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Title: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: The Business on June 22, 2010, 01:30:06 AM: My birthday is next month and my loving girlfriend has agreed to buy me one of the following similarly priced gifts:

iPhone 4

(http://beta.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/00131/SBTB16_IPHONE_131398e.jpg)

Bicycle (something like this, probably used off Craigslist unless you can recommend a decent beginner's new roadbike for <$300 USD)

(http://www.blog.jefffry.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/a-d_1.jpg)

Motorcycle boots

(http://r6blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/sidi-vertigo-zwart.jpg)

But I can't decide! Which one should I ask for?
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: demi on June 22, 2010, 01:31:06 AM: Boots
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Post by: Barry Egan on June 22, 2010, 01:33:26 AM: I vote the bike.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on June 22, 2010, 01:37:56 AM: iPhone 4
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Post by: Fresh Prince on June 22, 2010, 01:39:52 AM: I think you ride a motorbike. If you get the bicycle- you will give up on one or the other.

I'd get the iPhone personally
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: Cormacaroni on June 22, 2010, 01:42:21 AM: I think you'd look hot in those boots, man. Especially if you lack the rest of the biker gear to go along with it :-*
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: demi on June 22, 2010, 01:43:27 AM: I want your girlfriend to waste money on MotorCycle boots.

If you pick the Bike or iPhone, then her money was well spent, and it's not as funny.

You spend your hard-earned money on shitty gifts for them, they need to return the favor.

Get the boots.
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: Cormacaroni on June 22, 2010, 01:48:05 AM: The important thing is that having offered you all three but making you choose, she has denied you two of them, meaning you can never be happy with whatever you get. So you have learned that she is a scheming, penny-pinching psycho who is only interested in making you unhappy.

And that's PRICELESS.
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: demi on June 22, 2010, 01:52:00 AM: Quote from: The Business on June 22, 2010, 01:47:33 AM
Quote from: demi on June 22, 2010, 01:43:27 AM
I want your girlfriend to waste money on MotorCycle boots.

If you pick the Bike or iPhone, then her money was well spent, and it's not as funny.

You spend your hard-earned money on shitty gifts for them, they need to return the favor.

Get the boots.

The boots are top-of-the-line safety gear, and a necessity if I ever want to take my bike to the track.

But she wasted money on a pair of boots. Coulda had an iPhone 4, but she bought you boots. It's sitcom material
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: Fresh Prince on June 22, 2010, 01:55:25 AM: For triathlons try to get a Time Trial bike.

Since you're competing I wouldn't bother getting a $300 time trial bike and just save up.
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: demi on June 22, 2010, 01:59:34 AM: Sorry it is decided. For my entertainment you will get the boots. Then you will take a picture in your boots, and post it on here.
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: demi on June 22, 2010, 02:02:41 AM: So cut yourself out, who cares about you. I just want to see the boots.
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: Cormacaroni on June 22, 2010, 02:04:43 AM: Quote from: demi on June 22, 2010, 02:02:41 AM
So cut yourself out, who cares about you. I just want to see the boots.

(http://r6blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/sidi-vertigo-zwart.jpg)
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: demi on June 22, 2010, 02:10:15 AM: Yep, get the boots

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/149/346168078_e773db131f.jpg)
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: Smooth Groove on June 22, 2010, 02:13:29 AM: new boobs
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Post by: CajoleJuice on June 22, 2010, 04:21:43 AM: definitely boots
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Post by: tiesto on June 22, 2010, 09:06:24 AM: Definitely the bike... hell I'd even take the boots over the iPhone... :P
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: chronovore on June 22, 2010, 11:32:09 AM: Quote from: The Business on June 22, 2010, 02:10:57 AM
They look fine in leathers, though:

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Somebody needs to tell that guy the training wheels don't look so bitchin'.
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: chronovore on June 22, 2010, 11:32:57 AM: Oh, get the boots. If you actually plan on riding, and if you ever wipe out in anything other than those boots, you'll wish you'd had the boots.
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: Mr. Gundam on June 22, 2010, 11:50:07 AM: Get the bike.
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Post by: TEEEPO on June 22, 2010, 11:54:59 AM: the bike!
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Post by: Bocsius on June 22, 2010, 11:56:08 AM: The bike.
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on June 22, 2010, 11:58:02 AM: Get the boots and the bike and then ride the bike in the boots with only short-shorts to accompany them.
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: Mupepe on June 22, 2010, 12:00:38 PM: get the bike.

if you cared about an iphone enough to use it to its fullest you would have gotten it by now. most people who receive it as gifts never use the app store and shit. they use it just like a regular phone which is why they never had enough interest in it to buy it on their own.

The boots are cool but... boots for a gift? waste of a gift, my friend. Might as well ask for a shirt.
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: ch1nchilla on June 22, 2010, 01:25:36 PM: Boots

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iPhone 4
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Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: Diunx on June 22, 2010, 01:28:46 PM: Bike, those boots look fucking ridiculous.
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: Tieno on June 22, 2010, 01:31:04 PM: all unworthy of a game forum, get the iphone 4. It'll be outdated in 3 months and you'll want a new one by next year.
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: Robo on June 22, 2010, 02:29:21 PM: The bike, no brainer, unless you're getting those boots to match your halter tops, poofter.
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: Mr. Gundam on June 22, 2010, 03:24:27 PM: Quote from: The Business on June 22, 2010, 03:21:24 PM
Another option is the new 360 slim. I could keep that one at her place so I can ignore her and play video games and watch Netflix!

Get the bike.
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: Mr. Gundam on June 22, 2010, 03:55:04 PM: Quote from: The Business on June 22, 2010, 03:30:09 PM
I don't know how someone so obsessed with his own silly hobbies can be so pragmatic about mine, but I have a feeling Gundam is right.

I'm really not THAT obsessed. The majority of it is just internet persona shtick.
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: muckhole on June 22, 2010, 04:45:16 PM: Quote from: demi on June 22, 2010, 01:59:34 AM
Sorry it is decided. For my entertainment you will get the boots. Then you will take a picture in your boots, and post it on here.

:lol

The way I look at it is the utility aspect. The boots are a necessity for the track. The bike is a helpful accessory to keeping yourself in shape. The phone is mostly useless given that you already have one, and the newer version likely only does a small amount of things your current one can't.

So I'd let her get me the phone.

You buy the utilitarian things you need, and let the presents from others be the things you want but have a harder time justifying.
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: demi on June 22, 2010, 05:00:16 PM: Quote from: Rob Thomas on June 22, 2010, 12:00:38 PM

The boots are cool but... boots for a gift? waste of a gift, my friend. Might as well ask for a shirt.

Exactly. How many of you DUDES have spent money on a shitty gift to appease your "girlfriend"

Now it is her turn to waste her money on a shitty gift
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: Fresh Prince on June 22, 2010, 06:20:33 PM: Buy the bike but you need aero bars and the other triatheletes will have awesome bikes that will make you feel like a poor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_trial_bicycle
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: Smooth Groove on June 22, 2010, 07:50:36 PM: Quote from: Mr. Gundam on June 22, 2010, 03:24:27 PM
Quote from: The Business on June 22, 2010, 03:21:24 PM
Another option is the new 360 slim. I could keep that one at her place so I can ignore her and play video games and watch Netflix!

Get the bike.

Disgusting sfag.
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: Fresh Prince on June 22, 2010, 09:26:07 PM: How long? You'll want aero bars in any case if you're doing triathlons.
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Post by: E-DuB on June 22, 2010, 11:37:30 PM: Get the bike
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Post by: TEEEPO on June 23, 2010, 03:29:24 AM: BUY A PLANE TICKET TO DC!
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: Brehvolution on June 23, 2010, 11:26:52 AM: Quote from: Smooth Groove on June 22, 2010, 07:50:36 PM
Quote from: Mr. Gundam on June 22, 2010, 03:24:27 PM
Quote from: The Business on June 22, 2010, 03:21:24 PM
Another option is the new 360 slim. I could keep that one at her place so I can ignore her and play video games and watch Netflix!

Get the bike.

Disgusting sfag.
:rofl
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: Mupepe on June 23, 2010, 11:34:54 AM: Quote from: demi on June 22, 2010, 05:00:16 PM
Quote from: Rob Thomas on June 22, 2010, 12:00:38 PM

The boots are cool but... boots for a gift? waste of a gift, my friend. Might as well ask for a shirt.

Exactly. How many of you DUDES have spent money on a shitty gift to appease your "girlfriend"

Now it is her turn to waste her money on a shitty gift
:lol :lol

Demi actually has a really good point. She'll probably buy them and be thinking "what the fuck? boots?" and you can put them in the closet and never wear them
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: AdmiralViscen on June 23, 2010, 12:47:22 PM: iPhone

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Droid X
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Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: Mupepe on June 23, 2010, 03:31:07 PM: should have just said the bike

i'd cancel it too. i hate when people refuse to say what they want when they know damn well they know what they want just tell me i'm asking so it's not rude ok?
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: Bildi on June 24, 2010, 12:33:26 AM: So you age one year but don't get the enjoyment of a birthday? Bum deal.
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Post by: Fresh Prince on June 24, 2010, 12:37:28 AM: 180ks, I presume it's flat. If it's hilly- good luck.
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Post by: lennedsay on June 24, 2010, 12:39:41 AM: Tell her that her next multiple orgasm session is cancelled too. Bitch.
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: Mr. Gundam on June 24, 2010, 12:41:35 AM: Quote from: The Business on June 23, 2010, 03:27:59 PM
I decided to just leave it up to her but now she's just told me my birthday was cancelled. Maybe next year. :'(

:lol

Sorry man.
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: Smooth Groove on June 24, 2010, 12:48:24 AM: Quote from: lennedsay on June 24, 2010, 12:39:41 AM
Tell her that her next multiple orgasm session is cancelled too. Bitch.

Ain't that just a myth?
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: lennedsay on June 24, 2010, 12:50:24 AM: :rofl

Not so smooth groove?
Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: Smooth Groove on June 24, 2010, 12:52:34 AM: I only care about my own orgasms. :smug

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Maybe that's why none of my relationships lasts more than 3 months? :fbm
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Title: Re: Attention consumerbore: Which of these unnecessary items should I get?
Post by: lennedsay on June 24, 2010, 12:55:25 AM: They last that long? Wow!
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Post by: Smooth Groove on June 24, 2010, 12:57:45 AM: They like riding in my Z4 and G37. :derp