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You know, Jose Feliciano, you got no complaints.

So, what are you guys asking for/giving?

Swiss Colony Beef Log, baby

These for my nephews I think:

http://www.buy.com/prod/robosapien/q/loc/20269/201024266.html

Anyone got any ideas for a 9 year old niece who likes animals and Irish dancing or a 31 year old Mexican cook who's into death metal and the Simpsons?

Porn

If anyone cares, ABC Family is airing all of the old Christmas cartoons/specials from back in the day.

These things are great.

If anyone cares, ABC Family is airing all of the old Christmas cartoons/specials from back in the day.

These things are great.

I heard that they won't mind if you tape them all, make thousands of copies, and sell them.

Just another day for me to sleep all day either way.

I'm thinking about getting a remote car starter for myself for Xmas, anybody know what they are going for these days? (installed, of course)

BB Gun.

Also, a fucking pet golden eagle.

Also, bukdow's wife

Remote starters go for $149.99 installed in Omaha.

$150 here too.

My mom asked me what I wanted, I asked what the price range was. She didn't know so I said $100 and she said that was the max. So I go online and find a power supply for my PC that I want, $70 free shipping and she says it's too expensive. Then a couple days later she comes over and gives me the ugliest dress shirt and jacket that she spent $60 and refused to take it back even when I said I would never wear either. Tell me how that makes sense. Before you mention it, I didn't get the receipt and she ripped the tags off.

The older I get the more I enjoy giving. Cuz I usually buy myself whatever I want.

Tools, nobody picks out my tools.
Golf Clubs, nobody picks out my golf clubs
clothes, nobody picks out my clothes
Shotguns, nobody picks out my shotguns

That makes me sound like a dick, but I know you all know differently. :)

Like I said, giving is better. I'm going to paint, install baseboard and crown molding in my mother in-laws. My parents died when i was young, so no more trips to Mich for Xmas. Those were the days. Ok I'm rambling and have had a few and have a Xmas party to go to tonight so I better stop now.

Tools


http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2006/writers/justin_doom/07/19/dooms.day/p1_carr.jpg

a dick

http://www.punditmark.com/archives/LloydCarr.jpg

A dick. In my ass.

This.

http://www.mesaboogie.com/Product_Info/Rectifier_Series/roadster/IMAGES/RoadsterHeadonCab-FntLG.gif

Xmas cookies, nuff said

^ Do you want some milk to wash them down? fatty

You don't eat cookies?

Washing them down with Killians, actually.

I eat goats, hares, and stuff like that.

One 12 incher is enough Zip. I don't need a second.

I eat sheep.

Before or after you "help them over the fence"?

Stop making shit up about me Glenn. I never said that.

One 12 incher is enough Zip. I don't need a second.

http://www.rit.edu/~cgs2794/files/pub/crappers/thuper.jpg

The older I get the more I enjoy giving. Cuz I usually buy myself whatever I want.
My problems are:

1) I buy what I want when I want it. I rarely want a lot of "stuff", so when I do feel the itch, I scratch it. I try to keep a Christmas and birthday list so I can hand it to the kin-folk and let them roll, but...

2) ...they rarely purchase what I want. Even if I give them amazon.com URLs, they'll go to Borders or somewhere else and purchase something close, but not exactly what I want. I wanted the two-disc Anchorman, not the one-disc!

The best tree ever:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b40/UxKa/2007_1208xmastrees0021.jpg

OK so this is our 'real' tree:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b40/UxKa/2007_1208xmastrees0020.jpg

I didn't help at all and as a whole not much effort was put in. It's there, woohoo.

The dog looks like he can't wait till you leave the room so he can pee on it.

Let me just point out to you who are not Jewish and don't have Jewish friends that you are missing something really fantastic by not eating all the awesome fried food people make on Channukah. Latkes LATKES PEOPLE

Latkes = people?

Isn't that the guy from Taxi?

Isn't that the guy from Taxi?
zeebeedah?

No man not Latka Gravas, LATKES.

Delicious latkes.

http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x147/dspiewak/latkes121302big.jpg

It's like Better Made Sour Cream & Onion potato chips came to life and made all your dreams come true.

This.

http://www.mesaboogie.com/Product_Info/Rectifier_Series/roadster/IMAGES/RoadsterHeadonCab-FntLG.gif
MMmmmmmmm

I've left my little christmas tree up for 3 years straight now. Its not even a holiday thing anymore. It sits on top of my roommates bass amp and 4-stack.

Did my shopping last night.

I determined that there is not a person in Target at 11 pm at night that I don't want to kill (or at minimum, punch in the face).

Did my shopping last night.

I determined that there is not a person in Target at 11 pm at night that I don't want to kill (or at minimum, punch in the face).
I really don't get this Christmas Spirit thing Gentiles keep talking about. Everywhere I go this time of year, everyone is pissed off and ready to kill each other.

I hate gift shopping, whatever the season. Perhaps I'm just projecting how I feel, but most of my friends and family either:

a) have money, know what they want, and generally get it. If of a sufficient age, they have everything reasonably gift-able that they could ever want, and most gifts are truly just clutter, more "stuff" to manage. My goal here is to think small, not consume too much space. I went through gifting services as a phase, like "a massage from the spa", but quality varies and that got old.

b) need money. The goal here is to buy gifts that easily convert into money. During the '90s, I'd often take the tack of buying gag gifts -- stuff I knew they wouldn't need or keep but would get a whopping good laugh out of (e.g. "Windows For Dummies" for Windows-savvy people), with the receipt for easy returning. But that gag got old, too, and it was hard to balance the dollars.

So, what are you guys asking for/giving?
Doesnt this holiday offend you? Or has America butchered it enough to help you through it. [smilie=heatsmiley2:

Doesnt this holiday offend you? Or has America butchered it enough to help you through it. [smilie=heatsmiley2:

lol, I try to not get caught up in the origin and pretty much focus on the fun aspects.

Watching "The Ref" tonight with the wife, one of our annual traditions.

HAVE A VERY PAGAN CHRISTMAS MOTHERFUCKER

reiterating...Christmas is about giving and mainly for my boy. But the older he gets the harder it is to buy stuff for him too.

You've talked a lot about your boy, but haven't told me how old your friend is yet.

Cuz he's not my friend. I raised the little shit.

Anybody else had the Nieman Marcus cookies before? (type of cookie)

My mother in law was telling me this huge backstory about how they came to be, like it was interesting or something.

A damn good cookie, however.

http://www.costume-shop.com/images/products/cs1340.jpg

I have not tried there cookies, but the wife and boy prolly have.

Just got done eating that bitch whose pic I just posted's cookies.

I have not tried there cookies, but the wife and boy prolly have.


They are not from there, that is just what they are called.

I suspect that the story that I was being told probably explained why that's the case.

Maybe I should have actually listened.

I love those stockings...if they were thigh highs...SHAZAM!

Notice how she's wearing green and white.
with a little bit of yellow

Finally something worthwhile in G and W

There really should be a "Bitches in Green and White" thread, but I don't want to have to waste my time.

He's 18

What are you doing with an 18 year old friend? You trying to retain your youth?

I choose to NEVER grow up. Haven't you noticed?

I'm 13. I still have a lot of my youth to go!

I actually went back and found the thread and it was Wil who is, or said he is 19. You never said how old you were.

u first

Older than Glennnnn

Well, Glenn's about 37-38 right?

I'm going to say 41. You're 41, aren't you?

I think Glennn is 35. Greater than...less than?

lol, I try to not get caught up in the origin and pretty much focus on the fun aspects.

Watching "The Ref" tonight with the wife, one of our annual traditions.
Good movie.

I think Glennn is 35. Greater than...less than?

MSU class of '92

he's about 36-37

Just got done eating that bitch whose pic I just posted.
Fixed for better storyline.

41 with an 18 year old? 23 when he had the kid. That's reasonable.

So far all I can remember is that Wil's 19 and I'm 21.

AND LEBRON'S ONLY 22!

Except for the fact he's hanging with an 18 year old.

MSU class of '92

he's about 36-37

Um, stalker alert?

Green and White Class of '94, btw

35

Older than Glennnnn

Fortunately, I was just guessing!

I'm 34. God, it hurts so much to see that typed out.

I was old when dirt was invented.

happy christmahannukwanzaka everyone

Apparantly nobody is that close to my age, I'm floating in the middle. Anyway, here is the best holiday song ever:

FtBsKbKqYb4

lol

[smilie=llama_banan:

Maybe this should be in another thread but anybody have any good Xmas, Han or Kwan family fight stories?

The wife and her sister have a lil dust-up going that could turn into a nuclear war. We'll see...

We're going there? They're coming here? At what time? We open presents by ourselves first? Mom is coming later? OMFG...I'm begining to look forward to December 26th. This hasn't happened in a while.

I have some confusion sorta kinda like that, but for understandable and sad reasons. An eightysomething family member is in the hospital and not doing so well... in fact, was read "last rites" a week or so ago, but survived. So, there's a "last Christmas for family member" chaotic scramble.

Sorry to hear there's a dark cloud over ur holiday, Mxy.

On a brighter note, I scored a 42" Panasonic plasma.

Huzzah.

I hope those of you with kids didn't forget to tell them to leave cookies and milk for Keith Langlois!!

Glennnn scores

Glennnn scores

This gift keeps on giving.

Charter was just at the house installing the HD box and informed the wife that we get the HBO/Skinamax tier "free" for a full year, too.

~cue softcore porn music~

Only bummer is that I was looking forward to watching the Pistons in HD tonight for the first time and I now see that the game is being carried locally by WXSP, which isn't in the Charter HD channel lineup.

Might have to watch some of the Motor City Bowl in HD to make up for that.

My xmas sucked, and I was literally pissed half the day. I think its funny that my parents spend at least five times more on my gf than me. Not that I care how much they spend, but when I ask for one thing that isn't expensive and my mom literally laughs at me when she says I'm not getting it and then goes and spends over five times that on my gf it's just a slap in the face. I got slippers, fuck that. That all might seem shallow but my mom has been such a bitch all year to me on purpose and it's the icing on the cake.

My xmas sucked, and I was literally pissed half the day. I think its funny that my parents spend at least five times more on my gf than me.

I really hope you're not dating your sister...

Only child, so that would be tough.

I wish I had only 0 children.

My xmas sucked, and I was literally pissed half the day. I think its funny that my parents spend at least five times more on my gf than me. Not that I care how much they spend, but when I ask for one thing that isn't expensive and my mom literally laughs at me when she says I'm not getting it
What did you ask for? A bag of cherry-flavored condoms probably isn't that expensive, but I feel fairly certain my parents would laugh at me and say I'm not getting it.


and then goes and spends over five times that on my gf it's just a slap in the face. I got slippers, fuck that. That all might seem shallow but my mom has been such a bitch all year to me on purpose and it's the icing on the cake.
What sort of valuation would you put? If my parents got me something that was $2, and got a gf something that was $10, I'd just assume they were cheap. :)

FWIW, I give up with my parents. They're mentally incapable of getting what I set aside for them to get, which sucks because I actually try to set aside stuff to get and not just get it myself. Virtually all of it is stuff they could just click on Amazon or Overstock to get, too.

I'm 35 so whenever Christmas comes around, I just wander around in my kitchen or bathroom playing the "What's Missing?" game until I come up with a list. "Uh...um....I guess we need towels."

My wife got a kick-ass MP3 player from my family. I got a new food processor.

I asked for a PC power supply or Romo jersey, each well under $100 which is what my mom said to aim for. Instead I got socks and slippers, and the gf got hundreds of dollars worth of stuff including two nice winter coats, yes two and I have no idea what the point behind that it. Like I said, it's not really the price tag on the gift. It's about making an effort to make people happy. Also considering how my mom has been towards me all year it was pretty much intentional. When my gf and I left my parents she said she was sorry and that she felt bad, so that's pretty much how obvious it was.

If your gf is really sorry, she'll hand over the gift receipt for the coats and then off to Best Buy you go for your PC power supply.

Maybe let her keep the cheaper of the two coats.

I asked for a PC power supply or Romo jersey, each well under $100 which is what my mom said to aim for. Instead I got socks and slippers, and the gf got hundreds of dollars worth of stuff including two nice winter coats, yes two and I have no idea what the point behind that it. Like I said, it's not really the price tag on the gift. It's about making an effort to make people happy.

WTF SHE DIDN'T GET YOU THE TONY ROMO JERSEY?

You should go up to your mom and be like this:

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/060907/123046__bring_it_on_l.jpg
"Bring it,bitch!"

http://www.businesspundit.com/50226711/images/30352650.jpg

If your gf is really sorry, she'll hand over the gift receipt for the coats and then off to Best Buy you go for your PC power supply.

Maybe let her keep the cheaper of the two coats.

Actually she did, but I said no.

I asked for a PC power supply or Romo jersey, each well under $100 which is what my mom said to aim for. Instead I got socks and slippers, and the gf got hundreds of dollars worth of stuff including two nice winter coats, yes two and I have no idea what the point behind that it. Like I said, it's not really the price tag on the gift. It's about making an effort to make people happy. Also considering how my mom has been towards me all year it was pretty much intentional. When my gf and I left my parents she said she was sorry and that she felt bad, so that's pretty much how obvious it was.

How old are you?

lol 27. Like I said I don't care about the presents themselves, it's how she went about it. She wanted to piss me off, and she did.

edit: The main point has been missed by most people. It's not the presents, I could care less if I got a coaster if it had some thought or care behind it. It's also about how my mom has been for almost the whole year. Xmas just topped it off. Since before Thanksgiving I've been at the point where I'm about to cut her off completely, but I decided to wait it out til after the holidays and her b-day in two days. It may seem like the point is the presents because that is what just happened, and I posted it in the Xmas thread, but ultimately it's much more.

Yeah. Um, maybe you could realize christmas is for two year olds who still wiat for some fat ass dude dressed in red to come though the chimney to leave them a firetruck.
Gezzus FUCKING christ is christmas a misbegotten mess.

OH BOY! A ZEPPELIN!
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x147/dspiewak/randy.jpg

I can't believe anyone above the age of 16 wants a jersey let alone a 27 year old LOL. YOU SHOULDN'T BE WEARING A TONY ROMO JERSEY AT THAT AGE AND YOU'RE GOING TO CUT YOUR MOM OFF BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T BUY YOU A JERSEY AND A POWER SUPPLY?? LOL.

^snarky

I was about to cut him some slack until he broke out that he was 27 and pissed off that he didn't get a Tony Romo jersey.

lol 27. Like I said I don't care about the presents themselves, it's how she went about it. She wanted to piss me off, and she did.

edit: The main point has been missed by most people. It's not the presents, I could care less if I got a coaster if it had some thought or care behind it. It's also about how my mom has been for almost the whole year. Xmas just topped it off. Since before Thanksgiving I've been at the point where I'm about to cut her off completely, but I decided to wait it out til after the holidays and her b-day in two days. It may seem like the point is the presents because that is what just happened, and I posted it in the Xmas thread, but ultimately it's much more.

I'd cut mom some slack. Like most parents, she probably means well and is even more confused about why you're pissed than you are about why you got slippers.

Your best bet, the one you won't regret years from now when she's gone and you get sentimental about those slippers, is to just smile and thank her for them.

As an aside, she probably won't tell you this but it's really unlikely you're scoring points with the gf by calling your mom out on slipper-gate.

I was about to cut him some slack until he broke out that he was 27 and pissed off that he didn't get a Tony Romo jersey.


He's obviously a Romosexual.

The ladies like the Romo, apparently.


edit- damn, I hate following the always well-reasoned geerussell post

At that age he should be able to buy his own crap.

I think he has every right to be a bit miffed, only because his mother asked him what he would like as a gift, and even gave him a dollar limit to shoot for.

Might be a different story if that part wasn't in play, IMO.

But warring with Mom is probably not the best approach, as gee mentioned.

I'd probably just grab the phone and be honest with her in a civil tone.

I'm going to quit this thread after this becauase most of you can't read. It's not about the presents. It's not ABOUT the presents. IT'S NOT ABOUT THE PRESENTS. Yes I can buy my own shit and I will, I didn't buy those things because my mom asked what I wanted and I told her those things but now I will buy them. It should be obvious that I'm not warring with my mom about just xmas because if I was I wouldn't have considered cutting her off two months ago. The gf is actually more pissed at her in general than I am, so brownie points there don't matter. In fact a lot of people that know me personally say I should be thankful that she hasn't broken up with me because of my mom. And to what you said Glenn about picking up the phone, I've done that almost every day for the last ten years with no progress.

Call mom and tell her that you are going emo because of the presents.

Might snap her back.

Whats the deal Ux, you didn't get the presents you wanted? J/K

Seriously, I'm following you completely.

All this, over presents?

So what is your mom's problem with you? Did you ask her?

It's not about the presents. It's not ABOUT the presents. IT'S NOT ABOUT THE PRESENTS.

Since the presents were the only concrete detail you dropped... people talked about the presents.


It should be obvious that I'm not warring with my mom about just xmas because if I was I wouldn't have considered cutting her off two months ago.

If she's really that evil, cut her off, then. Show her who's boss. Give her the Fredo Corleone smack on the lips and then send her "fishing" for her next birthday. Go out with the gf and raise a toast to the parental shunning. Victory, hoo rah, etc. You'll feel great about it.

Random thoughts:

- Da-yum! I wasn't expecting UxKa's responses to my innocent questions would make most everyone think he was some kind of emo. It was clear from the get-go that the tensions with his mother were more than about Christmas.

- People here are laughing at the Romo jersey, but I'll take a SWAG that they laughed when you suggested the PC power supply, right? Asking most parents to purchase technology gifts, be they for the computer or the automobile, is just an exercise in amusement at best, masochism at worst.

- No, the gf shouldn't give up anything. The fact that they gave her some good shit should make you happy, I suppose. I don't think "make people happy" as being the goal of Christmas giving. You should be happy with Christmas even if you don't receive any gifts at all.

- Having warred with parental units to the point that I am no longer in their last will and testament, sometimes, it takes a nasty blow-out fight and a prolonged cut-off to cause respect. All by itself, the Christmas antics don't rise to that level, but there's clearly more going on.

- If there was any reason that your gf might break up with you over your mom, though, then I'd suggest that you and|or your gf are too close to your mom. I absolutely refuse to permit my parents to get entangled in my romantic relationships (that being a big part of why I am no longer in their will).

- Keep in mind that it can be more annoying for a waitress to get a small tip than no tip at all. No tip means the customer maybe forgot. A tiny tip means the customer cared enough to screw you.