NewsThump Christmas Gift Guide 2026

Funny Gifts for Dads (and Other Professional Pessimists)

For anyone raised in the last century, tired of this one, and quietly expecting the worst from the next.

FREE UK delivery · Order by 17th December

Our funny gifts for dads are T-shirts, hoodies and mugs for people of a certain vintage: the tired, the nostalgic, the deeply suspicious of technology and the professionally pessimistic. Mums qualify too. T-shirts are £25, printed in the UK on 100% organic cotton, hoodies £45 and mugs £15. And if you’re in the UK, we deliver them for FREE!

Ordering for Christmas? Order by Thursday 17th December!

Best sellers for dads

The four T-shirts most likely to be worn every weekend until 2031.

For anyone raised in the last century

Fluent in cassette, VHS and getting home when the streetlights came on.

Please Be Patient I Was Raised in the Last Century, We Will Remember Them (VHS, cassette and floppy disk), Please Be Patient I’m From the 70s, and Classically Trained, for drivers who still change their own gears. £25 each, with FREE UK delivery.

£25.00

For people who saw Star Wars at the cinema the first time

And have been explaining it to everyone ever since.

Rebel Scum Since 1977, Refusing to Trust Computers Since 1977, I Have a Bad Feeling About This, and our Star Trek parody. £25 each, with FREE UK delivery.

For the professional pessimist

Expecting the worst since records began. Usually right.

Mustn’t Grumble (Will Though), My Pessimism Turned Out to Be Overoptimistic, Registering My Polite but Pointed Objection, and Hello Darkness My Old Friend. £25 each, with FREE UK delivery.

For the tired, the aching and the thoroughly fed up

Getting up from the sofa now comes with its own sound effects.

The I’m Tired and Everything Hurts hoodie, Disappointments All of You, Just Do It Without Me, and Laughably Unprepared. Hoodie £45, T-shirts £25, all with FREE UK delivery.

£25.00

Personalised gifts for a particular vintage

Like a fine wine. Or a cheese. Either way, they’re getting on a bit.

A personalised birth year T-shirt and hoodie, a personalised Man, Myth, Legend mug, and the Please Be Patient I’m From the 1900s mug. T-shirt £25, hoodie £45, mugs £15, all with FREE UK delivery.

Gifts for dad questions

A T-shirt that describes him a little too accurately. I’m Tired and Everything Hurts and Refusing to Trust AI Since 1968 are our most popular. T-shirts are £25 and UK delivery is free.

Yes. Our personalised birth year T-shirt and hoodie let you choose the year, and the Man, Myth, Legend mug can be personalised with any name.

100% organic cotton, printed to order here in the UK.

Yes. Every order is delivered free to UK addresses, including a single mug.

Order by 17th December for UK delivery. Everything is printed to order in the UK, so orders after this are unlikely to reach you before Christmas.

Not at all. Mums, grandparents, uncles and anyone else who makes a noise when they sit down are all welcome.

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Updated 28 October 2026