Bad Santa

[giggirl]

Oh dear Lord someone has bought me a self help book for Christmas. I'm devastated. It's an affront to my fabulousness.

"Use The Good Dishes - Finding Joy In Everyday Life". It's actually been signed and dedicated by the author.

When/where is the next ED book swap?

[Annasfield]

Tights! Feckin tights! Why do my Mum and my Dad's wife always buy me tights?! (6)

[PeckhamRose]

Roger Moore biography. No, seriously.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Swoon. With knitting pattern pictures?

[david_carnell]

A mug. With the bon mot:

"normally I'm thin and gorgeous but today is my day off" with pictures of cakes and pies adorning the background.

Err...I'm a bloke. So... no.

[dulwichmum]

A damn slow cooker... (wail)

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I'll swap you DM for a bottle of dubious scent.

[Michael Palaeologus]

A book of "amusing anecdotes" from around the country .... I think not.

Slow Cooker - exellent present - dont be so ungrateful DM, you need something to cook brisket and other frugal foods in during 2009.

Does any one know how to make ersatz coffee out of acorns?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Listen to me carefully, Michael, I shall tell you only once ...

[Brendan]

One Christmas growing up a friend of my parents joined us just before lunch and spent the rest of Christmas with us. I remember thinking it strange as his wife wasn?t with him.

A few years later when I asked my folks about it, I learned that his wife had thrown him out because he had got her a set of pots and pans for Christmas.

[Rhinestone Cowboy]

Cheese and a Cheese board.. Thats just food for everyone to eat.... hmmmmm

[Sue]

Anybody want a bottle of Brut aftershave Nyge's sister gave him?

(He's had a beard for about fifteen years :)) )

[KalamityKel]

Me m8 handed over 3 strange looking pressies... I say strange as one was rather large and funny shaped with rather rude wrapping paper, another was a small square shaped box and the third was well... very flat. Naturally one asked whether any should not be placed by heat, were breakable (I dont call myself Kalamity for no reason ya know) or indeed needed to be handled with more care than usual (no swinging it over me head and shaking violently - the pressie not me!). Two out of the three were slightly fragile.

Christmas day approaches and I open my gifts - ooooh a penguin (the first mentioned strange shape), a cup and a copy of TSP's (his band) latest album... as nice as the individual pressies were I was already told the penguin wasnt originally for me, the cup "would do" and the cd was a case of him not being able to think of anything else.

I think I need a new friend! lol

No no seriously I'm not ungrateful I just didn't need to know the workings and inspiration behind the choices!

[charliecharlie]

My parents gave me an electric heater pad for aches and pains.... have no aches and pains!!!! bah humbug

(anyway, what's wrong with a hot water bottle????)

anyone want it? ?16.50 box unopened, from John Lewis, make me an offer!!!

[KalamityKel]

just how big is it? You know size is everything in these matters! ;-)

[charliecharlie]

40 x 32cm

http://www.johnlewis.com/230334091/Product.aspx

however, in other areas of life.... hmmm... my view is that size doesn't always matter

[KalamityKel]

Sadly I have to disagree... there is a big diff between a short and a Tall hot choccy...

[boosboss]

Ok it was only a stocking filler but, a London Underground fridge magnet bearing the legend 'Mind The Gap'. Still, it's the thought that counts (Thinking 'Oh yeah he'll love that! Afterall he is a tube driver!') :-S

[Cassius]

An electric corkscrew (wtf!). Even if it worked it is more or less pointless - and it doesn't work.

Anyone want one?

[Moos]

Home-made chuffing Christmas decorations. Argh!

[CamberwellOz]

A signed picture of Warne.... Now I like cricket.... but come on.

[VeryBerryCherry]

My sister bought me the Little Britain dvd...

Not to mention the fact that it's on permanent repeat on BB3/4,

But I cannot for the life of me think of a moment in my life where I have expressed a liking for that monotonous codsh!te

[bon3yard]

Thats horrendous VBC and perhaps illustrates the yawning chasm that has opened up in your relations with Sis. I got a Peruvian Chorizo. Yum.

[Annasfield]

This could be set up as an unwanted present thread.

Anyone need any tights?

[VeryBerryCherry]

bon3yard Wrote:

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> Thats horrendous VBC and perhaps illustrates the

> yawning chasm that has opened up in your relations

> with Sis. I got a Peruvian Chorizo. Yum.

Now Peruvian Chorizo sounds more up my street. Sounds great.

I know it sound pathetic to complain about a present. I think it's actually more to d with the person who gave it to you. My sister and I are like two peas in the proverbial. That's what I couldn't understand. But hey, i'm sure there's some point in the annals of our history where I got her the shittiest present ever. Probably when I was a broke student and ended up making something out of cling film. :-$