Birthday lists
Well it's the month of my birth and people are asking me what they should buy me.

There are a few books I want and I'd like a new ski helmet but that's all I can think of.

Anybody know of anything that I don't yet know that I want?
( Captain V, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 14:43, 21 replies, latest was 17 years ago)

The biggest box of Thornton's choccies in the shop
and if you change your mind, I'll take them off your hands.....
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Mon 1 Sep 2008, 14:45, Reply)

A B3ta t-shirt.
or badge or mug or whatever.
( girlinthehole, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 14:48, Reply)

A toasted sandwich maker
You know it's true.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 14:50, Reply)

Mutations!
The best present!
( Cawl, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 14:54, Reply)

Not giving you chocolates weewitch
I don't like chocolate much so it'd be a waste of a present!

I like the idea of a toasted sandwich maker or a t-shirt. I'd love to get the che guvara/kryten mash up posted in the last image challenge on a t-shirt.
( Captain V, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 15:00, Reply)

A reconditioned
TC engine and respray?

Oh no wait that's my birthday list

You want a big bottle of alcohol, and a new watch
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 15:04, Reply)

After taking into consideration the end results of a recent 10 hour pub crawl...on bikes
I'm not sure booze is such a good idea. A nice (but everyday) watch sounds like a good idea. The only watch I have is one from my Nan with an engraving on the back that I only wear on special occasions.

Perhaps I could ask for 21 of something...but what? Not sure I'm capable of caring for 21 kittens.
( Captain V, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 15:08, Reply)

One of those watches than can pause/rewind/fast forward a DVD...
And then... Japes!

Or a really really big Jaffa Cake.

Or a t-shirt that says "I asked B3ta what I should get for my birthday and all I got was this lousy suggestion from DiT" on it.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 15:08, Reply)

Get a box of small African orphans
If you like gifts that keep taking rather than giving.
(The Archduke of South London I'm in your Girlfriend eating her organs, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 15:10, Reply)

Fireworks!
or alternatively, something that I remember from a quality website that is no longer there (from the crepuscularly lit dawn of the internet)

nothing says friendship like a bag of shaved weasels
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 15:11, Reply)

@DiT
I like the idea of a crazy watch that controls anything and everything. Can you get watches that control time?
( Captain V, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 15:14, Reply)

A really big jaffa cake would be awesome!
You should get 21 bags of jelly babies.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 15:23, Reply)

Chocolate covered coffee beans
the new line of Volcom belts, a pair of leopard print DC shoes, a rubber band chaingun and a portal t-shirt.

Sorted.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 15:31, Reply)

Bernard has a watch that can control time.
Not once did he stop time and go in to a female dressing room.

NOT. ONCE.

Then again, it was a kids show.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 16:19, Reply)

I'm shocked and appauled
That's an awful example to be setting to children. How will they ever know how to use these things properly when they come to invent them?!!
( Captain V, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 16:24, Reply)

When I was younger I used to fancy the girl
from the Queens Nose (anybody remember that). She was lovely. Never saw much of Bernards watch, I wasn't allowed to watch ITV.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 16:34, Reply)

An Odd One I Suppose
But when my brothers turned 18, they all had a stock portfolio worth £500 put together for them.

Then, my Dad helped them to start understanding how to 'play the market'.

Odd one, but so far seems to have been a good idea.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 16:36, Reply)

I like that one a lot
I'm very interested in trading myself. Currently teaching myself (with the help of a decent forum) to trade Forex.

In an ideal world I'd trade my way to a decent living for minimal hours and then spend my time doing charity work or volunteering as well as completing a science based degree and getting involved in some cool cutting edge research.
( Captain V, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 16:38, Reply)

On the subject of trading
MSN do a decent thing where you can trade on the back of the real stock market for free. It's good fun; I haven't been on for ages...

https://secure.digitallook.com/cgi-bin/digitalcorporate/msn/home.cgi
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 16:45, Reply)

YES
you want a giant space hopper.

i've got one and its big and glorious and orange and hoppy.
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 19:54, Reply)

I remember my hold space hopper
It was much fun. As is my sisters pogo stick - jumped about on that one but the other day.
( Captain V, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 20:08, Reply)