The official presents thread.

[Yuppie Grinder]

Aye I love Christmas, especially giving people presents. Tell what you got people.
I got my sister Being and Nothingness by Sartre, some new pastels, a Jesus Lizard record, and some earrings.
Got my gf Savage Detectives by Bolano, a Shins record, a Marvin Gaye record, and some earrings.
Also, some food for thought: is full communism the abolition of Christmas or the generalization of Christmas into every sphere of social relationships?

[Ostrinski]

Isaac Deutscher's three volume biography of Trotsky

Making of the English Working Class by EP Thompson

bunch of clothes

some book ends

bluetooth keyboard for the ipad

lenin rediscovered by lars lih

office chair

Bob Dylan: The Story Behind the Songs 1962-1969 by Andy Gill (hype)

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Being broke as shit, I haven't been able to get anyone presents this year. But I have received one present so far, which I have yet to open.

As for Christmas itself, I like the fact that we have an excuse to put up lights and decorations and stuff ourselves silly and/or get pleasantly untethered chemically. Especially considering how gloomy this time of year gets at northern latitudes. I like to think that in a communist society there would be some kind of festive period around this part of the year.

What's the alternative? Abolishing winter in the northern hemisphere?

[Let's Get Free]

I got some headphones and $60 in cash. My sisters got me The Situations book as a joke gift.

[BOZG]

New hairdryer (broke the previous one), Dexter blood slide glass coasters and a yet to be released book for my wife.

Different types of rattles for my two youngest kids, and some puzzles and a cash register for the oldest who's in to play shopping.

An A3 size canvas of my kids for my dad.

Nice soaps, shower gels, bath salts for my brother and his partner who've just moved into their new house.

Football jersey from my friend.

Stuff for her family but no idea what she bought for them.

[Pirate Utopian]

I love christmas.

I bought a coffee mug that says "sexiest man in the world" for my lil bro.
A small pink christmas tree for my sister because I couldnt think of anything.
A nailfile for my mom.
And best of all a singing Justin Bieber bear for my dad.

[Raúl Duke]

The only thing I could think of for my Christmas list were novels and short-story collections...

But to be honest, I didn't expect much gifts this year.

[piet11111]

My family got to enjoy my glorious presence :cool: (im broke :()

Also i drank all the booze :lol:

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Being broke as fuck as I am(I have $11 in my wallet and owe the bank $1 *sigh*) I got my sisters socks those socks where each toe has an individual little sock thing, my nephew a chocolate scented teddy bear, and my dad a box of whoppers. Last year was way better :(

[#FF0000]

Being broke as shit, I haven't been able to get anyone presents this year. But I have received one present so far, which I have yet to open.

As for Christmas itself, I like the fact that we have an excuse to put up lights and decorations and stuff ourselves silly and/or get pleasantly untethered chemically. Especially considering how gloomy this time of year gets at northern latitudes. I like to think that in a communist society there would be some kind of festive period around this part of the year.

What's the alternative? Abolishing winter in the northern hemisphere?

Extend it to cover the entire winter season. Why do we ever take christmas lights before the end of winter?

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Being broke as shit, I haven't been able to get anyone presents this year. But I have received one present so far, which I have yet to open.

As for Christmas itself, I like the fact that we have an excuse to put up lights and decorations and stuff ourselves silly and/or get pleasantly untethered chemically. Especially considering how gloomy this time of year gets at northern latitudes. I like to think that in a communist society there would be some kind of festive period around this part of the year.

What's the alternative? Abolishing winter in the northern hemisphere?
I was thinking the other day about how crazy we would think someone is if we caught them putting decorations on trees any other time of the year. Like who chops a tree down, puts it in their living room, and decorates it? An insane person, that's who.

[#FF0000]

I had a lil bit of money this year for once, since my warehouse contract paid 3 bucks more an hour than it did last year -- and we actually got our hours for a change.

i got my brother a fender p bass and a tmbg record. also one or two games because I am bargain hunting king

[Arlekino]

Oh my fart grumpy getting old husband I got bottle of whisky, for my son jumper, stepson slippers, stepdaughter fantasy book, for my dougther in low I got night dress. Well Jezus went to shopping.
I can't wait when I open my presents I am no idea what I will get it.

[Quail]

I don't think I got the best presents for people this year :( I did try though. I got clothes for my mum, dad and brother, a crochet book for one grandma, cake tin for the other, a scrabble mug for my grandad, made some chocolates for most of my other family. I got my partner a dressing gown and a couple of records (Sally Can't Dance and a Jefferson Starship album whose name eludes me). My son has a marble run as his main present (because I can see myself enjoying playing with it with him) and a few other toys and some crafty stuff.

I love putting up decorations for Christmas (although I'm thinking of making the fairy lights in my living room a permanent feature :)), and I think it's nice spending time with people.

[Q]

I got a week vacation and boxershorts (with ducks on them, telling to squeeze them, kinky).

[Yuppie Grinder]

Oh my fart grumpy getting old husband I got bottle of whisky, for my son jumper, stepson slippers, stepdaughter fantasy book, for my dougther in low I got night dress. Well Jezus went to shopping.
I can't wait when I open my presents I am no idea what I will get it.

aye we're both faded on christmas eve, cheers

[Os Cangaceiros]

I didn't get anybody anything, nor did I get anything.

(Actually not quite true, my parents bought me a bottle of good bourbon for Christmas.) :thumbup1:

[bcbm]

i bought my mom some body lotion, some soap and eye makeup she wanted

i bought my dad a sweatshirt of our college team, a book about the milwaukke braves and a roy rodgers book he enoyed in his youth

my gf and i are goign dutch on a date and some thrifting

[Questionable]

I got my girlfriend a promise ring and a book about Art Deco, except my parents put their name on the Art Deco wrapping because they forgot to get her something.

I got my dad a fancy new coffee holder and my mom a gingerbread-scented candle.

I myself got Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 along with Imperialism: The Highest Stage. Also a shitload of money because no one knows what my interests are and they just get me money because it's easy.

[Philosophos]

Nothing... Just got 20 euros from my grandma... That will buy me some cigarettes...

[Ostrinski]

i also got a shit ton of money and gift cards.

[Anarcho-Brocialist]

Christmas this year.... the family split up a few days ago, so I'm not too excited...:( Got presents but rather have my family

[Art Vandelay]

Christmas this year.... the family split up a few days ago, so I'm not too excited...:( Got presents but rather have my family

I'm sorry to hear that man, my parents are also split. Spending my Christmas without my mom and with my dad for the first time in my life.
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I don't have much money so all I could afford to get my dad this year was a book, he seemed to be excited to read it though. For the rest of my family and my gf, I'm waiting to get back to my hometown to exchange gifts. My dad's gf's eldest son gave me a set of throwing knifes and a buck knife. I aso got some stocking stuffers as well as a pre-paid visa and an itunes and chapters gift card.

[Hermes]

I got some video games for people, that they'll hopefully like. I made my mom a maille bracelet that she had been talking about, and seems to like (hopefully).

[Questionable]

I got my girlfriend a promise ring and a book about Art Deco, except my parents put their name on the Art Deco wrapping because they forgot to get her something.

I got my dad a fancy new coffee holder and my mom a gingerbread-scented candle.

I myself got Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 along with Imperialism: The Highest Stage from my girlfriend. Also a shitload of money because no one knows what my interests are and they just get me money because it's easy.

[Yuppie Grinder]

I got my girlfriend a promise ring
cute dude

[Questionable]

cute dude

Not sure if sarcasm, but if it wasn't, thanks I guess. I actually thought the book was more of an ace since she's a reader like me, but my parents stole that gift so I just had the ring to give.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Well, I opened my present, and it turned out to be Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars.

Peace through Power! :lol:

[hatzel]

Well I don't really do Christmas. The closest thing I got to a present was just then when I read my Facebook feed and saw that the most annoying liberal on my friends list (who I've actually mentioned on here a few times before; the one who said that not voting in the London mayoral election was pretty much just like shitting on the suffragettes or something, I forget the details) posted this as a status:


Merry christmas everyone! Sitting content and full with after dinner coffee, cognac and chocolate. Let's also spare a thought for those less fortunateSo fucking noble of you dawg. So. Fucking. Noble.

[Yuppie Grinder]

Not sure if sarcasm, but if it wasn't, thanks I guess. I actually thought the book was more of an ace since she's a reader like me, but my parents stole that gift so I just had the ring to give.

nah i wasn't sarcastic

[human strike]

Unfortunately I think my mother genuinely thought I would appreciate a Che Guevara calendar... She was wrong. :closedeyes:

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As for Father Christmas, contrary to popular opinion, he unfortunately is not a communist but a powerful ideological tool of capital which conceals the wage relation behind commodity production and advances apologism for wealth inequality. Furthermore, if the invention of a male "Father" character to disguise the fact that it is in fact mothers that typically buy their children Christmas presents isn't massively patriarchal then I don't know what is.

I do love Christmas though. :)

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

I think people would still give gifts in a communist society - although in age where money has no value, the act of giving gifts would be more about the circumstances surrounding them, plus the gifts themselves would likely be more closely tailored to the occasion.

[#FF0000]

Well, I opened my present, and it turned out to be Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars.

Peace through Power! :lol:

Get yourself hamachi and we're gonna have some online multiplayer shennanigans

KANE LIVES IN DEATH

OUR LIVES FOR KANE

[Yuppie Grinder]

Unfortunately I think my mother genuinely thought I would appreciate a Che Guevara calendar... She was wrong. :closedeyes:

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As for Father Christmas, contrary to popular opinion, he unfortunately is not a communist but a powerful ideological tool of capital which conceals the wage relation behind commodity production and advances apologism for wealth inequality. Furthermore, if the invention of a male "Father" character to disguise the fact that it is in fact mothers that typically buy their children Christmas presents isn't massively patriarchal then I don't know what is.

I do love Christmas though. :)

did you make those

[piet11111]

I think people would still give gifts in a communist society - although in age where money has no value, the act of giving gifts would be more about the circumstances surrounding them, plus the gifts themselves would likely be more closely tailored to the occasion.

I hope its going to be far more personal then what it is today showing appreciation for the person by giving a useful thoughtful gift instead of a pair of shitty socks and/or boxers because they had to get you something :(

[Landsharks eat metal]

I got my sister a gift card to a Japanese restaurant so we can go there together some time when she's around.
I gave my dad a piece of paper that said I would clean up any room in the house when I have time.
I gave my mom a Meyer lemon scented candle
When I visit my best friend tomorrow, I don't really have much for her... just a roll of duct tape with a pattern of penguins, plus I might give her one of my Starbucks cards. But I think just me being there is enough.

I got a bunch of random shit, including a Dutch dictionary, which is something I've been wanting, and this strange CD of how to speak in foreign accents (the one I have is Russian, Japanese and German). Maybe one of the weirdest presents I've gotten.

Sometime soon, like next couple weeks maybe, I'm probably going to buy myself a Kindle as a belated Christmas present.

[Quail]

I think people would still give gifts in a communist society - although in age where money has no value, the act of giving gifts would be more about the circumstances surrounding them, plus the gifts themselves would likely be more closely tailored to the occasion.
I think it would be nicer to receive a gift if it was given just because and someone put effort into making/finding it, as opposed to receiving a gift because there is a social obligation to give people gifts at this time of year.

[human strike]

did you make those

Yep, last Christmas.

[Ostrinski]

My grandmother got me a hundred dollar itunes gift card. I can't remember the last time I actually bought something from itunes, I download all my music from the internet. I feel bad though because she spent a hundred dollars on something I won't use.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

One small book from a close friend of mine as well as $30 from Grandma, other than that nothing because I, and everyone I know, is broke.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Dad got me a $50 PSN card, just downloaded Battle Royale and Final Fantasy 7, fuck yeah! Mom got me a tablet. So surprised she bought my two sisters and I tablets $150 each. She must have been saving up forever because we barely get by. Big sister got me chocolates, little sister got me hot sauce, grandma made me a scarf, bought me cologne, and gave me jalapeño peppered olives...

[Danielle Ni Dhighe]

$25 from an uncle. That's it.

[Regicollis]

My girlfriend and I don't have much money so we gave our parents and grandparents calendars with pictures of our daughter. My grandfather is very demented and can't remember much so I also gave him a box of home made cookies and marzipan. I gave my girlfriend a guitar stand and a small copper necklace on a leather strap. We gave our daughter a shitload of toys.

I got some really great books, including a transcript of the Nuremberg trials from my mother and a socialist pamphlet on the financial crisis from my girlfriend, some clothes and some money (DKK 3200 in total).

All in all I'm pretty satisfied but I must admit that the best presents were those my daughter got. It was priceless watching an almost two year old becoming totally ecstatic about all the gifts. Christmas is much more fun with children.

[Raúl Duke]

I got an Amazon Kindle Fire HD...

[Yuppie Grinder]

My grandmother got me a hundred dollar itunes gift card. I can't remember the last time I actually bought something from itunes, I download all my music from the internet. I feel bad though because she spent a hundred dollars on something I won't use.

buy movies

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Got my dad a vinyl, Deep Purple at the Royal Albert Hall 1972. My mum and her husband a vintage xmas pudding from bettys and some chocs. My gran some flavoured olive oils. My dad's gf some chocs and my Grandparents some half-price champers as it was their anniversary as well.

I got Peter Carlin's biography, 'Bruce', a watch (though I already have one), some money, a briefcase and a cooking apron.

I'm so fucking bourgeois rahhhhhh

[TheRedAnarchist23]

For christmas I got only the love of my close family.
The crisis does not allow for material presents.

[#FF0000]

got my dad a collectors edition of a video game he wanted
got my mom a keurig
got my brother a fender precision bass n a bass fest t-shirt w/ signed photograph of tim and eric and basically covered his entire wishlist because my parents didn't have the money while i through some miracle did

they got me a bunch of books (used, just as I asked. i was p. thrilled to find a big ol' book bout the french revolution full of underlines n writing in the margins for real). my brother helped my parents get me all the components for my "baby's first stereo system".

[Let's Get Free]

For christmas I got only the love of my close family.
The crisis does not allow for material presents.

Well, if you're in a crisis, that's an even better reason to stimulate the economy by purchasing vast quantities of unnecessary goods.

[NewLeft]

My grandmother got me a hundred dollar itunes gift card. I can't remember the last time I actually bought something from itunes, I download all my music from the internet. I feel bad though because she spent a hundred dollars on something I won't use.
you could sell it

[Leonid Brozhnev]

I got my mother a CD plus some shower crap, my stepdad a bottle of whiskey, my 23yo brother a case of Wychwood beer, my 15yo brother a headset for his new PC and my girlfriend some Stilton, plus some Pistachios and a DVD.

I didn't get much, but I did get a fuck tonne of incense for some reason, a good 12 boxes plus a diffuser, I obviously don't smell enough like a new age prat.

[TheRedAnarchist23]

Well, if you're in a crisis, that's an even better reason to stimulate the economy by purchasing vast quantities of unnecessary goods.

The thing is there is barely enough money to spend on necessary goods, so no money can be used to buy unnecessary goods. Thankfully there is still enough money for internet, and from the internet I can get stuff I want easily, and for free.

[Ele'ill]

I bought myself more minutes for my phone. That's all I did.

[bricolage]

got my mum a bird skull, it was a rook.

[p0is0n]

50 dollars worth of local currency from my father. My girlfriend got me this:

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(not me on picture)

I had mentioned I found it hilariously awesome ages ago, and she remembered. God I love that woman.

[#FF0000]

that is such a cool shirt hahhaa

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

I don't celebrate xmas.

[BOZG]

I don't celebrate xmas.

Cool story bro.

[Yuppie Grinder]

I don't celebrate xmas.
so what's it like hating america

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

so what's it like hating america

Tiring, in the Soviet Union, all we have is May Day but man that potato, bottle of vodka and latest issue of Pravda, makes my whole year. :cool:

[Rugged Collectivist]

I got a few hundred dollars and headphones. Bought a new PS3 and sold my old one for about a hundred dollars store credit which I put toward the new one. Bought video games and food. Gave fifty to my dad to cover a debt.

[Il Medico]

I got a few books (Looking for Alaska, Catcher in the Rye, The Book Thief, and Love in the Time of Cholera) and some money.

Oh, and a bauble shaped cinnamon candle.