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BILLY V2.0 · Thu Dec 07, 2006 3:52 am Christmas

It's almost here! Are we all in a festive mood? For the first time since I can remember, I have no idea what I'm going to get for presents. I'm looking forward to watching Home Alone 2 again.

We should do a secret santa, yeah? They did it on Friends and it seemed like great fun.

The Nadine Experience · Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:59 am

another board I post on got a Secret Santa going on.

what d'you want for Christmas Billy-oh.

Dananiel · Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:35 am

Very excited. Me and Nadine are basically doing secret santa but just with us. And it is very secret and very fucking headfuckingly complicated.

Sending mail is not easy.

The Nadine Experience · Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:25 am

everyone give me your addresses I'll send you stuff.

BILLY V2.0 · Thu Dec 07, 2006 11:20 am

I want an XBOX 360! I need an HDTV to go with it too, though. Hopefully I'll just get money because my birthday is 2 weeks after xmas, so I'll be able to buy something good after both of those. My nan is on about buying me a 3 month ticket to Australia which is good in theory, aside from the fact my family have jobs and classes to go to. She seems to think they just spend every day at the beach. I came out of my room last night and saw her wrapping jumpers from Primark though. Why do adults buy presents without telling you? They are almost always utter shite. I just hope my relatives don't try and buy me DVD's without asking first. That's how I ended up with Early Doors series 1.

Sending stuff to the US is piss easy, it just takes aaaaages. Their customs are right cunts nowadays. Mark it as a gift otherwise you'll have to pay some sort of fee for some reason or other.

Dananiel · Thu Dec 07, 2006 1:03 pm

It's not the actual posting it, it's the timing of it. On account of us both having nosy parents, mail interception then becomes a headache.

But uh, how do you mark it as a gift?

My mum seems to have prepared for christmas already this year, which is scary. I'm worried she's bought me presents without asking me, which is something past experience alone should tell her not to do. She's got it stuck in her fucking head that I love Peter Kay, and for the past two years she's bought me his crap! This year, now that he's selling out more than ever, I fucking dread to think whatever merchandise I've got to pretend I like. It always makes me cringe when she buys me presents and guesses because it just shows how little she knows me, but I don't tell her that. I just let her keep buying it. Well that's not true, I give her a long list of CDs and DVDs that she wouldn't possibly spend that much money on, but she'll only buy about two from the list and spend the rest of her budget for me on god knows what else. Like when I was 13 she bought me a black velcro hat with a string on top that had a velcro ball at the end of it. You had to swing it onto the hat. I'm sorry, that is not an acceptable present, not even for a child. And god, when she guesses what music I'll like, it's fucking painful. She bought me a Fleetwood Mac album once because they sound like Tears For Fears and I happen to tell her once I really love Blondie and she thought Blondie = 80s = Tears For Fears = Fleetwood Mac. Nah mum. Nah. I gave you a list. Get that Melt Banana album. Please. Oh my god and books. The books she buys me are nothing short of embarrassing. They're all trashy Michael Moore-esque political books, based on my reading communist related stuff a while ago, she thinks I'd like those? What? STOP GUESSING. I'll be very happy if this year she just suprises me and buys me a holiday in Iceland or a Hansel & Gretel inspired chocolate/sweets house. Never gonna happen. She's all about quantity over quality and it pisses me off.

Well that was a long rant. I hope she doesn't somehow read that. Actually, yeah, I hope she does.

That all said, I love christmas. :HYPE:

RChappo · Thu Dec 07, 2006 1:59 pm

Quote: Like when I was 13 she bought me a black velcro hat with a string on top that had a velcro ball at the end of it. You had to swing it onto the hat. I'm sorry, that is not an acceptable present

Bet you wished you'd got HatFM instead?

I'm at the age now when it's "not the done thing" to make a list. So I usually end up with a load of useless tat on Christmas Day...which I usually give away to the local church jumble sale come March. I'd rather people buy me nothing to be honest.

Because we spunked all of our money on the house this year Mrs Chappo and I have decided not to bother buying each other anything for Xmas. I don't really trust her to keep to this because when we tried this the other year she still bought me some stuff. I'd got her nothing so I looked like a bit of a cunt on Xmas morning.

I don't know though...for some reason this year I haven't yet got into that Xmas feeling even though the house is all decorated and everything. :|

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BILLY V2.0 · Thu Dec 07, 2006 2:34 pm

Just write GIFT on it somewhere, in big letters. If you're lucky they won't weigh it and slap on a handling fee. If they do Nads will have to pay on the door. I remember ordering a game from the US without telling my parents and my dad opened the door when it arrived. He was livid when he realised what I had done, and even moreso when the postman demanded an £18 fee for handling/import or something.

Haha, Chappo. I can't believe you didn't buy anything for the missus. That's the oldest trick in the book. Get her an anime DVD or something. I recommend "La Blue Girl" - it's got tentacles in!

Nads, buy this for Dan.

I wouldn't mind a little science kit or something. I got one once as a surprise and it was ace. Messing about with chemicals, blinding myself with magnesium strips. Sometimes you get a present that you really enjoy, but surprise gifts are mostly crap. My aunt gave me a £20 voucher for MVC 2 years ago, not realising they had gone into administration a few weeks ago. I couldn't even flog it on ebay!

Dananiel · Thu Dec 07, 2006 3:37 pm

But do I really need to mark it gift? I mean, surely that's just business sent stuff? This is what I mean, it isn't simple. I'm seriously thinking about training a pigeon to deliver all my mail from now on.

A science kit sounds fun, but it's something you'll get bored of in like two minutes. Like magic kits. I had a Paul Daniel's magic kit for christmas once, and it never ocurred to me before that as soon as you can see how the magic is done it's rendered utterly pointless.

Dananiel · Thu Dec 07, 2006 3:39 pm

Bill-

http://www.youtube.com/watch!v=e0b3SoYqqDQ

RChappo · Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:38 pm

I got a chemistry set for Xmas one year when I was a kid and it was the dogs bollocks. The set itself wasn't really all that exciting but it came with an instructional audio cassette narrated by none other than Johnny Ball. That was lovely and I wish I still had it.

The Nadine Experience · Thu Dec 07, 2006 8:15 pm

BILLY THE VIKING wrote:
Nads, buy this for Dan.

haha, suhweet

BILLY V2.0 · Sat Dec 09, 2006 6:01 pm

Here is an advent calender everybody can use.

Dananiel · Thu Dec 14, 2006 10:03 am

I know what I want.

RChappo · Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:02 pm

Daaaaaaan wrote:

I know what I want.

I've got one of those ! I got it free in the post. It's fucking fantastic. But when it comes to buying replacement blades be prepared...they cost a bloody fortune. I'm back on the supermarket own brand disposables now and my Gillette Fusion is lying in the bathroom ...forgotten...like Rick Astley.....