The Commuting board's Xmas gift ideas thread!

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  • chaley
    chaley Posts: 100
    gtvlusso wrote:
    g, Voucher for use of "Coldplay" CD on my fantastic stereosystem - 1 play only (I cannot stand Coldplay!

    Bloody hell you must realy love her to do that, did the voucher say you had to be out at the time?
    Chaley
    2009 langster

    Blasphemy is the only victimless crime
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    Daniel B wrote:
    This is pretty cool as a stocking filler - I think!

    p1110.jpg
    http://www.cyclingbargains.com/product_info.php?products_id=1110&osC2sid=ee2e4fe48eb9b93a77a4a901536e93d7

    Would you put your water bottle behind your saddle then?
  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    Always Tyred wrote:
    Daniel B wrote:
    This is pretty cool as a stocking filler - I think!

    p1110.jpg
    http://www.cyclingbargains.com/product_info.php?products_id=1110&osC2sid=ee2e4fe48eb9b93a77a4a901536e93d7

    Would you put your water bottle behind your saddle then?

    :lol:
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    Another good stocking filler is the novelty banana protector that looks nothing like a thingy.
  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 11,955
    Always Tyred wrote:
    Daniel B wrote:
    This is pretty cool as a stocking filler - I think!

    p1110.jpg
    http://www.cyclingbargains.com/product_info.php?products_id=1110&osC2sid=ee2e4fe48eb9b93a77a4a901536e93d7

    Would you put your water bottle behind your saddle then?

    LOL, no I would buy.................

    another cage!

    :lol:
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    Marin Palisades Trail 91 and 06
    Scott CR1 SL 12
    Cannondale Synapse Adventure 15 & 16 Di2
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  • heavymental
    heavymental Posts: 2,090
    biondino wrote:
    She is a cook so a knife might be a decent idea. Though I have the feeling she prefers the luxury-type gift rather than the functional.

    I have bought a few people nice knives and I think it makes a great present. I bought my brother a lovely Henkels chefs knife for his 30th and I bought a nice Santoku knife for a girlfriend once. Cheap bendy knives are a pet hate of mine but to go into a kitchen with a quality blade and other quality cookware is a pleasure. A quality knife will last you many years and should be appreciated if received as a gift. Plus its a nice looking bit of kit. Get her a Global if you want to go super stylish. Otherwise, creuset pans or casseroles are nice and tick the charming aesthetic box too. Don't get something gimicky though. How often will she be making ice cream or having a chocolate fountain on the go!? Presents like that will be sat at the back of cupboards for 364 days of the year. A knife will get used every day. But, you've got to provide a contrasting gift like a nice box of specialist chocs and a Celine Dion cd or something. :lol:
  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    NO NO NO, never buy your gf a Celine Dion CD!!!
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    linsen wrote:
    NO NO NO, never buy your gf a Celine Dion CD!!!
    Aparrently, if you play Celine Dion music backwards it turns out that she's a really dirty birdie.
  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    spen666 wrote:
    All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit

    ...with their very own army of fanatical supporters, unless I'm mistaken
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 11,955
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    Felt F70 05 (Turbo)
    Marin Palisades Trail 91 and 06
    Scott CR1 SL 12
    Cannondale Synapse Adventure 15 & 16 Di2
    Scott Foil 18
  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    Daniel B wrote:
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    Eh? Is that what you'd give her to cut up with the knives?
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Jen J wrote:
    he had apparently failed to notice that I hated people touching me

    :shock: Bet you can guess what my question would be.... :shock:

    And everyone else is thinking it too! :twisted:

    ANY - MOFO - WAY

    I'm usually single at X-mas so that I can save money.... lol!

    Most memorable present I bought a now ex-girlfriend were edible undies :D yeah I said it! Cost me just north of £3. She got me a Game Cube. :shock: How or why the relationship lasted after that escapes me.

    For my current girlfirend:

    Sex and the city box set or film (stocking)

    Some private stuff to accompany the box set or film (stocking)

    iPod Nano or shuffle - she asked for it (main present)

    I would say:
    Never get a girl perfume unless she has hinted or outright told you that she wants it. Otherwise one day during an argument she could use the old "you only bought it for me so that I can smell like your last whore-girlfriend" Its not an argument you can win....

    I would suggest shoes/dress/underwear but can never remember he size. Too small and you could get "Am I fat". By the items too big and you could get "You think I'm fat" Say nothing and run away. But best just to avoid this situation completely.
    Food Chain number = 4

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  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 11,955
    SecretSam wrote:
    Daniel B wrote:
    sealion-baby-dom2-2831.jpg

    Eh? Is that what you'd give her to cut up with the knives?

    Sealion Dion.
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    Marin Palisades Trail 91 and 06
    Scott CR1 SL 12
    Cannondale Synapse Adventure 15 & 16 Di2
    Scott Foil 18
  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    Ah Mr B you're in your own happy little world today I see......
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  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    I'm getting my wife a Black Laborador! A bit silly I know but I'll have it if she doesn't want it - same principle as the case of wine last year! But I did compromise and get a bitch (she prefers them) rather than a dog (which I prefer).

    Was thinking of calling the puppy Tess - what do you think? Any suggestions?
    'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    passout wrote:
    I'm getting my wife a Black Laborador! A bit silly I know but I'll have it if she doesn't want it - same principle as the case of wine last year! But I did compromise and get a ***** (she prefers them) rather than a dog (which I prefer).

    Was thinking of calling the puppy Tess - what do you think? Any suggestions?

    So basically your buying yourself a dog for X-mas and your wife nothing...
    Food Chain number = 4

    A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 11,955
    linsen wrote:
    Ah Mr B you're in your own happy little world today I see......

    It's the safest place to be Lindsey, especially on a Monday :lol:

    but I have to say, I have hit a rich form of punnery today, even if I do say so myself.
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    Marin Palisades Trail 91 and 06
    Scott CR1 SL 12
    Cannondale Synapse Adventure 15 & 16 Di2
    Scott Foil 18
  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    Daniel B wrote:
    linsen wrote:
    Ah Mr B you're in your own happy little world today I see......

    It's the safest place to be Lindsey, especially on a Monday :lol:

    but I have to say, I have hit a rich form of punnery today, even if I do say so myself.

    :D
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  • heavymental
    heavymental Posts: 2,090
    Daniel B wrote:
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    Yes, good idea. Gets my seal of approval. And I don't mean that to sound fishy. I really mean it...I'm not being flippernt.
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    Heavymental wrote:
    Daniel B wrote:
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    Yes, good idea. Gets my seal of approval. And I don't mean that to sound fishy. I really mean it...I'm not being flippernt.

    Blubbering idiot.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,399
    Always Tyred wrote:
    Heavymental wrote:
    Daniel B wrote:
    sealion-baby-dom2-2831.jpg

    Yes, good idea. Gets my seal of approval. And I don't mean that to sound fishy. I really mean it...I'm not being flippernt.

    Blubbering idiot.



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  • don_don
    don_don Posts: 1,007
    Daniel B wrote:
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    Not exactly a 'present' as such, but why don't you take your GF out clubbing at Christmas??

    :wink:
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Could do with some of those Halo wheels you hear all those left wing fixies talking about :wink: :

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    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    Well this would be my perfect stocking:

    a satsuma
    a bar of green and blacks (milk) - or a chocolate orange
    origins "a perfect world" moisturiser
    a decent multitool
    a good CD, or tickets to see the band
    a necklace from fat face or similar
    small bottle of "flower" by kenzo or CKone to keep at work for cycling days

    To get it back on topic...... :wink:
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    linsen wrote:
    Well this would be my perfect stocking:

    a satsuma
    a bar of green and blacks (milk) - or a chocolate orange
    origins "a perfect world" moisturiser
    a decent multitool
    a good CD, or tickets to see the band
    a necklace from fat face or similar
    small bottle of "flower" by kenzo or CKone to keep at work for cycling days

    To get it back on topic...... :wink:

    A lump of coal?
  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    no no and not a walnut either - they make my teeth feel funny (before you say it, I am perfectly well aware that coal is not edible.....

    AT - I'll let you know the address to send the above to... :wink:
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  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    passout wrote:
    I'm getting my wife a Black Laborador! A bit silly I know but I'll have it if she doesn't want it - same principle as the case of wine last year! But I did compromise and get a ***** (she prefers them) rather than a dog (which I prefer).

    Was thinking of calling the puppy Tess - what do you think? Any suggestions?

    So basically your buying yourself a dog for X-mas and your wife nothing...

    Not at all - I'm getting her some new Maxxis tyres too :lol:
    'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.

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