It can be low effort, passive-aggressive, insulting or derogatory towards your convictions.

  • lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de
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    18 days ago

    My sister gifted me the third book of a fantasy trilogy series once.
    I never read or got the first two books.

    Also, when I was little, my grandma (who hated me with passion) bought me a pink bike just to piss me off, because she thought a boy wouldn’t ever like that color. I rode that bike until I was too tall to use it and every time she saw me enjoying that thing she was furious. :)

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      18 days ago

      The propensity for you and your grandma to both act out of spite for one another is impressively high. Its good to have proof you’re related

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        17 days ago

        She always called me “the bastard” because I had a different father than my sisters.
        That was enough of a reason to hate me, I guess. 🤷

        It was definitely intentional of her to gift me “girls” bike and she didn’t expect me to actually like it.
        She also pulled stunts like gifting me and my sisters money on Christmas, but I got 10€ and they got 50€ each. My mum always equally split the whole money afterwards.

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      My grandma once gifted me volume 21 of a manga I didn’t even own a single volume of. All she knew was that I like that japanese comic thing so she bought a random one at the book store.

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        17 days ago

        For their sake i hope it wasn’t, Ender’s Game is possibly the greatest example of deservedly famous book 1 and equally deservedly forgotten rest of the series.