Summary
There are several types of pointless gift. First come the "accessories" linked to hobbies. Golfers fare particularly badly here, fobbed off with ball monogrammers, digital scorecards, shoe bags and telescopic ball retrievers. Second, there are items that promise to provide their owners with a sense of humour by proxy, and which are usually associated with mildly loutish behaviour.
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Why You Need an Office Voodoo Kit
In his classic anthropological study The Gift(1925), Marcel Mauss showed that the ritual of gift-giving in tribal societies is rarely motivated by selfless goodwill. R...
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