Can’t stop those teeth from grinding when thinking about that half-eaten box of chocolate grandma sent for Christmas?

Rather throw the knock-knock joke book from dad at him than read it?

Thanks to the month-old Web site, www.shittygift.com, there’s a forum where unsatisfied gift recipients can vent their aggressions over the bad gifts they’ve received to the world.

Tim Koltek, president of the San Fransico-based gift-registry Web site, www.loveyourgift.com, launched the gift-complaint site in December to give people a place to poke fun at unwanted gifts.

“You get to insult people for buying you crap,” Koltek said. “It’s all in good fun.”

But it doesn’t sound like that much fun to physics senior Chad Coker.

Coker said he got a wardrobe of ugly clothes for Christmas.

“My family just has no taste in clothes, they never have,” he said.

But Coker said exchanging everything suited him ; he sees no purpose in logging on the Internet to complain.

“I have better things to do with my time,” he said.

Koltek said he came up with the idea for the site in November, when he noticed there was no Web site to make fun of some of the stranger goods sold on the Internet.

“You look around the Internet and you’ll find you can buy a lot of more stupid things,” Koltek said. “There are tons of sites where you can buy crap, but there are no sites dedicated to making fun of it.

“No one takes the site seriously. Everything is very tongue-in-cheek.”

But not everyone chuckles when they come across the Web site’s contents - it has been sued twice.

One lawsuit was issued by a company that manufactures deer antler chandeliers when its product was featured on the site. The feature included a comment from Koltek stating that anyone who bought one of the chandeliers “should be stuffed and mounted, just like the deer.”

Both cases were dropped when Koltek axed the material in question from the site.

Many of the items featured on the site are novelty items ranging from Chia Pets to see-through fish toilet seat covers.

“A lot of this stuff is fun to look at, but you don’t really want it,” said Perry resident Brian Willman while browsing gag gifts at the Spencer Gifts store in Meridian Mall, 1982 W. Grand River Ave. in Okemos.

“Luckily I give this stuff more than I get it,” he added.

Willman said he never expects to see the novelty gifts he gives around the next time he sees the recipient.

“They’re just meant for a laugh,” he said. “So long as the giver and receiver understand the joke. They just make the moment or event a little more special in a humorous way.”

Last year, Willman and his wife received the joke gift Chia Pet at an employer’s Christmas party.

The growing pottery is re-gifted to someone in the office each year as a gag. Willman said he enjoyed giving his away again.

Koltek said the Web site has accumulated more than 500,000 hits since it was launched more than a month ago. About 90 unsatisfied gift recipients have added personal testimonials to the site’s list.

The site also has an option for bad gift givers to “confess (their) sins.”

Koltek works on the site for an hour each day for maintenance purposes but expects to put in more time as he sees it grow.

However, many students like education senior Erin Evans, saw the site, laughed once and then decided to forget about it - much like the gag gifts, at which the site pokes fun at.

“There are enough places to complain without going on the Internet,” she said.