GordonD Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 1 hour ago, ++Ammo - Airdrie++ said: I actually lost the plot with someone on it, we were having a clear out and there was a few bits of fitness equipment we were chucking, one was a "weighted hula hoop" the wife had got a year or 2 ago and i advertised it on at a fiver, someone messaged asking if I'd take £3 for it. Had a full on heads gone asking if the extra £2 would have just pushed it beyond the realms of budget and would mean the difference between eating that week or not. If they're buying a weighted hula hoop maybe skipping a meal or two would do no harm... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 I've got shot of loads of stuff on Gumtree, and while the premise of it is fantastic, it is indeed full of absolute roasters.If some things £20, they want it for a £10erIf some things free, they want it delivered.I actually lost the plot with someone on it, we were having a clear out and there was a few bits of fitness equipment we were chucking, one was a "weighted hula hoop" the wife had got a year or 2 ago and i advertised it on at a fiver, someone messaged asking if I'd take £3 for it. Had a full on heads gone asking if the extra £2 would have just pushed it beyond the realms of budget and would mean the difference between eating that week or not.Petty, I know, but 90% of people on it are absolute cretins.I’ll give you £4 for the weighted hula hoop 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
++Ammo - Airdrie++ Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 I’ll give you £4 for the weighted hula hoopNo bother.Just need the 16 digit card number and 3 digits at the back of the card m9 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 The Daily Mail really hates the new Royal baby maker. I can't imagine why. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 'Mon the beavers! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-47337724?SThisFB&fbclid=IwAR0WTfzjsfahlcskJhDtJ8iQqmJufrjZlQJ5umGdZzE3bwyxkNMSj_aeI_k 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB1994 Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 I've got shot of loads of stuff on Gumtree, and while the premise of it is fantastic, it is indeed full of absolute roasters.If some things £20, they want it for a £10erIf some things free, they want it delivered.I actually lost the plot with someone on it, we were having a clear out and there was a few bits of fitness equipment we were chucking, one was a "weighted hula hoop" the wife had got a year or 2 ago and i advertised it on at a fiver, someone messaged asking if I'd take £3 for it. Had a full on heads gone asking if the extra £2 would have just pushed it beyond the realms of budget and would mean the difference between eating that week or not.Petty, I know, but 90% of people on it are absolute cretins.The people you lost the plot with are the sort of people who would then turn up at your door, if you agreed to take £3, hand you have fiver and wait for you to give them the change. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 I used to think that this guy was a Scouser. Quote R Kelly: Singer's bail set at $1m after sex abuse charges https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47343461 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 I've got shot of loads of stuff on Gumtree, and while the premise of it is fantastic, it is indeed full of absolute roasters.If some things £20, they want it for a £10erIf some things free, they want it delivered.I actually lost the plot with someone on it, we were having a clear out and there was a few bits of fitness equipment we were chucking, one was a "weighted hula hoop" the wife had got a year or 2 ago and i advertised it on at a fiver, someone messaged asking if I'd take £3 for it. Had a full on heads gone asking if the extra £2 would have just pushed it beyond the realms of budget and would mean the difference between eating that week or not.Petty, I know, but 90% of people on it are absolute cretins.I sold a fair bit of shite on Gumtree.You do get messed around. People wanting you to mail a chest of drawers and stuff.One guy said he wanted to buy my £2 bookcase but could I wait 4 months till he got out of jail.Ebay is worse. The buyers on there are a collection of human garbage. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 I'm sure @BigFatTabbyDave will have lots of tales about selling stuff on the internet. -2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Happy to confirm that the internet is full of morons. There are an awful lot of people who aren't satisfied unless they get something for less than the asking price, even if it's for free, or if the money's going to a charity. Death is too swift a punishment. Wee tale to keep Miguel happy: in the pre-internet age, I had an auld mink show up to buy a computer (£20 asking price) who started trying to trade it for a bag of porn tapes he'd brought with him. Just showed up to a random teenager's house with a carrier bag of porn. Not even the fact that my girlfriend was in the house at the time seemed to give him the idea that this might be a bad idea; he just waited for her to leave the room before whipping the tapes out. Have any P&Bers ever tried to use pornography as currency? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 1 hour ago, BigFatTabbyDave said: Happy to confirm that the internet is full of morons. There are an awful lot of people who aren't satisfied unless they get something for less than the asking price, even if it's for free, or if the money's going to a charity. Death is too swift a punishment. Wee tale to keep Miguel happy: in the pre-internet age, I had an auld mink show up to buy a computer (£20 asking price) who started trying to trade it for a bag of porn tapes he'd brought with him. Just showed up to a random teenager's house with a carrier bag of porn. Not even the fact that my girlfriend was in the house at the time seemed to give him the idea that this might be a bad idea; he just waited for her to leave the room before whipping the tapes out. Have any P&Bers ever tried to use pornography as currency? The tapes almost certainly featured him. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Happy to confirm that the internet is full of morons. There are an awful lot of people who aren't satisfied unless they get something for less than the asking price, even if it's for free, or if the money's going to a charity. Death is too swift a punishment. Wee tale to keep Miguel happy: in the pre-internet age, I had an auld mink show up to buy a computer (£20 asking price) who started trying to trade it for a bag of porn tapes he'd brought with him. Just showed up to a random teenager's house with a carrier bag of porn. Not even the fact that my girlfriend was in the house at the time seemed to give him the idea that this might be a bad idea; he just waited for her to leave the room before whipping the tapes out. Have any P&Bers ever tried to use pornography as currency?How many tapes did you get? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 15 hours ago, Cerberus said: I sold a fair bit of shite on Gumtree. As did the guy watching Paula Radcliffe in that marathon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 43 minutes ago, Cerberus said: How many tapes did you get? He was offering three; "really good stuff", apparently, and recorded onto el cheapo Maxell tapes IIRC. I think maybe DA Baracus is right. Not enough "eww" in the world. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 I'm listening to the old classic "Diamonds and Rust" and it just makes me think of the Excelsior Stadium. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Edith Bowman is an incredibly annoying person. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 You b*****d, @Melanius Mullarkey ! https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/25/concrete-the-most-destructive-material-on-earth 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 28 minutes ago, welshbairn said: You b*****d, @Melanius Mullarkey ! https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/25/concrete-the-most-destructive-material-on-earth A quick scan suggests they've picked up on all the usual environmental cliches about concrete and at one point made the leap from "using concrete" to "increased criminal activity". Seems legit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 4 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: A quick scan suggests they've picked up on all the usual environmental cliches about concrete and at one point made the leap from "using concrete" to "increased criminal activity". Seems legit. Read somewhere that in a couple of hundred thousand years or so, assuming we'd have long since died out, the only thing that will indicate that we ever existed will be a thin layer of concrete in geological formations. Maybe it was a couple of million years. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 1 minute ago, welshbairn said: Read somewhere that in a couple of hundred thousand years or so, assuming we'd have long since died out, the only thing that will indicate that we ever existed will be a thin layer of concrete in geological formations. Maybe it was a couple of million years. Hopefully green or pink in colour! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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