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# Alright.
People in the UK: Tell me why you should get a fiver, and it's yours. Go..
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:27, archived)
# discriminating bastard
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:28, archived)
# I can't put a fiver in the post to america can I now
Nothing personal :)
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:30, archived)
# itd cost a fiver to send it...
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:31, archived)
# *fact*
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:32, archived)
# you could keep it
until I come back.

or send it to the b3tan of my choice
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:33, archived)
# http://b3ta.com/board/1893826
:)
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:33, archived)
# sod the fiver
should I have another beer or go to bed?
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:37, archived)
# Have another
I obviously don't need it
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:39, archived)
# i'm considering another beer
and maybe some food

my innards appear to be behaving after some earlier unpleasantness
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:39, archived)
# How about paypal?

Or are we just talking about a gift of a physical fiver?
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:41, archived)
# physical fiver
I don't have paypal, etc.
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:43, archived)
# COS ILL KICK THE SHIT OUT OF YOU IF YOU DONT GIVE IT ME.






oops, caps lock.
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:28, archived)
# So far
you're winning. Kitty, wanna be the judge? :)
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:31, archived)
# ok
how long do I have?
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:34, archived)
# Erm..2 minutes?
This is a spur of the moment kinda thing.
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:35, archived)
# why don't you send it to munkt0n?
to help with arthur
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:36, archived)
# I'm sending him a tenner.
This is separate :)
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:36, archived)
# whos arthur?
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:37, archived)
# m3ss3ng3r is dead
long live arthur
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:37, archived)
# ok :)
you're very generous
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:37, archived)
# I'm just feeling generous now.
Anyway, if you wanna email me your choice (preferably with their home address) then it shall be done. Emails in profile.
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:37, archived)
# right, will do :)
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:39, archived)
# i tried to send some
today to 4rthur

couldn't remember me flippin paypal email or password

so i'm signing up again with a more recent email address :)
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:37, archived)
# because
you love me

don't you?
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:28, archived)
# i've never felt so
rejected
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:33, archived)
# would me telling you to cock off help?
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:34, archived)
# i just don't
know what's good for me any more
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:34, archived)
# a good kick up the arse i think.
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:35, archived)
# i need a fiver
that's what i need - does anyone have a fiver?

oh... wait.
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:36, archived)
# because ill put it towards that monkey ive always wanted.
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:29, archived)
#
because if you dont

he'll pop a cap in yo ass
and its my mates 18th in a week on Thursday and I've still to buy her something
and i fancy her
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:30, archived)
# your giving non UKers a bad name
fuk off
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:32, archived)
# Sorry
Was just trying to be nice :(
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:32, archived)
# didn't
sound nice to me

now FUK OFF
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:33, archived)
# I was offering anyone who wanted it £5
only reason it had to be in UK was because it'd get lost/knicked on the way out. Sorry :(
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:34, archived)
# oh
um. . . perhaps. . . I misunderstood

sowry
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:36, archived)
# :)
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:36, archived)
# yes, but look at it this way.
what the FUCK would you do with a british £5 note outside of britain?
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:33, archived)
# frame it
your money is more colorful than ours. ;)
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:35, archived)
# :-D
Im going to be trading my pounds in for dollars in 2 years time....oh yes.
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:36, archived)
# you can't get good cheese here
or jaffa cakes

or chocolate :(
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:38, archived)
#
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:41, archived)
# yes
you continue to taunt me. :p
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:42, archived)
# or bacon.....
but still, I can get sun, sex, pissed illegally (again!!! thank fucking god!!!) and shot at. oh wait, i cant get shot at in manchester. scratch that one.
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:42, archived)
# hehehehe
sun? in new york in the winter?
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:43, archived)
# as opposed to manchester, at ANY time of the year?
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:47, archived)
# in the summer in new york
you'd wish to be back in manchester.

unless you were up in the mountains
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:48, archived)
# i have never once wished i was back in manchester.
ever. and I have been to hull.
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:54, archived)
# well
back somewhere that doesn't get up to 100F everyday then
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:55, archived)
# i really dont mind the heat.
ever been to turkey?
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:57, archived)
# nope
I mind the humidity though.

Arizona was ok at 117F, because there was no moisture, but here at 90F is brutal
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:59, archived)
# i haven't been shot
but i got mugged twice in one night in manchester a few years ago

it was great
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:47, archived)
# I love this city.
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:48, archived)
# I'm surprised
you want to leave it...
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:49, archived)
# fiver
does not denote pounds

we have fivers too ya know
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:37, archived)
# Ah
but PMGT knows me. Do you really have fivers? I didn't think anyone called them that.
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:38, archived)
# nor did I...
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:39, archived)
# yes we do
we call five dollar notes, fivers

thats what confused me

and the beer didn't help any
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:41, archived)
# I've never heard anyone say that before
I don't get out much though
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:44, archived)
# where do you live
and how old are you?

in boston it was standard in the 70s
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:47, archived)
# that could be it
I'm 22 and have lived in the south, west and midwest, but never in the northeast
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:47, archived)
# well
I am 43, and often feel like I have heard it all

I know better than to assume tho, and i did
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:49, archived)
# aw
it's ok :)

I've just always thought of a fiver as being a five pound note. That's probably an assumption too
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:51, archived)
# thanks for understanding
your generation is much more international than mine

tho some of us do try
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:54, archived)
# :)
I think some of us are more international. Having lived in other countries a lot, I really think americans tend to be very egotistical in general, but that could just be me.
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:56, archived)
# thats just you.
you, and islam.
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:57, archived)
# hmmm
i dunno.

we don't do it exclusively, but we do.

and we're just as fiercely patriotic, we just have more power
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 4:02, archived)
# I have lived in Mexico
just not in the UK
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 4:05, archived)
# :)
I lived in colombia and kenya for a while :)
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 4:07, archived)
# yes, but take into consideration the fact that I know dogsbollocks is from reading
which is in the UK, and chances are the fiver he's offering is going to be in stirling, wouldnt you agree?
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:39, archived)
# There are Reading's in america
*FACT*
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:40, archived)
# yes there are
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:41, archived)
# Otis
is one of them
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:42, archived)
# and *I* did not know that
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:43, archived)
# yes, but is there a "reading, which is in the UK" in america?
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:45, archived)
# not that i know of
but we do name things oddly here

so I wouldn't be surprised
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:48, archived)
# New York
is a prime example

so imaginative :)
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:50, archived)
# as well as new england
new jersey, boston, manchester, london, new london, woodbury (which is named after my hometown bury) and devon.
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:53, archived)
# and don't forget
New Rochelle
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:55, archived)
# are you sure rochelle isnt in france?
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:56, archived)
# no
but I am sure there is one in NY state
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 4:03, archived)
# I've actualy wrote
my mobile number on a £5 note, but no one has rang me yet:(
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:58, archived)
#
A bad name how?
you cock off

/trying to get on dogbollocks goodside to get fiver
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:34, archived)
# It's up to kitty meow meow
:)
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:35, archived)
#
Oh, that lovely lady
What a fine choice for a judge
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:36, archived)
# good try
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:37, archived)
# Because I'll send you
a scotish fiver in return!
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:38, archived)
# That's probably the best deal!
Heh - okey. Bed for me.
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:39, archived)
# night night
and you all have to make convincing cases here.

no one seems to actually be saying why they should get it...
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:40, archived)
# I think "because I'm willing to give my home address out to someone over the internet" is the best argument
:)

really off to bed now...
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:42, archived)
# hahaha
I knew lots of b3tans' home addresses, until m3ss3ng3r died
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:43, archived)
# I don't actualy want
I was offering a swap!

But I've just realise I've spent the fucker! so I can't swap.

I need some new discs to put music I've NOT* downloaded, onto and £5 would buy me 10 discs

*replace with "have"
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:43, archived)
# so far,
you're the only contender...
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:49, archived)
# my entry into this competition
was quite serious, i'll have you know
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:53, archived)
# what was it?
that you love him?

love shouldn't be a monetary relationship

(yes this is what you get for getting a girl to judge)
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:54, archived)
# very true
money is the WORST thing that ever happens to relationships
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:56, archived)
# i wish to
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:58, archived)
# oh you slick bastard...
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:59, archived)
# cock off
i'm skint

oops
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 4:01, archived)
# So you're saying that
You'd misleed the judge in a sad, sad attempt to cheat yourself the win?...
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 4:02, archived)
# I'll get 50p change
so I'll put it in the charity box! how's that? none will goto waste! I'll even take a picture as proof:)
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:54, archived)
# well, in taht case
i'll donate the fiver to a donkey sanctuary, for looking after donkeys in unfortunate circumstances
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:55, archived)
# But then
why would you need the fiver? He could do that himself!
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 4:00, archived)
# TJ, sorry :(
Night all! Really am off this time.
Just leave you with this..
On the BBC News site, there's a headline under "Tech" stuff - "Self Parking car hits the shops".. I wonder if they meant it to be funny? :)
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:40, archived)
# hahahaha
it is though.

I think the bbc really does say stuff like that on purpose a lot. It's great :)
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:41, archived)
# i read that story this afternoon
and that thought never occurred to me

my powers are weak today :(
(, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 3:43, archived)