@siddyx111 I've know some pretty twisted individuals that were completely not that way. One of mine is a rescue, they're probably the happiest they've ever been in ever.
Been a few times , but not for years. For me: oh that looks ok, it's only a quid, that too, and that. 10 minutes after getting home, oh, that's sh1t and that, and that too.
I feel like Ashens saying something is “the most rubbery thing I’ve ever eaten” is a really damning statement about your product. Think of the things that have gone in that gob!
The elf mug set is clearly an extra festive reference to that classic line of Ebenezer Scrooge, "Ah bum mug". Yes, our school teacher had undiagnosed dyslexia, why do you ask?
One of the rare few channels to remain consistent after all these years. Absolute gem of a channel. Merry Christmas Ashens I'll be sure not to fall over.
Ah, instead of "why would I want to drink from this," ask yourself "who do I want to make drink from this?" and it becomes a feature rather than a bug.
I thought the stackable mug was actually really cute until Ashens started talking specifically about drinking out of various parts of an elf and was like "Wait yeah this is weird hold on". the idea works better as a snowman.
Lol I was eating a beef and tomato pot noodle when you mentioned them and I’m now offended. The sachet is just ketchup. Love your Christmas Specials, I rarely comment but have been watching these for over a decade and hopefully will for many years more! Thank you for all the consistent content.
Fragility seems to be the defining point of most brick knockoffs. I remember trying to put together a knockoff nanoblock set based around a ship from One Piece, and on the final step, the pressure of trying to put the last pieces in caused the entire thing to implode upon itself and disintegrate like a billionaire's submarine.
It's amazing how much of a glowing endorsement for Lego these offbrand sets are proving to be; Lego may seem unchallenging to the uninitiated but they put a ridiculous amount of their prototyping budget into making sure their sets will stay together. That nutcracker would never get away with direct stud connections at the hip and knee; it'd have struts straight through from the chest, and each one would be braced in by SNOT techniques to make them rigid at both ends.
Ohh shit for reall lmaooo couldnt ever really tell really i mean besides the having no fucking face or even eyes and only peach skin coloured stub lmao unless its a nose and no face lmao😂 the pooor man lmao
Christmas just hasn’t been registering with me this year, but watching this video has finally given me the feeling. I don’t know what it is about watching a man examine Christmas tat on his couch, but Ashens always delivers.
ashens is such a great content creator, mid advent opening he went home all to make us this video, just to go all the way back to open more advent boxes, what a great guy
Stuart sir! I have been watching you for.. long enough to probably make us both feel kind of old. I'm glad to see that you still are making videos. You know, without going into things too much, but I will always remember sitting on my dad's porch and feeling very sad. I had recently became his guardian because of a stroke and it wasn't a great time. But I'll always remember sitting on his porch and waiting for some family member to arrive and watching your video of the century eggs. lol It really gave me the boost I needed and I laughed my ass off.. So yes, I appreciate the videos. They've made me laugh during similarly rough moments over a particularly rough decade so I appreciate it!
Lister: Did you know, back in around 2024, pot noodle had a Christmas flavour? Something about a dinner... Kryten: Well sir, does that not mean they were trying new stuff and trying to become better? Rimmer: That's more than you've ever done Lister Lister: You mean as well you who used to be, is, and always will be a smegghead?
Fun fact the ''Gonk'' is not actually a gonk but a Nisse from Scandinavian folklore. They are little house gnomes popular around Christmas time and said to bless peoples homes! Gonks were novelty toys back in the 60's and were fuzzy things with googley eyes.
one of the reasons lego is so expensive is because they have very precise tolerances. that nutcracker probably wouldn't fall apart so much if it was made of lego.
Remembering my old star wars Lego sets, they always had one or two points were they'd just fall apart if handled at all. Wish I thought of glue back then.@@donwyoming1936
I actually feel like that knock-off Lego Nutcracker could be a pretty cool ornament, like sitting on a shelf or something, if you used some glue or something when putting it together :)
The Gonks song will now be a part of my holiday festivities. Every holiday. I no longer have a choice. Like some eldritch horror ritual that I have to observe lest my soul be devoured. Thanks Ashens! 🤣😂
The (not) lego nutcracker comes right out of a rejected Doctor Who Christmas episode. He and his kind would travel to earth in a candy cane shaped star ship to annihilate mankind on Christmas Eve. They use the hypnotic sounds of their trumpets to make man kill each other. But they are overcome in the end, because the arms and legs fall off when you touch them.
I can't for the life of me remember if somebody introduced me to your channel, or if the algorithm gods blessed me so very long ago, but every ashens video is a treat tbh. bring back the f*cking inflatable f*cking crowns!!
I've watched this channel since the old Terminator figure stuff, and because of this random content I've looked at my own collection of oddness and thought: "I've done the same thing, but I can't stop!" 🤣
lithuanian here. had no idea pepco was a poundland thing - here it's its own store full of mommy items like kids clothes and random Home things, along with random tat of course
2:40, "Uhmm, actually...", Poundland is a brand of PepCo. PepCo is a chain of shops in Europe selling mostly clothes and such stuff, but also some tat, that they can now push further through their acquisition of poundland.
Merry Christmas ashens and hope you have a wonderful new year. Thank you for your years of comedy and creative reviews. You got me through hard times and it means a lot to me. Thank you for everything. I hope you have a fun new year full of joy and happiness that you deserve
My first UA-camr crush was Ashens, based solely on his voice, personality, and the little guy who says "Hello!" At the beginning of videos, as I imagined him to be an accurate representation of what Stuart himself looked like. It was quite a shock the first time I saw his face! Still love ya though, Stu (platonically, of course)
Haven't watched in a long time but it felt like I was missing something for Christmas. Glad to see ashens in my recommended, but funnily enough a video from a year ago and so I had to go look for the latest and was glad to see it was a Christmas vid. Now it's the holiday season.
I can't Believe Ashens lugged his massive Brown couch all the way to Nerdcubeds house just to be able to make this video as they do the advent Calendar videos.
Ashens buying something cause it looks like his dog is the most wholesome thing I think he’s ever done on this channel
His dog is so adorable lmao
This is something real dog lovers do.
A man gets a dog and gets surprisingly wholesome about it no matter how they are lol
@siddyx111 I've know some pretty twisted individuals that were completely not that way. One of mine is a rescue, they're probably the happiest they've ever been in ever.
Actually, he only got the dog because it looked a rip-off Chewbacca he once found in Poundland.
“I don’t know what it is but it was only a pound” is Poundland’s sales strategy
Been a few times , but not for years. For me: oh that looks ok, it's only a quid, that too, and that. 10 minutes after getting home, oh, that's sh1t and that, and that too.
Except 90% in poundland these days is over a pound.
@@Ejuicey Like Mac LeMore's thrift shopping. Sheeeeeitttt, but it was 99c son.
I've no idea, but taking your word for it 😂❤@@sos_legio_primus
@ sadly yes. The days of going in and buying a bag full of tat for less than a tenner are long gone ☹️
Empires may rise and fall, but Ashens struggling off-camera with an overly tough piece of plastic packaging shall remain eternal.
As the tendons in his wrist stand out with the effort...they should market that plastic as an indestructible tank track component.
the only youtuber than has never, nor will ever, change in the slightest except for a bump in resolution occasionally
Please never change. Never remove the sofa and never stop being you. This is forever a comfort channel to me
Pretty sure most of the sofa is actually gone now...
real, ashens has been a major comfort channel since childhood. rewatching the christmas specials is a yearly tradition
Seconded
I just wish he was still funny!!
@@clarkpatient7950 He definitely is sometimes
The gonk song was amazing! Please release it as a charity single for the society for people traumatised by gonks.
Please put the gonk song on Spotify ,please ,please, PLEASE
Yes, do it!
Christmas number one next year, instead of Andrew Ridgeley's pension plan.
Traumatized is a bit of a weird word to use here
it needs a christmas remix (ie - a few bells ringing obnoxiously at random parts) so it can top the december charts.
I feel like Ashens saying something is “the most rubbery thing I’ve ever eaten” is a really damning statement about your product. Think of the things that have gone in that gob!
It does make one question whether the item was actually intended as food.
I think actual rubber may have gotten a better review from Stuart.
I'm pretty sure he's eaten wax and paper, at the very least. Probably slipped up and ate some rubber.
The elf mug set is clearly an extra festive reference to that classic line of Ebenezer Scrooge, "Ah bum mug".
Yes, our school teacher had undiagnosed dyslexia, why do you ask?
The set needs this statement: "fueled by caffeine and depression."
@@paulherman5822 Christmas cheer and children fear
The 6 plus on the knock off lego nutcracker is the number of drinks required to get through the build.
The year isn’t complete without a Ashens Christmas special
11:52 leaving this timestamp here so I can access the gonk song easily.
this needs to be top comment
Ashens should pin that comment
Thank you...😂
You star ❤❤❤x
One of the rare few channels to remain consistent after all these years. Absolute gem of a channel.
Merry Christmas Ashens I'll be sure not to fall over.
"Go on over there and be disturbingly heavy!"
Not the first time I've heard that 😔
My middle-school experience summed up perfectly.
😅😂
"What begins with C, ends with S, and has loads of tat in the middle?"
🤔Ctattattattattattattattattattats!
“Computational statistics! It’s gotta be computat- what? Christmas??????”
Cloads of tats works too
Cringeworthy tatty tat gonkS
My head's in the gutter with my suggestion...
Couches
I kind of like the elf mug set. Bit of fun at a party etc, last one to arrive gets the arse mug.
Me too, it’d look nice on your worktop at Christmas.
Small party
"what do you want to drink?"
"you decide, I can't be arsed"
"gotcha!"
I like the way you think.
Ah, instead of "why would I want to drink from this," ask yourself "who do I want to make drink from this?" and it becomes a feature rather than a bug.
I thought the stackable mug was actually really cute until Ashens started talking specifically about drinking out of various parts of an elf and was like "Wait yeah this is weird hold on". the idea works better as a snowman.
that looks SO much like rubber, even after you took a bite out of it. i'm still not entirely convinced you were meant to eat it
> "It had a fruity flavor
> **had**
What happened to the fruit flavor Ashens?
I'm so glad ashens is uploading on a regular basis again. we are getting spoilt.
Lol I was eating a beef and tomato pot noodle when you mentioned them and I’m now offended. The sachet is just ketchup. Love your Christmas Specials, I rarely comment but have been watching these for over a decade and hopefully will for many years more! Thank you for all the consistent content.
yeah, beef and tomato is the best flavour of pot noodle and i will NOT accept the slander
Fragility seems to be the defining point of most brick knockoffs. I remember trying to put together a knockoff nanoblock set based around a ship from One Piece, and on the final step, the pressure of trying to put the last pieces in caused the entire thing to implode upon itself and disintegrate like a billionaire's submarine.
That bit about the submarine got me laughing too hard.
It's amazing how much of a glowing endorsement for Lego these offbrand sets are proving to be; Lego may seem unchallenging to the uninitiated but they put a ridiculous amount of their prototyping budget into making sure their sets will stay together. That nutcracker would never get away with direct stud connections at the hip and knee; it'd have struts straight through from the chest, and each one would be braced in by SNOT techniques to make them rigid at both ends.
Savage, but hilarious!
@@LepidoliteMica it would also cost 6000 dollars and be available during the first few seconds of a full moon during a leap year
The gonk song for Christmas no 1
Nahh it is gonna be Mariah carey again. She sold her soul to the devil. And every year he pays his dues by giving her the #1 spot
the british board of standing up sensibly. eternal rivals to the ministry of silly walks.
As a member of the ministry I can confirm this is true
I joined it personally after the Society For Putting Things On Top Of Other Things was disbanded.
0:35 Santa doing the Jean-Claude van Damme splits between two Coke trucks (sold separately)
Ohh shit for reall lmaooo couldnt ever really tell really i mean besides the having no fucking face or even eyes and only peach skin coloured stub lmao unless its a nose and no face lmao😂 the pooor man lmao
- Haven't watched an Ashens video in years
- Starts this video
- a tear of happiness flows down my cheek
''It's just like I remember''
The Christmas colouring book truly is an endless bounty of nightmares given form.
You have to wonder if the "artist" finished after the office Christmas party. 😵💫
Christmas just hasn’t been registering with me this year, but watching this video has finally given me the feeling. I don’t know what it is about watching a man examine Christmas tat on his couch, but Ashens always delivers.
The only Christmas special that matters in our house
ashens is such a great content creator, mid advent opening he went home all to make us this video, just to go all the way back to open more advent boxes, what a great guy
Never changing clothes, bless him. He's just too busy!
He travels to and from Dan’s house every day for the advent stuff, so it should make recording an extra episode like this quite easy ;)
I can’t believe I’ve been watching these Christmas episodes every year for over a decade Stewart is a UA-cam legend
Stuart sir! I have been watching you for.. long enough to probably make us both feel kind of old. I'm glad to see that you still are making videos. You know, without going into things too much, but I will always remember sitting on my dad's porch and feeling very sad. I had recently became his guardian because of a stroke and it wasn't a great time. But I'll always remember sitting on his porch and waiting for some family member to arrive and watching your video of the century eggs. lol It really gave me the boost I needed and I laughed my ass off.. So yes, I appreciate the videos. They've made me laugh during similarly rough moments over a particularly rough decade so I appreciate it!
Few things have me gasping for air like that colouring book. Always the highlight of my year.
Lister: Did you know, back in around 2024, pot noodle had a Christmas flavour? Something about a dinner...
Kryten: Well sir, does that not mean they were trying new stuff and trying to become better?
Rimmer: That's more than you've ever done Lister
Lister: You mean as well you who used to be, is, and always will be a smegghead?
"This is the most rubbery thing I've ever eaten". Coming from you that really means something.
I never knew I needed a song about Gonks.
I appreciate the gonks song. I thought gonks were fall decor but they're everywhere now
I have seen Easter gonks, welcome to the new reality
I have valentine day gonks. Ive seen 4th of july gonks
Fun fact the ''Gonk'' is not actually a gonk but a Nisse from Scandinavian folklore. They are little house gnomes popular around Christmas time and said to bless peoples homes! Gonks were novelty toys back in the 60's and were fuzzy things with googley eyes.
They will mess up your life if you don't treat them right, at least that's how the Danish nisse are 😅
The Gonk song needs another verse to include this information.
but these show up every bloody holiday/ season! Christmas, Valentin's Day, Easter, Halloween,...
Have a Great Christmas Ashens & everyone reading this. 🎄
🫶❤🎄
Same back to you
You too, friend.
I like like hairy men
❣️💌❣️👍🍻
4:48 Woof. Now that's one pale bald puppy. I've never seen a dog with a mustache before. Nice puppy.🐶
The other guy does have great hair, though.
What fresh hell this time
Merry Christmas Ashens and to all!
I expect to see the gonk song at the top of the Christmas charts
This channel's consistency is just pure bliss
Ah, my favourite time of the year, Stuart going through that weird colouring book.
Good lord that Santa caught me by surprise... Incredibly funny
it never fails to amaze
I return every year for the bizarre colouring book drawings and I'm never disappointed.
one of the reasons lego is so expensive is because they have very precise tolerances. that nutcracker probably wouldn't fall apart so much if it was made of lego.
There is an official Lego nutcracker, it would be good to see a comparison of the 2 sets.
I typically had to glue together my kid's Lego sets if they were to survive being handled at all. Better quality. Better designs. Still, very fragile.
Remembering my old star wars Lego sets, they always had one or two points were they'd just fall apart if handled at all. Wish I thought of glue back then.@@donwyoming1936
Presumably they would also have put enough thought into the build sequence that pliers would be unnecessary
@@donwyoming1936
Ill be honest i cry i little inside when you say that you glued those sets together
I said it last year and i'll say it again this year, the Christmas colouring book is the real star of these videos.
The dedication to drive all the way home from Dan’s house to film this and then back again is amazing.
Stuart should really consider his carbon footprint and maybe record them all in one go next year.
He doesn't do that.
Every episode is filmed over the course of a day at Dan's house.
Ashens just had to work out how to get his sofa onto the bus.
He keeps a spare brown couch at Dan's for just such an occasion
Actually this year Stuart brought his sofa on the train to Dan’s house...
@@Undi3sss Actually that's not a sofa; that's how the seats on UK trains look like.
The year isn’t the complete without a Christmas special and a gonk!
Havent watched an ashens video in 10 years. Glad to see the new videos are indistinguishable from the old ones haha.
yet another christmas tradition, to all yee ashens viewers who made it another year cheers
The sofa survives another year, one day it too will pass and shall be mourned
IT SHALL LIVE FOREVER!
THE BROWN SOFA IS ETERNAL!
NEVER! It shall exist until the sun turns into a red giant and burns everything.
I actually feel like that knock-off Lego Nutcracker could be a pretty cool ornament, like sitting on a shelf or something, if you used some glue or something when putting it together :)
It would be better with a few fireworks strapped to it!
13:44 Stuart starts eating rubber
He's eaten weirder things
@@ratking1608 True
Merry Gonkmas
The small black flat cap on the snowman is very peaky blinder.
The Gonks song will now be a part of my holiday festivities. Every holiday. I no longer have a choice. Like some eldritch horror ritual that I have to observe lest my soul be devoured. Thanks Ashens! 🤣😂
These always manage to put me in the holiday spirit.
The British Board for Standing Up Sensibly sounds like a rival to the Ministry of Silly Walks.
Watching this is a Christmas tradition in itself
I love how Gonks is such a reacuring thing on the channel that he even made a whole song about the annoyance of them
The (not) lego nutcracker comes right out of a rejected Doctor Who Christmas episode. He and his kind would travel to earth in a candy cane shaped star ship to annihilate mankind on Christmas Eve. They use the hypnotic sounds of their trumpets to make man kill each other. But they are overcome in the end, because the arms and legs fall off when you touch them.
I can't for the life of me remember if somebody introduced me to your channel, or if the algorithm gods blessed me so very long ago, but every ashens video is a treat tbh. bring back the f*cking inflatable f*cking crowns!!
Ahh I forgot about the inflatable effing crowns! Bring those back as well as the sad onions!
That gonk song was great
The Gonk song has caused Leonard Nimoy’s Ballad of Bilbo Baggins to get stuck in my head, so cheers for that.
Merry Christmas, Ashens!
I'm not too mad at the stackable elf cups. It'd be something someones granny would make special Christmas cocoa for the grandkids
Finally Christmas has been announced, it doesn't exist without this and the calendar of count
I've watched this channel since the old Terminator figure stuff, and because of this random content I've looked at my own collection of oddness and thought: "I've done the same thing, but I can't stop!" 🤣
Are you sure the rubbery snowman hat wasn’t actually rubber? XD
It isn’t Christmas without an ashens special. Period.
01:17 that’s Hedwig if you buy her from Wish
unlicensed magic owl
I hope you never quit making videos. I discovered you when i was still a kid and I'm now 27 with a 4 year old child. I will love you forever ashens.
God that coloring book just keeps on giving horrifying joys lol
Fluffy Harold looks like a pekingese dog crossed with an owl 😂
The tat special - the true tradition of Christmas
0:50 - Clearly, Jean-Claus van Santa.
I salute you
Ashens is possibly the only UA-camr who you can leave and come back to, and will always supply you with the content you always loved
Meryy christmas ashens! my beloved man infront of the couch
lithuanian here. had no idea pepco was a poundland thing - here it's its own store full of mommy items like kids clothes and random Home things, along with random tat of course
Maybe it's just the name Poundland uses for stores outside of the UK...?
@ its very girl centric, which is not the impression i get from all the crap stuart brings on :D plus nothing in there is close to 1 pound
Merry Christmas Stuart!
That first one was labelled as yoga santa in my local poundland.
This is when my Christmas starts.
Merry xmas Ashens and thanks for all the awsome videos this year. 😁👍
2:40, "Uhmm, actually...", Poundland is a brand of PepCo. PepCo is a chain of shops in Europe selling mostly clothes and such stuff, but also some tat, that they can now push further through their acquisition of poundland.
Merry Christmas ashens and hope you have a wonderful new year. Thank you for your years of comedy and creative reviews. You got me through hard times and it means a lot to me. Thank you for everything. I hope you have a fun new year full of joy and happiness that you deserve
I vote for the pot noodle winning the analytic thumbnail test
My first UA-camr crush was Ashens, based solely on his voice, personality, and the little guy who says "Hello!" At the beginning of videos, as I imagined him to be an accurate representation of what Stuart himself looked like. It was quite a shock the first time I saw his face! Still love ya though, Stu (platonically, of course)
WE ARE SO BACK
ASHENS FANS WINNING ONCE AGAIN
YyyYAAAHOOO
But I broke mine😢😢
Peg me baby
Singing along to the gonk song though we've never heard it in our lives was a Christmassy highlight
YESSSSS!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS ASHENS!!!
I think my favorite part of your Christmas holiday special has to be the Christmas coloring book
GONKS. GONKS EVERYWHERE.
Haven't watched in a long time but it felt like I was missing something for Christmas. Glad to see ashens in my recommended, but funnily enough a video from a year ago and so I had to go look for the latest and was glad to see it was a Christmas vid. Now it's the holiday season.
In the name of anything holy, I demand a long version of the Gonks Song !!!
"I don't know what it is, but it was a pound"
- Stuart Ashen, 2024
2:58 those mugs are very modular
the mankey brown sofa belongs in a museum
2:39 that's pretty neat set up. I like that. Now I want one.
Havent seen a video of yours in a few years.. Amazing to see all the subs you have.. Merry Christmas
I can't Believe Ashens lugged his massive Brown couch all the way to Nerdcubeds house just to be able to make this video as they do the advent Calendar videos.
He has the world's only teleporter I'm convinced, it's the only way he could *possibly* do it.
Thank you for continuing to do these!!! Have loved these videos for so many years.