Christmas List help

DonDaddyD
DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
edited November 2008 in Commuting chat
<<Spen666 proof post>> I got an incredibly slow puncture yesterday, slow enough to ride home before the air pressure reached dangerously low levels. Had a dinner party that night so couldn't really inspect the tyre/inner tube.

The next morning while checking the innertube me and the girlfriend started talking, with no indication from me about what I'm getting her she told me not to buy the Sex and the City Boxset or the Film.... :shock:

I now no longer know what to buy her and if I just produce a food blender on X-mas day, the first thing she'll blend is my bike tyres. :shock:

I'm scared! What the hell do I buy her now!? :cry:

She said iPod but she doesn't want to understand (I hate it when women do this) that you need a PC/Laptop to do the whole iTunes thing. I have a PC with iTunes but I'm not doing that partition the drive thing and risking my music...

Help!!!
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    What partition the drive thing? I don't understand... she could use your itunes couldn't she??

    You could get her a spa day/weekend... maybe a couple of people's worth so she can take you or a girly-mate, as she sees fit!

    Or get her a really cheap laptop running windows (a lot of the ultra-cheap ones are on Linux) to go with the ipod...
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  • ride_whenever
    ride_whenever Posts: 13,279
    The new samsung netbook is really nice (played with one yesterday) only £299 and has windows on it too.

    I'd agree with the spa day, send her off and get her tarted up, treat yourself...


    Alternatively get her a makeup consultation with a big ass-bag of makeup at the end of it.



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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    ride_whenever wrote:
    The new samsung netbook is really nice (played with one yesterday) only £299 and has windows on it too.

    I'd agree with the spa day, send her off and get her tarted up, treat yourself...


    Alternatively get her a makeup consultation with a big ass-bag of makeup at the end of it.



    Luckily for my my gf is easy, she wants some decent tech baselayers for training camp!!!!

    Let's hope she doesn't read this! :wink:

    Only issue with the make-up thing is if she's the sort of girl who would say 'oh so you don't like how I do my make-up then' when presented with such a gift!
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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    As LiT said, what "Partition the drive thing?" FWIW the old (I mean 40Gb B/W screen) iPod I have works a treat with Rhythmbox on Ubuntu, not sure how the support is for the newer ones on Linux.
    iTunes is probably the easiest way to go and unless you already have an iPod hooked upto your iTunes she should just be able to use that!

    As for other pressie idea's I'm still trying to find gifts for my other half........
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Bassjunkieuk wrote:
    As LiT said, what "Partition the drive thing?" FWIW the old (I mean 40Gb B/W screen) works a treat with Rhythmbox on Ubuntu, nto sure how the support is for the newer ones on Linux.
    iTunes is probably the easiest way to go and unless you already have an iPod hooked upto your iTunes she should just be able to use that!

    As for other pressie idea's I'm still trying to find gifts for my other half........

    You can run several ipods off one itunes - I run 3 off my itunes on my mac at home - mine, my mum's, my brothers - and 4 off my windows laptop itunes - mine and 3 of my housemates'!
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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    I stand corrected :-) It's been a while since I've had to deal with iPods and iTunes!
    Also I think this could be a new record for us going OT as we *almost* turned into an IT forum on the 2nd post!
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    If I give my GF unlicensed/unmonitored access to my PC then she has access to all my computer games, images of comic characters and other files.

    IF I gave her access to my PC I would have to partition my hard drive so that she has her account complete with windows and say 10GB and I have my password protected account with the remaining disk space.

    Its just that doing that is a lot of hassle.

    Though thinking about this more XP allows you to set up individual user accounts seperate from each other so the files are inaccessible but the hard disk is shared. I may do that... I just don't want her to break my PC, I built it myself it was one of my manly man projects.... :oops:
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  • soy_sauce
    soy_sauce Posts: 987
    i think the spa is a good idea. send her away for a day and you have a day cycling? not a bad deal, i think. :wink:

    which iPod does she want tho? if she just want to listen to music with it then get other mp3 player instead so she can just "drag and drop" for uploading songs on to it. but if she want iPod Touch then.... oh well you just need to give her access to your PC or get her a PC or upload music for her.
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  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    edited November 2008
    DDD is she likely to break your computer? That would be quite a skill. I am terrible with technology but have never managed that.....

    Also - do you have stuff on your PC that she's not allowed to see? Makes me intrigued as to what it is...... :wink:
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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    linsen wrote:
    DDD is she likely to break your computer? That woudl be quite a skill. I am terrible with technology but have never maneged that.....

    Also - do you have stuff on your PC that she's not allowed to see? Makes me intrigued as to what it is...... :wink:

    Yes, all those **ahem** IMAGES OF COMIC CHARACTERS..........I've never really been a big fan of hentai but what ever floats your boat I guess!

    FWIW A cheap 2nd hand computer would do the job a lot easier then a separate partition on an existing machine IMHO
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  • risi
    risi Posts: 231
    Create her a "limited" account on the PC, which should stop accidental (or deliberate...) removal of things you don't want removed (and you can be even more precise if your filesystem is NTFS).
    If you want thing physically separated, buy a cheap hard disk and move her accounts "My Documents" directory on to that.
    That's about 5 minutes work...

    I don't use iTunes either (horrid, horrid - only Lotus Notes comes lower in my estimation), but that's another story.

    Or what BJUK said - cheap computer. Then when you have to fix it you can do plenty of tutting and teeth sucking etc all the while knowing your (dodgy?) stuff is safe.
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    edited November 2008
    linsen wrote:
    DDD is she likely to break your computer? That woudl be quite a skill. I am terrible with technology but have never maneged that.....

    Yes, yes she could. In fact I'm not sure, its just the fear that she could...
    Also - do you have stuff on your PC that she's not allowed to see? Makes me intrigued as to what it is...... :wink:

    AND
    Yes, all those **ahem** IMAGES OF COMIC CHARACTERS..........I've never really been a big fan of hentai but what ever floats your boat I guess!

    Oh god NO! Hentai, even for me, is just wrong beyond all known levels of wrong.

    I meant stuff like this:

    Thor07VariantCover.jpg

    HULKTHE_COV_VAR_COL.jpg

    SNV30252.jpg
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  • m0scs
    m0scs Posts: 196
    I think a Nintendo DS may be a good idea if she hasnt got one.

    Plenty of fun stuff for her to play on without touching your PC, going into your Temporary Internet Files folder to see everything you have been looking at and forgotten to delete! :oops:
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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    If you go down the DS route grab an R4 card and a 4Gb Micro SD card (£7 on play.com) and your set :wink:
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    BJ, what's an R4 card? I have bought a DS Lite for the missus and haven't yet bought any accessories (or games :O ) so I don't want to forget anything...
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  • Finbar Saunders
    Finbar Saunders Posts: 299
    How much music does she have to add to an iPod? If you get one with large enough capacity you could just load it up with everything she has on CD already and then help her when she needs to buy new material. You could actually spin it as part of the gift....your services as her "iPod Slave".
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Finbar Saunders wrote:
    How much music does she have to add to an iPod? If you get one with large enough capacity you could just load it up with everything she has on CD already and then help her when she needs to buy new material. You could actually spin it as part of the gift....your services as her "iPod Slave".

    Technology and my girlfriend are not friends. I honestly believe that she doesn't want to understand and not that she can't undestand. She's a Lawyer for cripe-sake.

    If I get her an iPod....urgh.... I'll list the following questions:

    "How do you turn it on?"
    "Make it work?"
    "Make it stop?"
    "how do you go to the next track?"

    "I've done something" My retort will be... "You've gone to the picture dear, here let me show you?"

    And finally

    "How do you turn it off?"

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  • ansbaradigeidfran
    ansbaradigeidfran Posts: 526
    biondino wrote:
    BJ, what's an R4 card? I have bought a DS Lite for the missus and haven't yet bought any accessories (or games :O ) so I don't want to forget anything...

    An R4 is one of a number of cards that allow you to play homebrew software (that you or someone else writes themselves) on your DS. It can also be used to play illegal copies of retail games.
  • Finbar Saunders
    Finbar Saunders Posts: 299
    LOL....our 3 year old has Mastered my wife's iTouch! He's not too bad on her DS either, although she was very p'd when he managed to delete her profile.
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    If I give my GF unlicensed/unmonitored access to my PC then she has access to all my computer games, images of comic characters and other files.

    IF I gave her access to my PC I would have to partition my hard drive so that she has her account complete with windows and say 10GB and I have my password protected account with the remaining disk space.

    Its just that doing that is a lot of hassle.

    Though thinking about this more XP allows you to set up individual user accounts seperate from each other so the files are inaccessible but the hard disk is shared. I may do that... I just don't want her to break my PC, I built it myself it was one of my manly man projects.... :oops:

    DDD install this http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/sharedaccess/default.mspx

    It's MS steadystate it will allow you to set up an a\c on your computer that is completely restricted as defined by you the GF will not be able to find your porn collection and such like, you can even configure it to reset the a/c every time she logs out.

    Originally designed for schools and internet cafe etc etc blah blah blah - trust me it works.

    PS. I use it on family members PC's it stops them from deleting important files and changing settings or god forbid installing another virus.
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Thanks I-Boffin. That may be the way forward!
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    I now no longer know what to buy her and if I just produce a food blender on X-mas day, the first thing she'll blend is my bike tyres. :shock:


    Help!!!

    Yeah, so yesterday night a trip to a shop in Wimbledon resulted in my GF looking at blenders, me asking if she'd like one for Christmas and her looking at me with a face that suggested no sex for the rest of the month maybe never again.

    She then said "Men buying their girlfriends a blender harks back to the old days when wives were bought new hoovers" She then followed up with "I won't have it".

    45mins later (she's from Essex) I was amazed to have survived the tongue lashing... for a present I never gave or even bought, yet.

    So in the space of the week I've found that my entire X-mas list of presents for my girlfriend is infact rubbish and contains nothing that she actually wants. I now realise that I know nothing about women and am a stupid rubbish man desperately in need of teaching and educating.

    I need to make more effort with/listening to my GF :cry:
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Well, to be fair I would be a little miffed to receive a blender for xmas from a boyfriend.

    I also hail from Essex (sort of), so maybe that is why!
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  • philbill1973
    philbill1973 Posts: 83
    Agent Provocateur underwear, serious man points.
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    philbill1973 wrote:
    Agent Provocateur underwear, serious man points.

    Good call but D^3 you might need to sell an organ to buy that stuff.
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Right newly devised list:

    Chanel Chance
    A large quantity of Terry's Chocolate Orange
    Killers Album

    i-Pod/trip to a Spa/Fish or Sushi making classes.

    I think I'm onto a winner with this one.
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  • Slow Downcp
    Slow Downcp Posts: 3,041
    itboffin wrote:
    philbill1973 wrote:
    Agent Provocateur underwear, serious man points.

    Good call but D^3 you might need to sell an organ to buy that stuff.

    As long as it's not the important organ you'll be okay :wink:
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    A spa trip in another country is always a winner plus you get to go along and binge on food and drink whilst she's being pampered, double bubble :lol:
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    itboffin wrote:
    A spa trip in another country is always a winner plus you get to go along and binge on food and drink whilst she's being pampered, double bubble :lol:

    I get the distinct impression that binging on food and drink is one of your favourite (and severely wife-curtailed) pastimes...

    :D
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    I'm thinking Sushi class, she recently stabbed herself (quite deep actually) with a Sushi knife, she has a sushi making kit etc....

    She loves sushi, how a person could willingly eat raw fish I'll never know....
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    I'm thinking Sushi class, she recently stabbed herself (quite deep actually) with a Sushi knife, she has a sushi making kit etc....

    She loves sushi, how a person could willingly eat raw fish I'll never know....

    Pedant alert:

    In Japanese cuisine, sushi is vinegared rice, usually topped with other ingredients, including fish, various meats, and vegetables. Outside of Japan, sushi is sometimes misunderstood to mean the raw fish itself, or even any fresh raw-seafood dishes. In Japan, sliced raw fish alone is called sashimi and is distinct from sushi, as sashimi is the raw fish component, not the rice component. The word sushi itself comes from an archaic grammatical form of a word that is no longer used in other contexts; literally, "sushi" means "it's sour".

    Pedant Alert.

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