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Would you give this birthday present?

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ShannonRockallMalin · 13/09/2018 19:24

My brother has a significant birthday coming up. I thought it would be interesting to get him a newspaper from his date of birth (1970s) but because he was born on a Sunday they turned out to be really expensive. So I settled on a framed copy front page of a birthdate newspaper instead. I ordered it online and didn’t see the page before it arrived today. It’s a tabloid and the main headline, covering almost all the front page, is about a woman who had had a secret mastectomy.

Obviously this is not quite what I was anticipating! I think my brother would see the funny side, not that mastectomies are funny, but that it’s not quite what I had intended. But I can’t see him wanting to put it up in his house, so it’s a bit of a pointless gift really. I don’t think I can get a refund because it’s a personalised item. Would you still give it?

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wellthatwasunexpected · 13/09/2018 19:29

I wouldn't...

TheDowagerCuntess · 13/09/2018 19:29

Hmm, even without the headline, I don't think it's ideal.

Don't get me wrong - I have kept papers from the DCs' birthdays, but I personally wouldn't put up a framed newspaper from my birthday on the wall - it wouldn't go with everything else, and I might not like the frame someone else has chosen.

Sorry. I know that's probably not the answer you want. It's just a bit too 'gimmicky'.

Heismyopendoor · 13/09/2018 19:30

No I wouldn’t

ShannonRockallMalin · 13/09/2018 19:32

I know he’d like it as a gift in general terms, we have similar tastes and I would personally find it really interesting. It’s just the subject!

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SavoyCabbage · 13/09/2018 19:38

Somebody gave me the front page of the newspaper from the day one of my DDs were born and it was about a massacre in a school in America. I didn’t know what I was supposed to say.

KnotsInMay · 13/09/2018 19:42

Oh dear!

No. Or rather, I would get him another present and then tell him what had happened and give it him and say “and look how that great idea turned out”

Bluntness100 · 13/09/2018 19:47

Lol to be fair, they don't often put the good news on the front page,..🤣

HolgerLowCarbingLoser · 13/09/2018 20:14

Uhm no.

mittensofsteel · 13/09/2018 20:16

Why did she have a secret mastectomy? You have to share the story now!

greendale17 · 13/09/2018 20:18

I think newspapers from the day you were born is a bit of a cheesy present

HollyBollyBooBoo · 13/09/2018 20:23

No, horrible, he's not going to
Put that on a wall is he!

Bluntness100 · 13/09/2018 20:27

I'm not sure it's cheesy as such, but it's highly unlikely the headline would be anything nice you'd want on your wall, unless you were born on a day something big and nice happened. Past that it's always going to be something rather awful.

It's the reason you don't see the page before you buy it. 🤣

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