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      <![CDATA[Buy your own shit! Fucking begging freeloaders!
        
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      <![CDATA[@ Pork Chop!<br>
Try the Oak Grove Freddies (also Toys Backwards R Us has them).
        
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      <![CDATA[I read this thinking someone would ask for a llama, or that there would be some sort of llama-related content. Since there is a picture of a LLAMA in the main graphic. But no. Why? Would a llama not be an awesome gift? Is it not "hip" enough? Did the fad begin and end between the time the graphic was composed and the words written? Or did the Mercury once again duck the issue, instead asking for things it thought people would actually buy them? This is pure corruption, and innocent LLAMAS are paying the price. The price of neglect. For shame!
        
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      <![CDATA[I would just like to say that I've been to 3 Fred Meyer stores looking for that T-Pain Microphone (I MUST HAVE ONE) and not only do they not have them, they haven't even heard of them. Now I have to order one from Amazon.<br>
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WSH you are a mic tease.
        
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      <![CDATA[Nice job, staff!
        
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      <![CDATA[Somehow these comments make more sense if I imagine a t-rex and a Utah raptor saying . Weird.
        
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      <![CDATA[OH, SHUT UP TODD!<br>
I'M TIRED OF YOUR CONSTANT WHINING ABOUT EVERYTHING.
        
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      <![CDATA[Man, people get testy around the holidays.
        
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      <![CDATA[Ok, that does it. I'm not buying either of you gifts this year.
        
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      <![CDATA[Shush Frankie! I'm role-playing a self-centered asshole!
        
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      <![CDATA[Dammit Fruit Cup - he was apologizing to ME for having to read it, not your ass!<br>
Why does everything have to be about YOU anyway?
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Fruit Cup]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[No worries man, apology accepted. No one is at their best when they're hungover. Sorry for my part, too. I have the Captain Kirk vs. Christopher Columbus "Epic Rap Battle of History" stuck in my head. So everything I type today is a rap battle.<br>
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If that makes any sense (it doesn't).
        
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      <![CDATA[I'm just a little hung over and cranky but apparently I'm REALLY in the holiday spirit this year! Sorry!  <br>
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      <![CDATA[I don't see why what Fruit Cup does is such a big deal to you RT. People celebrate things differently. I love consumerism, for the most part, and want my Red Rider BB Gun, but geez, take it easy.<br>
By the way Fruit Cup -- :p
        
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      <![CDATA[Woah.
        
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      <![CDATA[You're a funny fruit cup! Let's try it one more time then seriously I'll be done. No one gives a shit if you do or do not buy people gifts. What makes you an asshole is the fact that you feel the need to comment on a GIFT BUYING ARTICLE about how superior you are because you don't subscribe to the custom of buying people gifts just because it is December or a christian holiday or whatthefuckever. It's annoying. No one cares how awesomer you are. Stop trying to piss in our cereal. <br>
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Ok, now I'll let you have the last word where you say you didn't even read my response but know I'm wrong and you're right.... go ahead. Asshole.
        
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      <![CDATA[How long did it take you to pen that marvelous screed RT? Did you pull out your thesaurus at any point? I'd comment on the content, but truthfully I didn't read it. You are an idiot and  though I find your mindless, idiotic gum-flapping entertaining, I'll make this easy for you: I'm right and you are wrong. You have zero footing on which to base an argument in which I buy people gifts just because it’s December. It’s not a part of my religion, customs or culture.<br>
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I’d also like to add, just because I think it often goes unsaid this time of year: if Dickens could see the Christmas celebration he helped popularize, I’d like to believe he’d hang himself in shame. <br>
        
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      <![CDATA[You are an even bigger asshole than I had originally presumed. Who's got the thin skin here? You're the one that felt so strongly about your custom NOT to buy people gifts that you needed to comment on a post that is exclusively about buying people gifts? "Look at me! I'm not going to buy people gifts because I suck at it! It's a monumental let down every time I try!" People reading this probably don't give a shit what you are or aren't going to do and you added nothing to topic at hand. What you did do is add to the tiresome "I don't subscribe to gift giving because I'm way more socially evolved than you dolts" mantra that gets dragged out every holiday. It's just boring me and I'm tired of assholes like you trying to bring us consumerist gift buyers down to your level of ineptitude and ill will. That makes you an asshole not old fashioned. I do hope you and the people close to you manage a happy holiday despite that fact. I'm finished with you. I have gift buying that needs to be done.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Commenty Colin]]></author>
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      <![CDATA["full color Bone" *snicker*<br>
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I agree with FC: take your friends and loved ones to dinner/brunch/movie/whatever.  If they truly need something, they would already own it.  Holidays are just when we bombard each other with all the crap we only kinda want.  I'm all in favor of thoughtful gifts when the occasion is right, but "just because it's December again" isn't one of them for me.  <br>
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If anyone's buying for me though, I'll take that iphone alarm clock thing.  And also an iphone.
        
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      <![CDATA[Full color Bone, Erik? Wassamatta with black and white? Why don't you get a colorized copy of Metropolis while you're at it? Go read a Disney Adventure magazine.
        
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      <![CDATA[@RT, So let me get this straight: you're so thin-skinned about your beliefs and customs, that people who don't share them are selfish-assholes? Right. Congratulations! Look into the mirror to see what an intolerance looks like!
        
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      <![CDATA[I'm going to do what I do every year: I will bitch about consumerism and use it as an excuse to procrastinate on gift-buying, then I'll do all of my shopping at last minute and enjoy the holiday completely unashamed of my phoniness.
        
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      <![CDATA[You are both assholes and I'm very pleased that I'm not friends with you or anyone like you. Buying people gifts is the greatest part about this holiday. It's not about customs, consumerism or obligations. It's about buying your loved ones nice things that they want but wouldn't normally buy for themselves for whatever reason. It's about the the surprise, joy and gratitude they express upon receiving it. You obviously suck at buying gifts and your loved ones suck at receiving them. Don't bring us all down to your level, and please stop being a selfish assholes.
        
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      <![CDATA[@Graham, I'm with you. I DO NOT customarily buy people gifts. I find the whole custom disheartening. Both giving and receiving of gifts that people don't really want is wearying. I gave my partner some gifts last year and it was a fairly monumental letdown. <br>
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I take my mom out to dinner and a movie every year on (or around) her birthday and Christmas. Because I'm old fashioned.<br>
        
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      <![CDATA[YAY! CONSUMERISM! THIS YEAR FOR THE WINTER HOLIDAY SEASON, I'M GETTING EVERYONE I KNOW FUCK ALL NOTHING. BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THEY DESERVE.
        
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