quote:Originally posted by rooster: I can't remember if I bought that myself, but see, because of his thoughtful gift-giving habit, I attribute things to him that he might not have even actually bought
This of course makes gift giving occasions really very easy.
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Rooster is correct about the paying attention thing, I know I've both reaped the rewards when I have and the whirlwind when I haven't. Just being aware of people's tastes helps alot.
I have to admit that my first best present was expensive, it was the Colour Sony Trinitron TV that my parents gave me for my tenth birthday. It was a brilliant television then, and despite heavy abuse it still works 22 and bit years later (not counting the knackered spring in the on/off switch or the fag burn) so in terms of value for money it was a sound investment.
Otherwise the best presents have mostly been things that I'd like but aren't the sort of thing I'd generally buy for myself, like tin robots, toy Gorillas, plush arty books, that sort of thing. Actually that's a lie, I'd buy myself all those things.
I've already got TheLady a trendy plastic bear figure thing she coveted, Sexy Beast (because she whumps for Ray Winstone), and have some other things up my sleave.
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I am working in a call centre taking orders for firebox.com and they have some really cool stuff, like a radio controlled helicopter for £30 which is really great fun, we have a competition at work and that is the prize. My boss took it on a test flight round the office yesterday, rather amusing and pretty cheap too.
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Do you have to write those little paragraphs they have in their catalogues?
Here in the call centre it's a laugh a minute with the remote control helicopter. We've even got Ride Of The Valkyries out of Apocalypse Now on all the time. BRILLIANT!
Sometimes I look through the firebox.com catalogue and think, "BRILLIANT!" Then I read the little paragraph and think, "Uh oh."
Can you pass that on? That they need to do a different catalogue aimed at people that are complete pratts but don't want to associate themselves with other pratts.
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It's great when noobs post from call centers. They almost always go the same way; an energetic burst onto the scene followed by becoming one of the most prolific TMO posters for a couple of months until they get busted by their boss for serious time-wasting and never post again.
quote:Originally posted by dang65: That they need to do a different catalogue aimed at people that are complete pratts but don't want to associate themselves with other pratts.
Man, you should hear some of the people that I take calls from, Viki Pollard eat your heart out. Its not just firebox I take calls for, there are about 300 businesses who's calls come through to us if they are unavailable, the most amusing are the personal injury claims lines and financial help services.
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I talked about fucking Qees aaaaages ago. I am so cutting edge I'm boring the first time around.
In fact: RANTALERT. I hate anything collectable because of what a fucking sham every company makes collecting anything, EVER. When I went into Forbidden Planet in Bristol, they had opened the blind-boxes and taped them back up trying to sell them for 5 pouunds each. Hello you *****. I'm paying five quid in order to surpise myself. The strip of sellotape and tattered box guarantees me that for five of the english spons, I am getting the bear designed by Laura Ashley. And Transformers, don't get me started on Transformers.
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I get really gutted when people talk about collectable toys of yesteryear. All my GI Joe men and He Man figures could have been worth something but I destroyed them all with french bangers in my friends garden. Scorched plastic limbs and annihilated vehicles abound.
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Yeah my brother sold all his original Star Wars toys (including his Millenium Falcon) for about 20p each at a bring and buy sale when he was about 12 and has being haunted by his stupidity ever since.
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God that all sounds rubbish. I have 40 of the 1998 line of Transformers, in the original boxes, neatly packed away in boxes. My sister incidentally told me a tale of how she went to a car boot sale last week with her fiance who managed to bag a rare Star Wars figure for 20p. Apparently he silently muttered to himself with a look of smug satisfaction for about an hour.
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I sold my baseball card collection in 1981 for a cool $1,200. I bought a 1971 VW SuperBeetle with the money. Had I held onto those cards for another 25 years, I could have bought a fucking house.
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quote:Originally posted by ralph: I sold my baseball card collection in 1981 for a cool $1,200. I bought a 1971 VW SuperBeetle with the money. Had I held onto those cards for another 25 years, I could have bought a fucking house.
ETA: Welcome, Bad Tmo Boy.
Cheers Ralph. If you hang onto that super beetle for 25 years you could buy all the posters on tmo a house.
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lol, remember school discos when all the boys went on one side and the girls on the other!? And then we all had BMX's and did rubiks cubes' and had big hair! Mental.
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whats that yer sehhh? Star Wars? Bloody Star Wars? I'll Star Wars you in a minute y'little - Eeee, but it were like that in our house. Orr Yes. Orr Yes. Norr bloody Star Wars fer me. Norr.
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D'ya remember star wars? All the little toys and spaceships and things? I had one of them in school, I think it was Luke Skywalker, but one day I got it stuck up my nose and all the other kids called me a wanker. Shortly after I that I left the teaching profession
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DID rubiks cubes? fuck I thought they were for kids who went to Centaa instead of proper school so the teachers could give themselves a break from confiscating sharp objects while the kids looked at the pretty colours.
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if this was the kind of board where we could have moving avatars by our names, i would definitely want to have one which animated all of the wacky facial expressions vernon kaye makes in the title sequence of celebrity family fortunes, over and over, again and again.
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I would have one that morphed through all 20 cheeses that featured in Disco's Cheese Olympics.
And "if someone beats you to your cheese of choice you simply choose another cheese" would be both my tag and my sig. And all my posts would just say that. If someone beats you to your cheese of choice you simply choose another cheese.
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Gold..... What is it good for? You can't eat it, you can't smoke it, yet everybody wants it.
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Turbo Man is insisting we keep his old Atari computer that is currently sitting in our attic because it will be worth "thousands" in a few years' time... I hope he is right, but as far as I'm concerned it's just something that takes up a lot of space.
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The more you tell us about Turbo Man, the more I like him. And let the poor guy hold on to his Atari...it's not that big.
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Turbo sounds quite cruel to Turbo Man. Clearly he has his hopes set on riches beyond belief and the item that he treasures is about the size of what? A boxfile?
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I talked about fucking Qees aaaaages ago. I am so cutting edge I'm boring the first time around. 
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