Posted on 11/28/2019 8:28:38 AM PST by Swordmaker
If talking politics at Thanksgiving is not enough to get you removed from the guest list for holidays in December, here's some gift ideas that will ensure you won't get invited back next year.
Ever find yourself in a position to need to buy a gift for someone you just don't like? Perhaps an in-law, or obstinate niece or nephew? Or, just looking to avoid terrible gifts? TechRepublic assembled the worst possible gift ideasproducts that you can give to people that serve as the holiday equivalent of "Here, it's your problem now." In other words, the digital equivalent of buying a drum set for your nephew to irritate your brother.
1. Wired 3.5mm headphones
2. Android tablets
3. The wrong smart assistant device (or, realistically, any)
4. The Facebook Portal
5. Basically any Fitbit or WearOS smartwatch
6. Apple Watch for Android users
7. Expired Chromebooks
8. The Xbox One X All-Digital Edition
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I have a couple of quad videotapes.
Someone could use them as weights.
They are 60 minute ones.
I just threw out
A rewinder in the
shape of a
Corvette Stingray,
Damn.
Did someone say;
“Wet Blanket?”
.
I got put in the
Dog House for
“White Elephant” gifts
Last Year,
Think I’ll turn it
Into a “Tradition!”
And
Lighten Up,FRANCIS!
I had a 8 Track
That Rocked
Steppenwolf
and
Quadrophenia
In My
1965 Mustang,
Good Times.
Those Corvette rewinders are readily available on eBay for under 20 bucks. No big loss.
Wired headphones have uses and appeal beyond the impossibility of plugging them into a jackless device.
I would always welcome a nice set as a gift.
Yup. TG. Hope that you have a nice Thanksgiving. :)
Brother-in-law wanted a portable recorder. Im thinking SD card or blue-tooth capable. No, he wanted cassette. Asked him to look on my computer and scan Internet offerings. He chose a cassette/DVD portable with mono mic so he can record to cassette. Hes 69 and old school. So we got him one. Some people dont want hi-tech. He still uses a flip-phone.
Almost as useful as a DVD rewinder.
How about a VHS tape rewinder?
“Love my FitBit. One of the best investments I ever made.”
Until Google bought them. Now it is a surveillance tool. Enjoy sharing your health data with google.
Great minds...
Great.
So today I discover that my Toshiba Chromebook I bought years is “expired”.
WTF, Google.
Why was I not told that when I bought the thing?
I just turned it on.
It’s still works, thank God.
At least I will have my health unlike a lot of people out there.
“Wired headphones” — LOL. That cracks me up!
How fast they have disappeared from the scene! I’m still using my old 6 Plus which still works great. It has the old audio socket, but I switched to Beats wireless headphones which work really well.
Lol!
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