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I've got the coolest thing ever! And other stuff you find on the street...

 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
16:05 / 16.10.05
Finding stuff in the street rocks.

I now, at last, after many covetous years, am the proud owner of A CORBY TROUSER PRESS!!!

Dunno if it works... don't really care. It's not like I;d ever use it. But years of seeing those adverts on the Tube have made my house seem somehow empty without one. And now it isn't.

A Corby fucking trouser press, man. I can hardly believe it. I can't wait until someone comes round and says "fucking hell, you've got a trouser press!" so I can turn to them rogueishly and say, "yes. It's a Corby".

Two questions:
1-What's the best thing YOU'VE found on the street recently?
2- A Corby trouser press. How fucking cool is THAT?
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
16:08 / 16.10.05
1.A Paris Metro ticket.
2.It's much better than The Prefabricated Concrete Coal Bunker.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
17:52 / 16.10.05
1. Most of the furniture in my house. Which isn't exactly cool, but is bloody handy. Including two perfectly good double futon mattresses. Which means that staying chez Meme is now a slumberlicious experience.

Also: a big Brabantia stainless steel bin. Do you know much those thing cost? Who chucks that out?

Coolest thing is probably the lamp I'm typing this by. Lovely heavy chrome lamp base, very deco in style, with geometric shapes around the stem. Found with three other lamp bases, just at a point where I needed lamps.


2. That is the coolest thing ever. I insist you buy some men's slack for pressing. Littlewood's should be your first port of call. Or you you press your towels so they'd be all warm/toasty when you got out of the bath?
 
 
Mistoffelees
18:36 / 16.10.05
You should be careful with taking found furniture home.

Ticks, mites and bugs could already be at home in them, when you find that stuff. And if these insects are in your apartment, only professional help can get them to leave again.

I donĀ“t want to spoil your fun with that furniture, but many people are not aware of these circumstances, which do happen quite often.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
21:02 / 16.10.05
It's a good point, but if you're talking to me, I do check for things like that. Also, in this town, things don't stay out on the street for more than 5 minutes so stuff doesn't sit around getting manky.

I'm the ludicrous position of being able to be fussy about stuff from the street because there's so much of it, there's a total scavenger culture round here, ie if I was less choosy, I'd have 4 or five mattresses!

I'm lucky, skip-wise, in that there's a relatively posh(ie crap but expensive) hotel around the corner that chucks away practically-perfect stuff because it has a small tear or mark so things are pretty good quality.

Still, no trouser-press as yet.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:03 / 16.10.05
I've got a trouser press. It's a Corby, you know.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
21:03 / 16.10.05
hey! you could press your suit trousers from the James Bond look you were rocking at Ghadis' wedding.

Very suave
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:04 / 16.10.05
Steady on. There's only so much suave the world can handle.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
21:06 / 16.10.05
And you should be the source of it. Your suave was a revelation, sir.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:12 / 16.10.05
I could be The Man From C.O.R.B.Y.

(As opposed to "the man from Corby", cos, lovely bloke though he is, he isn't particularly suave. Fuck, he ain't even louche.)
 
 
Malarki
21:15 / 16.10.05
Until recently the majority of my furniture was found. Me and the missus could regularly be seen wondering the streets of NE London with bits of furniture and other items, which were often handy if we bumped into friends as we could sit on them while chatting. Nowadays I mostly recycle work stuff and have a pile of perfectly good IT equipment some of which I'm communicating this on. Most recent found thing was a 100 lire Trukish coin found on the corner of my street.

As for the trouser press, when's the party Stoatie? Pirates in slacks?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:24 / 16.10.05
A pirate can be suave, should he so choose. Arr!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:24 / 16.10.05
(Governors' daughters dig it.)
 
 
Malarki
21:26 / 16.10.05
Would that be "Arr" as in "Trad. Arr."?
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
21:48 / 16.10.05
A pirate can be suave, should he so choose. Arr!

Time to start a 'Little Book Of Pirate Wisdom' thread?
 
 
Triplets
22:49 / 16.10.05
Are futons actually comfortable? I always heard they were fuck-off uncomfortable, used by the japanophile set.
 
 
Triplets
22:49 / 16.10.05
Arriviste - make that thread!
 
 
toughest, fastest, fatest
22:57 / 16.10.05
i used to make do with stuff i found on the street, then i realised if you cut out the middle man and go straight into people's houses you can find even better stuff.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
23:38 / 16.10.05
Interesting. "Bob" foists slack. Stoatie presses slacks.

Hmmmmmmmm.
 
 
babazuf
04:13 / 17.10.05
I found a steering-wheel-thingy from a pirate's galleon. And a wooden sculpture of the tail of a whale. Well, I hope I found them instead of inadvertantly stealing them out of someone's front garden.

"How was your walk?"
"I had a whale of a time!"
 
  
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