As highlighted on the Big Breakfast. The average spent by a man on underwear per year in #14.00. Also do oyu buy the said underwear yourself or do you let your better half buy it?

So how much do you spend? I can spend that much in on shopping spree.

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

Answers

I don't have a better half.....It's not possible....

Anyway...did you really mean to say 14quid?!?!?!?! and why are you bragging that you spend that much in one spree? surely that's a tiny amount??

Anyway....I also assume that we're talking about how much we spend on underwear for ourselves in a year?

I probably spend about 240quid a year on kegs alone.....nothing flashy either!! just Mark's and Sparks usually...

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

That right #14.00 per man per year on the purchase of underwear. I can spend anything up to #20 on a single bra. So that blows my budget for the year.

Also do you co for comfort or style??

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

Hmmmm. I tend to go for Oldbloke & Pennyfarthing's Iron-weave privates-preservers (with built-in truss). The last pair cost me 2 and six and they are guaranteed to survive for 3 generations. One- size fits all. They are beautifully tailored to tuck up under the arms and hang to well below the knees. Ideal for storeing household bills, spare linen and growing root vegetables. Why do you ask?

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

Softie that doesn't surprise me ;o)

Just cause they were asking it on the Big Breakfast and they had three guys from Sheffield modeling new lines in underwear.

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

Softie,
Why are you buying if they're so good ? There must still be loads of hand me downs from your da and your gran'da. :-))

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

Ah, Bill, Great Great Great Great Grandpa Softie bought the last pair, it was my turn. I bequeath the job to my Great Grandson (personal hygeine is on the rise).

Mind you, it was a wrench throwing away the old pair...and it took a wrench to get the buggers off!

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

never bought any in my life. If I find that 'er indoors has been wasting #14 on my undies there'll be trouble. I stil haven't forgiven her for hoying oot my threadbare but lucky black and white pants.

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

Softie,
You were obviously too tense. If you'd relaxed they would have squirmed off on their own.

Jay,
Haven't the faintest idea how much is spent on my underwear. I think it hinges on how difficult it is to get the skid marks out - will it be cheaper to get a new lot or to have the washer fixed ? :-))

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

Bill, :)))))

My duds cost me about 8quid a pair which is bloody disgraceful!!

Sting, you still into those Armani ones?? they must cost about 30quid or something?

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

Gav,
At 20 quid, or even 8 quid a pair, I'd be inclined to wear them on the outside of me troosas so everybody could see, and probably inside out so the label showed. :-))

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

Any friend of Batman's...

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

Pit-Bull do you even who how to operate a washing machine? And what temperature you wash undies (skid marked) or not on.

Come on men of the new millennium you should know this ;o)

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

Be fair Jay,
How do you expect somebody who couldn't manage a poss tub to be able to handle one of these new fangled gadgets ?

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

Operate a washing machine? I've washed ironed more clothes in the past six years than I care to remember. I am moving in with the girlfriend soon though, her doing the washing slots nicely into the 'advantages' column.

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

I odn't do ironing ! My new washer has 25 programmes one of which includes making my coffee for me in the morning ! :,)

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

De Builder,
You'll be lucky. If she has any sense she'll have the ground rules carved into stone already. You iron your stuff, she irons her stuff.

So I've been told. |-)

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

Never let a lass near your washing, that's my motto, unless you want to find yourself going to the match in a pink and white striped shirt with the transfers ironed off the back.

My experience is that just like when shopping, men know what they want and get on with it (as true as in so many other situations!). They don't spend hours and hours wandering randomly round the supermarket because their poxy shopping list is in that order, they go up each aisle once and get what is needed from that aisle. Just the same with washing - shirts, trousers, pants, socks go i when you have a load and get dried and ironed on the same day and put away. None of this having 17 bloody outfits so that 12 can sit around in baskets supposedly as ironing. Hah! They simply don't have enough wardrobe space if they ever had it all washed and ironed at the same time!

Men are simply more organised and better able to operate machinery.

That ought to get them squeeling :-)

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

I tried to avoid this thread but have been goaded by you know who . Ive got to admit to expensive pant collection and for fear of reprisal its nowt to do with me . Wor lass wont have me anything like pants or thongs .. or boxer shorts .. it has to be them huggy type things ( nowt like nappies ) with the band across the top . The last pair she bought us were made by Bjorn Borg , and cost #23 ( NB i didnt buy them ) . She hates me mickey mouse boxers and me black n white ones with brown ale insignia on . So to answer the question , i pay nowt , she pays fortunes .. but nae matter how expensive the pants are the skiddies never go away :-(( Of course the other side of this coin means i have to reciprocate aforementioned tackle , so im well known face in La Senza , where i get a lot of funny looks .. which leads me to when i was in there last , i was looking for a bikini for wor lass and was getting followed round the shop by the assistants , asking if they could help me . This went on so much i was pestered out the shop ... it wasnt till i next went to the lavvy til i realised i'd been walking around fly down , with nae kegs ... nuff said !

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

Oh you may just have to pay for those comments on Sunday Softie...revenge will be mine!!!!!

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

My new washer has 25 programmes one of which includes making my coffee for me in the morning !
New ? I've been married to one of them for nearly forty years.

(Please Gav, divvent tell wor lass ah posted that one - ah sneaked it in when she wasn't lookin') |-)

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

You lads are on one here fing great piece of chauvanism : - )

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

If he doesn't tell your lass I will!!! I bet you make the tea in the morning not her. Go on Pit Bull tell the truth

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

Sting, Goaded?!?! tell me who and I'll get them :)))

God I haven't bought underwear for a girl for ages....sigh...I used to love going in the shop and asking the assistants if they could model them for me....

Note....Only the foolhardy would think I was kidding about asking the assistants to model underwear for me!!

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

We've got to have chauvanism cos they control every other fing thing!!

It's our little way of trying to maintain some dignity :))

Jay, have you ever seriously considered burning a bra or chaining yourself to some railing? go on......tell the truth and shame the devil!!

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

Got me there Jay,

Tea and toast for her; cereal, tea and toast for me, I can just about manage that. But luckily not in bed (her idea, not mine) - I'm finding the stairs a bit of a problem these days. A Stannah might be a good idea for my birthday. |-)

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

Gav I did chain myself to a gate one, but only under the influence of lots of alcohol.

With regards to bra buring at #20 a bra to bloody expensive mate !! ;o)

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

Jay (Milly Tant),

Bugger the price!!....there's womens lib at stake and you should be doing your part!!

So your true colours come out when your drunk do they?

What happened with that Egg Chasing bloke by the way?

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

Wrong sport for me. I like men who like footie, then at least I am guaranteed some form of conversation. All this stuff about opposites attracking nah doesn't work!

Any women will tell you. When you find a bra that fits well and above all is comfy the last thing you want to do is burn it.

I am not a mill tant I am just a forward thinker!!

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

Jay,

So he didn't ring you? or did he not have your number....

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

He didn't have my number, and I didn't ring him. Okay now he has been mentioned I am bound to see him on Saturday night around town.

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

How will you handle it if you see him on Saturday night? especially if your a little worse for wear.....

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

jay just like a thread a while ago , bumping into someone you did something with you wish you hadnt .... wee you chasing eggs with the egg chaser ? ; - )

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

With the old line lets just be friends. I doubt I will be THAT drunk on Saturday night ! I am going out for a meal first so that will soak up lots of alcohol.

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

You mean that all those female friends I thought I had aren't really my friends? it was just a platitude to get rid of my unwanted attentions?

Oh my god.........I've been wasting money on birthday and xmas cards for years!! ;)

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

I only had to dates with the guy and one of them was a lunch date. The other one we met his friends(or so he said)for last orders. And had to share a taxi back with a couple.

So no I didn't chase any eggs in the biblical sense. I and forward thinking but not that forward!! ;o)

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

You got a bit flustered there with Sting's question about chasing eggs.....the end of posting is a bit "Screambled"....Boom Boom!!

Too hot for a coat.....I'll just leave....

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

You got a bit flustered there with Sting's question about chasing eggs.....the end of posting is a bit "Scrambled"....Boom Boom!!

Too hot for a coat.....I'll just leave....

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

Damn...didn't catch my typo in time!!

Oh well that's an extra posting for free in my quest to overtake Ciara ;))

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

The joke wasn't that good that I needed to hear it a second time !!

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000