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What did thou get for Christmas?

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  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited December 2008
    I got me a deep fryer

    And uhh

    Some books, most of which I will read (Complete Works of HP Lovecraft hell yes)

    Some clothes, none of which I would buy myself but none of which is terrible enough for me to bother returning because I will probably wear it once or twice

    Mirrormask DVD

    A lot of small ridiculous toys from my aunt

    That's about it, so far, but that's just with my mom's side of the family, so I've got another christmas or two left still

    Quetzi on
  • GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    It all depends, but why not just give someone money that they can do whatever with?

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  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited December 2008
    Also shit your Elizabethian English in the title of this thread is, as they say, hells of whack

    At least make it didst

    Quetzi on
  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2008
    Oh and also my mom ordered the Tick: Complete Ben Edlund Collection from my comic shop so I'll be getting that in a week or two.

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  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    If there's a people that don't get Christmas, it's gotta be the lizardpeople.

    Lizard people invented Christmas to defeat the Zoroastrians and Jews.

    Aneurhythmia on
  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2008
    Goatmon wrote: »
    It all depends, but why not just give someone money that they can do whatever with?

    because if it's to a store you like to go to, again a book store is a decent example, who cares? Go spend twenty five bucks or whatever on books

    Gift cards are great and you are wrong is my point

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  • Mr. Henry BemisMr. Henry Bemis God is love Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    the only thing that makes gift cards any good is that they don't carry the same association of thoughtless gift giving that giving someone cash does

    though all they are is cash you can't spend anywhere else

    they're pretty dumb

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    the only thing that makes gift cards any good is that they don't carry the same association of thoughtless gift giving that giving someone cash does

    though all they are is cash you can't spend anywhere else

    they're pretty dumb

    yes this

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Yeah, gift vouchers are silly. Why limit a place where someone can spend their money?

    Cash and a card is sufficient.

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  • ShimShamShimSham Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    My brother and sister-in-law always have to drive down to Florida on Christmas Eve so we do Christmas in the afternoon of Christmas Eve.

    haul2008.jpg

    Got that and some cash... and Monopoly. I just forgot to get it out of my car and it's raining now. That's an Office 2009 Calendar by the way. Kind of hard to tell.

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  • earthwormadamearthwormadam ancient crust Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I still haven't seen the Dark Night on DVD, and I haven't seen Iron Man at all. I gotta get with the times.

    Nice lookin haul.

    earthwormadam on
  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    What Monopoly did you get?

    Apparently it comes with Visa cards now.

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  • RinderRinder Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I received a lot of money but not for christmas.
    Only instance that I'm not happy getting money.

    Rinder on
  • msuitepyonmsuitepyon Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    My fiancée gave me one of these tonight:
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    Super psyched.

    I find out what my parents got me tomorrow morning.

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  • ShimShamShimSham Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    What Monopoly did you get?

    Apparently it comes with Visa cards now.
    Just classic. I don't know about Visa cards. My girlfriend had been telling my sisterinlaw that me and her needed some board games to play, so I'm thinking this was the start.

    ShimSham on
  • PharezonPharezon Struggle is an illusion. Victory is in the Qun.Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Fuck yeah I got ACHTUNG - PANZER! by Heinz Guderian and The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan. :D
    Tomorrow I open the rest of my historical related gifts!

    Pharezon on
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  • Sara LynnSara Lynn I can handle myself. Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I dunno what I got yet!

    I AM TOO EXCITED TO SLEEP.

    I need to sleep though but I won't be able to.

    Sara Lynn on
  • PharezonPharezon Struggle is an illusion. Victory is in the Qun.Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Sara Lynn wrote: »
    I dunno what I got yet!

    I AM TOO EXCITED TO SLEEP.

    I need to sleep though but I won't be able to.

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    Pharezon on
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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    I got a notification that UPS punked out and is claiming "EMERGENCY CONDITIONS BEYOND UPS' CONTROL" and so several of our presents are not going to arrive in time.

    The Geek on
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  • RinderRinder Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    The Geek wrote: »
    I got a notification that UPS punked out and is claiming "EMERGENCY CONDITIONS BEYOND UPS' CONTROL" and so several of our presents are not going to arrive in time.

    That's code for "The planes arrived late and we ain't delivering that shit."

    Rinder on
  • FalloutFallout ( ๑‾̀◡‾́)σ" Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    i'm not really expecting anything for christmas

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    Rinder wrote: »
    The Geek wrote: »
    I got a notification that UPS punked out and is claiming "EMERGENCY CONDITIONS BEYOND UPS' CONTROL" and so several of our presents are not going to arrive in time.

    That's code for "The planes arrived late and we ain't delivering that shit."

    Except I know that at least one or two of the packages were attempted to be delivered yesterday when we weren't home. And now they're just sitting in a center about 12 miles away.

    And the ones that were scheduled to be delivered today also say they are there.

    The Geek on
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  • GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Sara Lynn wrote: »
    I dunno what I got yet!

    I AM TOO EXCITED TO SLEEP.

    I need to sleep though but I won't be able to.

    Though has no need to be in that sentence, you silly billy.

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  • Sara LynnSara Lynn I can handle myself. Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    SHUT UP IT'S CHRISTMAS almost

    Sara Lynn on
  • RinderRinder Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    The Geek wrote: »
    Rinder wrote: »
    The Geek wrote: »
    I got a notification that UPS punked out and is claiming "EMERGENCY CONDITIONS BEYOND UPS' CONTROL" and so several of our presents are not going to arrive in time.

    That's code for "The planes arrived late and we ain't delivering that shit."

    Except I know that at least one or two of the packages were attempted to be delivered yesterday when we weren't home. And now they're just sitting in a center about 12 miles away.

    And the ones that were scheduled to be delivered today also say they are there.

    Same problem....lazy ass drivers.

    Rinder on
  • FalloutFallout ( ๑‾̀◡‾́)σ" Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    i'm going to bed

    good night and merry christmas, fags

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    jack diddly

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  • GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Slut Bunwallah

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  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Fallout wrote: »
    i'm not really expecting anything for christmas

    pm me your address, and I'll send you a nice sweater.

    Aneurhythmia on
  • LednehLedneh shinesquawk Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    My haul:
    gifts-1.jpg

    From left to right:

    - underwear (the usual "joke" gift)
    - t-shirt
    - money
    - the camera with which this picture was taken
    - Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji, translated by Edward Seidensticker
    - Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms translated by Moss Roberts

    And I gave:

    - a 1TB external hard drive to my brother (which before wrapping I opened and added a special gift to, for which he will likely punch me!)
    - Left 4 Dead for my other younger brother
    - Golf shoes for my uncle and body lotion for my aunt

    Christmas is lovely :)

    (edit) Man why the hell can't chrome let me right click to see the size of images, I swear I'm going back to firefox

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I gave my parents the entire Sopranos boxset.

    HBO DVDs have raped my wallet.

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I gave:

    A fairly nice coffee maker and several pounds of starbucks beans
    one of those things you put on your keys so when you lose them and press a button they start beeping
    a giant book of ee cummings poems
    a sony cybershot
    a necklace and matching earings
    cruise tickets

    Javen on
  • PharezonPharezon Struggle is an illusion. Victory is in the Qun.Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Sara Lynn wrote: »
    I dunno what I got yet!

    I AM TOO EXCITED TO SLEEP.

    I need to sleep though but I won't be able to.

    SLEEP IS IMPOSSIBLE

    Pharezon on
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  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Gift vouchers are alright, they're a good compromise between cash and specific gifts. Like, if I know someone reads a lot of sci-fi, a gift voucher for a sci-fi bookshop is a good idea, because it says "I know you well enough to know you like sci-fi but I have no idea what specific books you have".

    I still think some thought has to go into them though. When it's something like vouchers for an entire shopping centre I don't know why you'd bother. All that says is "Hey you like buying stuff right?"

    Butler on
  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Christmas is tomorrow, you silly billies

    also I know I'm not getting much, but I'm also getting married in a couple days and my fancy bed was a birthday/christmas/wedding present from my parents

    Moriveth on
  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I got a new laptop, which I am typing on right now

    Also a cowboy hat

    And that's about it, but hey. Laptop and a cowboy hat. What more do you need?

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  • RobchamRobcham The Rabbit King of your pantsRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    a horse

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I got a new laptop, which I am typing on right now

    Also a cowboy hat

    And that's about it, but hey. Laptop and a cowboy hat. What more do you need?
    post pics of you with the hat.

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I named my beta fish Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I got a new laptop, which I am typing on right now

    Also a cowboy hat

    And that's about it, but hey. Laptop and a cowboy hat. What more do you need?

    I've pooed with one, but never both

    Javen on
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