Alcohol induced buying

**ReDOcToBeR** · 13-09-2003, 12:54 AM

Most expensive alcohol induced (Saturday nite piss up), come
home from the pub and surf the web for something you don't really need or can afford expenditure?

Mine cost me £540 for a NEC Multisync 17"lcd!!!!!

Woke up in the morning and had eyes like Gollum when I realised how much I had spent

Seemed such a good idea at the time.
Damn alcohol just brings out the feck it mentality

**Theo** · 13-09-2003, 01:10 AM

I gave a homeless guy £30 at New Year 2001... I would have probably given him £5 if I wasn't under the influence, but still. Guy got a weeks worth of cups of tea/food

**bertie** · 13-09-2003, 01:58 AM

I don't have to be pissed to come home at 12 and start buying silly things

**jcoquillon** · 13-09-2003, 02:24 AM

Originally posted by Theo
I gave a homeless guy £30 at New Year 2001... I would have probably given him £5 if I wasn't under the influence, but still. Guy got a weeks worth of cups of tea/food

Or maybe a rock of crack

I spent £85 just the other night on a Watch with a USB flash drive and some miscelaneous cables and adapters

**BoB_DoG** · 13-09-2003, 02:48 AM

I just buy more booze when i get drunk. More booze and loose women.

**Theo** · 13-09-2003, 04:24 AM

Originally posted by jcoquillon
Or maybe a rock of crack

He could have! But I had spoken to the guy on a number of times beforehand, and he's straightxedge. Besides - I saw him in the kebab shop 30 minutes later with a plate of chips and a cup of cha! :>

**malfunction** · 13-09-2003, 08:08 AM

Originally posted by Theo
He could have! But I had spoken to the guy on a number of times beforehand, and he's straightxedge. Besides - I saw him in the kebab shop 30 minutes later with a plate of chips and a cup of cha! :>

I used to live in York and you'd get a few people there who were begging but kept themselves covered in dirty blankets from the neck down. A couple of times when I'd worked late you'd see them getting up and stashing the blankets somewhere - to see that they're dressed in new clothes / expensive trainers. I even saw a bloke jump up like that one day to answer his mobile phone FFS!

I'm not saying that everyone was like that - there was one guy I used to see around a lot who'd obviously fallen on hard times (whether it was drugs or whatever I don't know - doesn't matter really). He used to hang out near burger king and I'd bought him a few burgers when I was drunk. Saw him a few months later working (didn't say anything) but it was nice to see he'd sorted himself out a bit.

**biz387** · 13-09-2003, 09:06 AM

heh, at least you dont have a spontaneous compulsive upgrade disorder

**Anders** · 13-09-2003, 05:38 PM

Leeds was pretty bad for the beggars, never seen so many, not even in London. Although not as bad as NYC I would imagine.

There was one beggar Leeds who I would regularly notice going into a dodgy “locals” pub which was on my way to town. It’s annoying because I don’t mind giving money to real homeless people, e.g. Big Issue sellers, but people pretending to be homeless makes you wary to give to anyone.

I wonder if any of your drunken states lead you to mistake someone for homeless that wasn’t (and indeed wasn’t trying to look homeless).

**steve threlfall** · 13-09-2003, 05:55 PM

I nearly bought a q-tect psu

/make relieved noise and wipes sweat from brow

**Trash Man** · 13-09-2003, 06:18 PM

I had to have a few shorts before I could spend £300 on a GFX card

**Slick** · 13-09-2003, 06:23 PM

TBH I don't give to the homeless, if I want to help people I give to charities. In this country no one needs to be homeless if they went to the right people they would be provided with food and shelter. Most people who are homeless either choose to be because it's easy money or because they are drug addicts or have ran away from home and think they will be sent home if they applied for help. I know this sounds harsh but it's true in most cases.

**malfunction** · 13-09-2003, 06:29 PM

Slick - in a perfect world no-one need endure or suffer because everyone would be fair and help others. In the real world you don't want to part with your cash incase the person you gave it to isn't being honest with you - so people who are having real problems don't deserve help because there's a better life waiting for them if they want it and all they have to do is ask for it right? Have you never been in a situation where you don't know what to do any everything feels hopeless? Never been depressed even mildy? Yes there are some - probably even a lot - of 'career' beggars but it doesn't mean that there isn't a real problem out there and that there aren't people that need help and aren't getting it.

**Slick** · 13-09-2003, 06:39 PM

Originally posted by malfunction
Yes there are some - probably even a lot - of 'career' beggars but it doesn't mean that there isn't a real problem out there and that there aren't people that need help and aren't getting it.

Next time you're on the street and you see a begger, go and ask them if they've bothered applying for help, nearly 99% of the time the answer will be no. People can't be helped by the Government if the Government isn't aware of them. Sometimes this might be because they are not aware they can get help which I agree is a problem but more often than not it's because they fall into one of the categories I listed above.

**aeonf242** · 13-09-2003, 06:40 PM

Can the homeless upgrade to Bedsit v1.2 for free?

**aeonf242** · 13-09-2003, 06:41 PM

I think I've bought a new rig when drunk.....that 2.2 AMD seemed so much better than the 2.0 I already had!

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