I have just paid a ridiculous sum (in my opinion) of money for a jacket, but I love it and I can't wait to wear it out on friday night.
Have you been frivolous with your money lately???????
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just spent over a grand
on a car and tax etc
i bought a pint of guinness.
it cost £3.20.
I bought a Stylophone
it cost £14.99
I bought one as well, I got it in ZAVVI for £15.
I am a bit let down by it to be honest, I was hoping to find more uses for it in our band, but it is a bit of a 1 trick pony.
Besides that, I think that £15 is very reasonable!
plug it through some pedals
!!!
Yeah, I could try that.
What pedals have you used? I have got a bass synth pedal that would probably sound pretty good.
buig muff
always the big muff
you can get some pretty good synthy sounds from it. plus get a pedal with loads of gain, turn that up and go all lightning bolt. also - use the tuning knob on the bottom. for £15 you cant complain.
Thang Q
Will try.
A cadburys picnic bar at picadilly tube station 4 weeks ago.
I was charged 70p. Obscene.
glastonbury
£170 odd
I nearly did for photos of Ronnie
then i got home, told Mr S, the sole income earner who said £80! for 5 photos! i knew this would happen! you told me it was a fiver! rrarghy!
so I paid 25 for 2
they are lovely ones though
:)
pics pls!
£108.50
for a train from Aspatria to Brighton.
National rail are cunts.
60 pound for a mac charger
what an utter rip.
£12 for tights
But really, really soft tights. Indescribably soft tights, even.
I unwittingly paid £10 for a pair of tights once.
They weren't worth it.
£329 for an iPhone.....that hurt a bit handing the card over but what the hell......I love it!
you
FOOL
They are reducing
the price of an iphone by £100 soon...
I totally understand that
I'm obsessed with finding the perfect pair of grey ribbed tights. The only ones I currently like are £11. But they cover up all the flaws with my legs.
i paid £1.10
to get the bus about 10 minutes down the road to get to work. i do this everyday because sleep is more valuable than money. it still hurts though.
ha
I spend £3.80 for the train instead of
£1.40 for the bus for this same reason.
I'm about to spend 395 quid on this:
http://www.gulfstreamsurfboards.co.uk/shop.php?id=173
Tax rebates FTW!!!
I bought some fancy fucking ciabatta nonsense
for lunch today. I really need to get off my ttocks and make my own butties.
£600 for a TV
£500 for a laptop
Curse my techgeek ways.
p.s. please don't mug me.
You carry your TV around with you?
It's one of them really small japanese ones
the size of a wristwatch, but is higher definition than real life.
£80 for a meal
Trying to win McDonald's Monopoly?
I won 2nd prize at a beauty contest
but considering the state of the McDonalds staff I'm quite offended I didn't win 1st prize
plane tickets to see my girlfriend
and for her to come see me - £1000+
also i'm about to buy tickets for us to go to Lollapalooza which will be about £200. ouch.
man
that's crazy stuff. you're a student aren't you? mental.
i was so close to buying tickets for pitchfork festival in chicago as well as plane tickets last night...i saw sense though.
yes
I'M A STUDENT! (ALBEIT ONE WITH A SUBSTANTIAL BURSARY ALLOWING ME TO SPEND WILD AMOUNTS OF MONEY ON PLANE TICKETS AND THE LIKE)
you saw sense? i must have just missed it.
i also have ridiculous amounts
of money (about four and a half grand right now) but i'm not a risk-taker and the girl i'm seeing wouldn't be able to come anyway.
haha i'm sure there is a lot of sense to buying plane tickets which allow you to see your girlfriend. it adds up.
How the fuck
do you have so much money?! Are you a dealer?
molton brown hand cream
for our bathroom.
£14 for hand cream. that's a disgusting amount.
WHAT!
why is it so expensive? does it have thirteen pound coins at the bottom or something?
i know
it was mrs roak79's purchase really. i am hoping that pixies dive out of it when it's used, or something.
Come Monday,
it will be £212.50 to see Radiohead.
My word.
I take it that was on e-bay?
How so?
I've paid about £170 to see them, but that's because I'm flying back from Scilly on the morning of the gig
2 people, tickets, transport, hotel
You'd be better off putting that towards a time machine
that could transport you back to 1993-1997, when they were still worth seeing!
:D
that is getting so boring
So's their discography....
Outstanding council tax
about £400, last week
Well, if you will go buying fancy council tax
Oustanding might cost £400, but I hear you can get 'Above Average' for about £150 - £200. Shop around!
It's simple, but I like it.
Over £500 for rent
leaving nothing but pennies in my bank account :(
dinner
at a nice restaurant with someone I shouldn't be talking to.
That'll haunt me. Fo'so
i spent £20 on a flag
from an internet shop based in colorado. um.
A flag? A fucking flag?
Of what? Unless you're starting your own country, I'm disappointed in you. They sell Jamaican flags at that shop on Carnaby Street and that, frankly, is all you should need.
it's no bean bag, that's for sure :(
:D
i've just paid a grand
to have sex.
with your mum.
up her arse.
mmm. looks tight.
What a rip off.
Yours charged me 500, and that was to shit in her mouth as well.
215k
For a one bedroom flat.
Does it have like eight kitchens or something?
How can you get a 215k one bedroom flat.....?
Very, very easily
.
No
but one of my neighbours hosts a Sunday morning football show on Sky. I like to hobnob with the unbelievably famous. Plus, I have a dozen latrines.
Haha! Check out lil' Suzy Provincial!
: )
Does that even make sense?
But seriously... 215k for ONE bedroom? How is London worth that??
I live in a 3 bed semi in a nice area of a nice city that's worth, like, what, 150k? It's completely insane. Why would anyone voluntarily live in London?
3 bed semi in a nice area of York
would go for more than that.
I agree, it's very expensive, but then it really does come down to location (location, location).
Houses are cheaper in York because there just aren't the high salaried jobs to fuel demand for property at that price.
Well, the immediate area is nice
The general area isn't so much. But you can ignore all that.
It might be more like 160k now I guess, but I think one down the road with an identical house but with a garage and a larger garden went for £162k before Christmas sometime.
I know, and I'd expect that
but a one bedroom flat for 215k is still ridiculous.
it's not just london...
i live in bristol and my 2 bed top floor flat cost 245k
so the question is: why would anyone voluntarily live in the uk?
*in the south of the...
I have a 2 bedroom flat in Brixton
it cost 223k two years ago. I don't value spaciousness, period features etc., as highly as I do having loads of things to do, transport, parks and all my friends on my doorstep. simple.
Cripes
I am never, ever going to be able to buy property.
£37.50
Overnight return to Colchester.
£17 on Maus
damned graphic novels always cost so much..
I lost my student oyster card 3 weeks ago
(reasons #356 why free bars are a bad idea) and spent about fifty quid on transport between now and then. not realising that had i called up tfl the next day and spent ten quid on a replacement, none of that would have happened...I'M A RETARD GUYS.
oh wait, that's not frivolous.
that's STUPID.
£5 on a Haircut 100 T-shirt
:)
Yes
Tuition fees for uni.
Yes
I spent too much in Bruges at the weekend for my friend's hen party. There were chocolate shops EVERYWHERE.
a lot
for plane tickets, about £380.
and soon to pay for barcelona accommodation, could be about 280€.
argh.
£110 for a pair of tights
err
two and a half grand on a flat deposit
400 on a couple of mexicans to move my stuff to London
175 on a months tube torture (with free headcold)
but worst of all
SEVEN POUNDS for cod and fricking chips?! London IS expensive. :(
um...
£85 on 700 35mm slides of 1940s-80s americana
£300/400 on going to primavera
£40 on a meal (just my share of it too...)
and somehow i spent £700 within 4 days of gaetting paid this month. with almost nothing to show for it. eep.
hmm
Well I upgraded to first class on the train because I couldn't be bothered to move when I noticed the purple seat. And I bought interrail and eurostar tickets.
fucking bitch
i just paid £7.50 for lunch for two
...
£143 on a phone bill
£18 on tat from a London tourist shop, including a mug with the queen's face on it.