Nope, the thought didn't count. Try Harder.

Don't you just hate presents that you didn't ask for? Every year at Christmas I'm forced to act like I'm really pleased that I have received another pair of socks off a relative who supposedly loves me. If they loved me, they would prove it, by asking me what I want and spending a huge amount of money on me, instead of running out on Christmas Eve and paying a couple of quid for a pair of socks from M&S or something. When I complain about the feebleness of my relative's 'gifts' to my parents, they say to me, 'Well, it's the thought that counts!'. Where exactly is the thoughtfulness in a plain black pair of socks?  And even if there was thought in the gift, thought isn't a material object, and therefore, is worthless to me as I am unable to use it, or sell it.

Also, whenever someone gets moody in december, they blame it on 'Christmas Stress'. They then laugh afterwards jovially, saying 'they should call it consumermas! No they shouldn't, you idiot. A, because no child called consumer was born 2005 years ago, and B, because consumermas sounds stupid anyway. They should call it Christmas. So shut up, so I don't have to hear any more abuse hurled at the best time of year, and I don't have to laugh at your 'joke' out of social obligation, and to make you feel at ease.

Touché.