Your frivolous purchases, stuff you don't need...
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Totally frivolous, negligible performance effect just makes a nicer noise:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9tQLwjeAZ0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9tQLwjeAZ0
I have a brand new set of discs and pads for the MX5 the current brakes are fine but you never know when you will need a new set right. I will probably sell the car with the new brakes stillin the box, I presume they are in there I never checked they could have sent me a couple of bricks.
Roop said:
Where to start...? I keep buying Tamiya r/c cars. Love them but won't ever build them. I always buy two of them as well, so that I have the choice to build one and keep the other new-in-box.
Same goes for my collection of vintage r/c helicopter spares. I have $25'000+ worth of new-old-stock parts for obsolete Kyosho model helicopters. WTF...?
A couple of weeks ago I bought a Sony CCD-V8AF 8mm Camcorder. This is the autofocus version of the first ever 8mm camera. It's immaculate, in the original flight case with all accessories and manuals, three batteries etc. Even the original sticker sheet is fully intact and unused. It's the same one as the one my dad had when I was a wee lad. I'll never use it, but it's a lovely thing to have.
Tons of cheap tools I get from Aldi. 50% of them remain unused several years down the line. To be fair, the other 50% get some hammer. In the case of the hammer I bought, it literally gets hammer.
Bought a set of 2.4GHz wireless CCTV cameras and a USB capture device thing for recording. After 5 seconds of use, realised that the cameras and my Wi-Fi trampled all over each other making both useless. Cameras went back in the boxes and were immediately replaced with massively superior IP cameras. The original ones have been in my garage ever since.
Bought a Dell PowerEdge server. Don't use it as the fans are too noisy (it was cheap though).
Decided I was going to collect vintage video games consoles. Bought a load of them. Hardly ever used. Still cool though.
Biggest ones ever...? Hrm, well I bought a Cessna 182 (a real one, not a radio control one). Had it three years and flew two hours in it. Expensive couple of hours seeing as I had to put a brand new prop on it for one of the annuals which was about $10,000 IIRC...
My car - Didn't need a car but fancied a Focus RS. Pre-ordered and bought one brand new three years ago and other than a trip to the UK last year, it doesn't do anything more than get me to the train station 4km away and the odd trip to Geneva. Total waste of a good car. Should have bought a Fiat Panda which was my second choice.
There's loads more but I haven't got time to list any more. Might be back later...
We may have a winrar here, this is pretty epic frivolous spendingSame goes for my collection of vintage r/c helicopter spares. I have $25'000+ worth of new-old-stock parts for obsolete Kyosho model helicopters. WTF...?
A couple of weeks ago I bought a Sony CCD-V8AF 8mm Camcorder. This is the autofocus version of the first ever 8mm camera. It's immaculate, in the original flight case with all accessories and manuals, three batteries etc. Even the original sticker sheet is fully intact and unused. It's the same one as the one my dad had when I was a wee lad. I'll never use it, but it's a lovely thing to have.
Tons of cheap tools I get from Aldi. 50% of them remain unused several years down the line. To be fair, the other 50% get some hammer. In the case of the hammer I bought, it literally gets hammer.
Bought a set of 2.4GHz wireless CCTV cameras and a USB capture device thing for recording. After 5 seconds of use, realised that the cameras and my Wi-Fi trampled all over each other making both useless. Cameras went back in the boxes and were immediately replaced with massively superior IP cameras. The original ones have been in my garage ever since.
Bought a Dell PowerEdge server. Don't use it as the fans are too noisy (it was cheap though).
Decided I was going to collect vintage video games consoles. Bought a load of them. Hardly ever used. Still cool though.
Biggest ones ever...? Hrm, well I bought a Cessna 182 (a real one, not a radio control one). Had it three years and flew two hours in it. Expensive couple of hours seeing as I had to put a brand new prop on it for one of the annuals which was about $10,000 IIRC...
My car - Didn't need a car but fancied a Focus RS. Pre-ordered and bought one brand new three years ago and other than a trip to the UK last year, it doesn't do anything more than get me to the train station 4km away and the odd trip to Geneva. Total waste of a good car. Should have bought a Fiat Panda which was my second choice.
There's loads more but I haven't got time to list any more. Might be back later...
otolith said:
Totally frivolous, negligible performance effect just makes a nicer noise:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9tQLwjeAZ0
I bought one of those and a 2ubular purely for the noise factor but I guess in this forum this could be described as things that are needed!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9tQLwjeAZ0
DoubleSix said:
Celtic Dragon said:
Matt Harper said:
Guns.... way too many guns.
A man after my own heart 
and they look like Hollow point rounds too!ffs
I class the possession of those hollow-points in the same realm as my purchase of a stupidly powerful laser. Stupidly powerful, potential for a great deal of danger, completely unnecessary but due to careful use by a sensible owner very unlikely they will be used in a way to damage others.
Plus, they are fricking bullets, they are pretty offensive anyway
Autopilot said:
otolith said:
Totally frivolous, negligible performance effect just makes a nicer noise:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9tQLwjeAZ0
I bought one of those and a 2ubular purely for the noise factor but I guess in this forum this could be described as things that are needed!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9tQLwjeAZ0
Celtic Dragon said:
Probably most of this lot, and I now have another compound bow as well!
CD, do you mind me asking what you do with that lot? I mean the bow, sure, I can see that as some sort of hobby, but the whole lot combined, the tomohawks, the knives? What's it all about?Or do you live in the Jungle?
Bullett said:
This thread isn't helping much, I'm now lusting after those prints and the helicopter.
I've got 2 Syma helicopters. I also bought an upgraded larger battery.It just makes the helicopter even harder to fly, goes like stink
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The Nur said:
Well I very much doubt he is going to be shooting anybody unless they break into his house and even then that is highly unlikely.
I class the possession of those hollow-points in the same realm as my purchase of a stupidly powerful laser. Stupidly powerful, potential for a great deal of danger, completely unnecessary but due to careful use by a sensible owner very unlikely they will be used in a way to damage others.
Plus, they are fricking bullets, they are pretty offensive anyway
Quite. A bullet is effective enough as it is. Sorry, just don't like the glorification or 'pride' people take in weaponry. If it's a necessary evil due to living in a dangerous environment then so be it, but the pleasure side leaves me a little cold. I'm sure folk will say the hollow points reduce the risk of total penetration and ricochet, but it's not something I'd be 'bigging up' online personally. I class the possession of those hollow-points in the same realm as my purchase of a stupidly powerful laser. Stupidly powerful, potential for a great deal of danger, completely unnecessary but due to careful use by a sensible owner very unlikely they will be used in a way to damage others.
Plus, they are fricking bullets, they are pretty offensive anyway
Adenauer said:
Celtic Dragon said:
Probably most of this lot, and I now have another compound bow as well!
CD, do you mind me asking what you do with that lot? I mean the bow, sure, I can see that as some sort of hobby, but the whole lot combined, the tomohawks, the knives? What's it all about?Or do you live in the Jungle?
I'm looking at that and thinking you're John Rambo.
Pork said:
Adenauer said:
Celtic Dragon said:
Probably most of this lot, and I now have another compound bow as well!
CD, do you mind me asking what you do with that lot? I mean the bow, sure, I can see that as some sort of hobby, but the whole lot combined, the tomohawks, the knives? What's it all about?Or do you live in the Jungle?
I'm looking at that and thinking you're John Rambo.
DoubleSix said:
Quite. A bullet is effective enough as it is. Sorry, just don't like the glorification or 'pride' people take in weaponry. If it's a necessary evil due to living in a dangerous environment then so be it, but the pleasure side leaves me a little cold. I'm sure folk will say the hollow points reduce the risk of total penetration and ricochet, but it's not something I'd be 'bigging up' online personally.
I understand and respect where you are coming from but my opinion differs slightly Personally I like to think the 'pride' enters the equation in relation to the operators attitude towards the weapon. For example, our resident armed PH'ers, I'm sure, are upstanding responsible citizens who would never dream of misusing a weapon. It is from this the pride stems as they know that if they were a crazy b
d then yeah, they could climb a belltower and pop some caps but because they are sane and rational people they don't. It is the responsibility and the satisfaction that comes from knowing that a potentially dangerous situation (gun ownership) is being dealt with appropriately.I haven't really expressed myself very well here but hopefully you will get the jist
I know it is strange but I see it in the same way as driving a powerful car responsibly. You have the option to go out and be bloody maniac and be a danger the public but you don't because you know, for a number of reasons, that you shouldn't.
Plus, guns are cool.
Hoofy said:
theironduke said:
....and some old 18th century swords.
Pics, please?Oh, yeah, I have a collection of martial arts weapons, too. Forgot about them.
Well, there might be a zombie apocalypse...
The two sabres are 1796 Light Cavalry types, the one with the brass hilt with lion pommel is a yeomanry officers. These are the pattern of sword used throughout the Napoleonic wars by British cavalry.
The rifle is a 1943 .303 SMLE made by Lithgow in Australia.
I bought the swords for about 100 each when I was at Uni...both worth a bit more now! The rifle was 190 quid about 10 years ago, probably worth about 250 now. I'd love an officers 1796 with scabbard but they are very expensive!
The Nur said:
That isn't frivolous, that is D.I.Y and is your god given right. Good on you.
I, on the other hand, just bought 11 shirts and a hoodie from here:-
www.6dollarshirts.com
Very reasonable!
How do you find they fit?I, on the other hand, just bought 11 shirts and a hoodie from here:-
www.6dollarshirts.com
Very reasonable!
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