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Fucking hell, it only costs 5 grand to get a Pilot's licence over here
what would you spunk five large on?
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 9:57, archived)
Drum kit and soundproof room

(I helped save b3ta! SuperMatt, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 9:59, archived)
A holiday without a doubt
I'd rent a beach villa on the east coast of mallorca in a village called Colonia de sant pere. It's a quiet sea front residential place that's beautiful and no tourists and VERY SPANISH
(I helped save b3ta! Mrs Sp@m, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:00, archived)
this one
www.holiday-rentals.co.uk/p404297
(I helped save b3ta! Mrs Sp@m, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:04, archived)
As nice as that looks....
That outdoorsy-patio thinggy is facing the wrong way, it would be much better to look at the sea than the house.
(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:22, archived)
BORING
fucking hell that sounds yawnarific
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:08, archived)
it probably would be boring but the good quiet relaxing kind.
spend a few days driving/hiking around the tramuntana mountains visiting Soller and finding empty hidden beaches
(I helped save b3ta! Mrs Sp@m, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:11, archived)
In the winter too
www.juntadeandalucia.es/averroes/ceip_san_rafael/RELIEVE/Sierra%20de%20Tramuntana%20(Mallorca).jpg
(I helped save b3ta! Mrs Sp@m, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:14, archived)
You want peace and solitude?
Bieszczady is where it's at. And no fucking Spaniards.
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:22, archived)
You never brought me a stick of rock back, you bastards.
You won't be invited to the inaugural piss up.
(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:16, archived)
I told you, you shit I have your rock here.

(I helped save b3ta! Mrs Sp@m, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:21, archived)
£2k PER WEEK?!

(I helped save b3ta! CowJam, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:27, archived)
and you get plastic fucking chairs
those Spanish tourist landlords sure know how to milk an idiot
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:31, archived)
it's not summer unless you're sitting outdoors on a plastic chair
these things make us british
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:36, archived)
fuck you and your Britishness
if I have to spend my free time in a hot clime, I'll do it in a khaki suit on a wicker chair being fanned by one of the local girls with my feet resting on something I've just killed. THAT'S Britishness.
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:40, archived)
a boob job

(I helped save b3ta! mongychops, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:02, archived)
Thanks for the Bingo last night mongy
It was tiring but fun.
(I helped save b3ta! Mrs Sp@m, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:04, archived)
I wish I joined in now
When's the next one?
(I helped save b3ta! SuperMatt, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:05, archived)
look to the calendar!
mongy likes everyone to get involved, good guy
(I helped save b3ta! rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:06, archived)
It's not on the calendar

(I helped save b3ta! SuperMatt, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:07, archived)
:(((((
it was only last night, you have to wait for the next installment. good times for all!
(I helped save b3ta! rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:08, archived)
i can't compete with Karl's quiz night, he has over thrown bingo, everyone seems to be moving on

(I helped save b3ta! mongychops, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:08, archived)
its all a needy popularity contest
i shall not play a part in it
(I helped save b3ta! rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:08, archived)
Maybe alternate quiz and bingo every couple of weeks
I wonder if we could do /talk poker...
(I helped save b3ta! SuperMatt, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:09, archived)
They do poker nights every week downstairs now.
It's turned into a right little social hotspot.
(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:15, archived)
Pay off my debts and then spend the rest on a newer car than what I have now.
OR five hundred thousand penny sweets.
(I helped save b3ta! Noit happy baby orangutan, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:05, archived)
The last of the stock of carpets that Rose wants, that I won't even put up, they'll stay in my cupboard and rot.
A better drumkit than Matt's, that I'll only get out when other people have hangovers.
The entire landmass of spain, and close up the boarders.
A breast reduction for... actually, I can use that one myself.

An a packet of Kettle Crips.
(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:05, archived)
i'd kill a man for some carpet

(I helped save b3ta! rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:07, archived)
Hungry, are you?

(I helped save b3ta! Noit happy baby orangutan, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:08, archived)
for a lovely lovely thick white knotted shag pile oh yes

(I helped save b3ta! rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:09, archived)
Woooh now girl, that's a bit harsh
Carefull what you say 'round these parts, someone might take you up on that offer.
(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:09, archived)
i'm crossing all my bits.
a lovely plush multi-level loop pile lovely lovely stuff
(I helped save b3ta! rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:12, archived)
Almost worth getting a small job on saturdays for the staff discount at Carpet Something-or-other.
That one near the Old Orlines on the A10.
(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:15, archived)
or i could ask dad

(I helped save b3ta! rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:16, archived)
You've missed out the social implimentations of working in such a place.
LOADS of desprate under-achievers, there has to be at least one hotty there.
(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:20, archived)
yer one, ME
fuck that, i'll keep saving
(I helped save b3ta! rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:21, archived)
Hah.
walk in there, go up to the spotty person who's on their "Fast track graduate" scheme, and whisper in his ear "I'll trade you my rug for this lovely carpet.".

Gaurntied next day delivery then.
(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:24, archived)
Fuck you getting a better drum kit that me

(I helped save b3ta! SuperMatt, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:08, archived)
What's the differance between a drummer and a drum kit?
You only have to beat it into the drum kit once.
(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:10, archived)
you mean drum machine

(I helped save b3ta! SuperMatt, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:11, archived)
DONE IT WRONG.

(I helped save b3ta! Noit happy baby orangutan, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:12, archived)
i wanted to go to london today but there are engineering works gonz, i am sad about this, imagine that

(I helped save b3ta! mongychops, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:09, archived)
What line are you on Big M?
You should have b4sh0rz last night, a Tru Playah and PUA like yourself could have totally gotten that junk in your trunk checked out.
(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:13, archived)
i was busy staying in last night G, and i'm overground man, i wanted to go hamleys, check out the new phat toys and shit

(I helped save b3ta! mongychops, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:14, archived)
Ahh, I'm not the greatest fan of them, I get confused where everything is going.
Picadilly line, it goes up, it goes down, then it loops a bit... but it's almost always a straight line, at least up my end it is.

Northern Line gets me too sometimes.

As much as I like to support independant local buisnesses like Harrods, it is a tourest tax. Go their to check it all out then Kelkoo it.
(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:18, archived)
kids tho paul
you can't take them to a toy shop and then walk out empty handed. that's being a teasing mean cunt
(I helped save b3ta! rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:20, archived)
Give them a fiver to take to Sega World (or whatever that's called these days) instead.

(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:26, archived)
i used to
and it didn't do me any harm. used to have to eat coal too etc.
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:35, archived)
shorten your name, you prick

(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:11, archived)
yeah', ok, let's see how that one works out.

(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:20, archived)
This is getting a click just for the last sentence...
Those darned Kettle Crips... Couldn't fight their way out of a crisp packet
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 11:05, archived)
I would hire 50 prostitutes
and get them to spend the day constantly flashing Nick Robinson and Andrew Marr wherever they went.
(I helped save b3ta! chuff monkey I AM him, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:10, archived)
what a waste of a whore

(I helped save b3ta! rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:14, archived)
*whipes single tear from my eye*
The story of my life.
(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:34, archived)
I'd probably blow it on something stupid like putting it towards a masters

(I helped save b3ta! Imhotep is Invisible - Consider this a divorce, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:11, archived)
Premium bonds and a building society regular saver account.
How much does it cost in England. It does look like fun.
(I helped save b3ta! Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:11, archived)
Probably twice that
there was some spotty-faced nerd on here who was obsessed with planes, he'd know.
Saver accounts are a waste of investment at the moment; Forex is where it's at, or T-bills.
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:18, archived)
It all sounds a bit adventurous.
Maybe I'll see if I can get some National Savings certificates with a really long term.
(I helped save b3ta! Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:22, archived)
Shares
I just got 25,000 shares of the company I'm employed with as part of their Employee Retention Programme! I now have a new focus on work!
(I helped save b3ta! fagilliD Fuck I'm good!, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:23, archived)
That's what companies who are about to go bankrupt do
when they can't afford to pay their staff
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:28, archived)
Not likely
EBIT up 48% last year, turnover $5 billion....
(I helped save b3ta! fagilliD Fuck I'm good!, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:30, archived)
turnover means nothing
and the EBIT and the fact they can dish out 25k shares (at what, a cent each?) suggests its a young, new, dynamic and VERY unstable company.
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:38, archived)

A private pilots licence cost 3-5K to obtain in the UK.
(I helped save b3ta! C, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:26, archived)
really?
how gay, I thought it was more than that
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:27, archived)

You can do a 21 day intensive course in the US for about 2K (plus getting there & accomodation) which would probably work out about the same price overall.
(I helped save b3ta! C, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:30, archived)
Does that include plane hire and all the rest of it or just tuition?
It doesn't sound out of the question.
(I helped save b3ta! Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:29, archived)
And is it like learning to drive - you have a couple of hours with an instructor every week and then take a test?

(I helped save b3ta! Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:30, archived)
If only there was some vast electronic repository for all the worlds information,
available to anyone with a phone line and a computer.
(I helped save b3ta! Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:30, archived)
there is
but I'm reading it in Polish
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:34, archived)
Nice article in the papers today
About a Polish Nursery rhyme book which just about offends every fucker
(I helped save b3ta! fagilliD Fuck I'm good!, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:36, archived)
Poles aren't racist
they just hate equally everyone who's not a white western slavic catholic, that's all.
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:39, archived)
You really are worse than Hitler.

(I helped save b3ta! Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:42, archived)

Third paragraph
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:43, archived)
It's the overzealous politically correct brigade gone mad.

(I helped save b3ta! Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:50, archived)

A couple of hours a week, initially with an instructor, then after 15-20 hours you go solo, until you've notched up a minimum of 45 hours flying time, then you have a medical, practical & theory tests and you're sorted.
(I helped save b3ta! C, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:37, archived)
Way to live that rock'n'role lifestyle Neptune.

(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:36, archived)
a series of increasingly hilarious hats

(I helped save b3ta! glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:25, archived)
This idea deserves recognition
you could be like Phil Spektor but with a different sort of headwear
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:39, archived)
I'd pimp my Astra so I don't feel left out when I drive by the McDonals car park.

(I helped save b3ta! Harold Bishop's Love Child some sort of terrifying sex magician., Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:27, archived)
just take two Maccy D trays, place them under the back wheels
put the hand-brake on, then do donuts to your heart's content
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:33, archived)
Sweet.
Also need some fat pikey to sit in the passenger seat while I do it. Any takers?
(I helped save b3ta! Harold Bishop's Love Child some sort of terrifying sex magician., Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:39, archived)
It's not really polite to call people pikeys.

(I helped save b3ta! Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:41, archived)
A decent treadmill and Wii Fit

(I helped save b3ta! DeSpong currently knitting your suggestions - see profile, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:30, archived)
This is the looser here at the moment.
But it's close between you and Neptune.
(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:47, archived)
Why do I lose?

(I helped save b3ta! DeSpong currently knitting your suggestions - see profile, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:48, archived)
You don't lose, you loose.

(I helped save b3ta! Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:51, archived)
Wii Fit is rubbish.
A decent treadmill is not really relivent to my interests eaither.
(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:53, archived)
Canon 5D mk II
and a holiday.
(I helped save b3ta! moogy boobles, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:35, archived)
This is the winner so far.
And maybe a few decent lenses too.
(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:47, archived)
of course,
a bit of glassware wouldn't go a miss.
(I helped save b3ta! moogy boobles, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 11:26, archived)
As much as I like Jason Bradbury, who's even validated me a few times.
He's done like 15 tweets since I woke up, about some shit going down in Iran.
(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:43, archived)
Another sea kayak plus a couple of new bicycles
or a second-hand Ford Transit Connect that I could store/carry my sea kayak and bicycles in (and any more that I end up owning in the future).

(where is 'over here'? the PPL courses at my local aero club cost circa 5 grand, but getting a civilian/commercial licence & becoming a pro pilot will cost you at least 50 grand)
(I helped save b3ta! custard, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:50, archived)
I thought if you were into watersports (hur hur)
you had to own an old Bedford CF or a Commer PB or *shudder* a Volkswagen. Transits just aren't cool enough, unless it's a twin-axle LWB Mk II.
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:52, archived)
VW Transporters seem to be the van of choice for the sea kayaking crowd
with the posher folk going for long wheelbase Defenders (although that chap does like to do things like drive from Morocco to South Africa via the West coast) and Mercedes Vitos.

I want a Transit Connect because they reasonably compact and are possibly the best van in their class (being designed from scratch instead of being some mutated car platform).
(I helped save b3ta! custard, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:58, archived)
LDV Maxus

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:59, archived)
You could buy a couple of thousand and the factory for £2.50.

(I helped save b3ta! Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sun 14 Jun 2009, 11:01, archived)
let's do it!
that would be awesome.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 11:02, archived)
It would still be a rip off.
What the fuck are we going to do with a couple of thousand shit vans which no one wants and a factory to make shit vans that no one wants?
(I helped save b3ta! Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sun 14 Jun 2009, 11:07, archived)
they're not shit vans

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 11:10, archived)
They're ugly, expensive, use too juch fuel and have too small payloads.
That's why they've gone bust.
(I helped save b3ta! Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sun 14 Jun 2009, 11:12, archived)
All vans are ugly.
The reason they went bust is that they're British.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 11:14, archived)
Weren't they owned by some Russian oligarch?
(and did they ever get the bridging loan that they were hassling the govt. for?)
(I helped save b3ta! custard, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 11:19, archived)
GAZ bought them, apparently,
but they don't seem to have done much.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 11:26, archived)
too big for me
I just want a van with a 2 metre load length capacity (with the front seat collapsed) that isn't much bigger/wider than a car.

T230
(I helped save b3ta! custard, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 11:07, archived)
nothing much.
maybe a new computer to do rendering on, but that would only be £500 or so.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:52, archived)
What about something from these chaps
caustic.com/

(btw, can I hound you for lighting tips; I dabble in CGI [see the CGI frontpages in my profile], but I really don't have a clue)
(I helped save b3ta! custard, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 11:03, archived)
Oh, a raytracing graphics card,
I was wondering how long it would take for those to come out.
I'd have to see if I could get Povray to use it. Still waiting for the multi-core version to come out of beta, grrr.

I only really dabble in it myself.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 11:09, archived)
I did see something a bit more spectacular than a just a graphic cards a while back
was a standalone box that could host up to 24 little ray tracing co-processors, but google came up blank
(I helped save b3ta! custard, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 11:16, archived)
a man can never have too many Stratocasters

(I helped save b3ta! Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 10:52, archived)
A trip to America.
Or some really nice clothes.
(I helped save b3ta! ArthurTheRat, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 11:01, archived)
Go to America and buy some clothes.

(I helped save b3ta! Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sun 14 Jun 2009, 11:02, archived)
that's also a possibility.

(I helped save b3ta! ArthurTheRat, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 11:28, archived)
man, you could pwn Primark with five grand

(I helped save b3ta! Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 11:03, archived)
fo real

(I helped save b3ta! ArthurTheRat, Sun 14 Jun 2009, 11:27, archived)