Stroke of luck indeed
My uncle is 40 in August.
I'm mooching about on ebay for unusual things as there are a lot of significant birthdays this year. (What IS it with all my friends and relatives being born on the 0 of the decades?)

Anyway, the uncle...
He loves this band Sunn O))) but doesn't have tinternet and thinks they don't have many albums (and certainly not in our local HMV.)
He also loves Elizabeth Bathory.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory
I have just found a Sunn O))) album, the last track being a 'song' called Bathory Erzsebét (her name in Hungarian.)Now all I have to do is pray he remains ignorant of their back catalogue until his birthday.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:42, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

needs more boobs

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:44, Reply)

Hold on, I saw an Elizabeth Bathory birthday card on ebay with more boobs...
cgi.ebay.co.uk/ELIZABETH-BATHORY-BIRTHDAY-GREETING-CARD-adult-horror_W0QQitemZ150422643525QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Home_Garden_GreetingCards_ET?hash=item2305e36345
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:46, Reply)

I want to receive cards like that
I'm fed up with racing cars and shit.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:58, Reply)

I want to get it for him
But I think Nana and Grandad will refuse to let him put it on the fireplace.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 17:00, Reply)

Botheration
Get them similar unbirthday cards then they can't complain.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 17:02, Reply)

Grandad makes Nana change channels if Tina Turner comes on
He doesn't like 'uncouth' ladies.
But peppers every sentence with the word 'cunt'.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 17:05, Reply)

Sounds a bit repressed,
and a borderline tourettes too.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 17:08, Reply)

you're getting him a CD
for a decade rounding birthday?
Such cheapness will not be acceptable with me. Muh-ha-ha-ha.
( djtrialprice, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:46, Reply)

People get so het up about the fact that they happen to have been born
a number of years easily divisible by ten ago. Why? What exactly is different about it? FUCK BLOODY ALL. People should either all their birthdays or just not give a shit. It's just another day.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:48, Reply)

Yeah but dude
It's 2010 and my mother is 50, my uncle is 40, my nana is 70, THREE friends are 30 and he ^ is 30.

I'm gonna be homeless and destitute by September.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:51, Reply)

I demand saphires and emeralds
and stupidly pointy guitars!
( djtrialprice, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:53, Reply)

I am only a shelver, remember.

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:54, Reply)

Are you getting touchy about the fact you're getting close to the big
5-0?
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:51, Reply)

SHH!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:53, Reply)

in some ways I agree
but in others... I want to stay in my twenties *sobs*
( djtrialprice, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:52, Reply)

There there
30s are ace.
Kids stand up for you on the tube.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 17:00, Reply)

*cries*

( djtrialprice, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 17:02, Reply)

That's not all I'm getting him, you bellend!
But he says "Our Roota always gets me rare and unusual presents".
So that was the main challenge. Something rare or odd or apt or whatever. I think combining his love of totally odd music and Hungarian lesbian vampires is a pretty decent effort!

The rest will be comprised of Jack Daniels.

EDIT: Oh, and I get your point. I'm on it ;)
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:49, Reply)

I am just teasing btw
Starting to go out with someone a month and a bit before their 30th birthday is a bit unfair.
( djtrialprice, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:51, Reply)

Just shush.
I get good presents. Sometimes they cost £5, sometimes they cos £100, but man, I get good presents.
BLEEV.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:53, Reply)

Don't say that
If she wants to go out with you, she has to accept you for who you are, which is old, bitter and demanding an frickin awesome 30th birthday present.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:55, Reply)

Shut up you!
I do 'unusual' and 'meaningful'.
(ie. cheap)
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:58, Reply)

I've decided I'm having an awesome birthday
I'm going on a Highland retreat for a stag week style holiday. It's all been paid for so if you want to come you just have to get to Aviemore near the end of the April.
( djtrialprice, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 17:02, Reply)

but he has to serve the drinks
In nothing but a bow-tie
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 17:03, Reply)

I've already got DiT doing that
He doesn't know this yet but I've agreed a price with Flim-Flam.
( djtrialprice, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 17:05, Reply)

If he likes Sunn O)))
get him stuff by Boris, and Earth - they're on the same scene.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:50, Reply)

He can have a half bottle of Jack and shut the fuck up
But thanks for the tip ;)
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:52, Reply)

if he likes Sunn O)))
get him a CD-R with 15 minute tracks of white noise.
( djtrialprice, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 17:08, Reply)

He would love it
Especially if interspersed with PIFs about nuclear disaster and the screams of hungarian peasant girls being eaten alive.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 17:09, Reply)

There's a Psychic TV LP
one side of which is a genuine audio recording of the Jonestown massacre, it's about 25 minutes of people dying.

Get him that.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 17:17, Reply)

*investigates*

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 17:19, Reply)

One of the most disturbing bands EVER
I saw them in the Harlesden Mean Fiddler when I was about 14: their cult-like activities scared the living shit out of me. There were lots of naked men with knob piercings dancing about - not nice.

They did a cover of the Button Moon theme, in a most menacing way. Really it did my fucking head in. Ask Tuggers, he knows all about them...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 17:40, Reply)