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Started by Dennis in Chit-Chat

The Mail On Sunday

Posted on Mon, 16 July 2007 at 09:22

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#1

mrs h wrote:

Honestly Dennis you’re so tight-fisted! Was it reduced because it was out of date? :p

Posted on Mon, 16 July 2007 at 09:48

#2

Dennis wrote:

:rolleyes:

Posted on Mon, 16 July 2007 at 10:25

#3

mrs h wrote:

:(

Posted on Mon, 16 July 2007 at 10:29

#4

Dennis wrote:

I bought it yesterday, silly.

ONE POUND F*CKING FORTY PENCE!

I used to be able to sit on the bus all day for that on a Sunday and still have enough change for a bag of chips and a pint (none of which I could actually buy on a Sunday, as the whole of the West Midlands shut down at 10PM on a Saturday night in those days, not to reopen until 6AM on a Monday morning.)

And at least in those days magazines gave away proper flexi-discs, not like that shite silvery thing I got in the paper yesterday, grrrrr…

Posted on Mon, 16 July 2007 at 10:33

#5

mrs h wrote:

You have buses on Sundays? You’re more civilised than I realised! :p

I remember when a bag of chips cost half a shilling. I think that’s 2 and a half pence now. And I remember when the currency changed and everyone got ripped off after that because nobody had a clue what anything was worth and all the shopkeepers went nuts with the prices. And my pocket money went up from 3d to 5p and I never realised until now that it had actually gone down! :(

*goes off to murder parents*

Posted on Mon, 16 July 2007 at 10:45

#6

Dennis wrote:

I never said that the buses were actually running when I sat on them all day on a Sunday, did I? I was just a very lonely lad.

Besides, I had to practice my “mental person on the bus who stares at everyone” routine at weekends to make sure I pulled it off properly during the week.

And, bugger it, I STILL can’t get this Prince disc to work on my Frisco Disco, regardless of whether I select 45 or 33&1/3 RPM.

I should have a word with your parents, though, I reckon you could put in a claim for monies owed and interest accrued.

Posted on Mon, 16 July 2007 at 10:52

#7

mrs h wrote:

Too true. 1 ha’penny a week since 1971 - so that’s 26p a year * 36 years which is £9.36!! In new money that must be at least 2 million pounds!!! :D

Posted on Mon, 16 July 2007 at 11:01

#8

Dennis wrote:

I would call that a conservative estimate, myself.

A poxy 2 million?! After 36 years of lies and fraudulent activity?!

PAH! Parents, who’d have ‘em?!

Posted on Mon, 16 July 2007 at 11:07

#9

mrs h wrote:

It’s true. i’ll get it sorted and then I will make a donation to the the Dennis Benevolent fund in recognition of your support :)

*waves*

Posted on Mon, 16 July 2007 at 11:09

#10

Kill_Hill (Brendan) wrote:

eh

Posted on Mon, 16 July 2007 at 18:50

#11

Dennis wrote:

Re: the name of this spin-off thread.

“I just bought…(split for things you’ve bought that aren’t music)”

My point when I said I had bought The Mail On Sunday was that I had “bought” the new Prince album i.e. the one given away free with said paper.

I thought somebody would have picked up on that…?!

I wasn’t taking the thread away from music by mentioning the paper, you lot are just too slow on the uptake! :D

Posted on Tue, 17 July 2007 at 08:36

#12

Igor Belanov wrote:

You’re only saying that so we don’t call you a fascist for reading the Mail!

We’ll know when you start buying the Sun for free European art-house films.

Posted on Tue, 17 July 2007 at 09:18

#13

hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

Sorry Dennis :o

Posted on Tue, 17 July 2007 at 09:55

#14

mrs h wrote:

Well in the spirit of this exciting new thread I shall post properly :)

Today I bought an ace print for my daughter. It’s an old circus poster, featuring the amazing somebody or other, who’s best trick was called ‘The Incredible Vanishing Sacred Elephant’ :D

I also bought a book about Visual Basic for Applications, a pair of child’s school pumps, ‘One Flew over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ (the book, not the film) and a bacon, cheese and tomato toastie on granary :)

Posted on Tue, 17 July 2007 at 14:11

#15

Dennis wrote:

…and…?

No free CD at all with any of that lot…?

Posted on Tue, 17 July 2007 at 14:14

#16

Misanthropologist (d) wrote:

mrs h wrote:

Today I bought an ace print for my daughter. It’s an old circus poster, featuring the amazing somebody or other, who’s best trick was called ‘The Incredible Vanishing Sacred Elephant’ :D

I also bought a book about Visual Basic for Applications, a pair of child’s school pumps, ‘One Flew over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ (the book, not the film) and a bacon, cheese and tomato toastie on granary :)

Isn’t Oxfam great?

Posted on Tue, 17 July 2007 at 14:15

#17

mrs h wrote:

Not as great as The British Heart Foundation - but neither of them are a patch on ‘Scope’ :D

I am being completely serious, btw - retail therapy is so much more fun when every purchase is a bargain and goes to a good cause :)

Posted on Tue, 17 July 2007 at 14:17

#18

mrs h wrote:

I didn’t get the toastie from Oxfam though …

Posted on Tue, 17 July 2007 at 14:18

#19

Misanthropologist (d) wrote:

I always suspected you lacked true devotion to a good cause.

The charity shops here are rubbish. I’m starting to panic: all my other clothes are falling apart.

Posted on Tue, 17 July 2007 at 14:22

#20

Igor Belanov wrote:

If I were you I’d go to Africa and beg the people there to give you some of their cast-offs.

Posted on Tue, 17 July 2007 at 14:35

#21

mrs h wrote:

Don’t panic - just wear rubbish clothes. It’s probably quite fashionable in Hampshire :)

Posted on Tue, 17 July 2007 at 14:35

#22

Misanthropologist (d) wrote:

I do. And it’s not.

Posted on Tue, 17 July 2007 at 14:52

#23

mrs h wrote:

I have some nylon flares you can have if you like :) I was going to give them to a charity shop, but your need is greater than theirs.

I have to go - the mother of all thunderstorms is going on after 2 days of baking heat and I don’t want to fuck up the PC :(

*waves in terror*

Posted on Tue, 17 July 2007 at 14:55

#24

Misanthropologist (d) wrote:

What am I supposed to do with another pair of nylon flares? :(

Posted on Tue, 17 July 2007 at 14:58

#25

Igor Belanov wrote:

mrs h wrote:

on after 2 days of baking heat
*waves in terror*

Are you being sarcastic? You are aware it rained all day on Sunday?

I’m sorry, no doubt it was equatorial in Chapel Allerton :)

Posted on Tue, 17 July 2007 at 15:18

#26

mrs h wrote:

It was baking hot all day yesterday and all day today until about 5 minutes before that kicked off! It’s gone now but it was right overhead and I get edgy when they’re that close :(

@D - Cut a big hole between the legs, then put yuor head through it. Stick your arms down the legs and hey presto! A lovely nylon jumper :)

Posted on Tue, 17 July 2007 at 15:21

#27

Misanthropologist (d) wrote:

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Cut a big hole between the legs, then put yuor head through it.

Oh no, I’m not falling for that again. Dan suggested that once and I nearly got arrested.

Posted on Tue, 17 July 2007 at 17:31

#28

mrs h wrote:

:D

Arrested and practically suffocated I shouldn’t wonder …

Posted on Tue, 17 July 2007 at 20:04

#29

Taunty Dan wrote:

Misanthropologist wrote:

Oh no, I’m not falling for that again. Dan suggested that once and I nearly got arrested.

yes but thats not why you got arrested, is it?

Posted on Tue, 17 July 2007 at 20:44

#30

Misanthropologist (d) wrote:

Well, no. But technically I didn’t actually get arrested for ‘that’, either, not actually. The policeman said that though ‘it’ frankly appalled him, nonetheless it wasn’t technically against the law because no one had realised it was even physically possible so it hadn’t occurred to anyone to ban it.

Posted on Tue, 17 July 2007 at 21:22

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