn't wanna venture a guess in case I was wrong and look like an idiot. Thanks again!
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One day he'll post those pictures. one day...
This is the most ridiculous thing I've heard this week. What on earth were they doing participating in last years event if they were so utterly incapable of ... jesus ... anything, apparently.
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Well, to be fair, even though the minimum is ten dollars, some of the gifts here have been so good and clearly over that minimum that a lot of people would feel like jerks sending a small ten dollar gift. Then again, you probably would feel a jerk sending something till march anyways.
Are we ever getting a list of deadbeat santas? You know, so we can shun them and all?
As you implied, it's much worse to wait weeks or months after the deadline than send a $10 gift on time. Besides, everyone that signed up knew the minimum was $10. If you send someone a $100 gift and get a $10 gift card to Toys R Us, you can't really complain.
heehee. "so in". spoken like a true G and Ter.
what if Lewie gets his mom, and vice versa? Will the world implode?
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Anyway, I've been contacted by my Santa, and apparently the store he ordered gifts from a month ago never delivered them. So he is not a Bad Santa.
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If you have received no gift then please send me a PM including the latest status re: communication from your Santa. I shall then atempt to contact him and find out what is going on.
If you are a Santa who has not sent out a gift yet then feel free to pre-emptively contact me with your explanations.
Hopefully we can get this all sorted out shortly and return the jolliness which has been worryingly lacking from the thread of late. After sufficient time I shall try to sort out the idea that was floating around of organising highly generous people to be back up Santas.
Lets get back to celebrating people!
I don't think I ever came in here to say that I got my gift and that makes me a tremendous ass.
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I'm just one of those deadbeats who insists on posting things with pictures but is busy planning for a wedding/school so every time I go to my fiance's house to get my camera back, I get sidetracked and forget all about it
Lame excuse I know but what I received requires pictures as I will look very fancy when I'm done.
I stumbled downstairs in a post-sleep haze, and in my ham-fisted bumblings I come across a package that had been brought inside and laid gently on the couch.
"Hurmmm," I tiredly rumbled, "I do not recall ordering something from Amazon."
I hefted the package, which was of respectable size. With an exclamation, I wondered if I had forgotten ordering a textbook.
No! I had forgotten no such thing, for PikaPuff had gifted me two gargantuan hardcover volumes of the Robert Kirkman comic The Walking Dead. Not only is it an excellent comic, but it is one I had only a few issues of. Not only do I now own 24 collected issues, but I own them in a format weighty enough to crush a zombie's skull.
I lack the cameras necessary to display these books with my cat sitting on them or being swung violently and in glee at someone who just wants to be left alone, so allow me to present you all with an artist's rendition:
PikaPuff points out in included text that zombie books are appropriate when Secret Santa is long since dead, but I counter with an assertion of the year-round appropriateness of zombie apocalypse.
Thanks, this is an awesome gift!
I'm jealous myself, because I remember The hard cover volume 1 coming with a special extra comic not included anywhere else. The other volumes probably have them too.
Glad you like it. Sad you already have some of them. You didn't list it in your "I like obscure comics" list.
It had slipped my mind, but I am in no way unhappy with the gift! These are incredible books and the overlap is minimal at best. I had picked up those Walking Dead issues at a relatively cash-strapped time, so I never followed up on it despite absolutely loving it.
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