to loathe it when people say ' ooh theres this NORAD thing'

[ElizabethHoover]

yes yes, we know.
been there done that

YAWN

You can grow candy canes?

the STORY behind NOrad is as dull as hearing about the thing itself

I KNOW IABU

and ROAR at fricken baby pasta

nostalgic

my son would more eat his own arm than join in a Family bible reading.
He is working the Next Sale. Oh the joys of the secular society

I don't, particularly.

Sorry, that was to ChocolateTeaCake. I forgot to refresh the page.

Tbh, when I said "drives me mad" I was exaggerating a bit. Really it just makes me a bit that their DC will notice that it's not snowing outside and why doesn't the snow melt inside? .

I love tracking Santa though!

if I had icing sugar footprints anywhere in my house Christmas or no I would have a conniption

ugh ugh ugh

Glad to hear it Robin. I'd hate ypu r head to explode or something!

I never understood the scoffing at baby pasta. It took seconds to cook, and stayed on the spoon. Also, Nigella recommended it.

I can't do Norad because Santa just passed overhead at 5.20 on the ISS and they will wonder why Norad says he is now in Russia.

oh no we dont scoff at it. Just the twenty thrillion threads about why stores suddenly didnt stock it, all around 2004 #gimmer

The baby pasta issue is where to buy it.

I have a baby, i need to feed it pasta but nowhere sells baby pasta. Helphelphelphelphelp.

Cutting up larger pasta Will. Not. Do.

It must be babby pasta or we're fucked. dON'T give me any shit about smaller pasta or soup pasta or any of that bollocks. It must be specifically BABY PASTA that's made for BABIES so it won't KILL THEM.

Where do I buy it WHEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRE?

ps i need a tuna pasta bake recipe

pps i have derailed this thread

this would never have happened if we still had msn

#msnnow

The problem with Christmas is that it's been done too many times. I have done over 40 of them now. NORAD made things interesting for a bit.

Elf on the Shelf is just bonkers. Making snowy footprints is very bonkers especially if it isn't snowing outside.

Elf on the shelf is eerie and creepy and stalkersome.

My idiot uncle used to do the footprints thing. I said 'but snow would melt and it's not even snowing outside and it looks like flour, not snow' but for some reason he thought my cousins had inherited his tiny brains and would be fooled. Luckily they took after my much smarter aunt.

NORAD is fun, and my DD is 18 so we've been doing it for a while! If anyone mentions it in the way the OP describes I just say 'Oh, D loved that!'.
Elf on a Shelf is make-work and bonkers. Christmas bags/hampers are also daft.
But others can do what they want, I suppose

Ooohh I missed that it had been withdrawn from sale. Mine was too old for Baby Organix in 2004. I did used top stock up on cute soup pasta when I went to France, though.

I'm relieved to have it confirmed that NORAD and NORAID are separate entities.

I remember my first thread on MN, ooh 5 or 6 years ago where I asked about some vital thing like a bikini or something and Elizabeth came on going "been there, done that, ask something different, boooored, yadda, yadda, yadda"

Lol. Sowwy beehive

If you're bored with the NORAD tracker have a look at the UK Yule24 on Vimeo ( sorry can't do a link on my phone)

you love it, you shameless attention seeker

Personally I like this website.

It's reminiscent of the old tourettes.co.uk website (if anyone remembers that one).