I hate getting Christmas cards from people I see every day.
I think they are for sending to people you don't see very often to remind them you are thinking of them.

Or is this just me?
( girlinthehole, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:14, 4 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

exactly - the point it for them to have a real
message, surely, not just some mass-written half-assed greeting. You'd communicate that better by, I dunno, making someone a cup of tea
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:16, Reply)

I get them from the staff at work.
I refuse to reciprocate and join their mass card exchange.
( girlinthehole, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:17, Reply)

I had a couple from students
They now decorate the staff room.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:18, Reply)

There is a lesson there for everyone.
If you're a phototography student and you send christmas cards. You too might end up painting and wall-papering a staff room in later life.

(I've missed the point again, haven't I?)
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:26, Reply)

haha, maybe
but you have an excellent idea, there. All suck-ups forced to do chores for lecturers. I have more than a few candidates at the moment
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:27, Reply)

Same

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:20, Reply)

I don't bother with cards.
I tell people that 'I'm not sending cards this year, instead I'll make a donation to charity instead'

Reality is, I just don't send cards. I've never made the suggested charitable donation.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:17, Reply)

this ^^

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:18, Reply)

That's fine and no-one should berate you for it.
It's just the expectation that everyone should send them to everyone they know that pisses me off.

I like to let some friends and family know I'm still thinking of them. It makes me feel good.
( girlinthehole, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:19, Reply)

I like to let some friends and family know I'm still thinking of them too,
so I text them pictures of my erect penis.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:32, Reply)

F.O.B

(Bazongaloid, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:33, Reply)

I bet your mum loves to see little winky dinky again.

( girlinthehole, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:34, Reply)

You mean, of course 'THE KRAKEN'.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:41, Reply)

The kraken
the ugly, rarely seen abomination that lurks in the depths?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:42, Reply)

Pink, squidgy and bio-luminescent
with one hideous eye and the constant malodorous stench of rotting krill?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:49, Reply)

and a danger to shipping

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:53, Reply)

and feared by Nordic seamen for generations

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 18:00, Reply)

And how does one awaken the Kraken?
My knowledge of Greek mythology is poor.
( girlinthehole, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:44, Reply)

Jazz-mags and bugle usually does it.
The Kraken is Norse I think.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:48, Reply)

Is it?
*googles*

Edit - It is. Not that I ever doubted you.
( girlinthehole, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:49, Reply)

*also googles*
God I'm clever.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:53, Reply)

It's not really her (furry) cup of tea, actually.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:42, Reply)

I don't like them at all.
They look shit, get in the way and create awkwardness. One of my uncles and I have this awful biannual card* thing going. I don't send one to him but he sends one to me, then the whole thing is reversed the following year because I send him one because he sent me one last year, but he doesn't send me one because I didn't send him one etc etc.

*hilarious 'bisexual relationship' strikethrough opportunity
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:18, Reply)

I'm the opposite
I hate getting cards from people I never see. It seems so false, like getting a Facebook invite from someone you havent seen in years but they cant be bothered to add a little "Hi, how's it going?" message.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:21, Reply)

There's a difference between people you never see because you're not that bothered and people you don't see very often because of distance etc.

( girlinthehole, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:23, Reply)

The difference is marginal
MARGINAL!!!!!!!!!!!!1111
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:26, Reply)

I'm still right though.

( girlinthehole, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:28, Reply)

Are you doing the "ya boo sucks" rasberry thing right now?

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:39, Reply)

Nope, I'm far too grown up and sensible.

( girlinthehole, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:41, Reply)

depends how often you speak to/text them
surely?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:30, Reply)

Not really.
I rarely speak or message my best friend in New Zealand but I still send a birthday and Christmas card to let her know I'm thinking of her and vice versa.
( girlinthehole, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:33, Reply)

No-one sends you cards
so your ire is purely hypothetical. Like your knob.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:27, Reply)

You jest
but I think I made the Facebook situation up in my head as nobody from my past has ever tried to contact me.

And leave Mr. Winky out of it, it's not easy living with my tough-love. He's had a hard year.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:31, Reply)

He's had a very soft year: admit it.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:33, Reply)

Maybe things will perk up in the New Year

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:34, Reply)

I suspect it will.
*nods sagely*
( girlinthehole, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:35, Reply)

This is good news for him
he just needs to seize opportunities when they're presented
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:37, Reply)

You've hit the nail right on the head.

( girlinthehole, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:38, Reply)

now now monty
i am sure his mum sends one.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:31, Reply)

A knob?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:33, Reply)

She did, it was lovely.
It had a cat with a santa hat on. I gave her one (yikes) with a robin on.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:34, Reply)

We have been receiving christmas cards for the former owners of this house for the last three years
If someone hasn't bothered telling you they've moved after 3 years, then you should really realise that they think you're a cunt and just stop.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:28, Reply)

Those are GAS BILLS, Al

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:29, Reply)

Why aRE HALF OF THem in capiTALS?

(Bazongaloid, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:30, Reply)

It's my new 'death threat' style.
What do you think?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:34, Reply)

It made me slightly tumescent
MONTY I WANT A TAYYABS WHY CANT WE HAVE TAYYABS ALL THE TIME MONTY WHY!?
(Bazongaloid, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:35, Reply)

Funny
that's what I was thinking
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:38, Reply)

Have you been to the Tayyabs yet?
If not, when are you back in blightly, and when are you coming down to london to get stuffed with hot meat by me and monty in a small sweaty room?
(Bazongaloid, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:42, Reply)

Back in January
and I haven't been yet. Really still want to go. So yeah if you and Monty are up for a bit of 'action' then we should
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 18:33, Reply)

The New Year will bring curried goodness for all.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:45, Reply)

I hope you do this in teh style of santa claus by riding around London on a sleigh
dispensing spicy treats from your massive sack.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:50, Reply)

..stood grunting and red-faced as I empty it
down the chimneys of houses containing excited children.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:54, Reply)

If they gave a return address, send a card back explaining that half the family was wiped out by AIDS.
Bad AIDS
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:33, Reply)

I did check them for return addresses
We know someone who knows them and lives near them, but I've got to the point where I refuse to try and pass post on any more, I just open it and then throw it away.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:35, Reply)

Open it, check for cash from dear old Nana, then throw it away, you mean.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:46, Reply)

I bought this house four years ago
The previous owner died, aged 85. People keep sending her cards and you'd think that they'd add 85 and 4 up to make dead when they don't get a card back.

Maybe not.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:39, Reply)

I got a Christmas card for someone called Rhiannan from her godparents.
Not posted but pushed through the letter box by hand. You'd think someone's godparents would know where the bloody girl lived. I actuall think it's for the girl next door but I can't be arsed to deliver it yet.
( girlinthehole, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 17:54, Reply)

I hope you've written on the envelope
'No one with a god awful chavvy name known at this address'
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 18:00, Reply)