christmas is coming

minxie · 16-11-2008 02:01AM #1

guys and girls
christmas is coming around again...
whats the best and worst present you ever got???
my aunt for years used to always get me a jumper she never
failed to amuse me, i remember a blue woolly one with huge sticky-out
sheep on it...:o and i was made wear it on xmas day(the shame)
best was my mum bought me an old nissan micra which i learned to drive in... i thought i was the queen bee.....:):)

deleriumtremens · 16-11-2008 02:02AM

I LOVE CHRISTMAS LIKE A FAT KID LOVES CAKE!!!!!!!:D:D:D

KnifeWRENCH · 16-11-2008 02:07AM

I've never gotten any really "bad" presents, I got some presents I never used, or very rarely used, but I never got anything awful.

Best was probably my laptop I got last year. I think I've used it at least once every day since I got it, don't know how I lived 18 years without one!

minxie · 16-11-2008 02:17AM

square_igloo wrote: »

I've never gotten any really "bad" presents, I got some presents I never used, or very rarely used, but I never got anything awful.

Best was probably my laptop I got last year. I think I've used it at least once every day since I got it, don't know how I lived 18 years without one!

am the same... only got one last oct
sure look at us now

:)

Danbo! · 16-11-2008 02:19AM

Aunt bought me a rip-off of connect 4, called 5-in-a-row! (exclamation mark included) for my birthday years back.

Later that year, christmas day, I got the exact same game from her.

I should also mention, that by "later that year", I meant 11 days later.

KnifeWRENCH · 16-11-2008 02:27AM

minxie1 wrote: »

am the same... only got one last oct
sure look at us now :)

Mmm look at us now is right!

Both of us on laptops, on Boards, on a Saturday night.....

....on second thoughts, perhaps that's not something to cheer about.

MagicMarker · 16-11-2008 02:29AM

Some big, fat, hairy fella in a red suit once emptied his sac onto my floor.

Mimikyu · 16-11-2008 02:47AM

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Biggins · 16-11-2008 03:32AM

Worst: Old style hankies (from an aunt who never had kids herself) when I was a teen.
Best: Sinclair ZX81 - boy, did that light a fire in me to learn more about computers...

marcsignal · 16-11-2008 03:39AM

skanger nativity scene

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peanuthead · 16-11-2008 03:40AM

Id feel bad naming something I was given as "the worst present ever" I would hate to think that anyone would describe something that I got them that way, so I won't do it. I just won't. But the best I ever got.... I remember going mental after finding an EAST 17 concert tape in my stocking. Besides that, I would have to say a beautiful necklace I was given by the OH

chaotic_vr · 16-11-2008 03:44AM

Can't think of a worst one. Some I never used....
Best one: My Explorer, best guitar I've ever had.

Kintarō Hattori · 16-11-2008 03:52AM

Best was an original Playstaion, man that was an exciting christmas morning.

Worst - don't think I ever had anything really bad. A friend of the family always used to give me expensive wolly jumpers which I never wore and just gave to my father. They really were old man kinda jumpers.

Mark200 · 16-11-2008 11:13AM

I got a really ****ty new phone one Christmas morning off my parents. I honestly tried my best to force a smile but I couldn't. My mam told me anyway that my dad was supposed to get me a different one but he left it too late and they were all sold out when he went to the shop. So I didn't feel as guilty anymore, and they brought it back and got me the other phone.

AlphaMike · 27-11-2008 11:40AM

Hey! This is totally non-connected to this thread but I need your help!

Can anyone tell me where you can buy the figures for a nativity crib? I'm looking for some fairly decent figures and am willing to spend a couple of quid if neccessary?

I'm looking for carved wood maybe painted figures if possible of the usual crib scene....
Mary, Joseph, Jesus, 3 wise men, shephards, donkey blah blah blah!

Thanks a mill!

Guru Maith Agut · 27-11-2008 11:51AM

AlphaMike wrote: »

Hey! This is totally non-connected to this thread

You're right, it is! :rolleyes:

Ross_Mahon · 27-11-2008 12:01PM

I'm the oldest in my family and tend to get up last on Christmas morning, One year, The oul one buys us an album each based on our music interests, There's a clubland one, A NOW 56 and a Madonna album.

What do you think they left me with?

cmcsoft · 27-11-2008 12:22PM

The best present I ever got was a pre computer 1000!! (I think that's what it was called anyway)
I don't know what the worst was off the top of my head....

Zangetsu · 27-11-2008 01:29PM

Best was a PS1, I remember spending hours and hours and hours and hours on that thing! 3D graphics? HOLY ****!

(Had a NES before that)

Can't remember the worst present, never really thought of any present as a bad preset, its something I didn't have previously so how could it be bad!

Terry · 27-11-2008 01:29PM

Mark200 wrote: »

I got a really ****ty new phone one Christmas morning off my parents. I honestly tried my best to force a smile but I couldn't. My mam told me anyway that my dad was supposed to get me a different one but he left it too late and they were all sold out when he went to the shop. So I didn't feel as guilty anymore, and they brought it back and got me the other phone.

Seriously?

I really don't know where to start with that.

AnonoBoy · 27-11-2008 01:38PM

minxie1 wrote: »

christmas is coming

Are we sure about this? I haven't heard anything about it.

AnonoBoy · 27-11-2008 01:40PM

Terry wrote: »

Seriously?

I really don't know where to start with that.

When I read that post I thought he was trying to be smart. Maybe not.

i_love_toast · 27-11-2008 01:41PM

haha i remember coming into school after christmas and the usual asking around what did ya get what did ya get carry on.one poor fella in the class got a sega megadrive off his parents now this was about 5 years after they were released think playstation 2 was out and all at the time.felt real bad for him!!

AnonoBoy · 27-11-2008 01:48PM

i_love_toast wrote: »

.one poor fella in the class got a sega megadrive off his parents now this was about 5 years after they were released think playstation 2 was out and all at the time

I think your timeframe is all messed up there buddy. The PS2 came out about 10 years after the Megadrive.

BaconZombie · 27-11-2008 01:52PM

Mods please lock this thread until Dec 24th.
It is still fecking only November FFS?!!?!?!?!?

minxie1 wrote: »

guys and girls
christmas is coming around again...
whats the best and worst present you ever got???
my aunt for years used to always get me a jumper she never
failed to amuse me, i remember a blue woolly one with huge sticky-out
sheep on it...:o and i was made wear it on xmas day(the shame)
best was my mum bought me an old nissan micra which i learned to drive in... i thought i was the queen bee.....:):)

Miguel_Sanchez · 27-11-2008 01:55PM

Ross_Mahon wrote: »

There's a clubland one, A NOW 56 and a Madonna album.

What do you think they left me with?

A **** album no matter what?

Terry · 27-11-2008 02:01PM

BOFH_139 wrote: »

Mods please lock this thread until Dec 24th.
It is still fecking only November FFS?!!?!?!?!?

Ok.

minxie · 09-12-2008 05:42PM

its back.....

omgiluvxmas · 09-12-2008 06:19PM

championship manager 02. the game itself turned out to be good more than a year later when i got an actual real computer but the torture when i put it in the cd drive and it took about 5 hours to load one league.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 09-12-2008 06:53PM

Mark200 wrote: »

I got a really ****ty new phone one Christmas morning off my parents. I honestly tried my best to force a smile but I couldn't. My mam told me anyway that my dad was supposed to get me a different one but he left it too late and they were all sold out when he went to the shop. So I didn't feel as guilty anymore, and they brought it back and got me the other phone.

I once asked my parents for a particular phone one christmas which they refused to buy for me because it was too expensive. They bought the same phone for my younger brother that same year and promptly gave it to him a week early which was perplexing.

The worst present I ever got was a kite from my older brother when I was sixteen or seventeen. I wasn't (unjustifiably) upset/angry or anything, it was just bemusing to recieve a kite as a present in December.

The worst present I have given anyone was in college when my class was doing a "Secret Santa" thing amongst ourselves with a €5 limit. I assumed it was just supposed to be a gag gift thing so I took a €3 black and white photo of myself in one of those passport picture machines, signed it, and put it in a €2 frame wrapped in the pages of an issue of the Galway Advertiser.

The girl I gave it to never spoke to me again after that.

:| · 09-12-2008 06:59PM

AlphaMike wrote: »

Hey! This is totally non-connected to this thread but I need your help!

Can anyone tell me where you can buy the figures for a nativity crib? I'm looking for some fairly decent figures and am willing to spend a couple of quid if neccessary?

I'm looking for carved wood maybe painted figures if possible of the usual crib scene....
Mary, Joseph, Jesus, 3 wise men, shephards, donkey blah blah blah!

Thanks a mill!

pfft make your own. Our crib has two jesus figures, in the corner, and a mighty max in the crib. And a shepherd made out of a toilet roll holder. And a camel.

seriously.

christmas is coming

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