Things I Love

[The Ween]

I'm sorry to hear about your sister.

I'm glad that things turned out so well between you two. Hopefully you'll get together more often now.

 

[Skiman]

Woke up tonight and it finally smells like spring. That was a long winter.

 

[pixletwin]

 

[The Ween]

So I guess you have just as much class as I do!

 

[devilof76]

I **** regularly, thank you very much.

 

[devilof76]

Really??? P o o p is censored now???

 

[RavenEye]

Really??? P o o p is censored now???

p00p

 

[pixletwin]

We can thank Nam and Bodie for the lexicon of banned words here at SSF.

 

[Solidus]

I'm still laughing at the fact that tittybab(i)es got censored. Maybe that's why Nam doesn't post regularly anymore .

 

[Solidus]

Mentioning ****, by the way:

https://www.mikewang.org/images/chimgam9.swf

 

[Lejuan]

Agreed. I dropped several grand this month on getting one of my grails, a Cinemaquette Predator, and I would easily pony up and do the same to get this bad boy in my collection. I will take the 1/12 scale version but I really want the one in the pics here.

It's already $250-280 retail in Japan. The $400 pricing seems to be what we get here in North America. People have always placed more value in heavier objects - I'm not denying the quality in this piece, but really, the mass thing is very psychological. I'm certain the margin for this figure is pretty large, even though shipping master cartons of this badboy definitely incurs higher freight charges. And in all honesty, I don't see the upcoming (?) R2-D2 going for a penny less than his counterpart, so I'm already looking at this in terms of 2x pricing.

Lovn' the bad boys

 

[The Ween]

I can buy a badboy for $400?

I can buy several!

 

[fosing]

Black Sabbath.....LIVE.

not enough security to stop the weed and booze, what a great crowd.

 

[EVILFACE]

ebay sniping!

 

[Adoptedscot]

I'm very happy for you!

Thanks Allison
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I'm sorry to hear about your sister.

I'm glad that things turned out so well between you two. Hopefully you'll get together more often now.

Thanks weenie
Aside from the mods (to explain my on/off absence) I've kept that mostly to myself till now (about my sis), but it is one of the reasons I am forced to sell my beloved print collection. I need to save up for her funeral as I'm her next of kin and we don't know how much longer she has, in fact the docs are amazed she's still here. My bruv wasn't happy when I told him about selling them, he and my sister haven't spoken for about 26 years, but someone has to pay for things when it happens, I wanna do right by her and can't raise it just with my disability money. So, needs must and all that.

My bruv sais he will bring my nieces next time which will be nice.

Thanks again hun.
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[a-dev]

Lovn' the bad boys

Saw another instance in the 'Can you remember your first Hot Toy' thread today. I'm sure I've used it myself previously but since attention was drawn to it its starting to annoy me aswell

 

[The Ween]

Thanks Allison
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Thanks weenie
Aside from the mods (to explain my on/off absence) I've kept that mostly to myself till now (about my sis), but it is one of the reasons I am forced to sell my beloved print collection. I need to save up for her funeral as I'm her next of kin and we don't know how much longer she has, in fact the docs are amazed she's still here. My bruv wasn't happy when I told him about selling them, he and my sister haven't spoken for about 26 years, but someone has to pay for things when it happens, I wanna do right by her and can't raise it just with my disability money. So, needs must and all that.

My bruv sais he will bring my nieces next time which will be nice.

Thanks again hun.
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Is there anyway you can either take out a loan, or maybe find someone who can buy your prints from you and then let you buy them back one at a time when you have the funds?

Can you also accept donations when the time comes at the funeral. Like in lieu of flowers? We do that hear. Instead of flowers or donation to a charity, they donate to the funeral fund to help pay for it.

 

[Adoptedscot]

Is there anyway you can either take out a loan, or maybe find someone who can buy your prints from you and then let you buy them back one at a time when you have the funds?

Can you also accept donations when the time comes at the funeral. Like in lieu of flowers? We do that hear. Instead of flowers or donation to a charity, they donate to the funeral fund to help pay for it.

Thanks so much for the advice and concern sweetie, but no unfortunately. I can't get a loan because I'm on disability benefits and can't work. there's no point discussing buying them back as my own health is getting worse too so I don't know what's gonna happen.

Honestly my sister has very few friends so there will be minimal people there anyway. All she has is her Ex boyfriend and her two sons. Her ex and I are the executors of her will (not that she has anything besides her boys) but he's a ....well quirky, his contribution will be looking after my 2 Nephews when the time comes. Thankfully they already live with him so that won't be an upheaval aswell, as losing their mum is gonna be bad enough.

She seems to think that it's only organisation involved in a funeral when we talked about it. I don't want to remind her that funerals cost money. She doesn't want our so-called mother involved (other than being invited) and my brother won't be involved.

I think there is a 'death grant' that I can apply for when it happens but it's only a fraction of the cost for a basic funeral/cremation, and you have to jump through hoops to apply for it. Plus you have to pay everything first, then maybe get some back.

My brothers fiancé mentioned I could ask her to contribute to her own funeral too since she knows it's a case of when rather than if. I can see her point but I'm wary about asking. Plus (like me) she doesn't have any money aside from benefits so I doubt she could save anything even if she wanted to, and to be honest I doubt she would want to. Her brains not wired that way.

So, I have my prints and while I am seriously hating having to sell them, I have to keep telling myself that they are a luxury rather than necessity.
As I say though my bruv is not happy me selling stuff for it and my sis doesn't know, it's just something I have to do .

Things are just a complete mess right now and I feel like I'm living in a in a pressure cooker, so seeing my bruv at the weekend was a wonderful distraction and bit of solace, especially when he kept hugging me.

Thanks weenie
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[Skiman]

Lovn' the bad boys

I'd say it's up there with being called "bro", "brah", "BUD" <--- really hate that one.

Ski

 

[EVILFACE]

Kewl story, bud.