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struan80
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PostPosted: 16:10 - 18 Dec 2020    Post subject: Christmas Shopping Reply with quote

Please post your Christmas shopping requirements.

The only questions I have

Are Monkey boots fashionable at the moment for a 26 year old daughter? She's recently bought some DM's so I'm wondering if Monkey boots would be nice. They were popular at the same time as DM's in the late seventies. So why not now?

Any other present you can recommend for a 26 year old daughter? She doesn't wear makeup and dresses like a boy. I was thinking coffee machine but oh my god they are hundreds of pounds Shocked

Budget £50

Thanks,

Merry Xmas
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PostPosted: 16:13 - 18 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

A rabbit.
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PostPosted: 17:32 - 18 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 17:49 - 18 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Netflix (someone else will provide the chill)
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PostPosted: 17:55 - 18 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Slightly beyond £50
Cool
https://www.redcandy.co.uk/tallulah-the-teal-highland-cow-footstool
I want this soooooo badly.
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PostPosted: 18:43 - 18 Dec 2020    Post subject: Re: Christmas Shopping Reply with quote

struan80 wrote:
I was thinking coffee machine but oh my god they are hundreds of pounds Shocked

Budget £50

Thanks,

Merry Xmas

If you were to purchase a Bialetti stovetop machine you could get a stainless steel one for that price. I think you can use "induction" ones on other stoves too.

Advantages:

Looks superb.
Smells good in operation.
Not a great big clunky plastic breakable thing.
No ongoing costs bar a very occasional sealing washer.
Makes very good coffee out of the coffee of your choice.
Makes coffee of your desired strength.
No fiddly cleaning and accumulation of gooey bits.
Will last for a very long time indeed.

I would certainly buy one of the larger sizes, say 8-cup or a 10-cup. A "cup" in this context is a 50ml espresso cup, which is tiny. My old aluminium 9-cup makes two good sized mugs (half a litre total), which is OK.
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PostPosted: 18:58 - 18 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 19:27 - 18 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

If she likes coffee, get her an aero-press.

I personally hate everything about coffee from the taste and smell to the shops and the type of people who frequent the shops. However I have a mate who is a chemical engineer in the food insustry whos actual job is finding ways of making tastier coffee more efficiently and he reckons that's the way to go.

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PostPosted: 21:03 - 18 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

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well I stuffed that up didnt I Laughing
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PostPosted: 21:04 - 18 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Shaggy D.A. wrote:
A rabbit.


A bit impractal unless she's already got a hutch Neutral
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PostPosted: 23:21 - 18 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

A100man wrote:
The Shaggy D.A. wrote:
A rabbit.


A bit impractal unless she's already got a hutch Neutral


Maybe he meant a rampant one?
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PostPosted: 08:58 - 19 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

A100man wrote:
The Shaggy D.A. wrote:
A rabbit.


A bit impractal unless she's already got a hutch Neutral


I found out from The Chase last night that keeping pet rabbits is illegal in Aussieland.

Amazing what useless info you learn from quiz shows. Laughing
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PostPosted: 10:24 - 19 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just one...

https://alchetron.com/cdn/humbug-sweet-2d62bf4d-0951-45e9-8a04-84ba618bffd-resize-750.jpeg

Bah!
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PostPosted: 10:51 - 19 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pjay wrote:
A100man wrote:

A bit impractal unless she's already got a hutch Neutral

Maybe he meant a rampant one?


Hmm, then you'd need an even more secure enclosure. Probably have to bury the 'chicken wire' deep too due to their burrowing instinct. All in all a bit daft for a 26 yr old who's likely passed the furry pet stage in any case.
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PostPosted: 16:20 - 19 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

A100man wrote:
Hmm, then you'd need an even more secure enclosure. Probably have to bury the 'chicken wire' deep too due to their burrowing instinct. All in all a bit daft for a 26 yr old who's likely passed the furry pet stage in any case.


GoogleFu is weak.
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PostPosted: 21:26 - 20 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Her mother had a rampant rabbit, true story.

Nobody has answered my question. Are brown Monkey boots with yellow laces fashionable? Or have I buggered up?

Surprised no one's asked for photos of my daughter. This forum is just too nice. Laughing
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PostPosted: 22:42 - 20 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

We're not nice, and you know it.
We're just suffering from ennui.

i was trying to avoid having to google Monkey boots, but seeing as how both yourself AND Clanger have now mentioned them in the space of 48 hours, I am going to have to go and make an effort Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 22:45 - 20 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh god, aren't they ugly!
Laughing
The ones I googled, first colour that came up was "wine red"* with yellow laces, so I can only imagine that yellow laces wouldn't make brown ones look any worse.




*no really. You'd think they would at least have made an effort, and entitled it Merlot or Shiraz, wouldn't you! Fucking money-for-nothing creative teams these days Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 23:19 - 20 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

struan80 wrote:
Nobody has answered my question. Are brown Monkey boots with yellow laces fashionable? Or have I buggered up?

If DMs are fashionable (without workwear in the form of boiler suits or dungarees) then those things are very fashionable.

If they are not fashionable, then she will be able to start her own fashion.

HTH.
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PostPosted: 13:21 - 21 Dec 2020    Post subject: Re: Christmas Shopping Reply with quote

Riejufixing wrote:
a Bialetti stovetop machine


I ended up having to throw out a couple of Bialetti when I was cleaning hubbo's flat, the first time he had a stroke. They were so encrusted with furry stuff, from several years of his disgusting bachelor living, that I just couldn't bring myself to sort them out.

It broke my heart to chuck them out, they're so awesome.

But I couldn't face any more grunge after two weeks of cleaning his flat so that carers might at least agree to come in and look after him Rolling Eyes god it was dreadful !

And already had two of my own Bialetti*, one of which I believe might have been his mother's anyway Laughing

But I left him one for when he came out of hospital, and I think I now have that one somewhere as well Rolling Eyes They really are quite indispensible.




*I like how its plural and singular, one Bialetti, two Bialetti, twenty Bialetti. That pleases my sense of correctness.

* wanders off singing "Twenty Bialetti sitting on a wall... and if one Bialetti should accidentally fall..." *
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PostPosted: 13:29 - 21 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

My current gift specifications are that they must be frivolous.
Somehow I suspect I will not receive any, but if I did, I would want them to be frivolous Laughing

Those shoes are not frivolous.
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PostPosted: 21:35 - 21 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pjay wrote:
A100man wrote:
Hmm, then you'd need an even more secure enclosure. Probably have to bury the 'chicken wire' deep too due to their burrowing instinct. All in all a bit daft for a 26 yr old who's likely passed the furry pet stage in any case.


GoogleFu is weak.


..but my S-O-H is strong.
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PostPosted: 22:14 - 21 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Back in the day , the lads wore DM’s and the cool girls that weren’t wearing a skirt, wore jeans and monkey boots.

I hope that answers your question.
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PostPosted: 23:08 - 21 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks mate, makes me feel better.
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PostPosted: 23:16 - 21 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

pepperami wrote:
Back in the day , the lads wore DM’s and the cool girls that weren’t wearing a skirt, wore jeans and monkey boots.

I hope that answers your question.


Ripped jeans with fishnets under them FTW.
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