I thought this too
I can't afford my own iPad or MBA, no way could I get a fictional entity one.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 11:30, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

one of my mates turned 30 recently
and in the build up to it his sister had contacted a load of us on facebook to suggest we might like to club together and get him an ipad.

fortunately we all agreed, as did my mate, that we'd never heard anything so preposterous
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 11:39, Reply)

A few of my mates used to do this
We'd all club together to get something big, like an iPod or motorbike lessons. I chucked in 10-20 quid each time, then when it came to my birthday I got NOTHING. Cunts.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 11:43, Reply)

When me and all my mates turned 18, there was about 15 of us all turning that age in the same year, so we all clubbed together and spent £20 each to get something super-cool.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 11:47, Reply)

biggest gesture I have been involved in
was when a mate at university turned 21 and we got him a silver cigarette case and put 21 perfectly rolled joints in it.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 11:50, Reply)

Hah, that's wicked.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 11:51, Reply)

I really like this.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 11:52, Reply)

most of my good mates have known each other for getting on for 20 years
we have never bought each other a birthday card, let alone a present.

Why on earth would we start now? Either it would set an unfortunate precedent, or some people would get left out, as you did.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 11:48, Reply)

This group of friends have been buying each other presents for years
Most years one of them would forget mine, but last year they all did. One of them a month later even commented on how shit it was that everyone forgot, and said he'd get me a late present. Never materialised.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 11:57, Reply)

My best friend and best man at my wedding has his birthday tomorrow, I'm getting him the same as he got me
Fuck all.
( Peej, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 12:04, Reply)

Did his sister know he was gay already
or is she just trying to turn him with her choice of present?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 11:50, Reply)

she's a bit dim
she's getting married soon and has asked my band to play a bit at her wedding before the main band, which is fine. They asked us to do some covers, which we don't do, and the day after our singer drunkenly suggested we could write them a song (he's an idiot too) she sent him an email with about an A4 pages worth of stuff about how they met...
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 11:59, Reply)