So, What Did Santa Bring You?

[xSilverPhinx]

I got a really nice pair of work gloves and a coffee maker.

Very practical gifts

And socks. Lots of socks...

That's...nice. 

[Buddy]

A new set of tires and a dash camera for my car.

That's really cool. Are you going to film the races? 

Yeah most likely. The dash cam is mostly for every day driving in case something were to happen to my car.

[xSilverPhinx]

weve got two teenagers from africa in for the holidays. uganda and rwanda. got them stuff to keep them from being homesick, including a folding knife each. they were surprised at the knivez, and one didnt know how to open it. very strange.

in the meantime my numher one daughter is opening packages with a folding knife the size of a bayonet,  and the oldezt boy is out in the hayfield banging away with a 9mm he bought but cant shoot in town.

different cultures.

Yeah

[xSilverPhinx]

I've got a book about whisky, a nice bottle of Italian wine, three different kind of barbecue sauces and some chocolate.

(minus the book, heh)

[xSilverPhinx]

i love south indian food, but im lousy at cooking. i like my own curriez, for instac3. but my wifesays theyre like eating dirt. cant do decent chapattis, either.

i burned out my inzidez years ago. now the only stuff too hot for me is serious habaneros or ceylonese style curry. but i can eat past the blisters in my mouth if its good enough.

Man, I ate loads of buttered chapattis back in the day (had a maid/nanny who was from New Delhi when I was a kid). It's good, not spicy. 

The memories.  

[xSilverPhinx]

A new set of tires and a dash camera for my car.

That's really cool. Are you going to film the races? 

Yeah most likely. The dash cam is mostly for every day driving in case something were to happen to my car.

That's an excellent reason for having a dash cam.

[Buddy]

That's an excellent reason for having a dash cam.

One of the cool features this new one has is sensor that turns the camera on and records if someone hits my car while parked. Definitely worth it for that alone

[Magdalena]

weve got two teenagers from africa in for the holidays. uganda and rwanda. got them stuff to keep them from being homesick, including a folding knife each. they were surprised at the knivez, and one didnt know how to open it. very strange.
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Did you know in many cultures giving/receiving a knife is "bad luck"? 
https://people.howstuffworks.com/bad-luck-to-give-knives-as-gift.htm

Call me crazy, but I don't know if a knife is what I would want if I came from a place where 1 million were killed by machete, club and gun...I'm just saying.

[billy rubin]

Did you know in many cultures giving/receiving a knife is "bad luck"? 

oooh shit

billy did not know that.

Call me crazy, but I don't know if a knife is what I would want if I came from a place where 1 million were killed by machete, club and gun...I'm just saying.

well, these were tool-type knives, not weapon-type knives. i'm so used to knives with my own kids i don't even think bout it. i taught them how to do a rudimentary temper on mild steel with a torch and motor oil when they were little and they've been making their own edged tools ever since. my house is littered with home-made knives, axes, short swords, hatchets, tomahawks, machetes, and so on. good thing i didn't teach them how to cast a cannon, i guess.

[No one]

Everything is a weapon if you apply the proper expertise.

[Harmonie]

I got a real nice parka coat with matching gloves. I love them and I wish it were cold enough to get to wear them.

I also got the Hallmark 2019 Generation I MLP Seashell ornament.

All of these gifts I got weeks ago, so there was nothing to open on Christmas itself.

[Dark Lightning]

chutney!

and garam masala.

I tried Indian food a few years ago, but it was too hot for my taste. I think they got the order wrong, and brought me fooded spice and not spiced food. 

My two eldest sons and I like our food with spice, but the second oldest likes it really hot. When he goes for Indian food, they ask him if he wants it American hot, or Indian hot. He takes it Indian hot! I can't do that anymore. As a gift for this morning, I had to fiddle with the furnace to get it to light. Looks like I'll have to scrounge up a repair manual and find the problem before my house blows up or something. I may have to call a repair person.

I remember this one time when I was about 16 I was cutting peppers for dinner and then without thinking I rubbed my eyes without thoroughly washing my hands first. After that experience I just don't seek out anything spicy anymore.

BoT, I got to cook most of xmas dinner. Not much of a gift.

More of a gift to those who will be eating it. 

Nobody was complaining! Thank you very much!

[Dark Lightning]

Everything is a weapon if you apply the proper expertise.

Is this a Sam Vimes quote from a Pratchett book, or from personal experience? I know from personal experience that a vast array of innocent items are actually useful as implements of mayhem or destruction. But then I weighed 137 pounds and was 5'-7" when I graduated high school. I gruesome after that, though.

[No one]

It is not a quote from any book that I am aware of. Just a fact.

[Magdalena]

Did you know in many cultures giving/receiving a knife is "bad luck"? 

oooh shit

billy did not know that.

Call me crazy, but I don't know if a knife is what I would want if I came from a place where 1 million were killed by machete, club and gun...I'm just saying.

well, these were tool-type knives, not weapon-type knives. I'm so used to knives with my own kids I don't even think bout it. I taught them how to do a rudimentary temper on mild steel with a torch and motor oil when they were little and they've been making their own edged tools ever since. my house is littered with home-made knives, axes, short swords, hatchets, tomahawks, machetes, and so on. good thing I didn't teach them how to cast a cannon, I guess.

I completely understand what you're saying. I grew up with a machete in my hand. I would have "clean fun" with it. Opening coconuts with it, cutting and peeling sugarcanes with it, cutting branches, etc. Back in 1978, I witnessed a machete fight between a drunk man and a police officer.



I had such a ....weird...childhood.







:lol