• Question: do you tend to get your friend's science-y gifts for christmas?

    Asked by E_kelleher to Laura, Matthew, Andrew, Rebecca, Laura, Matthew, Andrew on 20 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Matthew Camilleri

      Matthew Camilleri answered on 20 Nov 2014:

      It all depends on who those friends are, if I know they like science as well I will enter my geek mode and buy them sciency gifts.

      For family members, especially my nephews I tend to buy them gifts I would have wanted for myself when I was younger, and now that they are growing up I tend to buy them gifts where I can actually enjoy using as well, for example FIFA 14

    • Photo: Andrew McKinley

      Andrew McKinley answered on 20 Nov 2014:

      I tend to buy people gifts that make me think “Ooh, the *very* thing!”, rather than go looking for something specific for them. There is no point buying people a “dragster made from junk you find around the house” unless they are interested in that kind of thing!

      I wouldn’t buy it for them if it wasn’t a perfect match though. I think I must have felt out about 30 of the LEGO minifigure chemists though – loads of my friends got one of those from me!

      To be fair, i buy-and give – such things for people even away from christmas. If it costs around £5, and it’s perfect, I’ll buy it at any time of year

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