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[Havencheese]

Lon-done

Melbourne is currently in the middle of a drought. Pardon the pun, but rain is hailed here at the moment. It rained last Friday for the first time in a month. Four seasons in one day is the old expression we use, seems global warming changed all that. Go up north and it rains for a few days then sunny for few days, then rainy again.

[Carcass]

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Rogin: You fuck-knuckled, bollock wrangling, cock juggling, arse-trumpeting thunder cunt. Do you have nothing better to do than to sit round all day trying to make me angry?

London is a place for people who spend more on public transport than on their friends? How much do you spend on your friends? It had better be more than £100 per year per head? Otherwise what am I supposed to think? You were dropped on your head as a child? You were the special kid in your class who had to wear special underwear after licking a pylon?

I've no idea where you live but I'm going to hazard a guess at Crewe or some other soul-sapping, festering, piss-stinking hive of thuggery.

[Spearmint Rhino]

Lon-done

I'm glad someone else picked up on that.

[Guest]

Lon-done

Didn't he say clothes rather than public transport? Still not sure what it means, though.

[Nico Rijnders]

Lon-done

It was avoiding the tube and spending less on clothes than friends. I was confused by both. Other than the odd birthday, I'm not spending much money on my friends. Is this where I am going wrong?

[blameless]

Lon-done

I read it as referring to people who were in a competition to outspend their friends on clothing - a sort of Armani Arms Race, if you will.

[Carcass]

Lon-done

Well, yeah, he's got me and all the other London posters *nailed* on that one. It may not be everyone's experience but London is the friendliest place I've ever lived in - and I've lived in Liverpool, St Helens, Hull, Manchester, Essex and Hertfordshire.

[HORN]

Lon-done

Carcass wrote:

I've no idea where you live but I'm going to hazard a guess at Crewe or some other soul-sapping, festering, piss-stinking hive of thuggery.

Carcass: You fuck-knuckled, bollock wrangling, cock juggling, arse-trumpeting thunder cunt. Do you have nothing better to do than to sit round all day trying to make me angry?

Crewe is a soul-sapping, festering, piss-stinking hive of thuggery?

I've no idea where you live but I'm going to hazard a guess at Croydon or some other pisspoor inside-of-a-scrotum, crime hotbed.

[Lucia Lanigan]

Lon-done

Yeah, I'd echo the sentiment about London being friendlier than other places. I'm pretty sure I've made loads more friends here than I could have done in other British cities.

The only downside is when they make you stay in the pub till 2.30am on Sunday night by playing your favourite records and giving you free champagne, the ensuing fatigue from which makes you accidentally sing Sparks out loud in your best "Sparks" voice at work while surreptitiously listening to it on your iPod (perhaps a first in local government).

[Hofzinser]

Lon-done

I think Rogin's point was that there are people who spend more money on buying new clothes than they do on going out socialising with friends, whether that's going to the pub or or for dinner or to a gig or whatever. I'm pretty sure he wasn't talking about buying them presents.

I think that explosion of rage was a little unwarranted.

[Hofzinser]

Lon-done

And he didn't say that London was shit or unfriendly or anything like that. Just that you might want to avoid people who prefer spending money on extortionate items of clothing to going out socialising, which doesn't seem unreasonable.

[Mumpo]

Lon-done

Money spent socialising is hardly money spent 'on friends' though, is it? Unless you're treating them to drinks on a regular basis.

[Mumpo]

Lon-done

I would say that people who spend extortionate amounts of money on items of clothing are generally also the ones out socialising. I mean, no-one spends extortionate amounts of money on items of clothing and wears them around the living room... do they?

[Er Liquidatore]

Lon-done

What's wrong with spending loads of money on clothes? If I had the cash I'd be doing that.

[ursus arctos]

Lon-done

Man, you've gone native already.

[Hofzinser]

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KM: Well it's money spent on going out and spending time with friends, isn't it? I can't quite see where the confusion is here.

As far as I can see no one so far has said there's anything wrong with spending money on clothes (although I think anyone who spends £500 on a shirt is very likely to be a wanker - there we go). All that's been said is that people who prioritise spending money on clothing rather than on spending time with friends is probably the sort of superficial tpye you can happily do without.

[Mumpo]

Lon-done

But I don't think there are many people who do prioritise spending money on clothing rather than on spending time with friends. Because people who spend £500 on a shirt generally also want to be seen in it (even if, being wankers, their prime motivation is to make their friends jealous).

Like I say, though, if all they're doing is spending money on clothes, then fair enough, they've got a problematic habit.

[Nico Rijnders]

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Hofzinser wrote:

As far as I can see no one so far has said there's anything wrong with spending money on clothes (although I think anyone who spends £500 on a shirt is very likely to be a wanker - there we go). All that's been said is that people who prioritise spending money on clothing rather than on spending time with friends is probably the sort of superficial tpye you can happily do without.

As KM says though, almost by definition such people are likely to be confined to the imaginations of the writers of Game On. Is London really plagued by such shut in show offs?

[Purves Grundy]

Lon-done

I would say that people who spend extortionate amounts of money on items of clothing are generally also the ones out socialising. I mean, no-one spends extortionate amounts of money on items of clothing and wears them around the living room... do they?

Ah, shit, I can't find the picture of that bloke in the big inflatable latext gimp suit.

Anyone?

[Hofzinser]

Lon-done

Possibly so, KM and NR. I think it was really just a shorthand for a certain type of person (shallow, consumerist) rather than a description to be taken absolutely literally and then dissected.

[Guest]

Lon-done

One could also consider that the majority of people in London who could be arsed to vote, voted to put a loathsome racist in charge. I don't want to share the same air as anyone that could vote for that arsehole.

[Gangster Octopus]

Lon-done

Yes. There's no racists in Switzerland.

[Guest]

Lon-done

Haha. Well I do hate him personally as a person. And love Ken beyond all proportion.

Land of Nazi gold, here I come