#7

nah. bone china or some shit

#8

My old company gave everyone a digital photo frame to celebrate its 30th birthday. Not averse to this per se, but it had the resolution of early Mario games. Don’t know why anyone would choose to 1) make and 2) purchase a product that doesn’t do the one thing it’s designed to do.

#9

A bluetooth-enabled lightbulb that is also a speaker and you can change the colour to one of 256 presets. Actually, that’s pretty great.

#10

This book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-God-Bible-as-Novel/dp/0745955398

#11

the curse of secret santa got me a set of props for selfies - a frame to shove your stupid head in, cardboard glasses and hats on sticks to hold in front of your stupid face

not just useless, made me feel irate

#12

i’m sure i’ve mentioned my grandma’s cousin on here before. married a millionaire, was widowed fairly young and sat on the money until she died so she could donate it all to charity. had no kids, and her parents adopted my grandma so she used to buy me a christmas present every year. was always things like wall plaques and travel alarm clocks from poundland and poundstretcher. one year when i was about 7 she got me a set of 3 travel alarm clocks. where did she think i was going?

#13

no i dont think it is

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#15

The Bible as a novel?!

The Bible is primarily written in narrative form. I bet they’ve missed out all the fun stuff like the talking donkey.

#16

My mother-in-law once saw fit to wrap up a second hand copy of PC User magazine without the free disc and stick it under the Christmas tree. She did it in the genuine expectation that I might be interested in it, so I couldn’t look too disappointed.

But I think that was trumped by my father-in-law giving me a fairly heavy, glass-feeling present that would soon prove to be a large jar of Chicken Tonight.

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#17

spoilers ffs!

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#19

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  • This is made of ivory
  • This is made of something else (lolno)

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It’s definitely ivory

#20

A black bird cage that looked like the only surviving artefact from a house fire. It was a wedding gift.

#21

Haha.

#22

*Hee-haw

#23

a talking watch

my grandma one year once bought me a chocolate smelling calculator which I had no use for but it was a nice gesture

#24

My mum bought me a Bendy Bully with sounds for Christmas one year as she wanted to get an extra present and didn’t know what so this seemed like a good idea. It doesn’t bend, the sounds never worked once and I don’t particularly like Bullseye apart from to laugh at the weird looking contestants and their usually ridiculous hair. I told her to just give me an amazon voucher next time.

Also, somewhat worryingly if you look this up on Amazon it costs like £70. really hope my mum didn’t even pay a tenth of that…

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#25

My dad loves giving weird food items as gifts. In the past three years I’ve received

  • cans of lobster bisque (two separate years)
  • herbs for moules mariniere
  • passion fruit coulis (looks nice, tastes rank)
  • off-brand spam
  • a six-pack of assorted patés (either Aldi or Lidl)
  • tin of anchovies

among other delicacies

#26

Pretty sure I’ve already posted this in response to one of these threads, but my grandparents once gave me and my brother lottery tickets for Christmas, that had already lost.

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#27

I was going to say that a digital photo frame is fine, dunno what your problem is, but then as a key ring? What’s the point?