insulting xmas presents

PTH2009 · 22-12-2015 04:02PM #1

mcdonalds vouchers

cards with coins in it

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 22-12-2015 04:03PM

It's the thought that counts.

smash · 22-12-2015 04:03PM

Paternity tests

chanelfreak · 22-12-2015 04:04PM

A fcuking Gok Wan book. Dunno how we are still married to be honest.

whiskeyman · 22-12-2015 04:05PM

Charitable donations on your behalf.

paulers06 · 22-12-2015 04:07PM

anti wrinkle cream

Senna · 22-12-2015 04:08PM

A donation has been made on your behalf to the Human fund.

22-12-2015 04:09PM

You're an ugly christmas present.

Am I doing it right?

The_Valeyard · 22-12-2015 04:09PM

Fruitcake

howamidifferent · 22-12-2015 04:10PM

A months gym membership

and or a bottle of head & shoulders shampoo

Ken. · 22-12-2015 04:10PM

paulers06 wrote: »

anti wrinkle cream

2 years ago I was scratching around for something to get my mother and was going to get a gift set of anti wrinkle stuff from the chemist. My step father informed me that under the rules of parenthood my mother brought me into the world so she could take me out of it too.
I took the ever so subtle hint.

esforum · 22-12-2015 04:10PM

second hand phone that had obviously been found as it didnt even come with a charger.

back before smartphones and stanard USB chargers as well so had to actually buy a charger so I was seen using the brick

22-12-2015 04:11PM

howamidifferent wrote: »

A months gym membership

Could have been worse, could have been a year.

You can't have been that out of shape :P

Ping Chow Chi · 22-12-2015 04:12PM

Someone once brought me a beginners guide to badminton, even though I had been playing badminton against him for years and years (it wasn't even a P-sstake gift either)

Valetta · 22-12-2015 04:12PM

Gym membership.

22-12-2015 04:14PM

A book, titled 'How To Increase Your IQ'.

Not that I've been given anything like that.

PTH2009 · 22-12-2015 04:14PM

esforum wrote: »

second hand phone that had obviously been found as it didnt even come with a charger.

back before smartphones and stanard USB chargers as well so had to actually buy a charger so I was seen using the brick

or a recyled present unwanted by the owner so they move it on

etoughguy · 22-12-2015 04:16PM

PTH2009 wrote: »

mcdonalds vouchers

cards with coins in it

I always welcome donations of cash, coin or paper!

redbel05 · 22-12-2015 04:16PM

More shocking than insulting- Heard if a trainee vet nurse given a gangrenous amputated puppies leg for Christmas by the head vet at the practise. He had bandaged the leg too tight cutting off circulation and the owners hadn't realized until they came back two weeks later to get the bandage checked.

Horror story all round.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 22-12-2015 04:16PM

I know a lady who was regifted the present she bought her sister the year before and it wasn't even in her size.

To say she was furious is putting it mildly.

22-12-2015 04:17PM

Last year I got my insanely fundamentalist christian nut job neighbour a 2 foot version of the "buddy christ" from the film Dogma. Dunno if he liked it - since he never talks to us so much as hisses at us when we pass him. And I did not notice any significant difference in the tone of his hiss following the purchase.

I have always wondered at the practice of buying gift hampers with things like deodorant in it for people though. I wonder if the message that sends is ever intended.

22-12-2015 04:18PM

Adelina Quiet Cord wrote: »

I know a lady who was regifted the present she bought her sister the year before and it wasn't even in her size.

To say she was furious is putting it mildly.

I'd think that was hilarious! I'd never let them live it down.

Sam Kade · 22-12-2015 04:18PM

A foot spa
Mouthwash

Eleysian · 22-12-2015 04:19PM

Don't know if this qualifies but as a forty something my OH gave me Kylie Minogue body glitter.

MilesMorales1 · 22-12-2015 04:19PM

I wouldn't mind a months gym membership. Might get me off my arse to do it properly.

22-12-2015 04:20PM

redbel05 wrote: »

More shocking than insulting- Heard if a trainee vet nurse given a gangrenous amputated puppies leg for Christmas by the head vet at the practise. He had bandaged the leg too tight cutting off circulation and the owners hadn't realized until they came back two weeks later to get the bandage checked.

Horror story all round.

I don't buy that story! First of all the pup would have been in agony which the owners would surely have acted on, and secondly a gangrenous limb would have stank to the high heavens, so even if they ignored the puppy in agony, the smell would have driven them to the vets.

RobertKK · 22-12-2015 04:22PM

I was asked if I would like boiler suit for Christmas as it would be useful for work, I never wear a boiler suit, the person was being dead serious too, and was surprised I wasn't very enthusiastic.
I have to work on Christmas day and no days off for Christmas, the last thing I need is to be reminded of is work, when relaxing and receiving a present.
Hopefully the disappointment in my voice was taken seriously and I avoid a boiler suit...same person said they would like a voucher to spend in a specific shop, doubt it will be to buy themselves a boiler suit.

FionnK86 · 22-12-2015 04:23PM

Christmas crackers for cats.

Duggy747 · 22-12-2015 04:25PM

The GF got a present from her mother, which was the very present she gave her for Xmas the year before hand.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 22-12-2015 04:32PM

It's obvious sometimes that no thought has gone into buying the gift. It was bought in a mad panic on xmas eve, I've received books on things like cycling in the past, something which I've no interest in.

dodzy · 22-12-2015 04:34PM

I bought the wife a Dyson way back. It's still a topic of conversation 7 yrs later. Great bloody hoover, and touching that she remembers the gesture.

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