....like when clearly the post has no relevance or adds no value to the OP's question or concern.

Like this:

OP Question: I am having trouble finding a good fish recipe I like...can anyone help?

Response: I hate fish! Fish makes me gag!

Can someone explain the purpose of this? I mean, if you don't like fish, then why dont you just move on to the next thread? Who really cares what makes you gag or not gag???? I know I don't.

with or without feathers? feathers are icky and scratch my throat.

The balder the better.

Too easy.....no comment....

The balder the better.

That works for "cat" too...just sayin'...

That works for "cat" too...just sayin'...

Believe me i know.

My cat has feathers.

My cat has feathers.

Where's the canary?

Yes I've seen the new froggy. It's beautiful :smile:

So am I HAHA my face is skinner :thumbup:

omg congrats mac :thumbup:

haha my face is skinner....meant skinnier :thumbup:

These days I think you have to tell them you'll take away their Excel, if you really want to get them to take notice.

GASP - that's not even funny. I love Excel muchly (finance). I was going more for a stereotypical image here, Mac. They still use the GAAP book; threatened to set it on fire.

-burps-

Ok so personal/moral/friendship dilemma - a friend buys you a bday present and you open it later on when you are not with them. You don't like it, its jewellry and its not you AT ALL, you don't think you will ever wear it. Gift giver person said if you don't like it, to tell them (I don't know what the plan was after that - like that they'd exchange it or I'd pick something else etc?). The receipt is (accidently?) still in the gift bag it came in and it was rather expensive. Do you tell them you don't like it??? And if so, how do you approach that?

Thats a hypothetical, of course. But I was just wondering, cos I suck at that kind of thing

If it's a pretty good friend that would notice that you never wear it, I would say something like "it's really pretty but it's just not my style"

and of course say thank you for remembering my birthday.

That's a hard one. My cousin always buys me stuff I don't like and I usually find a way to regift it.

Ok so personal/moral/friendship dilemma - a friend buys you a bday present and you open it later on when you are not with them. You don't like it, its jewellry and its not you AT ALL, you don't think you will ever wear it. Gift giver person said if you don't like it, to tell them (I don't know what the plan was after that - like that they'd exchange it or I'd pick something else etc?). The receipt is (accidently?) still in the gift bag it came in and it was rather expensive. Do you tell them you don't like it??? And if so, how do you approach that?

Thats a hypothetical, of course. But I was just wondering, cos I suck at that kind of thing

I had a similar problem some years back. But as I was breaking up with the tool I had a vindictive pleasure of tossing it back in his face and cursing him out. I had showed my bf at the time this ring I was saving up for as something I wanted to buy myself. Well fast forward a week of hell, of this tool trying to guilt me/boss me/tell me what/how to live my life and how to be the "proper" girlfriend. Needless to say he went on a 3 day trip for work, when he got back he presented me with the ring I had been saving up for with vows of eternal love *retch* and devotion *retches somemore* I told him to piss off, take the ring and shove it up his ass and that next time he has a girlfriend he might try to relax and let her be herself before she kills him.

He cried .. .boo hoo ...

Ok, your dilema is actually sweet, mine was vindictive pleasure :frown:

When I put the receipt in, that means "you can exchange it." :thumbup:

Thanks for your responses :thumbup: I think I'll see if they ask about it and go from there. They are a good friend, but we still have a bit of a weird friendship - close in some ways and not in others. Its hard to explain....I find it REALLY strange that they spent SO much money on me though, and if the receipt was left in there so I could exchange it, it probably would have been less confusing for me if they said so? Perhaps??

My husband thinks I should just gracefully accept it and put it with all the other "not me" jewellry I've received over the years....but I feel like thats a waste of my friends money.

Bah!

Senile microeconomics teachers who can't remember what they told you last week, then tell you the opposite this week, suck a$$.