My image focused, “Karen” of a sister stole one of my teenage son’s Christmas presents at my parents’ Christmas Eve gathering. He was in that awkward, angsty stage and this really bothered him. She thought it was super funny and refused to return it, even when I quietly took her aside and asked nicely. Nothing says…

I was invited to a friend’s White Elephant party one year with a really big group. I thought it was for silly gag gifts but after people started opening them, I realized no, people were getting fairly nice stuff, like a small immersion blender, a set of tumblers with a bottle of wine, etc.

Not a gift, really, but after reading some of these comments, I think this is a good place to share my tale of woe.

The giver was my father, not me, but this is still a great story.

I could post about 15 of these with gifts from my dad. He gave me a piece of scrap metal once. I was in college. My brothers got one too.

“What the fuck is wrong with your parents?”

My stepfather was an abusive brute, who loved to give “gifts” that would be “useful” rather than outright kind. Hence the wheelbarrow he gave me one year for Christmas.

For Christmas when I was around 12, my parents put a huge bag of cotton balls in my stocking. I had to pretend they were from Santa for my little sister’s sake, but I looked at my parents, puzzled and asked, “I wonder what these are for.” My dad explained, “I don’t know, but maybe in case you need to fill out your bra…

It wasn’t really the gift itself, but the comment that came with it: a beach towel from the mother of a former boyfriend, since we had planned a trip to Florida. After I opened it, and said Oh, thank you this will be useful, she said well, I would have gotten you a bathing suit, but I didn’t think they made them in…

A multipack of soap from my grandmother who punctuated me opening it with “you need it”.

Not given by me but by a now-ex friend (“ex” for a myriad of reasons similar to this):

Her stepson was getting married on Christmas eve...she gave him a $1000 gift certificate to a divorce lawyer, “because we can all see that coming.”

“OMG why are all these birds dead?”

And without realizing it, Moore is also basically saying it was a mistake to not vote in the past. The lack of voting is also voting. And in this case to allow the conservatives to stay in power. Sounds familiar to those of us in the USofA as well. VOTE everyone!

“I dunno Alan Moore, what if I’m just not INSPIRED by Labour? I see what you’re saying but hmm, maybe I’ll just stay home because all sides are the same etc etc etc.”

Not anymore. Times have changed. Modern society is complacent and anesthetized.

Weirdly parallel situation to the one the U.S. will be in next November.

“I don’t think that someone that’s been on patrol for that long, all of a sudden started acting up, searching someone improperly, illegally,” Salazar told KENS-TV. “I think this is something that has been going on for some time.”

The funniest part will be when all the people who believe themselves genetically pure or superior get DNA tests to find out they have all sorts of recessive genes and they are mixed from many races.

Any money taken after his conviction in 2008 is tainted.  Particularly eugenicists.

If you think this was insane, Juicero was absolutely the stupidest waste of money ever: