My brother didn't like his action figures so i adopted them to be my Barbie's pizza delivery dudes. My mom told me she'd explain why she found that hilarious once i got older.
+Alpha Charlie Echo Plays! And it's a root for languages spoken now by even 800 million people worldwide! And it has tremendous impact for almost every language possible (English too)! Post Scriptum: Butyrum. :D
my brother and I both got a fake drivers licence, a toy car key, a toy smartphone and a photobook with our ugliest childhood pictures for our 18th birthdays my sister is next hehe :)
The tweet about the dog reminded me of a story my grandmother told. She said she was pregnant the same time her family dog was. When she and my grandpa got home from the hospital they had the baby wrapped in a blanket. My mom lifted up the blanket for a peek and screamed, "why is there a baby? I wanted a puppy!!"
My grandma got me a toy guitar one Christmas. I was maybe 6 or 7 years old. When I took it home, my mom and her then husband fought over it to play with it and broke it! I never got to even play with it before it was broken. I cried under the kitchen table. I could've been a guitar prodigy!!! To this day mom doesn't remember and it makes me mad.
+MrStensnask u think he was less spoiled when they died and all the money went to him ? Gotham doesn't do it justice u know him and cat and silver were having mad coked out threesomes like every other night. You know Alfred was harsh pervin the whole thing from a closet too.
+Batman At some point, when we were "old enough" my parents stopped buying actual presents. for anything. It was cash for a while, which was good, but even that stopped eventually. I still miss the magic of Christmas and birthday presents.
At my (12th?) birthday party, my best friend forgot to get me a gift. Knowing that I had a rock collection, he went to his driveway and filled a shoe box with gravel. Didn't bother wrapping it.
We do secret Santa at my work which is my favorite especially since the majority of my coworkers are men one year I ended up with the new guy I gave him a glamour shot of myself from my teenage years then taped a $30 gift card on the back. The look on his face was worth every penny. I’ve also done chia pets, fake concert tickets a hat from a rival football team even some brownies I made (I’m a horrible cook) but I always include the gift card
Raotflmfao.That's too funny. A little fun trick and laughter later LOL. I do sh!t like that too. Like dog treats and beef jerky. Dog cookies and regular cookies
Someone at my sister-in-law's church gave her a gift card for her birthday and then said," You'll have to put money on it though because it doesn't have any on it."
My dad (drills geology samples for the state survey) literally gave me a lump of coal for Christmas. He wrapped it up in a huge box and inside was this giant rock. Thanks, Dad.
my boyfriend gave a bunch of his shirts when he moved to Texas and that really helped me fall asleep without him until I moved down there a few months later. he even used clean shirts!!
For my brothers birthday one of his friends got him and Xbox game. We never had an Xbox. By the end of the party he convinced my brother to let him take it home so it wouldn't go to waste.
Ha! That whole "Chazz Boo-tay Esquire" reminded me of Keeping Up Appearances. "That's Boo-Kay... B... U... C... K... E...T... No, no, not Bucket, it's Boo-Kayyy..." LMAO. Best ever.
Steve Higgins rose to recognition in a show on Comedy Central called ‘The Higgins boys and Gruber’. It ran from 89-91. Think ‘Mystery Science 3000’ in a kitchen with three people instead of one person and two robots.
when I was younger i was obsessed with phones and every year without fail my mother would take a phone box and put a hair brush in it. every year with out fail i would fall for it.
About 20 years ago my Dad's friend got me a box of Corn Flakes as a birthday present. Still to this day we get each other something cereal related. It's going on too long for us to stop
‘Twas 12:12pm, she was lost within the black hole of Jimmy Fallon #hashtag videos, with no end in sight. She gleefully watched on, as the stack of homework in the corner gathered dust and shed a single solitary tear at the horror of the procrastination before it, and her future self moaned and groaned about never getting enough sleep. Behold the horror.
I looked it up...funnily, The Ugly Little Boy is science fiction while The Ugly Little Girl is a book on shitty self esteem in girls in real life lol. wth
Once I told my dad that i wanted a hamster as a gift .. next day he brought two white mice that his friend took from a research lab in the hospital he worked in 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 my mom letterally told him ill divorce you if dont get those mice outta the house they were so cute doe😂😂😂😂😂
3:41 I feel like that's definitely something my dad would do just to see how disappointed i'd be. Then he'd laugh at me and make a joke out of it, but really, he'd have the phone waiting for me in the house. It wouldn't be an Iphone though, because he hates Iphones, lol.
Jimmy is the best! Wish I could hang out at Knicks /Sixers with him (he did this week and I'm not a stalker) just to hear a litany of jokes about how bad my team is.
When I was 3, I was having my 1st birthday party with friends invited, presents, cake. I was so excited. Then my mom went into labor, had to be rushed to the hospital and the party was canceled. My little brother was born on my birthday. Everybody was saying "Isn't this special, you got a baby brother for your birthday" I DID NOT WANT A BABY BROTHER, I WANTED A PARTY! I still haven't forgiven him for that.
My brother gave me an Itty Bitty Book Light for Christmas. I pointed out to him that I was single, and if I wanted to read in bed, I could just leave the regular light on.
At some point, when we were "old enough", my parents stopped buying actual presents. For anything. It was cash for a while, which was good, but even that stopped eventually. I still miss the magic of Christmas and birthday presents.
I stopped giving my kids Xmas gifts. Instead I bought gifts all year, wrapped them and put them on top of the China cabinet. Every once in a while, we’d open one each. Christmas all year long. They also played with them longer.
This makes me want to "gift-giving" adopt you, and pick up your parents' slack! I don't have the money to, unfortunately. Just know that somewhere in the world there's someone who wants to give you gifts.
My birthday, November 22, falls during deer hunting season, so my dad was always gone when I was a kid. One year, he picked me up after he returned, my parents were divorced at the time, handed me a paper bag, written on the outside was, "Happy Birthday, Sweetheart... Love, Bambi." Inside were the antlers and partial scalp of a deer he killed, complete with fur, blood, and brain matter. My SEVEN YEAR OLD self wasn't sure what to do. Needless to say, my mom threw it away as soon as I got home. Definitely worst gift ever!!
+Nikhil Paul it's about 50/50. Half the time, he just talks and isn't funny. The other half of the time he's funny. He's very hit or miss. For example, if he were in the MLB, his batting average would be .500. WOW what a great batting average! He's be leading the league for sure. Big contracts for him. Unfortunately, with comedy, I like to laugh at more than 50% of what comes out of his word hole.
Melissa Mroczenski almost everything he says in the show is improvised. You cant always expect improvised lines to draw that many laughs. If you take that into consideration he's really good
I feel like people only think that birthdays are just for gifts and its really not so be grateful for what you get because some people dont get any of that.
I once saw on TLC a woman who hides objects from their family for a long time and gives them back on christmas as their presents. Her excuse: "its all about giving"
OMG! JIMMY FALLON! I started watching How I met Your Mother and couldn't figure out who I thought Ted Mosby looked like! It's Jimmy Fallon, holy moly so happy!
I didnt have a birthday celebration until I became 18 and I have to share it with my brother he has the same birth date, I had to buy my own cake and the gift is usually a tooth brush and tooth paste, thanks for telling I have a stinky breath on my birthday lol
Waaaaaay back, my grandmother knew my grandpa wanted a tool... My grandma had NO IDEA which brand was the best etc.... So... She stapled over 100.00 worth of $1.00 bills together (pre loonie time in Canada of course) and rolled them up with a picture of the tool... My grandpa had to pull EVERY STAPLE out before spending it. He did get his tool in the end though 🤣
2:52 - The sad part is that that is one of the reasons I always take my boyfriend's blanket when I'm sleeping & he isn't, so I can relate (It's also very big & warm).
One year, when I was little, my grandma told us she wouldn't be getting us as great of gifts as she usually would because she was low on money, which we were fine with and we understood, but then when Christmas came along, everyone got terrible gifts. I don't remember everyone's gifts, but I remember I got a bag of Rolo's candies, and one of my cousins got a box of Toaster Strudels. After everyone had opened their presents, my grandma showed us the real reason she had no money; she decided to buy herself a gun and take shooting lessons at the shooting range. She then proceeded to take us outside (she lives in the woods) to show us how great of a shot she was..
Last Christmas my friend gave her boyfriend a foosball table, set it up in his band's studio and organized a treasure hunt for him to find it there. He gave her windshield liquid and a gas can...
I often get batteries and phone chargers and really technical stuff that I'd rather get myself any other time of the year. Those are just not practical gifts to me.
For years my father's mother gave us soap sets, usually Disney. Pissed my mom off to no end, "what, we don't have soap?!" Yeah, they were cute but what kid wants soap? And when she gave us Snow White and the seven dwarfs, after a couple of baths they looked like seven suppositories.
I wish there was a "Shut the Fuck-Up Higgins!" button. That when pressed he would literally become mute. He could keep going on and on trying to be funny but no one had to hear him and Jimmy could just continue doing HIS show.
My grandma (dad's mom) got me a poster of a moose with his butt facing the camera. "I saw that and thought of you!" She hated my Mom, so we were always treated like 2nd class grandkids. Same year my dad got my Mom a toilet snake for xmas, the kind you use instead of a plunger. Still insists he treated her like a princess throughout their marriage 🙄
My mom used to re-wrap my old baby toys and give them to me as gifts. Sure, mom. I want that shit when I'm 32. Then, her and my grandmother used to wrap and re-wrap a old nightgown filled with holes (the Holy Nightgown) and you never knew who was going to get it the next year (omg the suspense!). My mom also liked to give gifts that she herself liked and if "you're not going to use that, can I have it back?" She would regularly ask me about gifts she'd given me to find out if I was using them. Then one year I gave her a cake pan. She said she needed a cake pan. But yet, she hated being given the cake pan and complained about it for several years afterwards. I felt like saying "Bitch, it's better than some old baby toys and some hair thing you bought off of QVC that you really want yourself". Happy Holidays!! #worstgiftever
my worst gift was from a cousin of mine who got me a x-box, and no it was not a original xbox, nor a 360 (the one had probably just started entering the dreams of the xbox people at Microsoft) but it was a 'x' shaped box painted green. Luckily this was only a joke and he had a proper one hiding somewhere else. I got back at him next year with a $5 gift card that I had placed in a card that was wrapped in about 7 or 8 newspapers worth of wrapping (i used that as I had a puppy at the time and could not afford proper wrapping paper)so when I finished wrapping it, (took better part of a hour) it could not fit in a normal carry bag.
+Christopher Hart Dang, man. Stupid elaborate plans don't usually fail like that. I mean, I'm no example but... uh... what's a crazily overthought plan...? Oh yeah! Jesus! Also existence! That's crazy and arguably overly elaborate! If God can do it, why can't we? I mean, besides the fact that He's God and everything...
+Melissa Mroczenski do you think saying you hope someone dies in a fire in the next couple days makes u any better of a person than someone knocking religion ? I think it makes you evil and more likely u are to be sent to hell. Especially when he wasn't even saying anything bad about religion and what he said clearly just went over your head. I really hope for your friends and family's sake u will be at church today.
Brandon Bassani Oh lord. I never said I was a good person. I'm a fucking terrible person and I already have a contract with Satan to make my time in hell more enjoyable. Nothing went over my head you fucking plebeian. I won't be wasting my time at church, don't worry. I'll be doing something more productive, like building a sand castle.
I got my first apartment near christmas, my grandma got me a chrome toilet brush. When my fake excited failed to impress my grandma said but when my friends come over they are going to notice how nice it looks... #worstgiftever
My grandma bought me some weird crotcheted mermaid tail. I'm a teenager. The tail doesn't even fit!!! Also, I saw a book at an antique shop that was titled: The Saucy Little Bear. I begged my parents for it, but they wouldn't let me get it. I also met some really awesome old lady there named Carmen. SHOUT OUT TO YOU, CARMEN!!!
One xmas my grandmother gave me this mummu type nightgown with a rose embroided on it and from the look on my face my cousin came over to see what it was. She took it off my hands for herself. Everyone else got $$