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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Everyday luxuries. What do you allow yourself?
Mine is proper coffee. Not expensive Costa/ Starbucks stuff, just decent freshly ground coffee. Yum.
Alt: did you keep a diary as a child?
AltAlt: something about menstrual stains.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:04, 186 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
Mine is proper coffee. Not expensive Costa/ Starbucks stuff, just decent freshly ground coffee. Yum.
Alt: did you keep a diary as a child?
AltAlt: something about menstrual stains.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:04, 186 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
Fags I suppose.
If yorkshire was a country it would be above Australia in the medals.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:07, Reply)
If yorkshire was a country it would be above Australia in the medals.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:07, Reply)
Alright Battered?
Alt: I kept a diary when I was off on lols in other countries. I can't bring myself to read most of them.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:09, Reply)
Alt: I kept a diary when I was off on lols in other countries. I can't bring myself to read most of them.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:09, Reply)
Yeah alright.
Just pissing about on reception at work. I have to go back to the bar now though, rubbish.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:14, Reply)
Just pissing about on reception at work. I have to go back to the bar now though, rubbish.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:14, Reply)
Good quality ingredients, all meat from a local butchers, all fruit and veg from a local farm shop.
Alt: No
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:12, Reply)
Alt: No
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:12, Reply)
you know,
I had planned to type out a well thought, witty, and interesting post about the luxuries I enjoy. But alas, even this computer is against me, and decided to post that and then crash. God love works laptops.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:32, Reply)
I had planned to type out a well thought, witty, and interesting post about the luxuries I enjoy. But alas, even this computer is against me, and decided to post that and then crash. God love works laptops.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:32, Reply)
We keep a holiday diary.
I recently destroyed all my diaries from when I was 14, they were far too depressing to read.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:18, Reply)
I recently destroyed all my diaries from when I was 14, they were far too depressing to read.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:18, Reply)
Only diary I ever kept was when I went to Mount Everest basecamp. No idea where the diary is now, probably buried in the storage unit we rent.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:22, Reply)
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:22, Reply)
Proper beer
that actually has a taste, rather than being cold (or warm) fizzy piss.
Also proper coffee, butcher's meat and local veg.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:19, Reply)
that actually has a taste, rather than being cold (or warm) fizzy piss.
Also proper coffee, butcher's meat and local veg.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:19, Reply)
It's sad that you, not just you actually, that people in general, have viewed buying half decent bits of meat
from a shop that sepcialises in meat, as a luxury. It should be bog standard. Supermarkets have managed to educate people that hanging a piece of meat for 15 days is somehow special, when it's more like the absolute minimum you should ever reasonably expect.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:21, Reply)
from a shop that sepcialises in meat, as a luxury. It should be bog standard. Supermarkets have managed to educate people that hanging a piece of meat for 15 days is somehow special, when it's more like the absolute minimum you should ever reasonably expect.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:21, Reply)
It's much better to eat less but better meat.
I've started buying more joints and using leftovers.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:23, Reply)
I've started buying more joints and using leftovers.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:23, Reply)
Nah, there's a butchers nearby but the farmers markets are in villages nearby not in the center.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:26, Reply)
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:26, Reply)
A local farm shop is available in most towns
My butcher, makes sausages(with scotch bonnet and lime zest) & burgers especially for me, also supermarket meats are generally processed in such a way to add weight.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:28, Reply)
My butcher, makes sausages(with scotch bonnet and lime zest) & burgers especially for me, also supermarket meats are generally processed in such a way to add weight.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:28, Reply)
Expensive skincare and makeup.
I've tried all the usual High st ones, but it's one of those things that's worth the extra expense in the long run.
Alt: No, but like Lusty, I did once keep a travel journal. I find reading it back helps to recapture the feeling of being on holiday, which you can really do with on a shitty wet day in Winter.
alt Alt: THIS Safe for work, wage monkeys.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:26, Reply)
I've tried all the usual High st ones, but it's one of those things that's worth the extra expense in the long run.
Alt: No, but like Lusty, I did once keep a travel journal. I find reading it back helps to recapture the feeling of being on holiday, which you can really do with on a shitty wet day in Winter.
alt Alt: THIS Safe for work, wage monkeys.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:26, Reply)
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( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:27, Reply)
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:27, Reply)
It's interesting reading Bad Science by James Goldacre
he has a whole chapter on what a load of bollocks the cosmetics market is.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:29, Reply)
he has a whole chapter on what a load of bollocks the cosmetics market is.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:29, Reply)
Gaz received.
I am reviewing the evidence and will be back with a pronouncement later. Until then, suck it up, Uggsy.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:54, Reply)
I am reviewing the evidence and will be back with a pronouncement later. Until then, suck it up, Uggsy.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:54, Reply)
It's a very funny site.
People are stupid. This is documentary proof.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:32, Reply)
People are stupid. This is documentary proof.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:32, Reply)
On a daily basis none, but most weeks I'll treat myself to a hot meal from the canteen at Friday lunch.
I also get pissed most weekends.
Alt: yes; as a teenager - I found it when I was in my mid-20s. It was excruciatingly cliche-ridden and I was forced to burn it.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:26, Reply)
I also get pissed most weekends.
Alt: yes; as a teenager - I found it when I was in my mid-20s. It was excruciatingly cliche-ridden and I was forced to burn it.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:26, Reply)
Proper coffee, good cheese and ground pepper. Also, tea snob. White tea with pomegranate, from twinings is excellent.
Anyone who adds milk and sugar to hot drinks wants fucking shooting. Peasants.
Alt, I did yes, I think most kids do, although pribably nowadays, it'll be a blog.
Alt alt. They're crusty.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:27, Reply)
Anyone who adds milk and sugar to hot drinks wants fucking shooting. Peasants.
Alt, I did yes, I think most kids do, although pribably nowadays, it'll be a blog.
Alt alt. They're crusty.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:27, Reply)
Bollocks.
Tea = PG tea bag, hot water, milk, none, one, OR two sugars. Not more, granted, but milk is a legal requirement in tea and sugar's allowable.
Anything else is pretentious nonsense.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:29, Reply)
Tea = PG tea bag, hot water, milk, none, one, OR two sugars. Not more, granted, but milk is a legal requirement in tea and sugar's allowable.
Anything else is pretentious nonsense.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:29, Reply)
milk in first, pre used teabag into a glass, 4 sugars and hot water from the tap.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:35, Reply)
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:35, Reply)
Sounds like lukewarm sugared water to me
tea should be strong, not look like magnolia emulsion.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:43, Reply)
tea should be strong, not look like magnolia emulsion.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:43, Reply)
Four sugars?
Buy a baseball cap and a cheap tracksuit please. Then oiss off.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:44, Reply)
Buy a baseball cap and a cheap tracksuit please. Then oiss off.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:44, Reply)
I'M VERY ANGRY ABOUT YOUR DESCRIPTION OF TEA-MAKING ON THE INTERNET
I FEEL THAT WE SHOULD DEBATE LONG AND HARD ABOUT THIS AND LET THE POSTS GET INCREASINGLY MORE PERSONAL.
YOU WILL DEFINITELY BE MORE UPSET THAN ME.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:46, Reply)
I FEEL THAT WE SHOULD DEBATE LONG AND HARD ABOUT THIS AND LET THE POSTS GET INCREASINGLY MORE PERSONAL.
YOU WILL DEFINITELY BE MORE UPSET THAN ME.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:46, Reply)
your mum makes a nice cup of tea.
Just after I've put my Willy in her, and pulled it out a bit, then put it all the way back in, then out a bit again, and then just carried on doing that for a bit till my Willy goes fizzy.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:49, Reply)
Just after I've put my Willy in her, and pulled it out a bit, then put it all the way back in, then out a bit again, and then just carried on doing that for a bit till my Willy goes fizzy.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:49, Reply)
Pretentious nonsense is something you clearly have no time for.
I mean, look at your profi...hang on a minute.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:36, Reply)
I mean, look at your profi...hang on a minute.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:36, Reply)
'He pulled another dark, mysterious tea bag from the box......
...alone. No milk left........
Perhaps the lead he had picked up from the docks....in the dark, dark rain.....might help....
Dark.'
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:38, Reply)
...alone. No milk left........
Perhaps the lead he had picked up from the docks....in the dark, dark rain.....might help....
Dark.'
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:38, Reply)
www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=video&cd=1&ved=0CDoQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DJEjk_lnsLU4&ei=drsfUOjHH-Wd0QX0roGgDg&usg=AFQjCNGyyhF-JDfHxz92WkHv1d-_ftsSbQ
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:41, Reply)
What is that, please?
It looks rather psychedelic, but then most things do, to me.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:49, Reply)
It looks rather psychedelic, but then most things do, to me.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:49, Reply)
Funnybones, childrens TV from the early ninties. The lyrics in the title sequence are:
In a dark, dark town there was a dark, dark street
and in the dark, dark street there was a dark, dark house,
and in the dark, dark house there were some dark, dark stairs
and down the dark, dark stairs there was a dark, dark cellar
and in the dark dark cellar….
three skeletons lived!
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:51, Reply)
In a dark, dark town there was a dark, dark street
and in the dark, dark street there was a dark, dark house,
and in the dark, dark house there were some dark, dark stairs
and down the dark, dark stairs there was a dark, dark cellar
and in the dark dark cellar….
three skeletons lived!
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:51, Reply)
YOU'RE a book from the early 80s.
www.amazon.co.uk/My-kangaroo-Fanny-Lies-Wiegman/dp/0207954143
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:55, Reply)
www.amazon.co.uk/My-kangaroo-Fanny-Lies-Wiegman/dp/0207954143
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:55, Reply)
Publisher: Angus and Robertson; First British Edition edition (1970)
That is you 'well sussed'
*licks finger and points*
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:00, Reply)
That is you 'well sussed'
*licks finger and points*
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:00, Reply)
All my luxuries are gone, All gone.
BOO HOO WOE IZ MEEEE.
Never kept a diary as I am more than painfully aware of how dull my existence is. I certainly feel no desire to be reminded of this in specific day-to-day detail at a later date, thank you.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:34, Reply)
BOO HOO WOE IZ MEEEE.
Never kept a diary as I am more than painfully aware of how dull my existence is. I certainly feel no desire to be reminded of this in specific day-to-day detail at a later date, thank you.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:34, Reply)
nah,
Although he did prove he was a cheapskate. He posted me a CD and it was clearly dine through his work mail the cheeky scamp.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:47, Reply)
Although he did prove he was a cheapskate. He posted me a CD and it was clearly dine through his work mail the cheeky scamp.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:47, Reply)
I am the Fagin to Barry's Bill Sykes.
Except that I am not a Hebrew.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:55, Reply)
Except that I am not a Hebrew.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:55, Reply)
booze and eating out.
alt: No, I'm neither bent nor a girl
altalt: erm...
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:37, Reply)
alt: No, I'm neither bent nor a girl
altalt: erm...
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:37, Reply)
Sweet
I got 6 new pairs of Calvin Kleins only last week! I can't remember the last time I was this happy
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:48, Reply)
I got 6 new pairs of Calvin Kleins only last week! I can't remember the last time I was this happy
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:48, Reply)
I used to like Diesel pants.
They're about £25 a pair. It's no fucking wonder I don't have a brass farthing to my name.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:51, Reply)
They're about £25 a pair. It's no fucking wonder I don't have a brass farthing to my name.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:51, Reply)
I don't think I've ever spent that much on a pair of underwear.
I think my most expensive knickers are worth about a tenner in your weird monies.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:58, Reply)
I think my most expensive knickers are worth about a tenner in your weird monies.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:58, Reply)
What a waste of a condom.
well. Actually. Thinking on it. I suppose that's as close to sex as you're going to get with a little Tangle hanging around.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:55, Reply)
well. Actually. Thinking on it. I suppose that's as close to sex as you're going to get with a little Tangle hanging around.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:55, Reply)
I only buy organic hand reared meat from my local ethically balanced farm shop and alternative energy producer
they do THE BEST hoummus
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:47, Reply)
they do THE BEST hoummus
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:47, Reply)
Mine is Dove beauty stuff. Shampoo, body wash etc.
No. Well yes. But as IF I'm going to show you losers.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:53, Reply)
No. Well yes. But as IF I'm going to show you losers.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:53, Reply)
Isn't Dove just bog standard high street fare?
It's not exactly Clinque or Chanel
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:55, Reply)
It's not exactly Clinque or Chanel
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:55, Reply)
No, but in terms of nice things that I'm not allergic to, it's pretty up there.
My skin is so senstive I swear it has autism. Anything it doesn't know or recognise it throws a MASSIVE tantrum over.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:56, Reply)
My skin is so senstive I swear it has autism. Anything it doesn't know or recognise it throws a MASSIVE tantrum over.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:56, Reply)
hahaha
Mine is exactly the same. The autism extends to hormones, too.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:58, Reply)
Mine is exactly the same. The autism extends to hormones, too.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:58, Reply)
I'm also highly allergic to most clinique things.
And most mineral makeups, deoderants, etc. My skin is allergic to zinc so anything with zinc in it makes it flare up all horrible leprosy-like. Hence I stay away from that stuff.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:00, Reply)
And most mineral makeups, deoderants, etc. My skin is allergic to zinc so anything with zinc in it makes it flare up all horrible leprosy-like. Hence I stay away from that stuff.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:00, Reply)
Exactly. It's weird though, cos I can ingest it no problems.
As soon as it gets on my skin though, I get an allergic reaction.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:03, Reply)
As soon as it gets on my skin though, I get an allergic reaction.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:03, Reply)
Proper coffee is a necessity
Alt:
I think for about 4 weeks. Then I forgot. I found it many years later and re-lived fingering my first girlfriend again (in excrutiatingly teenage detail)
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:55, Reply)
Alt:
I think for about 4 weeks. Then I forgot. I found it many years later and re-lived fingering my first girlfriend again (in excrutiatingly teenage detail)
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:55, Reply)
"like plunging my hand into a bowl of mince left in the sun for a day"?
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:57, Reply)
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:57, Reply)
I just spent £900 on two tickets to the track and field tomorrow night.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:56, Reply)
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 13:56, Reply)
www.metro.co.uk/weird/906131-drowning-inflatable-doll-sparks-18-man-police-rescue
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:15, Reply)
I will have been to Horse Guards, The Artillery Barracks, the Excel and Stadium Team Jee Bee by the end.
If the Olympics comes here again in 64 years, I will have been dead for 62.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:05, Reply)
If the Olympics comes here again in 64 years, I will have been dead for 62.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:05, Reply)
It's got to be done. I have enjoyed it so much
that I couldn't bear not going to the Olympic Stadium.
I'll get the money back in my account long before the memory fades.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:01, Reply)
that I couldn't bear not going to the Olympic Stadium.
I'll get the money back in my account long before the memory fades.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:01, Reply)
Are Arsenal United playing?
I'm well into them - and sport in general. We 'Gooners' are right behind 'Team Gyles Brandreth' in the Sport-ball Cup.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:02, Reply)
I'm well into them - and sport in general. We 'Gooners' are right behind 'Team Gyles Brandreth' in the Sport-ball Cup.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:02, Reply)
Slag off music and film as much ad you like but leave Arsenal out of it!
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:05, Reply)
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:05, Reply)
Monty loves going up the Arse.
We went to a Champions League game and didn't even sit in the seats!!! Hahahahahaha. *freebeerandfoodlols*
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:07, Reply)
We went to a Champions League game and didn't even sit in the seats!!! Hahahahahaha. *freebeerandfoodlols*
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:07, Reply)
I carry always spely Doner card
so some poor unfortunate like Nakers can have benefit of my prodigious vocabulary when I am gone.
You can't take it with you!
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:07, Reply)
so some poor unfortunate like Nakers can have benefit of my prodigious vocabulary when I am gone.
You can't take it with you!
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:07, Reply)
Well the other hand is actually busy with her,
and it's holding an axe.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:21, Reply)
and it's holding an axe.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:21, Reply)
Decent steak, I've got a couple of ribeyes and a couple of rumps at home
Sadly they're pepper encrusted, but still very nice.
Alt: Child, no. Teenager, yes.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:11, Reply)
Sadly they're pepper encrusted, but still very nice.
Alt: Child, no. Teenager, yes.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:11, Reply)
My luxury is a good cup of coffee and a quiet cigarette...
...sitting on the back step of the house, just before dawn when everything is quieJESUS FUCKING CHRIST WHY ISN'T AUSTRALIA WINNING MORE GOLD MEDALS? EH? FUCK ME WE HAVEN'T DONE THIS SHIT SINCE 1976, WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY DOING? FUCKETY FUCKETY FUCK THIS IS FUCKING UNBEARABLE and I also like an occasional quail on the bbq.
ALt: Never kept a diary.
AltAlt: No, nothing springs to mind.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:17, Reply)
...sitting on the back step of the house, just before dawn when everything is quieJESUS FUCKING CHRIST WHY ISN'T AUSTRALIA WINNING MORE GOLD MEDALS? EH? FUCK ME WE HAVEN'T DONE THIS SHIT SINCE 1976, WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY DOING? FUCKETY FUCKETY FUCK THIS IS FUCKING UNBEARABLE and I also like an occasional quail on the bbq.
ALt: Never kept a diary.
AltAlt: No, nothing springs to mind.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:17, Reply)
If it wasn't for your legs and nice arse
no one would talk to you, what with all this bullying.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:21, Reply)
no one would talk to you, what with all this bullying.
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:21, Reply)
WOOP! WOOP!
STEP AWAY FROM THE INTERNET.
Seriously Oathsy, why not grab yourself a 'flat white' from a 'barista' and relax?
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:21, Reply)
STEP AWAY FROM THE INTERNET.
Seriously Oathsy, why not grab yourself a 'flat white' from a 'barista' and relax?
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:21, Reply)
Flat White.
I gather that's an Australian-ism. I ordered one at a posh cafe and the waiter corrected me - "It's latte, convict".
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:28, Reply)
I gather that's an Australian-ism. I ordered one at a posh cafe and the waiter corrected me - "It's latte, convict".
( , Mon 6 Aug 2012, 14:28, Reply)
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