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The ''What was your most rubbish present'' thread.

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    AnitaSAnitaS Posts: 4,079
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    Sorry I've already had a nibble. :p

    Hmm, Hugh Grant biography eh, does he mention his.... Ahem, in the car event with Estella ? :D

    Oh yes. Page 89. Chapter entitled Divine Intervention, 27th June 1995.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 947
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    Funk You wrote: »
    pair of socks

    If the socks are good quality I'm usually quite grateful for a pair :blush:
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    whatsername235whatsername235 Posts: 360
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    A re-usable Tesco carrier bag. Thankfully I got loads of good stuff, that was just a bizarre stocking filler.
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    3Sheets2TheWind3Sheets2TheWind Posts: 3,028
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    yorkiegal wrote: »
    Not to sound ungrateful because it's still nice to receive presents but there's always a crappy one.

    Didn't do too badly this year, but didn't much appreciate the big box of chocolates my stepmum bought me. She does know I've had a gastric bypass and can't eat chocolate without being sick.

    Is that the same thing Fern Britton had done ?
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 53,142
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    oh i didn't have any crap presents..all usefully good :D
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    AnitaSAnitaS Posts: 4,079
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    Is that the same thing Fern Britton had done ?

    Britton had a band, not a bypass.
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    3Sheets2TheWind3Sheets2TheWind Posts: 3,028
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    AnitaS wrote: »
    Britton had a band, not a bypass.

    I wondered if that was the same thing.

    Maybe not ?
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    VoynichVoynich Posts: 14,481
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    My son bought me a 568g of Thornton's chocolates & a tea towel!! >:(>:(:cry:

    The ungrateful wretch, I wish I'd never pushed him out!

    ;-)
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    AnitaSAnitaS Posts: 4,079
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    I wondered if that was the same thing.

    Maybe not ?

    No, it's less invasive, a band is temporary, a bypass permanently reduces stomach size by surgically removing most of it - I think.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 7,734
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    Voynich wrote: »
    My son bought me a 568g of Thornton's chocolates & a tea towel!! >:(>:(:cry:

    The ungrateful wretch, I wish I'd never pushed him out!

    ;-)

    :D:D:D:D

    tbf, a tea towel is like something you bring back from a holiday when you're expected to buy souvenirs for everyone...
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    yorkiegalyorkiegal Posts: 18,929
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    AnitaS wrote: »
    Britton had a band, not a bypass.

    no, a band just reduces the size of the entrance to the stomach and can be removed. With a bypass your stomach is cut into two so that you just use the one much smaller pouch for your food, and then it's linked to a different part of your intestine so that your food goes through the gut much more quickly and less fat is absorbed. Because the food hits the gut so quickly if you eat something high in sugar you get horrendous hot sweats and nausea, so it puts you off cheating.

    I had a small amount of christmas pudding late on Xmas night and ten mins later was sat outside in the freezing cold in a t-shirt, burning up and sweating.
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    AnitaSAnitaS Posts: 4,079
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    yorkiegal wrote: »
    no, a band just reduces the size of the entrance to the stomach and can be removed. With a bypass your stomach is cut into two so that you just use the one much smaller pouch for your food, and then it's linked to a different part of your intestine so that your food goes through the gut much more quickly and less fat is absorbed. Because the food hits the gut so quickly if you eat something high in sugar you get horrendous hot sweats and nausea, so it puts you off cheating.

    I had a small amount of christmas pudding late on Xmas night and ten mins later was sat outside in the freezing cold in a t-shirt, burning up and sweating.
    Blimey!! That sounds awful. You can never binge eat when you've had a bypass, presumably?

    Vanessa Feltz had a band and didn't change in appearance whatsoever.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 6,924
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    AnitaS wrote: »
    Oh yes. Page 89. Chapter entitled Divine Intervention, 27th June 1995.

    Hahaha caught!!! You had a sneaky peek! :D:D
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    AnitaSAnitaS Posts: 4,079
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    avasgranny wrote: »
    Hahaha caught!!! You had a sneaky peek! :D:D

    I was bored, there was nothing on TV.:D ;)

    It's an old biography published in 2004, I'm pretty sure the wrinkly, yellow-toothed, blue-eyed movie star has a wife and child now, he's described as being childless and single in my book.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 283
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    My brother went to the bother of gift wrapping, then brown paper-wrapping, taking to the Post Office, paying for stamps for Recorded Delivery and then phoning to say look out for my pressie of....... a box of Duchy of Cornwall Digestives.



    Which are out of date by 8 months.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 53,142
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    I have a snood :D it's nice but itches my neck..Maybe a wash is needed to tame it down abit ?
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    topcat2topcat2 Posts: 6,265
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    It was going to be socks from my Nan but I told her I have too many as it is.

    Socks are really a shit present, I'd never buy someone socks, they're something you buy as and when you go shopping, not for a Christmas present to your Grandson lol and especially not when she asks for something triple the cost in return!
    kippeh wrote: »
    An extendable metal back scratcher. Just what I always wanted lol
    Flat Matt wrote: »
    My ex father-in-law (who is in his eighties) is legendary for his absolutely bizarre Christmas gifts and he didn't disappoint this year.

    He bought my 18-year-old daughter a men's Lynx Africa gift set and got my ex wife the Lynx Apollo equivalent.

    I can't wait to find out what he got my eldest son when I see him tomorrow. :D
    greengran wrote: »
    One year my Mother in Law gave me a set of saucepans, how's that for a personal present.

    I love getting socks for Xmas. My fave pressie this year was a set of saucepans and I prefer men's deo to women's. so basically send me all your unwanted pressies
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    biawhiskabiawhiska Posts: 316
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    Voynich wrote: »
    My son bought me a 568g of Thornton's chocolates & a tea towel!! >:(>:(:cry:

    The ungrateful wretch, I wish I'd never pushed him out!

    ;-)


    :D

    What did your other Son get you?
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    MirageMirage Posts: 39,247
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    jrmswfc wrote: »
    A John Bishop DVD boxset.

    I can't stand John Bishop..

    I would have loved that. :)
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    Jane Doh!Jane Doh! Posts: 43,307
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    I didn't get any rubbish presents. I feel left out now.
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    AddisonianAddisonian Posts: 16,377
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    Jane Doh! wrote: »
    I didn't get any rubbish presents. I feel left out now.
    PM your details and I'll send you the clip-on mullet that I got :cool:
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    AnitaSAnitaS Posts: 4,079
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    biawhiska wrote: »
    :D

    What did your other Son get you?

    A shredder, I think, and a Kindle cover. I might be wrong.
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    VoynichVoynich Posts: 14,481
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    AnitaS wrote: »
    A shredder, I think, and a Kindle cover. I might be wrong.

    Ahem! A decent spec shredder and a leather Kindle cover!^_^ <<<< chuffed.
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    d0lphind0lphin Posts: 25,393
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    I haven't had any rubbish presents. I would have said a box of chocolates from Aldi but I have just tried some and they are delicious!
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    Jane Doh!Jane Doh! Posts: 43,307
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    Addisonian wrote: »
    PM your details and I'll send you the clip-on mullet that I got :cool:

    :D I'll look forward to it!
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