Christmas 2022

[Manc]

The neighbours have gone far too early and put up thier tree today. It should be illegal to do so outside of December.

On Christmas itself, are people going big in a non covid world or has the cost of living crisis and general depressing state of society killed your holiday spirit?

[Ben]

Loads of houses fully decked in lights near me so either they're loaded (unlikely) or the cost of electricity hasn't filtered through to their brains yet (likely).

[Baz]

My mum is having a replacement knee op on December 1st so will be out of action for a number of weeks. This means my dad is on Christmas dinner duty.

Christmas dinner is normally the best thing about Christmas, hands down, and I've every faith he'll keep that tradition going. :drool:

I've also got a beer advent calendar I'm very excited about. Whenever I look at r/beerporn it's mostly Americans posting what looks like cloudy apple juice and it looks so tasty. So I've got one thats 24 imported American beers. Roll on Thursday when I can crack number one open and post it on Reddit.

Ordered everyones presents yesterday so think I'm sorted there, just gotta wrap them but working from home lends itself to that not being an issue.

Also got my works Christmas Do on December 9th - going to Ghetto Golf Fang and I know someone who works there so badgered two free drinks for the big drinkers, saving about £70. Plus I'm secretly outstanding at crazy golf.

[Lewis]

The Christmas thread is started in December.

[Giggles]

Decorations next weekend. Turkey is ordered, unless the flu get it.

[7om]

Is Baz some sort of mafia member? He seems to know everyone and every deal going.

[Gray Fox]

He's not a Mental Health First Aider and Domestic Abuse Champion for nothing you know. Fingers in loads of pies.

[Shindig]

That last sentence. :D

[Jimmy Floyd]

The guy opposite me has had his Christmas lights up since I've lived there (3 years). Always good to wake up on a hot July morning, pull the curtains and see HO HO HO in massive flashing lights.

[Boydy]

Has your curtain-twitching neighbour not had his door kicked in by the police?

[Baz]

Is Baz some sort of mafia member? He seems to know everyone and every deal going.I'm pretty good at pretending to be affable.

[Yevrah]

The Christmas thread is started in December.

:D

[niko_cee]

Tree probably going up this morning, got some Morrisons Pigs in Blankets crisps which are very good.

[Spikey M]

Ours is going up today too. It will come down before New Year's though.

[niko_cee]

Put the lights on, checked they were working, turned on fine, went to unplug them, adapter [quite explosively] blew up [smoke and all]. :face:

[Kikó]

I've brought the fake tree up from downstairs so the wife can get started. I've bought a baby pen so the baby doesn't try and pull it down within thirty seconds.

[Baz]

If your trees are going up, you need a Christmas Playlist. I’ll be rolling this bad boy (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1sLqFlkHtKaczFPxYUrlSl?si=mlcEkjTIRbCQXxZtooMVeA) back out.

[Giggles]

Lads. November.

[Ben]

I've bought a baby pen so the baby doesn't try and pull it down within thirty seconds.

Good shout.

[igor_balis]

The amount of people on here who roll their eyes in a GAMES GONE way at society generally then slowly reveal their plebby behaviour is class.

Spikey calling everyone who likes Halloween a loser then still in autumn putting up a big Santa Claus thing that goes HO HO HO MERRY CHRISTMAS as anyone walks past his house is a particularly egregious example but cmon lads, Jesus.

[Boydy]

Taking it down before New Year is plebby behaviour too.

[Spikey M]

The amount of people on here who roll their eyes in a GAMES GONE way at society generally then slowly reveal their plebby behaviour is class.

Spikey calling everyone who likes Halloween a loser then still in autumn putting up a big Santa Claus thing that goes HO HO HO MERRY CHRISTMAS as anyone walks past his house is a particularly egregious example but cmon lads, Jesus.

I took my kids trick or treating, so I'm not sure who you're thinking of, but it isn't me. Unless you mean me calling adults that do Halloween sad, which I may have. And the same would be true of a November Christmas Tree if I didn't have kids pestering me to put it up.


Taking it down before New Year is plebby behaviour too.

I'm plebby? You can't even afford the right size trousers lad.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If I'd pestered my parents to put the Christmas tree up in November they'd have told me to do one. Seems to be a total player power situation these days. Need more old-fashioned disciplinarians back in the game, rather than the Spikey types prowling the touchline in a cashmere sweater and trainers.

[Giggles]

Children are the ruination of many's a good sort.

[Spikey M]

Sorry for putting the tree up 4 days early lads. Won't happen again.

[Waffdon]

The board at the minute :drool:

Every man for themselves

[Dquincy]

Christmas Dec's up in November is nonce like behaviour. The eldest child kept asking to get the Dec's down this weekend, but it was met with a short sharp jab in the ribs (with no explanation).

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The board at the minute :drool:

Every man for themselves

You love to see it.

[Giggles]

Sorry for putting the tree up 4 days early lads. Won't happen again.

See to it that they're not down early either.

[Boydy]

I took my kids trick or treating, so I'm not sure who you're thinking of, but it isn't me. Unless you mean me calling adults that do Halloween sad, which I may have. And the same would be true of a November Christmas Tree if I didn't have kids pestering me to put it up.



I'm plebby? You can't even afford the right size trousers lad.

At least my hats fit.

But Christmas decorations up in November and back down again before New Year? Sort yourself out.

[Giggles]

The board at the minute :drool:

Every man for themselves

The season of goodwill and cheer.

[Lewis]

:D

He must have mixed his pills up.

[Pepe]

Worst time of the year. Gets dark before 5, the weather is shit, and the radio plays nothing but shit Christmas songs.

[Spikey M]

Worst time of the year. Gets dark before 5, the weather is shit, and the radio plays nothing but shit Christmas songs.

The worst time of the year runs from the 2nd of January (3rd this year) until whenever in March / April it gets warm enough to consider getting the summer clothes out.

It's weird, I used to love Winter as a kid, but I think that's because we used to get snow back then, and as a kid you get to enjoy it. Now it's usually just cloud and drizzle and on the odd occasion it does snow it just makes everything a cunt to get on with.

[SvN]

The tree went up today. My 3 year old's excitement for Christmas is infectious.

[mo]

Kids wouldn't pine for the tree and decs, but my wife wanted them down today, so now youngest is just wandering around wishing us all Merry Christmas.

It's going to be a long month.

[Foe]

I’ve lived in this flat for 8 years and on none of those 8 years has there been Christmas decorations. Basically mean I limit my exposure to a circa 7 day period when I visit my parents.

Getting close to National lampoons Christmas vacation time though. :drool:

[Dquincy]

Christmas in November. :vomit:

But the tubs of cheeselets are always appreciated.

[Giggles]

I've gone and got myself the rona again, so I'm in clear for the festivities now anyway.

[Spikey M]

Christmas in November. :vomit:

But the tubs of cheeselets are always appreciated.

Better than Christmas in January like you muppets.

[Baz]

I've gone and got myself the rona again, so I'm in clear for the festivities now anyway.

Excellent forward planning.

[ScousePig]

The worst time of the year runs from the 2nd of January (3rd this year) until whenever in March / April it gets warm enough to consider getting the summer clothes out.

It's weird, I used to love Winter as a kid, but I think that's because we used to get snow back then, and as a kid you get to enjoy it. Now it's usually just cloud and drizzle and on the odd occasion it does snow it just makes everything a cunt to get on with.

Teachers head on here. September, October and November are the worst three months and need to pass as quickly and pain free as possible. December provides a welcome break and then at least in January you can start thinking about the second half of the year, even if January and February are dull.

As for Christmas, we began our Nativity preparation a couple of weeks back which is pretty standard, but everything else should be reserved for December, including songs.

[igor_balis]

Better than Christmas in January like you muppets.

:D keep fighting the good fight.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Christmas in November. :vomit:

But the tubs of cheeselets are always appreciated.

I've already smashed one.

[Giggles]

Excellent forward planning.

She's only a couple of months after it too. So her brother is the only loose end now, may tell him to head out a few nights in the next few weeks.

[Dquincy]

Better than Christmas in January like you muppets.
Tbf, we take ours down new yrs eve normally.

[Spikey M]

:cool:

[Dquincy]

I've already smashed one.

Good man. I'm 3 tubs in.

[Dquincy]

:cool:

I love Christmas, but around the 30th it needs to be in the rear view mirror. Otherwise it's just a depressing reminder that Christmas is over and work will be starting soon.

[Kikó]

It's the first Sunday of advent. Christmas has started you heathens.

[Pepe]

The worst time of the year runs from the 2nd of January (3rd this year) until whenever in March / April it gets warm enough to consider getting the summer clothes out.

November to March sucks. I might need to move back to Mexico.

[Lofty]

We put our decorations up the first weekend of December, I am not too fussed but the wife is mad for it so may aswell get some mileage out of the expensive tat.

[Ben]

I had to bring the decorations down yesterday but they aren't going up until Friday because the wife wants to do a deep clean on Thursday in preparation. I asked why I couldn't just bring the decorations down on Thursday night. She thinks they need to "air off". :cab:

[Jimmy Floyd]

I was having a curry with some m8s the other day, both of whom are shacked up whereas I live alone. They asked me when I put my decorations up, I told them I don't put any decorations up because it's a bit tragic just putting them up for yourself to look at, and I'll be at the folks' place for actual Christmas anyway. They both looked at me in horror, as if I was describing some sort of sexually-motivated string of brutal murders, rather than a failure to attach paper chains to the door frames of my one-bed. "But it's Christmas!" I don't get it, really.

[Foe]

We have an alliance.

[Giggles]

Someone that lives alone and goes elsewhere for Christmas would be a deviant to actually put them up.

[Dquincy]

I was having a curry with some m8s the other day, both of whom are shacked up whereas I live alone. They asked me when I put my decorations up, I told them I don't put any decorations up because it's a bit tragic just putting them up for yourself to look at, and I'll be at the folks' place for actual Christmas anyway. They both looked at me in horror, as if I was describing some sort of sexually-motivated string of brutal murders, rather than a failure to attach paper chains to the door frames of my one-bed. "But it's Christmas!" I don't get it, really.

I really think we should start a crowd funding initiative so Jimmy has to decorate his house/flat. Appreciate it's not a money thing, but I'm hoping it will guilt you into putting up decorations.

Perhaps just a small Christmas tree on a table?

[Kikó]

Someone that lives alone and goes elsewhere for Christmas would be a deviant to actually put them up.

We were the same even with the wife. Pointless putting decorations up if you're not going to be there at Christmas.

[Spikey M]

I was having a curry with some m8s the other day, both of whom are shacked up whereas I live alone. They asked me when I put my decorations up, I told them I don't put any decorations up because it's a bit tragic just putting them up for yourself to look at, and I'll be at the folks' place for actual Christmas anyway. They both looked at me in horror, as if I was describing some sort of sexually-motivated string of brutal murders, rather than a failure to attach paper chains to the door frames of my one-bed. "But it's Christmas!" I don't get it, really.

If I lived alone I wouldn't put them up either to be honest. I don't think most men would.

[7om]

I would.

[Baz]

I would.Same.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Deviants.

[Dquincy]

I'd like to spend time with Jimmy near Christmas. I think he'd start to like me. A friendship would blossom, for that I am sure of.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm quite a good Christmasser, I think. Happy to drink all kinds of alcohol, do the washing up, and never take part in arguments.

Not sure who the worst Christmas people are. Probably cantankerous old people who can't sit still or stop moaning about things.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

So Giggles.

[Spikey M]

I'm quite a good Christmasser, I think. Happy to drink all kinds of alcohol, do the washing up, and never take part in arguments.

Not sure who the worst Christmas people are. Probably cantankerous old people who can't sit still or stop moaning about things.

It's either miserable people (the type that moan about trees going up in November on the first day of advent as Jesus would have wanted the arse eatin', turn up rockin' cunts) or Disney Women that insist everything must be magical at all times.

[Dquincy]

Since my abscondment and subsequent return (much like Jesus Christ), Giggles seems to have changed as a poster. For the better I should add.

He seems in a happier place. And that is all the Christmas present I need.

[Ben]

I agree. I was AWOL from the old board going tits up until the beginning of this year. Giggles doesn't seem all that grumpy, bar the odd random pop at Kiko or Baz but things like that keep the board entertaining.

[wullie]

When I lived on my own I did the bare minimum decoration. One of those two foot trees designed for a work break room, string some lights around that and then around the window so passers-by see how festive I am.

[igor_balis]

I love Christmas and don't really care when people put their decorations up, I'm just trying to cultivate a spikey as Disney adult type thing, though I'm not smart or charming enough to do it without just coming across like I have some weird vendetta. I'll buy you a stein and give you a big kiss.

[Ben]

I might have to surrender to Disney shortly. I tried to be an old school dad at the weekend and put Thunderbirds on at TV time for my daughter (more for my own entertainment) and it scared the shit out of her.

[Baz]

I might have to surrender to Disney shortly. I tried to be an old school dad at the weekend and put Thunderbirds on at TV time for my daughter (more for my own entertainment) and it scared the shit out of her.

Wait until she sees Clunge.

[igor_balis]

I might have to surrender to Disney shortly. I tried to be an old school dad at the weekend and put Thunderbirds on at TV time for my daughter (more for my own entertainment) and it scared the shit out of her.

You should persist, it's character building. Probably. How old is she?

[-james-]

I couldn't give a shit about decorations and I would normalize not having to gift people inane crap as well. I'm definitely here for the seeing people, eating cheese and getting drunk a lot though.

[Ben]

You should persist, it's character building. Probably. How old is she?

Oh I'll persist. She's only five months so I didn't even think she saw anything other than colours at this point but she was blatantly not a fan of The Hood. TV only goes on for her to have a shit in peace, she's more pre-occupied with the trees in the garden at the moment anyway.

[Giggles]

So Giggles.

Christmas is brilliant, best time of year.

Once it actually arrives that is.

[Giggles]

I agree. I was AWOL from the old board going tits up until the beginning of this year. Giggles doesn't seem all that grumpy, bar the odd random pop at Kiko or Baz but things like that keep the board entertaining.

If we never went in with both feet the place would die. You're welcome.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I couldn't give a shit about decorations and I would normalize not having to gift people inane crap as well. I'm definitely here for the seeing people, eating cheese and getting drunk a lot though.

Christmas in our family is a constant battle between the younger generation wanting to pivot to the latter, and my dad refusing to do so because he likes tradition and things being the same as when he was a child in the 1950s/60s.

This year we're doing a paella for Christmas dinner instead of the messy time-sink of a roast, which is very much our El Alamein moment I think.

[Giggles]

We tend to just make or do something for the week that's in it now. Like the mother will do all the baking, the sister will bring the booze, etc. We'd still give cards and something small to each other but we all tend to buy ourselves the stuff we need throughout the year anyway.

[igor_balis]

We used to do Christmas dinner with my uncle and grandmother, but now my gran is clinically deranged and my uncle has a missus, we briefly see the extended family in the morning then me and my mum just spend the rest of the day at home.

We don't go mad with trimmings but my mum is a professional cook so it's always top quality. I think a roast dinner is something people think is crap cus they've never had a good one. The trick is just using decent quality ingredients and not overcooking everything. Was discussing this with THE LADS during the USA game, and my very gay and very cosmopolitan mate was moaning about his working class parents putting the veg on about an hour before serving so it's just a pile of green mush.

I remember my nan, when she was still compos mentis enough to cook and that, saying something like "I'm sorry, I don't know why the beef is so tough, I only did it for 20 minutes longer than the instructions said to", err...

[Ben]

Roast dinners are awesome. I'm not one of those Toby/takeaway wankers just because I want a roast every Sunday. I probably have about 5-6 per year. I'm always the one to cook them and they're a pain in the arse in all honesty (assuming you do them properly) so I do them sparingly when I can be bothered committing the time. Plus I do the family Christmas dinner which is 18 of us so I've got to psych myself up for that effort.

[Kikó]

I did my first Christmas dinner last year and the turkey was drier than the Sahara. Thankfully the in-laws are staying with us this year and the FIL will take over responsibility. They're not big drinkers so it's basically wine to accompany the food rather than overindulgence.

[Ben]

The key to moist turkey is a meat thermometer (whip it out at 70C) and resting it (in foil) for at least as long as it was cooked for.

Or just bin it off and do some other meat that's much tastier anyway.

[Kikó]

I think option 3 of letting someone else cook it is also valid.

[Lewis]

This year we're doing a paella for Christmas dinner instead of the messy time-sink of a roast, which is very much our El Alamein moment I think.

Yeah if you're the Germans.

[Lewis]

A fucking paella gahahaha.

[Foe]

I have a really small family so for me it’s just an opportunity to spend a week or so around my parents.

We pivoted away from Turkey the last few years and opted for chicken, and it’s just so much better. Quite often there’s a ham or gammon in there too.

Also my annual reminder of good bannoffee pie is. :drool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

We do Turkey (which my Mum always cooks quite well) and a ham. If it's a big crowd a pork neck (Polish Karkowka) will be on the table too.

I've been angling for a goose instead of a turkey for at least one Christmas but there's too much resistance.

[Giggles]

Banoffee is a regular here too, as is baileys trifle. I’ll be adding a pecan pie for the first time in a few years also (unless, like everything else, pecans have something to do with Ukraine and are about a grand a kilo these days. Haven’t checked yet).

[Baz]

My mum cooks an almighty Christmas dinner, with all the trimmings you could ask for,and we all eat at the dining table and it’s fantastic - better than any present I could unwrap. As previously mentioned, this years my dads turn.

But then on Boxing Day I’ve gotta go the in laws and they don’t have a Christmas dinner at all. Mother in law puts out like 5 pork pies, buttered barms, an open packet of Bernard Mathews turkey slices, and like shite buffet stuff like that, and it barely feeds the 5 of us who are there, and I’ve gotta eat it on my knee in the living room. Proper depressing. No wonder my wife hates her family, if that was her Christmas every year.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Bernard Mathews turkey slices :D

[igor_balis]

Banoffee is a regular here too, as is baileys trifle. I’ll be adding a pecan pie for the first time in a few years also (unless, like everything else, pecans have something to do with Ukraine and are about a grand a kilo these days. Haven’t checked yet).
They all sound great and significantly better than Christmas pudding/cake.

[Jimmy Floyd]

A fucking paella gahahaha.

Are you one of these English people who can't cope if different foods are mixed on one plate?

[Spikey M]

If I went round someone's house for Christmas Dinner and they served up a Paella I would glass them in the face.

[Dquincy]

This year we're doing a paella for Christmas dinner instead of the messy time-sink of a roast, which is very much our El Alamein moment I think.

This is why you're an outside the box thinker. You don't stick to those traditional lanes. You say up yours to your gran who wants the traditional trimmings. "What's that, it might be your last Christmas? Not my problem sweetheart. Adios."

[Giggles]

While I’d normally be one for go with what you’d like, paella is really reaching for the extremes.

[CJay]

Banoffee is a regular here too, as is baileys trifle. I’ll be adding a pecan pie for the first time in a few years also (unless, like everything else, pecans have something to do with Ukraine and are about a grand a kilo these days. Haven’t checked yet).

Pecans are crazy expensive these days. £4.50 for 250g in Tesco. Used to be £3.

Pecan pie might be worth it anyway though. I might try a pumpkin pie again this year.

[Lewis]

Are you one of these English people who can't cope if different foods are mixed on one plate?

Assuming you shouldn't be eating it on Christmas Day, Saint George's Day, Royal occasions etc., you've still got the vast majority of the year to be eating dago slop. If you really want to ruin your old man's Christmas that much...

[Manc]

Might as well have a portion of Uncle Ben's each.

[Giggles]

They all sound great and significantly better than Christmas pudding/cake.

We never have Christmas cake, just get a quarter of the mothers one so we can give it to visitors that want it. Was never a fan of fruitcakes.

Haven’t decided on the dinner yet fully, as in what way the second spud will be and what veg we’ll be having.

[Spikey M]

We never have Christmas cake, just get a quarter of the mothers one so we can give it to visitors that want it. Was never a fan of fruitcakes.

Haven’t decided on the dinner yet fully, as in what way the second spud will be and what veg we’ll be having.

I've never been a fan of any of the holy trinity (Christmas Cake, Christmas Pudding, Mince Pies). Our Dickensian pudding makers clearly had a glut of raisins and dried fruit they couldn't get shot of.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Raisins are rank.

[Foe]

Take that back. Raisins are great when used correctly.

With bran flakes, in scones, in little cardboard boxes for a delicious snack.

[Giggles]

They do go well in a scone. Especially the ones that are on the outside :drool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'd rather eat actual shit.

It's worse when they're sneaked in somewhere.

Oh a delicious apple pie? RUINED by these little devil shits.

[igor_balis]

Nicest use of raisins I've ever experienced was in couscous with shitloads of butter, was class.

[Baz]

Couscous :sick:

[Spikey M]

Nicest use of raisins I've ever experienced was in couscous with shitloads of butter, was class.

This is the most offensive post in the history of TTH. Couscous and raisins for fuck sake. Have some shame.

[niko_cee]

Raisins in coleslaw [the in-laws do this] is the sort of thing that people should be sent to the gulags for.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'd have sultanas in couscous rather than raisins, but it does work.

[CJay]

Fruit in couscous is standard fare - sultanas, apricot, cranberries - come on lads.

[Don]

I used to dislike raisins too but thankfully my balls did eventually drop and little hairs appeared on them. Hang in there, champs.

[Waffdon]

Honestly thought raisins and sultanas were the same thing :lol:

[Kikó]

Chicken or seafood paella?

[Dquincy]

Raisins are acceptable in Alpen, but that's about it give or take some exceptions.

Edit: in fact, they are a necessity.

[7om]

How about raisins on pizza

[Spikey M]

Giggles had it right with scones. That's the only place they're actively welcome. I'll tolerate them elsewhere. But not in couscous, which is miserable enough without adding to it, and certainly not in fucking coleslaw. Don't the yanks put them in potato salad?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The Yanks put all manner of shit into their potato salad.

Eggs, sugar, relish etc etc.

[niko_cee]

The Americans put marshmallows on top of sweet potato [already in and of themselves an aberration] so they're just beyond hope.

[Giggles]

Yank potato salad is at least lumps of potato though, so no matter what they put on it it’s still going to be better than the cold mash abomination that we have.

[niko_cee]

I realise this is potentially dangerous territory, but what sort of potato salad doesn't have lumps of potato in it?

[Giggles]

You'd very rarey see one here that isn't just cold mash with some stuff in it. Awful stuff.

The yank one tends to be baby potatoes that are halved or sliced.

[Raoul Duke]

The Americans put marshmallows on top of sweet potato [already in and of themselves an aberration] so they're just beyond hope.

I had that the other day at a Thanksgiving. Very fucking weird

[Ben]

The yank one tends to be baby potatoes that are halved or sliced.

Think that might be just the non-Irish varieties.

[Boydy]

The ones I get sometimes are little cubes of potato. Definitely not mash. Is that what you mean and you're just being dramatic, Giggles?

[Dquincy]

Yorkshire puds on Christmas day. Yes or no?

[Giggles]

The ones I get sometimes are little cubes of potato. Definitely not mash. Is that what you mean and you're just being dramatic, Giggles?

Nope definitely like mash. And not even like nice stuff, it's like that puree that posh chefs make and call mash.

I had to pick up some in Tesco very recently and, like everything else in that shop, had BRITISH emblazoned somewhere on the packaging.

[Lewis]

Take your food, send you food. Can't win can we?

[Giggles]

So long as I can still get pork pies.

[Boydy]

Nope definitely like mash. And not even like nice stuff, it's like that puree that posh chefs make and call mash.

I had to pick up some in Tesco very recently and, like everything else in that shop, had BRITISH emblazoned somewhere on the packaging.

I'll send you some down from up here. The spar one is banging and there's not a union jack in sight.

[Giggles]

Yorkshire puds on Christmas day. Yes or no?

No, but not because of the general fainting people do over having them without beef, but because there's enough elements to Christmas dinner without me adding more.

[Giggles]

I'll send you some down from up here. The spar one is banging and there's not a union jack in sight.

I'm suprised all that stuff is still so readily available here since Brexit. Shortly after it happened M&S was empty but it seems to have done something to get supply again. Must be soming in via whatever double way you lot are running these days.

[Spikey M]

Yorkshire puds on Christmas day. Yes or no?

What Giggles said. I")) eat them if they're there, but on Christmas day there's already enough food to leave me comatose, so they're not really required.

[Kikó]

Do you guys have a new year's Day meal? My father in law does steak pie, mushy peas, mashed potato and gravy every year. It's banging.

[Giggles]

A handier verision of the previous day.

[SvN]

Yorkshire puddings, like stuffing, belong on any roast as far as I'm concerned, regardless of the meat.

[Jimmy Floyd]

You planning to stuff a cow for your roast beef dinner? You'll need the entire sage output of the western Mediterranean.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

A whole stuffed cow :drool:

[Dquincy]

Do you guys have a new year's Day meal? My father in law does steak pie, mushy peas, mashed potato and gravy every year. It's banging.
I think you need to be looking at boxing day first.

Was telling my wife that it's a tradition to have cold cuts, hams, jacket potatoes, hot sausage rolls, cheese, etc on boxing day. To my horror, I was told this is not a widely accepted tradition. But surely you chaps do this?? (Apart from Baz's mental in laws)

[SvN]

We'll have a boxing day buffet, usually consisting of tat from M&S.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Bubble and squeak throughout the post-Christmas period. This year we can add the left over rice from the paella. Delicious.

[SincereTheRebel]

I was having a curry with some m8s the other day, both of whom are shacked up whereas I live alone. They asked me when I put my decorations up, I told them I don't put any decorations up because it's a bit tragic just putting them up for yourself to look at, and I'll be at the folks' place for actual Christmas anyway. They both looked at me in horror, as if I was describing some sort of sexually-motivated string of brutal murders, rather than a failure to attach paper chains to the door frames of my one-bed. "But it's Christmas!" I don't get it, really.

I was about to share the same story.

[igor_balis]

The Christmas thread is started in December.


14-11-2015, 04:22 PM
It's all well and good talking shit in the France thread, but what is TTH actually doing to stand up to these Muslims? I don't even like Christmas, but fuck it I've just gone and wasted two quid on mince pies to show them fucking bastards that I refuse to surrender (I'll go and pot the Indians' window later when it gets dark).

Merry Christmas, lads. Stick it to Islam here.



:evictory:

[Jimmy Floyd]

I was about to share the same story.

Are you secretly one of my friends?

[Lewis]

Unlikely.

[Lewis]

:evictory:

That was an emergency measure, as referenced in the post. Since then the rule has held firm.

[Mike]

Going to watch a panto at the Everyman in Liverpool with work.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Once again, my double Christmas dinner day (work at lunchtime, golf club poshos in the evening) has reared its very ugly head next Friday.

Lunch
Grilled goats cheese, beetroot & horseradish relish, chicory salad, maple roasted walnuts, grain mustard dressing
Twice cooked free range pork belly, spiced quince and apple compote, crackling, buttered kale, creamy mash, cider and wholegrain mustard sauce
Sticky toffee pudding, treacle toffee sauce, vanilla ice cream

Dinner
Spicy tuna tartare with won ton crisp, wasabi creme fraiche and pickled ginger
Garlic & herb marinated Surrey chicken supreme on a breadcrumb soil with roasted pink fir potatoes, fine green beans, mange tout in a chilli and lemon oil, and chicken glaze
Homemade treacle tart with nut brittle and honeycomb ice cream
A selection of fine cheeses with grapes, celery, chutney and mixed crackers

Going to be some real hard prep for that. Probably shutting the gullet down Wednesday night latest.

[Ben]

You could just come to mine instead. 350 miners in a marquee with an open bar.

[Lewis]

A few of us moaned about the work Christmas meal last year, but because I moaned the most in front of the people who organised it, I got 'You can do it next year then'. Instead of the usual Dan Snow-endorsed shit system, whereby we get to vote on six options and end up at the least interesting, I just booked us this (https://www.kingstreettavernsouthsea.co.uk/christmas/) and told people it was happening. Winner, winner.

[Lofty]

Sounds decent, there is one in Preston offering a filthy take on Christmas too, might investigate:

Slices of smoked turkey
Smoked pulled pork yorkshire pudding wrap
Smoked pulled brisket yorkshire pudding wrap
Pig in blanket bombs
Deep fried stuffing balls
Fries, creamy mash & gravy.

[Shindig]

We're not even picking from a Christmas menu for ours. :moop:

[Foe]

It’s our work Christmas party tomorrow, nicely rebranded as “year end celebration” for peak inclusivity.

It’s a pretty large venue because there’s several hundred of us typically. First joined up one since 2019 and since the start of hybrid working, so will be interesting how many people are willing to go on a Friday afternoon. Previously it was a Thursday afternoon the day before a Friday that was non-working as part of a 9day fortnight which was since removed as a perk.

I’ve debated not going, but I think will rock up. Normally ends up in carnage with people rocking up in fancy dress. Not this year for me, too much risk of me saying something wholly inappropriate to one of my leaders based on my rants in the job thread over the last 2 years.

[Giggles]

Ours is as late as the 17th, one of those cack party nights that loads of companies go to. Naturally I’ll be at the home bar.

[igor_balis]

Ours is as late as the 17th, one of those cack party nights that loads of companies go to. Naturally I’ll be at the home bar.

Oh god they did that for our barclays Xmas party a few years ago. Was at the Ricoh arena, there was fairground rides and stuff, it was gash. I'd have been up for mingling between groups in theory but in reality making conversation with some bint who works for an insurance company in Walsall etc wasn't actually that exciting.

[Lofty]

Ours is January because Christmas is manic for us.

[Baz]

Our director “raised a concern” about the golf plans next Friday saying her friend went recently and had to stop after three holes cos it was so inappropriate. I’m pretty sure she didn’t even get to the hole that’s full of sex toys. :harold:

[igor_balis]

Actually, thinking about it, all my work xmas parties have been gash.

ASDA 2013 - cancelled due to "consistent inappropriate behaviour at previous events" - eventually found out this absolutely massive walrus of a woman from the checkouts had been shagging a not actually bad looking black bloke (is noticing this being a bit of a thing racist? probably) from the warehouse in the carpark of the working mens club they'd booked. There were photos supposedly, but I sadly never got to see any.

N/A

2014 - 2015 - doing shitey temp jobs

N/A

Barclays 2016 - a "medieval banquet" in some old manor house, it was gash. proper school dinner quality food but with people dressed up like runescape or some shit. a male colleague got really pissed and kept grabbing my arse on the dancefloor. Only found out after that I wouldn't get mine paid for cus I was still on a temp contract, so £40 down the pan for that.

3/10

Barclays 2017 - our manager railroaded us all to go to a "really good curry house" in rural Leicestershire, about 40 miles from the branch, despite everyone living in Rugby. The food was alright, but it eventually turned out the reason we went there was cus the manager's cousin ran it. Twat. No drinks afterwards cus we had to drive back and nobody could be arsed afterwards.

5/10

Barclays 2018 - the ricoh thing, waste of time.

4/10

Barclays 2019 - went for a meal at a thai place in Norwich, was actually really nice to be fair. no drinks afterwards, but only cus I was bailing to meet Zimbabwean tinder girl before she went back to Harare or whatever for xmas.

8/10

Charity - 2020 - COVID SORRY NO PARTY

N/A

Charity - 2021 - meal at a mexican place, during our lunchtime, that we had to pay for. prawn starter was alright I guess.

4/10

Charity - 2022 - it's gonna be a pub meal, again during our work lunchtime, again paid for by ourselves.

TBC but 5/10 max cus it's not free.

[Foe]

Ours used to be open bar, but now they’re a “token” thing. So after 2 or 3 drinks you’re either drinking table wine, or on your own. Meal was free too.

Dressed up as an inflatable flamingo thing the last time we did it (2019) and think I was a seagull the year before that.

Don’t remember any prior to that.

Hoping some of the fit office birds go and dress inappropriately.

[Alex]

Ours is January because Christmas is manic for us.

Ours was always in January too. Which was odd because we had no reason to not do it at Christmas, we're not any busier then. The opposite if anything. Penny pinching I imagine. But also it was a decent piss up to look forward to in January when nothing typically happens, so I never minded that much. They stopped doing it altogether after everyone got sent to work from home during Covid and (thus far) have not brought it back.

[Ben]

Ours used to be open bar, but now they’re a “token” thing. So after 2 or 3 drinks you’re either drinking table wine, or on your own. Meal was free too.

Dressed up as an inflatable flamingo thing the last time we did it (2019) and think I was a seagull the year before that.

Don’t remember any prior to that.

Hoping some of the fit office birds go and dress inappropriately.

Ours is open bar but spirits are singles only for liability purposes I guess. But they have no problem with you ordering a gin and tonic plus a straight gin with ice and lemon at the same time, for instance. It’s this Saturday and will be the fifth one on this job so I’ll be immensely surprised if it’s not carnage.

[Foe]

Yeah that was the same for us. No doubles. So you just ordered a single, and a shot of the same spirit.

Ours will be for budget reasons, which is a bit mental given the scale of the profits made. But they cut it for cost in harsher times and there’s no way they’d reintroduce a perk.

[Lofty]

Our company will never pay for anything now because we are technically under the remit of the government (and they had been cutting back benefits all over the shop for years before that anyway) but thankfully my current and previous line managers will put their hands in their pockets to cover stuff like meals and something for Christmas.

[Foe]

Avoided all drama and made my way home about 8 after a 12 start.

Will confirm on Monday, but as far as I’m aware a clean delivery.

The food was absolutely crap though. Hopefully the actual in office canteen version is better (as it usually is).

[Baz]

How inappropriately were the fit office birds dressed?

Decorations coming out the loft today. :youpi:

[Spikey M]

He works for an oil company, I doubt there's many fit office birds knocking about. Maybe a driller in drag if he's lucky.

[Baz]

He works for an oil company, I doubt there's many fit office birds knocking about. Maybe a driller in drag if he's lucky.


Hoping some of the fit office birds go and dress inappropriately.
:gs:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Don't kink shame him.

[Foe]

You’d be surprised how many fit birds there are in energy companies these days. Kudos to the “equal opportunities” hiring process which definitely isn’t equal and gives women the first dibs. Paying dividends on social occassions.

Unfortunately, most were dressed festively so limited perving available. :(

[Lewis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqDwnmr-9iE

'Daws'

[Spikey M]

Christ.

No.

I won't do it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Quite apart from anything else, that's an astonishingly bad song.

[Lewis]

I thought they were a boomer phenomenon, but their YouTube and Facebook barely have any content or engagement, so which young[er] sickos are keeping it going on TikTok and Instagram?

[Lofty]

The only way I am watching that is if a bus ploughs into them at the end. They are probably trying to do a Ladbaby, tell everyone you are making a Christmas charity single to help the dossers because no-one cares about Christmas Number One anymore. Yes, Ladbaby have raised a lot for charity but they seem to have done alright out of it.

[Baz]

I swear Lofty is the only reason I’m aware of ladbaby, Jack monroe and this weird Leigh family. He’s their number one hypeman.

[Spikey M]

I swear Lofty is the only reason I’m aware of ladbaby, Jack monroe and this weird Leigh family. He’s their number one hypeman.

I only know about the Leigh Family because of you and I hate you for it.

[Baz]

I only know about the Leigh Family because of you and I hate you for it.

Me? How? You’ve definitely got that wrong.

[Giggles]

I’ve called them the Baz’s ever since I first seen them.

[Spikey M]

Me? How? You’ve definitely got that wrong.

I'm sure you posted that video of them going to the pub after lockdown.

[Baz]

I'm sure you posted that video of them going to the pub after lockdown.No chance. Pretty sure that was my first and only exposure to them until Lewis posted that video yesterday.

Fairly sure it was Kiko.

[Kikó]

I hate the fuckers so it could have been me.

[Spikey M]

No chance. Pretty sure that was my first and only exposure to them until Lewis posted that video yesterday.

Fairly sure it was Kiko.

I'm probably combining the memory with you because of Giggles then. It does seem very "Baz, Mike and The Reid" to be fair.

[Baz]

In like 2010

[Manc]

The Tree went up last night and lots of chocolate (Tony's) was consumed whilst watching the first festive film: Office Christmas Party. Do not watch under any circumstances.

[Lewis]

'...and lots of chocolate (Tony's) was consumed wh...'
*adjusts face mask*

[Giggles]

Tony’s is savagely overpriced but it’s good shit.

[Lofty]

I swear Lofty is the only reason I’m aware of ladbaby, Jack monroe and this weird Leigh family. He’s their number one hypeman.

Two of the three are extremely your wheelhouse, it's no surprise you are copping the blame for their introduction here. I managed to largely ignore Ladbaby until they were being mentioned in the same breath as The Beatles. Jack Monroe is a clown so yeah I'll cop to flying the hate flag for her higher than most here. That family I have only ever seen on here, I assume they are on TikTok or some shit but I don't use that because I'm a 36 year old man.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Shindig is the Jack Monroe lover who constantly talks about her.

That and the weird gamer Youtuber in Gamezine.

[Shindig]

Lofty started that. I merely agree with him.

[Baz]

Two of the three are extremely your wheelhouse, it's no surprise you are copping the blame for their introduction here.Honestly if this is the perception of me on here, I must put on some act.

[niko_cee]

I think two of the four December mornings thus far have had me waking up in a semi-panic because I've realised the cunting elf on the shelf hasn't done anything 'overnight'. Managed to get away with it thus far. I see the same dickheads have released some sort of Christmas shite [saw them in a petrol station the other day] which struck me as just odd.

[Dquincy]

I think two of the four December mornings thus far have had me waking up in a semi-panic because I've realised the cunting elf on the shelf hasn't done anything 'overnight'. Managed to get away with it thus far. I see the same dickheads have released some sort of Christmas shite [saw them in a petrol station the other day] which struck me as just odd.
Why on earth would you ever participate in that bollocks?

[niko_cee]

Individuals who shall not be named either acquire or get 'gifted' the little bastards and you're sort of stuck with them after that, unless you want to go down the "it's all a load of shit" wormhole, which is fraught with danger.

[Spikey M]

We were introduced to the little cunt by our old next door neighbour and my wife took the bait.

Tonight he has stacked 3 rolls of toilet roll and drawn a snowmans face and buttons on them. Creative little shit.

[Lewis]

There must be scope to destroy it with some sort of lesson for your kids. He was pissing around near the fire, trying to mess about across the road... Don't be in here pretending you aren't right into it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

"He must have drunk some of this bleach last night".

[Boydy]

"He's been called back to help Santa at his grotto."

Bin.

[igor_balis]

There must be scope to destroy it with some sort of lesson for your kids. He was pissing around near the fire, trying to mess about across the road... Don't be in here pretending you aren't right into it.


https://youtu.be/PJfoddFfJgw

[Baz]

https://64.media.tumblr.com/6f291359e44dddb68fee50ec63be8a9d/tumblr_nyic1kFbw81rl3565o1_250.gif

Possibly the funniest joke in the whole show.

[Lofty]

Honestly if this is the perception of me on here, I must put on some act.

You bought a cartoon NFT of a nonce.

[Baz]

You bought a cartoon NFT of a nonce.I like his music.

How that morphs into me loving British influencers is a mystery.

[Dquincy]

I like his music.

How that morphs into me loving British influencers is a mystery.

You bought an NFT. :harold:

[Lewis]

A few of us moaned about the work Christmas meal last year, but because I moaned the most in front of the people who organised it, I got 'You can do it next year then'. Instead of the usual Dan Snow-endorsed shit system, whereby we get to vote on six options and end up at the least interesting, I just booked us this (https://www.kingstreettavernsouthsea.co.uk/christmas/) and told people it was happening. Winner, winner.

The rail strike has wiped twenty per cent of the attendees out, so their deposits will be going behind the bar. Cheers Mick.

[Boydy]

That'll buy a good few pints of milk.

[Boydy]

Right lads, Christmas shopping. A load of you have kids these days so help a brother out with some suggestions.

Need to get presents for:
- 3 year old girl
- 6 year old girl
- 9 year old girl (might just give her money tbh)

[Don]

-dildo
-dildo
-vibrator

[Boydy]

Fuck off, dickhead.

[7om]

You can’t go wrong with anything Peppa Pig related for the 3 year old.

[Gray Fox]

Right lads, Christmas shopping. A load of you have kids these days so help a brother out with some suggestions.

Need to get presents for:
- 3 year old girl
- 6 year old girl
- 9 year old girl (might just give her money tbh)

There's a brand called Kenji that do soft toys (https://clintonsretail.com/collections/kenji) among other thing, they seem to be a popular thing at the moment to the point we've got one for one of ours.

[Spikey M]

Right lads, Christmas shopping. A load of you have kids these days so help a brother out with some suggestions.

Need to get presents for:
- 3 year old girl
- 6 year old girl
- 9 year old girl (might just give her money tbh)

Craft stuff. Loads of glue and glitter. The kids will love it, the adults will never talk to you again.

[Boydy]

Craft stuff. Loads of glue and glitter. The kids will love it, the adults will never talk to you again.

:D

That is my favourtie type of present tbf.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I started Christmas shopping after work tonight and after about 20 minutes wandering around not knowing what to buy anyone, I thought: fuck it, this a ridiculous thing to be doing, I'm out. No Christmas presents from me this year.

Not sure how to sell this at the family Christmas, but I'm sure I'll think of something.

[Foe]

Just bring a load of fancy booze options to the table and say that was your gift this year.

Add a swanky butlers apron to this mix to really top the show.

[Boydy]

I started Christmas shopping after work tonight and after about 20 minutes wandering around not knowing what to buy anyone, I thought: fuck it, this a ridiculous thing to be doing, I'm out. No Christmas presents from me this year.

Not sure how to sell this at the family Christmas, but I'm sure I'll think of something.

It's so stressful.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's shit especially when you have no idea what to get for someone and when you ask they just say "I don't know".

Ordered my Mum some expensive face cream that she always buys for herself and I'll probably look into going to our local vintage/antique shop to see if they have anything else there.

I think for my Sister the plan is to go half in for a sewing machine with my Mum.

[Shindig]

I got the 'you don't need to bother' response from my parents. I'd be shocked if they said otherwise, to be honest.

[Spikey M]

:D

That is my favourtie type of present tbf.

Do it as a giant joint present for them all. Boxing Day will be a blood bath. You could end the marriage of the parents.

[ScousePig]

Our tree in the hall was decorated last week after the staff meeting, although a couple of teachers were conspicuous by their absence after a rather depressing meeting which went on too long. We're also not having a Christmas party, which I find a bit odd. In both my previous schools they had a full traditional meal/night out/shindig event but here it's a bog standard meal or nothing.

Merry Christmas.

[Boydy]

Do it as a giant joint present for them all. Boxing Day will be a blood bath. You could end the marriage of the parents.

:D

They're not all in the same family unfortunately.

[Baz]

Right lads, Christmas shopping. A load of you have kids these days so help a brother out with some suggestions.

Need to get presents for:
- 3 year old girl
- 6 year old girl
- 9 year old girl (might just give her money tbh)
What’s your budget?

[Ian]

I was considering going away this year to sit in the sun somewhere and not really do Christmas but if there are strikes I don't really want to risk getting marooned somewhere.

However I really don't want to have to spend a day pretending to be jolly with my sister's in laws so I might investigate somewhere to go in the UK.


Right lads, Christmas shopping. A load of you have kids these days so help a brother out with some suggestions.

Need to get presents for:
- 3 year old girl
- 6 year old girl
- 9 year old girl (might just give her money tbh)

Is asking the parents what they're currently obsessing over not an option? In my experience of having nieces and being terrible at presents the parents always have a list as long as your arm of stuff they've said they want, or will take as much of as they can get.

[Ben]

Definitely ask. Kids love a fad so guessing will most probably end up with them thinking Uncle Boydy is a right square.

[Spikey M]

I was considering going away this year to sit in the sun somewhere and not really do Christmas but if there are strikes I don't really want to risk getting marooned somewhere.

However I really don't want to have to spend a day pretending to be jolly with my sister's in laws so I might investigate somewhere to go in the UK.



Is asking the parents what they're currently obsessing over not an option? In my experience of having nieces and being terrible at presents the parents always have a list as long as your arm of stuff they've said they want, or will take as much of as they can get.

Aren't the strikes just customs officials? Enjoy your holiday, take an extra suitcase, fill it with 5000 cigarettes and sell them on your return 1980's style.

[Spikey M]

Ah, I see it's baggage handlers too. Even better, by the time you get your case back fags will have doubled in price again.

[Giggles]

I was considering going away this year to sit in the sun somewhere and not really do Christmas but if there are strikes I don't really want to risk getting marooned somewhere.

However I really don't want to have to spend a day pretending to be jolly with my sister's in laws so I might investigate somewhere to go in the UK.



Is asking the parents what they're currently obsessing over not an option? In my experience of having nieces and being terrible at presents the parents always have a list as long as your arm of stuff they've said they want, or will take as much of as they can get.

Head over to Boydy and go Christmas shopping with him.

[Jimmy Floyd]

At the moment my plan is to put some money in an envelope, and write out an accompanying card that says 'What's the point of me buying you some stupid tat you don't even want? Use this money to get something you actually want.'

Will probably blow their minds and upset them. It's a merry Bazball Christmas.

[Ben]

It's the way forward. I got the wife some silk pyjamas last year thinking I was class because she loves pyjamas so I couldn't go wrong. Turns out I could as silk is a nightmare once you start perspiring even just a little bit. They look better than they feel.

This year she's getting a Fenwick's gift card. Buy what you want.

[Boydy]

What’s your budget?

About 20 quid each. 30 max.

[Giggles]

Gift cards all round from me. Handy but it shows you had to go to at least some effort over giving cash.

[Ian]

Aren't the strikes just customs officials? Enjoy your holiday, take an extra suitcase, fill it with 5000 cigarettes and sell them on your return 1980's style.

A bloke in Hamilton once stopped me in the streets firstly asking if I had a light, no I don't, I don't smoke. Unperturbed, then offers me cheap cigarettes. No thanks, still don't smoke.

I turned to carry on walking and he shouted after me "They're Spanish!" as if this would incentivise me to take up smoking immediately.

[wullie]

About 20 quid each. 30 max.

For the three year old I'd go with a combo of the advice you've been given already. Find out what characters or cartoons they like and then get something arty that features them like a painting set, magic water thing or something with a shitload of stickers. Ideally all the three, but only the stickers if you're not hosting as otherwise you'll be finding them months later around the house.

[Lewis]

I was considering going away this year to sit in the sun somewhere and not really do Christmas but if there are strikes I don't really want to risk getting marooned somewhere.

However I really don't want to have to spend a day pretending to be jolly with my sister's in laws so I might investigate somewhere to go in the UK.

I won't because it's my idea, but surely somebody here could host poor auld Ian Webly?

[7om]

To be fair, a day at home watching Christmas tv and getting bladdered on obscure ales sounds quite appealing.

[Giggles]

That's exactly what I'll be doing so I'll make a space on the couch.

[Spikey M]

To be fair, a day at home watching Christmas tv and getting bladdered on obscure ales sounds quite appealing.

I broke up with my girlfriend at the time shortly before Christmas in my last year at Uni. I was set to stay in Birmingham and spend it with her, but upon breaking up I decided I'd have a lonely one. I'd get a curry in from down the road, a load of beers and play the PS3. :drool:

Sadly, the Christmas Spirit got to my Step Dad who insisted I come and spend the Christmas and New Year with him, his new wife and step kids. I was absolutely fuming.

And they had Aunt Bessie's rosties ffs.

[Offshore Toon]

Gift cards all round from me. Handy but it shows you had to go to at least some effort over giving cash.
It's easily the most stupid way of going about things.

[Giggles]

Colour me shocked.

[Spikey M]

I'd rather have the cash, I don't need the token effort.

[Giggles]

The people I'm buying for would prefer the token effort, but noted.

[Lofty]

I broke up with my girlfriend at the time shortly before Christmas in my last year at Uni. I was set to stay in Birmingham and spend it with her, but upon breaking up I decided I'd have a lonely one. I'd get a curry in from down the road, a load of beers and play the PS3. :drool:

Sadly, the Christmas Spirit got to my Step Dad who insisted I come and spend the Christmas and New Year with him, his new wife and step kids. I was absolutely fuming.

And they had Aunt Bessie's rosties ffs.

I used to do this every year, strategically avoid every cunt as long as possible and just wallow in the day off doing what I wanted :drool:

9 year olds like shit like kinetic sand.

[Spikey M]

The people I'm buying for would prefer the token effort, but noted.

Do you need my PayPal details?

[7om]

Kinetic sand is the devils creation. Fuck the inventor of that stuff.

[Giggles]

Do you need my PayPal details?

I'll leave it on the front step.

[Dquincy]

On way back from my Xmas do. My secretary told me she has joined fuckbuddy.com and has fucked 4 fella in the pasted 4 weeks. She's married with kids, but seems to be having a great time.

[Waffdon]

I broke up with my girlfriend at the time shortly before Christmas in my last year at Uni. I was set to stay in Birmingham and spend it with her, but upon breaking up I decided I'd have a lonely one. I'd get a curry in from down the road, a load of beers and play the PS3. :drool:

Sadly, the Christmas Spirit got to my Step Dad who insisted I come and spend the Christmas and New Year with him, his new wife and step kids. I was absolutely fuming.

And they had Aunt Bessie's rosties ffs.

Your step Dad and his new wife? Huh? Is that normal

[Lofty]

On way back from my Xmas do. My secretary told me she has joined fuckbuddy.com and has fucked 4 fella in the pasted 4 weeks. She's married with kids, but seems to be having a great time.

That sounds like a paid promotion.

[niko_cee]

Honeypot scheme more like.

[Spikey M]

Your step Dad and his new wife? Huh? Is that normal

My mum died. He remarried.

[Dquincy]

My mum died. He remarried.
:(

[Dquincy]

That sounds like a paid promotion.

Didn't actually think of that. Anyway, I've woken to a text from her. "Thanks for our chat last night xxx". She clearly wants me and my body.