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Worst gifts/gift someone has ever given you?

MultiUmm · 2009-08-17 19:31:24

I was just wondering what are the worsts presents anyone has ever gotten, be it for Christmas, birtdays, weddings etc? Mine would have to be a "magic kit" I got when I was about 10 or 11 from a family freind. :cool: Still, I appreciated the thought I guess. :p So, what tales of gift horrors (or mild disappointments) do…

17-08-2009 7:31pm

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I was just wondering what are the worsts presents anyone has ever gotten, be it for Christmas, birtdays, weddings etc?

Mine would have to be a "magic kit" I got when I was about 10 or 11 from a family freind. :cool: Still, I appreciated the thought I guess.

So, what tales of gift horrors (or mild disappointments) do people have to share?:D

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#2 17-08-2009 7:32pm

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A wooden owl from my granny for my 9th birthday. A WOODEN OWL FFS!!

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#3 17-08-2009 7:33pm

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I get the same kind of socks off the same auntie every year, for my birthday and christmas

there's nothing more soul destroying than having to repeatedly fake gratitude to someone that has no idea how much socks suck as a gift

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#4 17-08-2009 7:35pm

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Duff wrote: »

A wooden owl from my granny for my 9th birthday. A WODDEN OWL FFS!!

Lol Thank christ I have a granny who doesn't bother with presents and gives money and cards instead. :cool: Kaching! :pac:

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#5 17-08-2009 7:35pm

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Horrible bright green Arran jumper with a sheep on.

Or a fiver from two of my mates - they split it between them, cheap pricks

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#6 17-08-2009 7:35pm

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Duff wrote: »

A wooden owl from my granny for my 9th birthday. A WODDEN OWL FFS!!

WTF?! What an odd present.

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#7 17-08-2009 7:36pm

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Herpes!

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#8 17-08-2009 7:38pm

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bronte wrote: »

WTF?! What an odd present.

Yep, no power rangers in my house then just wooden poultry!

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#9 17-08-2009 7:38pm

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Duff wrote: »

A wooden owl from my granny for my 9th birthday. A WOODEN OWL FFS!!

Were you the one who put that Owl on top of Dunnes Stores, Cournelscourt, Cabinteely? Case solved.

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#10 17-08-2009 7:40pm

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brummytom wrote: »

Horrible bright green Arran jumper with a sheep on.

Or a fiver from two of my mates - they split it between them, cheap pricks

They tore it in half?:pac:

I got a collar and lead from my brother one christmas for my dog.:mad:

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#11 17-08-2009 7:40pm

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truecrippler wrote: »

Were you the one who put that Owl on top of Dunnes Stores, Cournelscourt, Cabinteely? Case solved.

No.

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#12 17-08-2009 7:40pm

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My parents bought me a medicine ball before, I think it was there way of saying "lose weight you fat bastard". :pac:

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#13 17-08-2009 7:41pm

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Just thought of another one my dad gave me recently.

A wooden/metal kind of pencil that, according to him, architects use for drawing lines??? Shame I'm not going to live up to his dream of becomming an architect or a collector of unusual pencils...

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#14 17-08-2009 7:42pm

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I suppose it's simply receiving too much soaps/deodarents and then having to fake graitiude:

''Oh thank you, thank you Aunt May. I always wanted to smell like a lemon. . .''

:pac:

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#15 17-08-2009 7:42pm

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brummytom wrote: »

Or a fiver from two of my mates - they split it between them, cheap pricks

Sounds decent to me.

A 'friend' gave me an OC dvd that he got free in McDonalds, cúnt.

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#16 17-08-2009 7:47pm

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Socks

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#17 17-08-2009 7:50pm

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I get one of those musical ties that plays a christmas jingle every year.
I have ten now.

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#18 17-08-2009 7:52pm

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Novelty stripy knee high socks whereby there is a compartment for each toe (like gloves you see). Sound comfortable but aren't, sound funky but aren't.

moral of the story: as far a pressie's go real socks are better than novelty socks

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#19 17-08-2009 7:53pm

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a harry potter book....

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#20 17-08-2009 7:54pm

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Sharpshooter wrote: »

They tore it in half?:pac:

If they did, at least it would have shown some effort!

It's my 16th in two weeks - the one who bought the card's coming, the one who didn't isn't :P

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#21 17-08-2009 7:54pm

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Mousey- wrote: »

a harry potter book....

Ouch.

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#22 17-08-2009 7:55pm

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dr.bollocko wrote: »

I get one of those musical ties that plays a christmas jingle every year.
I have ten now.

Can I have one?!

I had a pair of socks that played Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer.. I loved them

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#23 17-08-2009 7:56pm

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my husbands dad brought him back a t shirt from the states last year. It had pictures of indians and dolphins emblazoned on the front. he's 33!

LMAO as he wore it for the remainder of the day so as not to offend :P

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#24 17-08-2009 7:57pm

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I got a dvd boxset of a show I didn't like but the present giver did. Naturally I gave it to him. He was delighted with his gift.

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#25 17-08-2009 8:04pm

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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=60671633&postcount=115

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#26 17-08-2009 8:04pm

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DetectivFoxtrot wrote: »

my husbands dad brought him back a t shirt from the states last year. It had pictures of indians and dolphins emblazoned on the front. he's 33!

LMAO as he wore it for the remainder of the day so as not to offend :P

You sure it wasn't just a t-shirt from a NFL game he was at over there?

Washington Redskins
http://blackchristiannews.com/news/t156012405.gif

Vs.

Miami Dolphins maybe?
http://www.2010-super-bowl.com/Miami_Dolphins/Miami_Dolphins_logo.gif :pac:

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#27 17-08-2009 8:12pm

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Duff wrote: »

You sure it wasn't just a t-shirt from a NFL game he was at over there?

Washington Redskins
http://blackchristiannews.com/news/t156012405.gif

Vs.

Miami Dolphins maybe?
http://www.2010-super-bowl.com/Miami_Dolphins/Miami_Dolphins_logo.gif :pac:

lol, no they were fookin cartoons I swear! probably some Disney shít

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#28 17-08-2009 8:37pm

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my father once gave me one of those cardboard concertina file yokes

"for all your documents" says he. :rolleyes:

now i buy him old spice aftershave every christmas as revenge!:pac:

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Aslan - The Best Of

I still have no idea why she got it for me or what made her think I like Aslan.

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dr.bollocko wrote: »

I get one of those musical ties that plays a christmas jingle every year.
I have ten now.

Wow! only ten years old! :pac:

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pebbles21 wrote: »

Herpes!

Ah, the gift that keeps on giving:)

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#32 17-08-2009 10:08pm

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dr.bollocko wrote: »

I get one of those musical ties that plays a christmas jingle every year.
I have ten now.

How does one get over that?:eek:
I have a cousin a shrink, want her number?

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#33 17-08-2009 10:12pm

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My wife got a cordless drill from her husband for her 40th birthday, but I don't want to give away his identity . She used it to help make a doghouse for him and he still gets to use it quite often

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#34 17-08-2009 10:12pm

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When I turned fifteen SEVERAL different people bought me finger puppets for my birthday. FINGER PUPPETS! Then some sort of word spread about my newfound love, and other people started buying me them.

I mean, a finger puppet moose is cute and all, but wtf?

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#35 17-08-2009 10:13pm

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A giant picture of Freddie Mercury. I like Queen in all but WTF

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#36 17-08-2009 10:13pm

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Slippers from La Senza.. Of all the things he could have bought from la Senza.. :rolleyes:

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#37 17-08-2009 10:14pm

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oldyouth wrote: »

My wife got a cordless drill from her husband for her 40th birthday, but I don't want to give away his identity . She used it to help make a doghouse for him and he still gets to use it quite often

There's something wrong with that sentence............:D

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#38 17-08-2009 11:24pm

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When people give me nothing but an excuse saying "is myself being here not a good enough present for you?"

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My OHs mother was on a shopping trip in New York and brought him home a FUBU t-shirt. Now he is Irish, white, with red hair and freckles. ****ing hilarious. For those of you who are like wtf is FUBU? ....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUBU

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#40 17-08-2009 11:28pm

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Gone-off pineapple on Halloween.

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#41 17-08-2009 11:54pm

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Not a bad present but I once got Shrek on VCR, however it was the only time I got a new film that I had to rewind to watch:rolleyes:

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#42 17-08-2009 11:58pm

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A thighmaster from the boyfriend at xmas:rolleyes:

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#43 18-08-2009 12:02am

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brummytom wrote: »

Or a fiver from two of my mates - they split it between them, cheap pricks

Can I just add something? :P I don't want to sound like an ungrateful prick, at least I got something.

But it was my dad's birthday last month, the day I'd invited Seamus round (the mate who gave me the £2.50), I mentioned it was dad's birthday; so he brought a card with 10.. yes 10 pounds in!!
Twat

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One of my friends cut out a page 3 out of the sun and gave it to my as a present.

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#45 18-08-2009 12:10am

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And you didn't like it?

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#46 18-08-2009 12:15am

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brummytom wrote: »

And you didn't like it?

Sorry. I forgot to say it was sticky.

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#47 18-08-2009 12:16am

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Eurgh.. nice

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#48 18-08-2009 12:23am

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So my parents like got me a BMW for my 16th right, but like they got it in blue and I hate blue, I wanted red. So if that wasn't like bad enough right, they drive it out at my birthday party and like make a big show of giving it to me infront of all my friends. Like I was totally humiliated, like totally... How thoughtless can people be?

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A pink frizbie :rolleyes: (honestly) my brother thought it would have been an excellent christmas present. The story comes out every year at christmas about the stupid thing...

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#50 18-08-2009 12:49am

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A soap set. Who uses fragranced soaps these days?

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#51 18-08-2009 12:54am

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Duff wrote: »

A wooden owl from my granny for my 9th birthday. A WOODEN OWL FFS!!

brill

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