smokinvokoun
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Post by smokinvokoun on Jan 3, 2010 3:14:42 GMT -5
IT has to be "Dumb and Dumberer" on DVD. I don't know who got it for me... all I know is it hasn't been opened.
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Mozenrath
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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 3, 2010 7:16:02 GMT -5
Was either my 10th hat or my 15th pair of gloves. Where am I going to put all this stuff. I only need one, or maybe 2 for a backup - just in case. I wish you could regift me those. I haven't had a hat or gloves in years, and both would be very handy.
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Post by Johnny Nitro on Jan 3, 2010 10:55:15 GMT -5
I always use a messenger bag, so my aunt gaved me a very colorful purse, claiming that i need "to wear more colours" (I might use black colour to dress myself, but sometimes i wear blue clothes! 8( Isn't that enough "colour"?).
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theryno665
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Post by theryno665 on Jan 3, 2010 11:14:56 GMT -5
For a couple years, my dad would get me nothing but tools for Christmas. I am the least handy person I know. One year, he gave me a ratchet set that I kept in my car's trunk "just in case" (even though I wouldn't know the first thing to do with it). After it came open and the parts spilled out all over my trunk, I picked up whatever parts I could find and just handed it over to my stepdad, who no doubt has better tools. Another year, I got a power drill. I'd say this was about 4-5 years ago. I never used it until a few months ago when I used it to put back together my entertainment center that I moved from my mom's house to my apartment. I'm way less handy than you. I can pass on this knowledge. Whatever can not be fixed with a hammer and duct tape is not fixable. Seriously, when I got those tools, I just thought "If something of mine breaks, usually I just do a reboot. How am I gonna use a power drill on a computer?" A previous post reminded me of another unfortunate gift. Actually, they weren't that bad and there was thought behind them. Last year, my friend's girlfriend had a tendency for getting me movies I already had. For my birthday, she got me Kung Fu Zombie, which I already had as part of a DVD set. Then for our Secret Santa drawing at Christmas, she got me the single-disc version of Near Dark when I already had the double-disc version. Also, she got me Lucky Number Slevin, which was a lot better than I thought it would be...but it was in Full-Screen. I didn't have the heart to tell her any of this. Also that year, one of my sisters got me The Dark Knight (which I wanted) in Full-Screen. So a few days later I returned it for the double-disc Widescreen version.
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Mr T L Wolf
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Post by Mr T L Wolf on Jan 3, 2010 11:16:03 GMT -5
My grandmother that I rarely if ever see always gets my brothers and I big bags of Goodwill clothes, and she almost never gets my size right. All I've gotten in the past few years that fit are gloves and a really, really comfortable hoodie.
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Post by Big Daddy Bad Booking on Jan 3, 2010 11:28:36 GMT -5
a shirt that said "I'm not short, I'm fun sized!" i had put an oscar worthy performance to act like I liked the gift. I will probably never wear it. Give it to a midget! XD
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Post by Mr. Backlund on Jan 3, 2010 11:39:30 GMT -5
I got a model of The Genie's lamp from Disney's Aladdin made from wax....in 1999, seven years after the movie was released. My aunt had a reputation for giving us bad gifts (the year before I got a 2XL sweater that my dad was swimming in and I was a good 50 pounds lighter than him), so this was another notch in her belt.
I had no idea what I was supposed to do with it to begin with, but when I opened the case to try and figure out what the story was, I realized the back half of it had melted and was malformed, and it was broken in at least 3 places. It fell apart when I took it out and made a mess on the living room carpet at my parent's house (it basically turned into a giant crayon when it melted in its box for close to a decade), so it really was a double whammy. Crappy gift, crappy to clean carpets on Christmas Day.
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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man, TF Fan on Jan 3, 2010 11:45:37 GMT -5
Some Ipod thing for my car. Partially because I didn't want it and won't use it, partially because the person who got me it was well aware of this, and partially because that same person is the one who has been fiddling with it since Christmas Day. It's pretty apparent to me that it was one of those gits you get someone because you actually want it, and those sorta gifts piss me off.
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Post by BlackJackRobby on Jan 3, 2010 11:48:38 GMT -5
I've got three but not from this year.
My all time favorite a T-shirt that said, "All I got for Christmas was this stinking T-Shirt" First off I hate shirts like this, and secondly like all Christmas things after a week the shirt looks very old. So I could really only wear it out for five days after Christmas, and then the shirt would be useless.
Second I was asking for a leather jacket all year, and I got one three sizes to small. It seems they only had the type I wanted in Medium. I have not been a medium since Middle School so I got no clue what it was about. Somehow I was able to fit into it, my father told me I looked like a wet seal.
Last one most would love, I live in Northern MN. I just bought a house and shoveling huge amounts of snow is annoying. I saw a Snowblower for 250.00 and talked about that is all I want, anything else will be icing. Instead I got a PS3 that other then Unchartered I've played less then I've worn my leather jacket.
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