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Christmas Pictures. WTF? (1 Viewer)

NutterButter

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How is this still a thing? I'm not entirely sure how this even started in the first place, but in this day and age of social media and every broad sharing hundreds of photos of every thing their kids do with every other broad, what the hell is the point? Here's one more picture of the kids to go along with the hundreds of other pictures you have. Oh, its on a postcard with a fake background which you can tape onto the wall for a few weeks. How cute.

 
Broads love anything that makes their life look better than their friends' lives.
:lol: There is a lot of truth to this. Trying not to be "the get off my lawn" guy but Facebook, Instagram, etc have really messed people's heads in this regard.

 
Broads love anything that makes their life look better than their friends' lives.
Tell me about it. Social media has created this monster where every broad needs to out do every other broad's kids experiences.
That's why some people get married and immediately move out to the country somewhere so that the wife doesn't have anyone to compete with. Everyone is much happier.

 
Don't see the problem.

Then again I don't have social media
Maybe you don't have facebook, or snapchat, or instagram, or twitter...but surely you have some form of social media, right? LinkedIn?
I have a twitter account I check twice a week, maybe another few times if I need to know scores of local high school games (I coach hs soccer) otherwise, I have none if the things you listed
 
My wife is fairly normal as woman go, but this is one thing that we fight about every year. She would drag us down to Sears every year and she had this mental schedule in place: "Oh this is the family picture year. Nope this is the year with both girls together. This one is them apart. They wore green last year--needs to be red this year." So you take the picture and then you get to sit at the desk and go over the picture packages and just watch $$$ fly out of your wallet. "Oh, we can get another 8x10 for how much? Look at the picture ornaments!!! Look at them!!!"

The best day was when that place went under. She tried to get us into Walmart's Photo place, but they sucked so bad and took terrible pictures it didn't catch on. Thank god!!

Last year was family picture year and she set up the camera up on a tripod and took a picture of us in front of our tree and she had Walgreens make photo cards. :no:

Oh and of course it was front and center on her Facebook page.

 
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Don't see the problem.

Then again I don't have social media
Maybe you don't have facebook, or snapchat, or instagram, or twitter...but surely you have some form of social media, right? LinkedIn?
Nope.... I may have a linkedIn account way back when I was looking for a job. I should probably delete it as I haven't logged into it in 10 years maybe

Welp apparently my linkedin doesn't exist anymore or I used the wrong address. It doesn't recognize any email I try. :thumbup:

 
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If people want to do this, why the hell would it bother me? So we get needless Christmas photo cards in the mail......oh, the indignities.

 
Don't see the problem.

Then again I don't have social media
Same here.....

ETA: To me, social media is referring to FaceBook, MySpace, InstaGram, Twitter, etc....and not necessarily message boards.

 
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If people want to do this, why the hell would it bother me? So we get needless Christmas photo cards in the mail......oh, the indignities.
Unfortunately, my wife is one of those people which means at the least I need to take part in the picture taking process in someway. I don't care one way or another about receiving them.

 
Don't see the problem.

Then again I don't have social media
Maybe you don't have facebook, or snapchat, or instagram, or twitter...but surely you have some form of social media, right? LinkedIn?
Isn't the FFA a form of social media?
ok I have an FFA account
Congratulations.

Just one?

We do the annual Christmas picture, or more accurately my wife does and I do whatever she tells me to do in this regard. I don't care about it but we have some older friends who like the cards.

 
The better question is why would anyone still write a Christmas letter? We haven't don't that in about a decade now but we receive a few each year.

 
I'm fine and happy to get Christmas cards with children on them, but when the parents get involved that's just bizarre behavior. Freakin ego maniacs.

 
NutterButter said:
FUBAR said:
The better question is why would anyone still write a Christmas letter? We haven't don't that in about a decade now but we receive a few each year.
People do that?
Never wrote one, but I get 2 every year...one from a cousin and one from a friend of my wife. They are usually a couple pages long with a summary of stuff that has happened in their life over the past year.

 
NutterButter said:
FUBAR said:
The better question is why would anyone still write a Christmas letter? We haven't don't that in about a decade now but we receive a few each year.
People do that?
Never wrote one, but I get 2 every year...one from a cousin and one from a friend of my wife. They are usually a couple pages long with a summary of stuff that has happened in their life over the past year.
:lol:
 
NutterButter said:
FUBAR said:
The better question is why would anyone still write a Christmas letter? We haven't don't that in about a decade now but we receive a few each year.
People do that?
Never wrote one, but I get 2 every year...one from a cousin and one from a friend of my wife. They are usually a couple pages long with a summary of stuff that has happened in their life over the past year.
My wife gets one from her cousin every year. It is basically a line by line list of why everything about their lives, their kids, their pets, etc, is so much better than yours. It's insufferable. I don't even glance at it. I'm pretty sure the last one I saw years back claimed their dog was now pooping gold nuggets.

 
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Jesus guys. What's wrong with sharing a nice family photo with a few of your closest people.

Plus, as we continue to age and my wife continues to be smoking hot, we get to make those other bustards jealous.

 
I've practically begged my wife to do a parody card, like maybe we're yelling at each other or wearing horrible sweaters or something absurd with the dog. She refuses.

 
NutterButter said:
FUBAR said:
The better question is why would anyone still write a Christmas letter? We haven't don't that in about a decade now but we receive a few each year.
People do that?
Sadly, yes. I have a couple of in laws who like to take a victory lap over the ordinary things they did this year.
 
I still can't over people sending letters detailing what happened in their lives over the previous year.

I did the Christmas pics yesterday at some photo studio and the thing that really grinds my gears is how serious my wife takes this crap. The two girls and I are there just goofing around trying on different accessories the studio has sitting around and all my wife can think about is how their christmas outfits are getting messed up. Who gives an eff. Its a stupid christmas picture. Everything doesn't have to be this unspoken competition between you and your equally unstable ifriends.

 
Wife wants to do a family photo with the dogs. We have 4 dogs. There's 0 chance they will sit for a picture. It was hard enough years ago when we only had 2 dogs. Hey, why not throw the cats in there too?! :wall:

 
Everything doesn't have to be this unspoken competition between you and your equally unstable ifriends.
Your wife the only female you've ever met? Just arrive on this planet? Born yesterday perhaps? Those are the only things I can think of that would explain your surprise at the female frame of mind.

 
I've practically begged my wife to do a parody card, like maybe we're yelling at each other or wearing horrible sweaters or something absurd with the dog. She refuses.
This would be great...I'd love to get something like this in the mail

 
Wife wants to do a family photo with the dogs. We have 4 dogs. There's 0 chance they will sit for a picture. It was hard enough years ago when we only had 2 dogs. Hey, why not throw the cats in

there too?! :wall:
I considered a smart ### response to this, but no sense in derailing this thread with debating whether dogs are comparable to real kids. Carry on.
 
Wife wants to do a family photo with the dogs. We have 4 dogs. There's 0 chance they will sit for a picture. It was hard enough years ago when we only had 2 dogs. Hey, why not throw the cats in

there too?! :wall:
I considered a smart ### response to this, but no sense in derailing this thread with debating whether dogs are comparable to real kids. Carry on.
My wife and I did one last with our dog. It was pretty awesome. We even dressed him with a bow tie!

 
I still can't over people sending letters detailing what happened in their lives over the previous year.

I did the Christmas pics yesterday at some photo studio and the thing that really grinds my gears is how serious my wife takes this crap. The two girls and I are there just goofing around trying on different accessories the studio has sitting around and all my wife can think about is how their christmas outfits are getting messed up. Who gives an eff. Its a stupid christmas picture. Everything doesn't have to be this unspoken competition between you and your equally unstable ifriends.
Oh wait. You go and get pictures done???? My wife just finds 3 or 4 photos from the year or we just take one and upload it to whatever site to get printed. We don't actually put in effort :lol:

I have never seen a Christmas letter and if we did get one it was never read that I'm aware of.

 
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Wife wants to do a family photo with the dogs. We have 4 dogs. There's 0 chance they will sit for a picture. It was hard enough years ago when we only had 2 dogs. Hey, why not throw the cats in

there too?! :wall:
I considered a smart ### response to this, but no sense in derailing this thread with debating whether dogs are comparable to real kids. Carry on.
Respond on! We have kids as well as dogs. They are adults now (the kids) but would also be in the picture...since they're still freeloaders college kids. Well one is. The other works and pays us rent. The one time we did do a Christmas pic with the dogs (2) and kids it turned out pretty funny. Most of the pics one of us is busting out laughing because of the dogs. I ended up having to photoshop pics together to get a good result. And then photshopped one with one of the dogs eyes crossed. That still gets brought up years later.

 
I get a few picture cards a year that I like. The letters are useless though. Um, I didn't read your FB posts all year, what makes you think I want to read your letter detailing the same exact stuff?

 

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