See, that's a proper weekend.
Maybe I should be more cultural in Manchester and smoke a fatty on the eye?
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Fri 24 Oct 2014, 10:17, 1 reply, 10 years ago)

the art fair is awesome
"affordable" art is anything from £100 to £4,000, so if you're buying a new house or something, it's amazing. every year i go and say NOTHING ELSE, and every year i come away with something...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 24 Oct 2014, 10:24, Reply)

A lighter wallet?

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Fri 24 Oct 2014, 10:26, Reply)

yep
last year i bought frog a picture and myself a sculpture that was far too big for the mantelpiece and now has to manage on one of the bookshelves
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 24 Oct 2014, 10:27, Reply)

most of it is absolute shite though
and all the provincial galleries stick another 50% on their ticket prices because they're in a perma-tent in That London

My missus haggled one guy down to 35% of the original asking price
(old man river possible lesbian, Fri 24 Oct 2014, 10:39, Reply)

haggling? christ, how terribly uncouth

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 24 Oct 2014, 10:43, Reply)

you idiot

(old man river possible lesbian, Fri 24 Oct 2014, 10:46, Reply)

might as well wear a t-shirt that says "we've got no money"
cringe
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 24 Oct 2014, 10:51, Reply)

hahaha ... you really are a desperate middle class climber, aren't you?

(old man river possible lesbian, Fri 24 Oct 2014, 10:51, Reply)

^ takes pride in his pikey wife bashing someone's livelihood down by 2/3 ^

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 24 Oct 2014, 10:56, Reply)

yurr ... it's definitely better to pay a few hundred quid over the odds
just to hide your insecurity about your wealth to a shopkeeper you'll never met again

mnnnnnng
(old man river possible lesbian, Fri 24 Oct 2014, 10:59, Reply)

i bet everyone walking past was like, look at that pair of yokel twats, think they're at a farmer's fair

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 24 Oct 2014, 11:01, Reply)

yeah ... not sure you're gonna dig yourself out of this one, pet
but keep trying ... trying is clearly what you do
(old man river possible lesbian, Fri 24 Oct 2014, 11:02, Reply)

bet you're the kind of people that go to the supermarket minutes before it closes
to snap up all the yellow REDUCED stickers
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 24 Oct 2014, 11:03, Reply)

that's it ... keep going
you'll work yourself a middle class climber wank out of this in no time
(old man river possible lesbian, Fri 24 Oct 2014, 11:06, Reply)

"shut up mini-cheapskates and eat your delicious dinner of slightly squished strawberries and fish"

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 24 Oct 2014, 11:07, Reply)

nearly there ... oh yeah ... just a little more and I'll have damped my expensive knickers
did I mention that they're expensive? it's very important to me that people judge me on monetary terms and OHMYGODI'MCUMMING!

Anybody got some primula and ryvita?
(old man river possible lesbian, Fri 24 Oct 2014, 11:11, Reply)

I've got a fake Michael Craig-Martin on my bedside table

( Peej, Fri 24 Oct 2014, 10:46, Reply)

I've got a Craig McLachlan poster on my bedroom ceiling

(old man river possible lesbian, Fri 24 Oct 2014, 10:47, Reply)

he's so dreamy

(old man river possible lesbian, Fri 24 Oct 2014, 10:48, Reply)

He's like the Bo Diddley of the 90s

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 24 Oct 2014, 10:50, Reply)

oh nice one, i hope you packed the change neatly into your megabumbag then invited your pals round for a viewing of your discount art and a pizza.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 24 Oct 2014, 10:56, Reply)

I bought myself a bag of tangfastics and some panini stickers
with the change I didn't get for something I didn't buy
(old man river possible lesbian, Fri 24 Oct 2014, 11:01, Reply)

i bet it was an ikea poster
and he bought it in the bargain basement bin
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 24 Oct 2014, 11:01, Reply)

I wish we had that nice poster of a tennis bird scratching her arse reduced by 35% too

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 24 Oct 2014, 11:06, Reply)

maybe we can get dr cheapo's wife to haggle it down for us

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 24 Oct 2014, 11:08, Reply)