Bored Games. Just say "no" kids.
I used to dread Christmas presents that were rectangle in shape and flat because it invariably meant that I was about to receive that most dreaded of presents a lonely child can receive…a board game. Fucking bastard board games, I had a cupboard full of them when I was growing up, who the fuck was I supposed to play them with? I still hate the sight of board games.

A few years back I visited my then girlfriend at her parents house on Boxing Day. They had a present for me and her family gathered round to watch me open it. It was about the size of a shoebox and quite heavy…promising stuff. Slowly I peeled off the wrapping paper to reveal…the “Who wants to be a millionaire?” board game. *Flash* went a camera…in the photograph I look like I was laughing with joy, I was actually laughing with incredulity. I thought it might be a wind up because they couldn’t have picked a more off target present if they had tried, I don’t like TV much, I have never seen an entire episode of “Who wants to be a millionaire?”, I would break my foot before I tired of kicking Chris Tarrent in the bollocks and it was a FUCKING BOARDGAME!

It was like being seven years old again; I feigned gratitude and thanked them for the gift. I thought about flogging it but fleabay was inundated with the damn things that Christmas. I gave it to a charity shop.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 27 Nov 2009, 14:23, 7 replies)

Couldn't agree more
Last Xmas sat round with the girlfriend's family playing Trivial Pursuit. All I wanted to do was sit in front of Sky Sports with a beer and watch the footie. Question comes up, read by my girlfriend's dad: Something along the lines of What was made legal in Florida in 1967? I really thought I knew the answer, sort of. I read something somewhere once in a magazine about it... Turns out I was wrong. And for the next few minutes there was an uncomfortable atmosphere as we continued playing the game.

Turns out anal intercourse was not legalised in Florida in 1967...
( SpankyHanky, Fri 27 Nov 2009, 14:27, closed)

Ha!
can a reply win the QOTW? Because this should!
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 27 Nov 2009, 14:31, closed)

i said no kids
that's why i haven't got any
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 27 Nov 2009, 21:05, closed)

I would break my foot before I tired of kicking "insert name here"in the bollocks
Another classic quote!
(all my scars face forward possesses 2.5% of a hyperalloy combat chassis, Sat 28 Nov 2009, 12:43, closed)

What finally finished me and board games
was spending my 21st birthday in London on a training course and playing monopoly with the Jewish landlady's son. I didn't stand a chance.
(The Jannie, Sun 29 Nov 2009, 11:51, closed)

Games
There are LOADS of GREAT board games; not crap like "Cluedo", "Monopoly" (shudders)or "Triv"; try "Carcassonne", "Ticket to Ride" or Alhambra".
(kitescreech still here, Sun 29 Nov 2009, 21:27, closed)

I do have friends...but they like drinking, films and Left 4 Dead on the X-Box 360.
If I phoned some of them up and asked if they wanted to come round and play a board game, they would have me sectioned under the Mental Health Act. Or they would say, "Not really mate".
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 30 Nov 2009, 10:19, closed)