What is the most horrible present you've received for Christmas?

[Pike]

Growing up I had a lot of "welfare Christmases" where the only things we would get would be from local charity groups. Which is a great idea except that all the charity groups would learn about us was the gender and ages of all the kids, and nothing else. So I'd get all sorts of girly stuff that I never had any interest in, lots of earrings (never had pierced ears), dresses (never wear those)... stuff like that.

Ultimately I was grateful that people were thinking of me but yeah, times like that it sucked to be a non-traditional girl. xD

[Cuchulainn]

dog dirt

[Mercen-X]

Eh, it's good enough for you.

I haven't actually had Christmas presents for the past 4 years. I've also worked every Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years for the past 6 years. I don't really have much in the way of family I can go back too for Christmas.

Would you say you have enemies? I think someone wished a shetty Christmas... and, well, they haven't stopped at the one.

Also, Pike... are you a girl "traditional girl" now?

[Aulayna]

I don't have enemies but lets just say I made a personal life decision that my mother didn't approve of and for the sake of not causing any rifts in the family I adopted the role of outcast. Which in return means Christmas etc is never full of presents or roast dinners with drunken relatives or all that jazz anymore for me. That and I don't really get to opt-out of working over them either unless I have paid vacation left to take.

[Hollycat]

A roll of toilet paper. Not even joking, that was the whole present. It even came with a little tag; wipe that frown from your face.

[Pike]

Also, Pike... are you a girl "traditional girl" now?

Nope, I'm a pre-op genderless robot.

Also, hugs for Aul <3

[G13]

I got a flashlight one year.

[Hollycat]

I got a fleshlight one year.

Was it used or new?

[Shiny]

[NorthernChaosGod]

I got a flashlight one year.

Was it at least a Maglite so you could beat people with it?

[G13]

Yeah it was a Maglite, actually. It was like a cop's flashlight, bullet-proof and all that. It was kind of cool, I guess, but when the hell am I ever going to find myself in a situation where I'm being shot at in the dark!?

[Tigmafuzz]

Yeah it was a Maglite, actually. It was like a cop's flashlight, bullet-proof and all that. It was kind of cool, I guess, but when the hell am I ever going to find myself in a situation where I'm being shot at in the dark!?

A tactical flashlight is a smurfing awesome gift if it has a crenelated strike bezel you can smash car windows with it and easily escape if you drive yourself into a lake or something. Which could happen anytime.

[Jiro]

I probably got lame presents over the years but beggars can't be choosers and I was fortunate enough to get stuff in the first place so that's something to be happy about. At least this year my present will be no family arguments albeit that is largely because this year there is no family unit, so things will be fresh and exciting in a way

[Night Fury]

I never got this game and I'm still disgusted by that to this day.

Also, for bad pressies, I've never really had one. I mean one year my Stepdad got me this like... circuit board activity kit (lol nerd) and I thought it was the lamest gift ever, but I ended up making a radio out of that thing and it turned out to be totally awesome!

[Mercen-X]

circuit board activity kit (lol nerd) and I thought it was the lamest gift ever, but I ended up making a radio out of that thing and it turned out to be totally awesome!

My dad got me that. Thought we could work on it together (after all, we had spent years discussing how to make our own R2 unit).
We've never used it.