affordable art fair
sorry for spam-esque post, i will delete it shortly! quite a few of you mentioned an interest in the affordable art fair, which is a really brilliant exhibition (if a bit dangerous, leave your credit card at home...) in battersea park from 19-23 october. my friend has a gallery which is exhibiting there, so i have some free and some half-price entry tickets. monty is having one; if anyone else wants a ticket, post here or gaz me.

as you were.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:08, 119 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

That's really kind
but I'll probably be going to the unaffordable art fair instead.
( WormuIus, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:13, Reply)

you should be selling your stuff there

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:35, Reply)

Affordable?
Sounds like it'll be full of ruffians.
( Kroney, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:13, Reply)

I thought it was a chippy alternative to Frieze
Where people sell lots of trendy screenprints and etchings
( WormuIus, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:15, Reply)

It's probably all homemade windchimes
and pavement drawings. Ghastly.
( Kroney, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:20, Reply)

not even a little bit
it's just art under £4,000. interestingly until about 2 years ago, it was art under £2,500. the organisers' idea of affordable does not seem to have increased in line with the economy...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:34, Reply)

I'm not going to spend close to four grand
on a windchime, I'm afraid.
( Kroney, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:36, Reply)

For four grand it better chime whether its windy or not

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:47, Reply)

They are special windchimes for the deaf.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:55, Reply)

haha!
I'm lolling like a mong at this, for some reason
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:01, Reply)

it's not hippy art, you ignorant little muppet!

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:51, Reply)

Oh, sorry
I am not going to spend four grand on a painting of a pair of spaniels then. Whatever, love.
( Kroney, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:57, Reply)

bet you would if they were spaniel's ears

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:00, Reply)

I really wouldn't.
Puppies, perhaps.
( Kroney, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:00, Reply)

arf arf

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:01, Reply)

Nonce

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:07, Reply)

How rude.

( Kroney, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:07, Reply)

I fancy it
and I'll be down nearish the end of October
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:18, Reply)

oh yessss
you should definitely come!!!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:32, Reply)

I'll let you know when I'm down
hopefully it'll be in that time frame
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:59, Reply)

fire and stone fire and stone fire and stone

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:00, Reply)

Just food would be good enough

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:06, Reply)

You have yet to take me to this place of wondrousness :(
I even live near one now. Well, work near one. But I don't have anyone in Oxford to go with.
(berk, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:16, Reply)

TB?
Get him over and paying!
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:17, Reply)

He wouldn't come all the way to Oxford for pizza
even really nice pizza. Especially not if I then ask him to pay for it...
(berk, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:21, Reply)

I reckon Gonz would be there like a shot
Just saying.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:22, Reply)

I'll be up to Oxford by necessity
come and have some with me
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:22, Reply)

with me while I watch hungrily.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:24, Reply)

Shh don't put her off
I can have the toppings anyway
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:25, Reply)

Haha I'll never understand the rules of your diet

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:26, Reply)

There are no rules
except that meat, soup and carrots are alright.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:27, Reply)

She's on that weird pepperoni, crisp flavouring and anchovy diet
that all the Hollywood types are on
( Kroney, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:27, Reply)

Deal :)
just let me know when. You're welcome to cmoe back to mine if you need somewhere to crash, too - although it is 35 min away by train.
(berk, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:27, Reply)

He is coming to Oxford to see you
The fact that you are going out for pizza is a bonus.
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:23, Reply)

Yes, but I don't live here, I only work here
so it's a long way to come given that we'd have to schlep back up the M40 for 40 miles afterwards.
(berk, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:32, Reply)

THINK OF THE PIZZA!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:33, Reply)

I'd love to go but I can't, so there.
I haz monies for art.

NEED MOAR ART!
( girlinthehole, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:21, Reply)

Find a local-ish artist whose work you like and commission a piece

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:23, Reply)

I don't have that much money.

( girlinthehole, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:24, Reply)

Besides, I need a new cooker.
I wish mine would just stop working and then I'd have to buy a new one.
( girlinthehole, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:25, Reply)

oker ck

What is wrong with it? My 2nd oven has some kind of temp sensor issue so it is now a binary cooker. On or Off
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:42, Reply)

Nothing really, apart from being old and crappy looking.

( girlinthehole, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:44, Reply)

Then it isn't broken
Spend the money on something else
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:45, Reply)

I keep spending it on train fare : )

( girlinthehole, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:45, Reply)

To see awesome b3tans isn't wasting the cash though!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:46, Reply)

I didn't say it was a waste.

( girlinthehole, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:48, Reply)

aaf is amazing
because unfortunately many things there actually are affordable!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:33, Reply)

Alien Ant Farm are shit

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:46, Reply)

Your post isn't spam.
If you want to do spam just copy apeloverage. The wanker.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:26, Reply)

i always thought he was a dick
but then he proved it
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:34, Reply)

+arrogant
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:39, Reply)

OK then, sub-question
How much have you paid for decorations/art/etc?
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:41, Reply)

£100 for my pottery plaque.
Or was it £200? I can't remember now. I think it was £200.

Moorcroft!
( girlinthehole, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:42, Reply)

Pottery Plague
Wedddddddddddddddgeewoooooooooooooooooooooooood
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:53, Reply)

I think I paid £100 for a pic for our living room
Unless wedding albums count?
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:43, Reply)

i've been really spoilt here
because my friend owns the gallery, i have got whacking great discounts on some original stuff. so if i'd paid market value, the most expensive would be a photographic piece in my hallway which is the secret 7th edition in a run of 6, and for which the other 6 owners paid £5,000 each.

heh.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:44, Reply)

How much did you pay for it?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:45, Reply)

the printing company cocked up slightly
it's printed on this amazing sort of perspex thing. it's hard to describe unless you've seen it. anyway, my artist friend was really unhappy with one copy because it was bent - seriously, you'd need a spirit level even to notice. so the printers told her to chuck it out and did another one. and i got the rogue bent copy for £500 - £250 to the artist and £250 to my friend, everyone's a winner.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:52, Reply)

Not too bad

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:53, Reply)

Disappointing...
I was expecting something about her always ending up with the bent one, or summat. I dunno, you work something out in your own head and chuckle at it. I lack the motivation today...
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:56, Reply)

fuck you and the horse you rode in on, rough-rider

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:00, Reply)

I find horse riding to be a bit bent

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:05, Reply)

You need to turn it over

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:05, Reply)

Not much
but I do have a fair size collection of sketches and comic art that I've picked up or had done for me at conventions.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:46, Reply)

I have a load of sketches that my grandad did
They are incredible! I need to get a few mounted and on the walls
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:47, Reply)

I assume you're not talking Spider-Man or Posion Ivy here though.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:48, Reply)

No
More sketches of the countryside, faces from magazines, etc.
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:50, Reply)

I have one of Tower Bridge drawn by my great Uncle.
It's shit. But he did draw it with the withered paralysed arm that Polio gave him when he was a kid, so I still keep it.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:53, Reply)

The disease with the hole

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:54, Reply)

Aaand that's a click from me!

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:56, Reply)

But really
Why did he use his spaz-hand to do it? Why not the good one?
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:59, Reply)

It's an excuse for being shit at drawing

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:00, Reply)

I bet his legs work properly too

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:00, Reply)

I don't know how true it is
but the story I was told when it was given to me was that he was trying to regain as much use of it as he could.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:02, Reply)

I bet it felt like someone else was drawing it

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:04, Reply)

If John Squire topped himself or was killed by a deranged fan I'd do alright out of it.

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:55, Reply)

Fucking art fair.
You'll be putting wine on your cornflakes next!

Perfumed ponces.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:47, Reply)

hmmm
*ponders*
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:48, Reply)

Class traitor!
It should be brown ale or nowt for your cornflakes.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:48, Reply)

*rumbled*

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:50, Reply)

"How much did we pay for this piece, darling?"

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:51, Reply)

Why, I think it was £4.99 from B&M
Peppa Pig looks beautiful up on the wall there
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:52, Reply)

"I think I am going to go the AAF and look at some INSTALLATIONS.
Because I am a pretentious, self-important little twerp."

"No, you'll go to Arena and buy a poster of that tennis bird scratching her arse and the poster of a Lambo Countach. AND YOU'LL LIKE IT AND CALL IT GRAVY!!!!!11!!"

FFS.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:55, Reply)

I preferred the Garfield posters, to be honest

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:57, Reply)

Mmmmm, lasagne!

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:58, Reply)

Indeed

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:59, Reply)

Only seventy
picked it up in Soho, looking cold on a street corner
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:53, Reply)

haha!
I believe it was from the Ukraine originally, produced about 16 years ago
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:54, Reply)

I prefer more modern art.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:55, Reply)

Nonceart

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:59, Reply)

That's quite enough about your Hentai collection, thank you.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:00, Reply)

Well, they said it was 16.
But if you look closer it may be more recent than you think, so be careful.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:56, Reply)

A fake?
*drops monocle*
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:57, Reply)

Oh my Gadd I can't believe it

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:58, Reply)

I like this

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:00, Reply)

Turn it over and look at the (tramp) stamp on the bottom

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:00, Reply)

*Something about firing holes*

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:04, Reply)

Wine?
Vodka or nothing I'd have you know.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:48, Reply)

Good lad.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 15:52, Reply)

well i can't delete this now
it's taken over the chat from the enthralling bbc newslink below.

but there is no alt. can off-topic survive this shattering blow?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:01, Reply)

Call a H(alt) to proceedings
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:02, Reply)

Have you gone home yet, you nob?

( Kroney, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:03, Reply)

of course not!

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:07, Reply)

Nob!

( Kroney, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:08, Reply)

shut it
or i'll text you a picture of my pussy... tonsils.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:08, Reply)

Whatever it is you send
it'll look like a nob to me.
( Kroney, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:12, Reply)

That didn't come out right.

( Kroney, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:12, Reply)

Push it back in
I don't think anyone noticed
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:13, Reply)

you massive bender

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:16, Reply)

It's true
he admitted to fancying Darth yesterday.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:21, Reply)

woahwoahwoah
this is libellous.
( Kroney, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:23, Reply)

Talk to my lawyer
Ms R Swipe of Sue, Grabbit and Runne.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:25, Reply)

show me!

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:46, Reply)

Does it really matter what the original thread is?
We just need a push start so we can get on with the sniping, back-biting, bad puns and strikethroughs. It's all about the sub-threads and the insults...
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:03, Reply)

You would say that wouldn't you
you think you're so much better than us, well you're not, mr 'tangledupinbluepoo'
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:05, Reply)

Ooo clever
*weeps*
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:06, Reply)

Another of my friends has just been given a tax rebate.
Bastard.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:26, Reply)

I had great fun with the taxmen a few years ago
I found that they owed my about £2000 so claimed, only to find that 8 years ago I owed them £2300 which I couldn't see or find anything about. Funny that. CUNTS
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:30, Reply)

My understanding is that.....
if they have the info about what you owe, they have until the end of that tax year plus 12 months to ask for it. If they don't, tough on them.

In any event, I think there is a long stop of 6 years.

Are you sure it's too late?
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 10 Oct 2011, 16:44, Reply)