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post #31 of 44
9/8/10 at 6:15am
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Originally Posted by tiecollector View Post
More interested to hear what other people have tried to shame you about purchasing.

I get a fair bit of flak for patronising the B&S forums here.

"Used clothing? EWW GROSS!!!"
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post #32 of 44
9/8/10 at 10:32am
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Originally Posted by Pennglock View Post
One year in college I brought back a bison head-mount for our apartment. Thought it would be a fun conversation piece. Roommates informed me it was freaking people out, and was even responsible for cock-blocking a roommate in one case. So it shamefully resided the rest of my college career in the back of my closet.
You still have it?
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post #33 of 44
9/8/10 at 11:00am
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Originally Posted by Salad View Post
I'm not sure it's my most "shameful" purchase but I recently bought a Forge de Laguiole waiter's corkscrew with pistacchio wood handles, $130. I figure it's a tool that I'll hopefully get to use the rest of my life. I have a gang of cheap wine keys that work fine but there is something about using a beautiful handmade tool that make the experience better.

You shouldn't be ashamed of that. There's so many shitty corkscrews out there - laying about with floppy hinges, double catches for the retards, and teflon coating rubbed off. Why shouldn't you get a tool that will make the whole experience of wine that much more pleasurable?

I bought a knife in Mendoza, Argentina which was hand forged and the handle is an ostrich toe - it looks like a freaking dinosaur claw. I bust it out when we have guests over to cut hard cheeses. "You want some of that cheese? Well you're going to have to shake hands with a dead ostrich!"
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post #34 of 44
9/8/10 at 11:04am
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Originally Posted by HORNS View Post
I bought a knife in Mendoza, Argentina which was hand forged and the handle is an ostrich toe - it looks like a freaking dinosaur claw. I bust it out when we have guests over to cut hard cheeses. "You want some of that cheese? Well you're going to have to shake hands with a dead ostrich!"

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post #35 of 44
9/8/10 at 12:51pm
Xbox 360. Total impulse buy. I'm a grown man for Christ sake.
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post #36 of 44
9/8/10 at 5:03pm
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Originally Posted by GQgeek
Go without her. You don't have to do it every week... If you can't spend a day apart every once in a while then y'all gonna have issues.

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Originally Posted by kwilkinson View Post
+1. The shameful part about his post isn't the purchase, it's the fact that he's considering NOT doing something he cares about just b/c his girlfriend isn't interested in it. Damn son. That is some whipped action I haven't seen since I had a girlfriend.

Thanks for the relationship advice, bros, but as I said, we only see each other a couple of times a week as is. So we're already spending 3 days out of 5 apart. Diving just isn't a priority now. I'm probably doing myself a favor anyway, as I was starting to get into tech diving, which is a whole other level of expense.

Tried to come up with a more shameful purchase, but other than some shirts that I don't wear and can't get around to purging, I got nothin'.
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post #37 of 44
9/8/10 at 5:08pm
A pair of Pradas during a New York spring break trip as a broke college kid. Yea...somehow the New York big pimpin' vibe got the best of me. Not my proudest moment. Which coincidently I just donated to Goodwill recently.
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post #38 of 44
9/8/10 at 7:59pm
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Originally Posted by tiecollector View Post
What have others given you the most grief about? For me it's a $100 fountain pen .
What kind of fountain pen? $100 will usually get you something very nice without going overboard.
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post #39 of 44
9/8/10 at 8:02pm
any clothing that feature Linen material i catch flak from....
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post #40 of 44
9/8/10 at 9:23pm
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Originally Posted by Da Luis Vuitton Don View Post
any clothing that feature Linen material i catch flak from....

nothin' but silk fo yo boiz
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post #41 of 44
9/8/10 at 9:38pm
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What kind of fountain pen? $100 will usually get you something very nice without going overboard.

A Pelikan. It is flawless. Bought a cheaper Pilot for $30 and the ink clogged up the nib after a few months of not being used.
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post #42 of 44
9/8/10 at 9:40pm
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Originally Posted by tiecollector View Post
A Pelikan. It is flawless. Bought a cheaper Pilot for $30 and the ink clogged up the nib after a few months of not being used.
Pelikan makes a good pen. Worth every cent.
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post #43 of 44
9/8/10 at 9:54pm
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Originally Posted by tiecollector View Post
A Pelikan. It is flawless. Bought a cheaper Pilot for $30 and the ink clogged up the nib after a few months of not being used.

Nice, I've got a Pelikan M205 and M215, essentially the same pens but different bodies, and it really does write fantastically. Great purchase if you ask me.
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post #44 of 44
9/8/10 at 10:44pm
i bought one of those DAS Ultimate keyboards. its all blank and made with keys which utilize those old school keys that make audible clicks on each depression. i thought it was so cool, but whenever someone comes over, nothing screams "UBER GEEK" than the totally blank keyboard that's configured to my macbookpro that I can only use in my office with the door closed so not to wake up/annoy my wife when i'm typing something up. plus even people who know how to touch type still have a hard time with it (it takes a good week then you slowly turn into a geek/nerd/asshole with the totally blank keyboard thats wicked loud when you type).
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