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Fun Stuff => CHATTER => Topic started by: normz on 06 Mar 2008, 19:38
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Yesterday i bought new sheets for my bed and whilst they cost a ridiculous amount of money, the feeling of sleeping on 1200 threadcount egyptian cotton is totally worth the exorbinant price i paid for them. So it got me thinking QCers about what are some of the ridiculous things that people spend loads of money on that at the end of the day are a wee bit on the decadent side
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High compression Japanese engine with larger displacement than the stock engine for my car.
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(http://www.laphroaig.com/images/our_whiskies/40yr_bottle.jpg)
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Expensive sheets are worth it.
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Probably my greatest extravagance was spending A$300 on the 10-disc set of the complete 1933-1944 Columbia recordings of Billie Holiday.
Totally worth it, though.
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food.
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who needs clothes?
i spent 200 bucks on a shirt before i realized it.
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As a university student, I dream of one day having extravagance, like for example, eating three meals a day, and owning more than one pair of jeans!
The first thing I buy would totally be a nice bed and silk sheets though.
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My big splurges are buying breakfast at the Terrace --which is really just a more expensive food place on campus (but not the most expensive, it's most fast-foodish stuff, you know?).
I think the last "big" thing I bought for myself was Guitar Hero III, which was technically a Christmas gift. Oh yeah...and all of my yaoi-manga I keep buying. Cripes. I am horrible.
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I've spent more than ten dollars per meal this past week. This is extravagant enough for me.
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over $120 at a Japanese restaurant for a friend's birthday
Really though, how ever much my Xbox 360 cost.
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I buy power tools when I can afford it. Otherwise I buy hand tools to supplement. Today I bought a 4' magnetic level. I don't need one, but I bought one. Last week I bought a set of fancy wrenches. Before that, a screwdriver set, tool belt, and large case of drill bits. My DeWalt drill was my first power tool... These are not only decadent, but an addiction.
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Incidentally, does anyone other than me immediately think of Catch-22 and then start giggling whenever somebody mentions Egyptian cotton?
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*raised hand* guilty sir
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Chuck does manly work? Or is this like a Showbiz/ Rockford Fosgate kind of thing?
Also I will spend a lot of money on a book if I want it. Like, a RIDICULOUS amount of money. Books are something of which price is irrelevant to me, for some reason.
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Beer. Not especially extravagant stuff, but more than I probably should be spending as a college student, and way better shit than the average student drinks. I'd just rather not drink at all than drink piss. Besides that, I'm pretty cheap.
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Usually it's videogames but when I'm in an incredibly expansive mood than I will usually blow a couple of hundred dollars on some nice new threads. A pair of $300 boots? Yes please. A $280 jacket? Why not? A $115 shirt? You deserve it.
I can afford these things because I'm ridiculously overpaid.
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I went to a private college, 10 g's a semester. I dropped out not even a semester in, does that still count?
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I will never understand why people spend hundreds of dollars on a pair of sunglasses. Seriously, what the hell.
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My threadcount's actually around 197 right now, thanks.
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Recently, an iPod. Compared to what I had before, 80 gigs feels luxurious.
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Last week i bought a mobile phone because i lost my previous one in my room and couldn't be arsed to look for it.
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hey thread, do I buy a copy of "Hip to be Square" by Huey Lewis? It is on square vinyl
square vinyl
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This thread (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,16326.0.html) pretty much explains it
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My PC.
I spend entirely too much on that thing.
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Last big thing I bought was a $1000 guitar.
However, I know a girl that owns towel-warmers. That's gotta be the most ridiculous purchase ever.
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DVDs.
Which far too many of which are sitting in my shelves never having been watched.
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Last big thing I bought was a $1000 guitar.
However, I know a girl that owns towel-warmers. That's gotta be the most ridiculous purchase ever.
Dude, I want a towel-warmer. There's nothing better than getting out of a steaming-hot shower and slipping into a warm towel. Rawr.
Really, though, I don't think I'm too big of a spender. The most money I've spent at one time was on a plane ticket to see my husband while we were still long-distance dating. That was around $300
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anybody who knows me at all already knows my answer: shoes.
i don't buy very expensive shoes, but they are not cheap either and i buy enough so that it adds up to way too much money being spent on shoes. and they are all heels and thus useless.
(i have to say that i have been pretty good about my new years resolution and have not bought any new shoes since january. unfortunately, i have also been really good about my resolution of going to the gym. and to get to the gym i have to walk past a street full of shoe stores. last night i fell in love with 4 separate pairs of of shoes and i will probably buy one pair tonight after i go to zumba because "hey i deserve it for working out" and then the now dormant Shoe Monster within me will waken and i will probably buy the other three pairs as well :( )
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I brought $375 to Boston with me last summer, and immediately went to the Bruins Proshop to buy a $165 jersey.
Frivolous!
(um sam I can't talk you out of it, that's a badass looking shirt.)
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i buy a ridiculous amount of fair trade and organic food in an attempt to alleviate some of the guilt i feel for destroying the environment in about 10,000 other ways. it works pretty okay, but is mostly probably a pretty stupid thing to do because i actually have no money and this only pushes me further into poverty.
i buy a lot of american apparel clothing, too. i can't really justify this at all, in my experience it always costs way too much and isn't really very good quality anyway. somehow i am always drawn to them regardless.
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hookers
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I recently spent £3 on a rump steak.
Student budget woo.
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My fiancee and I are considering purchasing ski equipment. This despite the fact that we've gone skiing exactly twice in the past several years, both times earlier this year. We went to one ski shop that attempted to sell us $600 boots; we're not prepared to be quite that decadent, so we're planning to go to another ski shop where hopefully we can find gear more reasonably priced.
My PC.
I spend entirely too much on that thing.
As a student my computer expenditures were arguably decadent, but these days considering how crucial my computers are to my work, my computer spending habits seem rather niggardly. For example, while I have two computers, my laptop is currently broken and I keep not getting around to getting my laptop repaired. Considering how useful said laptop would be to have available, even without warranty coverage (ie. I'd be paying for the repairs in full) it's pretty stupid of me not to simply take it to the apple store and at least get an estimate.
Along the same lines, I recently made a huge purchase within Second Life; that could be considered decadent, but it is directly relevant for the store I run there.
i buy a ridiculous amount of fair trade and organic food
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/6-organic-food/
(for the record, I shop at Whole Foods)
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then the now dormant Shoe Monster within me will waken and i will probably buy the other three pairs as well :(
Solution: move the hell out of Italy
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the three pairs of shoes i got in january? i bought them in america.
also, have you ever seen the video tommy took of me in london? with my brand new shoes?
i'm not so sure that italy is to blame here.
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4 pairs divided between two countries as opposed to 4 pairs in one shop on one street in Italy.
Sorry, what were you saying?
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Chuck does manly work? Or is this like a Showbiz/ Rockford Fosgate kind of thing?
I'm a maintenance tech at a small university on the east side of Seattle. Basically I'm a handyman.
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4 pairs divided between two countries as opposed to 4 pairs in one shop on one street in Italy.
Sorry, what were you saying?
touché
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Considering how broke I am, my Starbucks addiction is my biggest ridiculous decadency. That, and the three or four trips I have planned coming up in the next few months. I still haven't quite figured out how I am going to afford them, but I'm goin regardless.
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Hey MaiAda if it makes you feel better (read: I will stop harrassing you now) I am the kind of jackass who will spend $250 on a box + cables that makes my guitar make echoey sounds. Kindof ridiculous since all it does is make echos. It's a hella versatile piece of gear, to be honest, and in combination with some reverb it can fill out your sound like a motherfucker, but still.
I spent far too much money on clothing and unnecessary expensive food crap this summer. Something like $400. That's what kept me from buying a the guitar I really wanted this summer (it was like $1400 and I only had a grand at the end of the summer thanks to that $400 gone, which I blew on a different, cheaper guitar, a computer, and MORE clothing).
If I manage my money better with groceries and stuff, I will be able to afford either an iMac or a Fender Jaguar + Fostex MR-8 recorder. I am really tempted to go for that Jaguar + MR-8 and just go batshit with recording things.
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Honestly, I'm generally not a decadent person. I'm ass tons of frivolous, but the vast majority of my hobbies are things that can be gotten on the internet.
I used to be really much worse with money. I'd spend way too much on shit for girlfriends (I bet Rachel's glad she caught me now that I'm out of that phase), I'd buy like $30 worth of comics a week, etc...Now I keep it pretty curbed. My one vice is electronics, and even that's not awful. Friends will come over and see what appears to be a relatively extravagent setup (I have an HD projector, a Wii, an Xbox 360 and a surround sound system on top of my computer). I honestly haven't spent that much money on all this stuff. The surround system is something I literally built most of myself from spare parts (The receiver was bought at retail, but the speakers are all salvaged from parts in my dad's garage) and then there's about $1150 sunk into the living room setup in total. In hindsight, that's really not a whole lot for someone who's not in school.
Folks in Gabbly will sometimes figure I'm spending ass tons of money, but really, I just tend to luck into a lot of sales and shop around a lot. When you live in an area like Boston where there's tons of retail and combine it with the internet, it takes less effort than you'd think to find a deal. My camera only cost me $190, my computer was only $600-700 in new parts (With the rest canabalized from my old computer, which I used to fix and upgrade my mom's). My Jackson, which Shane seems to be in love with, was gotten on the cheap too. Even with all the frivolous and unnecessary crap I own, I still manage to go out at least once a week usually. It's all about money management, folks, and a lot of you will be better off than me when you get out into the real world cause I'm living off salaries that a college dropout pulls down.
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Apple computers and organic/free range/local/carbon neutral/biodynamic/hippie food.
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Guitars, manga, eating at restaurants way too often.
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Last time I really went crazy I think was on pimped out spectacles. These bitches cost £360: ultra-thinning, titanium frames (I couldn't afford memoflex), anti-scratch, anti-glare and transitions effects on the lenses so they automatically turn into sunglasses when exposed to light. PIMP AS FUCK.
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I think I might be shelling out for 3 months of vacation in Hawaii once I'm done with school.
I mean, all I need to pay for is the ticket. You can basically live on Hawaii for free indefinitely if you know how.
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drugs...lots of drugs
fuck yes page break
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I think my problems right now lie in the fact that I still do not have a job. I am not really sure how I am supposed to pay for groceries this month, much less go to Austin and do crazy things next weekend and San Diego at the beginning of next month. Plus I still have to get my tickets for Australia in May.
I spent all my money in the UK hgualhblauhglubahg.
(If I had the money I would join forces with Chuck and buy power tools. And booze.)
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drugs...lots of drugs
Also, this.
Does it count as decadence if I pay more for drugs that most people have never heard of? I'd definitely pay more than is reasonable for 2c-t-7.
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New form of decadance: I plan to spend half of my paycheck at Chick-Fil-A this weekend while I'm in New Hampshire.
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My Jackson, which Shane seems to be in love with
I'm over it. I'd still rock some fucking metal on it, but my heart now belongs to old, beaten up Fenders.
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whats 2c-t-7? totally not familiar with that term (and I'm at work so it's too sketchy to search erowid)
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Another hallucinogenic designer drug, lots of colorful visuals and it's supposed to make music amazing. I'm sure onewheel can answer better though, I don't know that much about it except it's stupid hard to get around here.
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i spend way too much money on books, video games, and pot.
i went to buy chocolate milk($1.69) on my lunch break the other day and ended up also spending $30 on books....at a grocery store!
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Yeah, the only thing I really spend a lot of money on is video games, and that's not because they're necessarily expensive individually, but I buy so fucking many of them.
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clearly i either buy too much american apparel clothing or not enough! I've already had one sweater and a couple of t-shirts fall apart. another sweater i bought in september is starting to show a lot of loose threads here and there. considering both sweaters were ~$80 i am kind of disappointed. i should probably learn from this but no, their clothing is so pretty. i always go back. i suck.
i have never had any problems with american apparel underwear and will justify my many expensive purchases with the (obvious) reminder that briefs are so much sexier than thongs, you crazy women.
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Although difficult here at school since there's really no where to go out to eat, at home I spend far too much money on food. I also pay ridiculous amounts for rare vinyl but various artists whose complete vinyl output I really want even though I almost never, if ever, listen to them. I sometimes splurge on Amazon and buy a bunch of books and a handful of Criterion DVDs only to spend the next couple of days crying over the $350 I no longer have.
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Probably my hundred dollar graphics card even though my old one was still working just fine, I wanted to be able to turn up the graphics higher for the Orange Box.
Yeah, just a hundred dollars, but I am 16, so I am poor, I only work sporadically, and can only spend half the money I make, I force myself to save most of the rest.
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Looking around my flat, I can't see all that much that's silly or decadent. I did buy a pair of $180 Guess sunglasses at the start of Summer which I have only worn once because I wear spectacles, not sunglasses, silly bint. I generally shop at cheap places for my clothes and the most expensive, stupid items I have are my $140 Roxy jeans and my Doc Marten boots which are now 6 years old and need resoling.
The silliest thing I have spent money on are my Doctor Who and Torchwood box sets. $400 of DVDs, but I watch them lots and absolutely adore them, so it isn't really a waste.
What I do waste money on is just random food articles or little gadgets for the house that I don't really need, but I put in my trolley because they are interesting.
Oh um and hairdressers' visits. Once every few weeks. Costing up to $180. Probably should stop doing that.
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You are correct though, boy shorts are the best underwear for women by some distance.
This is the Only Truth
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Oh man. Food food food. I spend an exorbitant amount of money on food just each week.
A few months ago, I splurged and bought a 4,000 dollar Oasys keyboard. The thing is a beast, but it's absolutely amazing. It has everything I could possibly want. I am, now, of course, completely broke and destitute and will wind up living in a cardboard box on the side of I-90. But it'll be a cardboard box with a fucking awesome keyboard.
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You are correct though, boy shorts are the best underwear for women by some distance.
This is the Only Truth
You know I was once wearing boy shorts and changing clothes and a friend said "nice granny panties" because he didn't know what else to call them. Seriously, ignorance is usually excusable, but that was so fucking offensive I still do not really know what I should've said to this day. I just kind of stared stupidly at him. It was really awkward.
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I intend to either buy a new pair of Doc Martens tomorrow or possibly some skate shoes. I don't know, which ever leaps out.
I spent $20 on a single beer the other day... It was worth it though, 2L Kirin IchiBan. Mmmm.
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Khar I am certain that you have berated me before for spending 300 dollars on a pair of glasses.
oh how the worm turns.
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Jesse and I are buying a condo, so we are on a pretty tight budget. But saving every single penny is no fun, so we have $50 a month each to buy anything we want. This month I spent my $50 allowance on a hair curler/straightener, a comb and 3 different hair products! I recently got my hair cut, so it's fun to play with. The month before that was books and before that it was video games. So, not a lot of extravagance around here lately. Last year, though, I bought us a Wii. Jesse asked if I was sure we could afford it and I said we couldn't afford NOT to buy a Wii, for the sake of my sanity. Also for my sanity, Jesse bought me a DS lite for Christmas. These things are important, you know. (NintendoIloveyoupleasetakeallmymoney.)
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I think my biggest, most obvious "splurge" of the past year is probably these:
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/idiolect/random/boots.jpg)
>$300 Fluevog boots.
More recent splurges include fancy Belgian beer, a conch piercing, good food, as well as plane tickets & a stay at The Frenchmen (http://www.frenchmenhotel.com/ (http://www.frenchmenhotel.com/)).
You are correct though, boy shorts are the best underwear for women by some distance.
This is the Only Truth
I don't know what you guys are talking about. I personally find it really annoying to have way too much fabric on my hips and not nearly enough on my actual ass, which seems to be how those things are cut, and they do tend to look stupid on women who have something more than the Boy Ass to match their Boy Shorts. I know it's a little boring (I prefer to call it "classic"), but I'm a string bikini girl all the way.
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I tend to occasionally splurge out a bit on clothes. Occasional fancy items of clothing. useually I am very stingy about everything. I almost didn't pay $40 for a nice jacket.
Last year it was this custom corset for $120:
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y247/ebony_willow/100_0546.jpg)
And the other day after about a year of consideration (literally) I ordered this only in black for $150. Which you will all think is rediculous but which I love:
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y247/ebony_willow/34b0_1.jpg)
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I don't know about "rediculous" but I do find it ridiculous, and I will ridicule you for having poor taste and spelling.
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lolz soz i wud talk lyke this now
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A week or so ago I spent 100$ in one night on dinner, a movie, a CD, and a DVD.
Dinner was at TGI Fridays.
Movie was Vantage Point.
CD: Opeth's Orchid
DVD: Daft Punk's Interstella 5555
Oh, and two Caramel Apple Empandas from Taco Bell much later.
I enjoyed myself that night, but now I don't have any money.
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i am drinking vermouth out of my $50 starbucks thermos
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A week or so ago I spent 100$ in one night on dinner, a movie, a CD, and a DVD.
Dinner was at TGI Fridays.
Movie was Vantage Point.
CD: Opeth's Orchid
DVD: Daft Punk's Interstella 5555
Oh, and two Caramel Apple Empandas from Taco Bell much later.
I enjoyed myself that night, but now I don't have any money.
I assume you must've paid for a date's dinner and movie as well to get you to that $100 total, otherwise you'd have to have bought like $60 worth of TGI Fridays (...eek).
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A few months ago, I splurged and bought a 4,000 dollar Oasys keyboard.
It makes me sad that a keyboard could ever cost $4000 and actually get someone to buy it.
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I'd spend way too much on shit for girlfriends (I bet Rachel's glad she caught me now that I'm out of that phase)
Actually, I am! I have no room for useless crap.
And I'm with Mai with my addiction for shoes. Fortunately (I guess), I have large feet and find it somewhat difficult to find ones I absolutely love that fit right, so I don't spend that often.
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Hey guys, I spent £6 on a new hoodie yesterday. And I'm going to my local piercers to get a new hole in my face on Monday for £10 because they're giving experience to trainees that day.
That's my ridiculous decadence, right there.
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I have no room for useless crap.
Translation: "I throw away your gifts."
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To be fair, I only bought t-shirts and they were like $15 or something. They all look new despite several washes.
You are correct though, boy shorts are the best underwear for women by some distance.
Man, you got hosed. I can't say I ever spend more than $10 on a T-Shirt anymore.
Also, I guess I'm the only one, but I really do not like boy shorts at all.
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Man, I don't think I've paid less than $19 for a t-shirt in years, except QC-shirts and a t-shirt from T-Shirt Hell (but I had to pay shipping, so it's still more in total), so for me, AA is cheap, even the EU-store.
I think the item I spend more money than I would need on is food, but I'm a student, so that also limits itself, sort of naturally.. If I had more money, though, my spending habits would probably be baaad.. I'd get better sheets, a better duvet, more expensive clothing (at least if I could manage to lose some weight) etc..
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Okay so I am considering spending $300 US on a ZVex effects pedal (possibly another $300 on a second one as well) and then spend god knows how much on a cello (because cellos are awesome). Back in December I spent $1000 bucks on a Warwick bass.
So I, like Patrick, spend to much money on music.
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Which reminds me, I should really consider getting a bass and some drumzzz so I can one-man-band my recordings.
The recordings I can't make unless I spend that money on a new computer. Damn it. I hate being poor!
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$600 boots; we're not prepared to be quite that decadent, so we're planning to go to another ski shop where hopefully we can find gear more reasonably priced.
My mom just bought me 400 dollar boots on sale, and new skis too...
But I will use them 'till I die, so I don't know if that counts.
I spend way too much money on shoes, jeans, and gum.
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According to the clerks in ski shops you should buy new gear every couple of seasons, but that's hardly surprising.
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ebony willow, I would pay decadent amounts of money for you to never change your avatar, ever. It's pure gold. I watched it twice and sent a link to a friend. I love you forever (and also your dress sense)(and your hair).
You can tell she's not been sleeping much
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:-D
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Grade: D
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I've found that all my impulse buys,
Are architecture books and art supplies!
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Shoes. Shoes. Shoes.
Art supplies, clothes, books, books, books. Art prints.
Video games.
Then again, I don't really 'splurge' a lot, I'm actually awesome at getting things reasonably priced.
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I don't support myself yet! Woo hoo!
The last expensive thing I bought was my guitar. The next expensive thing I will buy is Smash Bros. (okay fine "expensive") and hopefully a nice big amplifier. Or maybe some fancy pedal thingies. Or! A recorder! Or maybe just a stupid new computer in general.
I have a lot of ideas.
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Guitars, manga, eating at restaurants way too often.
This. I spend far too much money on guitar stuff.
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I'll spend about Aus$18 on a 6pack of James Squire amber ale every two or three weeks.
Other than that, it'd be buying videogames.
I'm currently on the lookout for new boots, though. I wore my favourite pair so much the soles split in two. I'm also thinking about getting a pair of bitchin' PVC pants.
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I just bought a bike for £170, probably the most i've spent on anything in ages. I really shouldn't be spending anything though as i broke my friends laptop and owe him £250.
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I'm also thinking about getting a pair of bitchin' PVC pants.
That would be a grand idea, if this were 1997.
Guys, I want this (http://cgi.ebay.com/DeWALT-DW718-R-12-Double-Beveled-Compound-Miter-Saw_W0QQitemZ130203851008QQihZ003QQcategoryZ79706QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1713.m153.l1262) and this. (http://cgi.ebay.com/Paslode-Cordless-Angled-Finish-Nailer-900600_W0QQitemZ350032948022QQihZ022QQcategoryZ42242QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262)
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Chuck, you are so manly. Will you be mine?
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That would be a grand idea, if this were 1997.
Personal taste is nothing compared to fads!
How old is that avatar now, Chuck?
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I don't change it for the sake of all of you. If I changed it you all would not know what to do with yourselves.
Also, Rachel: Yes. Yes I will.
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ITT: Jon makes ready to lay waste to Tommy and Chuck.
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Hey, she came on to me, dude.
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The Ghosts I-IV box set, but when i see ink touched by trent reznor i will know it was all worth it
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Has anyone brought up, is decadency even a word? Shouldn't that just be 'decadence'?
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Looks like we know what Joe's been spending his (http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0198611862/105-1160144-2561214?SubscriptionId=1G23XB158QH2S9R3EB82) money on.
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Ok joe why did you have to go and make me feel all insecure dammit..... dictionary.com is telling me that I am doing fine and that yes it is a word *sigh of relief*
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The internet also said "im in ur base killin ur d00dz."
Just thought I'd put that out there.
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True, but the non-internet said a lot of stupid stuff too. Solution? Don't believe anyone.
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I bought some Doc Marten's and a stereo in one weekend, which totalled about $450 all up. That is probably the most I have spent (and am going to spend) for a while. Apart from the $216 on uni textbooks, that is.
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Man, I spent $450 on books this go-round.
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Books for university hardly qualify as decadent.
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No, but they double as weights! *flex*
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My books for college definitely could double as weights. This is why I need a new college bag.
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sigur rós vinyl box set, £130
my stereo, £2000 approx.
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You have Agaetis Byrjun on vinyl?
JEALOOOOUS.
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yup. havent listened to it yet.
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WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR LIFE
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I'm also thinking about getting a pair of bitchin' PVC pants.
That would be a grand idea, if this were 1997.
Guys, I want this (http://cgi.ebay.com/DeWALT-DW718-R-12-Double-Beveled-Compound-Miter-Saw_W0QQitemZ130203851008QQihZ003QQcategoryZ79706QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1713.m153.l1262) and this. (http://cgi.ebay.com/Paslode-Cordless-Angled-Finish-Nailer-900600_W0QQitemZ350032948022QQihZ022QQcategoryZ42242QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262)
My brother-in-law is getting a this (http://www.dewalt.com/us/products/tool_detail.asp?productID=15104), and wherever he is getting it from has some deal where you send in a mail-in rebate and a this (http://www.dewalt.com/us/products/tool_detail.asp?productID=27) is only $10 extra. He is giving the latter to my dad for father's day.
not fucking fair
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I already have that first one. It is my pride and joy. I love it.
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Fuck you too, bitch.
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Khar I am certain that you have berated me before for spending 300 dollars on a pair of glasses.
oh how the worm turns.
I think I may have called you a fool for buying designer frames. Not the same shit at all. Designer frames are, have always been and will always be an enormous con. You are paying crazy money for something that looks EXACTLY the same as the house frames, is probably worse made, and the only real difference is the designer frames have a teeny weeny eensy little logo on them. My glasses have £40 frames. However, the lenses have more technology than the goddamn apollo mission.
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I recently "loaned" just shy of $1,000 to someone close to me. No, I don't expect to see that money again.
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oooh and notch up another one for norma's ridiculous decadence ....... designer glasses, because my over-sized dior sunglasses are damn hot and buying chanel reading glasses was the only way i could actually convince myself to USE them because they say 'look at me im oh so chic NOT I am genetically challenged and nerdy'
yeah i know its lame but i admit to being a label girl.... it's fashion and even though it makes me a mindless drone i love it
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Bahaha. I spent like $200 on YSL eyeglasses last year. I'll probably do the same this summer on sunglasses. At least my insurance covers $120 of the price.
o/
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I buy the glasses that look best on my face. Guys. This works for me pretty much.
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I just spend quarter of this months budget on music and comics.
I am so weak.
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I buy the glasses that look best on my face. Guys. This works for me pretty much.
This.
I need to send my dad to the optometrist to grab my new prescription suns, because, well, they look awesome.
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I lost my glasses. Which is kind of bad since...uh...the lenses alone cost $300. And since now I can't see very well, I can't look for them. Oh well.
But! On the plus side! I have somehow acquired 2 more horses. The living breathing kind that eat things. I think I have just about topped everyone else.
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I currently own about £800 worth of boxer shorts and spend a fuckton of money at KFC.
To put that in perspective £6 is how much I spent on the last 3 hoodies I bought.
Also computer hardware. Never buy shit.
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Like the ones in your avatar which no longer makes any sense?
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lolwut
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I buy the glasses that look best on my face. Guys. This works for me pretty much.
I tend to get glasses that look awful, and then wear them for years until they are barely still functional (I don't go as far as the nerd cliche of taping them however.) Also I have contacts which I barely ever bother to put in. I'm not sure what's wrong with me.
I definitely need to get laser eye surgery. Why haven't I done that yet? Again, what's wrong with me?
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I mean, you look fine in glasses anyway
ITT: Tommy runs out of women to seduce and finally makes his move on Joe Hocking.
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Not a vanity thing, it's a convenience thing. Like, I find contacts a huge pain in the ass (that's why I rarely use them) but glasses are oh so annoying in oh so many situations. For example, it sure would be nice to see while I'm taking a swim.
That said, the potential risk does mean I should wait until after I've made a mark on the art world. Until then, losing my vision completely might just be a reason for me to commit suicide.
ADDITION: Incidentally, being in a relationship does not preclude vanity as a motivation. I mean shit, if I expect her to look good for me, the least I could do is return the favor.
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Well I'm definitely not going to stick them in my eyes now. I mean geez, ew
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I lost my glasses [but] I have somehow acquired 2 more horses.
Were the two connected in this manner? Are you sure they're real horses?
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I can't see shit. I know I can't see shit. I am too lazy to wear glasses, they look stupid on me (please refer back to the photo of Manda and me hanging out at the DC zoo for further research), I can never find the fuckers anyway, and no way in hell am I sticking anything in my eye ever.
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Am I the only one who doesn't have a problem with contact lenses? I've been wearing them since the 7th grade and I am just fine.
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Work fine for me too, though some days my eyes just can't handle them for some reason.
An odd thing about my eye sight is that it seems to work perfectly, or at least well enough to see for some distance, under water. I don't quite know why this is.
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Most people don't have problems with contact lenses, I am just unusually sensitive to them. I'm not entirely sure why. I can't have them in for longer than like 8 hours straight, nor can I use them more than a few days in a row. I definitely DEFINITELY can't sleep with them in, even for a minute, which is a huge problem when coming home late on the train.
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I am pretty scared of sticking stuff in my eyes, and I also can't use the soft kind because my eyes are too bad or something. My eye doctor won't even TELL me how bad my vision is. Last year I asked him if it was still around 20/800 and all he would say was, "um....on a good day, maybe...."
In regard to the actual topic, I can't even think of anything I have that could be described as ridiculously decadent! I am pretty cheap about everything, even when I don't really need to be. I guess I probably spend the most money on going out to eat. Also buying strawberry fruit roll ups because they are the best thing ever and I eat them all the time.
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I lost my glasses [but] I have somehow acquired 2 more horses.
Were the two connected in this manner? Are you sure they're real horses?
Well, unless the invisible ponies learned to shit, I believe they are. They are pretty disgusting right now, abused etc. And one has...pooping issues...
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A house - ouch!
Only 19 years left to pay it off :-(
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I am shifting the conversation back to eyeglasses: I have had a pair of Gucci and Ralph Lauren specs and gosh dang if they basically weren't the same as all my cheapie ones in comfort, durability, etc. In fact, my RL ones lost the logo on the side, so they look really really stupid right now. I do as Lunchy does, and buy ones that look nice on my face, and since my insurance covers most, I've never really needed to look at the label.
A label can act as a placebo though, (I don't think that's the right word). But you know you spent more money, or you know the label, so you automatically think they're nicer, even if they're not. I'm probably biased though, as I grew up working class.
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And film to keep it going.
Other than that, when I am feeling bad about the world I go buy stare at expensive cheese.
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My shampoo and conditioner are probably the most expensive brand that can be bought from a supermarket.
Other than that I just spent $20au on poster that looks like bits of it are spinning when you look at it, and I lent another twenty to a friends boyfriend so he could get one, I'm unsure if that will be returned.
That's about it for recent decadency, as for future though: my four year old iPod appears to be going senile, and needs to be replaced. Normally I would say I could live without one, but it seems kind of a waste to just have the awesome iPod speakers i was given for Christmas just sitting there, a very expensive bedside clock.
Also a Wii and a TV are on a slightly less confident list of things I want
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I am shifting the conversation back to eyeglasses: I have had a pair of Gucci and Ralph Lauren specs and gosh dang if they basically weren't the same as all my cheapie ones in comfort, durability, etc.
Yeah. I mean goddamn people sometimes they are actually THE SAME frames without a logo. As long as you're buying from a good optician, and you get the frames properly fitted, anything is as comfortable as anything else. The rise in expense from normal glasses to designer frames is also insanely ridiculous.
I suppose I just absolutely cannot understand the mindset that feeds designer labels. You're paying ridiculous money for an artificially created sense of style. I buy all my clothes from Marks and Spencers, army surplus and merch retailers.
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Yeah, but military surplus ain't gonna land me a job anywhere except, well, maybe Hot Topic. I would really like to be employed at some point.
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I suppose I just absolutely cannot understand the mindset that feeds designer labels.
You know, I'd easily throw down 250-300 dollars on a nice pair of designer glasses, but there's no way in hell I'd pay $2200 for a Les Paul Standard. Fucking weird.
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I have used disposable contact lenses for over a decade. Never had any problems at all. Can't even feel them when they are in. On occasion I have kept them in for as long as three days in a row, including sleeping in them. Not advisable but I have done it.
i accidentally fell asleep while wearing contacts for ONE night and i ended up getting an eye infection that was so bad i was in danger of going blind and wound up in the hospital for a week.
(this is why i only wear glasses now)
(also, my glasses are made by fcuk so people think they say "fuck". hee.)
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The only problem I have with sleeping with my contacts in is that when I wake up, my eyeballs are incredibly dry and I basically have to chisel the contacts off of them.
I don't know about anybody else but to me, the coolest thing about wearing contacts is wearing them while taking a shower. It is a rare occasion that I shower after putting my contacts in, and I have had really poor eyesight since I was around 7, so its like a brand new world to me being able to actually SEE things whilst in the shower. Like "Wow, this is what normal people see when they shower? Awesome!"
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The last thing I really spent a lot of money on were my eyeglasses. They were around $300, but I got fancy, awesome frames (the bright violet was really hard to pass up) and featherweight lenses with anti-glare and Scotch Guard coating on the lenses to help prevent scratches. They are good glasses and if they hold up as long as my last pair did (about 6 years), I have no problem with spending that much money on them. I can see and my frames are awesome, so all is good. (Also, I hate contacts and the laser eye thing kind of freaks me out, so I'll stick with glasses. I like wearing them anyways.)
Those and my spring break trip this year to New York, which will in total be about the same price, because it's through the art program. Hells yes.
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I don't know about anybody else but to me, the coolest thing about wearing contacts is wearing them while taking a shower. It is a rare occasion that I shower after putting my contacts in, and I have had really poor eyesight since I was around 7, so its like a brand new world to me being able to actually SEE things whilst in the shower. Like "Wow, this is what normal people see when they shower? Awesome!"
lol oh yeah I definitely get this too. It is so different to shower with my contacts in that without.
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I think I spent just under $300 for my last pair of glasses --like $50 frames and the most expensive lenses, which I also need to put in a pair of my OLD frames, so I've more then one pair of glasses I can see out of... --I concur with all of the iffy-about about contact people. I have a fear of sticking things in my eyes... I think glasses add something to my otherwise rather plain looking face, so I'll just stick with them...
Other things I think I am spending far to much money on lately: tattoos --and not just mine now. My Mom is getting one next Thursday and I'm paying for it (it's her Christmas gift). AND, when my tax return comes in, I want to get my Deathly Hallows symbol...
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I didn't have a problem with sticking them onto my eye, but I just couldn't get used to them. And once I thought I dropped my contact down the drain when really it was shoved in the corner of my eye (don't ask). I think they're too much of a bother to put up with. Glasses are easier and more fashionable and so I'm going to stick with them.
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And once I thought I dropped my contact down the drain when really it was shoved in the corner of my eye (don't ask).
That happens to me a lot too. In my case, I can feel irritation on my eye, and I can't tell if it's because the lens is shoved up in a corner or if the lens came out and my eye is being irritated by an eyelash or something. A lot of times it turns out the lens is still there and just needs to be flushed out with eyedrops, but sometimes it fell out and my eye is scratched. One time in highschool I actually had to wear an eyepatch for a few days. Seriously, I needed an eyepatch.
The funny part was that my friends were freaked out thinking my eye had fallen out or something. I mean, earlier I was complaining that my eye hurt and I needed to go see the nurse, and then when they see me an hour later I'm wearing an eyepatch. lol
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I have less than $5 in my account. I think the last time I was decadent was the time I dropped 50 dollars on drugs that weren't pot.
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Decadency for me is more like giving in to my impetuous urges rather than simply spending money -- for example, right now I do not want to transfer money between a couple of my accounts because I'm cheap but I DO want to go post in the Aeris dying thread in C&VG "I cried when this thread died. At least I can bring it back to life."
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I think I might sometimes get carried away buying media.
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Course, I'm sure I'm moderate compared to some of the people on this forum, which makes me feel better.
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DVDs are probably my biggest regular expense, they don’t cost much, but I am constantly purchasing them.
I am prepared to spend obscene amounts of money on eye-glasses, the whole designer/non-designer thing doesn’t really factor into my choosing, I pick the ones that look the best and put up with the price. The way I look at this is, I have to wear them all the time so I may as well go for the best looking pair, it’s not like a designer shirt or something that you’ll hardly ever wear, I will get the value out of them. My current pair are a case in point, they are designer frames, but the do not have a logo anywhere on them, so as far as anyone else is concerned they could have cost me 20 euro, they just look good so that’s all that matters.
My single biggest expenditure is the trip I am currently on, and that has definitely been worth every penny!
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I do think Patrick brought up a good point about labels- the job situation. I think, especially in Normz' case, since she's studying to be a lawyer, appearances are very important. People- the jury, judge, potential clients etc- they're all going to look at a lawyer wearing an Armani suit much differently than a lawyer who got his suit from Wal-Mart. So in that case it is important to have the label, as it enhances one's credibility.
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But surely hardly anyone will be able to spot that the suit is Armani. They'll no doubt notice the fabric and the cut but not the label. A friend of mine who's planning to be a barrister is getting some bespoke tailored suits made and I don't think anyone's going to be looking down on her because they aren't a designer label.
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Usually a lot of the cost is because of the quality/design of the clothing, not just the label. If you buy something cheap, it will be noticeable - the tag adds price, but even more than that, it's ensuring the quality.
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The largest single-item purchase I've made that was completely unnecessary was this:
(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w159/usmcnavgeek/EF100-400mmf45-56LISUSM.jpg)
The Canon EF 100-400mm L IS USM (http://'http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Canon-EF-100-400mm-f-4.5-5.6-L-IS-USM-Lens-Review.aspx') lens for my camera. $1500 for 3 pounds of optical glass, electronics, and steel.
But I've also got an HDTV, all 3 current-gen game systems, a laptop PC, another laptop PC, another laptop PC, an omghuge gamez desktop PC...so in general my weakness is electronics.
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Usually a lot of the cost is because of the quality/design of the clothing, not just the label. If you buy something cheap, it will be noticeable - the tag adds price, but even more than that, it's ensuring the quality.
I don't think that's true. If other people's posts are to go by then things like glasses frames are almost exactly the same except for a brand logo. I think for suits then it is the the quality of workmanship that counts. If you get a suit that looks great but isn't Armani it doesn't matter much. Hell if I found a suit from K-Mart that looked like an Armani suit and had a similarly high quality (assuming that Armani stuff is well-made, I wouldn't know) I would rather pay the $150 odd for it rather than whatever the price for the designer thing would be. The price tag isn't indicative of quality.
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all 3 current-gen game systems
Man, that's not decadence, that's just plain wastefulness. I can say with complete honesty that I don't think there's one worthwhile reason to own both a 360 AND a PS3. One or the other, yeah, but owning both is just fucking pointless for anyone but the most reckless of early adopters.
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all 3 current-gen game systems
Man, that's not decadence, that's just plain wastefulness. I can say with complete honesty that I don't think there's one worthwhile reason to own both a 360 AND a PS3. One or the other, yeah, but owning both is just fucking pointless for anyone but the most reckless of early adopters.
That sounds like 'you win the thread' to me!
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Fuck no, I am not conceding on that. Out of spite, I'm going to the grocery store and getting a batch of chocolate icing and paying a pricey hooker to lick it off my ass while I soak my feet in a $300 bottle of wine.
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Or as Eliot Spitzer likes to call it, "Thursday."
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one worthwhile reason to own both a 360 AND a PS3
Well... the PS3 is still one of the better deals around for a Blu-Ray player. I'd say if you own a 360 and you want to buy a BD player, you might as well get a PS3.
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Playstation 2 was the best deal for a DVD player for a good while too, if I remember right. Those Sony cats know their shit when it comes to marketing.
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Hence the "reckless early adopter" remark. Blu Ray is not a proven lasting technology. Yes, it beat out HD DVD, but that doesn't really amount to shit. I've been holding firm for about a year and a half now that neither one would replace DVD and I stand by that opinion. Blu Ray is simply not worth dropping $400 on right now and if you already own a PS3, there's very little worthwhile reason to buy a 360. All in all, there's really no reason to spend the $700+ to own both. Blu Ray's a nice tech and it looks great, but it's not such an improvement over DVD that it'll ever be any more relevant than laser discs were.
And Patrick, I assume you've not really been following video gaming news lately. Sony's marketing has been absolute shit lately. Most of their marketing amounts fo Wizard of Oz tactics where the numbers place them in a rather distant third place, worldwide, yet they keep trying to act like they're top dog (Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, folks). Blu Ray was an unnecessary addition considering the fact that DVD is still years away from being obsolete considering not even fifteen percent of all US households (The biggest current HD market) even have the capability to watch anything above standard definition DVD resolution. If they'd dropped the idea of Blu Ray and put the PS3 out within a month of the 360, they'd have a pretty commanding lead over Microsoft right now. Sony keeps trying to make claims about how they're in position to make a huge surge, but every time they gain some momentum, it falls to shit after a few weeks. In short: Sony's marketing division were geniuses with the PS2. It was a weak, poorly put together piece of junk, but it was expertly marketed. The PS3 is a well put together monstrosity with too much crap in it that's been absolutely abysmally marketed.
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Funny, because the PS3 outsold the 360 and the DS in January U.S. sales (http://kotaku.com/356776/playstation-3-outsells-xbox-360-ds-in-january). You should definitely let the 269,000 January buyers know what a mistake they've made. Maybe they can get a refund.
As for early adopter, you're not buying Blu-Ray, you're buying the PS3 with the added benefit that it plays the higher definition format now carried by Netflix, Blockbuster and Walmart. And the PS3 launched in November 2006 so it's been out for ... a year and a half. I don't know what definition of early adopter you're using, but in the technology industry I'm familiar with, after a year and a half you're starting to the think about the next generation of products.
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every time they gain some momentum, it falls to shit after a few weeks.
February Charts (http://news.digitaltrends.com/news/story/12484/nintendo_wii_topped_february_console_sales)
Yeah, Sony had a surge in January...and then dropped right back down to the bottom of the pack again in February, actually managing to sell less than half what the Playstation 2 (Whose last big new title isnow a full year old) sold. They're probably only going to do worse this month due to Smash Bros Brawl's release and the current doldrum of major releases for it. GTA IV might give a bit of a quick jump, but I figure that'll more likely affect the 360 as the prime market for that game (The US) has a higher install base of 360s (Over double the PS3 and actually still slightly ahead of the Wii). The next real big surge in PS3 sales won't be until June when MGS 4 comes out.
And don't kid yourself. Most people aren't buying PS3 for the games. There's yet to be a single AAA exclusive game for PS3 (Resistance's popularity only occured from being the only worthwhile PS3 game and Uncharted is essentially Tomb Raider without the breast physics). The Blu Ray is the prime selling point and Sony is NOT advertising it properly (If they really wanted to make a case, they'd advertise it as a Blu Ray player with gaming functionality, not a game console with Blu Ray functionality). And make no mistake, it's still early on for Blu Ray. A year and a half is not far into the life cycle of media. The only way it's not early is if it fails even sooner than I anticipate. I never said the PS3 was a bad machine, I said it was an abysmally marketed machine that's trying to do too much at once.
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FFXIII.
Yeah that's right I said it.
Anyway, the discussion isn't about whether the PS3's marketing was screwed up, it was about your assertion that there was no reasonable basis to own both a PS3 and a 360. And I'm saying that there is. Not just to play Drake's Fortune, or Flow, or because you believe that Home is the next big thing, or because you know it's cheapest Blu-Ray player out there, but also because you need something to play Rock Band on after the 360 gives you the fourth read disc error in the same day and you threw it out the window.
Anyway, I'd prefer not to threadjack this into a console vs. console discussion. Decadence! I like caviar. Seriously. People in the know get the American Paddlefish caviar at 20$/ounce and eat it on blini with creme fraiche and chopped onion. Your drink is the best vodka you can afford on the rocks or chilled and straight up -- I suggest imperia. This stuff is pretty much indistinguishable from Osetra which is $50-100 per ounce and comes from the endangered Caspian sturgeon. It's not something I do every day, more of a special occasions thing, but damn is it ever good.
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I like to enjoy it with triple cream brie in the company of my blond haired, blue eyed girlfriend right after I play sports. Afterward, we go to Saks and buy things at full price.
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FFXIII.
Yeah, that might be relevant when it comes out in like 2015. Considering that FF XIII really is about the next big release for PS3 after MGS IV and that it's not coming out until at least well into 2009, I find it hard to really give a shit about it.
Anyway, I managed to avoid decadence yesterday. I struggled with buying a TV tuner card for my PC before deciding to wait on it. Go me.
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I like to eat it with crushed diamonds on a gold plate whilst i snort cocaine of the back of a baby panda.
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I believe that this has been posted before but:
For the last few years, the Golden Opulence, a $1,000 ice cream sundae, has reigned supreme as the priciest dessert at Serendipity 3 in New York. Now Stephen Bruce, owner of Serendipity 3, has gotten himself a Guinness world record for the most expensive dessert. The dessert emporium teamed up with jeweler Euphoria New York to create the "Frrozen Haute Chocolate," a $25,000 chocolate sundae. The new dessert is made from a blend of 28 cocoas from all around the world and is infused with five grams of edible 23-karat gold and served in a goblet lined with edible gold. It is topped with whipped cream, more gold and a side of La Madeline au Truffle from Knipschildt Chocolatier, which sells for $2,600 a pound. It even comes with souvenirs, an 18K gold bracelet with a carat's worth of diamonds that rests at the base of the goblet and a gold spoon set with white and chocolate-colored diamonds. It makes yesterday's $1,000 bagel look positively simple by comparison.
This place got shut down temporarily a few months ago for violating the health code (e.g., too many rats).
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He put gold in the ice cream but didn't think to get rid of the rats. That there is a restaurant owner with his priorities straight.
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Maybe the rats were the secret ingredient
cue spooky Alfred Hitchcock music
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Their ice cream is made with malk.
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If one really wants to be decadent, one should be an MP (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7295150.stm).
I want to be given an allowance of £1,000 a year on books.
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You also want to work ridiculous hours and spend half your year away from your family and home for £50,000 a year? I think my MP is worth his allowances.
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He put gold in the ice cream but didn't think to get rid of the rats. That there is a restaurant owner with his priorities straight.
I think George Orwell said (though phrasing it better) the more up-market the restaurant, the more squalid the kitchen. Didn't think it still held, though.
Gold in ice cream is just absurd. Amusing, but come on.
There are too many books here. That's where the money's gone.
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If you want to ingest some gold, get some Goldschläger and save some money, eh?
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FFXIII.
Yeah, that might be relevant when it comes out in like 2015. Considering that FF XIII really is about the next big release for PS3 after MGS IV and that it's not coming out until at least well into 2009, I find it hard to really give a shit about it.
Anyway, I managed to avoid decadence yesterday. I struggled with buying a TV tuner card for my PC before deciding to wait on it. Go me.
Dude, what? MGS4 is coming out June 12th. I assume you were just using a hyperbole, but it doesn't work, because a firm release date has been set for over a month now.
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I will believe it is out when I see it on the shelves.
But hey, that is better than Duke Nukem Forever, I wouldn't believe that was out until I beat the sequel.
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Or as Eliot Spitzer likes to call it, "Thursday."
It's about damn time someone referenced this. Sheesh.
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I kind of have a lot of militaria, I have something from every style since WWII
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Do I need to post in this thread, honestly?
I could put together an outfit that would look hot as hell and would be worth probably over $1000 dollars in like 5 minutes.
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Do it now, I don't believe you. Well, maybe I do. But still do it.
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The other day I misplaced my phone somewhere inside my room, after about 25 mins of looking for it, I just gave up and headed to the mall to buy another prettier phone
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Do it now, I don't believe you. Well, maybe I do. But still do it.
I'm not at my school closet, but I could put on my $450 Marc Jacobs slacks, a pair of sneakers at $180, a $120 dress shirt with a 20 dollar t-shirt underneath, plus socks, plus belt, plus 150 for sunglasses, plus like 100 for jacket, plus hat(I could wear a nice one instead of my awesome one) and easily top a grand.
I paid full price for none of that stuff, but still.
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I keep taking $20 cab rides to work rather than getting up an hour earlier and taking the train.
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Note to self: Burglarise Keiffers wardrobe.
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I paid full price for none of that stuff, but still.
You're not actually supposed to tell people that.
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so, uh, i have a pair of purple heels (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2346/2269014224_1b9fe4559b.jpg?v=0) that i really love. they were 50 euro and they are my favorite shoes ever. about a week ago i wore them out and i ended up having to walk a lot on the cobblestones (which i didn't expect to have to do) and the heels got really scratched up and ruined. i was very sad.
yesterday i stopped by the shoe store where i had bought them and found that they were still selling them! for only 20 euro! and they had only one pair left in my size! so i bought them. i don't know if this counts as decadence because it's not like re-buying them was expensive. but i am well aware that i am pretty ridiculous because now i have 2 pairs of the same shoes: one to wear on cobblestones and another pair to "just sit there and look pretty".
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I don't think that's true. If other people's posts are to go by then things like glasses frames are almost exactly the same except for a brand logo. I think for suits then it is the the quality of workmanship that counts. If you get a suit that looks great but isn't Armani it doesn't matter much. Hell if I found a suit from K-Mart that looked like an Armani suit and had a similarly high quality (assuming that Armani stuff is well-made, I wouldn't know) I would rather pay the $150 odd for it rather than whatever the price for the designer thing would be. The price tag isn't indicative of quality.
I know it was well over a page ago but this comment was annoying me .......... there is NO WAY you could get a suit from k-mart that would be the same quality as an armani suit (or any other pricey brand) what your paying for is an amazingly cut and tailored piece of clothing, in general the more you pay for a suit the better it is. Instead of having some badly fit poleyester blend suit that would look crumpled after a half day of wear, not be flattering at all, and likelyhood is will fall apart within a couple of dry-cleans you could instead choose to pay more money and have a merino wool blend suit made out of a fabric sourced from europe that is fully lined, cut to fit your body and will last years and years and still look amazing.
I know my more exspensive suits are my favourites because of the workmanship on them; the darts and pleats that make them look amazing... visual example
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/normz/suitup.jpg)
that (altho blurry) is a hot suit
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Butts, I wish I had the money and a reason to wear a suit.
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I spent like $13 on the pair of jeans I'm wearing right now. True story.
Also: normz,
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I've also just realised that while were on the point of decadence, real snakes died for those shoes im wearing (man i could totally give keiffer a run for his money in the 1k+ outfit competition) and thats just what i wear to work
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One of the nicest shirts I own cost $6. It totally looks like a $50 dress shirt, I'm guessing it was tagged wrong or something.
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to be fair my fave jeans ever cost $10 and i will wear them till they fall apart, also my xbf always found it funny that the shirt i liked most on him was a $3 target boys shirt
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All of my favorite clothes came from Target, Old Navy, or some discount rack. Do I wish I could have tailored suits, oh my goodness yes. But I have no money or an excuse to get one. And if I wore it to my "job", it'd get ruined anyways.
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FFXIII.
Yeah, that might be relevant when it comes out in like 2015. Considering that FF XIII really is about the next big release for PS3 after MGS IV and that it's not coming out until at least well into 2009, I find it hard to really give a shit about it.
Anyway, I managed to avoid decadence yesterday. I struggled with buying a TV tuner card for my PC before deciding to wait on it. Go me.
Dude, what? MGS4 is coming out June 12th. I assume you were just using a hyperbole, but it doesn't work, because a firm release date has been set for over a month now.
Do you have trouble remembering the first half of a sentence after reading the second half? I was quite clearly talking about Final Fantasy XIII being the next big release after MGS. Final Fantasy XIII is subsequently not even dated and will be, at the earliest, well into 2009.
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This thread is not about console fanboyism. It is about the $450 Marc Jacob pants that Kieffer bought on sale. I hear he shops at Filene's Basement with his mother.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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Let me break down my current outfit.
Sweater- $8
Tank tops (two)- $8
Jeans- $15
Shoes- $4
Undergarments- $12
Belt- Free!
Total- $47
I do not belong in this thread.
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the coffee i'm drinking right now is pretty expensive, i guess.
i do not think i belong in this thread either.
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I bought a $120 pair of jeans a few weeks ago. They forgot to take the giant anti-theft thingy off, and I didn't notice it until I got home. The smart thing would have been to take it back and get them to take it off. I decided to just yank it off. Now I have a $120 pair of jeans with a hole in them that makes it look stolen.
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Tommy, is this (http://thesuperficial.com/2008/03/scarlett_johannson_goes_for_40.php) you?
Scarlett Johansson's eBay auction ended on Wednesday and some guy from the United Kingdom paid $40,100 for an evening with the actress.
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No. Scarlett Johansson doesn't have a boyfriend.
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I'm not much of a spender. The last thing I brought was my math book at $80 and that's not decadent at all. Any money I get basically go towards college. Anything I own is a gift or brought when I still lived with my parents.
I don't know if anyone else feels this way, but I hate spending money. I always wonder what if something comes up and I need that money or if what I'm buying is really necessary. I came from a family of 5 with an okay income and we had a vacation every year and stuff, but we also watched how much was spent. My boyfriend's family has a way higher income and I worry about how my boyfriend will deal with the loss of extras when we live on our own. He's brilliant with economics and stuff, so I doubt he'll spend unnecessarily, but I still worry.
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No. Scarlett Johansson doesn't have a boyfriend.
So you think ;)
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I know it was well over a page ago but this comment was annoying me .......... there is NO WAY you could get a suit from k-mart that would be the same quality as an armani suit (or any other pricey brand) what your paying for is an amazingly cut and tailored piece of clothing, in general the more you pay for a suit the better it is. Instead of having some badly fit poleyester blend suit that would look crumpled after a half day of wear, not be flattering at all, and likelyhood is will fall apart within a couple of dry-cleans you could instead choose to pay more money and have a merino wool blend suit made out of a fabric sourced from europe that is fully lined, cut to fit your body and will last years and years and still look amazing.
I know my more exspensive suits are my favourites because of the workmanship on them; the darts and pleats that make them look amazing... visual example
SUIT
that (altho blurry) is a hot suit
You didn't read my post well enough. Try again (bolded for emphasis).
I don't think that's true. If other people's posts are to go by then things like glasses frames are almost exactly the same except for a brand logo. I think for suits then it is the the quality of workmanship that counts. If you get a suit that looks great but isn't Armani it doesn't matter much. Hell if I found a suit from K-Mart that looked like an Armani suit and had a similarly high quality (assuming that Armani stuff is well-made, I wouldn't know) I would rather pay the $150 odd for it rather than whatever the price for the designer thing would be. The price tag isn't indicative of quality.
I was using K-Mart as an example of a place where you get cheap clothes. I used Armani as an example of expensive (and in my mind, overpriced) designer clothes. The two examples are largely irrelevant, my point was that if I found a cheap, no-name brand but well made and flattering suit I would buy that over an expensive designer suit (be it well made or not).
I did not say that it was possible for me to pop into my local K-Mart and pick up an amazing suit (do they even sell them?) that is just as nice as a designer one at a fraction of the cost.
My other point was that people will pay exhorbitant amounts of money simply because there is a label that says "Armani" or... I can't think of any other designers but do you see what I am getting at? Just because you are paying more does not necessarily mean that you are getting more.
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A better example would be perhaps Calvin Klein vs Bonds underwear. Both are good, solid products, well made and long-lasting, but the Bonds ones are ten bucks where the CK ones are sixty.
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I should have done that. Shit I even wear bonds!
Let's face it people, I am bad at fashion.
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I was just about to say you were bad at fashion, actually. Not even in a negative sense, you just clearly do not understand why people who care about fashion care about fashion.
I don't really feel like explaining it, either. Suffice to say you are paying for a lot more than the name "Armani"
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That's ok! I'm not actually interested in finding out. I am happy to wear very entry-level suits and look reasonable. I don't need $200 shirts simply because I just don't care that much about fashion, I have better things to spend my money on at the moment.
It is entirely possible that once I actually get a real job making proper money I will wear fancy clothes but until then I get my shirts from Lowes (discount mens retailer), my pants from Army Surplus stores and...well I do like expensive boots so I guess that's something.
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Not being decadent = why are you in a thread about decadence
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Shit I just realised something! The reason I am bad at fashion is because we're talking about the wrong fashion! I have bought and will buy again expensive pairs of boots - My two pairs of Demonia's cost about $270 each pair and my New Rocks were $500. I have a Tripp shirt that cost $100 and a Cyberdog shirt that I got for $115 and that was at 70% off! I once bought a handmade Cyber/Space Pirate jacket from Gallery Serpentine for $220 (down from $300) and I have about 3 leather jackets ranging in price from $300 (down from $1000) to about $700 (down from over $1100). I totally get fashion, just not when it comes to articles of clothing that I don't give a shit about!
Sorry dudes! It is too early for me to be talking about what I am still basically a novice in (I still wouldn't pay more than $60 for a pair of jeans though).
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See, I like looking like I paid a lot for something and not actually doing it. I feel like I cheat the system that way. It's showing you have good taste but not dropping mad money that you can use other places.
I can't decided how I would dress if I had a lot of disposable cash. I would either wear dresses/pencil skirts all the time with $700 peep-toe shoes that were sexy as hell (the lady) OR I would opt out, and wear madly expensive denim with really interesting sneakers (the gent). That's the problem with being a college kid with no potential of ever becoming rich, but also having an eye for expensive things....DREAMS!
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In terms of ridiculously impulsive buys, i present you the result of 3 hours of shopping:
(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d79/Verergoca/S5002580.jpg)
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That Garlan stuff is so fucking tasty on a cracker or something, holy crap!
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i'll be the first to admit that i am terrible at fashion. i don't really want to be good at it, though, so that's okay for now.
i probably can't consider myself decadent at all seeing as i live off a piddly student budget but a huge chunk of my funds still tends to go mainly towards expensive food and food-related products that i can't really realistically afford. i am a sucker for things that are delicious. a couple of months ago i bought a $80 coffee grinder because i decided i am too good for pre-ground coffee. i know that doesn't really sound like anything at all but considering i am perpetually broke it was probably a pretty ridiculous thing to do.
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I bought this last week instead of having my old watch fixed.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71Awf11i33L._AA280_.gif)
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Things like shirts, plain t-shirts, jeans, socks, underwear and maybe nice jackets etc. I get from Marks and Spencers. The clothes are well made, mostly fairtrade or organic cotton, inexpensive and look very nice. The most expensive thing I have ever purchased from them (and thus the most expensive 'normal' fashion thing I have ever bought) was this linen jacket for some smart casual wear:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41FWbebzqwL._SX280_SH35_.jpg)
Though I don't wear it in such a cock-suckerish way.
I do have lots of coats and boots though. I have two pairs of combat boots (one British Patrol, one Bundeswehr Paratrooper) a pair of armoured Gripfast work boots and some classic Doc Martens. I also have two leather jackets (one biker style, one more like a single-breasted suit jacket, I suppose, with lapels), two leather trenchcoats (one of which cost £300, one of which cost £2. Tragically the £2 is much better styled and made.), two woodland DPM jackets (one British, unadorned, one German, covered in badges and patches) a grey wool trenchcoat (with purple ribbons down the front, part of an Alexander Anderson cosplay outfit), as well as a nice heavy green insulated raincoat, an old-school Barbour, complete with wire-supported hood, and a black sailing jacket. My over-riding concern with clothing is durability. I've got clothes I've been wearing for six or seven years, and I plan to wear them just as long again.
Fashion as a way of expressing yourself through dress is an awesome thing. Fashion that comes in magazines is an insane rip-off fest.
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In terms of ridiculously impulsive buys, i present you the result of 3 hours of shopping:
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d79/Verergoca/S5002580.jpg (http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d79/Verergoca/S5002580.jpg)
harhar, thumbs up for the Space Marine Command Squad + Citadel Paint ;)
the last "decadent" thing i spent money on were these:
(http://dvice.com/pics/Bose-in-ear_headphones.jpg)
Bose In Ear Headphones. They were about 72€, but damn it, they're the best headphones i've owned in a while.
The next big spending i'm gonna make will be for an MSI Notebook with Core 2 Duo and 3 gig of ram, but my current pc is almost 8 years old. so that doesn't really count as "decadent".
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Fashion as a way of expressing yourself through dress is an awesome thing. Fashion that comes in magazines is an insane rip-off fest.
Explain this, because it makes no sense.
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I do not think what I am wearing now cost me anything.
LOL NAKED JOKES
No but seriously my shirt was free and my knickers were gifts and my mom bought me my climbing pants. I like to think I am pretty good at exploiting the people who care about me. :)
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I don't like most of my clothes anymore.
Unfortunately most shops in Bournemouth are shit and charity shops don't have mens clothes.
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just for the record, tonight i am living the rock and roll lifestyle.
except minus the hookers and blow, becaese im' still a virgin and my nasal passages are intact, but holy fuckbats am i drunk. free booze 'cause i'm in the band? fuck yeahhhhhhhhhsjiergmm okay somebody punch me i've already posted in the drunk thread
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I want to go into the Armani and Boss stores and look at suits, but I feel like I need to be wearing an expensive suit to just go in.
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I buy clothes that I never wear, like a German tracksuit top with 'SV Obertraubling' on the back, a green velvet blazer, etc.
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Explain this, because it makes no sense.
Fashion as in 'the Fashion', you know, the one that changes arbitrarily every six weeks or so at the whim of some coke-snorting cocksuckers in New York and Paris. Yay, taste that's disposable! Yay, looking the same!
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There's a shop in Bournemouth called 'Clone Zone.'
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Explain this, because it makes no sense.
Fashion as in 'the Fashion', you know, the one that changes arbitrarily every six weeks or so at the whim of some coke-snorting cocksuckers in New York and Paris. Yay, taste that's disposable! Yay, looking the same!
But how is that different? You "look the same" as most other metal fans to the average person who isn't in touch with that culture, I am sure. And while the style might not change as often, I am willing to bet that you to some degree follow the sea change in that culture. What is the difference between following a taste that makes you happy and is originated by people in New York vs people in Norway or whatever? I love "The Fashion," although I tend to work more on predicting it than following it, just because I'd much rather be ahead of a trend than in it.
Note, I realize there are a lot of generalizations in that papargraph, but please don't take it as an attack. Purely me wondering where you see the difference between your $200 boots and my $200 sneakers.
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My boots cost like, £40.
It's ridiculous because fashion is essentially controlled by a tiny elite who are both the creators and arbitors of taste and have everyone else running around behind them at their whim as they indulge in novelty for novelties sake. It's like fine art, but less durable.
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my impulse buy was my big red bong.
$70, and I barely use it because I can't smoke indoors and it is too awkward to carry around.
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Fashion to me is a man standing next to a river and every so often he declares that the water flowing by him at that exact second is the best water you will ever taste and everyone pays $500 to taste the water before it goes past him because once it's past him it doesn't taste as good.
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That's a pretty good analogy for the fashion industry. I have a friend who looks at Vogue and raves about certain things and I just think that if I saw a person walking down the street wrapped in purple metallic gauze fastened with a belt made of real yeti hair or whatever the hell they decide is fashionable this season, I'd probably be really confused.
I actually made a (sort of) decadent purchase yesterday. I've decided that one clothing item worth spending a little more money on is bras. I went to a real lingerie shop instead of a department store, got an actual fitting, and walked away with the two most comfortable undergarments I've ever worn. I might be down 90 bucks, but it was totally worth it. I get most of my clothes from Goodwill or other secondhand stores, so for total clothing budget my average spending is pretty low. I refuse to buy undergarments from Goodwill. That just seems creepy.
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I think you guys might just not "get" fashion. The people who do it well aren't the ones who follow the looks in Vogue or Elle or whatever. Firstly, those sell watered down two seasons old looks anyway, you'd be better off with Harpers. Second, well I can't explain it, so everyone go to this website.
http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/
It's just a guy who takes pictures of people he sees in the street who are dressed really well. I check it pretty regularly, because it is just fucking awesome. And people wearing stuff like this
(http://bp0.blogger.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/R9U_U3ni4XI/AAAAAAAADFA/ZtbE5KrUjE8/s400/PSPCweb.jpg)
(http://bp0.blogger.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/R9fdUXni4aI/AAAAAAAADFY/7VKDQpHY-Vs/s400/Marpinkweb.jpg)
(http://bp3.blogger.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/R9nmnWkfXiI/AAAAAAAADGg/WfEkJQ10OSU/s400/PriyaKweb.jpg)
Is basically art, in my mind. But it's art that every day, they get up and create. They wake up and put together something that works completely perfectly and they can feel good about it, and other people see it and say "oh shit look at that guys outfit" and that is just badass, I guess? I don't know how to explain it, really, but still.
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Yeah, the fashion design majors wear stuff like that every day. I'm kind of used to seeing those kind of clothes, but in a way that still makes me stop and think, "Huh, that's an interesting combination." But I wouldn't be able to wear a lot of that stuff without feeling really silly, because that's just not me, except for the last one (dress + funky colored flats) if I was going out.
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Holy shit, that blog is so good. I dress like a complete knob, myself, but still, that is neat.
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Even though the guys typing words are complete cockbags I like looking at the vice magazine 'dos and don'ts' because they find some really funkily dressed people.
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To be contrary, for two years or so I had a girlfriend who worked for Karl Lagerfeld. The people in fashion I met during this time were the most incredibly headstrong, talented, unpretentious and unbelievably hardworking people I have ever met. I think something that I didn't appreciate before was that working in fashion requires you to be proficient in a wide range of skills. You have to be able to conceive, design, render and then actually make outfits on your own. This means every person has to be able to draw to an artistic and then technical standard, have an incredibly wide knowledge of materials and how they fit together as well as being able to literally make their designs with their own hands. It's only through many, many years of hard work do people earn proxies and functionaries to carry out these tasks. To these regular rank and file designers who work for the larger fashion houses, they put in an awful lot of work for comparatively little return. They don't do it out of some sense of 'cool', they do it because they genuinely love their craft and are every bit as committed to their art as anyone else.
However, the media coverage of fashion is often pretty misleading and every bit as distasteful as you might imagine.
Personally, when I wear specific outfits deliberately it is because they are functional. I utilise certain outfits in the same way you might use any tool you might have at your disposal. I have a couple of suits I use when I am running presentations for the company I work for because certain looks do subconciously alter people's perception. I am a professional and I feel like it is my duty to use every trick at my disposal for the good of my employers. On occasions, I may need to have the appearance of someone who is dynamic, authoritative and affluent. If people with money are more inclined to invest if they see a young man in an Armani suit, I'll wear an Armani suit. I'm being paid to get results and I would be disappointed in myself if I didn't perform to the best of my ability. This is what you might call goal-orientated fashion. No more different than if you had a job dressing up as Mickey Mouse at Disneyland.
On topic - I just spent $16,000 on a new kitchen.
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My fashion is goal oriented too!
The goal is to get people who appreciate fashion to touch my penis.
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Exactly.
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I kinda think that what you see in a magazine is more along the lines of the style that they want you to emulate. Therefore if you follow magazines you are stylish, not fashionable. The difference to me is that fashion is doing your own thing and being original, style is being a copycat.
I know that was worded really oddly but it makes sense in my head.
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I don't think style is necessarily being a copycat. I always thought of it as a way to categorize just what kind of fashion you're into, like genres or music, etc. Like it's a subset of fashion as a whole.
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I use the words style and fashion the exact opposite way. "Fashion" to me is more of the 'this is what is in right now and you should wear it regardless of how expensive or ridiculous it is.' while the word "style" seems more like a general sense of what looks good, which can be adapted to the individual. Some people have style without necessarily following what is fashionable, but a person who wears something that is in fashion doesn't always demonstrate style.
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Maybe that's what I was thinking. I think that's why it didn't sound quite right to me.
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That's exactly how I see it too. Style is how you wear your clothes, how they're put together and what you wear with what. Fashion is the actual clothes you buy, not how you wear them. Tomorrow I'll be wearing blue jeans bought several years ago (nicely cut but faded), tatty old trainers coloured with highlighters to make them more interesting, an old orange hoody that used to belong to my mum and is really a bit too small, and a gorgeous maroon tweed jacket with gold buttons. It works, as far as I'm concerned anyway, but none of the clothes are remotely fashionable.
Then again, style is very individual whereas fashion works the same for everyone. When someone goes into New Look, or whatever the equivalent is in other countries, and buys a new jacket or a dress, what they're buying is the comfort of being dressed how most people their (my) age are dressing. Style only works for the person it's on. I could never wear a suit, I'm too short and squidgy. Same with miniskirts. And yet some people can do just that and look great.
I know a girl who spends a fortune on clothes, and is always wearing designer stuff. She goes mad if anyone gets it mucky or even touches it. And yet she's barely remarkable. The only reason she's noticable is because she has a good bone structure and is strikingly pretty, but her personal style is fairly non-descript. She's an example of where fashion is supressing style. It's possible to have both, and some people do, but I think style is more important and it's definitely longer lasting.
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While I make every attempt to make myself look presentable, my problem with fashion is that I would be most comfortable just lounging about in boxers all day.
I like wearing suits, though, particularly at places where they're not called for.
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Fashion to me is a man standing next to a river and every so often he declares that the water flowing by him at that exact second is the best water you will ever taste and everyone pays $500 to taste the water before it goes past him because once it's past him it doesn't taste as good.
I drink water from a distiller. I can't taste the difference between that, Perrier, and a goddamn garden hose (something I would not like to test, though, as I would not like to contract hepatitis).
I do not care about fashion and I do not care about what style is popular. I just wear what I think looks good. It gets me mixed reviews, sure, but I really don't give a fuck about half of them, because that's the half that is bitching at me "Oh that outfit is unflattering". The other half is like "Oh you look great in that!" and I still don't care.
I will just put it out there, however, that my ridiculously inexpensive clothing looked awesome last night while I was performing. I got hit on. Twice. BOOYAHHHHHH TAPERED JEANS AREN'T OUT YET MOTHERFUCKERS.
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i go to a private american university in rome, italy. fashion is very important here. i really like clothes, and i like dressing up, but there are two kinds of fashionable people who bother me:
because public universities in italy are free, most of the italians who end up going to my school are rich, spoiled brats. they all dress head to toe in prada, gucci, dolce & gabbana etc. they look like shit. considering how expensive their clothes are it's amazing how their outfits tend to range from lacking any sort of personality to just downright tacky. i don't get the appeal in wearing things that cost a lot when you just end up looking so bad! (and i suspect that the reason they look so bad is because they are more concerned by the names they are wearing than they are about simple things like color coordination)
the other kind of people who bother me are the kind who are complete snobs and look down on other people for being unfashionable, but wear the most ridiculous things just because they are "in" that season. for example: overall shorts. they are pretty ridiculous looking. i mean, i love them, but that's because i love ridiculous things. there is a girl i know who hated me purely because i did not wear things that were "stylish" (she admitted as much to me). i saw her wearing these overall shorts and i was really annoyed. i have a hard time believing she would have worn them if they had not been in fashion at the time. in fact, they looked pretty silly, and i am positive that if she had seen somebody wearing them a year earlier she would have despised them. it is great to see people wearing weird and fun things, but not when they are wearing those things purely because they are "cool". in my opinion, that just completely defeats the purpose and kind of makes you a hypocrite.
however, i really do enjoy fashion magazines and i love seeing stylish people all dressed up! i just think it's really not necessary to spend a lot of money on labels to look good. the people who's fashion sense i am most jealous of wear very few/no things by famous designers. i don't necessarily follow trends, and i like to think i have my own style. but i do appreciate when certain things become fashionable because they give me new ideas of what to wear, or sometimes things i already liked become "cool" and then it's easier for me to find them!
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(http://bp0.blogger.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/R9U_U3ni4XI/AAAAAAAADFA/ZtbE5KrUjE8/s400/PSPCweb.jpg)
In what fucking universe is this guy well dressed?
He's wearing clashing colours for a start.
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What colors in that outfit clash? The color combinations are definately non-traditional but they still work.
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I have to agree with Khar in disliking that outfit, the only one that I saw that I liked out of those three was the last one, and the bright shoes didn't help it.
I am not the most varied in clothing, though, I would be perfectly fine with only having blue and black in my wardrobe, except for my brown coat.
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What colors in that outfit clash?
The shirt and the trousers.
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Orange and blue are complementary colors, they go well together.
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See, Khar, that is why you don't get fashion.
Also, I too get dressed in the morning based on what looks and feels good. I just also consider whether or not the style I am wearing has become to popular, and whether the outfit is too similar to what I wore the day before, and whether or not it's distinct enough to justify wearing, and yadda yadda yadda.
I just really like clothes, guys.
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I'm glad to hear that. There are too many people out there that don't give a crap about what they wear, which makes me sad. I had it when I see someone dressed badly that could look so much better with just a few changes to their outfit.
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Well pretty much I just wear black. Obviously there will be some colour if I'm wearing a t-shirt with a band design on it but for the most part I'm just wearing black jeans, black boots, black shirts and if it's cold a black jacket (at least i never have to worry if my clothes clash), even at the office I wear either all black or maybe a dark shirt (dark purple or grey). Probably the main problem I have with fashion is the same as Khar's. Why would I want to wear something that only looks "cool" because a certain group of people say it does? If you want to do that that's fine, and if, like Kieffer, you want to take popularity, variety and distinction into account when you put your clothes on in the morning then more power to you but it really isn't for me. I know what I like and generally what is in Fashion is not it. It's not so much that I don't care what I wear, it's that I don't care what other people think I should wear.
Also the dude in the orange pants... As soon as I saw him I choked on my water. If I saw him on the street I would just start laughing. If that's what is fashionable now I'm glad I have nothing to do with it.
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I don't see how you can figure wearing that is worse than going around wearing black. Sure, it's not conventional and it stands out, but it looks good.
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See, I would say the dude in the orange pants is the best dressed that I posted, and one of the best that's been posted on that site in a while. The contrast in colors and patterns, unified by small details like the tie, the belt, the whatever he has in his pocket, creates a completely eyecatching look that is still totally distinct from anything you'd typically catch on the street. The point is that he's fashionable because he's pushing boundaries, because he's not just putting together a 'fit that just plays to what is in fashion, but rather has assembled a super classy look out of completely dissimilar items of clothing. It's fuckin baller.
Also, if you think things only look "cool" because people say they are, then you're being kind of ignorant. Everything that is considered cool is considered cool because someone says it is. Cool is a completely socially constructed thing, it doesn't exist in a vacuum, so why does it matter which "certain group of people" call something cool?
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Orange and blue are complementary colors, they go well together.
Well I don't see any blue in that outfit; I see a lilac shirt, and a purple jacket with orange trousers.
And I agree with Khar I think it looks ridiculous. I appreciate that the guy is doing something unique and setting himself away from the crowd but that does not necessarily make the outfit attractive. But admittedly I know nothing about fashion, my style, as much as I have one, is fairly run of the mill trainers-jeans-tee shirt, unless I'm wearing a more dressy look for going out whatever.
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I'm just saying that to me the guy looks like he only has the vaguest idea of how sane people dress themselves. Seriously, from my point of view which is completely different and separate from anyone else's point of view, the dude looks like a fucking shithead.
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Well I don't see any blue in that outfit; I see a lilac shirt, and a purple jacket with orange trousers.
Okay, yes, the shirt is lilac, but the jacket is navy blue. Maybe a blue violet.
Either way I think it looks good.
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I'm just saying that to me the guy looks like he only has the vaguest idea of how sane people dress themselves. Seriously, from my point of view which is completely different and separate from anyone else's point of view, the dude looks like a fucking shithead.
Thank you for saying what I was pussy-footing around!
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Orange and blue are complementary colors, they go well together.
How about that belt, which looks fucking terrible with those pants. Two different oranges =/= match
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Surprise guys! Taste is subjective!
I totally understand that some people will look at orange pants man and think "wow, that dude is totally on the edge and completely fearless with his fashion! What a totally non-traditional mix of colours, I think that looks cool!" But when I look at that gaudy motherfucker I, like Simon Pegg in Black Books think "Who is this rudderless hippy? [though I guess he's more a mod than anything] How do I get away from him? Does he have a hunting knife strapped to his shin?"
The argument on whether or not we agree on what looks good is silly and will never be finalised because of those fucking orange pants!
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How about that belt, which looks fucking terrible with those pants. Two different oranges =/= match
The belt is more of a yellow orange. The two colors are different enough that they don't clash. That's something most people have a problem with- just because two things don't match doesn't mean they don't go together.
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The belt is orange on the front, the turquoise is the key to the 'fit.
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The turquoise which you can hardly see because it's hidden by his blazer.
That belt is carrot orange and the pants are bright yam. Either way, it is still orange.
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Orange and blue are complementary colors, they go well together.
What part of that outfit is blue?
It looks like two halves of different people. Like when you stick a lego pirates body on a lego spacemans legs or something.
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The jacket is navy blue, which she said above and I agree with. And I don't see how you guys think the two oranges clash. One is more yellow and lighter in value (it's mustard yellow) and the other a darker, more saturated orange (that's carrot orange). Yes, they happen to be the brightest aspects of his outfits, but they don't clash. The only thing I don't like about the outfit is that the shirt is lavender. If it were more blue, I think it would be a lot better.
Would less of you have a problem with the outfit if he was wearing pants that matched his blazer? Really though. He'd have a fancy belt, sure, but without the orange pants, his outfit would become much more "traditional" and really would lose quite a bit of the style in that outfit.
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Oh, I'm not saying ditch the pants. The blue and lilac and orange work well together. I just hate the belt because I feel it is a glaring representation of everything I have ever hated about some people's attempts to look cool.
Seriously he couldn't have just gone for a solid turquoise belt?
ITT: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy QC Edition
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I happen to like his belt! I would wear it.
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Guys I can't even get it up unless the girl knows how to make clashing patterns and colors work, so we might not be able to reach an agreement, here.
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God damn it man, this is the Internet we need consensus
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man, i really like that guy's outfit.
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I'm not completely ignorant on style. Despite my desire to just lounge in boxers all day, I wear things that match and compliment each other well, and I use a wide variety of colors.
But my god, that picture of the guy in orange pants...I have no problem with unconventional style, but that outfit is just so garish to my eyes. Honestly, it almost hurts to look at it, like trying to read neon-green text on a white background.
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I don't find it very garish at all myself, the orange trousers are a surprise but that's all. If they were too bright they'd fuck it up but they seem quite muted to me. I like it because it's an outfit that works with his face, he looks like someone who should be wearing a suit pretty much permanently since he's been transplanted from the US in the '50s, but he's found a way to put something together which works with that but throws off your expectations at the same time.
That site and thinking like this just makes me wish I had any kind of clue how to dress well and the money to spend on it if I did.
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See, I think the outfit looks cool, I just don't really like the clean-cut look that he's pulling with it. When I put my thumb over his head the suit alone looks freaking pimp.
I'm not really fashionable, I just wear skinny jeans+belt/tight(bandsometimes)tee/wrist-sweat/adidas classics. Don't have much to work with, there's nowhere to get decent clothes around here, so I get the majority my stuff off the net... I can't be arsed to make a bunch of internet orders.
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Man, I can't give a damn about clothing right now, because my latest decadency is going FUCKING SKYDIVING
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Looking at some of the pictures he has taken, I see why he would like them, but I just don't like bright clothes. The one exception I saw so far was the "American in Paris" one, it looks great just because of how ridiculous it is.
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Man I do not like that guy's outfit at all. But that's probably because it reminds me of how a lot of guys at my school dress (i go to a private high school) and those guys are pretty much all assholes. So, my opinion is rather biased.
My fashion is basically jeans, chucks, band tee, some hat, and a hoodie. I'm cool.
edit: page break woo!
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How has this thread talked about fashion for this long without mention of the Vice Do's and Don'ts (http://www.viceland.com/int/dos.php?country=us)?
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I'm pretty sure it did talk about it, but I am severely underwhelmed by those so far.
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What the fuck IS an enchilada?
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How has this thread talked about fashion for this long without mention of the Vice Do's and Don'ts (http://www.viceland.com/int/dos.php?country=us)?
Because this is not hipinion, and we are not Vice magazine reading cocksockets?
Maybe?
I mean seriously, Vice Magazine is like going to a party, and you go outside for a smoke, and you somehow get stuck talking to this absolute wanker in a loud hoody and silly little beard who desperately wants to tell you how much cocaine he has snorted this evening.
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I can see your point, but my first exposure to the Book of Do's and Don'ts made me laugh until I came close to peeing my pants (and then I ran to the diner bathroom and "for a good tim" was written on the wall which made me laugh even harder) and it's a rare one that makes me laugh out loud nowadays but I still have a soft spot for them. The enchilada one is priceless no matter what.
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I think you guys might just not "get" fashion. The people who do it well aren't the ones who follow the looks in Vogue or Elle or whatever. Firstly, those sell watered down two seasons old looks anyway, you'd be better off with Harpers. Second, well I can't explain it, so everyone go to this website.
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Is basically art, in my mind. But it's art that every day, they get up and create. They wake up and put together something that works completely perfectly and they can feel good about it, and other people see it and say "oh shit look at that guys outfit" and that is just badass, I guess? I don't know how to explain it, really, but still.
Yeah, I agree with you. Fashion is a dynamic thing, and the people who design and manufacture clothing are necessarily behind the times. Fashion has a currency that requires the synthesis of a lot of diverse phenomena that goes beyond just dressing like someone else. The most fashionable people are creating fashion as they go, perhaps in a pseudo-evolutionary process.
At the same time, that kind of sensibility is rare and for most people, it's all they can do to just look contemporary, much less good.
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Also the dude in the orange pants... As soon as I saw him I choked on my water. If I saw him on the street I would just start laughing. If that's what is fashionable now I'm glad I have nothing to do with it.
It's not that orange pants are the fashion, it's that that guy put together the outfit for himself. It might look ridiculous on someone else, and he's certainly taking the chance that he might look ridiculous to some people, but doesn't care.
It depends if you think fashion is a uniform (like you) or if fashion is an art (like Kieffer), but you both agree that what clothes you choose to wear is important to your personality.
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Jackson Pollock can suck my cock and so can Louis Vuitton.
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Yeah, I'm not really getting how fashion being art makes a difference. Of course fashion is art. All human creativity is art, so of course that outfit is art. But then again, so is furry porn.
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I like the turn this thread has taken. The "what crap I spend my money on pissing contest" was kind of boring.
Let me add up my outfit, this is American currency:
T-Shirt: $10 at Kohls
Jeans: $25 at Kohls (You'd be surprised how hard it is to find men's jeans that suit chicken legs combined with an actual ass)
Socks: I'm not even fucking sure, probably like $2 in the grand scheme
Boxers: $6 on sale at Old Navy
Shoes: $35 Vans on sale at Kohls
Watch: $50 at some mall kiosk
Necklace: $20 cheap silver thing from a separate mall kiosk with a guitar pick attached via a small loop earring which cost $2 at the same kiosk
Celtic knot ring: No idea, my mother gave it to me when I moved out about five years ago. Her, my brother and I have matching ones, though I think they've both lost their's.
Jacket: $80 at Wilson's leather liquidation sale (Though it's a birthday present). Rachel didn't like it until she found out it was Guess, which apparently matters. Now it's "growing on her."Fucking label chaser.
Total: $160. This is literally everything on my person at present that is not physically emblazoned onto my skin. Noting that the shoes, watch, necklace, ring and jacket are all things I wear every day (I own two pairs of shoes, that's it), my "interchangeable" ensemble is roughly $43 worth of clothes. I don't have an "eye for fashion" by any means. I couldn't tell you what's bold or what's cutting edge and I definitely can't watch the trends and anticipate what's ever going to be "in." I do know what looks good on me, though. I'm unflinchingly casual in my typical wardrobe and it works for me. I'm always in a T-Shirt and jeans, but I always look good. My style works. I'm also into function to an extent. My Vans are more comfortable than your shoes, and that goes out to everyone in this thread. It's not so much a principle, I'm just cheap and if I can look good without spending half my paycheck, I will.
I'm not one to actually judge folks who follow fashion, though. Most of us have a similar vice. As I mentioned, I'm a techno-geek. I remember a day and age when I worked with cell phones and got into a severe cell phone judgment pattern. I could look at someone and pretty much predict what style phone they'd have. If they had a phone that conflicted their style, I would actually judge it in my head just a wee bit.
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Let's see here.
T-shirt: $20 at T-shirt Orgy in Berkeley
Pants: $20 Levi 501s, bought at Bitburg AFB so they were cheaper
Socks: $5 for a pack of like 6 pairs
Necklace: free at a street fair in Berkeley (and it's my favourite necklace ever)
Slippers: Gifts, I do not want to know how much they were because they're lambskin and wool-lined
Total: $45 from my pocket
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I mean seriously, Vice Magazine is like going to a party, and you go outside for a smoke, and you somehow get stuck talking to this absolute wanker in a loud hoody and silly little beard who desperately wants to tell you how much cocaine he has snorted this evening.
Even though the guys typing words are complete cockbags I like looking at the vice magazine 'dos and don'ts' because they find some really funkily dressed people.
Also.
Socks: $8
Jeans: $10
Boxers: $20 (for a pack of 4, and they're pretty nice!)
Vest: $6 (probably)
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I will break down today's outfit as well.
Sweater: $15 from Old Navy
Tank: $4, also Old Navy
Jeans: $15 from Plato's closet, originally $60 from The Limited
Boots: $8 from Payless
Necklace: $5, Plato's Closet again
Belt: Free (hooray friends!)
Bra/underwear: $15
Socks: Also free (hooray sister!)
So... $62 for an outfit that I must say looks much more expensive. If you add my outerwear that's $7 for the jacket, $1 for the gloves, and $0 for the bag, as it was a gift. But it's from Wilson's leather so it looks real nice.
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Such as this (http://www.viceland.com/int/dd.php?id=1268&country=ca). And this (http://www.viceland.com/int/dd.php?id=1246&country=ca).
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My boots cost like, £40.
Okay, so $2000 then.
ADDITION: fucking shit this thread has progressed two pages since I last read it
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I am not really wearing anything spectacular, but I'll do my best!
Glasses - roughly $300, but these don't count, as I wear them every day and will always be the most expensive thing on my person
Long sleeve T - I got this for free, but I think it's about $20
Tank #1 - Old Navy for $7 (sale!)
Tank #2 - Target for $5 (sale!)
Undergarments - Total around lets say $30
Jeans - Levis that were majorly on sale because the store was closing, $30
Socks - Like...$7? But they were in a pack of 2, so $3.50, I guess
Shoes - my Birkenstock-style clogs were around $25, I guess.
Belt - Probably $15
So, $135ish, if you include the shirt, $115 if you don't.
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I wish I could keep up with all you young people.
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Oh man lemme play.
Underpants/base layer t-shirt: like $10?
Shirt: $18 (Target)
Sweater: $45 (Dockers)
Jeans: $40 (Levi's)
Socks: $5 (Gap)
Shoes: $50 (Vans by way of Zappos.com)
Cap: $15 (Target)
Coat: $9 (Steve & Barry's)
Belt: $35 (interpunk.com)
Scarf: It's Rachel's scarf, so I dunno
And like Linds, I'm not counting glasses. I think they were somewhere in the $275-325 range, though.
Total: $207
(PS: Jon, try 520s)
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Oh, if I include my coat, it bumps my clothing cost up another $100. That was one of my last major purchases, but it isn't a ridiculous decadency, as I really needed a new coat. Yay for almost knee length tweed coats!
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Fuck you all, I greatly prefer the original idea of this thread, where I can say that within the next couple of months my floor in our residence hall intends to take limos off to a Brazilian steakhouse in Richmond, which will be awesome.
Also, fuck all if I know how much what I'm wearing costs -- a fair amount of my clothing is rather old.
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moo hoo ha ha
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(http://www.laphroaig.com/images/our_whiskies/40yr_bottle.jpg)
Wheewt! The quarter cask is also excellent. My ridiculous personal expense is a $2k paintball marker. :laugh:
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Guys why is everyone bitching about how dumb people from that blog look and how you don't get fashion no u when clearly we need to talk about this dress.
(http://bp2.blogger.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/R8_lvE3RL9I/AAAAAAAADD4/3UHQguHRL_4/s1600/WTcoriweb.jpg)
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I will break down today's outfit as well.
Sweater: $15 from Old Navy
Tank: $4, also Old Navy
Jeans: $15 from Plato's closet, originally $60 from The Limited
Boots: $8 from Payless
Necklace: $5, Plato's Closet again
Belt: Free (hooray friends!)
Bra/underwear: $15
Socks: Also free (hooray sister!)
So... $62 for an outfit that I must say looks much more expensive. If you add my outerwear that's $7 for the jacket, $1 for the gloves, and $0 for the bag, as it was a gift. But it's from Wilson's leather so it looks real nice.
How do your undergarments cost more than boots?
Anyway. Literally everything I'm wearing today aside from my boxers and socks is from a consignment shop on State Street in Madison. I got it all for about 15 bucks.
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Bras. That's where they pass us on underwear pricing. My girlfriend can go out and get like six pairs of panties for what I'd pay for cheap boxers, but then the bras cost enough to make it all a wash, especially when they get nice ones. A non-boring bra will run a girl some pretty decent change.
Boots, meanwhile, can be gotten really fucking cheap at places like Payless (I dunno if they have those out there, but here in the US, Payless is serious business).
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My bra was about $12, underwear therefore $3. The boots I wore today were on clearance and I used my employee discount as I work at a Payless store.
This is how you bargain shop.
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Art isn't immune to criticism though.
If one can judge music, film, literature and so on, why should the sum of an outfit be any different?
True, but that doesn't mean all criticism is valid.
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A non-boring bra
This is where I have to look at you funny and say "lol wuts dat??"
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One that's on the floor (LOL MIRITE?).
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This bra (http://www2.victoriassecret.com/commerce/application/prodDisplay/?namespace=productDisplay&origin=onlineProductDisplay.jsp&event=display&prnbr=8L-211598&page=1&cgname=OSBRPCNTZZZ&rfnbr=3611) is most definately not boring. I want it. However it is $50 and I cannot fathom spending that much on a bra. Well, it would be $40 with my discount but that's not much better.
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Everything I am wearing right now cost $10 but thats just because I'm sitting here in my union jack boxer briefs.
My fashion is basically jeans, chucks, band tee, some hat, and a hoodie.
This is what I meant when I said I dress like a knob (sorry), except I don't wear hats unless I'm drinking.
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Man, this thread is making me realize (again, but even more so) how fucking expensive this country is as opposed to the US. I get that we make more money etc, but it still sucks. $50 for a bra is pretty much what I'd expect to pay if I wanted something I knew would last me more than a few months and actually be comfortable. And $40 Levi's jeans? Damnit, $75 is considered to be cheap for jeans here - if I wanted something with a label anyone's actually heard of, I'd have to spend way more.
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I don't wear hats anymore unless they're those tight-fitting knit ones. I love those things. I have an awesome one from the GAP that my sister gave me for Christmas one year. It is blue with a red reindeer. If I can manage it, I will post pics.
And hey Ladybug at least you're not in a country where a pair of Levis costs like $120. How these people afford clothing at all...
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$120 for a pair of Levi's sounds "reasonable" to me - in the sense that 120 and more is what I've seen Levi's cost here for the last few years. I know my cousin got a pair of Levi's at about $150, and they were on sale.
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I've always bought mine for like $50 or less, sometimes as far down as $20 (yay for 501s), and those are the exact same jeans that cost $120 here. Fuckin' ridiiiiiculous.
Now, if we were talking about raw organic denim with non-synthetic indigo I'd have no argument about $120 jeans. Those fuckers had better fit like God put them on me, though.
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I just checked this Norwegian online store, which is sort of "normally priced", meaning they're not particularly cheap or particularly expensive, and a pair of stonewashed or black 501s were $137. Insaane, imo.
Which pretty much means I stick to the $75 jeans with random store-specific brands, at least for now. I really want nice looking jeans, though.
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I can't justify paying more than like $30.00 for the jeans at old navy. I can't imagine ever spending $100.00 or more on a pair of pants, or almost any other article of clothing, for that matter. Excluding shoes, the most I think I've ever paid for a single article of clothing was a $50.00 pair of dockers (the stain defender pants are so much fun) I bought for work.
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I'm gonna do the whole outfit breakdown too...
Bra - H&M, $14.90
Panties - H&M, $5.90 (matched the bra)
Socks - Walmart, about $2
Brown slacks - Deb, $8 (sale)
Black jersey shirt - Old Navy, $9 (sale)
Brown ankle boots - Payless, $13 (sale)
Guess watch - gift from Macy's, retail $88
All in all, not bad, I think...
Scarf: It's Rachel's scarf, so I dunno
Shane, you do not want to use that scarf. Trust me.
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I spent 20 bucks on my last pair of jeans (australian) but then again they look like dogshit and make me look like I have a hard on whenever I sit down.
I kind of want to buy a pair of nice jeans, but its not like I go out anywhere nice anyway.
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suppose I could do the outfit thing too.
Shirt: $4, Ragstock
Sweatshirt: $20.00, old navy
Jeans: $25.00, old navy
belt: $10.00 at Kohls
boxers: $4.00
sandals: $12.00
total: $75.00
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Shane, you do not want to use that scarf. Trust me.
This sounds like an interesting story.
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I am going to wash my coat now, very very much.
I don't want to know.
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Go read Cosmo's article from about 4 years ago about 20 "interesting" things you can do with scarves. It's actually a fascinating read, and with my final comment of "Hahahaha RUGBURN" I will speak no more on the subject.
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My girlfriend wears bras like panzer armour but then agan she is basically a female to male transexual so yeah she wers lik three bras but she will do me in the bum so its coool
My current outfit is klike
lets see
Marks and spencers Boxer shorts like £5 for three
Boots, Gripfast armoured work boots, about £35
Trousers, Marks and Spencers, black jeans, about £15
Socks, Marks and Spencers, Wool, like £5 for three
T-Shirt, blue harbour, £10
Dress shirt, blue harbour, £20
Tie, Charity shop, £3
Leather waistcoat, my dad gave it me, £0
Leather trenchcoat, technically a gift, cost about £300, now mostly held together with safety pins.
Crypto-Fascist armband, homemade, cost of materials maybe £5.
Rings, various, mostly pewter, about £15
You are all cocksucking shit parasites why am I doing this
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This bra (http://www2.victoriassecret.com/commerce/application/prodDisplay/?namespace=productDisplay&origin=onlineProductDisplay.jsp&event=display&prnbr=8L-211598&page=1&cgname=OSBRPCNTZZZ&rfnbr=3611) is most definately not boring. I want it. However it is $50 and I cannot fathom spending that much on a bra. Well, it would be $40 with my discount but that's not much better.
VS bras tend to average at about $40. They are definitely worth it. True, you can get things on sale that are pretty decent and cute and stuff, but honestly the only bras I have ever worn that were as comfortable and fit me as well as VS bras were from a specialist tailor who does only women's undergarments. So that is like one bra ever.
I have four of them and they are the best things to happen to my boobs in a long time. Inanimate things, I mean.
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Man, overnight this thing turned into a list thread of what you're wearing:( I KNOW we've had one of those before.
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I miss that thread, it was like a cool criss-cross of the Photowhore thread and the one with cool outfits like we have now.
I'm not doing the "how much money am I wearing right now" because it is a fucking stinking hot day so I'm just wearing shorts and a t-shirt.
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Why do I get the feeling Khar is going to regret his most recent drunken posting session?
Jeans: $2-20 (not sure where I got these)
T-Shirt: $30 (most expensive one I have, got it at a hard rock cafe)
Hat: $30 (Driver's cap from the mall, almost permanently affixed to my head)
Boots: $100 (military surplus paratrooper boots, non-surplus costs $200-$250)
Socks: $5 for 8
Underwear: $5 for 6
Jacket: $50 (brown duster coat, I wear it whenever I can, doubt it will be good for 90 degree summer weather though)
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God I want an authentic Soviet Military uniform so bad.
I found this website (http://www.militarka.ru/), but of course they're out of stock of literally everything.
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Right now i am wearing
Shirt: $10 or so
Watch: free
Socks: free because they were my dad's
boxers: like 20 for a pack of 4
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The last bras I bought it was buy one get one half off, and the total came to $80. I basically will ONLY wear VS bras, because I have huge boobs and I won't wear a bra that's not lightly lined (to avoid being used as a thermometer).
This bra is really cute and not boring. (http://www2.victoriassecret.com/commerce/application/prodDisplay/?namespace=productDisplay&origin=onlineProductDisplay.jsp&event=display&prnbr=8L-221550)
Apparently at some party on Saturday this boy was teasing me about being poor. He was trying to be mean, I think, but it was just funny because I AM poor. As for decadence, I got a new mattress that will hopefully be wonderful with my back.
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hey guys i wanna raise my post count too!
jeans: probably $20 (target or old navy)
shirt: 15$, but it was from the internet so there was shipping too
shoes: $40 or so (dsw)
socks: no more than $3
hat: $2 (old navy)
belt: $25 (hot topic fuuuuuucking expensive damnit)
underwear: no more than $5 bucks
i think thats it. the socks and underwear were bought in bulk.
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I nominate OiC for really brave post of the day for admitting to shopping at hot topic.
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Outfit breakdowns? Yeah why not!
Punisher T-shirt - A gift from my brother so technically free.
Jeans - $50 (Australian)
Boxers - $10
Odd Socks - A gift from my aunt so technically free.
Chuck Taylors that are falling apart - leant to me by my brother because I have no shoes. So technically free.
Yay I'm cheap?
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If anybody has about $1200 (U.S.) they could lend me, that'd be great (http://www.italia.com)
I nominate OiC for really brave post of the day for admitting to shopping at hot topic.
Two of my favourite pairs of jeans are from there. So what? It's just a store, it's the middle school kids that shop there and the horrible bands they listen to that give it a bad name.
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^ that
seriously, who gives a flying fuck if somebody buys crap from hot topic? they sell shit i like, so i buy it. big fucking deal.
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We don't have Hot Topic in Austraila. What is it?
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It is... Not really sure what to say, it is a store aimed mainly (from what I can tell) at mallgoths and emos, I was not meaning to insult the store, I have actually got an Iron Maiden shirt from there, it was cheaper than any online store I had seen. Most of the merchandise I wouldn't ever even consider buying, but they do have stuff from a few decent bands.
I was merely saying that from my experience, people tend to be pretty damn negative about the place.
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Yes we do actually. There's only one that I know of and that's in campbelltown.
Think Dangerfield, or Holy Moley. They would be the best equivalents I could think of but I don't know how many of those there are outside of Sydney (though I'm sure there are Dangerfields in Melbourne).
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not enough thats ridiculous!!!!!!!! .... i want to hear some decadence and I'm going to start
- Dress $230 (It's a corporate style dress that it beautifully tailored and is fully lined from Cue)
- Suit Jacket $270 (again corporate and fully lined in an amazing fabric from Italy)
- Bra $120, Panties $50, Stockings $25 (ok so normally this would not account for that much but today I'm wearing Pleasure State lingerie cause I can)
- Boots $350 (knee high cream suede)
- Handbag $175 (guess bag)
- Silk scarf $300 (It's hermes and I had to fight for it on ebay)
and I'll be nice and not count my DKNY watch or pearl necklace and earrings that I'm wearing along with 3 rings (all of which have either sapphires or diamonds on them) and I'm also not counting my reading glasses or even taking into account the fact that even the lipstick I'm wearing costs more than some peoples entire outfits
i still end up on $1500 of ridiculous decadency right here on my body...... and you know what i love it cause i know i look amazing and it makes me feel happy so thats all that matters
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Fuck me, I wish I had that sort of money to spend on anything, let alone clothes. I feel slightly ill.
Uh. I'm in my work uniform? It's probably the most expensive outfit I own.
Black t-shirt $30 for two at Dotti
Black slacks $79.95 plus $15 of custom tailoring at Portmans
Bra $40 at BNT, boyshort knickers $10 at Kmart, red socks $3 at Big W
Doc Marten 8-holes (falling apart) $180 at Rock Shop six years ago
Leather Watch (falling apart) $110 at Fossil three years ago
Apron free from old job
Necklace $19 from Etsy
Handbag $28 from Etsy
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pearl necklace
HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
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I never have regrets.
Hot Topic is a bad company though! They're well known for making rip-off versions of other peoples t-shirt designs and then selling 'em without giving credit or money. Don't support bad companys!
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Scarf: It's Rachel's scarf, so I dunno
Shane, you do not want to use that scarf. Trust me.
Euw...
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Normz, aren't you a makeup person or something? How the hell do you afford this stuff, unless someone else is paying for it?
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My turn!
Blue jeans from Old Navy - $29
Brown tank top from Old Navy - $8
Maroon peasant blouse from Old Navy - $20
Black lace bra and undies from Target - $20
Red dangly earrings from Target - $8
Black flip flops from Target - $8
TOTAL = $93
and for work I'll be switching out the pants and the flip flops for:
Brown corduroy pants from Maurices (I loooove these) - $30
White converse - $35
White socks - $1
TOTAL = $122
all of my outfits are fairly interchangeable and thus, remain around the $100 mark. And I'll basically wear something until it disintegrates on my body.
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I just spent $12 on lunch from Wendy's. Considering that generally I don't spend more than $5 (due to rice or pasta or whatever), this is decadent.
And for once I am actually not still hungry.
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$12 at Wendy's is decadent in a weird way. I don't think I've ever spent more than $6 there, but I usually get value menu stuff, so it's usually $3-4.
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Yeah, well, I got the chicken-bacon-swiss dealy plus fries and a drink, also a baked potato and a frosty float.
It is delicious.
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1. When I posted the link for Italia Guitars, I fucked up the URL (http://www.italiaguitars.com) without knowing it.
2. I wasn't specific (http://www.italiaguitars.com/guitarDetail_outer.php?thisGuitarId=19) either.
Seriously, how sexy is this thing:
(http://www.italiaguitars.com/images/GUITAR_19_front.jpg)
That is something I'd be more than happy to blow a grand and a half on.
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Hmmm, outfitwise...
Sweater: Jameson thinger from the parentals, prolly €40
tshirt: Really cool shirt i bought in the skytower in auckland: $NZ 50
Pants: 2 fer 50 deal, so €25
Undies: Oroton niceness: $AU 25
Socks: nice new ones €2ish
Shoes: Gaastra stuffs, €70
So thats around uhm, €137, $NZ50, $AU 25?
Its comfy and warm though (and saltstains on the sweater, but i dont give a damn), so all is well :)
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I just spent $12 on lunch from Wendy's. Considering that generally I don't spend more than $5 (due to rice or pasta or whatever), this is decadent.
And for once I am actually not still hungry.
Damn. That's just above my average total.
I like to go for a Large Baconator meal with a couple five pieces on the side. This brings me, on average, to about ten bucks.
This just goes to show that I am a big fat kid.
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Dude let's not even talk about what a fatty I am.
My ass is like a zeppelin.
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Dude let's not even talk about what a fatty I am.
My ass is like a zeppelin.
Full of hydrogen gas and given structure by an aluminum rib framework?
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Engineered by Germans and prone to explosions?
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I think she means that it was designed and maintained by this man:
(http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Dictionary/Zeppelin/DI48G1.jpg)
Hawt.
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My ass is like a zeppelin.
öde has added Big Asses, and Airships to his interests.
It looks like Italia guitars have discontinued my favourite model. I am both angry and sad.
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Mmm, count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, how you make a man sing.
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Yeah, well, I got the chicken-bacon-swiss dealy plus fries and a drink, also a baked potato and a frosty float.
Well that makes sense. (Those sandwiches are awesome.) If I don't get some form of combo, I go for any combination of 5-piece, Jr. Bacon, baked potato or fries, a yogurt, and a drink if I don't already have one.
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if i don't make a post on this i know tommy will so let's just agree that my ass is biggest and stop arguing. anyone who has met me can probably attest to this.
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No, I have a gigantic ass. I am lazy and eat way too much, and rarely anything healthy.
Seriously, I just sit in front of a computer all day.
I am maybe willing to concede the title of largest ass, but I at least demand credit for most out-of-propotion with the rest of the body.
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Apperently my ass is square...
I so would have won that no-ass-off in the photothread if I had a camera then.
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if i don't make a post on this i know tommy will so let's just agree that my ass is biggest and stop arguing. anyone who has met me can probably attest to this.
It's like a goddamn planetary eclipse set in pale fuchsia.
Like anything else in the natural world that makes you take stock of the true infinite majesty of all creation it is absolutely awesome to behold.
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My ass is like a zeppelin.
Impressive to look at? Grey and kindof shiny? Painted with swastikas? A propaganda tool? Capable of transporting 100 or so passengers across the Atlantic in great luxury? Prone to destruction by discharge of static electricity? Incredible English rock bands name themselves after it?
I would name a band Katie's Ass. Shane, we have a band name.
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Jackson Pollock can suck my cock
:-o
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Guys I didn't say I had the biggest ass, just that it was big and fat.
Tania definitely has the fattest ass.
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Once, me and my cousin went to EB Games to buy some computer games. I actually came out with THREE BAGS FULL OF EXPENSIVE NEW RELEASES and I don't know how much I spent. All I remember was my bank card crying and a letter saying I had 2 dollars left in my account. Totaly worth it though!
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(http://www.historiasdelaciencia.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/Steatopygia.jpg)
I really need a new picture with which to make fun of Tania.
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Normz, aren't you a makeup person or something? How the hell do you afford this stuff, unless someone else is paying for it?
yes i am a make-up artist/retail hussy/ law student so i should technically be poor and all but i always do get nice bonuses and I have to admit i don't buy that much clothing but i do save up for quality pieces. So things like a pair of classic suede boots i know are going to last me years and years so I don't mind spending a bit extra. I rarely buy clothing but when I do i spend more .... things like a silk hermes scarf will always be chic and i'd rather buy 1 scarf than throw the same amount of money away on lots of badly-made disposable fashion that will either fall apart or be out of style next season, to be honest i don't really see it as decadence .... to me its just common sense and its my taste
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i try to do that, but all my money goes towards rent and textbooks :(
(also: last week this guy was bitching at me so i just swung my ass at him and it KNOCKED HIM OUT COLD)
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I don't do that because I am a lady who gets dirty and rips things and forgets that she left her washing on the line three days ago.
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I don't do that because I am saving like crazy to put together the down payment for a home. yay being responsible
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I don't do it with scarves because I tend to leave things in the back seats of cabs a little too frequently. Somewhere out there is a cabbie with 23 left black leather gloves with cash linings. He's building a grotesque sculpture out of them and he's laughing maniacally.
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Not that I can even come close to affording one but if I could I'd be buying one of these:
(http://www.elpj.com/images/lt1.jpg)
They're only $10,000!!
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I don't buy terribly expensive clothing because I get bored with my wardrobe too often. I don't feel bad about buying something new every few weeks if it's pretty AND inexpensive, but if I bought normz-level stuff it would be an entire paycheck per purchase and that is not ok.
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I just paid $75 to have my camera repaired, does that count?
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Oh yeah...and all of my yaoi-manga I keep buying. Cripes. I am horrible.
That's not splurging, that's a necessity.
Last insane thing I got was Metalocalypse on DVD I guess, it didn't kill me but I'm poor and I was eating alot of ramen that month.
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Not that I can even come close to affording one but if I could I'd be buying one of these:
(no needle vinyl player)
Oh shit DO WANT
My favourite pair of jeans that cost me $20? Yeah one of the belt loops ripped halfway off. HOWEVER. I am in a country notorious for finding ghetto-rigged solutions for shit, like sticking an entire horse in the back seat of a VW Golf (oh god I wish I'd had my camera). So I ain't worried.
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I bought a $180 camera the other day. But I used a gift card with it. TAKE THAT DECADENCY! Then I bought a $40 dollar memory card at another store, but used two gift cards to cover the entire cost. I am really bad at being decadent.
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I consider amatuer cameras to be either cheap old film SLRs or £2000 digital SLRs.
(I have a cheap old film SLR, it's a shame film isn't cheap though)
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Today I bought a Canon Powershot S5 IS to be like Lunchbox.
Together with all the accessories it came to $600.
Why bother? There isn't a camera on earth that can make looking at you anything more pleasant than amateur eye surgery.
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I managed to spend $75 on some jeans today... this is pretty decadent for me, but man do they do great things to the butt region. Jeans are one area that I've noticed spending more really does tend to get you a proportionally better product.
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I just paid $75 to have my camera repaired, does that count?
Depends on how much the camera cost.
I am contemplating some decadency, but first I wish to run this watch by the QC forum:
(http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/458/53507800ma8.jpg)
Mechanical, $35 + $19 shipping from Russia. I am cheap, but I want a watch. This a problem, because good watches don't seem to exist for under $250, at least new.
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like sticking an entire horse in the back seat of a VW Golf (oh god I wish I'd had my camera).
I...If you're not joking I demand you go find someone doing this and take pictures.
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I am contemplating some decadency, but first I wish to run this watch by the QC forum:
[Bad ass watch]
Mechanical, $35 + $19 shipping from Russia. I am cheap, but I want a watch. This a problem, because good watches don't seem to exist for under $250, at least new.
Shit man, did you forget a 1 in front of that price? If not, that's damn cheap and that watch is awesome. Buy it!
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I am contemplating some decadency, but first I wish to run this watch by the QC forum:
[Bad ass watch]
Mechanical, $35 + $19 shipping from Russia. I am cheap, but I want a watch. This a problem, because good watches don't seem to exist for under $250, at least new.
Shit man, that's, did you forget a 1 in front of that price? If not, that's damn cheap and that watch is awesome. Buy it!
I did not, it is a watch manufactured in the USSR, old stock, there's bunches of cheap watches from there on the bay.
EDIT: Hmmm, a challenger appears-
(http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/2369/418f28iajklaa280vc3.jpg)
Black citizen Eco-Drive, $90 at Amazon.
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Earlier in this thread people were talking about how much they spent on the clothes they were wearing at the time. I'm totally going to do that now.
Socks: Free(gift from old friend because I didn't have any)
Shoes: Free(mine had died, so my mom gave me an old pair of her's. She never wore them, and they were literally fresh out of the box when I got them)
Pants: $16 on sale Target
Shirt: $14 Target
Bra: $8
Jacket: $8
Total: $46
This is one of my good bras, too. And one of my favorite shirts. And I thought the shirt was a bit expensive. Man, I'm cheap.
Recently, the only costly things I have bought are games, movies and music, and even then, I'm getting them for pretty cheap since I get them through work.
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today i spent 18.67 mealpoints on dorm food. usually i spend 14 or less.
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I spend too much money on food and drink. I like drink, but don't get drunk that often, but my problem is that I drink gooood stuff. Like, 15$ bottles of beer. And 40$ lunches, with only water to drink and no dessert.
However, I like my nice clothing. I often get it for super super cheap. This is usually because I often have lots of kind of spare time in which I could be, say writing, or drawing, but instead I go walking and walk into stores like Winners or awesome indie shops and get amazing things for amazing prices. Like the two pairs of jeans (70$ and 125$ regular price) and the two shirts (45$ and 26$) I got for 6.60$ total. (And a 50$ gift card, but that hardly counts). I've been known to spend lots of single items, though. :S
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today i spent 18.67 mealpoints on dorm food. usually i spend 14 or less.
whoah slow down there Paris
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like sticking an entire horse in the back seat of a VW Golf (oh god I wish I'd had my camera).
I...If you're not joking I demand you go find someone doing this and take pictures.
I'll find something just as ridiculous some time within the next week if I just walk around town, I promise. And if and when I do, I will take pictures.
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Oh yeah...and all of my yaoi-manga I keep buying. Cripes. I am horrible.
That's not splurging, that's a necessity.
Haha, it kind of is when I'm running my own little Yaoi-Library. I've been lending out books and DVDs like crazy to my friends lately. I shall soon have corrupted them all with delicious Japanese boys and suggestive art!
Anyway, since this is the RIDICULOUS decadency thread, I want to take the opprotunity to...well, complain. My sister has just spent a ridiculous amount of money buying a lot of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer merchandise. I was OK when she bought the DVDs. Even the calandars. But she has now purchased the LIBRARY model and a set of two Anya's and a Zakafron (is that his name? whatever --her boss) and then a Darla figurine... She has also bought 2 watches (one for herself, the other for my younger sister), AND she continues to buy like 4 copies of each comic.... Argh! Talk about RIDICULOUS!
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I guess I'm just being hypocritical though. If I had the cash and a lack of responsibility, I would buy crap like that too (except Harry Potter, not Buffy).
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There's a picture of a pony inside of a Ferrari somewhere on my computer.
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Mechanical, $35 + $19 shipping from Russia. I am cheap, but I want a watch. This a problem, because good watches don't seem to exist for under $250, at least new.
(http://www.watchreplica.co.uk/images/watches/mens/daydate_full_18_gold/rx428_small.jpg)
Rolex (Fake), working perpetual action, has not yet turned green
$5
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today i spent 18.67 mealpoints on dorm food. usually i spend 14 or less.
whoah slow down there Paris
For a few minutes I didn't understand what you were talking about. I sort of gathered that you were referring to the city and that things were somehow expensive there.
Then I remembered. And I got angry. Because for a brief while, I had managed to forget that Paris Hilton existed. What a sweet, sweet oblivion that was. Now you have taken that from me.
What you have wrought can never be undone, Joseph Hocking.
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Khar, the difference between those watches is that the Rolex, fake or not, is unbelievably ugly.
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What you have wrought can never be undone, Joseph Hocking.
And yes we know that your real name is Joe Hocking. Joseph Hocking is what we call you when we're mad at you.
It's like we were winning the Game and you made us lose.
. . .
Oh fuck.
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I am sitting on a $5000 sofa in front of a painting worth at least $3800. My dad wouldn't tell us how much more, but I suspect quite a lot.. And while it is pretty and I wouldn't mind having it on my own wall, it's not ~$4000-pretty. And I like sofas from Ikea way better.
It sort of makes me feel like maybe I don't really spend a lot of money - but then again, he earns waaay more money than I do, so I guess in a way it's not that ridiculous. But it is.
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I spend more money on artsy-fart-equipment than other people do on clothes...
(The comparison counts, doesn't it?)
Oh, and I spend even more money than that on sweets and candy. Come to think of it I should craft a sofa out of all the candy wrapping I never get rid off and would easily be sitting on a somewhat more or less comfortable 1200+ euros.
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I spent 150$ at a book store in French Canada getting the english Dune colection with prequels. Best expense EVAR!
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I had the opportunity to be ridiculously decadent tonight, because I was part of the band playing at this one place and therefore FREE DRINKS WOO. Instead, I had a single Corona, which tasted just assy enough to please my conscience.
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Khar, the difference between those watches is that the Rolex, fake or not, is unbelievably ugly.
My ones actually rather nicer than that one. It has a mother of pearl face (well, it has a plastic mother of pearl effect face) is mostly silver with just gold trim, and it has roman numerals instead of whatever the hell that one has on it.
And it is pimp as hell.
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Fuckin' hell, I've just realised the horrific price of what I'm wearing...
Jeans $150
Boots $230
Watch $250
Shirt $60
FUCK ME THATS LIKE A BILLION DOLLARS I AM RAPING THE WORLD. Seriously guys, I feel guilty for the pointless expense. What about the millions of people who live on $1 a day? That's fucked.
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Well, I drove to Madison and drove around Madison looking for a good-quality trenchcoat for my upcoming trip to Washington DC with my AP Gov class. I couldn't find one, so I just went home--not that bad, but I drove the SUV, so I wasted over a quarter-tank of gas for absolutely no reason, needlessly burning money and killing the planet simultaneously! If that's not decadent, what is?
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A martini mixed with childrens tears.
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i managed to pay $20 to swim in a public pool today.
a fucking pool! that's like paying to have kids run around naked, pissing upon your feet and shins while men in swimwear they should not have parade gallanty before your pinned open eyes.
oh, and a dog slowly takes ripping chunks out of your ass. which then gives you rabies. in your ass.
yeah, i'm bitter about it. :-(
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Khar, the difference between those watches is that the Rolex, fake or not, is unbelievably ugly.
My ones actually rather nicer than that one. It has a mother of pearl face (well, it has a plastic mother of pearl effect face) is mostly silver with just gold trim, and it has roman numerals instead of whatever the hell that one has on it.
And it is pimp as hell.
Heh, I have a real 1973 Rolex with an actual mother of pearl face. Oh and it's silver. Unfortunately it doesn't work and I have yet to have the $500 odd that I was quoted to have it cleaned and repaired. I'll probably just shell out the $10 to have my stainless steel fob watch repaired (I think it just needs a new battery but we'll see!).
I just spent $65 on a new pair of all-black Chuck Taylor All Stars. Sure I can't afford to pay my phone bill anymore but they were just too pretty to walk past again.
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i managed to pay $20 to swim in a public pool today.
a fucking pool! that's like paying to have kids run around naked, pissing upon your feet and shins while men in swimwear they should not have parade gallanty before your pinned open eyes.
oh, and a dog slowly takes ripping chunks out of your ass. which then gives you rabies. in your ass.
yeah, i'm bitter about it. :-(
Why didn't you just go swim in the sea?
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Why didn't you just go swim in the sea?
have you seen the gulf of mexico??
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I just got a check from the State of Maryland for over 700 bucks, and I don't even know why. I think I might buy myself something pretty. And no, this is neither a rebate check or an income tax return, I made like 1600 total last year.
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have you seen the gulf of mexico??
Yeah, it looks quite pretty.
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i don't know what you're smokin', but damn pass that shit!
last time i was at the gulf my brother cut himself on a jagged can dug into the shallow sand and i got a rash from the sand.
also i would have spent way more than $20 on gas to drive there from Austin, with it being about 4 hours away.
next time, i'm just going to buy myself an above ground pool. and have fun for about 5 minutes.[/mitchhedberg]
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Where the hell are you swimmin in the Gulf? I've been on the Texas side and the Mexico side and found it quite lovely, really.
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Man, if you have such complaints, why are you complaining about being made to pay to swim in a safe, clean, climate controlled environment?
Don't be a dick.
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Dude, how can you not love the Gulf of Mexico? I wish I was there, right now. I would go fishing and swimming and boating oh my!
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Man, if you have such complaints, why are you complaining about being made to pay to swim in a safe, clean, climate controlled environment?
Don't be a dick.
don't be so rash.
[saddam hussein]: hey, relax guy! chill out!
true, the gulf is a lovely place most of the time, i simply always seem to visit when it is not. the fact is not that i am complaining about paying for a pool, i am appalled at the decadency that people show by throwing away $20 to be in an environment resembling a cattle drive that never leaves the waterhole, when $3 to go to barton springs results in the same experience*.
*with more nudity :-o
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Recent decadency: I bought two new dresses. Like, nobody else had ever worn them before. And it wasn't for a formal event.
I spent over $100.
But I feel pretty! One makes me look like a ballerina!
I would go fishing and swimming and boating oh my!
You are adorable.
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have you seen the gulf of mexico??
Yeah dude uh the Gulf is actually pretty nice if you go to certain places. Try Florida (the part without overdevelopment and old people, if there is such a place anymore).
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Today's decadencies:
-$2 Wrangler western shirt from St. Vincent DePaul
-$29 Levi's 501 classic Jeans
Hooray thrift and sales prices!
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I made an appointment to see a dentist in a couple weeks. Healthcare is an extravagance for the wealthy.
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$20 on Olive Body Butter at The Body Shop.
This shit is great. Makes my skin smooth, but not greasy. Fantastic!
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I'm going to be decadent soon. I have like 600(+)$ saved up from work. I don't really buy a whole lot of stuff so it builds up pretty fast.
What are some good clothing stores that are accessible de Canadaland via the interweb? I'm generally not looking for tees right now, 'cause I already know like 10000 places that do cool custom tees(plus then there's band tees...). You get extra points for stores that don't charge like 1,000,000~$ for a pair of jeans. (Already know about Urban Outfitters and American Apparel)
I think I might buy some weed, too. I haven't been high in like forever.
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when $3 to go to barton springs results in the same
God, you just HAD to bring up Barton Springs. Rip my heart out and stuff it down my throat why don't you.
....And yes, I am adorable.
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Fuck you Sam, those jeans are really pretty!
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pool meetup this summer?
wooo! QC forum pool party in Austin! wooooo!
hope it isn't a sausage festival. like this one time when i was in vienna...
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have you seen the gulf of mexico??
Yeah dude uh the Gulf is actually pretty nice if you go to certain places. Try Florida (the part without overdevelopment and old people, if there is such a place anymore).
Yeah, I was at... Long beach, Mississippi, and the water was nasty, but in Florida, I could see the ripples in the sand through the water at night, it was perfectly clear. This was a few years ago, in Pensacola. Good memories, until the point that I forgot to put on sunscreen and my unnaturally white skin got burned more than a six year old on /b/.
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Long Beach, MS? There's your trouble. You've got all this silt sloshing around off of the islands to the southwest, among other reasons, such as rivers. Why do you think San Francisco Bay is so dirty-looking, despite the fact that you can swim in it and you'll be perfectly fine? Because of the river silt washing in from the various rivers in the area.
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have you seen the gulf of mexico??
Yeah dude uh the Gulf is actually pretty nice if you go to certain places. Try Florida (the part without overdevelopment and old people, if there is such a place anymore).
I recommend Navarre Beach, FL. Stuck between Destin and Pensacola. And while you're there, stop by Sailor's Grill and Bakery, one of the greatest restaurants I've ever had the pleasure of eating at and working at. It's right on the beach and sister to a Pagoda Bar right next door, which is also fabulous. And then, if you cross the very thin sandbar that is Navarre Beach, you're on the Gulf side. I used to see Dolphins swimming near the shore almost daily and the water is sooo amazingly clear and gorgeous. The sand is even great.
God, I miss that place. And boating.
It's a bummer it got hit so hard by the last couple of hurricanes to come through that area. My aunt had to rebuild the restaurant and pagoda from the ground up several years ago. Crazy floridians and their decimating storms.
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Long Beach, MS? There's your trouble. You've got all this silt sloshing around off of the islands to the southwest, among other reasons, such as rivers. Why do you think San Francisco Bay is so dirty-looking, despite the fact that you can swim in it and you'll be perfectly fine? Because of the river silt washing in from the various rivers in the area.
Eh, I don't study why the water is dirty, I just swim in it (but not much), was at a family reunion. The water at Pensacola was great though, didn't see any dolphins, but on the bright side, I didn't see any sharks either.
And I have never been to San Francisco, so I wouldn't know about the water there either. I have lived all my life in Colorado, we don't get many oceans here.
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Just saying, it's a very isolated case, and it doesn't mean the whole Gulf is nasty.
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The bay area around Tampa is exquisitely clean and well-kept up.
Of course, more and more old people are starting to move into the Tampa Bay area, so the beaches are starting to fill up with wrinkles and oversized swimsuits
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Better than wrinkles and undersized swimsuits.
Oh Mexico, you do so many things well but the people that populate your beaches go so wrong...
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Oh Mexico, you do so many things well but the people that populate your beaches go so wrong...
Try Baja, old men and wetsuits...
Nice.
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Old man plus Speedo is worse.
The image is immediately burned into your retina and will stay there for the rest of your life.
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I grew up in New Hampshire, where all of the water is clean.
Seriously, the only beach I hate up there is Hampton beach and that's because the boardwalk is littered with morons.
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My family went to hampton beach when I was around five years old. I remember very little (I think the boardwalk had streets named after the alphabet?) but one day the waves were especially big and close together and I got caught in the riptide and almost drowned. My mom said she might not have seen me, to pull me up and out, were it not for the bright neon pink and green swimsuit I loved to wear.
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It used to be a really nice beach, but a couple summers ago they closed down the Salisbury Beach boardwalk. Now all the regulars from there (Heavy gang element, a lot of trashy folks) have all moved up to Hampton.
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Only problem is that I live in Maryland. If I can find an excuse to go to Austin this summer that my parents will pay for, maybe.
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I remember Hampton being pretty cool when I was little. They used to have fireworks every Wednesday night.
The water, though! COLD!
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The Gulf of Mexico isn't that bad. It's only slightly bad because I don't like swimming in oceans. (Or at least I didn't last time I was in the ocean, which was when I was a kid. Damn sand getting places and jellyfish and seaweed wrapping around your legs....bleh.) But Clearwater, FL is really gorgeous, though, and I would swim there again.
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Ah... jellyfish. I have been lucky, I walked right between two of them without realizing it once. I was really paranoid about them after reading about the Portuguese man-o-war at a museum, though, and I refused to get into the ocean for the rest of the trip. I am just not really much of a swimmer.
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I've never been stung by a jellyfish, so maybe I just don't know, but I've never been scared of them. Including one time up here in MD when I swam off the coast of Asateague and I saw like 10 of them, pretty big ones.
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Boro, have you ever been to the MD beaches during a comb-jelly year? The whole beach gets covered in these dying disks of relatively harmless jellyfish, it's awful.
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can't say that I have. However, I've been to H-mart in Ellicott City, where they have several tubs completely full of different kinds of pickled jellyfish, not really sure what recipe calls for them though.
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Jellyfish are cool when there's a thick pane of glass between you and them. About a foot away from my leg though? Not so much!
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If you go to the beach in Maryland I seriously think you are doing something wrong.
Oh and I got a studded belt for ten euro today at a market in Florence. I feel like thats a good deal, no?
/blog post
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Old man plus Speedo is worse.
I went swimming with my roomie Darsha at the local college in Sitka this summer. In the locker room after the swim, I was taking a shower when all of a sudden this 40-something man in a Speedo comes in and gets under the shower completely naked next to me. He has his bottle of liquid soap and is washing himself all normal like, but then suddenly he starts digging in his asshole with his soapy hand.
I bet that motherfucker farts bubbles.
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I don't go fisting myself anally in a public shower!
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Well it is Europe.
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Isn't Sitka in Alaska?
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I thought Patrick was in Albania? Speaking of, where the hell is Albania?
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Isnt Albania in Alaska?
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No, no, it's that mud-filled country in Dilbert.
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I thought Patrick was in Albania?
There are these cool things, they move really fast up in the sky and they have wings and engines and shit.
Speaking of, where the hell is Albania?
www.google.com
It led me to this handy little publication (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/al.html).
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*remembers again that geography is given different priorities in different countries*
*sigh*
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There are other countries? Really?
Are you sure?
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I thought Patrick was in Albania? Speaking of, where the hell is Albania?
...Wow. I mean, ok, it's not Britain or France, but...wow.
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Ah... jellyfish. I have been lucky
One time at a beach in Korea my uncle found a big jellyfish and gave it to me. As in, he swam over with it and handed it to me. I carried it up the beach to show my parents, and my dad shouted "jesus let go of that thing before it stings you!" ah fun times
ADDITION: well what do you know, I do have some childhood memories
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Its true, I entered no geography bees in jr. high, but come on, Albania's really small, and Eastern Europe. Remember this whole thing about America, And Russia? Now true, by the time I was in elementary school the cold war had been over for a couple years, but our textbooks were sometimes 15 years old or more. If a country was farther East than Italy or Germany, it probably wasn't in those books.
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Guys, the only good beach is on Wassaw Island. It is part of a nature preserve and you can go there and poke horseshoe crabs and sand dollars and see sea turtles and there are tons of seashells and it is usually cool and just windy enough to be pleasant and not windy enough to blow the sand around. You can walk for miles along it with the sea on one side and the oatgrass on the dunes on the other and not see anyone or hear anything except waves and seagulls.
It is the best beach.
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WRONG!
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2048/1929499570_956bf366cc.jpg?v=0)
Whitehaven Beach \m/
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man, all I see on that beach is some messed up lookin sand and a wierd dead tree/driftwood thing. That beach sucks.
And in response to MD beached sucking, they surprisingly don't really. Especially on Asateague, where you can go swimming and then get out and a wild pony will come up to you.
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So, apparently people vacation in Virginia Beach. I have been there and have yet to understand the attraction. I guess it's good if you don't have any peripheral vision maybe?
Man, New England spoiled me for beaches.
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man, all I see on that beach is some messed up lookin sand and a wierd dead tree/driftwood thing. That beach sucks.
um, what exactly does one expect from a beach other than clear water, sand, and (ideally) idyllic space in which to enjoy the fresh air?
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Pollution and dead fish, some broken glass, sea weed, a lack of sand and some stones. Maybe a hypodermic syringe lying about and some lovely blue rope. Rotting seals are and occasional option and bad weather is compulsory.
Have fun at the beach kids.
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What about a tacky strip of high-rises along the border? You forgot that!
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Pollution and dead fish, some broken glass, sea weed, a lack of sand and some stones. Maybe a hypodermic syringe lying about and some lovely blue rope. Rotting seals are and occasional option and bad weather is compulsory.
Rule Brittania.
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Guys, the only good beach is on Wassaw Island
lol, wut? (http://images.google.com/images?q=dhermi&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1)
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Tiree has some nice beaches.
Mainly because of this:
(http://ukwindsurfing.com/graphics/news/2007/0605_tiree_2.jpg)
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Is it time to make this thread about Australia yet?
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In a probably vain attempt to go back to the topic, i finally decided on a watch:
Zodiac Desert Hawk, all that's left is to haggle over the price, between $50 and $65 shipped. :angel:
(http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/456/hpim0910mv4.jpg)
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Fuckin' Australians ruin everything!
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Man, talk about ridiculous Decadency. Those damn Australians have a whole continent to themselves, just one country! the Rest of us have to share ours with others.
Australians don't know how to share.
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What about the Aborigines, sir?
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They're* like our Native Americans, they don't really have a *country*, just land that we stole from them and allow them to live on. What's that? Cherokee nation? Oh, that's cute.
Edit*= typo that was bothering me.
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Aborigines are part of the land and it is part of them, the idea of *owning* land is nigh incomprehensible to their concept of dadirri.
6.15% of Australia's total land mass is arable land, the rest is almost useless.
Basically, there isn't any more room for more fully functional nations in Australia.
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Their like our Native Americans, they don't really have a *country*, just land that we stole from them and allow them to live on. What's that? Cherokee nation? Oh, that's cute.
A BLOO BLOO BLOOOOO
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Pollution and dead fish, some broken glass, sea weed, a lack of sand and some stones. Maybe a hypodermic syringe lying about and some lovely blue rope. Rotting seals are and occasional option and bad weather is compulsory.
Rule Brittania.
You guys need to stop living in shitty parts of the country:
(http://www.wightindex.com/images/appley_beach2_wp.jpg)
(http://www.themalvernhotel.co.uk/images/whitec3.jpg)
(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41792000/jpg/_41792686_ryde_benayers416.jpg)
(http://www.ninham-holidays.co.uk/images/gallery/compton.jpg)
(http://lh3.google.com/dobber07/RzJPrFiQ7DI/AAAAAAAAAHA/kbuf_HZechQ/p1010070.JPG.jpg?imgmax=512)
On a good day, the Isle of Wight is like being somewhere in the mediterranean, only you can get decent grub and everyone speaks english*.
(http://www.isleofwighttouristguide.com/Articles/ventnorbotanic.jpg) <This is actually Britain.
*There are two good days a year, tops.
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Guys, the only good beach is on Wassaw Island
lol, wut? (http://images.google.com/images?q=dhermi&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1)
I'm sorry, maybe you missed the part where I said it wasn't hot.
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Bleh at Khar's pictures, looks horribly humid. Nice place to visit, I guess, but I doubt I would want to live there.
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It's not at all humid, actually. Except like, if there's gonna be a thunderstorm.
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If you don't want humid, live in a desert. Seriously, all the beach I could ever want, and plenty of deadly rattlesnakes and scorpions to keep me on my toes. Note that I'm not being sarcastic or ironic with this statement.
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You realise the appeal of a beach isn't the sand, right?
P.S; Western Australia has the best beaches in the world, and I don't even go to them because I hate the sun.
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I don't want desert either. I want mountains, and that is what I have.
You might not find it humid, but I almost surely would. Unless there is some factor I am missing, being next to large bodies of water = humid. Of course, that isn't all of it, Pennsylvania is humid, as is Georgia, and those aren't near the ocean, at least not where I was.
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Georgia is more humid than Pennsylvania. In fact, the only place I have ever been in the US that is more humid is Charleston, SC.
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Sure, georgia is more humid, but I noticed it more in Pennsylvania because I didn't have an air conditioner there. I haven't ever been to South Carolina, but I have been to North Carolina a couple times, once to Durham with a stop at Chapel Hill, which I remember as pretty humid, but not very well, it was a while back, and once to the outer banks, that was horribly humid, maybe two-hundred meters to the beach, but the heat was worse with the bad ventilation we had. It was also my first time seeing a drive-through liquor store, and every time, I wondered where the unmarked cop cars sat when they had nothing better to do.
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I'm sorry, maybe you missed the part where I said it wasn't hot.
...what the hell ass are you going to the beach for if not for the heat.
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CALIFORRRRRNIIIIAAAAAAA.
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You might not find it humid, but I almost surely would. Unless there is some factor I am missing, being next to large bodies of water = humid.
The Isle of Wight's between the Solent and the English Channel, not the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean.
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I you want humid go to Lousiana or Florida or Southeastern Texas. I mean, the Everglades in florida, The Houston area is really swampy and marshy all the way to the Gulf, and try telling New Orleans that it isn't ever humid there. Georgia, South Carolina? pussies.
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Pennsylvania is humid? That's news to me. Western PA at least seemed dry as hell when I lived there, especially in the winters. Then again, I did move there from New Orleans, which is probably even more humid than Charleston.
P.S. Khar -- awesome pictures. Did anyone else notice that castle-y thing on the right in the first one? What is that? (The oldest buildings we Americans usually see on a regular basis are maybe 150 years old tops. We don't see castle-like things around unless Disney put it there).
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Today's decadency:
Technics SL-BD27 Turntable - $10 at an estate sale.
(http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/2748/spa0844yj0.jpg)
No dust cover, and I think it needs a new needle. Can't try it right now due to MY RECORDS BEING MISSING thanks to my dad having used my room as an office/storage space while I was at school.
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That is not decadency that is just so fucking cool
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Pshooo you are going to end up paying an ass-ton-load more for a new needle than you paid for the machine itself.
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guess where my tax return is going
if you said "assault rifle" you're right
(http://cmmginc.secure-mall.com/shop/images/1040.jpg)
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My tax return is negative!
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Pshooo you are going to end up paying an ass-ton-load more for a new needle than you paid for the machine itself.
I know. :cry:
Looks like $10 - $15 for a new stylus.
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guess where my tax return is going
if you said "assault rifle" you're right
(http://cmmginc.secure-mall.com/shop/images/1040.jpg)
Yeah, because you're really going to be using that in a plausible situation.
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Psst, Troll collects guns.
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Yeah, because you're really going to be using that in a plausible situation.
Have fun surviving the zombie apocalypse, sucker
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Looks like $10 - $15 for a new stylus.
Man, thats actually way cheaper than I thought. Replacing the needle on mine cost one hundred fucking fifty bucks.
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Looks like $10 - $15 for a new stylus.
Man, thats actually way cheaper than I thought. Replacing the needle on mine cost one hundred fucking fifty bucks.
Might be closer to Thirty bucks. :-/
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Hm, my dad's got an RCA he got in the '80s and a new needle costs roughly the same as Manda's. I know next to nothing about turntables except how to work one (and I only learned 3 months ago, my dad's as much an audiophile as I am), but I doubt there are any needles that just let you stick the needle itself into the mount, or if they come with a built-in mount and you stick the whole unit into the tonearm (I think it's called that, but again, I know jack about the things).
If the latter is the case like I'm pretty sure it is on my dad's, you're fucked.
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guess where my tax return is going
if you said "assault rifle" you're right
A class three? Those things go for a hell of a lot of money.
And yes, RedLion, those rifles are extremely commonly used in target rifle competitions, because they are highly accurate, due to tight manufacturing tolerances. People make 600 yard iron sight shots. Not sure what size target, an as-issued m16 would only get about 3MOA, which would mean 18 inch groups at 600 meters, even without changing winds messing it up, but they modify them before shooting them.
edit: What the hell? I could have sworn I edited out the picture url. And I addressed it to the wrong person.
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well, 'assault rifle' is such a loose term these days. basically it just means "evil scary gun"
what I'm getting is a cheap AR15 semi. I'm gonna have some fun accurizing it.
but here's a local m16 conversion for only 15 grand linkie (http://www.impactguns.com/store/MGT-PJH7777.html)
check this thing out too (http://www.impactguns.com/store/MGT-H3266.html)
that part is about 2in by 2in. it's steel, and can be made for less than five cents by anyone with a simple machine shop, but because it's registered and civilian transferrable, it's worth more than my car. by like, seven times.
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I know, isn't it wonderful? Because the best way to deal with something is to make it illegal, even if it can be easily made (I am looking at you, alcohol).
I am somewhat pedantic about terms, some people would call that an "assault rife", but without select-fire, it isn't, some would call it an "assault weapon", but I don't think it would qualify as such until I bashed someone upside the head with it. The one I see most commonly accepted by gunnies is "EBR", evil black rifle.
I really want to get a Marlin model 60, you can find them at pawn shops for maybe $50, but I don't even have that. Damn my poorness.
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And yes, Spluff, those rifles are extremely commonly used in target rifle competitions, because they are highly accurate, due to tight manufacturing tolerances. People make 600 yard iron sight shots. Not sure what size target, an as-issued m16 would only get about 3MOA, which would mean 18 inch groups at 600 meters, even without changing winds messing it up, but they modify them before shooting them.
Wait, what?
How did I get involved here?
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Oops, I could have sworn it was you that said it had practical use. I should have double-checked but I got distracted. Should have been redlion, will edit that.
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I really want to get a Marlin model 60, you can find them at pawn shops for maybe $50, but I don't even have that. Damn my poorness.
friend of mine's got one of those. i have the magazine for it because he left it in my car and never came back for it. it's a nice little rifle. I think i prefer a bolt action on my 22 though. i'm gonna sell my SKS to get it, and after I get paid a couple times at this new job I'm gonna get a handgun for carry purposes. i don't really know what I want, in a handgun. I kinda want the p22 but i don't wanna rely on a 22lr in a shitty situation. cheap plinker though.
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Go to a range that rents, try out different ones. Try sigs, 1911s, glocks, CZs, S&Ws, Rugers, figure out what you like the best. The P99 is similar to the P22, if you like the feel of that. You can also get .22 conversions for some pistols, if you want cheap plinking.
I think you might be thinking of the Ruger 10/22 that your friend has, the Marlin model 60 has a tube magazine, the ruger has a detachable one. What I really want is a model 39, but those are about $400, insanely accurate though. Not as accurate as a high quality CZ452 or something, let alone an anschutz, but very good, especially for a lever.
Unless the gun was part disassembled and he left behind the tube magazine or something.
Of course, take this with a grain of salt, as this comes from someone that has precisely zero range time.
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I've been wanting a new iPod or similar device ever since mine got stolen a few years back, but I've been having trouble justifying the cost. I was at my parent's house last week and found my brother's old ipod that had stopped working (a 10g 3rd gen), and messed around with it a bit and established that all it needed was a new battery. I ordered one online for about $17.00, popped it in, and it's as good as new!
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This is the thread for ridiculous decadence, not resourceful frugality. Get out.
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I now own a Pine Tree, which I will be keeping in my dorm room.
How can I do this? Aren't Pine Trees big?
Not if they're dwarf Pine Trees!
(http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/3205/spa0850jd7.jpg)
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Acondroplasia is nothing to poke fun at by purchasing small trees morca.
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Oooh, bonsai. I had one in a semi-cascade, but something happened to it. Either I was gone for a week and my mother forgot about it, or we were all gone for a while and our house-sitter forgot about it.
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Shit, buying just one meal out here in DC is ridiculously decadent. I bought a gyro and a baklava, and it cost 15 dollars. Tomorrow night I'm going to eat at the Watergate hotel, and for a basic dinner it's 60 bucks. But there's so many awesome restaurants around..a French place, Chinese place, Turkish place, and an 8-course Moroccan restaurant with belly dancers. I'm going broke-ass poor by the end of next. week.
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There's a really good Asian Market in Elicott City up closer to Baltimore, and I could see myself spending a few hundred dollars just trying the wierd asian brand names and things I will never be able to pronounce, or even know what's in them.
But if you're down around D.C. you have to go to Generous George's Positive Pizza up in Alexandria, best.pizza.ever, and it looks really fuckin' awesome too, great atmosphere. First place I tried Goat Cheese, Grilled Ghicken and Artichoke Heart pizza, and my family and I have been making that everytime we make pizza these days.
Also, by nature of it being a pizza parlour you aren't going to spend 60 bucks a meal for one person there, just sayin'.
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For three years of high school I kept an aloe vera plant in my locker.
I took it out into the sun on Friday afternoons while waiting for my bus.
It finally died about a year after I took it home and left for college.
I miss my plant.
(Yep, I had a live plant in my locker. Amazingly, I merely contributed to the John Hughesness of my high school.)
When it comes to decadence... I am a convert to good booze and drink Jameson even though I can't really afford it!
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I refuse to drink cheap beer and with my next paycheck, I'm going to start my slow descent into scotch snobbery. My alcohol preferences are pretty much the length and breadth of my decadence. Everything else just seems like a waste.
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Shit, buying just one meal out here in DC is ridiculously decadent. I bought a gyro and a baklava, and it cost 15 dollars. Tomorrow night I'm going to eat at the Watergate hotel, and for a basic dinner it's 60 bucks. But there's so many awesome restaurants around..a French place, Chinese place, Turkish place, and an 8-course Moroccan restaurant with belly dancers. I'm going broke-ass poor by the end of next. week.
You need to be eating in Arlington. More variety, less expensive. But this is ridiculous decadency we're supposed to be talking about. In which case, try Mandarin! It's at the Omni.
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You need to be eating in Arlington. More variety, less expensive.
And they have a Cheesecake Factory a couple miles west of Courthouse metro.
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I just bought Gears of War and a new controller for my 360. Basically I have about $20 for the next fortnight. Oh darn...
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I just paid $55 for a 7"
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280211786765
Now I can't spend any more money for my entire spring break.
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I refuse to drink cheap beer and with my next paycheck, I'm going to start my slow descent into scotch snobbery. My alcohol preferences are pretty much the length and breadth of my decadence. Everything else just seems like a waste.
If you want some advice, Celticgeek or Pickle or I could probably help.
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Scotch Whisky Snobbery Starting Point (http://www.whisky.com/index.html)
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Scotch Whisky Snobbery Ending Point:
(http://www.monnik-dranken.nl/downloads/flessen/laphroaig.jpg)
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I am trying very hard not to waste money loading my new ipod with WRock (Yeah, WRock, that's not a typo) music from ITunes... Mostly because I don't even know where to start...
I have spent waaaay to much money lately on music, and TV Series (I won't tell you what I bought, you'll all laugh at me)
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Man, people actually pay itunes money for music?
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AND THE WOOOORMS ATE INTO HIS BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN
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Scotch Whisky Snobbery Ending Point:
{Laphroig picture}
Well, yeah... (See reply #2 on this topic)
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Man, people actually pay itunes money for music?
Some of my relatives know that I listen to a lot of music, so they get me iTunes gift cards because I don't really ask for anything for birthdays/Christmas. I have a shitload of credit sitting around, but sometimes if I don't feel like hunting down an album on Mediafire or Megaupload or findng a torrent I'll just get it on iTunes.
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Scotch Whisky Snobbery Ending Point:
(Laphroaig)
I am so tempted to take a picture of me holding the bottle of this that we have downstairs.
If I can find a bottle of 18-year-old Laphroaig made in 1989, I'm going to pop that sucker open on my 21st birthday.
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Man, people actually pay itunes money for music?
Well, I haven't paid them any money --mostly I've been getting podcasts. But, if I send away for the actual CDs It would cost me way more for shipping and I'm just going to listen to them on my Ipod and computer anyway, so I figure why not save a few bucks?
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Well, yeah... (See reply #2 on this topic)
Heh! I prefer Lagavulin.
Paul
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I bought a 32" HDTV instead of a bunch of clothes.
TVs are less decadent than clothes, right? I guess I'm failing at this thread.
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Chris and I bought Arai motorcycle helmets during the paycheck that rent is due. Those fuckers cost about 400 bucks. Welcome to eating ramen for two weeks.
But dang they are pretty, and they keep your head SUPER safe.
(http://www.sportsbikeshop.co.uk/product_images/sv_black.jpg)
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Okay, that really is ridiculous decadence.
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Yeah, but he's going to be commuting by motorcycle, so paying lots for something to help him not die seems like a good call:) I want to return mine for a less expensive flip-up style helmet anyway, since I only ride passenger and occasionally at that.
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Get your visors tinted for super badass power.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure that spending as much as you can afford to on motorcycle helmets or armour is good plan.
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It's always handy in the event of a zombie apocalypse. You can go Zidane on those undead bitches.
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I spent 50 on a bottle of whiskey and a 4 pack last night. Totally fucking worth it.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure that spending as much as you can afford to on motorcycle helmets or armour is good plan.
I'm thinking plate mail, or possibly scale mail.
I am thinking kevlar, with either chainmail or biker leathers on over it. Trauma plates too.
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Yes.
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Well, it's working out for this guy
(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r46/Motorbiker_photos/NewsPics/Knight-AGATT.jpg)
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Man, motorbike jousting would be fun.
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Your logic is flawed, you can ride while medieval, but you can ride while not medieval as well, stop shaming Samuel L. Jackson.
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correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't medieval armor actual make falling off a bike (or a horse for that matter) worse? because it provides barely any shock absorbency and adds a whole lot of weight to the fall.
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guess where my tax return is going
if you said "assault rifle" you're right
I fire one of those every week or so.
Not that special, really.
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AR-15s are still expensive as hell though.
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correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't medieval armor actual make falling off a bike (or a horse for that matter) worse? because it provides barely any shock absorbency and adds a whole lot of weight to the fall.
It's still better than an asston of road rash. And you'd probably just slide hella far instead of rolling and flipping like you would in leather.
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You would spark, too. At least that way, at night, people would know that you had fallen.
And no, I think you would still roll, I don't think the metal encasing you changes the physics of why you roll.
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Idunno, it's a lot slipperier on asphalt than leather is.
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Ah, but the armor would slow down quicker than you would, you would catch up against the side in the direction you are going, your body would try to keep going as fast as it was, your other side would come up over and you would tumble. And I doubt that the armor would stay nice and smooth very long while rubbing at a high speed against asphalt, which isn't extremely smooth either.
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lol, we're talking about falling off of a motorcycle in a suit of armor.
We need friends dude
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The only one I really talk to is going emo over his girlfriend leaving him. Happens every damn time he gets dumped. My philosophy is simple: If you don't play, you can't lose.
And what is wrong with talking about motorcycle crashes while wearing armor? It is metal! And yes, that was intended as a pun.
...Yeah, I do need a life.
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If you don't play, you can't lose.
But by the same token, if you don't play, your chances of getting a handski are significantly reduced.
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There are certain things in life where not playing IS to lose.
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Stop reminding me :s
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There are certain things in life where not playing IS to lose.
And there are also things where the only way to win is to not play. In this case, though, I figure I save myself a lot of trouble by simply not caring about having a girlfriend. Of course, now that I put this opinion out in the open, I am probably going to end up with a girlfriend for a short time, and then getting horribly torn up when she breaks up with me, because fate is a dick like that.
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If you don't play, you can't lose.
But by the same token, if you don't play, your chances of getting a handski are significantly reduced.
izzat Tommy's rebel outlaw brother?
But seriously, I am not interested either and think that my longstanding tradition of keeping to myself would just make a relationship weird, and it would last all of one week.
Also, the game.
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I'm considering blowing half my tax refund on a laptop... Possibly a mac because I have decided I hate windows so much it hurts my eye(the left one...where I keep my rage).
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And there are also things where the only way to win is to not play.
Don't bring global thermonuclear war into this. I mean if that isn't decadent, what is?
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I spent the money I had left on a wallet that looks like a NES controler! I'm saving my less than min wage on the belt buckle!
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And there are also things where the only way to win is to not play.
Don't bring global thermonuclear war into this. I mean if that isn't decadent, what is?
A hot fudge brownie sundae while still lying in bed?
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I spent the money I had left on a wallet that looks like a NES controler! I'm saving my less than min wage on the belt buckle!
I have the belt buckle! I wear it to shows and impress the ladies.
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I also use my holy symbol to impress the ladies! (I'm a gamer church strategy priest)
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Today I went out and bought a new blanket that actually fits my bed (having a double bed with a single bed quilt just doesn't work well enough), some new black sheets, a black quilt cover and some black pillow cases. I also got some fluffy new pillows. The whole lot set me back about $180 which may not sound like much but it's a lot for me. I'm pretty happy with this. They're not fancy Egyptian cotton nor do they have a particularly high thread count but they are comfy and look fantastic. Hurrah.
My next order of business is to replace my chest of drawers with a big black wardrobe and rearrange my room.
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Retro video games. I buy them cheap but I buy way too many of them. $7 may be cheap for a Japanese import of a Sega Saturn game, but I already have the North American version. Why the hell did I have to have them both??? And why the hell am I considering buying the European version! And I don't even play video games that much anymore.
That's pretty much my only vice. But it's still a problem.
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$120 red leather high heel shoes. They are beeeautiful! I think I may end up buying a watch that I have been eyeing off because we got my brother a watch as a present and mine is half as expensive as his was. See, logic!
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Holy SHIT I want shoes that cost that much. And aren't orthopedic/orthotic. Pitchas pls?
One of my job offers is for 58K. Since I would stay in Blacksburg, that would be approximately like 3M anywhere else. I COULD BUY THIS TOWN. Be prepared for major decadence if I take it.
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I bought some $110 leather heels last year and already they are ruined because the style sort of has a thin section that holds it all together and that bit kind of snapped. I give up on expensive shoes.
Except for $200 Doc Martens. But I need them. And they last. My previous pair went six years before the sole split. Hooray!
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Most I have paid for boots was probably a tie between my $100 hiking boots a few years ago and my $100 Rocky jump boots this year, I like my jump boots better, but I really ought to take better care of them, I don't take care of the leather like I should. It is getting really soft where my feet bend, hopefully that is breaking in rather than just breaking.
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Whats the deal with Doc Martens? I can get a pair of combat boots that look the same and will last just as long for a lot less. Hell the boots I have now are almost 30 years old and still in great condition, they just need to be resoled.
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last spring I bought a python and its setup with a paycheck just because I could, and I'm going to do the same in a few weeks with either a leopard gecko, corn snake, or several tree frogs. maybe a bearded dragon.
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DRAGONDRAGONDRAGONDRAGONGETTHESHITONGABBLYPHIL
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bearded dragon
Every time I hear this species name I can't help but think, "lol, bearded clam" and then I go cry.
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Whats the deal with Doc Martens? I can get a pair of combat boots that look the same and will last just as long for a lot less. Hell the boots I have now are almost 30 years old and still in great condition, they just need to be resoled.
I dunno, I have a pair of their non-combat boot boots, for when wearing combat boots isn't appropriate. They aren't better than the others, really, they are horribly uncomfortable without new insoles, worse than my usual boots were.
My boots would have been $200, but I got them half off because they were surplus. You can get current-issue boots for less than that at a surplus store, rated for extreme temperatures, but they don't have the zippers, and I like not having to lace and tie the shoes every time.
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Whats the deal with Doc Martens? I can get a pair of combat boots that look the same and will last just as long for a lot less. Hell the boots I have now are almost 30 years old and still in great condition, they just need to be resoled.
I dunno, I have a pair of their non-combat boot boots, for when wearing combat boots isn't appropriate. They aren't better than the others, really, they are horribly uncomfortable without new insoles, worse than my usual boots were.
My boots would have been $200, but I got them half off because they were surplus. You can get current-issue boots for less than that at a surplus store, rated for extreme temperatures, but they don't have the zippers, and I like not having to lace and tie the shoes every time.
Magnum makes a pair of current issue boots with a zipper for around $80, and kudos for not paying full price.
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I put my faith in Doc Martens because the last pair I bought (In 2002, as an impressionable semi-goth youth, with my first paycheck) lasted six years of me wearing (and beating the shit out of) them for five to seven days a week, every week. They are still extremely comfortable and the leather is lovely but the soles are completely worn out and there is a big split in one. I could have had them resoled but I am a lady who likes shoes and buying new things.
Also I purchased cherry red 10-holes, originally hand-made in England in 2001 (and Quality Control checked by Sue, they proudly proclaim), which are quite a bit more expensive than the basic black 8-hole boot.
Please remember as well that I am Australian, and our money is supposedly worthless.
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Lunchy, pay attention to your finance news!
It is their money that is worthless now!
I bought a Trenchcoat/peacoat dealie (it says it's a trenchcoat on the label but it only comes down to just below my waist) for $120 the other. That's maybe the most I've ever spent on a single item of clothing that wasn't a suit.
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Doc Martens
semi-goth youth
I am a lady
This is like some sort of post-feminist poetry.
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Wow Joe Hocking you are totally making it with the awesome, relevant comments tonight.
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Poetry is decadent.
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Lunchy, pay attention to your finance news!
It is their money that is worthless now!
This is true.
And, yet, Aussie money is still worth less.
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I'm going to go use the contents of my wallet to wipe my ass now.
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Whats the deal with Doc Martens? I can get a pair of combat boots that look the same and will last just as long for a lot less. Hell the boots I have now are almost 30 years old and still in great condition, they just need to be resoled.
I dunno, I have a pair of their non-combat boot boots, for when wearing combat boots isn't appropriate. They aren't better than the others, really, they are horribly uncomfortable without new insoles, worse than my usual boots were.
My boots would have been $200, but I got them half off because they were surplus. You can get current-issue boots for less than that at a surplus store, rated for extreme temperatures, but they don't have the zippers, and I like not having to lace and tie the shoes every time.
Magnum makes a pair of current issue boots with a zipper for around $80, and kudos for not paying full price.
Huh, I didn't know that, the closest place I could find that had any kind of jump boots was a denver army/navy store, and the cheapest they had were the Rockys. Did you get yours at a chain surplus store? I think the cheaper ones I saw in an ad for my local store were $75 or something like that, could have been the magnums, but of course, I saw them a few months after I had gotten the boots, and the day after I had bought my docs.
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I got mine from my dad, I dunno where he got them from, but I also live right outside of an army base so I have more access to uniforms than most.
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I bought new shoes today! One of them is a new pair of converse sneakers (not Chuck Taylors, just some sneakers that they had that I liked), and I got a pair of denim Rocketdog shoes that after the buy one get one 1/2 off, were only $7.50.
It was a good day for me.
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Wow.
My parents haven't bought me squat in the last 5 years, and today, as they're leaving to go to Boston to visit my sister at her college for the weekend, they just leave me $100, "for whatever."
Decadence will surely follow.
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Since I was a wee lad, my favorite hockey player was Cam Neely, and I always wanted his jersey.
So yesterday I shelled out $25 on a t-shirt with his name and number on it. Sad part: nhl.com sells the same shirt (http://shop.nhl.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3064746) for $22.
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Oh noes, you paid $3 extra for the shirt! An amount that is probably less than the shipping if you bought it at the other place! ridiculous decadence
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ITT: Joe Hocking feels insignificant that he still hasn't reached 10,000 posts and aims to change that.
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Oh noes, you paid $3 extra for the shirt! An amount that is probably less than the shipping if you bought it at the other place! ridiculous decadence
$25 is a pretty ridiculous amount to spend on a t-shirt when one is unemployed and generally broke.
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Didn't you buy like $20 worth of socks the last time you were here? Silly socks... that is ridiculous.
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No what's ridiculous is how seldom I get new socks. I don't know why, I work literally on the same block as multiple clothing stores. It's seriously a problem.
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I love clothes shopping! Being a girl is bad for my budget. On the plus side, I bought what is probably the second cutest skirt ever today. This was decadency seeing how I got a half paycheck because of spring break and still have to manage two weeks on half the pay.
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After posting that, I reassessed my finances for the next 2 weeks and realized I am pretty much fucked, because I forgot that the netflix bill and my greenpeace donation both go through on this paycheck. I am pretty much screwed and will have to take money out of savings just to pay these obligations, even if I buy NOTHING at all otherwise.
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I spent 140$ on earbuds for my mp3 today. Holy goddamn, I just realized how much fucking money that is. I shouldn't have done that.
But they sound so gooood
edit: SO not to seem like a complete idiot, the earbuds I'm talking about are Skullcandy Full Metal Jacket, and they cost more than twice as much in Norway as in the US, given how undeservedly filthy rich we are.
The $20 Smokin' Buds work brilliantly for me. I can't see spending 7 times as much. *shrug*
It was 3 pairs of socks, Rachel. maybe $15?
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Smokin' Buds cost like $50 here, I think, and I'd consider that fairly cheap for decent ear buds. I don't think I'd spend $140 on earbuds, but I spent about $90 on my headphones, and it was totally worth it (Koss Porta Pro - they might not be awesome, but better than what I've had before). I hadn't realized how crap the iPod earbuds were until I got those.
Today I spent almost $45 on dinner for just myself (and some leftovers). It feels ridiculous, but I was craving that exact pizza, so I just had to get some. I wish I could actually get take-out once in a while, other than burgers/sandwiches, that didn't cost me a fortune.
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$45 pizza must be pretty damn awesome.
I went to Newbury Comics and spent $50 on vinyl and CDs. Though, it was National Record Store Day, and I got SO MUCH free stuff (a bunch of random 7"s, a few comps, stickers, etc)
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What is on a pizza like that? I imagine very good cheese.
I finally worked up to $30 earbuds today. I usually can't justify spending even that much, because my ears are apparently really fucked up. Usually I just get crappy ones in the $8 range, and I typically have to buy a couple of pairs before I find some that even fit my stupid ears. I got tired of utter shit sound quality though, so I studied packages intensely for a pair that looked pretty similar to buds that have fit me, and thankfully, I lucked out and now have pretty good, comfy earbuds. Now I just have to make sure my cat doesn't eat them, which is how my last okay pair met their end.
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I do not like earbuds. Maybe I'm just don't take enough care of them, but whenever I have earbuds, they always get the shit beaten out of them. I've had a 50 dollar pair for about a year now and I don't see them lasting much longer. It's really quite anoying.
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I have crazy midget ears, which means I have literally never found a pair of earbuds that are small enough to actually fit. It is frustrating.
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I was positive doing a GIS for "crazy midget ears" would turn up something good, but no go.
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I probably wouldn't have hesitated to get them if I were in your situation. Luckily, my PortaPros have been treating me fairly well over the last couple of years. I am, however, living off of a student loan and a tiny bit of summer job-money, sooo..yeah. Probably shouldn't have spent those $45 on the pizza (which, in response to Shane and Darkbluerabbit, was gooood, but not like..super special or anything. Expensive/rich country and all that jazz) yesterday, and probably shouldn't have bought Pepsi Max as the freakin' gas station today, paying over $6 for 1,5L. Goddamnit, I don't like Sundays and everything else being closed.
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Wow, I guess it is an expensive country. I rarely ever drink soda, nevermind buy it, but I think a 2L bottle here is about $2-3.
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I drink it way too often :/ $6 is not the norm, though, it's just the gas station-norm.. At regular grocery stores, it's usually around $3,5 for a 1,5L bottle. So not that bad.
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In other news: a 2L bottle here goes for $1
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Yesterday i was tryng to get back home but i didn't have any change on me at all. So I bought a pair of trousers to get it!
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I'm glad I'm not the only one.
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Thats a pretty cool value-added product then!
Also, on a slightly related note, I BOUGHTED A NEW BED! It was like, €750 (including a fancy matrass and better bottoms and all that), but its going to be so worth it!
I will both have a comfier bed, a new bed (current one is kinda dead) and, if somehow a lady decides im worthy of spending quality time with (however unlikely that may be), turnign around in bed wont be to much of a problem!
Huzzah!
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For like ten seconds at least I was thinking 'why would new trousers have change in them?'
I was thinking 'why would new trousers help you get into your house?'
Yes, I am going to sleep now.
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I bought my boyfriend a ticket to Kaua'i. I think it might have been the first time I dropped four digits in one go.
Hooooooo, it tingles.
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This weekend, I got these pretty awesome shoes.
(http://www.payless.com/Images/300x300/061292_1_300x300.jpg)
Today, I bought a couple of outfits to wear them with. I really shouldn't have, but they were too great.
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Those are pretty lovely shoes Rachel! Super cute.
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They are from Payless! I know because I work there and have been considering buying them myself. But I bought these instead:
(http://www.payless.com/Images/300x300/061300_1_300x300.jpg)
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(http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/1502/clarksdesertbootrb0.jpg)
/me wants a pair of Clarks but has no monies.
Well, I has monies enough, but I would be broke after.
Also, not entirely decided between the boots (^) or the treks. (http://www.amazon.com/Clarks-Mens-Original-Desert-Black/dp/B000KWIOLU/)
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Today, I bought a couple of outfits to wear them with. I really shouldn't have, but they were too great.
Oh? Awesome!
(the bag, though? Did you go back for the bag?)
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On the topic of vans i got a pair of vans slip-ons a month ago for 10 bucks.
It was awesome.
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(the bag, though? Did you go back for the bag?)
Nah, Shane. The bag was too much money and I wasn't 100% sold on it. Realize I'm still thinking about it more than I should be, but I will not buy it.
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i was going to do a ridiculous amount of amazon gift card spending recently.
then i realized my total somehow exceeded $3000 (!!) and didn't.
$3000 on books, movies, and of course music? that's a bit much, even for me.
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You know Demonoid's back up, right?
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yeah i know.
and you know some people actually prefer to have legit copies of albums they enjoy, right?
especially when they're not paying for them with their own money.
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Well I can never resist buying more stuff for my animals. More beds! More collars than they will ever need! Millions of water fountains with carbon filters!
Also, I always want to buy shit I'll never use. Such as, the temptation to buy a sexy new left-handed compound bow so I can shoot. Yay, archery is fun but I'm not actually willing to kill anything and I know I won't follow through so what an unbelievable waste of money (have thus far resisted). I also have $2000 Italian leathers (plus lovely gloves I actually bought in Italy) that I don't even fit since I put on weight and since my roadtrip am too scared of the wind to even finish getting my licence. Keep on buying running shoes then destroying them walking without ever running.
I am terrible with money. It would be OK if I enjoyed the things I throw money at
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and you know some people actually prefer to have legit copies of albums they enjoy, right?
This is why I troll antique stores for classic rock albums I want, and then download them. $2 for a copy of Zeppelin II? Fuck yes.
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Well I guess it's not actually ridiculous or decadent because it's something I actually needed but it IS the most amount of money I've ever spent ever by far, but I just bought my dad's car, a 2001 Holden Astra Sedan, for $12k, minus $2k that I got for my old car. Pretty good deal, it's probably worth more like $14k on the open market.