What did you give to your male non-quant friends lately? Or, what whould you like for your next birthday present?My favorite answer is, of course, "Something small. A yacht, for example."Humor is appreciated (unless it comes from Ham), but I'd like to see some serious replies, too.

Weekend in Vegas.

QuoteOriginally posted by: EnergeticWhat did you give to your male non-quant friends lately? Or, what whould you like for your next birthday present?My favorite answer is, of course, "Something small. A yacht, for example."Humor is appreciated (unless it comes from Ham), but I'd like to see some serious replies, too.Pork. Its the other white meat.

A great gift that my friend just got two days ago was courtside seats to the Laker's playoff game. Not to mention he TiVo-ed the entire game to see if he is ever caught on television. Sports game tickets are always good for guys if you know what sports he liked. I once got playoff tickets for a football game and that was pretty kick ass. The only thing you need to worry about is getting two tickets so that he can bring his significant other.

Electronics.

Cuban cigars.

QuoteOriginally posted by: ppauperbuy him a hooker I was dragged to a "Drum and Bass" night on Shaftesbury Avenue tonight. That whorehouse was merely 200 yards away. Anyway chose to eat at Chinatown on my own instead (couldn't continue forced 160 bpm "dancing"). I was the only guy in the restaurant. Chinese people were seriously stunned when I started talking Cantonese with a few smaterings of Mandarin; particularly amusing was saying "YES - I am white devil" in Cantonese, upon hearing sheat against me. Also, "You must be fucking joking [when bill came]".Spoke to some [EU] Polish immigrants (carrying stolen chairs) on the way home, also I was not amused at being told by the local pakistani store (where I bought a can of coke for USD$0.8000 a few weeks ago) that the can of coke would be GBP£3.0000, chortle fucking chortle! Wasn't that drunk!What benifits are derived from having lived next door to HK guys at university!

Serious, non-pissed answer:Hot air ballon trip; Great hi-fi equipment; Dingy; GPS; 4*4 off-roading weekend; M4 Colt-Carbine.

How about an 8-ball, a bundle of quality, a loosie full of dust, and widemouth of Steel Re. A great gift that he is guaranteed NOT to remember.

There is Red Letter Days who do stuff like driving a tank, flying a plane, quad biking etc.A while back we hired a stretch limo to pick a guy up from home and take him to work, complete with a bottle of fizz for his birthday.

QuoteOriginally posted by: EnergeticWhat did you give to your male non-quant friends lately? Or, what whould you like for your next birthday present?My favorite answer is, of course, "Something small. A yacht, for example."Humor is appreciated (unless it comes from Ham), but I'd like to see some serious replies, too.I came upon this around last christmasand then ended up not having to buy any presents !!!!!Seriously there has been active discussion on the dead-weight loss of gifts ever since the seminal paper and several rejoinders thatensued.Essentially the paper argues that the disparity between the total amount paid (by the giver(s)) for a gift & the value attached by the recipient [in other words how much would the reciever be ready to fork to get the same gift] amounts to the dead weight loss.So if you will rather unsentimentally believe in the above, then physical/real-gifts giving increases the overall dead-weight loss. And you should rather give them $$ or maybe virtual money

QuoteOriginally posted by: LondonPeteQuoteOriginally posted by: ppauperbuy him a hooker I was dragged to a "Drum and Bass" night on Shaftesbury Avenue tonight. That whorehouse was merely 200 yards away. Anyway chose to eat at Chinatown on my own instead (couldn't continue forced 160 bpm "dancing"). I was the only guy in the restaurant. Chinese people were seriously stunned when I started talking Cantonese with a few smaterings of Mandarin; particularly amusing was saying "YES - I am white devil" in Cantonese, upon hearing sheat against me. Also, "You must be fucking joking [when bill came]".Spoke to some [EU] Polish immigrants (carrying stolen chairs) on the way home, also I was not amused at being told by the local pakistani store (where I bought a can of coke for USD$0.8000 a few weeks ago) that the can of coke would be GBP£3.0000, chortle fucking chortle! Wasn't that drunk!What benifits are derived from having lived next door to HK guys at university!I have some soccer dudes from Guangdong back in college, they taught me some cantonese( all bad, for cursing), and I happened to play against some china town team in some tournament, they were swearing around, I was so regretful that I knew these damn worlds and I tried to play tough on them....Also I have some friends went to San Francisco China town, they tried to ask for some information from some olderly immigrant, and essentially they just got ignored since the guy they asked don't know a single word in English and Mandrian...