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Inappropriate present, hideous bookends and me in drag!!!!

514 replies

confusedgoldilocks · 26/12/2025 14:53

I love christmas, and I love christmas presents, I got my best friend a lovely calendar showing photos that were precious to me throughout the year of all the good times we have shared, in return, and this is so strange, I got two bookends, which have obviously been handmade, but look like my face, but in a grotesque punch and judy way, I'm not sure whether they are supposed to look so scary, but they are hideous, I actually had nightmares about them last night, and on top of that, a smaller 3D figurine which is basically me looking like a drag queen in hideous blonde hair and a massive red bow, they obviously took a long time and I get that, but I wonder what they are trying to tell me, they have sent me a message asking what I think of them and I really don't know what to say, to be honest, Im quite upset they see me that way. Im just a normal person who loves christmas, I was hoping for tickets to see a christmas carol or something like that.

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Ariel896 · 30/12/2025 09:32

Abraxas was not on my bingo card!! You did it again OP!!

Alpacajigsaw · 30/12/2025 10:24

confusedgoldilocks · 30/12/2025 09:08

So i lined up the bookends either side of the goldilocks figurine, and it sort of created a shrine, a hideous constipated half face on one side, goldilocks in the middle and then a matching mirror image constipated half face on the other side. Seeing the three of them looks quite striking to be honest, goldilocks has a sort of serene smile, but the half faces look quite disturbed.

And then it came to me, they are not bookends at all, they are actually designed to be a three statue shrine, they represent something, and then silly me, it came to me, its Abraxas.

The lit self, the shadow self, Abraxas in between, I could really bang my head onto a wall, its so obvious.

Abraxas loves you all!!!!!

Bit early to be drinking OP

TheEverlastingPorridge · 30/12/2025 10:28

Ah of course - Abraxas!! How could you be so daft? We knew that from the off

off to google what the hell is Abraxas

reversingdumptruckwithnotyreson · 30/12/2025 11:07

I love whatever is wrong with you

lmao what a ride

UncannyFanny · 30/12/2025 12:36

Thanksforyourlackofthought · 30/12/2025 09:12

What exactly are you on?

Glue by the sound of it.

Onlyonthetelly · 30/12/2025 12:44

So all’s well that ends well. It’s like a modern Dickens. A lovely heartwarming tale for the Christmas season.

Pipsquiggle · 30/12/2025 12:49

Onlyonthetelly · 30/12/2025 12:44

So all’s well that ends well. It’s like a modern Dickens. A lovely heartwarming tale for the Christmas season.

I was going to say it's like
'Much ado about Nothing'

IMissTheLittleBluePackets · 30/12/2025 13:10

What. The. Fuck.

38woman · 30/12/2025 14:02

Toomanysofttoys · 26/12/2025 16:35

Put the money in an envelope and shove it thru their letterbox..then package up the gift and leave it on their doorstep with a note saying.
I know I messed up with the money for the meal however this present is hurtful and the video you all watched on the tv of me opening it is shameful of you as friends. I feel humiliated.

I'm sorry you had to open this awful gift

Edited

This is perfect. I agree that regardless,.it is a very mean gift x

38woman · 30/12/2025 14:05

38woman · 30/12/2025 14:02

This is perfect. I agree that regardless,.it is a very mean gift x

Apologies I have read your other posts

Bayleaf30 · 30/12/2025 15:01

I’ve enjoyed your work OP, never quite knew which way it would turn next.

Arlanymor · 30/12/2025 17:30

Oh I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt up to this point. But everyone knows that Abraxas has a buh-gerk head and a slithery body.

Nil points. Do not pass Go. Do not collect £200.

confusedgoldilocks · 30/12/2025 17:52

Abraxas is not a being, or an image, your either being too closed minded, or your relying on lazy google searches, dig a bit deeper, Abraxas is in fact everything and nothing, good and evil, light and shadow, which is why it sits between the two bookends, its an encapsulation of everything, thats why it looks male, but with female hair, its actually a wonderful present, now I have reconciled what it actually means, ABRAXAS-its all for you!!

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Thanksforyourlackofthought · 30/12/2025 17:57

You must be very bored OP. I find it particularly telling that you don't address the fact that many posters now think you have made the whole thing up.

ThisAutumnTown · 30/12/2025 18:09

I call bullshit

Twistern · 30/12/2025 18:10

OP I can think of several reasons why somebody would write the kind of posts you have. However, I shall not mention them here but suggest that you stop wasting people’s time further

Kingsleadhat · 30/12/2025 18:58

Twistern · 30/12/2025 18:10

OP I can think of several reasons why somebody would write the kind of posts you have. However, I shall not mention them here but suggest that you stop wasting people’s time further

Oh I wish you'd give us a few theories because I'm completely stumped, it's all so odd 🤣

confusedgoldilocks · 30/12/2025 18:59

no one is holding a gun to your head, I assume your an adult and capable of making your own decisions about what you read and don't read at least thats what Abraxas would say......

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FlyingApple · 30/12/2025 19:01

I can't say that it's not a bit irritating to know that this was all fake 🤥

confusedgoldilocks · 30/12/2025 19:08

not at all, a person gets a weird present, a person gets upset, a person digs a bit deeper, a person then learns something new, whats fake? Is this not a mumsnet ending? is that the issue? is the concept of self growth through experience something that you find difficult to accept? I suggest you try Abraxas!! it makes things whiter than white! or blacker than black depending on your outlook

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AMurderofMurderingCrows · 30/12/2025 19:10

confusedgoldilocks · 30/12/2025 19:08

not at all, a person gets a weird present, a person gets upset, a person digs a bit deeper, a person then learns something new, whats fake? Is this not a mumsnet ending? is that the issue? is the concept of self growth through experience something that you find difficult to accept? I suggest you try Abraxas!! it makes things whiter than white! or blacker than black depending on your outlook

Have you been at the Christmas sherry Goldi?

user1473878824 · 30/12/2025 19:15

OP it’s just embarrassing now

Manxexile · 30/12/2025 19:28

AMurderofMurderingCrows · 30/12/2025 19:10

Have you been at the Christmas sherry Goldi?

Don't think it's sherry...

BlackCat14 · 30/12/2025 19:35

user1473878824 · 30/12/2025 19:15

OP it’s just embarrassing now

Agree, it was funny at first but now it’s just try hard!

Forthwith81 · 30/12/2025 19:41

You know what they say you should do if you're in a hole? Do that.