What's on your desk?

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Mine doesn't say "Bench" on it though. I hate advertising for other people without getting paid.

It also doesn't have a hood.

Shin · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 15:23

Oh no, not benchers >.<

Overpriced chav cack that I can make at my place for less than half the price. Working in garments making and printing you know how much they cost

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

I was shocked to discover Bench stuff is worn by a certain sort of person (I'd never heard of it, it was just a nice zip up woollen top I saw in TKMaxx), so I'm doubly glad it doesn't say "Bench" on it.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 15:25

The Rev Owen · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 15:26

What type of person? It was all skaters and indie kids back in the early nineties.

Shin · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 15:26

This kind:

http://a.bebo.com/app-image/6896878211/ ... rtpunk.jpg

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Is that one of yours, Zardi? Does it have a matching flat cap?

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

I will take a photo of the top later. Possibly on a desk.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 15:30

The Rev Owen wrote:

What type of person? It was all skaters and indie kids back in the early nineties.

Crack whores, Peedofiddlers and Solicitors in 2008.

Shin · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 15:30

http://www.sha-crawford.co.uk/may2005/chav.jpg

I was convinced they called it 'bench' because half the people (if you can call them that) that wear the stuff sit on benches outside the local Spar with a 2ltr bottle of Cider that they passed around the rest of the 13 year olds

The Rev Owen · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 15:34

How things change, eh? I bought mine from the shop Thom Yorke worked in, which means it must have been cool.

Shin · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 15:36

If it was years ago it's not so bad, but seriously go into 'Bank' and other shops like that and just see who is buying it now, whew! I stick to 'Soho' shops (goth, rocker clothes) because we do the prints and things so I get it cheap cheap!

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

I like preppy J Crew or Gap stuff. Or flares. Or skatery stuff.

Anything that doesn't look chavvy, really.

Mostly flares though, for some bizarre head-injury related reason.

Shin · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 15:44

I mostly dress in black, black is a good look for me. It makes me look like I'm aiming for pale and listless rather than just looking like an uncooked chip

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 16:02

Mr Chris wrote:

Gap stuff

Gay And Proud.

Oh man, you're making it easy today!

Also: Cardigans AND flares.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Coal-covered boiler suits for you, eh?

JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 3214

Desk?

Ooh, scary. Computer, monitor, phone, but also

Playmobil Roman Centurion and four legionnaires, couple of random knights
Ibuprofen deep-rub anti muscle hurtee cream
Assorted lego
Docking station for Psion Revo
Four more legionnaires, in standard red outfit rather than the dashing white and blue of the other chaps
Pigsback squeezy pig
Camel in a shake-up ball, only with sand not snow (japes!)
Pile of books I've read, not sure where they belong
Umbrella with no echo
Vaseline tub (no one has ever questioned this; though the cleaners like to move the legions' heads around they don't meddle with it. So far as I can tell)
Plant that really should be in a bigger pot
13A fuse. Working? I know not.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 16:08

Mr Chris wrote:

Coal-covered boiler suits for you, eh?

Not since you Southern Thatcherites had your way.

I just wear a crotchless Spiderman outfit these days.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Oi, us Wes' Cunree sorts never voted Tory. Vile, slanderous thing to suggest.

So do you all just mine batter now then?

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 16:20

We scrounge the wastelands collecting milk bottle tops to fashion into armour.

Rodafowa · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 16:28

A bottle of no-added-sugar Vimto (4/5 empty).
100 tiny dice.
A Troy Tempest-esque phone headset doodat.
Scissors (pink-handled).
An action figure of Yangus from Dragon Quest VIII (holding his battleaxe in a Pete Townshend "windmill" pose).
Two NVM chip programming sockets.
6 half-used notepads of various sizes.
A 1GB memory stick.
Assorted security industry magazines in unopened cellophane.
An acrylic lenticular picture from Blade Runner.
Several biros (black).
Several pencils (sharp).
PG Tips monkey.
"Oil Slick" coloured Thinking Putty, currently pressed into the shape of a smiley face.
My watch.
Flat-head screwdriver (red).
Needle-nose pliars (blue).
Oblong eraser w/tooth marks (white).

Man, I've got a lot of crap.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 16:29

Pretty good stuff there (apart from diet vimto).

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