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If you had a big spunk load of cash what would your first purchase be? Limit up to a £1000 to make it interesting.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:05, 166 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
I'd pay for you to take lessons in English.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:06, Reply)
Writing on here doesn't count Jeff. I appreciate that for some of you spastics
this is the only place your written word means anything but I have to pay attention for uni and school so don't care on here. FLOUNCE FINISHED. You never answered my question about the mechabash
.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:08, Reply)
What was the question about the mechabash?

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:09, Reply)
are you going?

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:13, Reply)
All being well, yes.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:20, Reply)
You mean, yes Bobby I will definitely be going.
Because Blousie will not forgive me if I don't.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:22, Reply)
Well, there is that as well.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:23, Reply)
sweet.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:24, Reply)
Don't be so harsh, it's not like he's a tea...
oh.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:08, Reply)
Drinking hippie?

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:18, Reply)
It would pay for me, Jeff and B3th to spend the whole weekend at the pier.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:07, Reply)
you could buy most of Weston for a grand
and it'd still be over-priced
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:08, Reply)
We might win enough tickets on the prize bingo to get a china figure with that sort of budget.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:08, Reply)
haha!

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:11, Reply)
No, YOU a big spunk load of cash

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:07, Reply)
I'd add it to an extra couple of hundred quid
and buy a Gibson Firebird
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:07, Reply)
Does the wifey to be know?

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:08, Reply)
if we weren't so skint
I wouldn't be surprised if she bought me one for my birthday without telling me.

She asking some questions the other day (because I went and played it again) and I had to tell her not to get it for me.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:09, Reply)
Isn't that what Ted Nugent plays?

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:20, Reply)
No, that's a Gibson Byrdland.
As you were.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:20, Reply)
They are nicer

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:25, Reply)
ugh
I dislike that sort of guitar
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:30, Reply)
He plays God with a high-powered rifle, doesn't he?

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:21, Reply)
Johnny Winter played one.
and a couple of others who I can't recall at the moment
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:24, Reply)
I've never liked the look of them.
Do they play/sound nice?
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:09, Reply)
I never liked them until I saw one in person
and I thought there's no way it'll play well, but they are actually quite amazing. Not like anything else I've played. Brilliant sound both clean and distorted.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:10, Reply)
I am def gonna buy a double bass pedal and a fuck off shiny crash.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:10, Reply)
I dont like the shape

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:25, Reply)
Buy 100,000 penny sweets...

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:09, Reply)
I like this plan

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:10, Reply)
I've just polished off a bag of sour cola bottles
I picture myself with a green tinge to my cheeks like in the Beano.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:12, Reply)
think of the teeth!
and lips... nom nom nom
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:13, Reply)
I wish you'd vanish
lololololololololololololololol
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:09, Reply)
why? then who would you troll dumbass?
Think it through dildo.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:12, Reply)
When did you become american bobby?

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:17, Reply)
With great fatness comes great responbility.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:18, Reply)
You HAVE been at the cooking turps.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:24, Reply)
I cannot tell you how surreal today has been Mr Boyce.
I am fighting the urge to just go out shopping. I have the biggest smile on my face ever.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:26, Reply)
Good lad.
Glad someone's having a good day.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:30, Reply)
I only got up half an hour ago
Wooooo
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:39, Reply)
Outside of the boring and more probable answer of 'stick it in the savings'
I'd go for a big family outing somewhere with the kids, it might stretch to a couple of days in Disneyland.

I don't think I could get away with a replica pulse rifle anymore, it'll be "ooh, we can get a new washing machine with that, and maybe pave the fucking patio..." Fuck snakes.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:11, Reply)
if it does, you're a spastic cunt of the highest order and I'm putting you on ignore
I think I would go shopping for the essentials...food, shoes, clothes, bathing suit, booze.
Because I'm broke and it would be wonderful to be able to go buy clothes, and shoes and food, to get whatever I wanted or needed.

If that's not interesting enough, I'd probably try to find a giggolo.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:12, Reply)
I go to get lunch at the worst times
it seems I've missed further drama. This place is better than telly.

A grand's easy. I'd buy a car.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:17, Reply)
I had a look on here before my lunch and thought "I'll pop back if I get a chance..."
Something's vanished and everything's grim.
Why has a thread vanished?
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:17, Reply)
Dunno, but it contained, arguably, my best post in ages. Gutted.
How's your cold/virus?
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:18, Reply)
I'm back at work but I am fuzzy
What was your post about?
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:35, Reply)
A flight ticket out of this worthless country.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:17, Reply)
fuck it, I'll buy you that if it's one way and I choose the destination.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:18, Reply)
Dignitas is my guess.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:21, Reply)
One way yes, destination, my choice.
I'm thinking Thailand.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:21, Reply)
I was thinking Somalia or Hull

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:23, Reply)
Get knotted.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:23, Reply)
probably, if you go to SOmalia,
but I'm not paying the ransom.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:26, Reply)
Twin towns

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:23, Reply)
The "twin towns" of Wembley...

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:26, Reply)
and Brent

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:27, Reply)
As in Brent Spar...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Spar
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:29, Reply)
*fails at finding the Norwich, twinned with Norwich picture*

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:30, Reply)
The "twin towns" of Wembley...
...the blooper John Motson never made...
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:40, Reply)
come to america, it's wonderful here

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:20, Reply)
Done most of the Eastern Seaboard already.
Oregon looks nice.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:21, Reply)
taking the oregon trail?

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:28, Reply)
I think America's about the last place I'd want to move to.
Far too big a culture shock.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:22, Reply)
going from "some" to "none"?

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:25, Reply)
I'm trying to work out if I'm being dense, here.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:26, Reply)
I got it, if that helps.
Clue- what are specially grown colonies of bacteria called?
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:27, Reply)
I saw that, Bill Clay...

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:30, Reply)
You saw nothing

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:31, Reply)
I still don't get it.
OK, cultures of bacteria. I get that, but not the reference.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:39, Reply)
you said 'too big a culture shock'
and I said that the shock was going from some culture to no culture, or 'none'.

you addle-pated lackwit
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 15:04, Reply)
we're all very nice

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:27, Reply)
Pfft!
Some are nicer than others.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:29, Reply)
With a few exceptions.
Fred Phelps, his family and congregation being a few prime examples.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:29, Reply)
I have found this
in all my travels to America.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:29, Reply)
it's because we no longer live under british rule, we've all mellowed out

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:31, Reply)
Sure the people are nice enough to Brits
most of the non-French sort of Johnnies are nice when they see their colonial overlords walking down the street, bow and scrape, bow and scrape.

It's the living there bit that I'm concerned about. Like health insurance. In Canada health insurance is $100 a month and they're half subsidised. America isn't.

Out of all the English speaking countries, they're easily the least English.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:32, Reply)
I imagine they're probably quite proud of that last point.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:33, Reply)
But all Americans are Scots/Irish and go on about it all the fucking time

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:34, Reply)
Oh my God, don't they just.
The worst for that are the Nova Scotians, though. Fucking hell.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:35, Reply)
and that's not english, is it?

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:35, Reply)
They probably are.
But it is true and would make it quite difficult for me to settle there.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:34, Reply)
well yeah, would an english person be proud to be an american? no, because he's not

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:36, Reply)
What?

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:38, Reply)
It was supposed to say would an english person be proud to be an american

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:39, Reply)
The country being the least English out of allt he ex-colonies
would make it harder for me to settle there. Because it's the least familiar, both the people and the culture.

I wasn't making any reference to anything else.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:40, Reply)
fair enough
but for me, I wouldn't see the point in moving to a country that's just the same as mine
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:46, Reply)
I'd move to Canada.
It's foreign and that, but at the same time the people are similar in mindset to us enough that I wouldn't feel entirely alienated.

I've been to the States a few times and one of my best friends lives there now, but I couldn't. I can't find much in the way of common mental ground.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:49, Reply)
yeah but there are canadians there

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 15:18, Reply)
A full set of kitchen equipment, including the stuff you don't really need (potato ricer, etc)
That'd be best for me, I think.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:23, Reply)
Good plan
I need to get me some new knives. Shiny, sharp, cutting knifes for flesh.......

Fuck, I'm typing my thoughts again
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:24, Reply)
£1000 is not 'a big spunk load of cash' though is it?
I'd spend a fair wad of it on flowers to apologise to two people. I'd buy Lusty some hideous jewellery, my daughter something to annoy her mother and a whopping great pile of nommy MDs for daddy.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:28, Reply)
No but it's a restrained, sensible amount for a first purchase.
What would you do with £5000 then?
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:31, Reply)
£4000 more MDs

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:33, Reply)
Full back tattoo, holiday to America to visit my dad (and Kristine),
clothes, XO cognac, MDs, expensive records, new mixer....my dear boy I could dispose of five grand in about two hours without breaking a sweat.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:40, Reply)
And hence the catastrophic state of your finances.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 15:20, Reply)
Lusty doesn't strike me as the hideous jewellery type of girl.
More the Ooo! this is nice spending quality time alone with my favorite bloke kind of girl.


Edit - Mind you a bit of sparkly stuff is never a bad idea.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:34, Reply)
Did you see that programme last night on C4 about gold mining?
It was proper scary.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:35, Reply)
No I didn't.
why scary?
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:36, Reply)
It showed these poor kids scurrying down tiny little rabbit hole type mines to get the gold out
then they had to refine it with mercury, with their bare hands. They were all covered in welts and sores due to poisoning, and the conditions were shocking.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:39, Reply)
: ((

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:40, Reply)
That reminded me of my boy's 5th birthday.
I told him he was now officially old enough to 'go up the chimneys'. He thought I was being serious...
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:45, Reply)
They sent parents pre-paid envelopes and asked them to put their kids in them.
Once they'd received kids in the post, the weighed them and sent the parents a fraction of their true value.

They then put the kids to work.*

*I may not have seen this show.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:40, Reply)
Hahaha

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:41, Reply)
Speaking of which
You might quite like this...
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:47, Reply)
Tee hee.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:50, Reply)
Seriously? She has a magnificent collection of frankly alarming trinkets.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:43, Reply)
I've never seen her wearing very much jewellery.
Ovbiously got it wrong.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:46, Reply)
vajazzle innit.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:47, Reply)
Hahaha!
Can you imagine the look of horror on Monty's face is she got that done.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:49, Reply)
You're alright mate, you don't need to apologise.
Besides, I don't like strange men off the internet buying me flowers. I always feel pressured into a blowie.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:36, Reply)
Cunt cab driver tried to charge me £18 for a £12 journey, I said "Are you sure?" he said "I don't set the price" so I said "Do you want to take this to your controller?" and he said "Ok, how much do you normally pay?" so I said "£12" and he said "OK then,
£12", jokes on him, it's normaly £12.50.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:32, Reply)
haha!

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:32, Reply)
Brilliant.
The closest I've come to such a result was buying a return ticket on a bus, but getting a lift home instead. TAKE THAT FIRST BUS!
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:37, Reply)
That's 50p of 100% pure profit he's cheated himself out of by being a greedy bastard, if he said £14 then I would shrugged and gone with it.
He also took me on a very seenic root, I got to see all sorts of crack deens and all that. Christ, there are some horrific parts of Kentish Town. I think at one point I was in Camden too, donno how.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:45, Reply)
There really are.
I used to live in Kentish Town. I went round a chap's flat and there was a ten-year-old in there trying to swap a car he'd nicked for 9oz of hashish.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:46, Reply)
The Southampton Arms is quite nice tho'...

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:47, Reply)
I'd sort a weekend away to London or York out for me and Mrs Cow
With some decent spends too
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:33, Reply)
Don't go to London. It's full of B3tans.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:36, Reply)
Definitely
Go to Lancashire instead, it's where all the best are from.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:37, Reply)
*northern highfives*

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:39, Reply)
hotpots and dole scroungers maybe.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:39, Reply)
And what's wrong with Hotpot?

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:44, Reply)
It tastes of coal and desperation.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:45, Reply)
Clearly, you've never eaten it.
I'd be shocked that you've cast aspersions over something you've never had any experience with, but I've known you for more than 5 seconds.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:48, Reply)
I have eaten it - it tastes fine - but where are the regionalist bullying lolz there?

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 15:14, Reply)
Very true

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 15:20, Reply)
It's a stew with ideas above its station.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:50, Reply)
I know this is old but I'm totally lolling at this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTTwcCVajAc
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:43, Reply)
What were your Glastonbury highlights?

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:45, Reply)
He managed to shit solids up to Saturday afternoon,

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:45, Reply)
+not

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:46, Reply)
2 Shits from tuesday night to monday lunchtime
i'm sure you all care.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:49, Reply)
I couldn't give two...hang on....

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 15:08, Reply)
Imelda May, BB king, Paul Simon
and a small gig with a band called Top Shelf Jazz, the main guy looks like satan and his first words were "This isn't a tea party this is Mother fucking Jazz!"

Coldplay and U2 were great as well. As was helping a couple of Umpa lumpa try to find willy wonka who'd run off from them after taking too much ketamine.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:47, Reply)
Oh and Eels
and Pulp, and the late night areas like Arcadia and Shangri La.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:51, Reply)
I watched some of Coldplay on the tv thing
their songs are boring as fuck.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:53, Reply)
They did a great headliner job.
Good sing along songs, loud, awesome laser show fireworks and they chucked out about 50 massive balloons onto the crowd. Exactly the sort of thing that goes down well on the massive stages.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:55, Reply)
Also they didn't play their new album they just did their hits except two which they apologised for.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:56, Reply)
the lights and fireworks were pretty good even on TV
I certainly don't hate Coldplay like I hate U2, but I can't quite understand them or why they are as big as they are. Their songs are ordinary and Chris Martin seems to be entirely devoid of any charisma.

I saw some footage of a band called Fool's Gold. Completely and utterly shite. One of the worst singers I've ever heard and they all looked like absolute penises.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 15:02, Reply)
Have you seen this makes me like him
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DlvxYmBHYo
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 15:04, Reply)
can't view it here as am on secondment
what is it?
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 15:07, Reply)
Him chatting to that fat, smug prick Gervais.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 15:08, Reply)
That's like putting a turd next to pile of vomit and saying, doesn't seem so bad now does it?

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 15:20, Reply)
Pretty much

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 15:24, Reply)
Did you see Dan Le Sac v Scroob Pip?

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 15:06, Reply)
Nope I think I was in a pub.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 15:18, Reply)
Oh damn, that would be my main reason for going.
Good God Damn and other such phrases, haven't heard a beat like this in ages, to miss such a beat would have been outragous, when you heart skips a beat it's rufless and aimless.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 15:25, Reply)
I saw BB King's set on television.
He was still pretty good for an old cunt who can't even walk more than a few steps.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 15:13, Reply)
I know, he didn't come on for the first 10 minutes
My friend goes "which one is he?"...
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 15:18, Reply)
Did you say the black one?

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 15:23, Reply)
it's a joke right?
like she put it there to make herself famous or something, right?
it's not real....right?
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:45, Reply)
I don't know but it's hilarious.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:48, Reply)
it's not though
it's lame and she's faking and it's stupid
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 15:17, Reply)
All I can say is she's a cracking good actress.
Makes me laugh every time.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:45, Reply)
What.The.Fuck?

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:45, Reply)
I don't know sc I just don't know.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:50, Reply)
Will I get sacked if I click this at work?

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:52, Reply)
nah but you need sound

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:52, Reply)
Oh right, one for hometime, then.

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 14:54, Reply)
don't bother
it's stupid
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 15:17, Reply)

I would spend it on strippers and coke and have a 6 hour bender of sex, drugs and rock and roll empowering some women
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 15:14, Reply)
Empower me ape. Empower me hard!!!!

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 15:16, Reply)
*waves dollar bill*

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 15:19, Reply)
*space bar*
"Shake it baby"
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 15:21, Reply)
A DOLLAR!!!
A FUCKING DOLLAR!!
(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 15:22, Reply)
it's the only legal tender, like Disney dollars at Disney World

(, Tue 28 Jun 2011, 15:24, Reply)

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