What did you get for Chrimbo?
Dec 28th 2020, 3:15 pm
#31
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Re: What did you get for Chrimbo?
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Dec 30th 2020, 8:39 pm
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Re: What did you get for Chrimbo?
I'm not sure why there's so much hype about the new series X being so hard to get, my son in sleepy old Perth got one without too much trouble. Maybe the old advertising ploy, if people think it's hard to get they'll want it more? He started telling me how wonderful it was but I'm afraid my eyes glazed over
Dec 30th 2020, 9:21 pm
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Re: What did you get for Chrimbo?
Try Best Buy, if you still want one. They still seem to have packages available?
Not that I know anything about these things.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/xbox-se...t1586900952752
Dec 30th 2020, 9:24 pm
#34
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Re: What did you get for Chrimbo?
It all reminded me a bit of the Queen Mum in WWII, after the Palace got a bit damaged by a bomb, saying that she could now look at the people of the east end in the face again. I mean, I don't know what else she could do so I don't hold it against her, but she doesn't have to worry about unemployment, for example, and she is as sheltered as sheltered can be and wouldn't have to lie on a bed in a hospital corridor if she got ill. I wonder if she's had a vaccination?
Dec 30th 2020, 11:27 pm
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Re: What did you get for Chrimbo?
Company went public, that was Christmas!
Dec 31st 2020, 5:29 am
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Re: What did you get for Chrimbo?
Try Best Buy, if you still want one. They still seem to have packages available?
Not that I know anything about these things.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/xbox-se...t1586900952752
Not that I know anything about these things.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/xbox-se...t1586900952752
Dec 31st 2020, 12:33 pm
#38
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Re: What did you get for Chrimbo?
The closer to Christmas it got, the higher the scalpers went. I ended up paying $625 with shipping, which was only $125 over regular price, the day after release.
I haven't had a new console in years, the Series X replaced my (recently deceased) Xbox 360.
I'm not sure why there's so much hype about the new series X being so hard to get, my son in sleepy old Perth got one without too much trouble. Maybe the old advertising ploy, if people think it's hard to get they'll want it more?
Last edited by civilservant; Dec 31st 2020 at 12:35 pm.
Jan 4th 2021, 1:28 pm
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Re: What did you get for Chrimbo?
Kids got kayaks, bb guns, a board game (Twilight Struggle: The Cold War) and books (i.e. anything possible to get them off the computer screen)
Wife got a weighted blanket (which is actually kind of nice to sleep under).
I got one book. Double Helix: The Discovery of the Structure of DNA
Wife got a weighted blanket (which is actually kind of nice to sleep under).
I got one book. Double Helix: The Discovery of the Structure of DNA
Jan 4th 2021, 10:34 pm
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Re: What did you get for Chrimbo?
I got a really nice cheese knife set and amongst some goodies from my friend in the UK was a bottle of Matey!! I was complaining that US bubble bath is not very bubbly 
