Thrown away: The stuff you loved and lost.Smash Wogan writes, "we all love our Mums, but we all know that Mums can be cunts, throwing out our carefully hoarded crap that we know is going to be worth millions some day."
What priceless junk have you lost because someone just threw it out?
Zero points for "all my porn". Unless it was particularly good porn...
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I think you'll find...That not only is this the first post of page 16, it is the last post of this QotW.
Ner!
Additional: This large gap is to push Scotsboy's post on to page 16
Edit:fucksocks
Edit to Additional: double fucksocks. Ah well, I tried
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Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 21 Aug 2008, 14:06,
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I lostthis weeks "first post?" competition by a country mile.
gets coat, wears coat, leaves.
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My dad thought he'd lost meHe drove to collect my older brother from his friend's house (brother: 6, me: 3yrs old), with me in the passenger seat.
Left me strapped in and popped in to said house to get my brother (ah, the innocent 70s when you could leave a 3-year old boy alone in a car blah blah).
Came back out - no car, no Monty. Understandable dismay ensued.
But wait! What's that 50 yards down the road on the other side? Why, it's young Monty!
Behind the wheel of the car, which I'd flipped the handbrake off and rolled down the street, coming to rest further down and on the other side, but without so much a scratch.
Ironically I've never learnt to drive so that is my one and only driving story. Aged 34.
THE END
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 13:20,
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World Cup 1998 memorabiliaI have a framed shirt from the world Cup 1998 final between France and Brazil (France won). It's a dual shirt, one side in France, the other Brazil. Wonder how much that is worth. Can't find any mention of it online. It's sitting in my parent's house right now. Hope they haven't thrown it out.
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Not really thrown away,but i am willing to throw myself out of the window if a new question doesnt come up very soon..
click i like this if you want me to jump!
(, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 13:03, 1 reply)
Quote from GoogleOf little importance is the loss of such things as wealth. But a terrible thing is to lose wisdom. Of little importance is the gaining of such things as wealth. Great is the importance of gaining wisdom. - Buddha...
Well, it;s on the daily Buddhist thing...
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Indiana JonesI know where all those 200AD comics, G! transformers and star wars figures go!
They're one of those big warehouses like you see in Indiana Jones!
I claim my prize
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Has anyone else been promptedby this QOTW to check what their tat is worth on evilBay?
'Sod all' is the usual answer. I think that if I sell everything I don't want to keep from my childhood it would fetch about 87p.
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Old people are rubbish.I've just been informed that my collection of old skateboarding decks has been destroyed by fire.
Not some awful accident, no, my folks - who agreed I could keep my ever growing collection at their place less than a year ago - have burnt the lot. Somewhere in the region of 70 decks, costing me from about a fiver to almost £200 for a signed Steve Caballero vintage deck. I had a fantastic collection of decks, everything from H-Street Danny Way thur Natas, all of the Bones Brigade and Gator decks and even some original Santa Cruz models, all in mint condition, never used.
The reason they were at my folks house is 'cos once I get my new place, (on my own), I was going to turn the hallway into a bit of a feature with the decks hung on the wall (I'm a bit sad and like the artwork on them).
My old dears reaction when I started shouting? - Never mind, you were never going to ride a skaeboard again, if it means that much to you, I'll replace them.
I've just been back to her with some rough costings on what it's likely to cost to replace them all with similar quality pieces.
She cried and is probably still crying now.
And yes, I will eat into any future inheritence I might get by ensuring her and my old man to replace them as and when they become available.
Fingers crossed they haven't binned my selection of G Bones wheels and Bullets. I wanted to make some door handles out of them.
Mullered is angry.
UPDATE! Slightly less angry to discover there are still 'four or five' that haven't been burnt. (No, she can't identify them, but I think one of them might be a Mike Vallely as the woman is muttering about there being an elephant on one of them)
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 11:11,
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I'm not sure where....I lost the character trait of "giving a shit"....
I sometimes think about this and look over the 23 short years of my life. I look over the problems I've had in family relationships, the alcohol abuse, the not really giving 100%. Maybe I point to various tragedies involving people close to me and indeed traumatic experiences of my own. (Hmm this is getting depressing!).
But fear not!
The reason I've lost the ability to give a shit is because I'm a bit of an arsehole. Couldn't really give a fuck about anyone else and all I'm interested in is working enough to pay for the weekends full of drink, drugs and debauchery.
None of my material possessions are worth a thing. Couldn't give a shit. My career is not rocketing into the stratosphere as I would have imagined as a youth it should be at this stage of my life - yawn. My passion for football has been pissed down the pan and now instead of exercise, I eat too much good (but terrible for you) food, drink too much booze, take too many drugs and when I'm not doing that all I want is sleep.
I don't have a girlfriend. And? She'd only cost money and deny me the things I really enjoy as described above.
I have no savings or have invested in nothing. Some people my age already have houses and mortgages pinning them down. Some have children, wives, bills and some kind of place in society.
Not me. Couldn't give a fuck.
*Skulks off to a darkened corner to wait for the weekend*
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whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 10:31,
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not sure how relevant.but it must be said theres nothing quite like taking for granted a healthy PC, not backing up the hard drive, and then the hard drive going bang.
The panic that ensues is unreal, Photos, Music, Games, Passwords.... all lost.
its happened to me a few times, i never learn.
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My catYes, really.
Somewhere around our 15th move (our family was slightly unstable when I was young) he started acting a bit odd. Pissing in the corner, attacking people, etc.
So I came home one day, aged 11, to find that my delightful parents had taken my big softy of a cat, Foggy, who used to curl up on my lap and try and get into bed with me at night, to the vet to be 'put to sleep'.
"He was old, he was getting senile". No he wasn't. Perhaps if you'd found a house you were happy with straight away, instead of moving umpteen times, he wouldn't have gone mental.
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Lost Money.....with a differenceIt wasn't my Mum that threw anything away, she's a hoarder.
No, this is about an ex-BF who I went on holiday with, who will be nameless. It was only for a week, and when he went to get money out of the wall it wouldn't give it to him. so, I lent him £60 from my cashpoint. We also had this arrangement that I would do all the accounting for everything we spent so we magically went halves with all the food and drink bills, and anything else, except the £60 cash he owed me being separate. It ended up at the going rate and another £60 he owed me for the meals and drinks. he had it in his mind that it was only £80 total including the £60 he owed me (ridiculous) even though he could see in black and white it was £120, as I'd saved all the receipts.
It took me 6 months to get the £80 out of him, being nice and friendly, then when I did , ditched him and never spoke to him again.
Nice turn for me is that his wife found out about the holiday and he went through a divorce.
HA HA
How can someone look at the bills and not pay the amount owed ?
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Tiggy the diver, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 1:45,
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darni just accidentally sliced my finger right open. blood, blood and me looking at my butchered hand in horror.
who knows! next week i might lose something.
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bin bags (not my loss, exactly)On the Friday before we left to go skiing my other half asked me "have you seen the expensive ski suit I borrowed off my friend?" No I replied, where did you put it? "In a black bin bag" Oh? I said, where was this bin bag? "next to the waste bin in the kitchen" You mean in the spot you usually put a bin bag for me to put out for the bin men on Thursday night? "yes, have you seen it?" When did you put it there? “Thursday night", "do you know where it is?” Err.. yes, I put it out for the bin men. "What! O God, how could you be so stupid! My Friend paid £400 for that, now I have to buy her a new one and it's all your fault! I quickly found that logic had no part in my defence and was dragged off to assist in the purchase of an expensive replacement!
Funnily enough (I can laugh now) when we got back and my dastardly deed was relayed to her friend, her friend said, don't worry I exaggerated about the price, it was only cheap and I don't need it back!
It took nearly a year for her to admit she might have put it in a silly place!
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just remembered this one...perhaps it will ring a bell?
just before i moved into my first house...
my mum...
in her infinite wisdom...
decided that a video cassette labelled "blaireau's tape-do not use"...
was actually labelled...
"urgently tape over this shite"...
it was a 1993 "Late Show" music special off BBC2 called "No Nirvana" made up of 1 track each from all the groups who had appeared on arena over the previous couple of years...belly, jane's addiction, smashing pumpkins, screaming trees, rage against the machine (zak wearing the later to be much copied ford/fuct t-shirt) and many more...but no Nirvana...
have hunted high and low but to no avail...
triple grr!
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blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Wed 20 Aug 2008, 21:43,
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