Happy Birthday Jesus

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Happy Birthday Jesus

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Party!
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Ollie Saunders
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Post by Ollie Saunders »

I'm hungry...xmas food takes a long time. What did everyone get for xmas?
I got "Wrox Press Professional AJAX" which is actually quite a bit thinner than I imagined. "Sitepoint CSS anthology" and some music.
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Post by jayshields »

My Dad failed miserably at buying me stuff yet again. I specifically told him a few weeks ago not to buy me anythin electrionical or wearable. I can't even find clothes that I like myself, so someone else has got no chance. I clearly know better about electronics than anyone else in my family and would prefer money towards buying something myself.

Guess what I got?

A pair of white K-Swiss shoes; even though I dislike K-Swiss and told everyone in my family to definately not buy me shoes because I just bought some.

The worst ever mp3/mp4 player; I can't even find a brand name on it, its massive, has no built in memory, has an enormous Compact Flash card slot at the bottom with no card included. Screen res is awful. It's got a detachable 20gb HDD which plugs in the back which doubles the thickness/overall size of the player (costs extra). He was told it was worth £300, bought it for £120. I've told him I'm selling it, he thinks I'll get £200 for it, I'll be lucky to see £100. I'll post up the eBay link ASAP so you guys can take a look, it's actually humorous.

I was going to buy a Zen Vision: M with my xmas money, and I think I'm still gunna, ^^^ that's off in the bin.

I hate Christmas - now let's get insanely intoxicated and forget about it all.
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I bought my friend a present for xmas from amazon and it didn't turn up! I had to apologise to my friend and said I'd get it to him when I could, he said that was fine. Today hoping the presents my Dad gave me my friend's present! He must have opened the delivered parcel with my name on it and wrapped it up as my present!

jay: sounds pretty rough dude. Next time try writing a list for them? or would they just ignore it?
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Wow am I glad we don't celebrate christmas with presents and stuff here in the netherlands. It's mostly family getting together and eating a lot while at the same time "thinking about the christmas thought", whatever that may be. But even that is something I try to avoid as much as possible ;)

I recently celebrated my birthday and just asked everybody to donate 10 euro's to a charity instead of buying me anything. Feels a lot better then me getting stuff I don't really need. I think this is a concept I'll do from now on for every "present" occasion.
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Socks, Pants (boxers for you weird people who call trousers "pants") jumpers, t-shirts, bit of cash and a 20year old bottle of Taylors Port, which I have nearly finished consumin already. I think I heard my Liver yelp a moment ago.
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jenk wrote:I think I heard my Liver yelp a moment ago
"More! More! More!"

:)
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

I got everything I wanted.
  • Some 'alone' time with the wife
  • A Wenger watch
  • A Montblanc Meisterstuck Classique stainless steel fountain pen
  • Pavlo's 'Fantasia' CD
  • A singing stuffed penguin
  • A penguin coffee mug
Of course I am now in debt up to my shoulders because of the stuff we bought the kids (I will post some photos on my blog when I can), but overall it was a great Christmas. And there is still my wife's family to go yet, so it might get even better.
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

I got:

Money
Truffles
Novelty Slippers
A keyring
Davidoff Echo Aftershave (sorry, eau de toillette)

:)
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- Cordless headphones
- 2 Maple Leafs tickets (300$ each 8O) -- for those not aware what Maples are they are an NHL team
- new jacket
- couple shirts and scarf
- cologne

8)
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

Ooo, I forgot to mention that I got some Mont Blanc Cologne and Aftershave as well.

It sounds like almost all of us had a decent Christmas so far, huh?
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Post by matthijs »

Everah wrote:It sounds like almost all of us had a decent Christmas so far, huh?
Yes indeed :)

No "material" presents, but some "immaterial" presents are more then I could ever wish for :D
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Post by thiscatis »

+4GB memory stick for my mobile.
+this little baby
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thiscatis wrote:+this little baby
Nice.
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Everah wrote:
  • A Montblanc Meisterstuck Classique stainless steel fountain pen
Nice, my dad has a thing for pens. He bought a Solitaire a few years ago, though he doesn't use it :roll:

He also has a few Caran d'Ache.. he says the name is fitting because they give terrible writers cramp :lol:
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