#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?

#28

A food dehydrator.

#29

:smiley:

#30

this reminds me that I once got my sister a pack of disgustingly sugary looking sweets that were shaped to look like they were chips in a Simpsons Krusty Burger themed packet. she got diabetes a month before so wasn’t overly impressed.

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#32

Some of those are mildly interesting though. My father-in-law just hadn’t bothered buying presents in time so just went round his local Iceland on Christmas Eve because he is a dick.

#33

A pogo stick.

#34

I used it to carry around a photo of my beloved actual full-sized digital photo frame with me wherever I went.

You’ve awakened an old beeve, though, from when I traipsed around town for hours to find a decent digital photo frame as a gift for my then-gf (who was forever getting stuff printed from PhotoBox or wherever and complaining she had nowhere to put them), and her literally never even opening it.

#35

I’ve nearly bought digital photo frames before but despite liking the idea, I know neither my wife nor I will ever get around to even plugging it into a computer let alone putting photos on it. Plus most photos I have nowadays are of me pulling stupid faces so er not worth the expenditure imho