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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Drunken shopping/huge wastes of money
In about 3 weeks I will get my Saxon documentary DVD.
1) It cost nearly £30
2) At the time I paid for it the fucking film wasn't even finished
3) I don't really like Saxon

This is the stupidest drunken purchase I have made to date (discounting ill-advised drug scores at the end of a night on the sauce). My brother reminded me this morning of his own worst purchase: a replica Chinese warrior's helmet for 49p on Ebay - postage £50. It was really, really, shit. He kept it on a shelf next to his computer as a cautionary warning to himself against future idiocy, until my mother bought it from him for £35 for the Winchester College drama wardrobe - out of pity, I suspect.

Top that, suckaz.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:24, 127 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
£182,000
for a house that is damper than your mother's gusset.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:30, Reply)
Shit that's bad.
You win (/lose)

I have to say I'm always surprised to read that there are places where you can get an actual HOUSE for that kind of money. I live in a dilapidated shoe box and to buy it today would cost me at least £200k. It's fucking nuts.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:31, Reply)
Seconded
£250k for a 1 bed flat...

Still it is in a lovely area of town.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:43, Reply)
Where are you? SW are you not?

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:45, Reply)
Yep, South West is best
A complete lack of skinny jeans
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:46, Reply)
Ah but the mustard cords and rugger shirts
amply make up for that.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:47, Reply)
Absolutely

Then again you are talking to man wearing a blue Gingham Shirt and blue and pink striped socks.

Plus trousers etc
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:49, Reply)
Are you my brother-in-law?
You sho' nuff sound like him.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:52, Reply)
Maybe, however Al thought I was his fiance for a while so this is getting mighty confusing.

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:56, Reply)
I own both those clothing items

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:57, Reply)
that doesn't surprise me

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:58, Reply)
I've done 2 stupid purchases, but I wasn't drunk
First, I bought some medicines on the web, for free, only postage. Out of luck I discovered 1 day before the deadline, that if I didn't call and said I didn't want more, I'd receive a new box every month for something like £70/month. I called just on time, and everything is fine, but I was so scared for a few hours!!

Second, in Thailand, a lot (at least 5) completely random people advise us to go to this jewellery that had a especial offer and buy something. We weren't going to do it, as I don't wear it, but so many people insisted it was so good, that we checked. And we bought. Back in England we found this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_gem_scam
Luckyly, when we took it to a jewellery in England, we were told that we had in fact made a very good bussiness, but we were terrified for a week.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:37, Reply)
Man, those heroin dealers really got into Web 2.0, didn't they?

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:42, Reply)
I don't do bad drugs
No, it was vitamins and things like that, but they surely had something weird, as I couldn't sleep and was hyperactive all the time.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:54, Reply)
Meth Omega 6 - Best of all the omegas

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:55, Reply)
Although I've been tempted
I've never brought anything particularly stupid while pissed, except maybe a £60 round of drinks.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:50, Reply)
1 bottle of vodka £90, ouch
Although it was better value than buying the equivilant number of shots.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:52, Reply)
A friend of my brother's
one met Lemmy in a pub in town - he offered to buy him a drink and the cheeky old cunt ordered himself a bottle of Jack for a similar amount. I'd have told him to fucking whistle for it, personally.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:54, Reply)
and he would have respected you more for doing so

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:56, Reply)
I heard you can milk Jack Daniels out of his face warts

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:57, Reply)
that is revolting

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:58, Reply)
Revoltingly delicious

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:01, Reply)
*bokes*

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:26, Reply)
Lemmy tried to chat up a friend of mine, she was 18 at the time.
Upon his rejection, he uttered the immortal line "Are you sure? I'm Lemmy."
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:56, Reply)
did that work?

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:59, Reply)
No.
It was at a Motorhead gig, that she had gone to on purpose, so it didn't come as much of a surprise to her. Still, he gets points for trying it.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:02, Reply)
Much cheaper at the supermarket, probably

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:55, Reply)
You've missed the point, I was showing off

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:58, Reply)
I see
Was it worth it?
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:23, Reply)
I have a horrible tendency
to buy musical instruments and then fail to learn to play them.
Money spent thus far: about £3k
instruments bought: 5
tunes I can play without causing passing small children and kittens to cry: about the same.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:58, Reply)
feel free to give me musical instruments that you no longer want to have around

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:59, Reply)
I bet they look nice on display though?
(is there a guitar on a stand in your living room?)
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:00, Reply)
See, this is
the silly part. I would sooner sell my arm on the black market (can you get much for an arm these days?) than sell any of my instruments. Even the bongos, which were a pissed 3am ebay purchase.
And no, my guitar has to live in its case, for my living room is tiny and already has a piano in it.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:05, Reply)
I suppose a piano is more impressive than a guitar
(even if you can only play 3 blind mice)
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:11, Reply)
Actually
the piano I can play not too shabbily - I just haven't touched the poor thing for about 18 months. The guitar is a purple telecaster, although I haven't touched that in even longer - and I was only ever able to knock out a bit of Oasis and Greenday to start with...
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:15, Reply)
"WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS"
I wish they would collaborate with Ian Dury
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:17, Reply)
i.e. die

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:28, Reply)
Pffft.

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:38, Reply)
I often strum my purple telecaster in the privacy of my own home...

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:20, Reply)
what sort of telecaster?
an actual fender one? american? mexican?
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:24, Reply)
Three Blind Mice?
check you out Mozart, all I can play is chopsticks.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:27, Reply)
all i could play
was Eastenders...
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:58, Reply)
a pair of Vibram Fivefingers for £75
I wore them to the pub a couple of times for the novelty and then forgot about them for a couple of years until I joined a gym. Was a bad purchase at the time but now that I actually exercise I'm glad of them.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 9:59, Reply)
I'd be tempted by those if I did anything that warranted having them
the only exercise I get is swimming or surfing. neither of which require shoes.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:01, Reply)
What are they?

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:06, Reply)
Vibram Fivefingers?
Clearly some sort of masturbatory aid.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:07, Reply)
I was thinking that very thing.

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:08, Reply)
Me too
Sounds dirty.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:37, Reply)
I'm on my phone so posting a link ishard
but for you: www.vibramfivefingers.com/
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:13, Reply)
creepy!
Gorilla feet
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:28, Reply)
I think they are awesome
I doubt they'd be compatible with my feet though
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:29, Reply)
I can see them working for surfing
a little extra foot protection without losing the advantages of barefoot.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:10, Reply)
I've got split toe wetsuit boots anyway
which do that and keep your feet warm

you get a much better feel for the board with barefeet though, and there isn't much need for protection now that I've managed to stop smacking my ankles on the board when I pop up
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:26, Reply)
My No Internets When Drunk policy seems to have stood me in good stead here.
I have, however, spent in the region of £300 on gear for a game of what is essentially live-action Counterstrike this weekend.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:01, Reply)
That sounds like it definitely counts.
I cannot say for sure because if I'm honest I haven't the faintest idea what 'essentially live-action Counterstrike' is, I'm afraid, and I'm scared that if I Google it the nerd police will storm my building and cart me off to a Red Dwarf convention.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:08, Reply)
I shall be running around an abandoned shopping mall in Reading,
dressed as "generic special forces", shooting at people dressed as "generic terrorists" with a BB gun.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:10, Reply)
That's no less ridiculous
than the shit I get up to at weekends, I must confess.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:14, Reply)
I haven't been to Reading for 12 years
has the place gone downhill so much they have abandoned shopping malls? Which mall is it?
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:14, Reply)
Friar's Walk, apparently.

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:22, Reply)
Oh right (it was always the rubbish mall)
I thought it might have been this big mall that was under construction for the 3 years I was there.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:38, Reply)
I think that'd be the Oracle.
Haven't been there for about 8 years myself...
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:42, Reply)
That's the one...
I think they completed it just in time for me to leave Reading (and never look back).
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:46, Reply)
Having played CS
that sounds fucking brilliant.

Wouldn't catch me doing it though..
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:14, Reply)
I am hoping to minimise the amount of running involved,
so that I don't vomit up a lung.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:23, Reply)
you don't look built for speed or endurance it must be said
I can empathise
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:27, Reply)
"we dwarves are very dangerous over short distances!"

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:29, Reply)
he's more of a goblin
a heavy smoking goblin
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:33, Reply)
It was lovely to meet you too.

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:36, Reply)
I meant to add
"and that's my kind of person."
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:37, Reply)
Nice recovery.

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:43, Reply)
actually true as well
believe it or not
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:47, Reply)
Just over £100 on internet dating sites.
Got drunk last night and joined another one. I will learn eventually I guess.

Oh I nearly forgot. A couple of thousand on someone to enjoy the delights of the English countryside and my bedroom.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:13, Reply)
You could get a half hour with a gigilo for that.

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:16, Reply)
Or a prozzie with a strap on

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:22, Reply)
Is a giglo
like a pedalo that laughs?
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:26, Reply)
*snorts*

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:35, Reply)
Now I am staunchly old-school
when it comes to most things, so by all means tell me to ‘get with the times, daddio’, but is it not a fundamental problem with internet dating sites that the kind of men who’d use one are precisely the kind you wouldn’t want to ‘date’ (ugh) in a million years?
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:16, Reply)
*shrugs*
Probably.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:19, Reply)
Doesn't B3ta cover all your internet weirdo needs?
wibble
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:18, Reply)
Only cerebraly.

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:22, Reply)
Slut it up a bit more then.
Ed's long gone, but I'm sure there are more cock-gazzers out there.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:24, Reply)
Ok,
*flashes cleavage*

*flicks hair out of face in seductive manner*

Hello boys!
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:27, Reply)
as in Palsy?

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:26, Reply)
£25
for a shot of John O'Groats whisky.

OK so it was one of the nicest whiskys I've ever tried, but for fuck sake you drunken spastic.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:15, Reply)
I once spent £15
on a shot of fucking tequila. TEQUILA.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:17, Reply)
*shakes head*
*gets up from table and leaves*
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:24, Reply)
Ha!
That mexican restaurant chain (can't remember the name) tells me that Tequila is a fine artisan drink that can be enjoyed like Whisky. It really really can't.

Also I was at a posh restaurant with the bird on Valentines day and I saw a nip of Whisky in the Whisky list for £150.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:24, Reply)
Drunkenly paid for a meal for 8 rather than split the bill
those conversations about the bill annoy me, not £350 of annoyance.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:19, Reply)
I can relate to this
I dread the end of a restaurant meal when perfectly nice people all of a sudden become total cunts because they "didnt have a pudding".
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:21, Reply)
Most of my friends aren't like that at all,
but they're often drunk, so "I paid! can I have my change?" when the bill is £40 down, turns into "I've just found £40 in my pocket" at the pub later on.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:26, Reply)
I don't mind splitting the bill evenly
except when it comes to wine. I can't stand the stuff, so when people order several bottles for the table and I've had to buy my own drinks on top of that anyway I do begrudge it adding another £20 to my bill.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:31, Reply)
How can you not like wine?
That's like saying you don't like cheese, there's a massive difference in flavours.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:33, Reply)
people who say they don't like wine haven't had enough of the good stuff
like a nice chablis, or chateauneuf du pape
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:35, Reply)
Or, right,
they just don't like wine. Good wine is tolerable rather than awful, but I'd still rather drink something else.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:37, Reply)
I refuse to believe it

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:39, Reply)
this is true
Every wine I have tried, from the cheap Blossom Hill stuff that my friends drink to the £40 bottles my parents have, I just don't like wine. It just tastes like bitter grape juice to me.

It's kind of patronising to tell me that I only don't like it because I haven't had expensive enough stuff. I love whiskey, but I've had some expensive single malts that are foul.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:51, Reply)
Whiskey tastes like mud on fire.

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:57, Reply)
this is true
and not in a good way
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 11:55, Reply)
I wasn't serious about the expensive wine thing
it's not for everyone.

I can't stand whisky, and wouldn't be able to tell if one was good or bad to be honest.

Closest I've come to enjoying some is Laphroaig when I was already hammered.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 11:56, Reply)
yeah but the base flavour
is still wine.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:53, Reply)
Such displays of petty penny-pinching make me sick.
I was brought up to believe that commerce is essentially vulgar*, so squabbling over a restaurant bill I consider the height of bad form.

*this is probably why I never have any money
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:25, Reply)
This has happend at meals with my fairly well-off middle-class mates.
I mean ffs. We can afford to let someone have a pudding on us.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:28, Reply)
but it is a bit annoying when none of you are that well off
and you have a stingy sponger in your group who orders the most expensive stuff because they know you'll be dividing the bill and absorbing the extra cost.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:32, Reply)
I don't invite people like that to meals

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:34, Reply)
Me neither but thanks to Facebook they invite themselves...

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:52, Reply)
Yep me too,
but it's also a bit unfair when someone who's not got much cash deliberatly goes for the cheapest stuff and then has to pay the same as everyone else.
I think the ideal number is about 6 any more and it becomes really complicated.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:30, Reply)
we seem to share the very same opinion on this matter
I find it particularly annoying as among my friends my mrs and I are the only ones with more than a rudimentary grasp of mathematics.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:34, Reply)
I'll let you know how it goes at Montstock
at Tayyab's tomorrow.

Stingy cunts will be NAMED AND SHAMED.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:35, Reply)
Also name the person that chooses the most expensive meal
and drinks more than everyone else then is the first to say "lets just split it yeah?"
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:36, Reply)
I will. Even if that happens to be me.

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:38, Reply)
I'm pretty sure it will be you.

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:38, Reply)
I will be going to london at some point in the not too distant future
ostensibly to visit my brother and my new neice, but I might try and arrange a visit to this Tayyabs place with a few of you rotters.

how does that sound?
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:36, Reply)
Fucking magic, old boy.

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:37, Reply)
splendid
my tea tastes of washing up liquid. I'm going to find whoever is responsible and defenestrate them.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:38, Reply)
It's the only way they'll learn.

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:44, Reply)
Bloody Hell - I actually agree!
our group ranges from very low earners eg about 150 in benefits to a whopping £60k a year and I am certainly not happy to subsidise the expensive tastes of those who earn more than double my wage, especially if I have been careful ordering because I know my budget. strangely these same people with such expensive tastes always seem to have massive credit card debts. Learn to manage your money you fucking cretins.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 12:57, Reply)
I no longer go to restaurants with my library colleagues for this very reason
It is so embarrassing. Their social ineptitude comes across as rudeness to the staff, their GETTING OUT A CALCULATOR at the end of the meal, and their general retardedness makes my arse eat seat cushion.
I think they must only go out to restaurants on their birthday or something because it's all "Oh I didn't order that... Oh you pronounce it differently... oh yes it is what I ordered... oh I didn't realise it was a separate portion... erm, could you take it back please?.. Will they knock that off my bill?.. Oh I should have kept it... JUST GET THE HOUSE RED!!!"
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:32, Reply)
My (admittedly over-developed) cringe gland
has gone into meltdown, reading this ^
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:45, Reply)
I have sworn never again
Even when something's 'compulsory', if it's in public I won't go.
I can't even go for after-work drinks with them, because I live round there too, so I don't want local bars associating me with this bunch of smelly miscreants.

There is a bunch of ok people, and we arrange separate things.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:50, Reply)
I have one of those
I managed to watch 5 minutes of The Office before curling into afetal position.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 11:02, Reply)
not so much a purchase
back in March I spent $236 to be in an online 9 player poker tournament. I was drunk when I paid and I just got drunker. I built up a decent chipstack early on but then as far as I can tell I got distracted, forgot I was still playing and went to bed. Got up in the morning to discover that I'd finished 2nd.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:21, Reply)
haha, this is excellent

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:28, Reply)
I KNO RITE
There were 5 others still playing when I started showing as "is sitting out" and somehow 4 of them managed to lose to someone passed out in another room.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:41, Reply)
Brilliant!

(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:43, Reply)
I just love the fact that such a thing as a Saxon documentary exists.
I trust that it is available in a standard denim and leather, or a deluxe spandex case and is sent via air freight on a 747, before being delivered by the wheels of steel of UPS.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 10:51, Reply)
Worst for me was Father Ted
Every series for £40.

I'm not even much of a Father Ted fan.

Oh, and gig tickets for my Missus before she decided she didn't want to go, and never could in the first place. Because it was only 2 days before my surprise present to her, I couldn't even eBay them. I gave them to a couple of mates for their birthdays. £110, ffs.
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 11:49, Reply)
I pad about £100 extra for an iPad early, but I can't get any apps on it as the store iSnt open =((((
I jail broke it though so hopefully I can get some apps
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 12:10, Reply)
I bought a beerloom
I bid on two silent guitars on Ebay by the max bid system.
Won both of the fuckers.
Anyone interested in the spare one?
(, Wed 12 May 2010, 16:39, Reply)

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