Thread: what did you get your kids for christmas?

Originally Posted by NickA

did you have a beard?

i think i did

a little one

i'm an ok mass for my height now but they had only seen me 2 stone overweight before

4 kids i have , to answer the earlier questionl. I also look back now at the cowboy suit and orange i used to get every year and thank god for the thai postal service this xmas time

Originally Posted by Dillinger

I also look back now at the cowboy suit and orange i used to get every year and thank god for the thai postal service this xmas time

this has never happened to me before but my mum sent me a pair of brookes pure connect 2 running shoes for christmas....

every other time that she has sent anything over the past ten years they have just arrived

this time i had an import duty note and had to go down to the post office to collect them and pay a tax of 1200 baht

i was seething....i often seethe when i perceive an injustice

i tried to be all nice at first and ended up chucking the money at her when i realised that it was either pay or send the shoes back



i didn't do well

they're about £60-£70, so £25 tax is a massive rip off

the irony of the thing is... they're probably made in thailand

bought 4 fish tanks over the year but now skint.

but will buy them some thing nice tomorrow

Originally Posted by NickA

they're about £60-£70

exactly that

Originally Posted by NickA

so £25 tax is a massive rip off

that's why i got all umpty and pissy

Originally Posted by NickA

the irony of the thing is... they're probably made in thailand

don't think so, but you can't buy them here


i love brookes trainers...feel some brand loyalty towards them

they are really nice though
wore my last pair into the ground and these ones are about half the weight....like running on air

not far away...

All Brooks products are designed and engineered in the U.S. and manufactured in Southern China.

they guesstimated the cost at 3000 baht

i told her to send them back as my mum was coming in january and could just bring them over for free

she said they could do that, but they might take up to 6 weeks to arrive back home
i got pissy as all shit and could tell that the lady hated me quite a lot

i won't have anything else sent in future

btw nick
we just had a look at your facebook thingy and can't see a christmas tree

the last image seems to have been uploaded yonks ago

Christmas cards 0
Christmas presents 0

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

btw nick we just had a look at your facebook thingy and can't see a christmas tree

jesus christ.... you've seen what my tree looks like, why the fuck would I post that?

I'll probably do some tomorrow with all the presents around it

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

the last image seems to have been uploaded yonks ago

my wife (Tim) might have put some up, befriend her if you wish... I think our wives met briefly and I'm sure they'd enjoy discussing somtam and blue sticky rice

nice pics of Juno by the way... is she walking yet?

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

stop the pedantry
i don't mean tiny little bits

my older daughter loved those wooden alphabet things and other jigsaw puzzle type things when she was two

people kept buying her more and bits went under the sofa and all over

even pencils are a ballsache

The pedantry wasn't intentional - it comes naturally.

As for pencils, not at that age. My lad had to make do with crayons (which are a bastard to remove from watered down emulsion paint.

Originally Posted by NickA

is she walking yet?

not yet

she stopped trying after twatting her head on the ground

now she just drops to her knees and crawls

I won't bother next time.

Hours of choosing, buying and wrapping elicited a mere 6 billiseconds of interest.

I'll get them the Boardwalk Empire box set next year.

Originally Posted by nevvr

for kids its fun, the tree, the floss, the gifts. nice pics op. btw, are those siamese fighters in that tank?

will eat each other for breakfast, may upset the poor child.

No, they're fancy guppies and a few mollies and such, no aggressive fish in there that I can see.

Originally Posted by somtamslap

I won't bother next time.

Hours of choosing, buying and wrapping elicited a mere 6 billiseconds of interest.

The youngest has been gagging to open the pressies for a few days now, but has to wait for the older lad to get home from skool.

Bit of a panic this morning.

Realised it was already christmas day and i hadn't got the kids anything, so i did the hangover dash to the local market that sells all sorts of stuff for kids.

Picked out a few things, some wrapping paper and bows, and retired to the nearest hostelry to wrap everything whilst enjoying a hair of the dog.

After a couple of beers i was well relieved when my mate the barman told me i didn't actually have any kids.

Anybody want an unused connect4?

skool on crimbo day? poor kid. its difficult combining cultures/country specifics i guess.

my boys were up at the crack of dawn running around. no snow here but i got some flour late last night and made 'santa footprints' around the house just for fun. all kids love this time of year.

my kid has already poured an entire bag of fish food into the tank

took over an hour to clean it out and refill the bastard

5555555 wait until they turn up the thermo and cook them all.

got a cat?

Originally Posted by nevvr

got a cat?

3 of them