Society & Culture Things that Shit me part X- The Tenth edition!

[The Speaker]

Trying to put a replacement value on my cricket memorabilia collection for insurance.

Ring up Channel 9.

 

[Gough]

Ring up Channel 9.

Just been trying to price some of my stuff on eBay and other auction sites. It seems to me that the only reason you would be the shit that they spruik is to sell it a significant loss sometime down the track.

 

[The Passenger]

When you said Super Mario Kart led to you receiving a restraining order, I assumed you met a girl who looked exactly like Peach and stalked her until she went to the police. Your story is still cool though.

peach is definitely a binary 1

 

[Papa Juggs]

Trying to put a replacement value on my cricket memorabilia collection for insurance.

What sort of collection are we looking at?

Signed and framed uniforms? Bats? Framed bats?

$10000+ if you have a few or more of that sort of stuff.

 

[Caesar]

Me: Hi, I was wondering if you guys sell writing paper.
Officeworks Guy: Sure, our paper is over there on the wall.
Me: Sorry, could you show me? I could only find printer paper.
OG: What's the difference?

Turns out that aside from invitation letterhead with balloons and shit, Officeworks no longer stocks correspondence stationary. You can't even buy a jar of ink there any more.

 

[Gough]

Runs into about 500 books of varying value, 50 odd Widens, ABC cricket books from the 40s t5o present day, signed Bradman Albums, a lot of autographs, including guys like O'Reilly, Miller, Lindwall etc who are no longer around, official signed team sheets from various tours, including the first rebel one to South Africa. Cricket cards from the 20s up until the mid 80s. A few bits of art, various commemorative port bottles from the 60s onwards. A few ash trays, beer glasses, toby jugs and miniature cricket bats.
A lot of it is irreplaceable unfortunately and I'm having a tough time trying to come up with a value for it.

 

[Papa Juggs]

Runs into about 500 books of varying value, 50 odd Widens, ABC cricket books from the 40s t5o present day, signed Bradman Albums, a lot of autographs, including guys like O'Reilly, Miller, Lindwall etc who are no longer around, official signed team sheets from various tours, including the first rebel one to South Africa. Cricket cards from the 20s up until the mid 80s. A few bits of art, various commemorative port bottles from the 60s onwards. A few ash trays, beer glasses, toby jugs and miniature cricket bats.
A lot of it is irreplaceable unfortunately and I'm having a tough time trying to come up with a value for it.

$10000? Maybe a little more if you think some items are particularly valuable. Even an autograph of Elvis or Michael Jackson is only worth so much. Cricket would be a niche market meaning buyers are limited. Remember you'd have to go to a serious collector to even get any money at all for memorabilia. Most pawn shops will turn their nose up at you if you want real money. The time and effort tracking down those collectors with big pockets is the difficult thing about niche markets.

Sentimental value doesn't count for much on an insurance quote.

Hopefully that helps. I know you've probably got quite an emotional connection to your stuff and I just wanted to give an objective opinion.

 

[Gough]

Cheers for the advice mate. I guess 10k would probably be around the mark. My other books we've got at 25k, but we wanted to put a separate value on the cricket stuff because of the non book element of the collection.

 

[Dagless]

Anyone want to buy a Warne 'Australian Greats of Cricket' painting signed by Don Bradman???......................................

 

[The Passenger]

When mates bring their mrs out to drink and they consider both him and the mrs as one shout within the round. aggravating and you look like a **** for calling them out.

if you don't want her to pay for her drinks that is fine, but then you gotta cough up two shouts within the round. other blokes don't wanna pay for your mrs drinks.

 

[The Speaker]

Runs into about 500 books of varying value, 50 odd Widens, ABC cricket books from the 40s t5o present day, signed Bradman Albums, a lot of autographs, including guys like O'Reilly, Miller, Lindwall etc who are no longer around, official signed team sheets from various tours, including the first rebel one to South Africa. Cricket cards from the 20s up until the mid 80s. A few bits of art, various commemorative port bottles from the 60s onwards. A few ash trays, beer glasses, toby jugs and miniature cricket bats.
A lot of it is irreplaceable unfortunately and I'm having a tough time trying to come up with a value for it.

Might want to send off an email to someone like Steven Lynch (cricinfo). Some of those would be worth a fair bit.

 

[BALKAN]

Me: Hi, I was wondering if you guys sell writing paper.
Officeworks Guy: Sure, our paper is over there on the wall.
Me: Sorry, could you show me? I could only find printer paper.
OG: What's the difference?

Turns out that aside from invitation letterhead with balloons and shit, Officeworks no longer stocks correspondence stationary. You can't even buy a jar of ink there any more.

Why jar of ink? Do they still make pens that don't have cartridge re-fills?

 

[Caesar]

I have a couple of old fountain pens, they have refillable ink wells.

 

[Papa Juggs]

I have a couple of old fountain pens, they have refillable ink wells.

Sometimes I swear you're straight out of the 80s. Go back through the portal, you'll be happier.

 

[Caesar]

They have sentimental value, that's all.

 

[Papa Juggs]

They have sentimental value, that's all.

That's too boring.

I'd more like to imagine how you don't use ball point pens because it's too "common"

 

[Plugger35]

Forgetting to make changes to my EPL dreamteam before lockout, now I've still got non playing Arsenal donkeys like Arteta and Vermaelen in my team which I threw together a few days before the first round lockout.

Still managed to win last week thanks to Captain Lampard and Ivanovic, don't think I'll be so lucky this week.

#firstworldproblems

#nobodygivesashitaboutsoccer

When mates bring their mrs out to drink.

Could've stopped right there.

The worst is when a mate calls you up for what you think is just a boys night out and then they ambush you and front up with the GF (aka wet blanket). Then you have to pretend to be happy to see them and make small talk. I hate that.

 

[Gough]

The Wallabies scrum. Bring back Topo Rodriguez and Tommy Lawton they could do a better job than the current mob.

 

[Plugger35]

Just noticed Cruffy got banned.

What did he do to cop that? Did he go full Springsteen on the footy boards.

Vale Cruffy, he was born to run.





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[Plugger35]

The Wallabies scrum. Bring back Topo Rodriguez and Tommy Lawton they could do a better job than the current mob.

I remember those guys Gough, showing my age. I was just a kid back then though.

My parents are Kiwis so I grew up playing rugby union, I played hooker and idolised Keith Wood the legendary Irish hooker rather than Tom Lawton, Phil Kearns or Sean Fitzpatrick.

When I travelled to Ireland back in 2001 I mentioned Keith Wood to a few of the locals in pubs thinking this guy must be an Irish hero and I'd get free pints on the bar just mentioning his name. Most of them had no clue who I was even talking about and were more interested in the bloody EPL,

England's the same, it's only the public schoolboy crowd there that cares about rugby. The rest of the general public are all about soccer unless England win a Rugby World Cup and then they all jump on the bandwagon.

 

[NSWCROW]

When the actual **** did these things shrink ???

 

[SpaceCow]

Me: Hi, I was wondering if you guys sell writing paper.
Officeworks Guy: Sure, our paper is over there on the wall.
Me: Sorry, could you show me? I could only find printer paper.
OG: What's the difference?

Turns out that aside from invitation letterhead with balloons and shit, Officeworks no longer stocks correspondence stationary. You can't even buy a jar of ink there any more.

Can't you? I definitely bought a pot a small while back. Admittedly it was the only one they stocked. It was where they kept their ballpoint and fountain pens.

 

[zimma]

Not being able to decide between an ultrabook or a tablet+bluetooth keyboard for a go to device for my university related needs. That's my first world problem that shits me for the week..

 

[Caesar]

I like my Ultrabook. I have found tablets with keyboards to be a half-baked compromise when it comes to word processing, spreadsheet apps, etc.

I haven't looked into it for about 12 months though, so maybe the technology has improved.

 

[zimma]

I like my Ultrabook. I have found tablets with keyboards to be a half-baked compromise when it comes to word processing, spreadsheet apps, etc.

I haven't looked into it for about 12 months though, so maybe the technology has improved.

Yeah I thought the same but trying out the latest ipad with it's version of iWork has introduced a dilemma, my old android tablet was simply useless with a keyboard and really found it to be useless outside of being an ereader. In that regard it (and indeed all tablets) are awesome for loading the powerpoint / pdf files during lectures, but it would be nice to have access to something which is at least usable for typing up assignments and generating presentations.