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Title: Rip off's that need to be banned
Post by: Miss Demeanour on November 23, 2009, 07:41:05 PM
Sticker Books  evil:

You know the ones

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The Brat has just come home with handful of stickers of her favourite boy band, underpant showing, bling tastic heartthrobs  ::)

So I gently ask where did you get the money from to buy those ...knowing full well I had given her ?20 this morning for her lunch money for the week.

"Oh yeah I used my lunch money " she said "I'm going to go without lunch for a couple of days " Banghead


Now I know we used to have these things but we didn't have the internet then and access to every picture that the current idol had ever been in  - just a pointless waste of money nowadays .

And next month this group of baby oiled up mannequins  will be soooooo pass?e

 evil: evil: evil:
Title: Re: Rip off's that need to be banned
Post by: Snoopy on November 23, 2009, 07:48:51 PM
Pay Dinner Money (Why oh why can they not call it "Lunch" which is what it really is? ~ But that is another gripe) direct to the school .... We did this termly by cheque to prevent exactly the sort of abuse you are talking about.. It also stops theft and bullying.
Title: Re: Rip off's that need to be banned
Post by: GROWLER on November 23, 2009, 09:12:20 PM
Stuff all that.

BUTTY'S. Simp's really.

Title: Re: Rip off's that need to be banned
Post by: Pirate on November 23, 2009, 09:50:23 PM
I remember collecting my first smurf...

BTW, what colour does a smurf turn if you throttle it? rubschin:
Title: Re: Rip off's that need to be banned
Post by: Miss Demeanour on November 23, 2009, 09:56:10 PM
 eeek: eeek: eeek:
Did you buy the single too ?
" Where are you all coming from .......from Smurfland ..."
Not that I remember it very well of course  redface:
Title: Re: Rip off's that need to be banned
Post by: Darwins Selection on November 23, 2009, 10:24:01 PM
Isn't the plural 'Rips off'?
Title: Re: Rip off's that need to be banned
Post by: The Moan Ranger on November 24, 2009, 07:35:31 AM
eeek: eeek: eeek:
Did you buy the single too ?
" Where are you all coming from .......from Smurfland ..."
Not that I remember it very well of course  redface:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS5ER8HaIhU

 eveilgrin:
Title: Re: Rip off's that need to be banned
Post by: Barman on November 24, 2009, 08:00:35 AM
 :lalalala
Title: Re: Rip off's that need to be banned
Post by: beerhead on November 24, 2009, 05:02:49 PM
Where are you all coming from ?

We're from Dart moor, on the run

Why do you all talk that way ?

We're from Catford, ain't we, eh
Title: Re: Rip off's that need to be banned
Post by: Darwins Selection on November 24, 2009, 11:04:05 PM
Where are you all coming from ?

We're from Dart moor, on the run

Why do you all talk that way ?

We're from Catford, ain't we, eh
lol: lol:
That sounds familiar but I forget from where.
Title: Re: Rip off's that need to be banned
Post by: Just One More on November 24, 2009, 11:37:16 PM
Barron nights did a spoof version of the Smurf song, it's from there Darwin
Title: Re: Rip off's that need to be banned
Post by: Barman on November 25, 2009, 05:37:41 AM
The Barron Nights...  noooo:
Title: Re: Rip off's that need to be banned
Post by: Darwins Selection on November 25, 2009, 10:58:46 PM
Barron nights did a spoof version of the Smurf song, it's from there Darwin
Thank you.  ;D
Title: Re: Rip off's that need to be banned
Post by: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on November 26, 2009, 01:37:53 PM
I don't remember collecting anything other than a load of caterpillars just before we went away on holiday for some reason the jar that I had put them in without food was somewhat rank two weeks later, never did quite understand that. noooo:  My two eldest did the whole Pokemon thing and the two younger ones did 'sea monkeys' now they were weired, children as well as creatures.
Title: Re: Rip off's that need to be banned
Post by: Barman on November 26, 2009, 03:23:41 PM
We couldn't afford stickers...  sad24:

And my dad would never go to the 'expensive' garages for his petrol, the ones that gave the collecting coins and things away...  noooo:

And we weren't allowed to buy Typhoo Tea that had cards with it either - just cheap tea for us...
Title: Re: Rip off's that need to be banned
Post by: Snoopy on November 26, 2009, 03:37:57 PM
We couldn't afford stickers...  sad24:

And my dad would never go to the 'expensive' garages for his petrol, the ones that gave the collecting coins and things away...  noooo:

And we weren't allowed to buy Typhoo Tea that had cards with it either - just cheap tea for us...


 sad24: sad24: sad24: sad24: Cue Violins

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Title: Re: Rip off's that need to be banned
Post by: Barman on November 26, 2009, 03:39:42 PM
Thanks...  sad24:
Title: Re: Rip off's that need to be banned
Post by: Miss Demeanour on November 26, 2009, 03:45:14 PM
Is that why you're making up for it now  whistle:
Title: Re: Rip off's that need to be banned
Post by: Barman on November 26, 2009, 03:45:58 PM
Is that why you're making up for it now  whistle:
yes!  eveilgrin:
Title: Re: Rip off's that need to be banned
Post by: Snoopy on November 26, 2009, 04:03:37 PM
'ang on a minute ~ My Dad didn't even have a car when I was a kid  evil:

He didn't get his first car until I'd left home. In fact I had a car before he did.

When I was a nipper in our street there were only three vehicles, one was me Uncle Jack's Bread Van, one was the Water-board man's company van and the last belonged to Mr Wilson who was an insurance company manager. The milkman and the road sweepers used horse and cart. No not a small rural village backwater but in the middle of Southampton.

Mind you me Mum used to give me the cards out of the tea and Dad used to let me have the cards out of his ciggies   whistle:
Title: Re: Rip off's that need to be banned
Post by: Miss Demeanour on November 26, 2009, 04:17:38 PM
You had a dad ...you lucky bastard  lol: lol: lol:
Title: Re: Rip off's that need to be banned
Post by: Barman on November 26, 2009, 04:21:43 PM
You had a dad ...you lucky bastard  lol: lol: lol:
But then he- Oh, never mind...  noooo:

My dad did have a car cos it was the only way he could get to work seven days a week...
Title: Re: Rip off's that need to be banned
Post by: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on November 26, 2009, 04:54:29 PM
I feel a Monty Python moment coming on.....
Title: Re: Rip off's that need to be banned
Post by: Snoopy on November 26, 2009, 09:34:01 PM
You had a dad ...you lucky bastard  lol: lol: lol:
But then he- Oh, never mind...  noooo:

My dad did have a car cos it was the only way he could get to work seven days a week...

From the shoe box on the M1 in which 17 of you lived I suppose  ::)
Well My Dad worked a 27 hour shift int'pit every day, cycled 129miles to get there and still had change for a fish supper and 56 pints of beer
Title: Re: Rip off's that need to be banned
Post by: Miss Demeanour on November 26, 2009, 09:35:42 PM
 lol: lol: lol: