21st birthday presents

[Bizarre Atheist]

Ev'nin all

I'm trying to financially plan around the unpredictable nature of my upcoming 21st birthday presents (which precede Xmas by a mere 4days). So, to aid my research, what did you horrible lot get from your parents/grandparents etc for your 21sts?

You are, of course, free to comment on how I'm ruining the surprise/being ungrateful/am making baby Jesus cry if you please, but do also mention what you got for your 21st.

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[Rob]

A digital camera (slr?) and a full kilt get up did it for me. Result and a half.

Quoting Bizarre Atheist from 20:53, 4th Jul 2007
Ev'nin all

I'm trying to financially plan around the unpredictable nature of my upcoming 21st birthday presents (which precede Xmas by a mere 4days). So, to aid my research, what did you horrible lot get from your parents/grandparents etc for your 21sts?

You are, of course, free to comment on how I'm ruining the surprise/being ungrateful/am making baby Jesus cry if you please, but do also mention what you got for your 21st.

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http://www.charities-campaign.org.uk

[A66]

A coat


A very high quality goose down jacket - but a coat all the same

[novium]

I don't really remember. I was extremely jetlagged at the time. Not much though, because my parents had just paid for (or rather, were going to be paying for) my three week trip through germany and italy.

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tamen ira procul absit, cum qua nihil recte fieri, nihil considerate potest.

[DrAlex]

I went to Boston and saw my first Red Sox game.

We lost 13-3 (for non baseball fans, that is as bad as it sounds).

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The Sinner: Where no one ever learned "if you haven't got any thing nice to say, don't say anything at all."

[Mr Comedy]

I got a boat.

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"I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea. " -Lu Tung

[Haunted]

A bart simpson analogue watch

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Now with 100% more corn

[theyahyahyahs]

A few grand if I remember correctly.

[kats]

well my 21st birthday presents came on my 22nd and 23rd - a horse and a car

[Paranoid]

Cant remember what my parents got me (I think it was combined with xmas present 2 months later). But my Grandparents got me an F3000 track day at Knockhill...was Amazin'!

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..I've got this pain down all the diodes on my left side...

[Rilla]

a party.

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Be good to yourself because nobody else has the power to make you happy.

[diamond_dan]

500 quid

[grousefanatic]

An iPod video - and they came up to visit and took my closest friends and I out for a birthday meal.

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veni vidi nates calce concidi - i came, i saw, i kicked ass

[bdw]

Bumper book of deutsche Rechtschreibung.
Not a vintage year.

[oddly familiar]

Some flying lessons

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saru mo ki kara ochiru

[mackie]

I am actually amazed at some of these birthday presents...amazed.

[novium]

Our parents love us.

Or, more likely, only people who got cool stuff bothered to post. Although mine wasn't as extravagant as it sounds; my parents just paid the credit card bill for my rail pass and hostels while I went gadding about.

Although they did throw a really nice barbecue party when I got back, for my actual birthday. But that was more for them than it was for me...they invited all their friends and did the whole "we're finally done!" thing. IIRC, I eventually ditched it, with the rest of the "kids" and went bowling.

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tamen ira procul absit, cum qua nihil recte fieri, nihil considerate potest.

[Das Feuer liebt mich]

My 21st birthday present will, more than likely, be a kick up the arse and getting told to make my own way in the world

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Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.

[box_of_delights]

Is the whole 21st birthday a big deal all over the UK/World? In Wales it was our 18ths that were big birthdays while we were still at school - none of our large group of friends did anything particular for our 21st.

My Mum reckoned celebrating your 21st was quite an old fashioned thing to do now, and that the 18th is a more modern celebration. However, I think they realised that elsewhere the 21st was still quite a big deal so my parents got me a nice white gold celtic ring which wasn't extortionate in monetary value but means plenty to me.

[novium]

We had big celebrations for 18, too, though.

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quem neque periculi tempestas neque honoris aura potuit umquaum du suo cursu aut spe aut metu demovere.