Quote: Aaron @ October 2 2009, 5:32 PM BSTI tell you what's REALLY evil; gift cards. Anyone who gets me a gift card gets a sharp "thank you" and then evils for a month. If not death.
A gift card is a voucher, no? Provided it's for a DVD shop or a bookstore, and not for a - heck, even a gift voucher for a hardware store or an auto accessories store would be good. A McDonald's voucher would be annoying though.
Quote: AngieBaby @ October 2 2009, 9:21 PM BSTOh, they are very nice!
*hopes Mr Baby sees this*
Lee, I'd say if she likes her comfies, I'm sure she'd love the Slanket, but maybe put a pair of saucy knickers in the box?
Won't that hurt? 
Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at Large @ October 2 2009, 7:35 PM BSTBiggest pressie sin is giving someone something they gave you or that is already theirs and you borrowed it! Make me mad.
My friend has the worse pressie story. It was the first Christmas she had spent with her boyfriends family and they were opening presents and her boyfriends sister gave her a gift from her - a CD of her fave bands greatest hits to replace the one she thought she lost during a move. Everyone thought what a thoughtful gift.
....except there was one problem.
The sister had actually stolen the CD from my friend months before and my friend soon recognised the CD was the missing CD. How did she know? Because her CD was signed inside with her name. Clearly the sister had never opened the case otherwise she would have seen it. She looked to her boyfriend who had also spotted the signiture and he indicated to keep quiet so for the sake of their first Christmas. She did but she had to spend the whole day holding her rage in.
Such gossip!
Quote: zooo @ October 2 2009, 4:53 PM BSTOhh, fair enough, yes.
Butttt, I'm sure it must be possible to come up with ways to do presents and nice family things without doing the tacky overly commercial side.
Personally I love the tacky overly-commercial side! That's what Christmas IS to me. It's sod all to do with Jesus, that's for sure. I love the crappy novelty crackers and the gaudy lights and the Christmas songs playing in the shops and the god-awful TV specials and the mince pies and the pressies and the tinsel and all the useless crap that costs money that we'd be better off saving.
If all that stuff wasn't there, Christmas Day would be just another Sunday Lunch round me Dad's house, only with extra sprouts. 
Our Christmases are so different. It makes me want to give yours a try.
Quote: Lee Henman @ October 2 2009, 11:26 PM BSTPersonally I love the tacky overly-commercial side! That's what Christmas IS to me. It's sod all to do with Jesus, that's for sure. I love the crappy novelty crackers and the gaudy lights and the Christmas songs playing in the shops and the god-awful TV specials and the mince pies and the pressies and the tinsel and all the useless crap that costs money that we'd be better off saving.
Same here!!!
Only I even like brussels sprouts too!
Quote: Kenneth @ October 2 2009, 10:45 PM BSTA gift card is a voucher, no? Provided it's for a DVD shop or a bookstore, and not for a - heck, even a gift voucher for a hardware store or an auto accessories store would be good. A McDonald's voucher would be annoying though.
Yes, because I want someone to force me to buy something in a particular shop. Which, as it's a high street shop, will be horrendously overpriced. No. F**k off. Give me a tenner and I'll order more, for cheaper, online. F**k right off, gift card/voucher givers.
Quote: AndreaLynne @ October 2 2009, 11:29 PM BSTOur Christmases are so different. It makes me want to give yours a try.
We should! Like Wife Swap, only International Christmas Swap! You'd love it! I bet you've never even HEARD Noddy Holder screaming "It's Christmas!!!", much less whilst crying into your tenth Snowball and photocopying your arse.
Ah, the Great British Chrimbletide.
Quote: Aaron @ October 2 2009, 11:33 PM BSTYes, because I want someone to force me to buy something in a particular shop. Which, as it's a high street shop, will be horrendously overpriced. No. F**k off. Give me a tenner and I'll order more, for cheaper, online. F**k right off, gift card/voucher givers.
You can use most vouchers online.
I got a cinema gift card for my birthday - which is a brilliant idea (i'd asked for it).
Quote: Aaron @ October 2 2009, 11:33 PM BSTYes, because I want someone to force me to buy something in a particular shop. Which, as it's a high street shop, will be horrendously overpriced. No. F**k off. Give me a tenner and I'll order more, for cheaper, online. F**k right off, gift card/voucher givers.
Ah, like so. Still,
Quote: zooo @ October 2 2009, 11:33 PM BSTSame here!!!
Only I even like brussels sprouts too!
I only ever eat them at Christmas though. Smothered in gravy to take away the fart taste.
I wonder if gravy would work on real fart smells? Because my filthy dog's about to get an arseful of Bisto if so. 
Quote: Aaron @ October 2 2009, 11:33 PM BSTYes, because I want someone to force me to buy something in a particular shop. Which, as it's a high street shop, will be horrendously overpriced. No. F**k off. Give me a tenner and I'll order more, for cheaper, online. F**k right off, gift card/voucher givers.
I'm going to get you a £20 gift voucher that can only be spent on other gift vouchers that can only be spent on other gift vouchers that can only...
well you get the idea. 
Yes, you could see my father-in-law blathering on about politics and watch him contradict himself in each sentence. You could see my balding mother-in-law burn everything beyond recognition. There's the joy of shitty holiday parades on TV and football (our awful kind) while some decides to put in Mariah Carey's Christmas cd because it's a "classic" now. Then you could drive to my parents' house and watch my dad sit with his pants unbuttoned, farting in his sleep because he ate too much, while my mother complains about how she never gets presents that she likes. I'll swap...where do we sign up?
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ October 2 2009, 11:36 PM BSTYou can use most vouchers online.
I got a cinema gift card for my birthday - which is a brilliant idea (i'd asked for it).
Jesus, you got an entire cinema for your birthday? That's some gift card. 
Quote: Lee Henman @ October 2 2009, 11:41 PM BSTJesus, you got an entire cinema for your birthday? That's some gift card.
Quote: AndreaLynne @ October 2 2009, 11:39 PM BSTYes, you could see my father-in-law blathering on about politics and watch him contradict himself in each sentence. You could see my balding mother-in-law burn everything beyond recognition. There's the joy of shitty holiday parades on TV and football (our awful kind) while some decides to put in Mariah Carey's Christmas cd because it's a "classic" now. Then you could drive to my parents' house and watch my dad sit with his pants unbuttoned, farting in his sleep because he ate too much, while my mother complains about how she never gets presents that she likes. I'll swap...where do we sign up?
All sounds fine to me. As long as I can bring along some bottles of Snowball to blot out the horror.
Oh and the Mariah Carey cd has to go. It's Slade or Wizzard or nothing.
