MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY! - The Bear and Badger

Wookienopants

I had a quiet Christmas at home, just me and the lovely lady. My old man came round about midday and Hayley cooked an amazing Christmas dinner.
3 courses and tonnes on the table means I'm still living off leftovers.
Sadly though I got hit with a migraine and was chucking up and in bed by 9.30.

Not the best way to end the day!
Spent Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day in three different places with three different groups of family members. Drove nearly 400 miles in total and have all of my fiances family coming to celebrate a late Christmas with us tomorrow. For a whole week.

It's all gonna be a bit Griswold in my house from tomorrow.

Rev

I got a ps4, watchdogs, lords of the fallen, destiny,

Guardians and xmen on bluray,

An Asus t100 laptop hybrid.

Imperial assault. Board game
King of new York, boardgame

It was a big birthday and Christmas combined and fair to say
I platinumed the feck out of it.

Raiziel

My haul was modest but exactly what I wanted. Tales of Hearts R (Vita), Omega Ruby (3DS), Tomb Raider (PS4) and a (obscenely expensive) case for my new iPad. Very happy.

davyK

The English outlaws arrive tomorrow night (snow permitting). There will be a few nights out and then the usual New Years Eve shindig at our house.

djchump

revelthedog wrote:

I got a ps4, watchdogs, lords of the fallen, destiny, Guardians and xmen on bluray, An Asus t100 laptop hybrid. Imperial assault. Board game King of new York, boardgame It was a big birthday and Christmas combined and fair to say I platinumed the feck out of it.

Quality haul rev, am well jelly.

davyK wrote:

The English outlaws arrive tomorrow night (snow permitting). There will be a few nights out and then the usual New Years Eve shindig at our house.

Autocorrect? :-)

[Deleted User]

I got a Global vegetable knife which I have just used to remove a slice of thumb.

Food processor, nice Kenwood one.
Heavy weight casserole pot with lid ( can't remember the proper name)
Alien Isolation:Ripley edition.
Various spices, hot sauces, hot foods, sweets and chocs.
T shirt
Socks
Diesel aftershave
Various, fun stocking fillers.

Money, which I have used to buy clothing, a 30cm pot roast pan and a Numark mixer.

Great haul.

Was lovely to be at home, grandparents have been and gone (house is very quiet). Ate too much, didn't go crazy with drink but still too much.

Highlight of Xmas was playing pictionary.
My Mum had 'Monkey wrench' as the clue.
She drew what appeared to be an owl next to a spanner.
My Grandad guessed 'penis'

GooberTheHat

Sliced thumb is proper posh cooking.

davyK

djchump wrote:

The English outlaws arrive tomorrow night (snow permitting). There will be a few nights out and then the usual New Years Eve shindig at our house.

Autocorrect?

Not quite…the Meldrew in me would say at least outlaws are wanted.

Spock

Anyone else as hungover to FUCK as me? Was up drinking with the brother in law till 5am. I would gladly welcome the sweet embrace of the grave

b0r1s

Feeling shit with man flu. Should be out, but cancelled deciding a warm sofa and a bottle of Glenlivit 15 was a better option. Toooldforthisshit.

n0face

Nothing like a good cut to christen a new knife live, teaches respect.

Christmas has laid me low, 4 days of feasting and drinking and now I have a stinking cold. It's all been worth it though.

regmcfly

Spock wrote:

Anyone else as hungover to FUCK as me? Was up drinking with the brother in law till 5am. I would gladly welcome the sweet embrace of the grave

Sometimes it's good to know you're not the only one. I remember going out drinking with an Irish cousin once, and we were out till about 4-5. The next day, very paranoid, I felt my heart was racing, and he told me he got the same and it's pretty common with a hangover. Sometimes just to know it's universal is a good thing.

davyK

Brandy is well known for giving palpitations the next day in some.

beano

I cut the tip of my thumb on a global, whilst drunk, slicing a pepper.

Welcome to the club dive.

[Deleted User]

My cut is the type that has left an annoying flap of skin that catches on everything!

Again nice to know I'm not alone though.

Escape

revelthedog wrote:

An Asus t100 laptop hybrid.

Good. I returned a shite Wikipad for one. I could only get SNES and N64 emulators to work on Android, whereas with 8.1 I can use DOS, Amiga, MS, and all the other ones that failed.* I did get Planescape working on Android, but the Wikipad's controller wouldn't work with it. Sod that for a game of gestures.

I bought a refurbished T100 for myself, but I asked for a Bluetooth mouse for Christmas, and chose this one. It's really quite good for a £10 mouse, and there don't seem to be many other Bluetooth options with forward and back buttons.

That's because Windows is rare as a tablet option, so you either get mice with no thumb buttons, or ones with dongles. The TeckNet's buttons are on the noisy side, but nice and solid in operation. The Wikipad's controller... Mary, mother.

*Also, the T100 can run some newer games, so it doesn't have to be an exclusively retro box. Handy list of games.

Gremill

Late Xmas gift revealed by the wife today, as we're in Scotland visiting my family. We're off to Glasgow and The Ubiquitous Chip for dinner tomorrow and a stay at a hotel while my mum babysits the kids.

Result!

regmcfly

The ubi is top drawer. Enjoy the fairy lights errywher then get rekt at vodka wodka

adkm1979

Back to work tomorrow.

adkm1979

Again.

beano

On owning a global, dive- never throw it in with the rest of the washing up. You'll likely grab the blade and then cut your palm open.

Aye, I had to go the walk-in and phone in late for work when I went through me thumb.

*blood-pissings*

Outlaw

That made my stomach turn beano

Rev

Escape wrote:

revelthedog wrote:

An Asus t100 laptop hybrid.

Good. I returned a shite Wikipad for one. I could only get SNES and N64 emulators to work on Android, whereas with 8.1 I can use DOS, Amiga, MS, and all the other ones that failed.* I did get Planescape working on Android, but the Wikipad's controller wouldn't work with it. Sod that for a game of gestures.

I bought a refurbished T100 for myself, but I asked for a Bluetooth mouse for Christmas, and chose this one. It's really quite good for a £10 mouse, and there don't seem to be many other Bluetooth options with forward and back buttons.

That's because Windows is rare as a tablet option, so you either get mice with no thumb buttons, or ones with dongles. The TeckNet's buttons are on the noisy side, but nice and solid in operation. The Wikipad's controller... Mary, mother.

*Also, the T100 can run some newer games, so it doesn't have to be an exclusively retro box. Handy list of games.

Thank you. Very much appreciated.
I'm drawing on it myself. Its a lovely bit of kit.

[Deleted User]

beano wrote:

On owning a global, dive- never throw it in with the rest of the washing up. You'll likely grab the blade and then cut your palm open. Aye, I had to go the walk-in and phone in late for work when I went through me thumb. *blood-pissings*

Yeah I have been washing it entirely separately.

beano

Good man!

And Outlaw, these are just lessons- I'm sorry.

For your sanity and stomach though, don't go watching any re-runs of Jimmy's.

Webbins

My place of birth, I don't think they were filming in 1977 though.

Outlaw

What is Jimmy's?

Webbins

Jimmy's is a TV program from years back that focused fly on the wall about the daily goings on at St. James University Hospital in Leeds. It is Europe's largest teaching hospital and I probably screamed the house down that fateful day.

beano

Much blood, basically.

beano

And I couldn't think of any current pop-culture alternatives.

I used to love it as a kid- I'd find it fascinating. Then I lost my stomach for it and fucked off any inkling to attempt to practice in such a profession.

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