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Worst gifts/gift someone has ever given you?

  • 17-08-2009 8:31pm
    #1
    MultiUmm
    Registered Users Posts: 972 ✭✭✭


    I was just wondering what are the worsts presents anyone has ever gotten, be it for Christmas, birtdays, weddings etc?

    Mine would have to be a "magic kit" I got when I was about 10 or 11 from a family freind. :cool: Still, I appreciated the thought I guess. :p

    So, what tales of gift horrors (or mild disappointments) do people have to share?:D


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  • #2
    Duff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,561 ✭✭✭Duff


    A wooden owl from my granny for my 9th birthday. A WOODEN OWL FFS!!


  • #3
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,069 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    I get the same kind of socks off the same auntie every year, for my birthday and christmas

    there's nothing more soul destroying than having to repeatedly fake gratitude to someone that has no idea how much socks suck as a gift


  • #4
    MultiUmm
    Registered Users Posts: 972 ✭✭✭MultiUmm


    Duff wrote: »
    A wooden owl from my granny for my 9th birthday. A WODDEN OWL FFS!!

    Lol :D Thank christ I have a granny who doesn't bother with presents and gives money and cards instead. :cool: Kaching! :D :pac:


  • #5
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Horrible bright green Arran jumper with a sheep on.

    Or a fiver from two of my mates - they split it between them, cheap pricks


  • #6
    bronte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,331 ✭✭✭✭bronte


    Duff wrote: »
    A wooden owl from my granny for my 9th birthday. A WODDEN OWL FFS!!

    WTF?! What an odd present.


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  • #7
    pebbles21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭pebbles21


    Herpes!


  • #8
    Duff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,561 ✭✭✭Duff


    bronte wrote: »
    WTF?! What an odd present.

    Yep, no power rangers in my house then just wooden poultry!


  • #9
    truecrippler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,243 ✭✭✭truecrippler


    Duff wrote: »
    A wooden owl from my granny for my 9th birthday. A WOODEN OWL FFS!!

    Were you the one who put that Owl on top of Dunnes Stores, Cournelscourt, Cabinteely? Case solved.


  • #10
    Sharpshooter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    brummytom wrote: »
    Horrible bright green Arran jumper with a sheep on.

    Or a fiver from two of my mates - they split it between them, cheap pricks

    They tore it in half?:pac:


    I got a collar and lead from my brother one christmas for my dog.:mad:


  • #11
    Duff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,561 ✭✭✭Duff


    truecrippler wrote: »
    Were you the one who put that Owl on top of Dunnes Stores, Cournelscourt, Cabinteely? Case solved.

    No.


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  • #12
    Handsome Bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,905 ✭✭✭✭Handsome Bob


    My parents bought me a medicine ball before, I think it was there way of saying "lose weight you fat bastard". :pac:


  • #13
    MultiUmm
    Registered Users Posts: 972 ✭✭✭MultiUmm


    Just thought of another one my dad gave me recently.

    A wooden/metal kind of pencil that, according to him, architects use for drawing lines??? :confused: Shame I'm not going to live up to his dream of becomming an architect or a collector of unusual pencils... :(


  • #14
    TanG411
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭TanG411


    I suppose it's simply receiving too much soaps/deodarents and then having to fake graitiude:

    ''Oh thank you, thank you Aunt May. I always wanted to smell like a lemon. . .''

    :pac:


  • #15
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    brummytom wrote: »

    Or a fiver from two of my mates - they split it between them, cheap pricks

    Sounds decent to me.

    A 'friend' gave me an OC dvd that he got free in McDonalds, cúnt.


  • #16
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Socks


  • #17
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    I get one of those musical ties that plays a christmas jingle every year.
    I have ten now.


  • #18
    DetectivFoxtrot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,601 ✭✭✭DetectivFoxtrot


    Novelty stripy knee high socks whereby there is a compartment for each toe (like gloves you see). Sound comfortable but aren't, sound funky but aren't.

    moral of the story: as far a pressie's go real socks are better than novelty socks


  • #19
    citizen_p
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,494 ✭✭✭citizen_p


    a harry potter book....


  • #20
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Sharpshooter wrote: »
    They tore it in half?:pac:

    If they did, at least it would have shown some effort!

    It's my 16th in two weeks - the one who bought the card's coming, the one who didn't isn't :P


  • #21
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Mousey- wrote: »
    a harry potter book....

    Ouch.


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  • #22
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    I get one of those musical ties that plays a christmas jingle every year.
    I have ten now.

    Can I have one?!

    I had a pair of socks that played Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer.. I loved them :(


  • #23
    DetectivFoxtrot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,601 ✭✭✭DetectivFoxtrot


    my husbands dad brought him back a t shirt from the states last year. It had pictures of indians and dolphins emblazoned on the front. he's 33!

    LMAO as he wore it for the remainder of the day so as not to offend :P


  • #24
    yurmothrintites
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 705 ✭✭✭yurmothrintites


    I got a dvd boxset of a show I didn't like but the present giver did. Naturally I gave it to him. He was delighted with his gift.


  • #25
    Amalgam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭Amalgam


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=60671633&postcount=115


  • #26
    Duff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,561 ✭✭✭Duff


    DetectivFoxtrot wrote: »
    my husbands dad brought him back a t shirt from the states last year. It had pictures of indians and dolphins emblazoned on the front. he's 33!

    LMAO as he wore it for the remainder of the day so as not to offend :P

    You sure it wasn't just a t-shirt from a NFL game he was at over there?

    Washington Redskins
    http://blackchristiannews.com/news/t156012405.gif

    Vs.

    Miami Dolphins maybe?
    http://www.2010-super-bowl.com/Miami_Dolphins/Miami_Dolphins_logo.gif :pac:


  • #27
    DetectivFoxtrot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,601 ✭✭✭DetectivFoxtrot


    Duff wrote: »
    You sure it wasn't just a t-shirt from a NFL game he was at over there?

    Washington Redskins
    http://blackchristiannews.com/news/t156012405.gif

    Vs.

    Miami Dolphins maybe?
    http://www.2010-super-bowl.com/Miami_Dolphins/Miami_Dolphins_logo.gif :pac:

    lol, no they were fookin cartoons I swear! probably some Disney shít


  • #28
    sam34
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,073 ✭✭✭sam34


    my father once gave me one of those cardboard concertina file yokes

    "for all your documents" says he. :rolleyes:

    now i buy him old spice aftershave every christmas as revenge!:pac:


  • #29
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,041 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    Aslan - The Best Of

    I still have no idea why she got it for me or what made her think I like Aslan.


  • #30
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    I get one of those musical ties that plays a christmas jingle every year.
    I have ten now.
    Wow! only ten years old! :pac:


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  • #31
    barakus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭barakus


    pebbles21 wrote: »
    Herpes!


    Ah, the gift that keeps on giving:)


  • #32
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    I get one of those musical ties that plays a christmas jingle every year.
    I have ten now.

    How does one get over that?:eek:
    I have a cousin a shrink, want her number?


  • #33
    oldyouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭oldyouth


    My wife got a cordless drill from her husband for her 40th birthday, but I don't want to give away his identity :D. She used it to help make a doghouse for him and he still gets to use it quite often


  • #34
    Anthem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38 ✭Anthem


    When I turned fifteen SEVERAL different people bought me finger puppets for my birthday. FINGER PUPPETS! Then some sort of word spread about my newfound love, and other people started buying me them.

    I mean, a finger puppet moose is cute and all, but wtf?:confused:


  • #35
    Dancor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,624 ✭✭✭Dancor


    A giant picture of Freddie Mercury. I like Queen in all but WTF :confused:


  • #36
    karma403
    Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭karma403


    Slippers from La Senza.. Of all the things he could have bought from la Senza.. :rolleyes:


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  • #37
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    oldyouth wrote: »
    My wife got a cordless drill from her husband for her 40th birthday, but I don't want to give away his identity :D. She used it to help make a doghouse for him and he still gets to use it quite often

    There's something wrong with that sentence............:D


  • #38
    soccymonster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,553 ✭✭✭soccymonster


    When people give me nothing but an excuse saying "is myself being here not a good enough present for you?"


  • #39
    boogle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 777 ✭✭✭boogle


    My OHs mother was on a shopping trip in New York and brought him home a FUBU t-shirt. Now he is Irish, white, with red hair and freckles. ****ing hilarious. For those of you who are like wtf is FUBU? ....
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUBU


  • #40
    TheCardHolder
    Registered Users Posts: 929 ✭✭✭TheCardHolder


    Gone-off pineapple on Halloween.


  • #41
    JokerD
    Registered Users Posts: 3,024 ✭✭✭JokerD


    Not a bad present but I once got Shrek on VCR, however it was the only time I got a new film that I had to rewind to watch:rolleyes:


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  • #42
    foxy06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭foxy06


    A thighmaster from the boyfriend at xmas:rolleyes:


  • #43
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    brummytom wrote: »

    Or a fiver from two of my mates - they split it between them, cheap pricks

    Can I just add something? :P I don't want to sound like an ungrateful prick, at least I got something.

    But it was my dad's birthday last month, the day I'd invited Seamus round (the mate who gave me the £2.50), I mentioned it was dad's birthday; so he brought a card with 10.. yes 10 pounds in!!
    Twat


  • #44
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,100 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    One of my friends cut out a page 3 out of the sun and gave it to my as a present.


  • #45
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    And you didn't like it?


  • #46
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,100 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    brummytom wrote: »
    And you didn't like it?
    Sorry. I forgot to say it was sticky.


  • #47
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Eurgh.. nice


  • #48
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    So my parents like got me a BMW for my 16th right, but like they got it in blue and I hate blue, I wanted red. So if that wasn't like bad enough right, they drive it out at my birthday party and like make a big show of giving it to me infront of all my friends. Like I was totally humiliated, like totally... How thoughtless can people be?


  • #49
    Smcgie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭Smcgie


    A pink frizbie :rolleyes: (honestly) my brother thought it would have been an excellent christmas present. The story comes out every year at christmas about the stupid thing...


  • #50
    Alessandra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,276 ✭✭✭Alessandra


    A soap set. Who uses fragranced soaps these days?


  • #51
    enniscorthy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,046 ✭✭✭enniscorthy


    Duff wrote: »
    A wooden owl from my granny for my 9th birthday. A WOODEN OWL FFS!!

    brill


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