People Pissed Off About Not Getting What They Wanted For Christmas #FML

Apparently somewhere between last time I checked and right now, many parents became responsible for providing iPhones, iPads, Mac Laptops and CARS to their children for Christmas. And parents who fail to complete these tasks are evil monsterbitches, according to tweets retweeted by comedian Jon Hendren yesterday featuring children disappointed by their bounties. You can read some of these captured tweets here. OMG YOU GUYS THE WORLD.

There’s of course the part of me that wants to finger-wag the hell out of this unit, but I mean, it’s just weird. It surprised me. I didn’t know people were like this  — and yo, I get that these kids are disappointed about their gifts, it happens. But dude, that shit is PRIVATE. By tweeting it, you’re approving it for public consumption, and generally things we say in public are things we think will be well-received, which means you actually think it’s totally normal to hate your Mom for getting you the wrong color iPod.

Laneia and I have been sitting here trying to figure out what the equivalent of this would be when we were growing up. I was forbidden to play or even think about video games, and having a television in my room was completely out of the question, but I think Nintendos and Segas were big-ticket items, which ran about $100-$200. There were BMX Bikes, I think, or boom boxes? I came across this Esquire feature on Top Christmas Gifts of the Year and it appears Hungry Hungry Hippos was all the rage. Granted, I’m a Jew, so we stuck to “something small every day,” which’s also more fun. I mean I love getting lots of little gifts for people, it’s like you can please all their parts.

Anyhow, if reading those tweets make you confused about the world, we suggest Photos of Kids Opening Christmas Presents in the 80’s, which is really cute!

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128 Comments

  2. Normally only the obscenely wealthy spark my “kill the the rich and burn their bodies to heat our homes” class rage, but these entitled children are almost that level of awful.

    I do feel kind of bad for the kid who got a state map while her brother got an iPhone, though.

    • I’m with you on that one. I had a history of that in my own family (it ended when I turned 20.)

      Right now I’d so like to tell each of the entitled ones something. I would happily give back every present I’ve ever received and forgo every one in the future to have one thing right now – my family back. I’ve lost two thirds of mine; the price of my transition (and I recognize that even this is far less than many others pay.)

  3. I don’t have any of the iphone products. my bro’s 2nd gen itouch is the full extent of it. I haven’t got anything the past three Christmases or for the past few birthdays and though that makes me sad.. it does not warrant such a reaction. these kids make me sad about my generation, they’re such spoiled entitled little brats. In serious, serious need of a reality check.

  4. and here i was, super fucking happy that i got a kitten hat and a copy of the paris review. GREEDY ASSHOLES THESE DAYS.

      • hat that looks like a kitten because my newly discovered cat allergy wouldn’t permit otherwise.

        also, this comment i left was so angry. i should probably sleep more.

  5. who the hell wants an iphone anyway..

    kidding.

    my favourite is the repeatedly dropped baby one, i mean poor baby

  6. My ma gave me a gift wrapped bottle of vitamins, I still think she’s the best.

    (She also hugged me and said its because she can’t look after me when I’m sick so I have to just not get sick in the first place).

    • I, too, got vitamins! My dad asks all the time if my gf and I are taking our vitamin C, so we each got a bottle with our gifts. This year he opted for matching badass Nike running hoodies. Last year he got us matching mountain bikes. I love that he want us to stay healthy….and I think it’s adorable that he has equated having a lesbian daughter with having twins ;p
      #mydadisawesome

      • My aunt did this for years! We’d get coordinating outfits – I’d get a white shirt/black tie and she’d get a black shirt/white tie combo.

        I think my ma said something to her this year about dressing us like the gay bobbsey twins, I got a dress and Dani got a button down shirt that in no way coordinates.

  7. I don’t think people really think about the “social approval” factor (or the “out there forever” factor) when posting. I know I put a bunch of stupid stuff I wouldn’t say out loud on my livejournal back in the day…

    (I got a little thing of bath salt for Hanukkah and was pleased and also surprised–my family usually doesn’t exchange gifts as a formal thing except for birthdays and Purim, and that last one is usually baked goods. Obviously I’ve been doing things wrong and should demand an automobile from my parents at every possible occasion.)

  8. Wow… just…. wooooooow.

    I was sitting here, day dreaming about the food I’m going to buy with the Trader Joe’s giftcard I was given (I’m getting 2 boxes of that microwave mac n’ cheese). Then I come here, see all these selfish fucking bastards and my hopes for humanity are just dashed.

  9. hoooly crap. these kids are little shits.

    but the one kid that said…

    “fuck christmas my brother got an iphone and i got a map of maryland”

    i dunno man, that IS kind of a bum deal.

    ;)

  10. Ah, I’ve seen this already via the lovely place that is imgur.
    http://imgur.com/gallery/5krlg

    My entire family is quite keen on Apple products (sometimes I think Chinese people have a serious Apple problem), and not gonna lie, I do get quite a bit of fun out of my iPod Touch.

    For the past couple of years, my mum has asked me at different times, “Why don’t you get an iPhone?”/”Do you want an iPhone?” and I always refused, “I have a phone and an iPod already, what’s the point?”
    But I think the biggest reason was that I didn’t want to be associated with this kind of people.

    Also, I’m very happy with the huge amount of socks I got this year, I never seem to have enough of them!

    • Also, I’m sure at least some of you will remember this.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90HhZ-pyC2Y

      According to Wikipedia (I can just hear the academic world having a heart attack now over the unreliability of it all), the car cost $67,000.

      My response as it happened:
      “…”
      *types into currency converter*
      “…”
      “BITCH, for ÂŁ42,000, I could actually pay for my entire degree, including accomodation costs, even if I took a 4th year! AND HAVE SOME LEFT OVER.”

      • Sorry, last one, I swear!

        Did anyone else get excited when they read the third tweet as “Gretchen Wieners”? /chronicMeanGirlsquoter

        • haha, totally! I wondered whether she was actually tweeting AS Gretchen Weiners, adopting the spoiled rich girl persona and maybe that’s why the tantrum over Christmas sans iphone.

        • Well, Gretchen Weiners celebrates Chanukah, so if she IS tweeting as Gretchen Weiners, she’s a lousy fucking fact-checker too.

      • Damn. I hope her parents didn’t let her keep the car after that.

        All I can say is that I hope her mom ruins my birthday party next year.

    • Socks are the gift that keeps on giving, at least until the sock elves take one or they magically develop holes.

      • SOCKS ARE ALWAYS MY FAVORITE PRESENT, no lie, I can ask for no more than a family who reliably gives me smartwools

    • ha! this is always my response i have a phone and an ipod already, what would i do with it if i got an iphone? i love it dearly… :p

      • plus, i have a 60gb ipod i got on ebay for 85 bucks. why would i trade that for having to pay $300 for a 32gb iphone? *shakes head in confusion*

  11. I don’t know whether to have extreme sympathy for all these kids’ mothers (because it’s always the woman in charge of X-Mas, therefore always the woman to blame when it is less than impossibly perfect), or none at all, for rearing such miserable fucks.

    I do remember one year sometime in my early teens when my parents got my sister the wrong sort of stereo. This triggered in her such a vortex of self-loathing that we were all sucked into a week-long spiral of mortification and despair. She is still bitter 15 years later, with 100% earnestness.

    This is the best thing that happened to me this X-Mas:

    After showing my parents a slideshow of a Lego recreation of my late-night car crash with a badger, I asked my mother whether she thought I was weird for continually wanting to engage in such silly things.

    She said to me: “that’s just who you are,” and demanded I play with Lego more.

    I am 29 years old.

    Suck on that, iPhucks.

    • I would say don’t feel sorry for any of them. (Parent’s fault for raising such ungrateful little brats)

      What the heck is wrong with people? Geeze.

    • Can I just say I’m jealous? Lately I have been lamenting the serious lack of Lego in my life, and I’m 30!

    • i got harry potter legos for christmas and i’m 24…best thing ever! (you guys, it has spinning chairs and a croissant that goes in the oven and everything)

      i have an ipod that i’ve had for about 4 years now. the screen is cracked and the back is dented but i refuse to give it up. it still works! these kids make me sad. i earned every penny of the money that i used to buy my car and i love it that much more because of that…

      • My nephew got a Harry Potter Lego set and I got to help him put it together. That was the highlight of my Christmas.

  13. the White Whine website has a bunch of these as well – not just twitter, but other social media (mostly FaceBook) and other gifts.

  15. Sad to say, I was one of those little shits. My parents bought me a drum kit just because I asked. They bought me a dog as a good luck present for my exams. I have every single apple product ever released. And then I moved to Australia by myself and was like ‘ohhhhh shit’. Those kids don’t know it yet, but they fucked.

    • or if not ironic, then maybe there is some really complex family dynamic that people are expressing through hateful christmas tweets because i just don’t, i mean, what?

      • I agree, some maybe aren’t that bad with a little context. Like ‘is everybody getting a car or an iphone this christmas?!’. It could mean they’re complaining that no one gets simple presents like a map of Maryland anymore.

        Or maybe I just really want that to be true.

  17. The tweets of these kids’ve made me speechless for 5 minutes! You won’t find the Apple devices in my room. I am always careful with my money. I did wait one year for a Samsung TV! My 2 years-old HP notebook was a gift from my father and I surely will work it for a long time. These spoiled brats are rather sheltered from ‘real life’ and I am afraid they can’t survive on their own.

  19. this reminds me of the episode of “my super sweet sixteen” where the party cost like 100,000 dollars because EVERY PARTY ON THAT SHOW costs 100,000 dollars and the girl had the audacity to cry at dinner for 1.5 hours about how her parents didn’t get her a car, and they caved and i never forgave them.

  20. People are so ungrateful, and often overlook at how fortunate we really are. I am too old to ask my parents anything for christmas… but all I wanted was for my parents to get back together after they split last March, when my dad left us. I stop talking to my dad because of this, but secretly hoped he came back home. Out of nowhere, as if visited by the ghost of christmas past, my dad paid my tuition for the spring in full, I was short a few hundreds and I thought I was not going to be able to register.

    Life give us what we need, and rarely what we want.

  21. The only things I got for Christmas were holiday socks, tiny gloves, chocolates, apple pie germ killer gel and cash. I was only bummed about not having enough cash for the cymbals I wanted. I gave most of the stuff I got to my sister who got nothing. I’d be going out of damn mind if I got a car as a gift but I probably have to return it since they cost a lot to keep. When I turned 21 this year I only got $20 and weights from my mom, she was the only person to remember my birthday. A lot of people are just snobby assholes about things. Too bad you can’t put a punch to the face in a box, I’d give that gift to a lot of people.

  22. uuuuggggggg.

    the other thing is that theses aren’t really “kids,” right? they are like teens and older.

    in other news, my mom got me an “ionizing himalyan salt crystal table lamp” for x-mas and i LOVE it.

  23. Things like this only cement my feelings that we are raising a nation full of spoiled entitled children. MTV aired a marathon of Sweet Sixteen the other day and I wanted to punch all those parents in the face. Not the children, the parents for creating these little monsters in the first place. I think my favorite temper tantrum from that show has to be the female rapper(who just got signed to a contract and hadn’t even released a single yet) that lost her shit because her mother and/or the venue she was having the party at didn’t want to pay 2 million dollars in permits just so she build a huge skateboard ramp instead their building. I was LOLing at that shit.

  24. My family is fairly well off, and I am a teenager in high school. I didn’t get a car, ipad, iphone, or whatever, even though I’m very fortunate that my family can afford it. That doesn’t matter to me. I know that we’re saving for college for my brother and sister and I, and that our business is taking a hit from the recession. I got some books I asked for, a pair of awesome snowboots, and a set of my three favorite movies on DVD. Christmas was great.
    I love my family, no matter what I get for Christmas. I know that these kids are disappointed, but really. If you want something expensive and it’s not in your family’s budget, babysit and save up the money. Appreciate your family for what they do for you and the money they spend on you on a daily basis, like clothes and food and necessities.

    • I agree. Despite the fact I did get $300 on black friday that counted towards my Xmas gifts, I honestly was more excited about these PJs and a scarf my mom got me. I didn’t think they were waiting in line all day for a tv for me I thought it was for my Grandma and if I knew I would’ve told them I don’t need a tv that much lol

  25. I got a bottle of whisky, some pyjamas and slippers.
    It was seriously awesome. We all got a bottle of alcohol, pjs and slippers n all got to spend the night drinking in our new comfy pyjamas. Its not the materialistic shit that means anything.

  26. and here I was being completely content with my sock monkey footie pajamas and a ukulele. I guess I have to go bitch about how hard my life is now.

    our generation sucks.

  27. So I was thinking that “camero/ipad” kid haaaddd to be trolling so I looked him up and the context behind it was that Christmas sucked for him because in the military and hasn’t spent Christmas with his family for the past 3 years.

    So yeah, context, people, context.

  28. My MIL got us an iPad for Christmas (totally a surprise, not at all asked for) and I still feel kind of guilty about it and like we shouldn’t be keeping it.

    I do remember one Christmas when I was a teenager, I’d asked for a specific pair of boots and my parents did get me boots but not the ones I’d asked for. I’m not proud of it now but I will admit I acted like a spoiled brat and cried about it. And then after I got over it I ended up liking the boots they chose. Sometimes I think teenagers are just overly dramatic for the sake of being overly dramatic.

  29. What’s worse is going to one of their twitters (the fuck my parents, FML one) and seeing all the hate they got retweeted. I mean, sure, they were being selfish, but death threats, heterosexism to extreme, AIDS jokes… it’s much worse the original.

  31. I will never understand the absurd appeal of the iphone or the ipad.. I just need to make calls with my free 5 year old phone and the ipad will forever be an enigma to me.. But, to be fair, I AM returning the UGG boots I received this year haha.

  32. I ask for socks every damn year. This year? No socks. Fucking parents. Expecting me to buy my own socks like some kind of “adult”.

      • Please teach me how to be patient enough to knit socks! Or knit me socks. I will knit you a sweater in return.

        Goddamn gussets.

        • what? I would never ever have the patience to knit a whole sweater.

          deal!

          please note that I’m 5.8′

          • Somehow sweaters seem more manageable to me? It might be a question of needle size. I’ve never done a sweater on anything smaller than a size 4 US (3.5 mm).

            I’m 5’6″ and remain undaunted.

            I am so serious about this now. I would cop out and use an aran and it might end up being a vest instead of a whole sweater, but PM me if you want a knitting exchange.

            PS. I enjoy that this section of comments on a thread about people who are ungrateful has turned into appreciation/potential grateful gifting?

  33. The equivalent for me as a wee one in the 90s was probs an easybake oven and one of those mini cars ooo and the BIG lego sets. Actually I still want all those thingss..

  34. I actually do feel kind of bad for these people- how they’re so wrapped in consumerism that they think one of these pieces of plastic is what they need to be happy.

  35. The saddest part to me is that these parents truly think that they’re providing for their children and ensuring their happiness by buying them anything and everything they ask for. But in the end these kids aren’t learning how to take care of themselves and be happy without all the devices and crap. They are in for a rude awakening if they ever get out into the “real world” and have to survive on their own. they’re completely ill-equipped.

  36. I feel bad for the one that got the map of Maryland. That shit frequently happens in my family. My brother gets a trip to England for a birthday; I get a package of Glad containers. My 5 siblings get iPod Touches for Christmas; I get a card. My little sister gets a car for Christmas; I get socks. This year one brother got a laptop, one got a big flatscreen TV, idk what the others got but damn. It’s not that I really want any of the stuff they get (I already buy it all for myself) but it hurts when people play favorites.

  37. And here I was, feeling happy I’m still alive after a scare in the summer and that my depression was sufficiently in check that I made it to a christmas eve party with friends and then on to my parents.
    Where I celebrated christmas with all of us for the first time in 7 years secretly hoping, together with my mother, that my soon to be born nephew would make an early entrance in the family. He didn’t but made his presence known by making life hard enough for my sister in law though.

  38. I must be the lamest teen. I have an ipod touch 4th gen that I bought with left over money after paying for school + books. I am going to pay for my iPhone in February so my mom doesn’t have to and she said she’ll pay for my phone bill (which I am uber thankful for!). I also don’t care to drive. I got a TV from black friday along with a new sony cybershot camera. I was satisfied. I also got some cool flannels, PJs, and a scarf. Yeah my mom loves me and I love her too :D

  40. Dearest Queers,
    Don’t judge a book by its cover. There, I said it.

    I am deeply saddened by entitlement and people that are blinded by their own entitlement and privilege. However, one of these so called, “iPhucks,” “greedy assholes,” “little shits,” is my twin sister. Look her up above—> @JuliaJeanius. I can’t justify or defend any other person who tweeted about not getting a Mac product or a car or their own private island off the coast of Guam, but I can tell you that my sister is hilarious and it was a joke. Little did she know she would wake up Twitter famous, Tumblr famous and the scorn of many YouTube videos. Which, is of course exactly what she has wanted out of life since she got a Twitter.

    Why do I feel the need to defend my sister? Because she’s not a greedy, entitled, ignorant consumer that is not worried about anything but herself. AND BECAUSE WE SPENT 7 FREAKIN MONTHS INSIDE A WOMB TOGETHER.

    But, I guess what I want to say is that these people are totally unaware of how much they sound like rich prisses, and we should illustrate to them in a respectful manner that their priorities are wayyy off-base.

    And if you like what you see in her picture above, that’s what I look like, cept I have short hair like the Beibs.

    Peace my fellow Lezziees and Queer dears.

    • yes, good point tess. also i didn’t realize this was being taken to the point where there are youtube videos and tumblr posts about it, attacking the kids. I’m sorry that your sister was hurt by this, hers was funny.

      • i edited out her tweet and also the one from the guy who was having a bad christmas because he’s in the motherfucking military

        • Gracias! I think my sis was a little butt hurt at the beginning and then all of her friends started commenting how famous she was and the rest went out the window. I mean, I guess that’s what you get for living in LA. I’m going to tell her you thought hers was funny.

  41. “Was i the only person who didn’t get an ipad? i mean i got a car, but thats a different story all together :/”

    I HATE MY GENERATION.

  42. I don’t think this is just an “our generation” thing. Presumably, greed and thoughtlessness have existed since the dawn of humanity, but there are plenty of good people out there too. Don’t let a handful of idiotic comments get you down.

  43. I got Christmas cards from friends and family that love me, some awesome homemade clam chowda (a rarity in Texas), homemade dark chocolate/creme de menthe brownies, some primo smoke and terrific company on Christmas.

    iphone? I don’t need no stinkin’ iphone.

  47. My mom used her airline miles so I could fly across the country to meet my military girlfriend’s family and spend some of the holiday with her. I was so happy, it was the best gift I’ve ever received. :D

    • That is an AWESOME gift and also giving your daughter the gift of her girlfriend’s company is super non-consumerist as well as being the best gift ever.

  48. So like everyone else who feels entitled to share their opinion on this thread, I got socks for hannukah and don’t own an ipad or a smartphone. And I think kids who wanted shiny appliances and didn’t get one at all should probably suck it up. BUT to be fair, I wouldn’t want to be in the position of that kid whose parents bought him a kindle when he’d asked for an ipad. That’s an legitimately awkward situation! Kindles are expensive, so it’s not like you can put it in a drawer and not use it and ask for an iPad again next year without being a big jerk. But if you’re not into reading or if you like paper-and-ink books, what are you supposed to do with it? I think if I were in that situation I’d wish my parents had just bought me brownies or something and been like “sorry no gadget this year”

      • I agree. I’ve been in the position of receiving an expensive gift when all I asked for was some books… and it was weird.

  51. I told my mum not to get me anything because I can’t afford to send them anything due to just buying very expensive plane ticket back home to see them (this can be my xmas gift I think, yes).
    But she still put $$$ in my acc and sent me a care package with lollies (candy) from back home, and also some good old fashioned home baking.

    PLUS tampons. Because NZ tampons are better than UK tampons and this is a fact.

    Was pretty hilarious getting the package with that customs declaration at work.

    • I was in New Zealand a couple of years ago, and that is so true. You all have extraordinarily well-made feminine care products.

  52. My Mum didn’t buy me a car because I don’t have a driver’s licence, and she felt that it would be irresponsible, stupid law-abiding bitch. Dude, where’s my car?!

  53. Although I reserve judgement for people I actually know, this post has reminded me that I should be more vocal about my gratitude. I had asked for a new battery for my car; and opened a box with a ‘C’ battery and a Hot Wheels on Christmas Eve. (My stepdad helped me put the real battery in my car earlier tonight.) So I called my mom and told her again that I really appreciated the thought that went into my gift :) She told me that she loved me, which means more than any gift ever could.

  54. I saw a couple people on my twitter feed doing jokey whining about not getting “a second ipad” or other such things, i figured someone had started a joke whining thing about not getting awesomer gifts. i’m going to keep that degree of awareness, and not worry about these people.

  55. For Christmas my mother gave me a gift voucher to a DVD store and some hand made bookmarks. I was really touched that she took the time to go searching through tumblrs to find Warehouse 13-Myka/HG pictures for the bookmarks.
    If I went on twitter bitching about not getting an iPad or a car she’d disown me for being to damn selfish to consider family.
    And I’d probably do the same to my (fictional) kid.
    I really hope at some point those kids realise what horrible, entitle brats they are, and feel appropriately ashamed.

  57. Sometimes I worry that I might be a bad person, but now I think I’m cured. It’s a Christmas miracle.

  58. I don’t think greed is the problem here. Its lack of respect.
    I get that these kids are probably spoilt beyond words and I can accept that, as I cant say that I havent seen it all before, but where is the respect for the gift giver?
    I would never say that I hate anyone, let alone my parents, and eventhough I swear up a storm I wouldn’t call my dad a c*#t.
    Don’t get me wrong, we arent the Brady bunch (they are pretty big ‘phobes)and sometimes I want to slam my head into a wall when I talk to them, but in saying that, they did bring me into the world and kept me alive until I was able to do it myself.
    So I appreciate and respect them for this. :)

  59. Reading these was kind of like deja vu for me. On Christmas the only thing I heard about from one of my teenage cousins was that he and his siblings got iPad 2s from a friend of the family and his dads decided that was waaaay to generous and returned them. He thought it was quite literally the worst thing that could ever happen and that he somehow deserved a $600 present just because. He was also under that mistaken belief that his dads did it just because they were trying to ruin Christmas!

  60. I haven’t read any of the comments yet but I just want to say that yes it’s gross to see such bratty kids and there is definitely an element of spoiled disgustingness, of course, but I also think a huge thing is that kids don’t have the mental capacity to use social media appropriately/properly.

    That sounds condescending but I just mean that Riese, you think people put things on social media sites because they think they’re appropriate for public consumption, but I really very much do not think that is always the case. Sounds like common sense, but c’mon, who has that? (I am sort of being tongue-in-cheek but sort of not.) Many of my 20-something peers seem to be clueless when it comes to what’s “appropriate” to tweet/Facebook/blog/etc, and I’m constantly reading TMI statuses and tweets. I am FB friends with a few of my old campers who are now in the 10-17 age range (holy fuck that makes me feel old) and I’m honestly horrified by a lot of what they post. You said you were looking for an example from when you were little, but I honestly don’t think the issue is the gifts (though maybe I’m naive/too hopeful for humanity) but rather the fact that we have this bizarre outlet to share all our intimidate thoughts, even the ones that make us look like assholes. And of course kids are the most susceptible because they literally do not have the brain development yet to understand why they sound like spoiled shits.

    Is this coherent? It’s an idea I think about a lot (social media and how it’s affected our ability to perceive ourselves and others in a negative way) but I’m not sure I’m making sense at all. Anyway, my birthday falls on Chanukah most years so for birthday/Chanukah this year I got a yummy birthday dinner with my amazing girlfriend, and she wore pink suspenders and a pink bowtie to surprise me (pink is my favorite color.) That’s not really relevant, but I’m having trouble with relevancy today and also who doesn’t want to hear about my girlfriend’s cute pink suspenders? Okay I’ll stop…

    PS: My younger brother currently has the iPhone (from our parents) and I do not. I’m not gonna lie you guys, it is hard! Not THAT hard, but like, a teensy bit hard…ugh please don’t think I suck as much as you think all the kids above suck, I wouldn’t tweet about the iPhone thing, I only share in a safe space like AS…

    • …”you think people put things on social media sites because they think they’re appropriate for public consumption, but I really very much do not think that is always the case.”

      I think people don’t understand that 1) the Internet is bigger than their social circle and 2) the Internet doesn’t care about context. Also, the Internet can’t always read the tone intended with text.

  61. Do… do the kids who wanted white iPhones realize you can put coloured cases on iPhones? YOUR PHONE CAN BE ANY COLOUR YOU WANT IT TO BE. THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS.

    Also, apologising profusely for my generation.

  62. I don’t even know why AS is giving these spoiled twats any Internet space. I mean, I don’t think this is really all that representative of people in general and it just fuels a sad and negative view of the world and a reason to sit back and sneer about first world problems. I prefer to regulate assholes like this to the bottom of the dung heap and forget about them like I would empty cat food cans and spent banana peels.

  63. For Christmas this year, my stupid parents only got me thirty-six gifts. YOU GUYS LAST YEAR I GOT THIRTY-SEVEN! #srslypissd #fuqthem #WHYDOTHEYWANTTOSEEMEUNHAPPY

  64. People get cars for Christmas? WHAT IS THIS WORLD. o_o I got Leonard Nimoy’s “I Am Not Spock” and almost died from happiness.

  65. i got snowshoeing poles for xmas and almost died of happiness. :p all these kids do make me mad, but at the same time, really sad for them. one day reality is gonna hit and then they won’t be prepared for life. I left my moms house @ 18 with literally only the clothes on my back and a police officer at my side to protect me. i spent the next 2 yrs pretty much eating ramen while i supported myself with my apt and 40 hr a week job. i did it on my own with no help, and have been supporting myself since i was 18. while it sux and is hard at times, everything i own i worked for. nothing was given to me. it does make you realize need vs. want but when you look @ what you do have accomplished and provided for yourself, like a place to live and food, things like an iphone or ipad seem so silly…

  66. My (bio) mom gave me her old doc martens and the Mabinogion, and I got socks and money for books and my other (adoptive) mom even got me pants from the boy’s section, which is kind of a big step for her. It was the best Christmas ever (except for being effectively banished from one side of the family).

    Then my other Aunt gave me “Scripture tea”. Which really is kind of a bad gift, because I can’t serve the tea to most of my friends without offending people. But at least I didn’t complain about it where she could overhear.

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