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Were You Ever Given Coal For Christmas?

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  • 17-12-2010 5:10pm
    #1
    Dunjohn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭


    So, were you? Or is it really just an idle threat?

    Well? 40 votes

    No, of course not, that's just an urban miff.
    0% 0 votes
    No but I know someone who was.
    72% 29 votes
    Yeah, but it was quickly followed by real presents.
    10% 4 votes
    Yeah once for real. That learned me.
    17% 7 votes
    Why, was there an alternative?
    0% 0 votes


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    Berty
    Registered Users Posts: 26,149 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    How about Slack? Coal was for posh people. :rolleyes:


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    Iron Hide
    Registered Users Posts: 1,240 ✭✭✭Iron Hide


    Got given turf once, i must have been a bastard that year.


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    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Dunjohn wrote: »
    Were You Ever Given Coal For Christmas?

    Yep,..... rode the hole off her.
    Best Christmas everrrrr.


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    alwaysadub
    Registered Users Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    An urban miff?!

    Yep i think i did, but got my real presents after though


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    KeithM89_old
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    My dad, quite a joker, give me some last year for a joke.
    Of course, i did get my real present shortly after...:)


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    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    My dad, quite a joker, give me some last year for a joke.
    Of course, i did get my real present shortly after...:)

    A firelighter?


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    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    My dad, quite a joker, give me some last year for a joke.
    Of course, i did get my real present shortly after...:)
    some Vaseline and a 'back rub'?


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    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    I got a wheelbarrow once.

    Poverty.


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    PeterIanStaker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭PeterIanStaker


    I'd take Coyle over Cole


    nah wait I'd ride them both.


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    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    No, a Lynx deodorant/shower set on a number of occasions though which is similar. :o


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    MardiB
    Registered Users Posts: 249 ✭✭MardiB


    In this weather I'd love a few sacks of coal for Christmas


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    PeterIanStaker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭PeterIanStaker


    Ruu wrote: »
    No, a Lynx deodorant/shower set on a number of occasions though which is similar. :o

    Spray cans are class when set alight


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    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    No. I've given pole though


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    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    MardiB wrote: »
    In this weather I'd love a few sacks of coal for Christmas

    As opposed to your bag of coal


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    dusty207
    Registered Users Posts: 456 ✭✭dusty207


    Years ago they used to do something to coal that made gas, somewhere around the old gasometer site. Seems the end product was huge piles of something called coke. Happy days :D


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    NoDice
    Registered Users Posts: 2,088 ✭✭✭NoDice


    I got a few lumps of coal alright one Christmas but my parents whipped out my presents shortly after.

    On another point, my friend who is Hungarian told me about their Santa. Always makes me think we have it easy with the coal. Their Santa dresses up like a bishop and has a "naughty boy" assistant (like our elves) who dresses like a devil. The kids have to clean their boots the night before and they leave them outside. The idea is that good kids get treats in their boots as we would in our stockings and the bad kids get a tiny broom..... However seeing is no kid is ever 100% good for the year they'd get both in their boots!


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