http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 19 May 2013 02:29:31 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701&page=2#post-155358 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 23:22:33 +0000 Sinnick 155358@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Er, Squudge, just to check we're not related - you didn't live in Essex at the time did you ? And the coconut-sender wasn't in Cambs ? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701&page=2#post-155356 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 23:06:00 +0000 rikkor 155356@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Anything from Harry and David. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701&page=2#post-155318 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 11:46:49 +0000 Squudge 155318@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>...thinking back to sometime in the early 70s ...I seem to recall someone gave my mum a coconut 'for the family' at Christmas </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701&page=2#post-155315 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 11:22:07 +0000 Sinnick 155315@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Obviously, old enough to know what it is.</p> <p>My son got a digital word game. Couldn't get the sodding thing to work, and was just about to throw it in the bin when I noticed a lettered film across the display. Removed that and it worked. Surely they know we try these things when pissed ? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701&page=2#post-155309 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 11:02:20 +0000 AReader 155309@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I got a "Beatles Abbey Road" t-shirt for Xmas this year. Just how old do they think I am? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701&page=2#post-155306 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 10:40:30 +0000 Squudge 155306@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I was waiting with dread for Sugartits to wade in on that one </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701&page=2#post-155304 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 10:32:26 +0000 Idiot 155304@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ahh, fat balls and tits at xmas time.... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701&page=2#post-155300 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 10:10:05 +0000 Squudge 155300@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>@Geri - is it one of those tubs of 50 fat balls for a bit under a tenner? If so - wasn't a bad pressie.</p> <p>&lt;gazes lovingly at the tits flipping about outside the window&gt; </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701&page=2#post-155299 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 10:04:33 +0000 Squudge 155299@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>yep - a 'solar bird' outdoor light with the solar module nicked out of it.</p> <p>Funny thing is the seal had obviously been cut on the box prior to wrapping, and the box was very light. I can only hope the lovely family member who sent it was just checking it was complete after a sherry or two and is now pissing themselves laughing on finding a bit of it behind the sofa. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701&page=2#post-155298 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 10:02:30 +0000 Gerontius 155298@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I bought my mum a box of fat-balls....and before you go calling me cheap...they did contain those little mealworm things too. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701&page=2#post-155288 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 09:27:56 +0000 Sinnick 155288@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Anything interesting turn up this year folks ? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701&page=2#post-50995 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:52:37 +0000 IABP 50995@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Tis true, ant. I have many golfing chums and family and I'm forever buying 20 balls for a £1 from Aldi. It's hard to describe the look when they open it but I enjoy it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701#post-50994 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:41:38 +0000 Sinnick 50994@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>@MrChigleysAunt: I don't think there was a story behind the coconut. I can only imagine her seeing it in a shop or fair and thinking "Ive not seen one of these before, I wonder if my sister &amp; her family would like one for Xmas". </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701#post-50991 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:39:48 +0000 antharrison 50991@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Take-up golf and you'll understand what is meant by crummy presents </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701#post-50907 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:01:00 +0000 Oxbridge 50907@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Worst ever birthday present: a few days after I was 7, my father took me to my first football game, Chelsea v Tottenham. He asked me who I would support. Being contrary, as Chelsea were the West London glamour team of the day (Peter Osgood, blah blah blah, King's Road, fashion, blah blah) and all the boys supported them, I went the other way. Tottenham lost 1-0 but I've been stuck with them ever since. My father, weirder still, was an armchair Arsenal supporter. I've often wondered what he was thinking of. We were never close... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701#post-50743 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:26:38 +0000 4ty2 50743@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>apparently dustbins filled with cat litter are hot for cat lovers this christmas </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701#post-50741 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:07:27 +0000 Mr.3374 50741@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>10, maybe 12 yrs back, my now late big sister bought me a fibre-optic cactus.<br /> She got one for my other sister too.<br /> And Mum, and dad, and.... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701#post-50619 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:43:45 +0000 Rowly 50619@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>In the early nineties, my Daughter was a really obnoxious teenager. She had lost her school scarf &amp; demanded (abusively) that I buy her a new one!.<br /> I refused, out of principle, because of the torrent of verbal abuse, but rather than make her suffer the cold, I compromised.<br /> I cut my scarf in half &amp; gave half to her for Xmas.<br /> We both laugh about it now. She still treasures her half scarf &amp; I have mine.<br /> In fact I am wearing it today. She will of course inherit my half eventually.<br /> It's always the thought that counts! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701#post-50616 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:28:48 +0000 victory V 50616@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>My gran bought me 'the tale of Benjamin Bunny'. I was 14. I wonder if it's hot where she is. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701#post-50601 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:02:33 +0000 IABP 50601@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yea I once bought a light-fitting for a girl. I seem to recall she asked for something special for her next year and I said that she was the only one who got a light-fitting so that shows how special she was. Where is she now? Where is that light-fitting now? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701#post-50581 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:36:11 +0000 MrChigleysAunt 50581@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hmmm - an interesting and topica article in the Guardian: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/21/christmas-gift-aditya-chakrabortty">It's the thought that counts</a><br /> I wonder what the 'back stories' of some of our presents were - particularly the coconut. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701#post-50575 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:03:27 +0000 Stan Laurel 50575@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Struggling to know what to get for his wife, a colleague of mine made the mistake of asking her what she would like. "Just buy something for the home," she said. So he bought her a toilet seat. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701#post-50564 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:23:07 +0000 Mary Evans 50564@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>My beloved grandmother retains the title as cackest present provider every year without fail. But she has never quite managed to surpass the year that my mother was gifted a large parcel that apparently contained a huge jigsaw within. Mum feigned the appropriate thanks, but my grandma insisted she opened the box. She duly obliged - and discovered a wig inside. My grandmother's charming explanation? "Well your hair is always such a mess..." </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701#post-50557 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 07:43:07 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 50557@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>...I give my dear sister a handbag at least once a year....can't help myself. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701#post-50534 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:55:18 +0000 IABP 50534@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Someone once bought me different coloured laces over 25 years ago. There was blue, yellow and red in it. Unless you're Elvis or Dorothy then there's no use for them. I still have them unopened in the packet. There's some things that you just can't throw away. I have to get them out every so often and wonder why they hated me that much? Jealousy, I suspect. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701#post-50523 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:48:36 +0000 rikkor 50523@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>My parents are both gone. My Dad was consistently generous in the jewelry department with my Mom. She would always be so effusive and thankful when unwrapping his Christmas present. But, the bauble of the moment was inevitably sent back to the store. After 50 years, he could never quite get her taste right. She would trade it in for something bigger and more to her liking in the New Year. Everyone was happy.</p> <p>I remember one Christamas when my Dad ventured into the minefield that is buying clothes for a woman. He bought my Mom a winter coat. She looked at it disgustedly for two seconds and said to him "What? Am I a dyke or something?" Mistake never repeated. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701#post-50514 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:36:16 +0000 Mr.3374 50514@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Bro-in law last Xmas, knowing I'm a Wires fan and love my rugby bought me a book, by feckin lawrence dallaglio.<br /> For the 5th yr on the bounce, I have discovered my dad has sent my present to a house I don't live in.<br /> He's not even consistent with where he sends the stuff, it's always a different wrong house. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701#post-50507 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:11:52 +0000 The All New Jeni B 50507@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Two gifts to add to the list of shame, both from my older cousins.<br /> (Quick back story - two older male cousins, 4 and 5 yrs older, who are brothers. Me, only child, and girl. Ergo, cousins decided that it was their role in life to torture me in a brotherly fashion, just so I wouldn't miss out on that vital part of childhood)</p> <p> One year, they gave me a Dundee United scarf, signed by the team. I support Dundee FC.<br /> Next year, they give me Duran Duran's 'Rio' album. About 18 months after I'd moved on to<br /> U2 and Simple Minds.</p> <p>They have also given me a variety of cruelly humorous birthday gifts. But my Therapist says I should move on and try to avoid talking about it again. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701#post-50504 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:45:58 +0000 ronseal 50504@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Oxbridge, Did you know Two Ton Ted from Teddington?</p> <p>I thought he was a fictional character, until I saw a blue plaque (is that the right spelling?) on the wall at Teddington Station.</p> <p>Here, I found it on Flickr</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rantswinprizes/3410186054/" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/rantswinprizes/3410186054/</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18701#post-50501 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:39:50 +0000 FormerlyAlOPecia 50501@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I bought my wife a frying pan one year, she used it immediately, but not for cooking. </p>