View Full Version : What did Santa bring as your main pressie?
XabbaRus
12-25-07, 06:58 PM
I got a Garmin nuvi 200W GPS. Pretty good.
One thing I am confused with is that on the box it says UK & Ireland but when I turn it on I can set routes to hundreds of towns in Europe including Russia. OK so you can't put an address in for Moscow but at least I can get there. Thing is do any guys here know where I can get free maps etc as Garmin ones are expensive. Mainly I am looking for a decent topographical UK map for geo caching. I have found a few sites but there are few instructions on how to do it?
Money, 2 flasks full of booze and a book about the battle of Raate road where finns annihiliated the 44th infantry divisions with much lesser force. :up:
Kapitan
12-25-07, 07:05 PM
Well dunno much about gps but my main present this year was a pair of garfield socks.
Well dunno much about gps but my main present this year was a pair of garfield socks.
I must say, I was disappointed. I didnt get socks this year.. I always got atlewast one paior.
XabbaRus
12-25-07, 07:10 PM
Oh I got "Discover Yourself in Battle". Now tell me who wrote that and maybe I'll be nice online next time. Hint: It's a book.
Kapitan_Phillips
12-25-07, 07:21 PM
I got £200 towards a new laptop. (and as luck would have it, there's a nice one on sale tomorrow for £400)
My sister gets the best presents. I got American Dad Season 2, Miami Vice Season 1 and a Jake Delhomme figure from her. :rock:
MothBalls
12-25-07, 07:27 PM
I got laid.
Torplexed
12-25-07, 07:29 PM
I got laid.
Can't top the Christmas lay. I did get the Blade Runner 4-disc collecter's edition box set tho. :rock:
Skybird
12-25-07, 07:52 PM
I did get the Blade Runner 4-disc collecter's edition box set tho. :rock:
It should be 5 discs!
A bottle of Auchentoshan, 21 years, and a Martha Argarich recording of Rachmaninov's 3rd piano concert: beats Jorge Bolet's recording hands-down, and maximum speed and maximum risk playing. An MG fires slow bullets, compared to her play. :doh:
Torplexed
12-25-07, 08:00 PM
It should be 5 discs.
Maybe it depends on which side of the Atlantic you're on, but it only has four.
One for the final cut. One for the making of. One for the three previously released versions, and one 'enhancement' archive disc.
Enhough to keep my DVD player busy. :p
PeriscopeDepth
12-25-07, 08:02 PM
I got a night vision monocular. Can't wait to go on my first night hike with it!
PD
joegrundman
12-25-07, 08:07 PM
I was given a telescope by my wife, but i accidentally called it a periscope within about 5 minutes of opening it :oops:
Kapitan_Phillips
12-25-07, 08:09 PM
I was given a telescope by my wife, but i accidentally called it a periscope within about 5 minutes of opening it :oops:
We'd be disappointed if you didnt :up:
kiwi_2005
12-25-07, 09:02 PM
Nothing. I dont get christmas presents havn't for years now I give my sons money and thats it. My sons know not to give me a present just a hug and pat on the back is good enough :) Well how i see it them just been around me is a christmas present everyday, even though at times they drived me up the wall. Anyways who am i going to get presents from? Both parents are long gone, my sisters are into their lives on a good day they might remember to send me a card and theres no way i would expect a christmas present from my ex wife:rotfl: and she definatley wouldn't get one from me.
The neigbours always wish me Christmas and sometimes invite me over for dinner:D.
In fact i had a good Christmas believe it or not. Cooked us a roast lamb, had a few beers with my eldest son and played World of Warcraft all day raiding with my Guild:up:
:D
Tchocky
12-25-07, 09:44 PM
A bottle of Auchentoshan
Oh, lovely.
I couldn't spend Christmas with my girlfriend, so we opened presents to each other over the phone :)
She got me a beautiful medal, given to Soviet troops at the end of WW2. Knows me well :D
A Wii! And Race 07 for PC. As well as a bunch of 1/72 scale model airplanes including a Fujimi Ju-87 Stuka, a Tamiya P-47 Razorback and Spitfire Trop, an Academy Helldiver, and a Hasegawa He-111 Heinkel!
I got two tire pressure gauges, bringing the number of tire pressure gauges I own to four. I think I just might try them all out to compare accuracy.
antikristuseke
12-26-07, 12:24 AM
All i got was a winter hat and a pair of headphones.
My wonderful wife got me a V8 Supercar race day.
http://www.totalexperience.com.au/browse.asp?CategoryID=153&ProductID=1422&LocationID=38
Can't wait.
Brrrrm! Brrrrm!:arrgh!:
Stealth Hunter
12-26-07, 01:13 AM
A Playstation 3 with an 80 GB drive....
.... and the loss of $600 with it.....
antikristuseke
12-26-07, 02:21 AM
My wonderful wife got me a V8 Supercar race day.
http://www.totalexperience.com.au/browse.asp?CategoryID=153&ProductID=1422&LocationID=38
Can't wait.
Brrrrm! Brrrrm!:arrgh!:
You lucky bastard, that has to be one of the greatest gifts ever given in the history of giving gifts, congradulations.
"Das Boot" Directors cut & TV series on DVD.
:rock: NOW I can retire my old and worn VHS casette :yep:
Skybird
12-26-07, 05:34 AM
It should be 5 discs.
Maybe it depends on which side of the Atlantic you're on, but it only has four.
One for the final cut. One for the making of. One for the three previously released versions, and one 'enhancement' archive disc.
Enough to keep my DVD player busy. :p
We talk of the new tin box, yes? At leat the English-Spanish-German release has five discs - a fifth one with additonal docus and things. The main docu on disc 2 ("Dangerous Days") is 4.5 hours. If you have additional stuff (2.5 hours) on that one, somehow, they have put it all onto one disc then. Sorry, but with BR I get a bit picky easily. :D
Edit. Wait, I got it wrong, you have the enhancement archive, you said, then you have all the docus. What is missing is the workdraft of the movie, rarels seen by anyone, and never released to the piublic, with even more off-talking, different music, cuts, etc. But I would say you do not miss anything with it - I did not watch it to the end.
Konovalov
12-26-07, 06:51 AM
I did get the Blade Runner 4-disc collecter's edition box set tho. :rock:
It should be 5 discs!
And it should be in a nice tin box. :up:
I got a cheque from my Grandpa, some Geelong Club footy gear from my Dad, and lot's of love from my family on the other side of the world Down Under.
Skybird
12-26-07, 07:57 AM
I did get the Blade Runner 4-disc collecter's edition box set tho. :rock:
It should be 5 discs!
And it should be in a nice tin box. :up:
In the US they have a 4 disc edition only indeed, I meanwhile learned. It also does not come in a tin box, and without hologramm, and a map with printed arts from film developement. However, they have all the five discs available as HD blue ray edition, wioth the draft version of the movie. I wonder if this is one of many attempts to push the promotion of Blue Ray and HD?
It's a hard life in America these days! No fifth disc, no hologram and no tin box. We all have our cross to bear... :D
Keep smiling Torplexed! At least the missing pictures you could substitute yourself! :up:
A new pair of black Converse All-Stars, my last pair fell to bits.
Subnuts
12-26-07, 10:15 AM
I received a wireless router, but something isn't quite right with my computer and we have to return it. Damn! I have every intention of buying a fresh new computer in a couple months, so I suppose I can wait.
I also received an Amazon.com gift card, and bought a copy of Norman Polmar's Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines 1945-2001. So expect a new review in a couple months! ;)
As always I wished for a Type VIIC u-boat, but got a bunch of other stuff.:nope:
ReallyDedPoet
12-26-07, 10:36 AM
Its all about the kids here :yep:
They did get a nice WWI book about the Canadians involvement in that war.
RDP
The Munster
12-26-07, 11:10 AM
A toaster and it was just what I needed to try my home-made bread on :up:
A fishing license for the coming year...and had 3weeks off paid and got to spend time with the wife and kids....was great.I have 3 birthdays and Christmas in December so if I even make it thru the month with 2 coins to rub together I count myself fourtunate. :)
Sailor Steve
12-26-07, 01:08 PM
A nice lump of coal.:dead:
A extra set of tweeds and a pocket watch. :up:
-SWCowboy.
12-26-07, 01:44 PM
My wife got me something I've been wanting for 4 years now, a new pair of python boots:
http://www.zappos.com/images/734/7345741/7768-475132-p.jpg
The Diamondback rattlesnake boots were way out of my price-range, those can wait til I get off of a deployment LOL
They are so comfortable I forget I'm wearing them from time to time :cool::up:
SUBMAN1
12-26-07, 02:39 PM
I got the customary Best Buy cards, which will take me about 6 to 8 months to figure out what to buy with them again. Got a bunch of clothes, which I can always use.
I did get a bit of a bug for Nostoalgia though and bought myself a bunch of Atari Lynx cartridges. Picked up Xenophobe, California Games, Hard Drivin, Super Squeek, Crystal Mines II, and Shanghai (Mah Jong). I've got a ton of carts for that thing, about 30 now I think. Still works fine.
-S
http://www.domin-connect.de/Atari/Lynx/l2_unopened.jpg
Torplexed
12-26-07, 08:46 PM
It's a hard life in America these days! No fifth disc, no hologram and no tin box. We all have our cross to bear... :D
Keep smiling Torplexed! At least the missing pictures you could substitute yourself! :up:
I found the tin box of which you speak. Nice unicorn. Now I feel sooo deprived with my cardboard box.. I wanna take my four discs and go on a real short skeet shooting session. :cry:
http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/images/blade-runner-finalcut.jpg
...NoT! :D
SUBMAN1
12-26-07, 08:49 PM
Give them to me! Give them to me! :D I have the Blade Runner Directors cut.
-S
PS. I feel so bad for you guys, I just bought Qix, Pit Fighter, and Gates of Zendocon for my Lynx! :D
Skybird
12-26-07, 09:28 PM
It's a hard life in America these days! No fifth disc, no hologram and no tin box. We all have our cross to bear... :D
Keep smiling Torplexed! At least the missing pictures you could substitute yourself! :up:
I found the tin box of which you speak. Nice unicorn. Now I feel sooo deprived with my cardboard box.. I wanna take my four discs and go on a real short skeet shooting session. :cry:
...NoT! :D
I would sue the wicked person frustrating you with this inadequate gift! ;)
Our tin box looks different, btw, and has no unicorn. But since it was released, a suitcase and another box has been relased during decembre as well - it starts to become really confusing - and the 25th birthday of BR becomes overhyped.
Hype or not, let's home in on this one:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000Z0OX9O/ref=s9_asin_image_3?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-6&pf_rd_r=0Y14NXJV16YS8TPFVC79&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=142678291&pf_rd_i=468294
Skybird
12-26-07, 09:30 PM
Give them to me! Give them to me! :D I have the Blade Runner Directors cut.
-S
PS. I feel so bad for you guys, I just bought Qix, Pit Fighter, and Gates of Zendocon for my Lynx! :D
Play Blade Runner - The Game. Very good game, btw - and not because I am a BR fan. the game is considered by many to be the best of it's kind. Still looks good and sounds phantastic, despite it's age.
Stealth Hunter
12-27-07, 02:15 AM
"Das Boot" Directors cut & TV series on DVD.
:rock: NOW I can retire my old and worn VHS casette :yep:
Heh, I got the exact thing from my neighbor. I had the old version, but I just got the director's cut.
Happy Times
12-27-07, 07:12 AM
Books.:) Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West by Tom Holland.
Last year i got Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by him, recommend.:up:
Also got Ivan the Terrible, by Isabel de Madariaga, it also seems promising from what i leafed around..
Foxtrot
12-27-07, 08:53 AM
a pair of undies :damn:
Steel_Tomb
12-27-07, 09:36 AM
Guitar Hero 3 for Wii :rock:, pretty cool lol. My bday and xmas are a little close for comfort so got my nice things in november :damn:
SUBMAN1
12-27-07, 03:35 PM
a pair of undies :damn:Ouch! That sucks!
Nerazzurri
12-27-07, 05:37 PM
I hoped for an Inter Milan season ticket and return flights for every match - but all I got was 5 packets of wine gums :nope:
SUBMAN1
12-27-07, 05:46 PM
I hoped for an Inter Milan season ticket and return flights for every match - but all I got was 5 packets of wine gums :nope:Ouch again!:D
Torplexed
12-27-07, 10:32 PM
I hoped for an Inter Milan season ticket and return flights for every match - but all I got was 5 packets of wine gums :nope:
I'll trade ya a slightly stale fruitcake! :p
d@rk51d3
12-27-07, 10:39 PM
You guys actually got stuff !?!?!?!?!?!? :huh:
:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
Nerazzurri
12-28-07, 05:50 AM
I hoped for an Inter Milan season ticket and return flights for every match - but all I got was 5 packets of wine gums :nope:
I'll trade ya a slightly stale fruitcake! :p
At least my dog's partial to wine gums - he's not too fussed about fruitcake mate. :88)
I got man flu for Christmas!Sniff,cough etc.:down::down::down:
Nerazzurri
12-28-07, 08:32 AM
I got man flu for Christmas!Sniff,cough etc.:down::down::down:
Check this out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s_kDguUfgw
I got man flu for Christmas!Sniff,cough etc.:down::down::down:
Bird flu alert. :ping:
AVGWarhawk
12-28-07, 08:40 AM
Ahhhhh, my belated Santa gift is arriving today! GeForce 7800 AGP card. I know, everything is PCI. My old goat is not ready to die!
a pair of undies :damn:
Better not be my ones from the wash box. :stare:
SUBMAN1
12-28-07, 05:50 PM
You guys actually got stuff !?!?!?!?!?!? :huh:
:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:Double ouch!
Hey, at least you have us! :yep:
-S
I got "Arkham Horror" the Lovecraftian board game. Christmas felt as like when I was a kid :up: Iä .. Iä...
FIREWALL
12-28-07, 10:58 PM
I am enjoying U-BOAT ACE The Story of Wolfgang Luth by Jordan Vause.
elite_hunter_sh3
12-29-07, 12:05 AM
1950s era .30-06 M1 garand and a Benelli M3 12 gauge.... all i ever asked for :D:D:D:yep::()1:
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