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Things you used to get for Christmas that you don't get anymore

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    #11
    Hankies from random elderly relative
    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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      #12
      A classic hardback book from a distant aunt.

      Titles such as Kidnapped, Moby Dick and Treasure Island.

      She started when I was three or four but I grew into them

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        #13
        tulipfaced
        Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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          #14
          Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
          Hankies from random elderly relative
          Indeed - in my case monogrammed hankies from a deceased relative with whom I shared the same initials.

          There's something rather morbid about blowing your nose on a dead man's hanky.

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            #15
            Originally posted by stek View Post
            What? At 26?
            Close, but 18.
            Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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              #16
              New Berry Fruits Jellies

              My gran used to by them for us every year.
              "Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.

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                #17
                Originally posted by DaveB View Post
                New Berry Fruits Jellies

                My gran used to by them for us every year.
                We still get those

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by ctdctd View Post
                  A classic hardback book from a distant aunt.

                  Titles such as Kidnapped, Moby Dick and Treasure Island.

                  She started when I was three or four but I grew into them
                  I've tried to read Kidnapped, twice. Once when I was 12 and again as an adult.

                  The first time was a huge shock as I had devoured every single book I had read up until then and I knew that it was a classic. I just couldn't get past the first few chapters.

                  The second time I tried I thought that I had been too young to appreciate it.

                  My 12 year old self was right. RL Stephenson is my least favourite author.
                  "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
                  - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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                    #19
                    Things you used to get for Christmas that you don't get anymore...herpes.

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by DaveB View Post
                      +1

                      Also had a Gran that would knit covers for coat hangers and each year there would be a coat hanger shaped parcel under the tree
                      How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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