Hey man, that shitty tablet probably gave you a life-long love for hacking. If it had been a fancy iPad, you would never have tried to switch it’s software.
How long did it take to compile?
What kind? I have a rooted galaxy tab a7 lite for some games but I don’t use it much
The first thing that came to mind: an olive fork. It was an expensive brand too.
I don’t eat olives and the giver knew that. The fork is still unused in my junk drawer.
I use mine for pickles, maraschino cherries, Vienna sausages, etc.
A $25 gift card to a seafood restaurant. I’m allergic to seafood. The person knew this but “forgot”. I ended up giving it away.
I received a large framed portrait of myself. No mater where I hang that I’m going to look like a narcissist.
I think the one place it wouldn’t make you look like a narcissist, would be in the toilet (where I’m from, the toilet, or at least one toilet, if there are several, is often in a tiny separate room with only the toilet and a small washbasin; idk if that’s a thing where you live).
This is an excellent suggestion. Transforms it from massive cringe to pretty self-deprecatingly funny.
Whiskey stones. I don’t like whiskey or drinking alkohol…or cold drinks (got sensitive teeth)
Same guy bought me a drinking game, which was basically a roulette with shot glasses.
We know each other for many years and he knows I don’t really drink, yet he still buys me alcohol related stuff…
Are they an alcoholic?
Yes, drinking alcohol is one of his go to activities, but I think he genuinely beleives he can buy great gifts.
A drink cooler. It spins cans of soda for about 30 seconds to cool them. The problem is that it required about 30 pieces of ice to use and was pretty large. Not worth it.
Why is that ironic?
This was before air tags and tile existed. I was gifted a keyfob/remote finder. It was a set of obscenely large plastic fobs that you can attach to things. They were super fragile though and would never survive on a keychain.
It was one of those Sharper Image products that show up around Christmas or all year in the middle isles of Kohls.
The worst gift I’ve ever received once was a some kind of gift certificate to weight watchers. I was pissed off because I actually had been losing weight on my own just fine.
God damn, that just feels like they’ve only gifted it to be passive agressive, did you have a good relationship with the giver at the time?
I did and it soured that friendship.
My big present when I turned 10 was a weedwacker and new chores.
Dad?
when i was 16 my mother and sister both pitched in to buy me … a shaver. I didn’t even fucking have facial hair. they bought one that was ridiculously overpriced. I could’ve gotten a Playstation 2 for the ridiculous amount they paid but instead they got me this dumb fucking appliance that I don’t think I even used ONCE.
still can’t grow a beard for shit to this day though…
Some people just don’t get much of a beard naturally. An interesting thing is that you can actually use minoxidil (Rogaine) on your face and still grow one.
And it’s still hard to call it a gift, it’s more of an imposition.
I got gift cards for a shady prepaid credit card company that would have cost me at least a little more than the cards were “worth” due to fees and hidden bs in their TOS. Worst case they would have costed me around ten times their “worth”.
Not a single gift, but my MIL has this obsession with keeping things “even” for the holidays so everyone receives the same number of gifts. This inevitable means that everyone receives a set quantity of filler gifts. So I get grouped in with my BILs, who are nice but we are different people. She’ll split sock packs between us, bulky shirts that don’t fit me, car and garage accessories that I have no use for, etc. I got a single roll of duct tape once. Not even good duct tape, a thin dollar-store roll. I’ve said so many times I don’t need a pile of things to unwrap, that I’d be far happier with just one, thoughtful gift I could really use instead of having to haul a boxful of cheap useless things home. But nope, gotta get those numbers up.
I have a similar experience with my extended family that I only see once a year during the holidays. They usually gave me cheap gifts that I had no use for, and I always had to pretend to be grateful for them. I’ve said for years that I’d rather just get nothing at all than the gifts that were obviously just given to me for the sake of giving me something.
Not even good duct tape, a thin dollar-store roll.
This is where she crossed the line.
The nerve of that woman.
