I'm starting a new thread, sorry
the last one is making me do a sadface.

I just bought a shitload of books from a carboot sale. Another time I got an old camera for a pound. What's your best carboot/charity shop find?

alt: whatever you want
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 11:31, 56 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

An extremely nice dress
which would have been about £60 new and cost me £4, and a first edition of one of my favourite books which is no longer in print for £2.50.

Should I go to Ross on Wye or Cheltenham today?
(berk, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 11:52, Reply)

Ross on Wye!
but really you should got to Hay on Wye - so very many bookshops!
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 11:57, Reply)

I did consider it
but it's sunday, so I suppose most of them will be shut...
(berk, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 11:58, Reply)

I think there are quite a few open on a sunday
but, yeah, you'd need more than half a day to get round them anyway
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:04, Reply)

Rhos-on-Sea!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 11:59, Reply)

I was in Llandudno a few weeks ago, does that count?

(berk, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:11, Reply)

So was I!
13th-14th February.
Were you there, disguised a seagull, hmmm?
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:13, Reply)

No, I was there disguised as a very damp person
in charge of a grumpy child.
(berk, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:16, Reply)

damp?
Pfft.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:17, Reply)

Shush you
it was pissing it down. It's Wales, after all.
(berk, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:18, Reply)

right now wales is sunny
I even spent an hour out in that sun yesterday. I'm almost off-white
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:21, Reply)

North wales though
it's fucking freezing here, and overcast.
(berk, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:22, Reply)

yeah
I used to have to go there on holiday when I was a kid.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:24, Reply)

It was WELL sunny when we went up the Great Orme

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:28, Reply)

I'll wager you've been taken up the Great Orme a few times
I hear it's very nice.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:43, Reply)

It is an exhilarating experience I'm keen to repeat.

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:43, Reply)

I didn't realise you were into that sort of thing, how do you approach someone with that sort of thing, or do you just surprise them?

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:26, Reply)

I would imagine it's quite hard to stealth-piss on someone, Gonz.
but I wouldn't know because that's really not my kind of thing at all.
(berk, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:29, Reply)

I know someone who did
but it wasn't a sex thing. Just some guy with bad nightvision going for a piss on a bush. It was at a larp event and there was some guy hiding in that bush. He didn't move at all, fair play to him
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:33, Reply)

That's the trouble with that sort of thing, I reckon, there is a point of no return, when you start you have to be comited.
I guess you could disguss it over dinner while eastenders is on in the background, during one of those awquard silance bits.

"[naaaame] ?"
"Yeah"
"Well, I was wondering, what's your opinion on... never mind, it's silly, don't worry"
"No, go on, I'm interested now"
"I'm embarassed now"
"Don't be, it's to late now, you have to tell me, I'll be wondering all night otherwise"
"Well, I was watching this video, and this lady urinated on this other man's chest"
"Ooookaaaay, what are you getting at?"
"They seemed to enjoy it, that's all, it might be fun"
"Who cleans up afterwards?"
"I donno, they did it in the bedroom, I imagine it would make for a bad night's sleep, wet sheets and all that."
"And we've got the egyption cotton sheets on at the moment that we got in the sale form John Lewis, I only washed them yesterday."
"Probs best give it a miss"
"Yeah', never mind, can you hand me the ketchup please."
"Sure thing".
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:36, Reply)

Should suggest doing it in the bath

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:37, Reply)

Would need to put a bath matt down, which would leave whoever was laying down with loads of indentations in their skin.
My bath is relativly small, if I put my feet against the tap-end then from my chest upwards sticks out the other.

I just got a funny mental image of two people sharing a bath, one goes to get up and says "I really need a piss", the other goes "Just do it in here" followed by yells of "OH MY GOD, I WAS JOKING" on Jermy Kyle.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:48, Reply)

hmm
Perhaps there are tips somewhere. Like on the internet or soemthing
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:50, Reply)

Maybe, I'd write one but I don't feel I'm in a possition to say anything.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 14:05, Reply)

Alt:
Here you go
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 11:56, Reply)

quo-rolled!

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 11:57, Reply)

Anytime, doll

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 11:58, Reply)

I did consider posting similar
But I just assumed that any link I posted would be too obvious.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:00, Reply)

Worry no more!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:01, Reply)

Thanks Roota.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:08, Reply)

the complete interior of a French cafe that looked like it had been put together in the forties/fifties
everything was there; tables, lots of no. 14 cafe chairs, all the ashtrays and enamel and glassware and crockery, even the till. I didn't buy any of it because I wanted it all. Regardless, it is the best thing I have ever found in a second-hand shop.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:28, Reply)

are you sure you didn't just walk into a french cafe?

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:36, Reply)

no it was a brocante place
it was so striking because they'd laid it out exactly as it was rather than just piling all the stuff in a corner.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 13:02, Reply)

I sent another load of messages on OKCupid yesterday, haven't had a reply back yet, and the girl who did reply the other day hasn't replied.
I think the trouble with these sorts of things is that I'm basicly unloveable, but I used to think I was unemployable but I am, so maybe I'm wrong about this.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:29, Reply)

I think the problem is you are expecting to receive messages back
within a few hours. Dude. Calm down. Not everyone spends as long as the internet as we all do, and the kind of girl who sits on okcupid frantically f5-ing is not the type of girl you want to attract anyway.
(berk, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:31, Reply)

done the same thing
"shit! they've been online since I sent that message, they're totally ignoring me *sob*" then you get a reply a week or so later
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:36, Reply)

Yeh', that's true.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:52, Reply)

this is not true
what are you messaging? The ones I've replied to are the ones who say something different or ask something about something on the profile. Even people like me get loads of "Hi, you're pretty" messages, which are impossible to formulate a reply to
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:34, Reply)

I'll copy'n'paste the last one, they're all along the same lines.
To some girl who wanted to live on a beach
The trouble with living on a tropical island is that they just aren't practical. Tropical climates are prone to heavy rain seasons. I once saw this show called "Lost" and it was about a group of people who survived and airplane crash on a tropical island, and although it looked fun in a lot of respects, I can't help but to feel I would miss Oriental take aways. I'm sure they have plenty of ingredients such as Mango and Coconut, and lots of fish, the occasional wild bore; and you can get Salt by leaving a shallow bucket of sea walter out in the sun, it would be lacking in ingredients such as Oil, which is essencial to most cooking. I think the sand would really start to piss me off too, it's fine if you're visiting a beach, but to live on it would be a real drag. It would be quite hard to wash your clothes, you can't do it in salt water, it ruiens cashmire. There would have to be some sort of fresh-water source close by, it's not that I drink Evion, but I quite like having access to tap water. In that show, 'lost', they find a submarine, but when ever I've been to tropical islands, the most I found while snorkling or scuba diving is bottles of coke.

My friend started a Dive School in Cyprus and bought a load of old cars to dump in the sea (after cleaning them up of any polutants) in the hope that they would turn into an interesting coral reef for punters to visit. It was just about 1/4 a mile out from Bogaz harbour between 5 and 10 meters depth. I'm pretty sure he actually did do this because I saw the photos and loads of friends saw him spend a week tugging the cars on his boat (he put floats in and around them). He took the GPS co'ords, did the land spots so he could have a visual identifier, was really careful. However, he forgot one important aspect of the ocean; tides and currents. I went diving with him about 5 times trying to find the cars, but we couldn't find any, not a single piece of evidance it ever happened. This was either the best prank in the world (eg, it was all a lie, there was no cars, and he got the fishermen at the harbour to lie too), or a really stupid mistake to make.

All in all, I think if I was going to be stranded on an island, Manhattan seems like a good one.

Anyway, 'Hi', I'm Paul, and that was either the world's worst, or the world's best, ice breaker. I sometimes waffle on.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:39, Reply)

cute, if long
perhaps make it a paragraph shorter. Or pick better girls
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 12:48, Reply)

I think I just found an awesome one, maybe.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 14:00, Reply)

wooohooo
as in to message, or that has messaged you?

some guy just IMed me and said "If I were to lie 11 roses next to you, you'd make the perfect dozen." I will not be answering
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 14:06, Reply)

I messaged her, angsty artest type who's into food, dogs, is into geeks and has blue hair.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 14:12, Reply)

I wrote...
Hello there !

I'm a published artist too, I was in the park and I took a photo with my camera phone, I changed the setting on the camera from "Flash" to "No Flash" and then plonked it into Photoshop and added a lens flair, then got the magic lasso tool and cut out my subject with it (it was a rusty can of coke) and added a gaussin blur on the foreground (don't worry, I used the feather on the lasso), and added a deep and meaningful lyrics in a font that wasn't comic-sans and changed the blending mode, I can't remember what the lyric was but I think it was from that punk-rock band "Blink 182" (circa Enemy Of The State). It was from their song 'Adams Song', and went "Please tell mum this is not her fault". I put it on Flickr and they didn't take it down so I guess I'm published now. I went to print a copy of but I had run out of blue ink and it didn't print out right, but I signed it anyway as a frist edition print. I plan to do a limited edition run of 23 of them (I used up a couple of sheets of kodak glossy paper when I forgot it was still in the tray while printing out picture of pugs in hats).

Anyway, you seem pretty cool, it'll be ace to hear back from you, even if it's not a positive response, just so I can tick the box on my Todo list that says "Get reply from someone awesome"; it's just between "Get multi-pack of galaxy ripple" and "Look into practicalities of starting up Jurassic Park in Enfield Town; must check copywrite issues".
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 14:13, Reply)

Pffft.
Please, please post the response if you get one.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 14:19, Reply)

Only if it's not a good one ,)

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 15:01, Reply)

Apparently I'm a slow dancer....
Steady, reliable, and cradling her tenderly. Take a deep breath, and let it out real easy...you are The Slow Dancer
Your focus is love, not sex, and for your age, you have average experience. But you’re a great, thoughtful guy, and your love life improves every year. There’s also a powerful elimination process working in your favor: most Playboy types get stuck raising unwanted kids before you even begin settling down. The women left over will be hot and yours. Your ideal woman is someone intimate, intelligent, and very supportive.
While you’re not exactly the life of the party, you do thrive in small groups of smart people. Your circle of friends is extra tight and it’s HIGHLY likely they’re just like you. You appreciate symmetry in relationships.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 15:16, Reply)

hahahah

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 14:23, Reply)

Found a rare vintage cagoule in one for £4.99 once
Sold it for £70 odd.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 13:18, Reply)

cagoule's can be vintage?

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 13:23, Reply)

You paid for, and sold, a jacket?
*faints*
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 14:20, Reply)

It's his liveli'hood'

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 14:32, Reply)

I buy the majority of my clothes from charity shops
and manage not to look like a straggly hobo all the time.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 14:17, Reply)

Alt: Woo hoo! That is all.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 15:24, Reply)

I just googled 'hairless mole' and found this....
www.flickr.com/photos/upyerbum/73632611/

And then click on the link in the description =S
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 15:29, Reply)

not strictly on subject
But just missed what I strongly suspect was a first edition of Stalky and Co sold with a few others for a couple of pounds.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Sun 6 Mar 2011, 16:01, Reply)