[Misc] Christmas Eve Boxes

Iggle Piggle

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Sep 3, 2010

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• Nov 8, 2018

• #21

Where I live lots of people have 'The naughty elv' This is some contrived bollocks where mum's put on Facebook - in every night of December no less - antics of the elv such as poring cerial on the floor and drinking prosecco (natch). It's hell on earth.

Despite this competitive shite I've yet to see a Christmas box. Perhaps the mums at my school aren't up with the Jones as much as they thought.

 

dazzer6666

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Mar 27, 2013

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Burgess Hill

• Nov 9, 2018

• #22

Iggle Piggle said:

Where I live lots of people have 'The naughty elv' This is some contrived bollocks where mum's put on Facebook - in every night of December no less - antics of the elv such as poring cerial on the floor and drinking prosecco (natch). It's hell on earth.

Despite this competitive shite I've yet to see a Christmas box. Perhaps the mums at my school aren't up with the Jones as much as they thought.

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This

Oooh, look, he’s wasted flour in the kitchen, naughty elf.

No, you have you silly cow, and then put a small stuffed toy next to it and taken a photo.

 

Knocky's Nose

Mon nez est en Valenciennes..

May 7, 2017

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Eastbourne

• Nov 9, 2018

• #23

BNthree said:

Nope, what is this bollocks? Is it another Yank thing?

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It's actually European I think. I know my friends in the Netherlands open all their shit on Christmas Eve, and I'm pretty sure they do that in Spain too...

 

heathgate

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Apr 13, 2015

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• Nov 9, 2018

• #24

Bozza said:

But in the UK, Christmas Eve boxes are fast becoming a "clever retail invention", Prof Mitchell said. > https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38220870

No shit.

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It's a no from us... though my nieces and nephews are starting to do it for their littluns, it's a generational virus caught from across the pond and to so.e extent, the germanic nations too methinks. Sadly the under 30's seem incapable of resisting the mammoth marketing trends pushed out by US tv and UK lowbrow progs.

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The Antikythera Mechanism

The oldest known computer

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Aug 7, 2003

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• Nov 9, 2018

• #25

In Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Denmark, Estonia, the Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Quebec, Romania, Uruguay, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland and the Czech Republic, Christmas presents are opened mostly on the evening of the 24th – following German tradition, this is also the practice among the British Royal Family since it was introduced by Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort

Thanks to Wikipedia

 

surrey jim

Not in Surrey

Aug 2, 2005

18,092

Bevendean

• Nov 9, 2018

• #26

Everyone celebrates Christmas differently, each family have their own traditions which may seem odd to others,

Let it be

 

indy3050

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Jun 22, 2011

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• Nov 9, 2018

• #27

We’ve been doing this for a few years now. The mrs is obsessed with Xmas and we have kids so on Xmas eve they open the box which usually contains Xmas pyjamas, hot chocolate, reindeer food, that kind of thing. I have to say it does add to the excitement and magic of Christmas

 

Westdene Seagull

aka Cap'n Carl Firecrotch

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The arse end of Hangleton

• Nov 9, 2018

• #28

Raleigh Chopper said:

Me too.
The downside though is my staff Christmas party is a bit boring.

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LamieRobertson said:

lol..its the one time of year I kinda miss my previous office job

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Why don't you arrange a Christmas party for all the self employed of NSC ? You could give each other a Christmas box and maybe go for a curry.

As for the Christmas box thing ... no thanks .... I don't like Christmas hence why I runaway to rural France for 2 weeks to get away from the shit.

 

Iggle Piggle

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Sep 3, 2010

5,312

• Nov 9, 2018

• #29

dazzer6666 said:

This

Oooh, look, he’s wasted flour in the kitchen, naughty elf.

No, you have you silly cow, and then put a small stuffed toy next to it and taken a photo.

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A feel a "bell cheese elf edition thread
"coming up in December with pictures minus names of the worst offenders.