2012-12-17, 08:38
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NYAAAAHAAANNNNN~
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 35
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I haven't received a Christmas gift for years. I have always bought gifts for others, but when my friends ask me what I want in return, I usually don't know. And I have heard from a friend in the past saying that getting me a gift is difficult because they don't know what I would like to have. Anybody here had THAT friend or relative who you have been racking your brains to find a gift for? Other than a soap on a rope?
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2012-12-17, 11:37
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Nyaaan~~
Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 40
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My plan was just to get my fiance a handbag for Christmas.. But we recently picked up a small Christmas tree and she'll want a number of gifts underneath the tree to make it look nice so cue me frantically thinking about a number of small presents to buy..  @Saintess - I am THAT friend. Although it hasn't become an issue anymore as my friends and I are now old enough that we all mutually agree not to get each other anything anymore. Outlook is not promising |
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2012-12-17, 12:10
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癸亥 (guǐhài)
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ
Age: 40
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if you're gonna give anything to her, the present have to be at least over 1k worth in price. example: ipad 3, a decent laptop, some fancy cosplaying clothing...or a bunch of anime/manga! have fun with the present. ^_______^; you know, sometime if you dont really know what to give the other presents, i suggest some clothes might do the trick. if it's cold, buy jacket/sweater/gloves...something like that. if it's hot, you know, T-shirt is fine. unless that person is like my attention whore little sister, you shouldnt struggle finding a gifts. as for buying myself a gift, i mention buying a $3500 high end desktop earlier. after adding that + 30" dell monitor (2560x1600 resolution *drools*), the sums total up to $5000+....LOLOLOLOLOL....i guess, i'll pass buying this gift for myself for now. and save it up for next year's christmas instead. my mom and dad are gonna KILL me even if it's my money...my family would never agree to letting me spend that much cash on computer. 
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2012-12-22, 12:28
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Hige
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: God only knows
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To prove that engineers have a sense of humor, I send you the following. I wish I could say I wrote it, but I didn’t, and don’t know who did. Perhaps you’ve seen it before. If not, enjoy.
Santa Claus: An Engineer’s Perspective There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18 years old) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the population reference bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each. Different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical), this works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means Santa’s sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest manmade vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour. The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized Lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the “flying” reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can’t be done with eight or even nine of them. Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch). 600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance. This would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft reentering the earth’s atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip. Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,500 g’s. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo. Therefore, even if Santa did exist, he’s dead now. Merry Christmas!
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2012-12-22, 18:43
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Nyaaan~~
Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 40
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Merry Christmas from the Hipster Tree(tm)! (too cool to wear a star / excited about Christmas before it was cool / etc.)
 So all my Christmas shopping is done! Broke the bank this year.. But PRESENTS! I must admit that as a child I was too cool to get excited over presents. Now, I get genuine joy out of spoiling my fiancé a little bit during this time of year. Can't wait to see what I get as well!
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2012-12-23, 18:04
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 66
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People coming over this afternoon ... our Yuletide tree (Star Goat Defensive Installation) is up.
THIS is a Santa I'd still leave whiskey and bourbon fudge out for ....  (Siberian 'King of Winter' and many other names)
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2012-12-24, 11:18
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今宵の虎徹は血に飢えている
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