What's The Next Step Down From A Napkin

X_Stickman

<!--quoteo(post=1809063:date=Nov 23 2010, 09:36 AM:name=Scythe)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Scythe @ Nov 23 2010, 09:36 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1809063"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Man up! Tin sheeting is cheap and can be bent with your bare hands even if you're a girly woman man. Hit it with a hammer until it's vaguely cubic, drill holes and pop some rivets in. Dead simple.

--Scythe--<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Scythe works with Tin, which is the girliest of all metals, and he thinks he's some kind of herculean blacksmith.

lolfighter

The girliest of all metals is actually zinc. Tin + copper = bronze, which is manly as ######. Zinc + copper = brass, a metal for ###### and weaklings.

I'll grant that tin on its own is not particularly manly, yeah. But zinc is worse.

X_Stickman

No one uses zinc to make stuff though. You don't get like "zinc forks" or "zinc trays" or stuff.

You do get tin trays, though. Which are amazingly girly.

lolfighter

I remain unconvinced. Zinc is girlier than tin.

Align

Zinc is a very healthy metal. Not sure if that makes it more or less girly, mind.

lolfighter

Zinc is a very <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_fume_fever" target="_blank">unhealthy</a> metal. It has to fight dirty by poisoning you, which just goes to show how not-manly it is. Bronze will stand up to you in a fair fight, because that's how it rolls.

Align

Yeah, you shouldn't try to breathe metal.
Eating a bit is good, though. <!--sizeo:1--><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc_deficiency" target="_blank">also i can wikipedia too</a><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec-->

lolfighter

Zinc deficiency is not a "medical condition." It's an alternate name for being manly.

Scythe

Next gift I give someone, provided it's somewhat heat proof, is going to be entirely encased in a cast aluminium hollow cube. 20mm thick on all sides.

--Scythe--

remi

<!--quoteo(post=1809311:date=Nov 23 2010, 10:06 AM:name=lolfighter)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (lolfighter @ Nov 23 2010, 10:06 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1809311"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Zinc deficiency is not a "medical condition." It's an alternate name for being manly.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
:D

That_Annoying_Kid

<!--quoteo(post=1808963:date=Nov 22 2010, 09:33 PM:name=lolfighter)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (lolfighter @ Nov 22 2010, 09:33 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1808963"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I like Stickman's. Do that one. With the right delivery, it's hilarious. With the WRONG delivery, it will cause a lasting falling-out with your family, probably followed by heavy alcoholism and suicide attempts. Which is STILL hilarious, just not for you.

Also, that ended up a little darker than intended, and now I feel bad.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Solid gold

I love you lolfighter


Still, Have scythe make you the box and the mail you the box and you just have to get it welded shut??

Sops

Nail it into a wooden crate, she will need a crowbar to open it.

lolfighter

Provide fake beard, labcoat and horn-rim glasses. Refuse to hand over crowbar until she dons proper attire.

Crispy

Orange peel and blu-tac.

Krisando

Why don't you just cling film the keys to the car and act like that's her present?

Nil_IQ

So what did you go with?

monopolowa

Wait 'till Christmas comes around, and wrap it with the same napkin after you open your present (if it's small enough, and if you think you can get away for a minute)

DY357LX

Wow! Lots of replies!

My sisters gift arrived yesterday. (A dress that she singled out after 3 hours of choosing online.)

Here's what I gotta "wrap":

<img src="http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/5991/gifty.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />

I've put a (damn fine) PS3 ontop so you guys can get an idea of size.

I'm thinking several layers of wrapping might be fun... If I'm feeling creative.

I'll wrap the gift on the 17th (the day I get paid) and take idea's until then. Woo!

QUICK-EDIT: I've been looking around at my current resources and my plan is to wrap the gift in clingfilm, wrap the clingfilm in newspaper, put newspaper wrapped gift in a shoebox/box, put the box in a holiday giftbag, seal giftbag with a mile of parceltape, then I'm thinking I can get 2 foil trays from work (pic below) and then encase the giftbag in those.... and then go with the suggestions from this topic.

<img src="http://img.diytrade.com/cdimg/890666/9202234/0/1243760145/8_5_aluminum_Foil_Oblong_Foil_Tray.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />

I like ending the wrapping with something I can draw on.

Scythe

Staple the aluminium trays together.

--Scythe--

Align

<!--quoteo(post=1814956:date=Dec 11 2010, 06:35 AM:name=DY357LX)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (DY357LX @ Dec 11 2010, 06:35 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1814956"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I've put a (damn fine) PS3 ontop so you guys can get an idea of size.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I thought that was going to be the gift.

DY357LX

<!--quoteo(post=1815050:date=Dec 11 2010, 01:53 PM:name=Align)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Align @ Dec 11 2010, 01:53 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1815050"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I thought that was going to be the gift.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Nope, that's mine.... all mine.

I've purchased Wii + Xbox 360 games for her in the past but she never plays them for more than 30 minutes.
(Mario Galaxy, Animal Crossing, Left 4 Dead and Perfect Dark Zero.)
She too busy watching tv or working so meh, oh well.


But yeah, back on topic a bit... stapling the foiltrays together is a great idea. I think a friend of mine has one of those huge staplers you can fire across rooms.

Cereal_KillR

Isn't stapling across rooms a bit... dangerous?

lolfighter

<!--quoteo(post=1815126:date=Dec 11 2010, 08:45 PM:name=Cereal_KillR)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Cereal_KillR @ Dec 11 2010, 08:45 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1815126"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Isn't stapling across rooms a bit... entertaining?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This isn't what you wrote, but I'm pretty sure it's what you meant.

That_Annoying_Kid

then seal the whole thing in something that requires tinsnips

Comprox

<!--quoteo(post=1809750:date=Nov 24 2010, 04:18 AM:name=Scythe)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Scythe @ Nov 24 2010, 04:18 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1809750"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Next gift I give someone, provided it's somewhat heat proof, is going to be entirely encased in a cast aluminium hollow cube. 20mm thick on all sides.

--Scythe--<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Dibs.