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Weird purchases

Few years ago my son informed me my trail running shoes and backpack had turned up, plus a ring. Didn’t think much about it, closer to coming back the uk I checked my eBay purchases to make sure everything was accounted for and noticed I’d bought a 400 quid platinum ring. I got home, it fit, so been wearing it ever since.
 

Bought a stuffed cobra battling a mongoose in Thailand in the later 70s. Daft enought purchase on its own but then had to try and get it through bunch of other airports 'cos that was the first stop on a tour of the Far East.
 
jcrossan said:
Bought a stuffed cobra battling a mongoose in Thailand in the later 70s. Daft enought purchase on its own but then had to try and get it through bunch of other airports 'cos that was the first stop on a tour of the Far East.
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You paused mid-fight to purchase the cobra?

Did the mongoose wait politely for you, or pummel you with punches while you completed the transaction for the overeating snake?
 
jcrossan said:
Bought a stuffed cobra battling a mongoose in Thailand in the later 70s. Daft enought purchase on its own but then had to try and get it through bunch of other airports 'cos that was the first stop on a tour of the Far East.
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Reminds me of my far east tour in the mid 90s, carting stuff around I could have bought in the last few days before coming back the uk
 
niallquinnsdisco said:
I knew a lad who lived in a tower block in Glasgow who ordered a canoe when pissed one time and the lift was broke:D
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I tried to buy one pissed up off E Bay and bid 10 quid for one with a hole in the glass fibre body. The canoe needed picking up from Taunton in Devon and RS Sauce said you do know it has a hole in it? I said of course it has a hole in it, that's where you sit! They must have tipped each other off to keep an eye on me as the next time I was checking my young Daughter at the time ran to the bottom of the stairs and shouted up Mam! Daddy is looking at boats again! :oops: :lol:
 
My mam used to buy loads of shite out of those magazine supplements you used to get in the Sunday papers.

I used to call it old peoples shit .

Like a chair that turns into a bed then a dining table.

Shit like that.
 
I used to be a sucker for a daft Facebook ad purchases but have behaved myself for a while now. The last stupid thing I bought was an Aztec death whistle, and did it shite sound like it did on the ad. Supposed to sound like screaming/screeching . Why? I dont really know

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Another weird and pointless purchase was a metal forge. Bought it off the back of watching people on YouTube melt cans down to make aluminium blocks. Now it doesn't make financial sense to do this so it's purely for a hobby but it seemed like a good idea at the time. Now it's in the shed
 
I'm waiting on delivery of a reprint of the Commodore 64 Programmers Reference Guide.
Trying to convince myself I'll have built something half-decent within a year.
 
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