"Find a good instant"
Ha ha ha! There's no such thing.
I buy cheap, nasty instant from the pound shop, to satisfy my office caffeine needs.

"Decent home theatre abd Blu-Ray" is a hilarious money-saving tip. DVD's are dirt cheap now, and match the cinema for picture quality, but watching at home is nothing like the cinema experience, so why kid yourself. Free-to-air TV shows plenty of films, anyway, so you'd save more money by not owning a DVD player.

What do you do with your 000's of accumlated dollars? Burn them for fuel?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 8:42, 4 replies)

There was never a good instant. EVER.

(Kitty Fantastico "Dwarf, Anorexic and In a Fight ", Fri 11 Nov 2011, 9:01, closed)

Correct

(McChinaman banned, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 9:47, closed)

"Watching at home is nothing like the cinema experience"
True - I'm not surrounded by fuckwits explaining the plot to their retarded mates, rustling sweet packets, continuously moving from side to side blocking my view and coughing swine-flu germs over me. Nor am I being charged the GDP of a small African nation for a box of soggy popcorn and a cup of fizzy corn syrup.

I can also stop the film when I want a piss, drink beer and smoke whatever I like, and stretch out on a sofa that isn't sticky and doesn't smell of incontinent badgers.

So yeah, I'm really missing the experience there.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 11:26, closed)

A lot of people have not seen what you can actually get at home.
And not even for much money, really. I mean, a decent 1080p projector is about $2000. And that's perceptually at least as big as a cinema screen since you're in a smaller place. And properly calibrated and fed a good HD signal, it's better than a lot of film projectors I've seen. And games, oh man.

Anyway, these things are not very cheap, but when you have them, you enjoy them pretty much every day.
(Ladyfingers is in your wardrobe,, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 11:47, closed)

I agree
Mines "only" 720p, three years old and I'm still waiting for the bulb to go, but switch it on and you're instantly transported to cinema-land!
( P-MONKE We're all fucked, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 17:30, closed)

I drink Moccona.
Look it's not as good as proper coffee, but I drink coffee black, no sugar, and getting truly great, smooth coffee even with a barista (a coffee machine person) is actually rare enough that I can split the difference and just deal with instant's particular brand of mediocrity.
(Ladyfingers is in your wardrobe,, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 11:42, closed)

I'm savng my money for a deposit on a small home.
Property market in Australia is grotesquely overinflated. It's a bubble caused by tax breaks to protect banks and the investments of existing owners, but no-one can afford to enter the market to make those investments profitable any more. This means the prices will fall as people flee their debt, at which point I with my mountains of savings will get a small loan I can pay off in ten years instead of forty.
(Ladyfingers is in your wardrobe,, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 12:29, closed)