It's too bad that a bigass fucking ocean separates my Holiday Card Gifter from me, because panmictic is a boss among bosses.

I'm one of "those people" who uses separate accounts between reddit and redditgifts (unless it's about redditgifts; e.g. r/elves, r/secretsanta) for work reasons, and I'm super grateful that he didn't give me a hard time about it!

panmictic's sense of humor mirrors my own in a ton of ways, and I wanted to highlight it, so I've affixed everything in the photos.

1: My gifter is from Lier, Belgium, and the image on the postcard is of the Zimmertoren (the Zimmer Tower), which you can read about here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmer_tower

The different symbols on the clock are really, really cool.

2: In case I fuck up the photo somehow, here's panmictic's note (in all caps, too, which is how I write! And spaced out for those of you who are anti-WALLS OF TEXT):

"Hi! You mentioned you like 'risk-taking Santas' so I'm going to risk ruining your holidays by sending you a cheesy touristy postcard instead of a proper holiday card because that's probably more interesting coming from us non-'Muricans.

Well then as for my town, Lier is a mid-sized provincial city of 33,000 mostly good souls. A sarcastic person (e.g., me) might observe that it's the kind of place hipsters flock to because they think it's ironically uncool, [then] kill themselves once they find out it's actually totally unironically uncool. You can look up more information on Wikipedia but take it from someone who's lived here all his life: you don't want to.

Oh BTW we all learned who put a man on the moon but did they ever teach you which country it was that put a chocolate scent on a stamp? You're welcome, mankind. I hope your 2014 will be as awesome as our country's chocolate and almost as awesome as your country's latest advances in laser vaginal rejuvenation.

Your pal,

panmictic

3: He left a lovely note for our mutual friends, the USPS. It's all good, no fuck-ups happened!

4: Stamps on stamps on stamps! I did sniff the stamp, and while I wouldn't have ruled it out that panmictic was just fucking with me and that Belgian stamps don't smell like chocolate, I can confirm that I did, in fact, get a solid whiff of Belgian chocolate.

The final reason why I enjoyed this postcard, aside from the obvious humor and thoughtful descriptions and well-wishes, is that it arrived before the holiday (my 2013 Secret Santa seems to be AWOL, but I'm holding out hope that I'll hear from him/her at some point).

panmictic, thank you so very much for your postcard and for the laughs. Please accept my gift of reddit gold sent to you as a token (no pun intended, honest) of my gratitude.

I wish you (and all who are reading this) a Merry Christmas, with good luck, good health, and good cheer for next year!

Cheers,

whiskeyandritalin