Reply to: Things you used to get for Christmas that you don't get anymore

[mudskipper]

Isn't that wot hundredweights of nutty slack used to be delivered in?

In a South African accent.

[BrilloPad]

sex

[original PM]

used to get a Satsuma and a bag of nuts in a stocking at the end of my bed.

But think that was my dad being whimsical rather than anything else.

[Platypus]

We used to see kids in the street on their new bikes, scooters, hoola hoops , cowboy outfits, at about 7 am

Ahhh.... happy memories (of my kids)

[d000hg]

Hankies from random elderly relative

I would quite like decent hankies, they're not cheap!

[SueEllen]

We used to see kids in the street on their new bikes, scooters, hoola hoops , cowboy outfits, at about 7 am

now you see them at 7pm and their eyes are all gozzy from the PS4

I see adults with the adult version playing on the street at 7am and their kid(s) trying to get it of them.

[shaunbhoy]

Laid!!

[EternalOptimist]

We used to see kids in the street on their new bikes, scooters, hoola hoops , cowboy outfits, at about 7 am

now you see them at 7pm and their eyes are all gozzy from the PS4

[vetran]

Things you used to get for Christmas that you don't get anymore...herpes.

Herpes isn't just for Christmas its for life!

[vetran]

Snowballs

not true, I have a nice bottle of Winterlink in this year, forgot how nice a snowball is.

[SimonMac]

Things you used to get for Christmas that you don't get anymore...herpes.

Come to Yorkshire then

[Gumbo Robot]

New Berry Fruits Jellies

My gran used to by them for us every year.

Chomping my way through a box of those right now

[Troll]

New Berry Fruits Jellies

+1

Also had a Gran that would knit covers for coat hangers and each year there would be a coat hanger shaped parcel under the tree

[DimPrawn]

Things you used to get for Christmas that you don't get anymore...herpes.

[cojak]

A classic hardback book from a distant aunt.

Titles such as Kidnapped, Moby Dick and Treasure Island.

She started when I was three or four but I grew into them

I've tried to read Kidnapped, twice. Once when I was 12 and again as an adult.

The first time was a huge shock as I had devoured every single book I had read up until then and I knew that it was a classic. I just couldn't get past the first few chapters.

The second time I tried I thought that I had been too young to appreciate it.

My 12 year old self was right. RL Stephenson is my least favourite author.