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Things you'd like to say but can't

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  • 16-12-2016 7:04pm
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    Duck Soup
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    It's the time of year for it. 3 things for me I'd love to say to various friends or family members, but can't for reasons of tactfulness or cowardice.

    1. Your gifts are crap. You have a budget of about a fiver. The tat is picked with half a nano-second of thought. If I'd wanted a particular book or CD, I'd have bought it myself by now don't you think?

    2. Don't tell me about your kids. I don't fuggin' care. They may be the world to you - God, I hope they are - but I couldn't care less about their scrapes, schooling or headlice. I swear to God I can feel myself losing the will to live even as you list their scholastic achievements.

    3. Facebook is not an emotional convalescence home. Your parent died. Mine too. You've been fearfully ill. Me too. The difference is I don't talk the world through every jot of the experience, harvesting sympathy and attention along the way. It's like having beggars waving stumps at you. Emotional incontinence is so messy and difficult to clear up.

    That's it. For now.


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    Irish Guitarist
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    Last Christmas I gave you my heart but the very next day you gave it away. This year to save me from tears I'll give it to someone special.


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    sullivlo
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭sullivlo


    No thanks, I don't want another drink.


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    racso1975
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    Duck Soup wrote: »
    It's the time of year for it. 3 things for me I'd love to say to various friends or family members, but can't for reasons of tactfulness or cowardice.

    1. Your gifts are crap. You have a budget of about a fiver. The tat is picked with half a nano-second of thought. If I'd wanted a particular book or CD, I'd have bought it myself by now don't you think?

    2. Don't tell me about your kids. I don't fuggin' care. They may be the world to you - God, I hope they are - but I couldn't care less about their scrapes, schooling or headlice. I swear to God I can feel myself losing the will to live even as you list their scholastic achievements.

    3. Facebook is not an emotional convalescence home. Your parent died. Mine too. You've been fearfully ill. Me too. The difference is I don't talk the world through every jot of the experience, harvesting sympathy and attention along the way. It's like having beggars waving stumps at you. Emotional incontinence is so messy and difficult to clear up.

    That's it. For now.

    1. yOU SOUND LIKE A (*(£

    2. You are a ^&(

    3. &^% you


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    Armchair Andy
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    Is that you Santa?


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    9or10
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    I wish you were here with us.:(


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    punisher5112
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    Ditties


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    judeboy101
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    Saoirse ronan, michael fastbender and Liam need on are NOT Irish.


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    punisher5112
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    judeboy101 wrote: »
    Saoirse ronan, michael fastbender and Liam need on are NOT Irish.

    Racist


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    The Backwards Man
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    Die Hard was an action film coincidentally set on Christmas Eve


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    Realt Dearg Sec
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    It's funny, I find it difficult to believe that someone who receives gifts with such a completely disgusting attitude would ever be any good at buying them himself. It's just unlikely given how badly you have missed the point of exchanging presents in the first place.


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    05eaftqbrs9jlh
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    Realt Dearg Sec wrote:
    It's funny, I find it difficult to believe that someone who receives gifts with such a completely disgusting attitude would ever be any good at buying them himself. It's just unlikely given how badly you have missed the point of exchanging presents in the first place.
    I think it's better to just get people stuff as you find it and know they'd like it. Presents on birthdays and Christmas are so... obvious.


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    harry Bailey esq
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    I'd love to be able to say mass.I tried to a few months ago,but I was forcibly removed from the cemetery by a gang of distraught mourners.I had them right up until I said 'wormfood'.


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    Duck Soup
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    Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »
    It's funny, I find it difficult to believe that someone who receives gifts with such a completely disgusting attitude would ever be any good at buying them himself. It's just unlikely given how badly you have missed the point of exchanging presents in the first place.

    I receive many gifts with delight and thanks. I can see when someone has put thought and time into it (and it can often be as cheap as chips). Good gifts reflect interests, shared history or an understanding of the person.

    On the other hand, I know when someone's just grabbed any old shyte that was first thing inside the doors at Dunnes.

    But I suppose you're right. I don't understand the real meaning of gifts or giving.


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    Canis Lupus
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    The Ladies Lounge on tour in After Hours.


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    harry Bailey esq
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    Canis Lupus wrote: »
    The Ladies Lounge on tour in After Hours.

    It's things you'd like to say,not things you'd like to do :D


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    judeboy101
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    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Racist

    Can't picture saoirse Ronan being racist, fassbender and neeson most definitely, but not saoirse Ronan.


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    osmiumartist
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    Moderation here is shocking...


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    lazybones32
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    A post of mine got deleted from the mother who killed her daughter thread. That was something I wanted to say but couldn't....ços it was so provocative that all of Boards would go to jail for even reading it.


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    harry Bailey esq
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    osmiumartist wrote: »
    Moderation here is shocking...

    Nice knowing you pal.


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    Four Phucs Ache
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    I go on secret trips to wagamammas


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    punisher5112
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    judeboy101 wrote: »
    Can't picture saoirse Ronan being racist, fassbender and neeson most definitely, but not saoirse Ronan.

    I get Irish people telling me I'm racist when in fact these people are also Irish.

    Now are these really stupid or thick or are they on drugs.


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    Spanish Eyes
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    Are y'all posting from the Xmas party or what.


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    beertons
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    Anaesthestest.

    God bless predictive text.


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    Junkyard Tom
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    Everything is fantastic. You can use a handheld computer to take a pic of a cat destroying an Xmas tree and send it through transoceanic undersea cables, to the other side of the planet at the speed of light, to be received by a laughing loved-one with a similar device.

    What a time to be alive.


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    jonon9
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    I'v no willy, you smell like wee.


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    hairyprincess
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    Fuch you lot and your party, I didn't want to socialise with you anyway....****.


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    Badly Drunk Boy
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    Duck Soup wrote: »
    It's the time of year for it. 3 things for me I'd love to say to various friends or family members, but can't for reasons of tactfulness or cowardice.

    1. Your gifts are crap. You have a budget of about a fiver. The tat is picked with half a nano-second of thought. If I'd wanted a particular book or CD, I'd have bought it myself by now don't you think?
    My brother is obsessed by Christmas. And we have a plan for the €5 thing.

    And even though it's supposed to be secret, he accidentally told me that he had bought a certain box of chocolates from Lidl for me, but he had done the rest of his shopping at Tesco (and he didn't see anything suitable in the 'pound shop').

    I got him a 'fancy'/yet cheap metal engraver and a scarf-y thing (that I think he'd be into. What's the deal?


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    GarIT
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    judeboy101 wrote: »
    Saoirse ronan, michael fastbender and Liam need on are NOT Irish.

    Saoirse was born in America to two Irish parents, and 4 Irish grandparents. Her parents were in America for work and returned as soon as they could get jobs in Ireland. She spent her whole time in school in Ireland. And since the age of 3 or 4 she has never resided outside the country. If she isn't Irish where is she from?


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    learn_more
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    judeboy101 wrote: »
    Saoirse ronan, michael fastbender and Liam need on are NOT Irish.

    Liam Neeson is as Irish as a pint of Guinness.


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    mzungu
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    Die Hard is crap.


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