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On a similar note; what's the biggest waste of money...
Topic Started: Apr 7 2010, 04:57 PM (206 Views)
RosemaryTwo
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... on a book that you bought?

For me it's an expensive hardcover book of poetry. I read one poem in the bookstore and thought it was just so profound I had to have the book. It was a relatively low production book so the price was higher to cover publication costs.

Been sittin' on my shelves for about 5 years. Makes me look, you know, deep. I never have been much of a poetry reader.

I've read more haikus here than from that book.

"Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua
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Free Rider
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I bought a $50 book on programming HTML code back around 2001 or so...I thought I could be a web designer in my spare time. Hah!

I couldn't deal. Wussed out.

I also bought a $25 book called "Hands of Light" about reading people's "auras" and being able to manipulate and change the flow of energy to heal things. Yeah..I'm still lost and searching, but I can't see anything surrounding people's chakras. Hey! Quit laughing!

There's a few other embarassing ones, but I'll just suffice it to say that they were advice/instructional books that just sucked.
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Mikhailoh
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This book about tantric sex. Bunches of great ideas with no practice dummy.
Edited by Mikhailoh, Apr 7 2010, 05:06 PM.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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Mikhailoh
Apr 7 2010, 05:05 PM
This book about tantric sex. Bunches of great ideas with no practice dummy.
:spit:

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Red Rice
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All my college textbooks.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

- Cecil Lewis
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Aqua Letifer
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Red Rice
Apr 7 2010, 07:03 PM
All my college textbooks.
+1.

But, if we have to pick unique answers, I have to differentiate between what constitutes a waste of money and a regretful purchase. (Aside from some college textbooks) I don't truly regret buying any book on my bookshelf.

But I once spent 50 dollars to have a book express mailed to my apartment. It cost that much because it was also a very limited publication. Add to that the fact that I had already read the stories inside it and yeah, other people might view that as a waste. But I don't. Not at all.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Horace
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Red Rice
Apr 7 2010, 07:03 PM
All my college textbooks.
:lol2:

+1.
As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good?
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blondie
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KaJezuz.
I'm out this thread.
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Aqua Letifer
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blondie
Apr 7 2010, 07:41 PM
KaJezuz.
I'm out this thread faster than a middle aged husband ejaculates on date night.
I'm writing that one down and using it at the nearest possible convenience.

:lol: :lol:
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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blondie
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KaJezuz again.
You're too fast!
I tried to edit that.
:lol2:
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CHAS
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Mikhailoh
Apr 7 2010, 05:05 PM
This book about tantric sex. Bunches of great ideas with no practice dummy.
Holy S**t, laughing too hard

and then I saw what blondie wrote and did not edit quickly enough

AAaHHHH LOL LOL LOL
"You want to be Nice, or you want to be Effective? Make the law or be subject to it?"-Roy Cohn
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Aqua Letifer
Apr 7 2010, 07:48 PM
blondie
Apr 7 2010, 07:41 PM
KaJezuz.
I'm out this thread faster than a middle aged husband ejaculates on date night.
I'm writing that one down and using it at the nearest possible convenience.

:lol: :lol:
:lol2: :lol2: :lol2:
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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