BEST and WORST christmas presents

[ShadowNemesis]

What were your best and worst christmas presents ever received?

BEST - the stud front denim mini I wanted when I was 13

WORST - a teddy bear toothbrush

[That Bloke]

Best~ A croaking plastic frog in a hand painted paper bag.

Worst~ A cardboard kiddie's training clock(Dad got it because I didn't use analogue clocks).

Edit: getting "S" & "N" mixed up.

[pleed]

Best - Various Clothes.

Worst - Wire Dot Matrix printer frame when I had a deskjet printer and Microsoft Money when I don't do any sort of accounting anything (I was 14).

[Ins0mniac]

I love getting socks or undies! They rule!

[imp]

Best - Any gift I got at Xmas as a kid. All those rocked. B/c it was XMAS :D Bikes were always the best though.

Worst - A bottle of Pears conditioner.

[Necron]

Best - VT commodore (PResent to myself for Christmas)

Worst - Bali sweatshirt in crazy ti-di red retro colours.

[Princess]

Best - My Aunty came home one Christmas when she had said she couldn't.... that was the best

Worst - One of those Jacks games where you have to throw the stupid little things up, clap your hands and catch them..... it frustrated me for weeks

[Sutter]

BEST: Gerber Multitool from my brother when he said he'd got me a $20 gift voucher.

WORST: Small, pointless, wooden 'puzzle' box. Bad because it showed that my partner at the time didn't bother spending more than five minutes choosing something for me.

[iaidoka]

Best - sony minidiskman

worst - sony minidiskman that didnt work

0_o

[pleed]

Originally posted by Ins0mniac
I love getting socks or undies! They rule!

Word :cool:

[Jaz]

Best: SB16 + CDROM pack when we had a 386

Worst: Dad gave me a single tie once.

[mccorski]

The little 4x4 with lights that drove over a dam with a tip top bridge.

Worst - finding out that the 4x4 dam thing was crap and didn't work!!!

[gamooma]

Best: a new telescope
Worst: stuffed toys after the age of 12

[Goat Boy]

I have all the worst Christmas presents stories owned.

My father hates Christmas, resented having to make an effort, so his Christmas presents always sucked. In the event he actually got anyone a gift, he would refuse to wrap presents or remove price tags, he would actually pick up used wrapping paper off the floor to cover your present and throw it at you.

In recent years he has given us free t-shirts he got from work, free merchandise given to him via volunteer work with the Sydney Olympics and one year, a BBQ chicken for me and my 2 sisters to share.

The all time greatest present he ever gave me was when I was about 14. He thought I should be interested in gardening so he got me a bag of manure. That is correct, he gave me a bag of shit for Christmas.

[dozer]

hahaha! nice story goatboy, classic

best: bmx

worst: blue stratos

[sortius]

best: My new evolution MK425C USB MIDI keyboard

worst: T-shirts... everyone always buys me surfie shirts... they usually end up as rags within 2 days...

[InsignificantG]

My brother bought me a blue, paisley Kaftan one year. I mean a fair dinkum, paisley Kaftan. Being the eternal fashion victim I am, I'm sure most can understand why this gift left me a little bewildered to say the least. To make matters worse, my Mum tells me it took him hours to pick it out and I should at least pretend to be grateful.

[rainbowtatt]

best: my beloved alf doll, back when i was like 10.
worst: a scarf from my mum that looks like something a grandma would wear. i'm 25 ffs!

gold star for the big of the literal shit chrissy pressie goat boy, you have my condolences, but fuck it makes a good story — keep milking it!

[kyuss]

Best: Dunno, pretty much anything when i was a young (and christmas was actually exciting), push bikes, game consoles, surf boards etc etc

Worst: A box of short bread

[aiken drum]

Best: Super Nintendo

Worst: Getting chocolate. What the fuck is with that. I seem to get all this chocolate that is just melting in my room. Not being a big sweet eater could have something to do with this.

I guess chocolates is better than one of my brothers presents this year who got a 5 pack of Chicken 2 minute noodles from an aunt. I laughed about that for a while.

[Lurgen]

Worst: one of those fake half-cats that you're supposed to hang out the boot of your car or some other apparently funny place. (from my family, who each got cool expensive presents from me for the last time this year).

Best: a massive supply of the actual popcorn salt/flavouring that they use in the cinemas! Yep, I can now make my own Hoyts-style popcorn at home. (from my current gf, who I'm not game to ask how she managed to talk them into selling it to her).

[Lurgen]

Originally posted by aiken drum

Worst: Getting chocolate. What the fuck is with that.[/B]

Or worse still, being given chocolate when you are actually allergic to the stuff. For years my family would give me all this chocolate at Easter, despite knowing I haven't been able to eat the shit for 10 years! (if I eat more than a small amount, say 20 grams or so, I gradually go blind and suffer migraines. Really unpleasant).

[ToaDady]

Worst: anything from my aunt, aka the regift queen, also known as HB (head bitch), the Harley Davidson shirt that i got from my grandmother, it's loud, and is just advertisement for a motorcycle clothing store, the HD key fob i got, why just because i have a bike do i need harley crap.
the waterbed i got when i was 15, i wanted a ATV, not a forking waterbed.

Best, gettin a HO trainset, and a Erector at teh same time, the racecar tin i got this year full of .22 bullets.watching my son ride his dirtbike that i got him this year.

[buckethead]

Two minute noodles, Aiken, you should have offered yr little brother some of yr chocolate. He coulda had some fun wid that! Chocolate and noodles, you know.

As for me.....

Best for me: - - - a wrist watch from gorgeous guy I really like.

Worst: - - - - um, probably...............nuh, i dont want to do that, they were all good. Its the thought that counts. Though two minute noodles is really pushing the limit.

[buckethead]

Originally posted by buckethead

Worst: - - - - um, probably...............nuh, i dont want to do that, they were all good. Its the thought that counts. Though two minute noodles is really pushing the limit.

Actually, I just rememebed one that is pretty good/bad..

My grandma got me a bottle of Johnson&Johnson Body Wash last year, which doesnt really sound that bad, except they handed them out free at the Nursing Home where she was.

[Spingo]

I saw a photo last night and saw the BEST ever Christmas present that I have ever received.

It was a piece of software for my Apple ][e called "Toyshop". Basically, it printed out sheets that you stuck down on cardstock. You then cut out the pieces and with dowel, wire, string, sand and other things, make fully working models of cars, trucks, cranes, and all sorts of other things.

Best present evar!

[Lurgen]

One of the less impressive presents I got this year was from some "close" friends of mine. It was one of those high-tech corkscrews, the ones that runs on compressed air. Sure, it's a neat gadget but I almost never drink wine! The only time I ever open a bottle is when this particular friend is over (ie. they just wanted a better bottle opener to assist them in drinking my wine).

It's not quiet as nasty as all that, but it definitely didn't go down too well.

[reaperman]

BEST: Sega Megadrive II WITH mega CD

WORST: Pair of boxer shorts from an Auntie with the words "Queer and here" on the front (she thought I was gay (which i'm not), not that there's anything wrong with that).

[Scythe]

I hereby resurrect this thread.

Its been long enough since Christmas for the hangovers to wear off, so I though i'd get this thread back up and running before the New Years Eve hangovers kick in.

Technically this wasn't a Christmas present, but it's just so disturbing I had to find somewhere to put it. This was given to me on my birthday by my best friend, who said she saw it and "I immediately thought of you".

It glorifies under the moniker of the "Rooting Chihuahua" and, when attatched to an object, can be activated to imitate....well....i'm sure you can guess. It even has a soundtrack of a person having far too much fun imitating sounds of canine ecstacy.

[Hit And Rum]

Best: Amiga 500 / Malvern Star Maxi Coaster BMX / Colecovision Home Ent Sys with Donke Kong (1983)

Worst: A tie from my Nanna with a pc and a ? on it (WTF?!?!) / A XXX pr0n from my bro which was great except he gav it to me in front of my grandparents mum etc. Pretty funny but Nannas eyes where spinning like fruit machines!!

[thingy]

I hereby resurrect this thread.

Its been long enough since Christmas for the hangovers to wear off, so I though i'd get this thread back up and running before the New Years Eve hangovers kick in.

Technically this wasn't a Christmas present, but it's just so disturbing I had to find somewhere to put it. This was given to me on my birthday by my best friend, who said she saw it and "I immediately thought of you".

It glorifies under the moniker of the "Rooting Chihuahua" and, when attatched to an object, can be activated to imitate....well....i'm sure you can guess. It even has a soundtrack of a person having far too much fun imitating sounds of canine ecstacy.
Bwahaha! I want one!!! :D

[H34D STR0NG]

worst: A collapsible desk lamp which looked like you could of gotten it form the Easter show.

Best: girlfriend at the time turning up at my door with a bow around her neck and not much ease that was a merry Christmas

[gertie]

Worst: a broken neclace of navy blue beads from my great nana, i was 9 and very into the commercialism of xmas

Best: toss up between my ibook and a pair of white and pink roller boots i got from santa when i was 8... man they rocked the casbah.

[Necron]

Best present ever...Lego Pirate ship, the bigass one with the cannons and shit. "yeaaarrrr".

Worst present ever: undies of the baige variety from my auntie. Wrong... Very wrong.

[ajca]

Hey, I had that pirate ship - I loved it

Best: now- a new 80 gig harddrive and a new video card
when I was little - a really large nerf gun with three types of bullets

Worst: Spiderman - the original video game - I love getting video games, but that one sucked

[ajca]

Thinking of it, the worst christmas present ever was a thong my mother recieved from "santa"

I had nightmares for weeks
I still shiver thinking of it

[Aardvark]

Best present ever: The severed arm I got last year. Close runner up was the big fuckoff knife I got this year.

Worst present ever: hmmm, this is a tough one... The shit presents I get, I usually hide in my closet and forget about, then turf during the bi-annual closet cleanout. The only one I can remember offhand would have to be....actually, fuck it, the worst christmas present I've ever gotten and seem to get every fucking christmas is this fucking deathsickness. Every christmas, I get deathly ill, seriously ill or my nostrils block up for several weeks after christmas. Over summer, I cannot breathe properly. And this has been happening as long as I can remember. So I say, "Fuck you, christmas. I hope you die and go to the hell of boiling nasal mucus, you fucking holiday"

We should celebrate Guy Faux night and make it a public holiday

[Munchkin]

This Christmas we had 2 'secret santa' type things at work. The shit santa was where we would pick a name out of a bag and buy something from the pound-shop, the other one was a nicer santa where youd spend up to £5 and buy a gift that was suitable for either sex.

My nice-santa present was a big bottle of pre-made Sex on the beach cocktail (was pretty nice)

My crap santa was a large candle with a picture of Jesus on it :eek:

[waeom]

A mate of mine & myself gave one of our friends 3 christmas presents that cost $2.

We looked around in the bin outside 2UE, found some thrown out kid's web design software -wrapped that one up (retails for $30!)

ALso we got a HUGE box (from same bin) and filled it with sticks and rocks n branches etc... and put really good purple wrapping paper on it with a nice large silver bow...

and then we went to target and bought a $2 set of plastic farm animals...

Got him a card and then dropped it off to his place a week before xmas - he wasnt there but we couldnt stop pissing ourselves when we gave the orezzies to his dad to place under the tree....

we told him that it was going to be a funny present and so he started laughing and said that all of his relatives were going to be there...

HEard back from my mate that his parents hated us :) cos he opened it up in front of his family whilst being videotaped by his dad and they all thought it was not very funny.... we did - tho thought his dad was gonna kill us for a while....

FUnny tho... :)

[Asmodeus]

I had to laugh becuase one of the relatives got me the usual bath kit type gift. I was looking at all teh shampoos and conditioners while thinking "They do know I have no hair, right? they're sitting right in front of me.. they have to notice this little detail"

[Hit And Rum]

You could condition your balls with it?

[Coolcan2]

Worst - A mensa quiz book

Best - A smartphone, a bluetooth headset, and a bluetooth dongle. The best part was that I got all of that from ebay, and I only paid $220 dollars all up.

[hooptieride]

A mate of mine & myself gave one of our friends 3 christmas presents that cost $2.

We looked around in the bin outside 2UE, found some thrown out kid's web design software -wrapped that one up (retails for $30!)

ALso we got a HUGE box (from same bin) and filled it with sticks and rocks n branches etc... and put really good purple wrapping paper on it with a nice large silver bow...

and then we went to target and bought a $2 set of plastic farm animals...

Got him a card and then dropped it off to his place a week before xmas - he wasnt there but we couldnt stop pissing ourselves when we gave the orezzies to his dad to place under the tree....

we told him that it was going to be a funny present and so he started laughing and said that all of his relatives were going to be there...

HEard back from my mate that his parents hated us :) cos he opened it up in front of his family whilst being videotaped by his dad and they all thought it was not very funny.... we did - tho thought his dad was gonna kill us for a while....

FUnny tho... :)
I seem to have missed the amusing part of the story, care to fill me in?

[s3raph]

Worst was probably a Spice Girls CD that I got when I was 10. My Dad bought it for me knowing I would just give it to him, but absolutely NOTHING is still a close contender (having no presents to open on christmas day can be pretty depressing, especially when you're with about 20 other people, who are all opeing theirs).

[Thyrd]

Best: SNES and DOOM for SNES.

Worst: Bonds Underwear.

[Serpent_Girl]

Best I ever got was my ppc, closely followed by my XBox.

Worst I ever got was one of those crappy little toys that you get in christmas poppers.

[Hit And Rum]

My mate who was in a band with had a birthday. My mate loved Hendrix, Deep Purple etc and this nhurd bloke rocked up and gave him a C + C music factory tape...not as a joke but seriously.

As the day got longer, larger and bigger my mate got the tape and in front of the other guy he smashed it on the ground and then burnt it in a ice cream bucket of petrol.

The nhurd bloke actually laughed coz he didnt quite know what to do!

[RaZ]

Best I ever got was a back protector for motorcycle riding

worst... well... none really since I consider that a person had actually grabbed me something, aka its the thought that counts!!

[Blink]

This is a tough one...

Best Present: When I was about 10 I got two kick-ass transformers, Optimus Prime and Megatron....

Worst Present: Same Christmas an Aunt and Uncle gave me a book of pictures of Australian landscapes. Like anyone's interested in that when they're 10.

In recent times, Christmas has been a bit of a letdown...didn't get any presents this year because I got a 42" plasma just before Christmas. And besides, my wife sucks at choosing presents. For my birthday this year (the big 3 0) I have given her a list about a page long of items I've always wanted, where to get them from and how much they are. At least I'll get something I want, and it'll still be a bit of a surprise.