christmas is coming

Urizen · Post by **Urizen** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:56 pm

and with it, the age-old question: what do you want for christmas? this is a problem for me, because i never want or need anything that my family can actually give me. my interests are: booz, books and electronics. this is a problem, because...
booz: only dad wants to give me booz, and when he does he has to hide it because the rest of the family doesn't like it.
books: sure. but what? it needs to be something that's available in average book-stores. but how do i know which books are good untill i've read them? maybe some programming books, i dunno. or some classics. i kinda like dickens, maybe i'll ask for that.
electronics: nope. no-one in my family knows the difference between a monitor and a ram-stick, and all the stuff i want is too expensive anyway. maybe a usb-hub or something.

everything i want is either too expensive, scorned upon, or they've never heard of it. how about it, dack, do you have any suggestions? grandma'll prolly start calling me in a week or so asking me what to buy, and i don't know what to tell her!

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:05 pm

ask for a telephone that lights up

Dreadnought · Post by **Dreadnought** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:05 pm

Urizen wrote:what do you want for christmas?

Nothing. Maybe some peace and quiet.

Urizen · Post by **Urizen** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:08 pm

Megatron wrote:ask for a telephone that lights up

too expensive

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:13 pm

Dignity.

edhead · Post by **edhead** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:58 pm

Urizen wrote:do you have any suggestions?

what about gay porn DVDs?

Strider · Post by **Strider** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:02 pm

The Christmas holiday has become obsolete. It's now just a capitalist profit season, nothing more. Spending time with your family and all is the only thing this holiday has going for it, considering the bullshit that surrounds the holiday itself.

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:14 pm

shut up you cunt

i guess a little stereo dock for my mp3 player would be kinda cool. a bust of cicero would be neat too, i havent been able to find one

spokomptonjdub · Post by **spokomptonjdub** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:23 pm

Strider wrote:The Christmas holiday has become obsolete. It's now just a capitalist profit season, nothing more. Spending time with your family and all is the only thing this holiday has going for it, considering the bullshit that surrounds the holiday itself.

I smell a red.

cazsim83 · Post by **cazsim83** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:31 pm

edhead wrote:
Urizen wrote:do you have any suggestions?
what about gay porn DVDs?

Nah, he wouldn't be interestd in those....

Oivind - not sure, never been to Norway, but....what about gift certificates to places you like? That's what I'm asking my family for. That way, they can spend whatever they can afford, and at the very least, you get a good discount on something you want AND like.

Urizen · Post by **Urizen** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:37 pm

well, yeah. maybe i'll ask for that. i'm not a fan of gift certificates, but i guess it may be the better choice. it's not a very personal gift, though, so i'll have to ask for books and stuff as well.

fallout ranger · Post by **fallout ranger** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:42 pm

Xbox 360 or PS3 :hopes:

Urizen · Post by **Urizen** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:47 pm

well, i guess i could sell them or something...
but they're way too expensive anyways.

sarge112 · Post by **sarge112** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:26 pm

Strider wrote:Spending time with your family

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:46 pm

if you can't think of anything, have someone give money to a charity of your choice in your name, that's what christmas's all about innit?

for christmas i want a malamute, though i'll probably have to settle for a nu pair of sennheisers and the usual assortment of records + reading material. please send me presents dac

Urizen · Post by **Urizen** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:52 pm

maybe some new glasses...

entertainer · Post by **entertainer** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:54 pm

atoga wrote:please send me presents dac

I send you:

EDIT BY URI: this is a happy thread. no death-threats please.

EDIT BY ENT: you had to pick this one, right?

EDIT BY URI: i wanted to post something nice, so i did a search for kisses on google. this was one of the first hits

btw, feel free to change it to something else if you have any objections.

EDIT BY ENT: danke

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:05 pm

Charity organisations are a gigantic fraud and totally useless for the most part.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:17 pm

charity?

I was thinking about perhaps buying myself a canon powershot g9 for christmas (time to retire my old backup compact, the powershot a60

)

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:20 pm

Gasoline storage containers, so you can stock up when it's cheap(er).

Or:

Infrastructure looks pretty good.

A used one for under $25 (plus shipping) sounds about right.

Think of all those utility boxes/etc. that you see all over the place. They are cataloged in this book.

Lots of ways to use your Science and Repair skills.

This reminds me of Junktown. Patrick helped get the lights running..

Duck and Cover

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