i know
i'm a stuck up snob, but i always believe you get what you pay for. if you want it, it's always worth spending as much as you can afford (or about ten times more in my case, usually). this is esp true for bras and shoes.

however, the bedshitter did not agree. there are ducks swimming around with looser arses than that guy. bedding for a fiver that had only male prestuds and a hole in the middle (to be fair he was only going to shit all over it). holidays only in hotels with two stars or less. shoes for £7.50 from brixton market that had worn through before the end of the street...

also we once had a house christmas party where we set a £1 limit for presents "as a laugh". i decided noone would stick to this and bought really nice things for the other girls. er, no. the laugh was on me as they unwrapped really nice champagne or perfume.

i unwrapped: a pink plastic ring (that looked like a dog's bottom and turned my finger purple for weeks); a fake stethoscope (wtf? i wouldn't even ruin a naughty nurse outfit with that piece of shit); a 99p impulse sample spray (what about the other penny, you tight bitch) and, worst of all, a pack of post-it notes. clearly robbed from work.

also i missed last week's qotw, but would like to say that the dumbest most painful thing i have ever done to myself is to succumb to that awful stomach virus whilst spending christmas in antigua. HUMPH. 3 days barfing up water and stomach lining is not the best way to spend time in the caribbean...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 18:15, 5 replies)

My Better half is
always telling me.

"If you buy cheap, you buy twice!"
(never-right -getting it wrong since '78, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 18:42, closed)

Ooooh rough!
I mean the stomach bug - the stingy friends have no excuse! I'd have given them the tat back the following year.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Fri 4 Jan 2008, 18:46, closed)

No sympathy!
Anyone that goes to Antigua while the rest of us have to stay in Britain and spend days with the family deserves a dicky tum.

And I totally agree about the bra and shoes thing.
( girlinthehole, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 19:03, closed)

Me too!
...I mean...umm...look, it's a plane!

*runs*
( reallywittyname veraciously conspues lexiphanicism on, Sat 5 Jan 2008, 8:59, closed)

Bad stomach.
Had the same experience in Egypt a couple of weeks ago, it was much fun on the 6 hour flight back with one of the toilets broken, and just hoping the tablets you bought from the psychotic Egyptian pharmacist were going to hold on for the alloted time. Plus I missed out on the last 2 days of an all-inclusive holiday. So I do feel for you.
( Duke Of Belmsford has got 99 records, but Jay-Z ain't one, Sun 6 Jan 2008, 9:39, closed)