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Re: Who wants to give and possibly receive holiday gifts?
« Reply #45 on: December 12, 2011, 09:39:55 pm »
Thanks for getting Christmas together, Mom!
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Re: Who wants to give and possibly receive holiday gifts?
« Reply #46 on: December 18, 2011, 01:36:53 am »
I went out to shop for my secret Santa person, and as I was having a pre-shopping lunch with a friend, I got an email alert about suspicious activity on my credit card (~$3200 in foreign currency spent at Target). So my card got canceled. Fortunately my friend funded the shopping. I'm a little nervous about how it's going to go over this year. I set the bar high for myself last year (considering this will be the one gift anyone will get from me for any occasion this year).
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Re: Who wants to give and possibly receive holiday gifts?
« Reply #47 on: December 18, 2011, 11:08:34 am »
I've got my person's gift in hand.  Now to get it to the post office.  Monday!!!
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Re: Who wants to give and possibly receive holiday gifts?
« Reply #48 on: December 19, 2011, 05:12:52 pm »
Yeah, I'm going to try shipping today before I fly back to work. If not, well, I'll be the dick this year. Merry Christmas, everybody!
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Re: Who wants to give and possibly receive holiday gifts?
« Reply #49 on: December 19, 2011, 11:34:18 pm »
Shipped and I am currently at the bus stop. As I mentioned elsewhere, one hour in post office listening to the mélange (ménage?) of two radio stations.
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Re: Who wants to give and possibly receive holiday gifts?
« Reply #50 on: December 20, 2011, 02:19:24 pm »
I bought yarn and needles and chose a pattern, that counts for something, right?

I've actually been saving this project to work on during the drive North tomorrow. It's a pattern I've made before, with just a few tweaks, so I am pretty sure it won't take me more than four hours, and I've got at least twelve hours of riding time ahead of me. I'll post it from whatever city I'm in when it's finished, so whoever gets it will probably be a little mystified by the postmark.

Or would have been, before reading this thread.
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Re: Who wants to give and possibly receive holiday gifts?
« Reply #51 on: December 20, 2011, 02:52:48 pm »
My gift is on back-order. Any day now.
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Re: Who wants to give and possibly receive holiday gifts?
« Reply #52 on: December 21, 2011, 01:12:20 pm »
Sneak Peek for Secret Santa
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Re: Who wants to give and possibly receive holiday gifts?
« Reply #53 on: December 21, 2011, 05:26:24 pm »
There's a series of Best Buy commercials running now that annoy the shit out of me. You really think showing people be cocks to Santa is a good way to get people to shop at your store?

There's also Patrick Warburton shilling for some car company or other. One of those ads came on last night, and it opened with "Elves are shoddy craftsmen." I literally said out loud to the TV, "Maaaaaaaan, FUCK you." Leave the elves alone, you tool.
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Re: Who wants to give and possibly receive holiday gifts?
« Reply #54 on: December 21, 2011, 05:52:14 pm »
I had almost the exact same reaction to both of those commercials.
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Re: Who wants to give and possibly receive holiday gifts?
« Reply #55 on: December 21, 2011, 07:17:47 pm »
Commercials where people sell products by being assholes about getting gifts that are inferior to the advertised product piss me off to no end.

It's a fuck*ng present, show some goddamned gratitude.
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Re: Who wants to give and possibly receive holiday gifts?
« Reply #56 on: December 21, 2011, 08:03:05 pm »
The one that gets me is the series of Lexus commercials where people hint at the extravagant gift they are giving by having something play a jingle.  Actually the whole concept of "buying a car as a gift" just seems preposterous to me.  Last time I looked, a car payment was a sizable chunk of the budget.  If my wife went off and "bought me a car", that would be most unwelcome unless she had a lottery windfall or came into an inheritance or something.
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Re: Who wants to give and possibly receive holiday gifts?
« Reply #57 on: December 21, 2011, 08:07:25 pm »
Always wondered about the big car with a bow. That really could only happen if the couple was multi-millionaire income wealthy, right? And so it wouldn't even be that big of a deal.

I hope I'm Paul's target. That gift looks awesome.

I won't argue that elves are shoddy craftsman, though. You want something made right, you hire a dwarf.
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Re: Who wants to give and possibly receive holiday gifts?
« Reply #58 on: December 21, 2011, 08:21:29 pm »
Quote from: Asherdan on December 21, 2011, 08:12:51 pm
ALSO: that best buy commercial The Mayor mentions? I went past a best buy on lunch and bought a few things from a Staples instead. I'm not big on ca$h to the crass when I have other easy options.

If you buy office supplies and you don't shop at Office Max, you should be ashamed of yourself. There is no better ad campaign.
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Re: Who wants to give and possibly receive holiday gifts?
« Reply #59 on: December 21, 2011, 09:31:40 pm »
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