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Round robin letters and other yuletide annoyances
BillieTheBot
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Just what is it that makes people think that just 'cause it's Xmas everyone is interested in what their great uncle's dog's chew toy has been up to this year/their brazen showing off about their new bathroom/unexpectedly high gas bill and their brand new birdbath. Fair enough if you've done anything remotely interesting this year but since that is very rarely the case... please, no more!
What other Chrimble "traditions" get on your tits?
Just what is it that makes people think that just 'cause it's Xmas everyone is interested in what their great uncle's dog's chew toy has been up to this year/their brazen showing off about their new bathroom/unexpectedly high gas bill and their brand new birdbath. Fair enough if you've done anything remotely interesting this year but since that is very rarely the case... please, no more!
What other Chrimble "traditions" get on your tits?
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cards with family pictures on
Round robins crack me up...I wrote a joke sarcastic one about my family last year which entertained for a while.
I hate it when they list their children's GCSE's. who sodding cares, show offs.
Dear Mr Smith and Family
Well what a year its been! Molly has had head lice eighteen times this year and the dog has rabies. Jonathon has impregnated three girls and we are all very proud. Such a free spirit, and only aged ten!
WHO FUCKING CARES?!
POST OF THE WEEK
:yes:
Wake up Mr and Mrs Jack, our balls dropped years ago and WE'RE BOTH IN OUR TWENTIES.
You are *never* too old for a selection box. In fact, Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without a Cadbury's selection box
Leigh's got one from Ruudy and Bert
I don't mind round robin letters, I like finding out about Great Aunt Gertrude's false teeth, septicaemia and thrush. Lets face it, its more interesting than Chrimbo telly.
Actually thats not true, I have two christmas cards, one from my mum and one from my friend.
Lenny has about thirtybloodyfive of them :S
To Lenny and Abbie
Mirry ChrIsTmas
Lot and L o Ts of love
Ma ry
xx X x
People actually do that?
What really got to me was a colleague of my father, who had made an article about he and his family's holiday trips this year. They had everything from Ibiza to Niagara falls, and they wrote tonnes about their experiences bla bla bla.
Who cares, really? WHO? I know for sure i don't give a rat's ass about ther jovial vacation. Such a self-centred thing to do, impressive really.
We've had 3 so far this year, they are all so twee it's silly.
To be honest though, they're no more self-indulgent than a live journal or myspace. So most of the people moaning about people sending these are doing exactly the same thing all year round.
I wouldn't mind it if my mates sent them to me (none do like because there are much more important/better things to do than write letters about what you have done this year) but it is when like great aunties or other people you don't give two shits about send you them and boast on and on about some bollucks. That's when they are bugging!
Of course you aren't.
But it's verging on rudeness to go merrily on with your life all year until mid-December, when you suddenly decide it's about time you inflicted reams and reams of pointless blathering onto everyone you know and their pet toad. As (I think) IWS just said, these are the people who you never hear from through the year - unless they have won the nobel prize or are featured in the birthdays column of the local rag - who use the opportunity to gloat [mostly about things I wouldn't even bother telling the hairdresser] ad nauseum.
It would be a little better even if they scribbled a note about their life in a card, but the card usually isn't even personalised and just says 'Seasons Greetings' followed by "love so and so and family"... and then out drops a Times New Roman inscribed sheet of A4 or ten. Argh.
Its usually comic sans because theyre so 'jolly'
They are gay as fuck but I do love to have a nose at other peoples private, and unbelivably boring, lives
Good thinking!!!
Its so stupid... its a chance to gloat.
Mine would be as follows :
Dear Family
Its great to hear that your children have fantastic jobs and thousand dollar scholarships into uni. It's just spiffin'.
What a year its been for us. Dani broke her arm in January and now again a couple of weeks ago.
Mum has had an incomplete fracture on her ankle and now is limping around in a moon boot. She also has back and ankle problems.
Nana broke her hip and is still a bit strange from the meds...
And to top it all off, my first love broke my heart not long after telling me that he wanted us to live together.
Hope you're well.
Merry fucking Christmas and a Happy fucking new year.
in an effort to avoid last years back lash of horrid, and often disgusting responses to my round robin letter last year, I have endeavoured to change my ways.
This year you will be receiving 100% recycled christmas cards, recycled in the sense that they are the same cards I sent you last year, due to the fact that they were returned to sender, due to having an incorrect address on them.
Its almost as if you are all trying to avoid my christmas cards and letters, do you not want to know of my long and tired journeys, my adventures and quests.
Isn't my fault you don't believe in dragons and wizards, I spent last christmas either in a mine, or atop a lonely mountain.
Piss off if you think fighting off hoards of orcs, and details of the younguns first smoke of pipeweed bore you. It might please you to know that I'm dying off old age, can't be bothered with the small annoyances of normal people, and might even swindle you all out of your savings before running away to the grey havens to have a comfortable retirement.
Love Frodo Baggins