[MK Chris]

How, exactly, do you scientifically prove or disprove an emotion?

I don't know, I'm not a scientist.

Look, I'm on your side, I think science may be wrong on this occasion.

[Andy B]

I'm away from my mum for the first Christmas/Birthday ever but I'm on a hill in the middle of nowhere surrounded by a mountain of pressies. Sadly not all for me but my haul is quite large this year.

[Yudster]

I'm sure she did click on it, too, but she does so like discussing and calling us bunny huggers.

I didn't actually - I am having a few computer issues and I thought it best not to for the moment. As for the bunny hugger thing - well, having spent ten years trying to explain to people who genuinely believe that they are doing the right thing because they love animals that actually they aren't, and that at best they are doing no good and more often they are doing harm, well, the best you can say for them is that they are enthusiastic. Like the woman who genuinely believes that feeding badgers in her back garden on a daily (not nightly, daily) basis is going to help them. And a million others. Dangerous people.

Of course I acknowledge the difference between genuine idiots and people with a proper understanding who undertake animal welfare work though. They are both motivated by the same thing - the motivation is pure. And Sunny's racoon pictures are enough to turn even me into a sentimental gibbering fool. So CUTE!

[MK Chris]

Like the woman who genuinely believes that feeding badgers in her back garden on a daily (not nightly, daily) basis is going to help them.

Feeding hedgehogs on a nightly (not daily!) basis is OK though, right? Or am I an idiot for thinking that?

[Yudster]

Its no worse than feeding the birds in your garden. Which is fine, I think? This woman wouldn't be so off the mark if she hadn't encouraged them to change a fundamental aspect of their natural behaviour, which is all very well while she is putting the food out for them (she bakes scones for them every day, bless her!) - if anything happens to her and she has to stop feeding them, they'll be in real trouble.

[Sunny So Cal]

And Sunny's racoon pictures are enough to turn even me into a sentimental gibbering fool. So CUTE!

Now, see, I almost feel like I'd better explain that before one of the guys makes a pervy comment. They are proper raccoon photos of the four-legged, masked furry creatures that come into my yard at night.

Oh, and even though it's the wrong thread, a very Merry Xnas to you all!

[MK Chris]

I've heard many words for genitals - or breasts for that matter - but 'racoon' isn't one of them for either part of the anatomy that I know of.

[Sidla's Sausage]

This still makes me laugh and I believe is also slang for genitals (small ones).

[Munki Bhoy]

I've heard badger, I've heard beaver... but raccoon is a new one on me too.

[foot-loose]

masked furry creatures that come into my yard at night.

Goooooooooooooooooooooood mornin.



Merry Xnas folks - I'm waiting for the OK to go see what Santa had in his sack.

[Yudster]

You need permission to look at your presents at nearly nine o clock in the morning? How old are you?!

[foot-loose]

Don't ruin the magic!

[MK Chris]

I opened my presents while slightly inebriated...... I made a little mistake with my cracker present thing, but hey, we all have blonde moments. A good day.

[Bonanzoid]

I'm smashed. twas good n shit!1

[foot-loose]

I made a little mistake with my cracker present thing, but hey, we all have blonde moments.

I don't understand this - was it at the table and you didn't know how to pull a cracker? Did you just rip it open by yourself and wonder why there was a stick of carboard inside a toilet roll?

Or was it a cracker of the Jacobs Cream variety? Is that what the Topher household count as gifts - a cheesebiscuit selection platter?

[MK Chris]

I don't understand this - was it at the table and you didn't know how to pull a cracker? Did you just rip it open by yourself and wonder why there was a stick of carboard inside a toilet roll?

No, I made a mistake before I realised what the cracker present thing was. I was slightly drunk, but it went something like: "I've got a form! Look - name, address, phone number - oh, it's an address book."

Is that what the Topher household count as gifts - a cheesebiscuit selection platter?

Odd you should say this - that is exactly what one of my presents from my nana was - though I will actually use it, unlike some of the stuff she gets. I sound like an ungrateful bastard now, but I don't act ungrateful in front of people.

[Andy B]

Nanas always get weird presents. They're never actually bad and nearly always useful but they are just...odd.

Like the time I got lavender scented padded coat hangers or a jar of peach halves in brandy. I don't like peaches and I can't drink brandy.

My girlfriends parents get me odd things though. A set of black leather cushions one year. We had a brown fabric sofa I think. And this year remote control plugs. That's tight you can turn stuff off without reaching for the switch! I'm gonna plug it into her brothers XBox then just as he's about to defeat the supper baddie I'll turn it off from upstairs. They were serious gifts but I'll just cause havoc with them I think.

[MK Chris]

We always have a family get together on my mum's side of the family one Sunday in January. My Grandad does some tree presents. Now my Grandad is the nicest man you could ever wish to meet and I only wish I had the opportunity to see him more often (he spends his retirement travelling - which is good on him); but he buys the oddest presents ever. Steve got an air compressor one year and last year someone got a hammer to break glass.

[Yudster]

We always have a family get together on my mum's side of the family one Sunday in January. My Grandad does some tree presents. Now my Grandad is the nicest man you could ever wish to meet and I only wish I had the opportunity to see him more often (he spends his retirement travelling - which is good on him); but he buys the oddest presents ever. Steve got an air compressor one year and last year someone got a hammer to break glass.

This is the second time I've heard fascinating stuff about your traelling grandad - I really want to meet him, he sounds brilliant.

[Andy B]

See I have an image of the Grandfather from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in my head.

[rustybike]

*sings* P. O. S. H. P. O. S. H. Posh! *sings*

[rustybike]

Apologies for the double post, but taking pleasure out of Zavvi's pain yesterday is still making me smile. I got 21 DVD's (not rubbish ones either), 2 cd's, a board game and a book all for £48! Plus, I also took advantage of the CRAZY prices down at Bench. One top was £52 but it went down to £20; which was a bargain considering it was a decent, thick, wooly top too!

[MK Chris]

*sings* P. O. S. H. P. O. S. H. Posh! *sings*

Is that because it's from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or because you think my Grandad's posh?

Apologies for the double post, but taking pleasure out of Zavvi's pain yesterday is still making me smile. I got 21 DVD's (not rubbish ones either), 2 cd's, a board game and a book all for £48! Plus, I also took advantage of the CRAZY prices down at Bench. One top was £52 but it went down to £20; which was a bargain considering it was a decent, thick, wooly top too!

I popped in there today but didn't have time to join the queue. I am considering whether £10 for the Spaced boxset is worth it; judging from opinions of people on here, it probably is.

What DVDs did you get?

[S4B]

Zavvi aren't accepting vouchers! You have to send them to the administrators and see if you get anything back!

[Munki Bhoy]

I went to Zavvi on Friday and found all the prices were the same there was just less stock. So I went home and bought stuff from Amazon and Play instead. They were still cheaper for anything I wanted.

Anyway, yesterday as a whole made me smile. A combination of my visit to Ibrox, playing Pro Evo against the old man and beating him several times before he went home, then getting a take away and having a few drinks with just me and my girlfriend while sitting watching Michael McIntyre, Jeremy Clarkson and Russell Howard DVDs. Days like that don't come around enough.