🎄 🎁 The Christmas 2025 Thread

Needed to buy Zakopane Slippers for the grandkids for France.
(Cold stone floors) ordered them last week.

Zdjęcie bez tantiem: Zakopane traditional souvenirs, slippers with sheep fur | Adobe Stock Zdjęcie bez tantiem: Zakopane traditional souvenirs, slippers with sheep fur | Adobe Stock

Mall walking to get ateps count up - too dangerous outside - snow & ice.
Sheepskin fur lined kids slippers 8 quid a pair grown ups a fiver at Nowy Klepartz market

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Eldest son in Cologne was less than helpful when I asked what youngest Grandson would like for Xmas.
Maybe some Lego or Brio Mech or something. Like send me a photo I can tell you if he has it.
Yeah that’s gonna work if I am in a store &you are at work,
Anyway. Without touching Google or AI I went to the Lego store did some searching of things I know he is into. Found something, sent a screen shot.
Oh no he doesn’t have that.
Off to the Mall, got it 10% cheaper Black Friday, just need to send it now.
Yesterday Grandson showed Dad his Nursery School work. They had all made montages of their Christmas List

Y’all know what his #1 wish is- obviously - yup the air ambulance Lego set I’d already wrapped up

Who needs AI when you have a brain?

I have my advent calender up at work

Trouble is not real bottles of whiskey

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You’ve gotta be taking the piss. :face_with_diagonal_mouth:

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We were supposed to be in full Xmas fig by now but between getting the tree up and the Ayatollah decorating it both of us have been struck down by the plague

four days later, living amongst boxes of decs and empty tissue boxes we have pulled though

not the best start to the Xmas season

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At least it’s at the start, not the middle…

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Yep - but this is my third cold in the last few months and fifth day off work sick (to give that some perspective- I haven’t had 5 days off in the last eight years including covid)

Dunno what’s up with me this year

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Spple TV 2022 Movie
Spirited.
Will Ferrell & Ryan Reynolds
Camp Musical version of A Christmas Carol

Awfully endearinhly bad and really enjoying it marvellous chortle moments keep popping up to keep you hooked

A Christmas antidote

What are the dates this weekend kids?

So. Spirited.
We really enjoyed this Christmas film.
Wonky wacky, cringey, funny and clever in equal measure
Not an art form more an OTT entertainment /comedy/musical
Will Ferrell works for Jacob Marley in like a big corporation that retrieves lost souls at Christmas- they get the full Christmas Carol routine haunting.

Will decides to go after an irretrievable (Ryan Reynolds) playing himself as a complete (but likeable) media/marketing cvnt.

There are old school Musical routines and dancing and so.e really “you can see it coming” bad jokes.

The story no spoilers is OK for the film and myself & Son in Law who both said not watching that sort of shit both REALLY enjoyed it.

Stupid and (spoiler) they can sing