I think I'm getting an ice cream maker
which will probably languish unused like my breadmaker. Still though, it's a cool present.
Herpes is probably a really shit Christmas gift, I'd say.
(berk, Sun 19 Dec 2010, 22:45, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

You want gifts that are easily won on any episode of 'Bullseye'
Innnn One!
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 19 Dec 2010, 22:48, Reply)

Haha, wtf would I do with a speedboat?
Birmingham is really quite a distance from any body of water, canals excluded because I don't think you can really take a speedboat on them.
(berk, Sun 19 Dec 2010, 22:55, Reply)

And BULLY'S SPECIAL PRIZE!
It's a special fridge, that doesn't need checking!*

* Huge apologise if this this way, way, way, too early for this sort of jape
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 19 Dec 2010, 23:03, Reply)

*raises eyebrow questioningly*

(berk, Sun 19 Dec 2010, 23:10, Reply)

*Offers top-loading VHS Video Recorder instead*

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 19 Dec 2010, 23:16, Reply)

I'm sure we had one of those
When I was about 2 I posted a purple plastic pig in to it and broke it.
(berk, Sun 19 Dec 2010, 23:22, Reply)

We definitely did
it was actually more reliable than the front-loading one we bought later. Big and clunky but it got the job done. like me
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 19 Dec 2010, 23:24, Reply)

I was about 10 years old before we had our first Betamax VCR
I remember the days of just 3 channels, closedown (at night), and the test-card being part of the average day.

*Hankers after The Sullivans lunchtime*
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 19 Dec 2010, 23:26, Reply)

Oh look,Kittie's run off with his hat!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sun 19 Dec 2010, 23:38, Reply)

Those crazy Aussies.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Sun 19 Dec 2010, 23:38, Reply)

I couldn't tell you anything about the show
Bar the previously mentioned 'hat pulling'.

Neither could I tell you anything about 'Take the High Road' or 'Crown Court' but I remember both being on.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 19 Dec 2010, 23:51, Reply)

The only thing I remember about the Sullivans
was that it was set during the war. Despite it being on every lunch time and my mum being an avid viewer.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Sun 19 Dec 2010, 23:52, Reply)

I forgot about that smug, proud looking cunt.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G2nCQyUCNo&feature=related
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 19 Dec 2010, 23:59, Reply)

hahahahaha

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 19 Dec 2010, 23:45, Reply)

same here
the first time I saw a video player was in a TV shop when I was about 8 or 9 - it was showing Top of the Pops which confused me as it wasn't thursday. I demanded to be taken home to watch totp there and then
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 19 Dec 2010, 23:39, Reply)

It was nothing but witchcraft to the young.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 19 Dec 2010, 23:46, Reply)

Pun intended?

(LongJohnBaldry, Sun 19 Dec 2010, 22:55, Reply)

It wasn't
as I just had to re-read my post three times to see what the hell you were on about...
(berk, Sun 19 Dec 2010, 22:56, Reply)