I hate gift giving*. It stresses me out. And I think it sort of devalues a holiday. Sorry to sound like a douche. But that's why I love Thanksgiving-it seems relatively unsullied in that regard.

If I can play armchair psychologist, it might be parents who work a lot and don't have a lot of time to spend with their kids. Or parents who are insecure about showing their love.

My parents were the same way, and honestly, that was fine by me. It seemed unfair that some other parents were willing to go full on Jingle All the Way but I got over it. My mother was levelheaded and reasonable about it, and after a little bit of pouting, I realized that she was right. I actually think it was an…

I think it's also creating an ironic feedback loop.

Admittedly I am not a parent, but it blows my mind how irrational some of them are. I'm trying not to sound like my father here but: sometimes you can't get what you want! Sometimes something you really want is super popular and you have to wait a while to get it! Happens to me all the time as an adult.

Let it go.

Yea, I really don't understand parents who go batshit insane to find some stupid toys.

When we were kids, we never had any of the toys that were crazes, furbies, tamagotchis etc. We didn't explode or die. Why would you indulge your kid in such crazed materialism? I'm going to go back to telling kids to get off my lawn now.

I know this is off topic, but wtf is up with Easter gifts?

It feels pretty inappropriate (or even irresponsible) to blame not getting a doll on the Easter Bunny or Santa. Not getting a specific doll that you want isn't that big a deal, but this is the kind of thing that young kids tend to get especially invested in. To say that Santa might bring it, only for Santa to not…

My mom wouldn't go to these lengths to get me a doll. During the height of the Cabbage Patch Kids craze, she told me if she could get one from a catalog I could have it. But she was not fighting the crowds in stores and she was not paying after market price. She didn't care if "the magic" was ruined for me or not...

Um...am I the only person left that hasn't seen this movie and fallen in love with it?? I'm feeling very alone right now...

Jesus H. Macy, it's not Christmas. Can't people fucking wait to buy their kids this shit? Or you know, not buy their kids this shit at all? Since when do kids get all the crappy toys they want, whenever they want? This is madness: "So many of us have spent exorbitant amounts of money on Disney related products." WHY…

I love the "everyone told me not to get my hopes up." How many people is this person talking to about her tragic situation?

Yeah, I remember the moment when it dawned on me that the real story of Lot was that he offered up his two young daughters to be raped by a frenzied mob and that this was why God decided he alone was moral enough to save. Then his wife looked back as the only home shed ever known was destroyed in fire and brimstone…

To boot, the people in the video aren't even talking about the bible, are they? They're talking about the altered artistic renditions of bible stories with which they are most familiar. Some days I just can't do stupid.

Right? When you don't grow up with the bible and then read it as an adult, it's a freaky chamber of horrors. It makes Grimm's Fairy Tales seem like Mr. Rogers.

Yeah, because the Bible is such a cheerful and uplifting book.

I use their products because I go to a conference that they sponsor, and I leave with a year's supply of goops.

Oh Dove. I always like using them and razors as an example of pointlessly gendered products. I'm a dude and that cucumber beauty bar is the shit.