| This year, my soon to be brother-in-law must have gone down the Tesco beer aisle and selected bottles of all my least favourite beers. Budweiser, Heineken, Stella, San Miguel, Morretti... whilst also skilfully missing all the ones I like. There should be shit booze collections where you could donate unwanted alcohol to college student parties or something. |
The Worst Christmas Present Thread • Page 6
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RawShark 1,495 posts
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Lukus 23,999 posts
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Registered 16 years agoDuring last year's work secret Santa, my Santa decided that because I like to paint and draw she would get me... pencils. 5 pencils. The lack of imagination or reason on display I found stunning. Because as someone who paints and draws, I don't already own about a million pencils?! FOR FUCKS SAKE. Not only that but they were all shitty HB ones that only children and morons try to draw with. I've genuinely never been more ungrateful for even the thought. -
simpleexplodingmaybe 16,072 posts
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Registered 5 years ago@Lukus do they know? -
Jono62 26,350 posts
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Registered 13 years agoDid you 'do a Muttler' in front of everyone? -
Vortex808 14,580 posts
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Registered 12 years agoRawShark wrote:
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This year, my soon to be brother-in-law must have gone down the Tesco beer aisle and selected bottles of all my least favourite beers. Budweiser, Heineken, Stella, San Miguel, Morretti... whilst also skilfully missing all the ones I like. There should be shit booze collections where you could donate unwanted alcohol to college student parties or something.
I totally empathise. My mother in law has done pretty much this too, but with a higher success rate. 2 bottles are fine. The rest, not so much. -
JamboWayOh 22,457 posts
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Registered 8 years agoJono62 wrote:
Hang on, were the pencils racist?
Did you 'do a Muttler' in front of everyone? -
RawShark 1,495 posts
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Registered 9 years agoLukus wrote:
At least they tried to find something that fitted your interests. I mean Secret Santa gifts are always shit, but more often than not I get chocolate simply because it’s clear the other person doesn’t know who I am. Either that or it’s some plastic tat from the impulse purchase aisle at TK Maxx.
During last year's work secret Santa, my Santa decided that because I like to paint and draw she would get me... pencils. 5 pencils. The lack of imagination or reason on display I found stunning. Because as someone who paints and draws, I don't already own about a million pencils?! FOR FUCKS SAKE. Not only that but they were all shitty HB ones that only children and morons try to draw with. I've genuinely never been more ungrateful for even the thought.
One time I tried to give a personalised gift for my sub editor which was a mug that read “I am silently correcting your grammar.” I thought that was pretty clever, but he was a humourless bastard and it went down like a fart in church. -
Lukus 23,999 posts
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Registered 16 years agoIn this instance I would have preferred the generic chocolate or deodorant gift.
I think she knew from my rubbish grateful acting. I tried my best but I'm not great at insincerity. -
Lukus wrote:
I’m waaaay too paranoid to be anonymously gifted deodorant. I’d immediately start assuming that person (and therefore, every person) thought I had terrible BO.
In this instance I would have preferred the generic chocolate or deodorant gift.
I think she knew from my rubbish grateful acting. I tried my best but I'm not great at insincerity.
Chocolates are at least easily regifted. Pencils... not so much.
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