I've always heard the terms Yankee Swap and White Elephant used interchangeably, along with Dirty Santa and a less PC one. I think they're so much fun. All of the ones I've been to are a combo of funny gag gifts (snuggies and such), booze, and safe generic things like gift cards and candles. Wrapping up junk from home is not cool!
The term white elephant implies useless and hard to get rid of, whereas a Yankee swap can be something that a person might actually want. In my family, gifts in the past have been candy, a game, lottery tickets.
White elephant gifts I've encountered have been a case of canned chick peas, a chipped, ugly mug and a hamster.
I've always heard the terms Yankee Swap and White Elephant used interchangeably, along with Dirty Santa and a less PC one. I think they're so much fun. All of the ones I've been to are a combo of funny gag gifts (snuggies and such), booze, and safe generic things like gift cards and candles. Wrapping up junk from home is not cool!
The term white elephant implies useless and hard to get rid of, Â whereas a Yankee swap can be something that a person might actually want. In my family, gifts in the past have been candy, a game, lottery tickets.Â
White elephant gifts I've encountered have been a case of canned chick peas, a chipped, ugly mug and a hamster.Â
I've always heard the terms Yankee Swap and White Elephant used interchangeably, along with Dirty Santa and a less PC one. I think they're so much fun. All of the ones I've been to are a combo of funny gag gifts (snuggies and such), booze, and safe generic things like gift cards and candles. Wrapping up junk from home is not cool!
The term white elephant implies useless and hard to get rid of, whereas a Yankee swap can be something that a person might actually want. In my family, gifts in the past have been candy, a game, lottery tickets.
White elephant gifts I've encountered have been a case of canned chick peas, a chipped, ugly mug and a hamster.
Post by TrudyCampbell on Dec 18, 2014 15:57:14 GMT -5
My grandma is always talking about grave blankets.
This is such a morbid confession but I feel relieved that my grandma has chosen to donate her body to science after her death. She is SO good about decorating all of the graves of everyone she ever knew, and it would make me feel so guilty if I couldn't keep that up.
The term white elephant implies useless and hard to get rid of, whereas a Yankee swap can be something that a person might actually want. In my family, gifts in the past have been candy, a game, lottery tickets.
White elephant gifts I've encountered have been a case of canned chick peas, a chipped, ugly mug and a hamster.
The term white elephant implies useless and hard to get rid of, whereas a Yankee swap can be something that a person might actually want. In my family, gifts in the past have been candy, a game, lottery tickets.
White elephant gifts I've encountered have been a case of canned chick peas, a chipped, ugly mug and a hamster.
That's horrible! What's the fun of that?
I've never heard the term Yankee swap.
White elephant gifts amongst my friends usually consists of hilarious porn. That we then regift each other the following year.
Say what?! Have you used the new windows 8 or whatever that shit is, it shouldn't even be given a name it's so bad. Yes I made the mistake of buying a laptop with that to save money and threaten to throw it out the window if I couldn't return it.
Best thing about macs though, they last forever. My PCs always lasted 3-4 years, my current mac desktop is like 7 years old and still really fast.
No but people who "don't understand PCs" boggle me. Mine last forever, I don't have virus issues, and i fucking love right clicking. lol
They have their place in the design world but not in mine.
You can right click on a Mac. It's just a mouse setting.
My family calls it a chinese auction. But, I looked it up and it's not even the correct usage of that term, so I don't know why they call it that. Lol
I've heard "Jewish Christmas." I asked her why she called it that, and she said, "they don't believe in Christmas, so it's okay to take their good gifts." Ummm...okay....
You can right click on a Mac. It's just a mouse setting.
Isn't there only 1 button? Also, when people run that program on their macs that basically make it a PC I want to yell SEE!
You can set it so that a tap in the right corner does it and a few other things. I don't even know what I do. I think command + click? I don't even think about it as I'm doing it.
You can right click on a Mac. It's just a mouse setting.
Isn't there only 1 button? Also, when people run that program on their macs that basically make it a PC I want to yell SEE!
You can make it where the top right works as a right click. Or you can get a PC mouse and use it lol. My husband has the stupid Microsoft whatever on our computer to play a flying game, that is it. I yell at him every time he leave it in that because I can't get back to the Mac operating system.
You can right click on a Mac. It's just a mouse setting.
Isn't there only 1 button? Also, when people run that program on their macs that basically make it a PC I want to yell SEE!
The "newer" (at least 6+ years old) mouses have sensors on each side so it can tell what side you're clicking. Or you can just buy and use a two button mouse