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I've seen a Jensen Interceptor. WANT.
When did you last really want something expensive and frivolous that you have no need for?
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 15:50, 160 replies, latest was 11 years ago)
everyday pretty much
Eagle speedster being a particular highlight
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 15:51, Reply)
£500k aren't they?

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 15:53, Reply)
Oh yeah
I'd also like a Singer 911
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 15:55, Reply)
Marc Singer?

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 15:56, Reply)
like so:
singervehicledesign.com/gallery/the-machines/new-york/#prettyPhoto[gallery]/7/
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 15:57, Reply)
Whats so good about that 911?

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:02, Reply)
Probably the bit where them slags smashed into the twin towers. Still freaks my nut out to this day.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:04, Reply)
Excellent work

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:04, Reply)
it's been reengineered, above and below the skin
they take the best design cues from the history of the 911 and put them all on one car.
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:05, Reply)
So RoboCop then?

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:07, Reply)
but with less emotional issues

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:09, Reply)
I'm with you about the Singer.
Often thought about joining own of those prestige car clubs where you purchase a set number of points each year, then redeem them against hiring unusual cars. The more rare and valuable the car then the more points they use up.
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 15:57, Reply)
I have no issue with updating classics sympathetically

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 15:58, Reply)
The sort of clubs I'm on about have new stuff as well as classic.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 15:59, Reply)
Yeah I know them...all the fun none of the hassle I guess

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:00, Reply)
Plus the insurance is included.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:01, Reply)

insurance booster seat
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:02, Reply)
I never really desire expensive and frivolous things. I'd rather have the money to buy food drink drugs and holidays.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:00, Reply)
I desperately need a holiday. Been nearly 2 years since I had as much as a week away.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:01, Reply)
I've had a few weekends away recently, but not a whole week elsewhere since 2008.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:02, Reply)
I've had one weekend away in the last couple of years - went camping with Stunned and McBeef.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:03, Reply)
Not really 'relaxing' I'm guessing.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:04, Reply)
It was fucking excellent. Did me a load of good.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:05, Reply)

b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post2150546
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:09, Reply)
Haha I'd forgotten that.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:11, Reply)
spent all of my money on wine, women and song? The rest of it I wasted '

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:02, Reply)
I want a Grinall Scorpion
Had a test drive in one at a time when I could afford it. I now cannot afford it but I still want one.
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:04, Reply)
Nah
They look shit
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:05, Reply)
Handle like dream and are very very quick

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:09, Reply)
I just dont like the looks

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:18, Reply)
Made in the UK. Driven by bollockheads.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:11, Reply)
Powertrain is German

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:25, Reply)
Driving down the Uxbridge Road,
a burgundy 1972 Aston Martin V8 Vantage.
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:05, Reply)
Man's car

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:07, Reply)
A pint in London. :-(

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:10, Reply)
Out of town povvo^

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:11, Reply)
Yeah
I wish I paid £5 for a half
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:14, Reply)
you pints are prices in line with your pitiful northern wages

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:15, Reply)
Just as a guide, how much would you spend on a night out?
Just beers, etc. No food
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:17, Reply)
i dunno, a ton?

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:18, Reply)
Fucking hell

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:19, Reply)
Lightly manages it on a tenner because he's a tightarse and doesn't get his round in.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:20, Reply)
£5 taxi there
£5 taxi back
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:23, Reply)
+ comes back with change and a fish supper

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:31, Reply)
how much is night out at the local working men's club

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:22, Reply)
Depends if you buy some raffle tickets or not.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:22, Reply)
MEAT RAFFLE

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:23, Reply)
MEAT RAFFLE!

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:23, Reply)
MEATSNAKE!

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:24, Reply)
kitchen lols

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:25, Reply)
HIYA!!!!!!

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:27, Reply)
RT

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:38, Reply)
I'd say a conservative night out (7-8 pints)
would probably cost about £30 in a local pub. A bit more for town
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:23, Reply)
Fucking hell.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:24, Reply)
£3.60 a pint

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:24, Reply)
New landlord at my local has just dropped the pints down to £2.70.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:25, Reply)
For what?
This would be Peroni/Stella
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:26, Reply)
Pints.
Both kinds, Tennents and McEwans.
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:26, Reply)
Ahm oot

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:27, Reply)
I quite like McEwans. It reminds me of my Grandad.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:39, Reply)
it's what he got me drunk on before the rapes.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:39, Reply)
pints

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:26, Reply)
Isn't peroni a bit like the new magners?
Where charging more for a mediocre drink has somehow made it "better" and "desirable"?
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:27, Reply)
I like Peroni
Amstel too
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:30, Reply)
Amstel's alright.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:33, Reply)
I'm drinking one right now.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:34, Reply)
Peroni Gran Riserva is lovely
not that bothered by regular Peroni though.
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:39, Reply)
£2.43 for Carling...
Except on Mondays and when there is association kickball on - then it's £1.90.
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:34, Reply)
I'd rather spend a fiver a pint
and go out somewhere interesting and drink something pleasant.

Cheap watered down piss-and-footie night at the Cov working men's club sounds awful. I'm pretty sure just thinking about it has given me scabies.
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:51, Reply)
I'll lend you a fiver mate :)

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:12, Reply)
I'll lend you a hahahahaha no I won't
pov
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:37, Reply)
WIMYM

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:15, Reply)
really really fancy hotels and spas
i love them. i could spend a fortune staying in them.
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:26, Reply)
Even fancy hotels seem a bit soulless to me.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:28, Reply)
Some of the small upmarket country places are great.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:31, Reply)
I was in a super posh gym today.
The one Boris Johnson goes to. Apparently. The sauna and steam room was the size of my house, and the hunky guy in the massage bit turned me a little Gay.
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:29, Reply)
I'd like a little less conversation and a little more action, please.
Or a soft top 944.
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:27, Reply)
Never really liked the soft tops
but the 944 turbo is a wonderful thing. I'd have one of those in a heartbeat.
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:36, Reply)
I like the wind in my hair.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:45, Reply)
First time as a kid I experienced 100mph as a passenger was in a 944 turbo. The dad of a kid I was at school with had one. Navy blue, pale grey leather interior.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:48, Reply)
all teh fun cameras (not just the expensive for the sake of it ones)
other than that I just want to spend money on petrol getting to exciting places or seeing good people and things like that
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:29, Reply)
Get yourself a driver and all, then you can just sit back and watch the world roll by.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:30, Reply)
when I'm really famous I will
then I can drink beers, too.
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:32, Reply)
You know, you can drink and drive.
It's illegal but possible.
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:36, Reply)
i'm not sure I can
I'll drop the can when I change gear
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:47, Reply)
I want a couple of acres.
I want a big house with a fucking turret and a workshop and a converted barn cum garage.

I want a metric fuck-ton of cool old cars to put in there.

I want a library

I want an eight or nine foot wall around my couple of acres with an automatic gate. I shall joke that this is in case of zombies, but it's really to make sure I don't get any fucking born agains hassling me.
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:41, Reply)
*kicks in balls*

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:43, Reply)
Yeah, you're exactly why I'm having an eight foot wall.
No invite to the Christmas do for you. prick.
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:49, Reply)
That's some big balls you've got there K
It takes stones to build a wall that big around your balls
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:52, Reply)
I'm upper, upper class high society
God's gift to ballroom notoriety
And I always fill my ballroom
The event is never small
the social papers say I've got the biggest balls of all
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:53, Reply)
Cum garage.
Gay.
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:46, Reply)
I've had more hassle with doorstep charity folk than religious folk in the last few years.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:53, Reply)
Whoever the fuck they are, they aint getting through the gates.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:53, Reply)
If you're that rich you should get one of these as well.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:58, Reply)
Only it'd be spelt "heinds"
Because of my posh accent, you see.
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 17:00, Reply)
You could spell it 'Hinds' and have that bird from the pretenders scare folk off.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 17:11, Reply)
You mean Chrissy Hynde?
Don't think that'll work, boss.
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 17:17, Reply)
I'd like to live in a converted church.
There's one at the top of Platt fields Park near mine that would be gorgeous.

I also want to stay in one of those underwater hotels where your view is the sea.
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:50, Reply)
I thought your lot burst into flames the moment they crossed the threshold?

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:52, Reply)
God loves gays. It's why he made us fabulous.
AIDS and the Westborough Baptists are man-made maladies
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:54, Reply)
Well, a guy bummed a chimp and then bummed a gay.
I suppose it is man-made, but basically it's the bumming at fault, here.
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:55, Reply)
Don't be silly. It was made in a lab, like cancer.
It's all a big conspiracy to keep the population down. You wait. In a few years there will be a new "mutant strain"
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:59, Reply)
That poor monkey was a scape... erm... monkey.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:59, Reply)
nescafe gold blend

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 17:22, Reply)
I get Dowe & Egberts Pure Indulgence when I'm feeling flush.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 17:24, Reply)
That and Carte Noir

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 17:34, Reply)
All instant coffee is shit

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 17:30, Reply)
It's alright for the first coffee in the morning when I'm still half-asleep.
Bollocks to titting about with a cafetiere or what have you at that point in the morning.
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 17:37, Reply)
I'm sorry, but you're wrong.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 17:41, Reply)
Get yourself one of these beauties
www.amazon.co.uk/Smartcafe-Hot-Cafetiere-Mug-Platinum/dp/B0007MTNJ0
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 18:02, Reply)
Cant be arsed to read through all that but... you should buy it
The gurgle of the v8 and the way the front lifts, go for it great car
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 19:22, Reply)
you killed the board

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 19:30, Reply)
he always does that

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 21:13, Reply)
what a prick

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 21:34, Reply)

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