Liz Jones


When you buy her a present, make sure it matches her beautiful brown eyes, long brown hair, and make a special note that she likes leather. Oh, and she has human friends too.

as a female who prides herself on getting awesomely creative and thoughtful presents for her friends and family, i must say, reading that article made me kind of nauseous. whine much, ya entitled biatch?

I have a penis and I've done pretty damn good getting gifts for people this year. So fark off, coont.

And as a guy who likes to do his best to make the people in his life feel appreciated, I am happy that I don't have anybody like her in my life.

Because it's not sexist when it's against guys.

maybe if women quit spending all of the 'mans' money, maybe he could purchase something nicer for them.

or save/invest more money.


women be spending
men be saving

Sinister Steve: women be spending
men be saving



Men be acting all like zombies at the mall.

Wow. Someone just moved to the very front of my "dropkick them if I meet them" list.

Persepolis: Sinister Steve: women be spending
men be saving



Men be acting all like zombies at the mall.

RIP Sinbad

"And girls, if he tries to palm you off with a twig pencil, just make sure you see in the New Year without him. "

Ugh. I agree with Starryeyes; nauseating. I may not have fancy shoes and handbags, but I have my priorities in better shape than that. Thoughtfulness and quality of relationship is rarely tied to a price tag, IMO.

they always love my presents because I have taste, imagination, patience, a selection of credit cards, tenacity and an eye for detail and an ego that would blame them if they disliked the gifts.

FTFY. You're welcome.

FTA:There was the trip to Phuket to see in the New Year.

That place is popular today.

Maybe if women would just tell us what they want for once instead of dropping hints so obscure that not even the hardiest Farker would get it then maybe they'd get what they wanted.

I suggest kneepads and a bib

Suck it, lady. The most thoughtful gifts I've received have come from men. Maybe your taste in men just isn't as good as your self-proclaimed great taste in gifts.

Someone should have clued her in that no man ever gave a shiat that she bought him a "Prada" shirt. She bought that so she could tell other people that she bought him that.

I know where this Fark thread is headed!

What's up
with all
the slender
articles
it's pretty
annoying
to read a
few words on
each line
with
advertisements
all around.

Cagey B: Persepolis: Sinister Steve: women be spending
men be saving



Men be acting all like zombies at the mall.

RIP Sinbad

He's not dead, dummy.

What a coont.

My gift to her is a steaming pile of shiat with a twig stuck in it.

As long as my wife can't distinguish diamonds from CZ, I do fine for christmas.

Im gonna go with it's the fact that we dont really care all that much.

I think, if she's trying to tout her skill as a gift shopper, she might have chosen to omit her "list" of all the gifts she's ever gotten a significant other:


A plaid Ralph Lauren dressing gown.
A chocolate brown Smedley sweater.
A Jil Sander sweat shirt.
A grey, oversize Helmut Lang sweater.
FAIL

I hate xmas and do not buy gifts for anyone. Problem solved.

I bought everyone that giant TV remote that was on sale everywhere. Won't they be surprised?

I'm not even sure she's sexist. I think she's just crazy.

WTF is this tripe?

Cagey B: RIP Sinbad
Sinbad isn't dead.

/My birthday was yesterday, and all of my gifts were awesome.
//Christmas will likely be the same.

She seems really wrapped up (no pun intended) on the name on the item.

Strip away the Ralph Laurens, etc., and you have a shirt and a plaid robe.

Wow. Really thoughtful. Seems to me that she gets crappy gifts because she's a self-absorbed, materialistic idiot who seeks out other materialistic idiots - except when S-AMIs are guys, they buy all the stuff for THEMSELVES.

"I received that Lost DVD just days after discovering my then husband was having a transatlantic affair."

Someone's bitter.

I'd like to see Liz and Kathy Lee Gifford in a gift giving slug
out...

/sell tickets
//profit

I just realized (based on the gifts) that all of her boyfriends/others were gay.

On another note, I'd totally live in egotistical hell for a year, just so she could buy me a car for Christmas.

I'll get her instructions on how to compost her printed articles into mulch, because she's environmental.

I'm all for Christmas, and the consumerism that occurs around it, but this is ridiculous. The moral of this story is that the most thoughtful Christmas gift costs more than you can afford, and comes imprinted with a high-class designer brand name, eh?

High maintenance doesn't even begin to cover this.

memilkisyummy: He's not dead, dummy.

Monkeypillow: Sinbad isn't dead.

I think that was the joke. Didn't he have a fake obituary out a few months ago?

I remember him doing an interview saying how he read about his own death.

Cagey B: RIP Sinbad
Sinbad isn't dead.

THat's too bad.

"An iPod with, unlike the man in my life, an unusually large memory. An iPod Hi-Fi. Another iPod because he lost the first one. A MacBook Pro."

He doesn't buy you gifts you like cause you keep buying him Mac gifts.
And hence he doesn't love you.
Yes gifts = love.
Or maybe you are trying to hard.
Lighten up for god's sake.

plywoodjungle: I just realized (based on the gifts) that all of her boyfriends/others were gay.

You don't have to be gay to enjoy the warmth of a fabulous dressing gown.

FTFA: You will have spent a month's salary on the perfect present...

If my wife ever spends a months salary on me, we'll be divorced. Seriously, who is this coont that thinks 1/12th of someone's income should go to one farking gift for Christmas?

Oh, and fark her anyway.... I've had my wife's Christmas present for over two months now, it's something she'd never think of buying for herself, but something she needs... I know for a fact she bought my present yesterday, having flat out asked me what I wanted and then going to the store to buy it.

TheHopeDiamond: a self-absorbed, materialistic idiot

That's the war on Christmas.

Because most women are whiny biatches who only care about the dollar value of the gift; buying them anything that is less than 80% of your total worth makes you, the giver, "useless."

//not bitter
//ok, maybe a bit

Persepolis: I think that was the joke. Didn't he have a fake obituary out a few months ago?

I remember him doing an interview saying how he read about his own death.

Link?

A plaid Ralph Lauren dressing gown.
A chocolate brown Smedley sweater.
A Jil Sander sweat shirt.
A grey, oversize Helmut Lang sweater.

It's clear from her list that she understands as little about shopping for men as her various inept suitors do about shopping for her. It appears they are well-matched, and will give eachother many years of awkward codependent misunderstanding.

I don't generally get people gifts. I don't expect them. I would much rather spontaneously take my girl on a trip or to a show than buy her something just because I had to for an occasion. If I come across something she would love or that I would love her to have, I would get it for her. But I wouldn't buy her something just because a gift was expected for a holiday.

/I thought the twig pencil was cute. What a biatch.
//who buys their bf a car anyway? WTF?

That's a lame farking stereotype.

/Bought my SO some awesome gifts.

Wait, did she ever answer "Why?" or did she just complain and whine for an entire column?

Monkeypillow: I remember him doing an interview saying how he read about his own death.

Link?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17638311/

In general:
Women spend all sorts of time, money and effort looking for the perfect gift.
Men, on the other hand, tend to look for the 'good enough' gift.

Sounds like she buys crappy, but expensive gifts in order to try to keep a man around the house. She probably found a trailer-park dude with a big ween and she's trying to train him to be presentable around her friends. Kind of a reverse of Pretty Woman.

A steel Rolex? Yeah, its a Rolex, the cheapest one, and a $25 Timex keeps better time. Personally, I'd rather have 4-5 Fossil watches of different designs to wear with different things.

Several way overpriced sweaters that aren't really for warmth as much as showing you pissed away all that money.

IPods and MacBooks -- He probably lost them on purpose. Kinda like the kid at school who lost every gay-arsed rain coat and or rain boots his mom ever made him wear.

My friend M has been married three months and she was in tears when she told me she thinks, from the receipt she found in her husband's pocket, he has bought her a saucepan.

I absolutely love it when my husband buys me anything for our kitchen, including sauce pans. I think I've been the happiest when I got a new vacuum. It's important to have the right tools for a happy, loving home -- the whole year through.

/would love a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes, too... but ya can't have it all. :P

The best Christmas present I ever received from a man I loved: he learned to play a piano transription of "The Great Gate of Kiev", sat me down on Christmas morning, and played it for me. And then made me cinnamon toast.

I was a performance piano major at the time. And a caterer. Lesson for the gentlemen: anything you give evidencing that you love a person and think of that person when you aren't together will be the perfect gift.

/need to go call that guy right now & tell him it's still perfect 30 years later
// Happy Christmas, Karl