Stupid things you have bought while drunk

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Inspired by persuading Anna to spend £18 on an enormous bunch of carnations from the 24hr florists by Highbury & Islington last night, so I could give them out to cute girls in the pub.

I'm sure there's a thread on this somewhere, but I can't find it. Anyway, go ahead.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 26 March 2006 13:58 (twenty years ago)

When I got my first ever switch card, I got drunk, took it to the all night garage, and spent about £40 on sweets. One of everything they sold. Cos it "isn't even real money!".

― JimD (JimD), Sunday, 26 March 2006 14:02 (twenty years ago)

YOUR MOM

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Sunday, 26 March 2006 14:03 (twenty years ago)

I bought some fresh ginger and a chili in an Asian food shop in Oxford. I think I left them in the next pub.

A friend of mine once had a friend reach over and press the £200 button on a casher when they were both drunk. Rather than saving it to pay in on Monday they spent it all buying rounds in a student bar.

― Mike W (caek), Sunday, 26 March 2006 15:14 (twenty years ago)

kebab

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 26 March 2006 15:28 (twenty years ago)

some kebab can be quite bright though?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 26 March 2006 15:30 (twenty years ago)

more beer

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 26 March 2006 15:31 (twenty years ago)

I paid $22 (usually goes for $8-$10) for a single-use camera in NYC when I was tripping on dirty acid. It turned out to be a panoramic camera, so the pics of non-panoramic things like people reflect my mental state.

What's a casher? ATM?

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 16:27 (twenty years ago)

surely 'shots' tops this list?

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 26 March 2006 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Cigarettes. Or probably also more alcohol.

― sgs (sgs), Sunday, 26 March 2006 16:48 (twenty years ago)

a flask

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:25 (twenty years ago)

In a Fish "N" Chip shop near the ABC Club in Glasgow... "I'll have what she's having!!!" (referring to equally drunk girl in front of me) resulted in me having a scalding hot tray of beans "N" chips which I threw away not long afterwards (after forcing down about 1/4).

I saw them again within 2 hours. :O

― JTS (JTS), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:31 (twenty years ago)

"Casher" n. slang. Cash machine. ATM.

― Mike W (caek), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Mike ATM.

― ratty, Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

A Japanese sign bought off the internet to go on the toilet door. When it arrived from Tokyo three months later it didn't even look like the picture on the site so could've have said anything.

― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:57 (twenty years ago)

Can Matt say more about the flowers thing purleaze. Successful in any way? It's the sorta thing i can imagine myself doing.

― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Sunday, 26 March 2006 19:07 (twenty years ago)

mr chips?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 26 March 2006 19:12 (twenty years ago)

I once woke up with a huge plastic bag of Kit Kats (at least 15 full-sized bars) that I had no memory of buying.

― Laura H. (laurah), Sunday, 26 March 2006 19:13 (twenty years ago)

novelty lighters, novelty condoms, bootleg cds, single long-stemmed roses, a six-pack of smirnoff green apple twist, a limo ride, a goldfish, a complete set of homies, light-up deedle ball headbands... that's the tip of the iceberg, really. it's a miracle i have any money at all. oh wait - i don't.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 26 March 2006 19:24 (twenty years ago)

the only real smart things that drinks always encourage me to buy are late-night cab rides home.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 26 March 2006 19:45 (twenty years ago)

A friend of mine did kind of the opposite. He went out in Glasgow with £15 and came back with £85. He has no memory of where the £70 came from. He's on the wagon now.

― Mike W (caek), Sunday, 26 March 2006 19:51 (twenty years ago)

a lot of ill-advised photo booth sessions come to mind...

― xtof (xtof), Sunday, 26 March 2006 19:58 (twenty years ago)

Stupid tings I've bought while drunk?

More drinks!

I spent $36 last night...on a mind-boggling three gin and tonics. The indulgence almost made me run this morning into the bosom of the Holy Roman Church.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 26 March 2006 20:15 (twenty years ago)

almost

― The Sound of Walls (Bimble...), Sunday, 26 March 2006 20:24 (twenty years ago)

a complete set of homies
??

― sgs (sgs), Sunday, 26 March 2006 20:32 (twenty years ago)

sgs, homies are plastic figures that you get from vending machines that look like gangstas

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Sunday, 26 March 2006 21:10 (twenty years ago)

coke

― d'oh, Monday, 27 March 2006 00:48 (twenty years ago)

cds by bands who turn out to be waaaaaaaay less kick-ass minus the boozening

― and/or the occasional miscommunication resulting in buying the opening band's cd, Monday, 27 March 2006 00:50 (twenty years ago)

p0rn

― omg p0rn, Monday, 27 March 2006 00:57 (twenty years ago)

bought a pair of sweet ray-bans for over a hundred bucks because i was drunk in the duty-free shop on a flight from buenos aires to new york. i'd just changed over a bunch of money to dollars and the money was burning a hole through my pocket. but the happy ending is that the glasses still get used nearly everyday.

― Mark Danjer (Danjer), Monday, 27 March 2006 06:14 (twenty years ago)

Is this what my girls got up to after I left them? Oh my goodness. Did they tell you about out-chavving the chavvy girls on the bus?

Anyway, to answer the question, usually: MORE BOOZE.

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Monday, 27 March 2006 09:30 (twenty years ago)

I believe renditions of 60s girl group songs were involved, yes...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 27 March 2006 09:33 (twenty years ago)

And the entire works of Kenickie, oh yes.

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Monday, 27 March 2006 09:34 (twenty years ago)

more alcohol

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Monday, 27 March 2006 09:35 (twenty years ago)

(leading me to be the 100000th person to say the same damn thing on the thread)

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Monday, 27 March 2006 09:36 (twenty years ago)

Can Matt say more about the flowers thing purleaze. Successful in any way? It's the sorta thing i can imagine myself doing.
-- uptoeleven

It seemed like a good idea at the time. I marched into the florists and said: "What are the cheapest flowers you have? Yes! I'll take 30!"

There are carnations and bits of stem all over my house. I left Matt with some and took some home. I threw some at my flatmates for a bit.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 27 March 2006 09:42 (twenty years ago)

Inspired by persuading Anna to spend £18 on an enormous bunch of carnations from the 24hr florists by Highbury & Islington last night, so I could give them out to cute girls in the pub.

You didn't need to start a new thread when the creepy thread already exists ;)

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 27 March 2006 09:46 (twenty years ago)

Anna rips up flowers and throws them at her flatmates, Kate chops wood and menaces boys with knifes. This says something about my band. Hrrrrrmmmmm.

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Monday, 27 March 2006 09:53 (twenty years ago)

I was doing it in a sort of festive-Morrissey-esque way.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 27 March 2006 09:56 (twenty years ago)

Hrrrm, you do have a worrying tendency to turn into Morrissey whenever drinks and flowers are involved. I remember Liverpool.

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Monday, 27 March 2006 10:13 (twenty years ago)

The carnation thing didn't work for me, although it got me lots of attention and by the end of the night there were several girls with flowers in their hair.

It's worked in the past though, although that involved a bunch of red roses that had been thrown in my direction by an arguing couple.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 27 March 2006 10:46 (twenty years ago)

one of those cheep-ass memory foam pillows. a friend and i saw an ad on the TV for 2 for $20 and figured it'd be worth it. i guess it was, it lasted as long as any other pillow and was sort of comfortable, if a bit oddly shaped.

― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:11 (twenty years ago)

I do often wonder if that is what the SkyMall catalogue on airplanes is for.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:16 (twenty years ago)

I got drunk and pitched a tent in my room.

did you buy the tent also whilst drunk though?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:07 (twenty years ago)

yes! we drank a bottle of Bushmills in Kmart

Either my friend or I were involved in the purchase of a good 40 beanie babies one night. I know because I woke up covered in them but neither of us really recalled purchasing such a thing.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:47 (twenty years ago)

Maybe you stole them.

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:55 (twenty years ago)

My answer would be more booze, yes. Like the afternoon I woke up with a $300 credit card charge slip on my desk. Apparently I started buying shots for every cute girl in the bar?

And a bottle of OxyClean off late-night TV, too.

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:57 (twenty years ago)

oh god. i forgot to mention the time i bought an ab-doer from a late-night infomercial.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

Is that the machine that you strap around your stomach and it shocks you into a six-pack?

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

I didn't consider the stealing angle. That makes me feel a little better about it.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)

it doesn't shock you. it's basically a nautilus kind of thing.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:01 (twenty years ago)

A cuddly mallet thing from Timmy Mallet.

― MitchellStirling (MitchellStirling), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:50 (twenty years ago)

bought a pair of sweet ray-bans for over a hundred bucks

How can that ever be a bad thing? My Ray-Ban's cost a fortune but I wear them every day and they're practically indestructible!

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:10 (twenty years ago)

http://www.macleo.com/Mask/gml056.jpg

― John Justen (johnjusten), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:19 (twenty years ago)

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