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[wombat]

I am now VERY intrigued to see the pictures of the unboxing.

[side_show]

Interestingly, one item I left out of the package was a Kinder Egg.  I was shocked to learn these aren't available in the US, as every kid I know grew up eating them and collecting and building the toys.  I decided against it specifically because I didn't want the gift to be seized at the boarder.  WTF America?  Your kids can't discern between milk chocolate and large plastic container?  You're missing out - the chocolate is delicious and sometimes the toy is incredibly offensive! Oh well, we'll keep our Kinder Eggs and you can keep Celine Dion, okay?  I think that's a fare trade.

[littlefallsmets]

I am actually in love with Kinder Eggs.

When I went to Europe in high school I fell in love with them and when family goes to Europe (my grandmother is close with some of her cousins in Slovenia and travels there once a year, my mother would use her friendship with our old German exchange student to see the continent once every two or three years) my only request is to bring some back for me. Also, when I lived in Los Angeles, you could find Kinder Eggs occasionally in shady grocery stores that sold lots of possibly-not-legal candies from Mexico.

I eat the candies and collect the little toys and if they need to be built, my girlfriend loves building little kits.

I also love ketchup chips! While they are very rare in America, you can occasionally find them in the resort areas of  New England and Long Island (maybe there's other places, that's the only place I've found them) and I tried them years ago at my girlfriend's father's summer place on Long Island Sound and... have always associated them with her dad and that little cabin.

I will talk more extensively when I can figure out how to pull the little men out of Adrian's phone and make them put their paintings into my computer.

[wombat]

Oh, ketchup chips. Makes me nostalgic for Canada and at the same time reminds me that not everything is better there.

[Nabubrush]

That discussion on the toy post is a train wreck.

[side_show]

Yeah, being aboriginal I mostly don't even bother reading the comments on any articles about people of my ancestry.  Like I posted elsewhere, because the first baby of the new year in my province was aboriginal, a cute, simple news story about the first baby of the year was followed by some of the most hateful comments out there.  It's an especially challenging thing for me being of the cultural group the highest amount of racism is directed toward, but looking passably non-aboriginal.  As one racist person once put it when I pointed out that I am aboriginal after he had said something racist "oh, yeah, you look like you have a little "something" in you, but I wasn't sure what."  His intonation read as "I figured you were polluted with something." Retch. 

It's enough to drive me into a spiral of rage and depression if I let it, but I just prefer to put my effort into building a community of good people in the world and leaving the judgement and wasted energy to the douches who spew it.  There are small dark corners everywhere in the world and wide open spaces full of the good stuff.  Which is why I enjoy coming here with you good people.

[Nabubrush]

In that deal the actual dude from the article made a nice long well-reasoned post and he got hammered. I thought people in Canada weren't awful?

[Doc]

So....
I come down from my placement to check up on my Dad's place this weekend when I discover a mysterious package waiting for me.

Of course where I come from we know how to deal with this sort of thing.

Almost defeated by layer after layer of acid-fuelled wrapping I persevere to discover...

A collection of totally sweet old comic books, including a reprint of X-Men number 1.

Just awesome work Paul, thanks so much. Apart from anything else it turned an evening where I was basically sitting around my Dad's house in the burbs with nothing to do into a night of Action, Mystery, Adventure!

Till next Christmas True Believers!

[greenkoolayd]

So....
I come down from my placement to check up on my Dad's place this weekend when I discover a mysterious package waiting for me.

Of course where I come from we know how to deal with this sort of thing.

Almost defeated by layer after layer of acid-fuelled wrapping I persevere to discover...

A collection of totally sweet old comic books, including a reprint of X-Men number 1.

Just awesome work Paul, thanks so much. Apart from anything else it turned an evening where I was basically sitting around my Dad's house in the burbs with nothing to do into a night of Action, Mystery, Adventure!

Till next Christmas True Believers!

you lucky jerk!

[wombat]

That is extremely cool wrapping paper.

[Nabubrush]

Another winning performance from Paul - dude knows how to deliver.

[pmcd9]

I was gonna throw some old Archie Comics in there too, but I couldn't find the box they are in.

[CortJstr]

My package arrived while I was on my cruise and my mail was being held. I had a chance to look at it briefly before going off to my hernia surgery so no time for pictures (I'm recovering at my girlfriend's house). By I got a boomerang with Great Moments in Achewood on it (including the super friends) and a book.

Now I feel extra terrible that I can't even figure out what to buy my person. I was hoping to find something fun in the Caribbean but it was all cheap "we be jammin'" crap down there.

[Nabubrush]

You haven't even purchased your gift yet? You fuck!

Was that too much? I can never tell.

[Doc]

Just lad it got there, was starting to have concerns.