What a load of old tat!

[Jimdandy]

(Lighthearted!) Thanks for this DH. In the almost 20 years LOTRs has been out, I have never once bought any merchandise (despite how much I love it!), I regularly have clear outs, don’t have tat and ornaments or clutter anywhere. Our house is modern and this is oldy worldly. It doesn’t fit at all!

I have a “safe” list of stuff that always goes down well. Or I could have suggested something I would use. Photo frames, Mac make up, etc

What a load of old shite

@MissLucyEyelesbarrow 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Oh well played, that made me actually snort 🤣🤣

You win the thread!!

@ginswinger

Not a competition but I got a stuffed owl and an etching of our local telecoms building. Both were somewhat of a surprise.

A real owl?

I would love a real owl, I have a mink

@Jimdandy where did your dh get it from? My partner would love that

[quote Thelonewanderer]@Jimdandy where did your dh get it from? My partner would love that [/quote]
Sold to the poster called Thelonewanderer

Got a packet of out of date Quinoa (expired July 2019 probably from her kitchen cupboard) from SIL, I’d gladly swap for your LOTR map - at least I could take it to charity shop!
Ha ha beat that!

Has he been to a car boot sale ?? Must have been a secret members one as they are banned at the moment

Know a diehard fan who would love that.... how bid is it?

Big... not bid

I rather like it.

@Iootraw1

Got a packet of out of date Quinoa (expired July 2019 probably from her kitchen cupboard) from SIL, I’d gladly swap for your LOTR map - at least I could take it to charity shop! Ha ha beat that!

I would have given it back. Immediately if they were there or for their next birthday

@crackofdoom

Tell him you’ll store it with all your other maps, in the car glove box

Just don't end up in Mordor when you were aiming for Milton Keynes.

Mordor, tier four, same thing right?

At least he knows that you like LOTR. May not be your thing, but he does pay some attention to your likes and dislikes (well, dislikes not so much, but he knows SOMETHING!). Having had years of cheap gifts that had nothing to do with anything I was remotely interested in, I'm a bit jealous. Of course, I now live with a cat, and somehow she ALWAYS gets me exactly what I wanted (could have something to do with the fact that I do her Christmas shopping for her...it's when I buy myself a little treat).

@crackofdoom

Tell him you’ll store it with all your other maps, in the car glove box

Just don't end up in Mordor when you were aiming for Milton Keynes.

Don’t be silly. One of them is a hopeless, ruined land of the dead, black and foreboding - a vision of industrial environmental degradation, grassless, bare, barren and inhabited by trolls. The other is Mordor.

@Judashascomeintosomemoney

😂

Love the username btw

@ginswinger

Not a competition but I got a stuffed owl and an etching of our local telecoms building. Both were somewhat of a surprise.

This really made me laugh...and of course feel for you. I'm now invested and need to know more. Its so so hard to react 'appropriately' in these situations.

Once got a completely mental cartoon plastic bee wall clock from ex partners parents. Trying not to cry laughing is hard work.

You need to wrap the quinoa up beautifully and gift it back at the next opportunity

If they question it say you thought they were starting one of those family jokes where out of date crap is gifted between households for years

@PurpleTurtle2520

Know a diehard fan who would love that.... how bid is it?

A diehard fan needs this

Just don't end up in Mordor when you were aiming for Milton Keynes.

One does not simply drive into Mordor (or Milton Keynes).

@draughtycatflap

Wait till he’s asleep then stand over him with it whispering with mad eyes “my precious”. If he tries to leap up shout “You shall not pass!” and smack him round the head with it.

The visions this is giving me..I want to buy one for myself now just for this scenario!

I'm from Milton Keynes. Every. Single. Time. Milton Keynes gets joked about this feel the need to defend. I know this is a joke, but Milton Keynes has extensive woodland, farms, parkland and more shoreline than jersey. Would challenge anyone to slag off any other town as much, purely based on a 1980s comedians point of view..

@Squidwitch

I'm from Milton Keynes. Every. Single. Time. Milton Keynes gets joked about this feel the need to defend. I know this is a joke, but Milton Keynes has extensive woodland, farms, parkland and more shoreline than jersey. Would challenge anyone to slag off any other town as much, purely based on a 1980s comedians point of view..

You forgot to claim the roundabouts

@Squidwitch - I'm in NZ, and even I have picked up how much Milton Keynes gets joked about (I used to have a friend who lived there). It's always puzzled me why?

[quote eaglejulesk]@Squidwitch - I'm in NZ, and even I have picked up how much Milton Keynes gets joked about (I used to have a friend who lived there). It's always puzzled me why?[/quote]
Plastic cows
Roundabouts
Communal car parks

I'm from Milton Keynes. Every. Single. Time. Milton Keynes gets joked about this feel the need to defend. I know this is a joke, but Milton Keynes has extensive woodland, farms, parkland and more shoreline than jersey.

There must be two Milton's Keynes. I didn't know there was a nice one but I'm sure PP was on about the one with all the roundabouts.

One does not simply drive into Mordor (or Milton Keynes).

Very true. I spent a couple of orbiting it once.

Our house is modern and this is oldy worldly. It doesn’t fit at all!

Our house is very modern (white walls, copper floor and exposed steels). That map is framed on my wall. It fits fine.