If you even half-suspect that maybe you won't be able to hold up your end of the cheer, you shouldn't participate. It's not hard -- even someone unexpectedly poor can do something awesome and meaningful, unless they just don't care enough, in which case they shouldn't participate.
Oh, absolutely. I wasn't trying to say otherwise, I was merely stating my reason for participating which I suspect is the same for many others. It is amazing how much time and money people spent on their gifts this year. To condemn one bad gift out of the dozens of excellent ones is undeserving in my opinion.
I will say that bottle of bleach someone got was priceless. Oh, Canada.
Tracking says my package has finally fucking arrived.
Apologies for it being hugely delayed Santee. I tried to gift you a bunch of Xbox Live Marketplace points but well you know over Christmas the whole fucking thing went down. XBL worked for me but Live.com and all the web features required for gift-age was down. Sorry again. Hope you like it.
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.
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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.
Heh, just when the standard of presents were high enough. I'm getting a bit worried by the G&T Secret Santa Arms Race.
What do you guys think I should do... My santee got his gift over a month ago. After a few weeks, I asked a fellow forumer to pm him and ask him if he got his gift and he replied that he did. Yet 3 more weeks go by and he has not posted or pm'd me about it. I am not worried about getting banned but I am sort of pissed that I sent someone a gift and I have not got a private thank you at the least. What do you guys think the appropriate responce is ?
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What do you guys think I should do... My santee got his gift over a month ago. After a few weeks, I asked a fellow forumer to pm him and ask him if he got his gift and he replied that he did. Yet 3 more weeks go by and he has not posted or pm'd me about it. I am not worried about getting banned but I am sort of pissed that I sent someone a gift and I have not got a private thank you at the least. What do you guys think the appropriate responce is ?
This has been the experience of several people apparently. I don't think it should constitute a ban, but I definitely think "deadbeat Santees" should be banned from future gift-giving events. How long does it take to post a thank you on here? 10 seconds.
What do you guys think I should do... My santee got his gift over a month ago. After a few weeks, I asked a fellow forumer to pm him and ask him if he got his gift and he replied that he did. Yet 3 more weeks go by and he has not posted or pm'd me about it. I am not worried about getting banned but I am sort of pissed that I sent someone a gift and I have not got a private thank you at the least. What do you guys think the appropriate responce is ?
This has been the experience of several people apparently. I don't think it should constitute a ban, but I definitely think "deadbeat Santees" should be banned from future gift-giving events. How long does it take to post a thank you on here? 10 seconds.
Seriously. I got soap (which is almost gone) and an awesome calendar and I got pictures up and everything!
BTW: I can't really feel any particular boost from the caffeine in the soap, but then it has lasted longer than 12 washings as well so I'm not getting the full 200mg dosage, not that I expected to anyway since not all of it is going to be absorbed. Whatever, I always wanted to try it and now I have.
Perhaps something where if you do not participate in saying at least "thank you" and listing what you got (pictures are a bonus) you cannot participate in the next one? But then lift it for the one after that if they decide that this time they will? It feels kinda wrong to punish someone for not saying thank you, but it is a bit rude when a stranger buys you gifts..
(And I need to keep bugging ThinkGeek and DHL about where in the world my stuff went to if not to my santee's house!)
I dont know, it is lame when you don't get a thank you... but I mean, I've given family members presents and getting back a "oh I didn't tell you to get me this." Maybe I'm just used to taking more abuse than many, but I'm not about to stop giving gifts just because somebody else has no common courtesy.
Also, no response is probably better off than a... what is this, books are gay, response.
Also, no response is probably better off than a... what is this, books are gay, response.
Although, in the long run, hasn't that response given us a lot of joy? Maybe, in a way, that Santee's gift to us was that meme, and we were to stupid to see it at the time!
What do you guys think I should do... My santee got his gift over a month ago. After a few weeks, I asked a fellow forumer to pm him and ask him if he got his gift and he replied that he did. Yet 3 more weeks go by and he has not posted or pm'd me about it. I am not worried about getting banned but I am sort of pissed that I sent someone a gift and I have not got a private thank you at the least. What do you guys think the appropriate responce is ?
This has been the experience of several people apparently. I don't think it should constitute a ban, but I definitely think "deadbeat Santees" should be banned from future gift-giving events. How long does it take to post a thank you on here? 10 seconds.
Seriously. I got soap (which is almost gone) and an awesome calendar and I got pictures up and everything!
BTW: I can't really feel any particular boost from the caffeine in the soap, but then it has lasted longer than 12 washings as well so I'm not getting the full 200mg dosage, not that I expected to anyway since not all of it is going to be absorbed. Whatever, I always wanted to try it and now I have.
Perhaps something where if you do not participate in saying at least "thank you" and listing what you got (pictures are a bonus) you cannot participate in the next one? But then lift it for the one after that if they decide that this time they will? It feels kinda wrong to punish someone for not saying thank you, but it is a bit rude when a stranger buys you gifts..
(And I need to keep bugging ThinkGeek and DHL about where in the world my stuff went to if not to my santee's house!)
I don't care if I get a public " wow look how cool my gifts are " I would have at least appriciated a pm saying thank you. A little courtesy would be appreciated.
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.
What do you guys think I should do... My santee got his gift over a month ago. After a few weeks, I asked a fellow forumer to pm him and ask him if he got his gift and he replied that he did. Yet 3 more weeks go by and he has not posted or pm'd me about it. I am not worried about getting banned but I am sort of pissed that I sent someone a gift and I have not got a private thank you at the least. What do you guys think the appropriate responce is ?
This has been the experience of several people apparently. I don't think it should constitute a ban, but I definitely think "deadbeat Santees" should be banned from future gift-giving events. How long does it take to post a thank you on here? 10 seconds.
Seriously. I got soap (which is almost gone) and an awesome calendar and I got pictures up and everything!
BTW: I can't really feel any particular boost from the caffeine in the soap, but then it has lasted longer than 12 washings as well so I'm not getting the full 200mg dosage, not that I expected to anyway since not all of it is going to be absorbed. Whatever, I always wanted to try it and now I have.
Perhaps something where if you do not participate in saying at least "thank you" and listing what you got (pictures are a bonus) you cannot participate in the next one? But then lift it for the one after that if they decide that this time they will? It feels kinda wrong to punish someone for not saying thank you, but it is a bit rude when a stranger buys you gifts..
(And I need to keep bugging ThinkGeek and DHL about where in the world my stuff went to if not to my santee's house!)
I don't care if I get a public " wow look how cool my gifts are " I would have at least appriciated a pm saying thank you. A little courtesy would be appreciated.
I don't know if this is possible, maybe one of the mods can tell me.
You know how you get infractions, goto jail ect ect.
Your icon changes, cant use quotes(old forums i think right?), and got that big "Jailed" in your title?
So I propose this.....
Sorry Silver, I am sure your not a bad Santa, but yours was the first one I found.
What do you guys think I should do... My santee got his gift over a month ago. After a few weeks, I asked a fellow forumer to pm him and ask him if he got his gift and he replied that he did. Yet 3 more weeks go by and he has not posted or pm'd me about it. I am not worried about getting banned but I am sort of pissed that I sent someone a gift and I have not got a private thank you at the least. What do you guys think the appropriate responce is ?
This has been the experience of several people apparently. I don't think it should constitute a ban, but I definitely think "deadbeat Santees" should be banned from future gift-giving events. How long does it take to post a thank you on here? 10 seconds.
Seriously. I got soap (which is almost gone) and an awesome calendar and I got pictures up and everything!
BTW: I can't really feel any particular boost from the caffeine in the soap, but then it has lasted longer than 12 washings as well so I'm not getting the full 200mg dosage, not that I expected to anyway since not all of it is going to be absorbed. Whatever, I always wanted to try it and now I have.
Perhaps something where if you do not participate in saying at least "thank you" and listing what you got (pictures are a bonus) you cannot participate in the next one? But then lift it for the one after that if they decide that this time they will? It feels kinda wrong to punish someone for not saying thank you, but it is a bit rude when a stranger buys you gifts..
(And I need to keep bugging ThinkGeek and DHL about where in the world my stuff went to if not to my santee's house!)
I don't care if I get a public " wow look how cool my gifts are " I would have at least appriciated a pm saying thank you. A little courtesy would be appreciated.
I don't know if this is possible, maybe one of the mods can tell me.
You know how you get infractions, goto jail ect ect.
Your icon changes, cant use quotes(old forums i think right?), and got that big "Jailed" in your title?
So I propose this.....
Sorry Silver, I am sure your not a bad Santa, but yours was the first one I found.
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!
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Technically, they'd be Bad Santees. Their Location should be changed to Ingrateland.
Wouldn't a Bad Santee be someone who bitches about what they got? Like that one asshole from the Secret Santa of '05 that bitched over and over about getting a few books in his gift pack?
Technically, they'd be Bad Santees. Their Location should be changed to Ingrateland.
Wouldn't a Bad Santee be someone who bitches about what they got? Like that one asshole from the Secret Santa of '05 that bitched over and over about getting a few books in his gift pack?
Could some of these Deadbeat Santees also be Deadbeat Santas? It makes sense that once they received their gift they would disappear from this thread if they weren't planning on sending out a gift.
My Santee lemme know that there was a package that arrived that had my stuff in it, but he hadn't actually seen the contents as of yet. Just waiting for him to post his thoughts on the gift
Well, it seems my roomie decided to "clean out" his phone, and lo and behold, did not save the pictures of the loot i had received.
So i guess i can post what i got without pictures, but it's just not the same.
What do you guys think? post list of contents?
Regardless, thank you for the gifting, improvolone
No. You must draw, in MSPaint, renditions of the gift-opening process.
Go!
So you have asked, So shall you receive!
The day before i left for Dallas, a medium sized package arrived at my doorstep.
Elated that i had gotten my GnT secret Santa gift... i popped it open. There were several wrapped packages inside. I thought for a moment that my Santa had wanted it to be like a real Christmas and had wrapped the goods so as to simulate the experience.
Let me elaborate with childish, hand drawn, mspaint crap. (no image is to scale. ever. shut up.)
first...
Two small bumpy spheres and a long, flexible rectangle... huh. well i wasted no time peeling off their festive shells to reveal...
Oh neat! plastic Kirbys with star bases! Though i was a bit confused as to why i have 2. but still awesome!
Next, i found a slim, longish parcel, of a decent thickness, that is bendy. My first thought? "who sent me books, Books are gay!" But then i remembered that i actually enjoy reading.
Its Fables! a Current time murder mystery graphic novel, with mythical creatures mixed in! cool!
The next Package was a roughly square-ish one about 1/4 of an inch thick. My first thought? a CD. perhaps something like the DethAlbum or some crazy otherland music. who knows!?! so i rip in with zeal, to find ...
This? uh... huh.. well, a gag gift? ah, i suppose so. The musical journey of women... This is something my mother will enjoy i think! (yes she rather enjoyed it. BTW)
Perplexed.. i reached for the last box. Rather thick and weighty. This bodes well! i wonder what it could be...(i got tired of drawing wrapping paper. okay?)
Hm.. well. lets see what it is!
Only those who have seen "rejected" will see what i didthere.
3D goggles! cool, that means that i can play TF2 and counterstrike in even FULLER 3d! W00t!!
Wait... what?!
Well, CRAP! i upgraded to LCD from CRT like 3 years ago! and i don't even have a video card with a tv in/out.
In the end, i gave that to my boss, he has a CRT and a tv in/out. Though i didn't get to use it, it seemed rather neat in theory. though the company's execution of 3d sucks. who the hell requires a crt monitor anymore?
And there you have it. a synopsis of what i received. and after i had opened it all, i noticed the box itself was a note.. telling me to wait until Christmas to open them. oh well.
Thanks go to -
Improvolone - For the gifts
Microsoft - For mspaint
Captain k - For making GnT SS 2007
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I will say that bottle of bleach someone got was priceless. Oh, Canada.
You're gonna die in six days...
My mum added me on LJ and started commenting. My friends were weirded out.
I removed her from my friends list. 0_o
I still feel a bit guilty about that.
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Mine has me on facebook.
Hell, my brother's girlfriend's mum sent me a facebook invite. I'm too polite to decline
she can only see my limited profile.
More so.
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Apologies for it being hugely delayed Santee. I tried to gift you a bunch of Xbox Live Marketplace points but well you know over Christmas the whole fucking thing went down. XBL worked for me but Live.com and all the web features required for gift-age was down. Sorry again. Hope you like it.
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"The power of the weirdness compels me."
Heh, just when the standard of presents were high enough. I'm getting a bit worried by the G&T Secret Santa Arms Race.
This has been the experience of several people apparently. I don't think it should constitute a ban, but I definitely think "deadbeat Santees" should be banned from future gift-giving events. How long does it take to post a thank you on here? 10 seconds.
Seriously. I got soap (which is almost gone) and an awesome calendar and I got pictures up and everything!
BTW: I can't really feel any particular boost from the caffeine in the soap, but then it has lasted longer than 12 washings as well so I'm not getting the full 200mg dosage, not that I expected to anyway since not all of it is going to be absorbed. Whatever, I always wanted to try it and now I have.
Perhaps something where if you do not participate in saying at least "thank you" and listing what you got (pictures are a bonus) you cannot participate in the next one? But then lift it for the one after that if they decide that this time they will? It feels kinda wrong to punish someone for not saying thank you, but it is a bit rude when a stranger buys you gifts..
(And I need to keep bugging ThinkGeek and DHL about where in the world my stuff went to if not to my santee's house!)
Also, no response is probably better off than a... what is this, books are gay, response.
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I don't care if I get a public " wow look how cool my gifts are " I would have at least appriciated a pm saying thank you. A little courtesy would be appreciated.
Did he ever even try to send anything?
What did he tell Captain K?
Did I even have an assigned Santa?
Apparently, to him "Express Mail a gift" means "string you along another couple of weeks because clearly you haven't suffered enough".
I don't get it. $10 and a two month window should be an attainable goal for even a street bum. What prompts such sociopathic behavior?
I dunno, but you better hope he sent it already. Or you might be waiting for his next 2 month window. :P
I'd like the think that G&T posters who participate in this event have a tad more decency than the average internet schlub.
I don't know if this is possible, maybe one of the mods can tell me.
You know how you get infractions, goto jail ect ect.
Your icon changes, cant use quotes(old forums i think right?), and got that big "Jailed" in your title?
So I propose this.....
Sorry Silver, I am sure your not a bad Santa, but yours was the first one I found.
Let them keep that for a year.
THAT...IS...AWESOME! Do it Mods! Pleeeeaaase?
Done
Edit: page 60....neat.
Also JESUS CHRIST amazon charges a fucking boatload for Canadian shipping. And both of mine were in Canadia. And it still takes fucking forever!
Wouldn't a Bad Santee be someone who bitches about what they got? Like that one asshole from the Secret Santa of '05 that bitched over and over about getting a few books in his gift pack?
I think both qualify as Bad Santees.
So i guess i can post what i got without pictures, but it's just not the same.
What do you guys think? post list of contents?
No. You must draw, in MSPaint, renditions of the gift-opening process.
Go!
The day before i left for Dallas, a medium sized package arrived at my doorstep.
Elated that i had gotten my GnT secret Santa gift... i popped it open. There were several wrapped packages inside. I thought for a moment that my Santa had wanted it to be like a real Christmas and had wrapped the goods so as to simulate the experience.
Let me elaborate with childish, hand drawn, mspaint crap. (no image is to scale. ever. shut up.)
first...
Two small bumpy spheres and a long, flexible rectangle... huh. well i wasted no time peeling off their festive shells to reveal...
Oh neat! plastic Kirbys with star bases! Though i was a bit confused as to why i have 2. but still awesome!
Next, i found a slim, longish parcel, of a decent thickness, that is bendy. My first thought? "who sent me books, Books are gay!" But then i remembered that i actually enjoy reading.
Its Fables! a Current time murder mystery graphic novel, with mythical creatures mixed in! cool!
The next Package was a roughly square-ish one about 1/4 of an inch thick. My first thought? a CD. perhaps something like the DethAlbum or some crazy otherland music. who knows!?! so i rip in with zeal, to find ...
This? uh... huh.. well, a gag gift? ah, i suppose so. The musical journey of women... This is something my mother will enjoy i think! (yes she rather enjoyed it. BTW)
Hm.. well. lets see what it is!
Only those who have seen "rejected" will see what i didthere.
3D goggles! cool, that means that i can play TF2 and counterstrike in even FULLER 3d! W00t!!
Wait... what?!
Well, CRAP! i upgraded to LCD from CRT like 3 years ago! and i don't even have a video card with a tv in/out.
And there you have it. a synopsis of what i received. and after i had opened it all, i noticed the box itself was a note.. telling me to wait until Christmas to open them. oh well.
Thanks go to -
Improvolone - For the gifts
Microsoft - For mspaint
Captain k - For making GnT SS 2007
Har har har.
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I also did it in about 45 min