-Parents buying me a box of Universal Fighting System cards when the store gets more
-Grandpa got me a 3 D-cell LED MagLite. This thing is truly awesome. Huge, tons of light, and heavy. A totally awesome gift.
-Girlfriend's gift to me is still a mystery at this point.
-Addy was talking about getting me something but I didn't know what to ask her for.
-Got Guilty Gear Accent Core from a Secret Santa.
FUCKING LEGO IMPERIAL STAR DESTROYER 10k piece WTF HUGE(it weighs 19 lbs) kit from my girlfriend who loves me way too much.
Also, my birthday is in 5 days, so everyone just combines all the stuff i get.
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Talonus had this to say about Tron:
I entirely agree. It's unfortunate that the version Gadani got is a mixed bag that is a bit weak compared to the Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic version though. The price is right though.
The one I got is the one I asked for. I didn't want my parents to spend that much money on me, heh.
e: Also I should mention it is a DVD set. Gadani fucked around with this message on 12-26-2007 at 02:19 AM.
BEST PRESENT EVER, I WIN!
That, and I also got a guitar, so now I need to learn how to play that. Is hard, so far!
I also got a fried video chip in my X-Box 360 (or so my neighbor says)...
I'd mention the others, but they're all shirts from "The Gap" or something...
So I'm a happy guy. (Even though my avatar isn't smiling)
Edit: Ebay-link of the item for reference. Rodent King fucked around with this message on 12-26-2007 at 02:01 PM.
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Skaw had this to say about the Spice Girls:
Why the fucking christ would someone pay $1000, much less any amount, for something cosmetic?
Same reason people pay 100,000 bucks for a Ferrari or some such and never do anything beyond drive on the highway with it. To show off.
Though I'd bet RK's nephew got it out of a pack or some such. Falaanla Marr fucked around with this message on 12-26-2007 at 11:45 PM.
A gargoyle statuette.
Awesome leather motorcycle gauntlets
Leaf-blade spear with a burnt-wood shaft
440 Stainless tai chi sword
Black hakama
Matching handmade scarves from me and my sweetie
And my sweetie got us matching tungsten carbide engagement rings. 
My daughter, however.. made out like a bandit.
I also got some flashlights, manicure set, a watch, keychain finder, Witchblade Volume 1 (my little bro is awesome), and my AAA bill paid.
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Skaw was listening to Cher while typing:
You're right. A condom would've been much more hilarious.
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
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x--Falaanla MarrO-('-'Q) :
Same reason people pay 100,000 bucks for a Ferrari or some such and never do anything beyond drive on the highway with it.
Because they're extremely stupid?
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x--Zephyer KyuukazeO-('-'Q) :
Not a bad haul for me, this year!Awesome leather motorcycle gauntlets
Leaf-blade spear with a burnt-wood shaft
440 Stainless tai chi sword
Black hakama
Matching handmade scarves from me and my sweetieAnd my sweetie got us matching tungsten carbide engagement rings.
You are so gay you make Hard Gay look like fucking Hugh Hefner.
You make Klaus Nomi look like Sean Connery. Maradon! fucked around with this message on 12-31-2007 at 05:47 PM.
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And I was all like 'Oh yeah?' and Maradon! was all like:
Because they're extremely stupid?
Because they have money to throw away.
I'd imagine if you had several hundred thousand dollars coming in every year, you'd own things that people would consider a waste.
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Over the mountain, in between the ups and downs, I ran into Willias who doth quote:
Because they have money to throw away.I'd imagine if you had several hundred thousand dollars coming in every year, you'd own things that people would consider a waste.
If I had several hundred thousand dollars coming in every year, I still wouldn't invest in absurd products that serve no purpose other than that of a grotesque display of wealth. "Showing off" is idiotic and the sort of thing that only people who have failed to advance past adolescence do.
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Mr. Gainsboroughing:
Like that stupid WiFi Weather Rabbit shit?
nah I was wrong about that rabbit. It is priced hilariously high for what it does, but it does DO something. It brings you some benefit other than being some glittering phallic compensation.
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Maradon! had this to say about Tron:
If I had several hundred thousand dollars coming in every year, I still wouldn't invest in absurd products that serve no purpose other than that of a grotesque display of wealth. "Showing off" is idiotic and the sort of thing that only people who have failed to advance past adolescence do.
It's like people collecting shit. Does it serve a purpose? No, not really.
Some people like having really fancy and expensive cars.
Edit: I don't think it's really a display of wealth either since you aren't showing off the car to anyone. (Unless you show it off at a car show or something) You're just keeping it around. I had a teacher like that.
i think he fucked his cars in the exhaust pipe or something.
Anyway, it wouldn't be like that car dipshit who got banned. Driving around one of those fucking expensive cars is even more stupid. Willias fucked around with this message on 12-31-2007 at 06:07 PM.
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Maradon! enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
If I had several hundred thousand dollars coming in every year, I still wouldn't invest in absurd products that serve no purpose other than that of a grotesque display of wealth. "Showing off" is idiotic and the sort of thing that only people who have failed to advance past adolescence do.
Yet they manage to have earned all that money, despite never advanceing past adolescence. Hell I know a CEO that owns a 42' boat (and I can say with no modesty, hosts a mighty impressive electronic suite) that might leave it's slip once a year, and the kicker to me is that he lives in in Ohio and his boat is in NJ. Peter fucked around with this message on 12-31-2007 at 06:13 PM.
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
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Verily, the chocolate bunny rabbits doth run and play while Maradon! gently hums:
If I had several hundred thousand dollars coming in every year, I still wouldn't invest in absurd products that serve no purpose other than that of a grotesque display of wealth. "Showing off" is idiotic and the sort of thing that only people who have failed to advance past adolescence do.
Here's the problem with that statement: what you consider "no purpose other than that of a grotesque display of wealth," others consider "buying something high quality and slightly out of the ordinary." Even the fact that you consider an income of only a couple of hundred thousand a year in this league means you're not really approaching the problem correctly. Hell, when I was stationed in Paris, my after tax monthly pay was right around $15K--and I guarantee there were no grotesque displays of wealth for its own sake involved. Yeah, I could've had one-room apartment in a dangerous neighborhood instead of a 3-bedroon on the river next door to Notre Dame, but it's the idiot who'd choose the former rather than the latter.
Just because you're not well off now, perhaps, and have to count every penny doesn't mean people who have more money than you are stupid. I guarantee that if you were making that kind of money you'd have much nicer things than you do now, and your whole attitude would change. Hell, the whole point of the political system you pretend to advocate is that it's okay for people to spend their own money as they choose, yet each time it comes up, you roll in like a true Socialist and start saying how they're stupid if they don't use their money "wisely" according to you. What's next, redistribution of wealth to those better able to spend it on "important" rather than trivial things?
There is no inherent saintliness in living beneath your means.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Bloodsage painfully thought these words up:
There is no inherent saintliness in living beneath your means.
Might want to change that predicate to avoid some amount of irony. Vorbis fucked around with this message on 01-02-2008 at 12:59 PM.
From Friends:
a fist sized rose quartz
more to come
From boyfriend (MLR):
Korbel Russian River Valley Chardonnay 1994, a trip to the grocery store, T-shirt, $20 on my cell phone, $40 cash, box of sugar free chocolates (yum!) and a Plaroid 6 Megapixel Digital Camera and a 2 GB SD memory card, Oh and sushimi dinner with ginger icecream for desert.
more to come when he gets back from his daughters wedding in Nebraska.
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Genericgirl attempted to be funny by writing:
From my parents:
A steel Roadmaster wagon (to haul my laundry to the laundry room), chocoate and more chocolate, measuring cupsFrom Friends:
a fist sized rose quartz
more to comeFrom boyfriend (MLR):
Korbel Russian River Valley Chardonnay 1994, a trip to the grocery store, T-shirt, $20 on my cell phone, $40 cash, box of sugar free chocolates (yum!) and a Plaroid 6 Megapixel Digital Camera and a 2 GB SD memory card, Oh and sushimi dinner with ginger icecream for desert.
more to come when he gets back from his daughters wedding in Nebraska.
I thought you died.
