So, what do you GIVE for christmas?

hazardous!

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-24 09:17:02 UTC Post #154289

Hohoho! to you all.

There's been alot talk about what people will get for christmas, but I didn't find anything about what presents you make to others.

Probably it's a bit late for this, but if I'm not mistaken, men start buying christmas-presents as late as possible.

And since we have only 3 women here (afaik)...
So, I just wrapped my pesents, though their were lying around for over a week.

There you go:

An optical mouse and some chocolate for my parents. (They still have a ball mouse.)

A bundle with only the most essential stuff, for my brother.

Read: lots of unhealthy, but yummy crap, wrapped up in a towel, bound to a stick. Wasn't easy to get that stick clean and free of twigs.

Well, that's it.

So what do you give for christmas?

hazardous!

alexb911

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-24 09:24:22 UTC Post #154291

heh... im given my mum an optical mouse!!

also... lots of booze for sister!

alexb911

Seventh-Monkey

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-24 10:17:12 UTC Post #154294

Well, I got stuff for my dad and sister a while ago, but only got stuff for my mum today. Got her some Singaporian Rose Syrup (smells delicious), some ma'amoui ("Meditteranean" little pastry things), a bottle opener shaped like an anchor (heh heh), a nice oil lamp with pebbles and green stuff in, and some wine bottle candles made entirely of wax.

Got my dad a jigsaw puzzle of Venice and a CD box set.

Bought a lava lamp and some wind chimes and sweets.

Got me some Elliott Smith CDs and a really cool Spitfire model lasered into a block of plastic.

Mephs finally got his Laser Kitten, too :D.

Spendilicous.

Seventh-MonkeyPretty nifty

Habboi

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-24 10:56:15 UTC Post #154297

Looks forward to Christmas tommorow

I got a tree with presents all at the bottom like traditional English men.

HabboiSticky White Love Glue

FresheD

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-24 11:04:53 UTC Post #154302

Nothing..

I'm a greedy bastard.

FresheD

pepper

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-24 11:06:28 UTC Post #154303

nothing, i do not celebrate christmas.

pepper

Strider

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-24 11:41:14 UTC Post #154305

well that kind of cut it short. I bought my dad a Meat Loaf DVD and mum another DVD, we aren't a big spending family on X-mas, we barely celebrate it.

StriderTuned to a dead channel.

Seventh-Monkey

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-24 12:33:38 UTC Post #154310

Hooray for England, what?

Seventh-MonkeyPretty nifty

hazardous!

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-24 13:19:50 UTC Post #154316

@alexb911: You don't really give your sister alcohol for christmas, do you? o_0

@7th: Wow! You really got some expensive presents for your family! And now I know why that strange kitten is up there.

@pepper: I'm planning to boykott christmas, too - at least once in my life. It's a religious thing and it's abused by capitalism, two reasons for me.
Anyway, it's not too bad. I love christmas gingerbread and there always are some nice presents for me, too.

Why don't you celebrate it?

@rest: A chrunchy christmas-eve to you!

I'm off for dinner now. Yum!

hazardous!

pepper

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-24 13:58:36 UTC Post #154318

@ haz, we never celebrated it, Doesnt really live here in Holland, the present giving part then.

pepper

alexb911

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-24 14:23:56 UTC Post #154323

wats wrong wif givin booze 2 sister, shes 17 and 1/2!!

alexb911

Seventh-Monkey

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-24 14:51:15 UTC Post #154329

haz: yeah, went on quite a spree :). Not much else to do with my money, heh.

Doesnt really live here in Holland, the present giving part then.

That made very little sense.

Seventh-MonkeyPretty nifty

Elon Yariv

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-24 15:21:42 UTC Post #154331

I give nothing... for I don't celebrate christmas.

Elon Yariv

VOX

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-24 15:55:34 UTC Post #154334

Yet you are wearing a santa hat in your avatar? Hmm lol
I got some nice big pants for my dad because he's always complaining how cold it is, two books for my sister: Dave Barry's Guide to Guys and Choke. I got my mum Neverwinter nights diamond edition. I also got my cats some dessert

I fell kinda bad though because I'm getting waaaay more than I gave.

VOX

Saribous

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-24 15:56:22 UTC Post #154335

My mother likes tea very much so I gave her some tea

Saribous

dustbunny

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-24 16:04:18 UTC Post #154337

Wait, Sari, are you seriously satinist?

dustbunny

kol

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-24 16:28:56 UTC Post #154341

Heh - I'm giving my x-mas presents over email. Its a download link. Hahah!

Not really a present - just more work for you Haz Man!
AAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAH!

Crap.. Compile...

kol

Saribous

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-24 17:24:05 UTC Post #154347

No dustbunny, i was trying to be one when i was 13

I'm beyond that crap now. I don't believe in anything. religion is for pussies

/me awaits flaming from a certain christian fanatic..

Saribous

Luke

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-24 18:15:51 UTC Post #154355

Im giving my xmas list to my mom :>

An early xmas preasent

LukeLuke

M_gargantua

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-24 18:31:44 UTC Post #154356

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you must love relegion Sari! not will doome youuuuuuuuuuuuu!

you were refering to me right?

...

I give whatever im payed to give, grandparents hand me a crincled 20 to buy gifts and I do so. and the rest of the stuff just pops up from santa from me to others.

M_gargantua

Captain P

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-24 18:47:52 UTC Post #154358

I'll give my father a biography about Hitler by Ian Kershaw.

But that's because it's his birthday. We don't really give each other presents for christmas, we did when I was young but it's not really a tradition to buy presents for one another, it's mostly the parents who buy for their kids.
We give each other presents during 'Sinterklaas', though.

Captain P

fourthgen

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-24 19:28:26 UTC Post #154364

I got my sister a bunch of DVD's,
My mum a candle and some aromatic things,
My dad some CD's.

This Christmas has been teh suckage so far. Hope it gets better from here.

fourthgen

G_KID

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-24 19:36:46 UTC Post #154368

Garg - I am willing to bet Sari was talking about Bl.

G_KID

M_gargantua

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-24 19:49:21 UTC Post #154371

I give pr0...er...stuff mostly, at least to people my age

M_gargantua

Boxtop17

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-24 19:58:50 UTC Post #154376

I'm giving out $15 Giftcards.

Well, to my Aunt and Uncles, anyway.

Boxtop17

ZombieLoffe

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-24 20:40:36 UTC Post #154381

Lets see.
A t-shirt that says "You think I'm a bitch? You should see my mother" for my sis, a very expensive health-weekend-thingy for the parents and some random cheap crap for the rest of the relatives.

ZombieLoffe

hazardous!

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-26 16:08:11 UTC Post #154627

Omg t3h obituary!

@ZL: lol! You must love your family.

Kawl wrote:

Heh - I'm giving my x-mas presents over email. Its a download link. Hahah!

Not really a present - just more work for you Haz Man!
AAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAH!

Crap.. Compile...

Whoopwhoopwhoop!

I like that kind of work.

TESTICLE!

Used-to-be-a-satanist wrote:

religion is for pussies

No offence to religious people I know. Just to all the others. Bwahaha!
Seriously. I just loved that statement.
Everybody do as you like, unless you hinder others, by doing so.

@CP: Is it simply uncommon in the netherlands to celebrate christmas, seeing that you and pepper replied similarly?
And what's Sinterklaas?

Anyway. Christmas be almost over now, so shredder your christmas-trees, crush all christmas vinyls and kick the red guy in his butt.

hazardous!

Seventh-Monkey

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-26 16:11:15 UTC Post #154629

And what's Sinterklaas?

Sounds very similar to "Santa Claus", although he's a person rather than an event.

Seventh-MonkeyPretty nifty

rowleybob

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-26 17:35:47 UTC Post #154643

Nice, creatively presented gifts haz!

"You think I'm a bitch? You should see my mother"

LOLOL!

Treats and large rawhide bones for my friends doggie, and mostly dvds or gift cards for everyone else.

I usually try to make creative/funny things for people, but not this year, nor the year before

rowleybob

Elon Yariv

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-26 17:42:49 UTC Post #154644

You think I'm a bitch? You should see my mother

Haha, you're so cruel!

Elon Yariv

pepper

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-26 17:56:19 UTC Post #154651

Indeed 7th, in contrary to santa Claus SinterKlaas, or Sint Nicolaas really did excist, not sure in wich century, but a couple of hundred years ago he gave poor people clothes and food.

We kept the tradtion and he still comes by every year with presents. Just as with santa claus small childeren believe in him. The adults give eachother a present by a so called surprise, only pronounced different then in the english.

Santa claus is a rip-off from sinterklaas, hence the names look very similair.

pepper

ZombieLoffe

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-26 19:18:36 UTC Post #154662

Santa Claus derives from Saint Nicholaus which in turn is the common name for Saint Nicholas of Myra, who lived in 4th century Byzantine Lycia (part of modern Turkey), who had a reputation for secret gift-giving. This is as much as is generally known about him in the West.

This historical character was the inspiration for a mythical figure known as Nikolaus in Germany and Sinterklaas in the Netherlands and Flanders, which in turn was the inspiration for the myth of Santa Claus. Sinterklaas (a contracted form of Sint Nicolaas) is a major celebration in the Netherlands.

Praise be, wikipedia! History FTW!

ZombieLoffe

pepper

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-26 19:37:21 UTC Post #154666

Better explenation

pepper

Seventh-Monkey

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-26 20:58:06 UTC Post #154678

"Saint Nick" is a term I've heard synonymously with "Santa Claus", along with "Mery Christmas". I think we stole the German "Santa Klaus", but maybe they stole it from Italy or Spain, with the "Santa" bit.

Seventh-MonkeyPretty nifty

Saribous

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-26 21:00:46 UTC Post #154680

you were refering to me right?

Actually no, but you're even worse

Saribous

Kaido

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-27 12:58:14 UTC Post #154820

Ahh, Christmas; time for friends and family (I seriously fucking hate Christmas :glad:)

Kaido

So, what do you GIVE for christmas? Created 18 years ago2005-12-24 09:17:02 UTC by hazardous!