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Merry Crimbo everyone 
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Dec 25, 2023 14:58
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I had a very chill Christmas Eve with my partner and the dog, but we ruined things by inviting friends over for a Christmas Day dinner. Now I have to get dressed and have food ready on time and communicate with words rather than grunts. Massive self own. Happy Christmas everyone.
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Dec 25, 2023 15:03
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Merry Christmas.
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Dec 25, 2023 15:09
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I stopped celebrating Christmas in 2006 after my parent's home stopped being a safe place to visit. During a Sunday lunch a few months earlier, my brother reached over and crushed my windpipe over a minor disagreement about his lack of parenting skills. Mum and Dad refused to discipline him or address the situation to guarantee it wouldn't be repeated (they saw it as a 50/50 argument) so I stopped visiting them if my brother was there. As the oval office always used the Christmas week to be a parasitic leech and mooch off of the parents, that meant I was excluded by default. Apart from Dad, they were all cunts, so I was ok with having a firm excuse not to visit. But to be honest, I've never enjoyed this time of year since becoming an adult. My first seasonal jobs were in restaurants, and this time of the year was back-to-back hell serving drunken assholes. I then did a few years working in Currys, and Christmas was an even bigger hell serving assholes. I was then a touring musician, and this time of the year was pure back-to-back slog with no rest, playing to drunken assholes. Christmas was never a relaxing fun time after my 16th birthday, and Christmas day was mostly spent recharging ready for the continuation of the madness on Boxing Day. So now that I'm ill and can't really do much of any celebrating or go anywhere, I really don't mind it on bit Bah humbug etc. In other news, this just popped up on my radar: https://twitter.com/TottenhamConse1/status/1739247405671879109
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Dec 25, 2023 15:10
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On the topic of arseholes, what end of the turkey do you stuff?
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Dec 25, 2023 15:29
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NotJustANumber99 posted:On the topic of arseholes, what end of the turkey do you stuff? Turkey crown, no arseholes, no stuffing
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Dec 25, 2023 15:30
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merry christmas to all. may all your xmas sex arses be delivered safely and on time
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Dec 25, 2023 15:39
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Failed Imagineer posted:no arseholes, no stuffing is this even christmas
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Dec 25, 2023 16:12
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kecske posted:is this even christmas Not all of us were fortunate enough to have our sex arses arrive on time, have some loving empathy mate. seriously where will i put my beans now
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Dec 25, 2023 16:35
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Kin posted:Thank you santa for giving me a passive aggressive wife who's blaming me for making her feel bad and ruining Christmas because she bought me the wrong thing from my amazon wishlist. I'd just say thank you for the gift and leave it at that. Finding out you got someone the wrong thing for Christmas or that they don't like your gift is a lovely feeling.
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Dec 25, 2023 16:43
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stev posted:I'd just say thank you for the gift and leave it at that. Finding out you got someone the wrong thing for Christmas or that they don't like your gift is a lovely feeling. Eh, I think if you do it on purpose as a gift to yourself you deserve some poo poo for it. A lot of poo poo and no figgy pudding actually!!!
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Dec 25, 2023 16:51
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Jakabite posted:Eh, I think if you do it on purpose as a gift to yourself you deserve some poo poo for it. A lot of poo poo and no figgy pudding actually!!! If that's what happened sure, but I read it that she was asked to get something off the wishlist and bought the only thing she could see there because the filter was wrong - not knowing what it was or that they already had it.
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Dec 25, 2023 17:05
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Ohh that makes more sense. I read it as setting the filter to that herself, but your version makes a lot more sense.
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Dec 25, 2023 17:09
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stev posted:If that's what happened sure, but I read it that she was asked to get something off the wishlist and bought the only thing she could see there because the filter was wrong - not knowing what it was or that they already had it. Tbf Amazon do free returns until Jan 31st so plenty of time to send it back!
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Dec 25, 2023 17:17
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stev posted:If that's what happened sure, but I read it that she was asked to get something off the wishlist and bought the only thing she could see there because the filter was wrong - not knowing what it was or that they already had it. I'm not sure why she bought it to be honest. She said she had the filter set to show everything (including the obvious Christmas stuff) and didn't know what it was even though it was already something I'd bought to fix her multiple hdmi problem earlier in the year). I guess I'm just lucky she didn't get me the rawl plugs I have on the list for fixing the toilet roll holder. It's kinda tricky to maintain a sense of joy and excitement, (and not subsequently get grilled for not being overtly happy) when your wife's opening up her books and scented bath bombs, etc while you get your hardware to fix a household problem (that you already solved).
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Dec 25, 2023 17:46
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I'm at a hotel that's basically the question time audience dialled up to 11 and tonight the hotel is doing a "gala dinner" for Christmas. I'm gonna need drinks, lots of drinks
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Dec 25, 2023 17:47
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Go and make an absolute scene of yourself. I presume these people don’t matter to you at all and you’ll never see them again, so go all out. Get loving hammered, mock them and be extremely rude. Just don’t get mad or appear to care too much at any point or they’ll turn it around on you. Aloof mockery, that’s the vibe.
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Dec 25, 2023 18:02
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Kin posted:I'm not sure why she bought it to be honest. My wife's currently sitting on the sofa, getting into a mopey huff 'cos my 12yr old stepson would rather play his new ps games up in his room than sit watching films with us. I'm torn between trying to resolve the situation and just drinking until I don't care any more Christmas: not even once.
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Dec 25, 2023 18:44
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I'm the 12 year old
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Dec 25, 2023 18:46
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Half the fun of being a kid on Christmas is playing with all your presents while the adults do boring adult poo poo.
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Dec 25, 2023 18:52
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I got an airfryer and Netflix and a big pile of cat toys for my foster cats. At which point one of my grumpier relatives started huffing and saying he thought I'd stopped all that. Peace and goodwill to all, unless it involves putting yourself out in any way whatsoever, I guess.
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Dec 25, 2023 18:58
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Decent haul this year, books, games, clothes, and about to have a nice big feast! And yeah of course a 12 year old wants to go play new video games instead of sitting around with his parents watching some movie he probably doesn't care about at the best of times
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Dec 25, 2023 19:00
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I’ve had a book about New York zoo from 1929 and it’s all “the male silverback gorilla, a mighty and most impressive beast, was delivered from west Africa with much difficulty over eleven months and in his capture and transport caused the deaths of not less than nine of his native handlers. When he reached New York we discovered the creature could not be controlled so we shot the oval office.” Merry Christmas to all!
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Dec 25, 2023 19:12
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Dec 25, 2023 19:15
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I got a bat detector. I was not expecting a bat detector but it'll be cool once spring returns.
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Dec 25, 2023 19:36
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Didn't know you were batman, tbh.
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Dec 25, 2023 19:42
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Not yet he’s not. You wait till spring.
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Dec 25, 2023 19:46
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OwlFancier posted:Didn't know you were batman, tbh. Just jealous that you didnt get an owl detector
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Dec 25, 2023 19:47
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Pablo Bluth posted:I got a bat detector. I was not expecting a bat detector but it'll be cool once spring returns. Stealing Ratty's thunder?
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Dec 25, 2023 19:54
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Presents opened, house straightened up, and now waiting for some friends to come chill with us. So far so good! Merry Christmas to all who celebrate, and peace love and understanding to all (except nazis)
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Dec 25, 2023 19:59
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Kin posted:Thank you santa for giving me a passive aggressive wife who's blaming me for making her feel bad and ruining Christmas because she bought me the wrong thing from my amazon wishlist. In the last week or two you've complained about how awful it is to be earning 50k a year and now you're complaining about someone buying you a present Have you considered maybe it's a you problem?
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Dec 25, 2023 20:08
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Microplastics posted:I'm at a hotel that's basically the question time audience dialled up to 11 and tonight the hotel is doing a "gala dinner" for Christmas. I'm gonna need drinks, lots of drinks Update: absolute pandemonium as the hotel decides to invite people one by one into the dining hall by calling room numbers, which can barely be heard over the noise of drunk people wondering why they're doing this Many red faces
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Dec 25, 2023 20:24
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Can't have someone getting crimbo dinner if they don't deserve it.
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Dec 25, 2023 20:29
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Christmas dinner was mercifully shorter than usual, and I'm now getting comfortably hammered on christmas beer. I have trouble dealing with complex food rituals due to various autism spectrum issues, so christmas dinner is usually something to be endured. This year, it was over quite a bit more quickly than usual. My 4 year old nephew was refusing to eat, complaining that he didn't feel well. My brother upped the ante by threatening to confiscate his nintendo switch if he didn't eat his pigs in blanket. My nephew proceded to call his bluff by projectile vomiting all over the table. Best christmas dinner ever.
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Dec 25, 2023 20:32
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Pro move from the 4 year old, I hope the parent in question got his shoes ruined.
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Dec 25, 2023 20:41
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Skarsnik posted:UKMT Winterval 2023/24 - Maybe it's a you problem?
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Dec 25, 2023 20:42
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Awhhh poor nephew. Me, my fiance, mum and Dad just had a very nice meal together. We've just had a lovely Christmas pudding /brownie and are now chatting about art and stuff. It's been very nice.
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Dec 25, 2023 20:42
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Xmas dinner has been eaten and thoroughly enjoyed. Now it is time for the most sacred of all activities on this holiest day: a nice long snooze with a big full tummy :3
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Dec 25, 2023 20:47
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What the gently caress is a bat detector? Is it your eyes??
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Dec 25, 2023 21:01
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Failed Imagineer posted:Just jealous that you didnt get an owl detector You can detect those noisy bastards using your ears.
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Dec 25, 2023 21:01
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