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Got bored and ended up thinking about this. So; 8 songs, 1 book, 1 inanimate luxury that doesn't involve contact with the outside world. What would yours be?

Luxury: Solar powered laptop. Seeing as it would hopefully be my own laptop, this would kind of invalidate the need for a limited number of discs.
Book: Not sure about this one. It's between Norwegian Wood and John Harris's book about Britpop. May have to flip a coin to settle this.
Songs: The Drowners - Suede (1992), Animal Nitrate - Suede (1993), Beetlebum - Blur (1997), Slow - My Bloody Valentine (1988), Untitled 3 - Sigur Rós (2002), Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones (1978), Yes - McAlmont and Butler (1995), Crazy For You - Best Coast (2010)

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Jennifer Steadman wrote:Wearily awaiting some troll responses.
Billy Goats Gruff for the book. I'll let you know shortly on the others.
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Gavin Chipper wrote:
Jennifer Steadman wrote:Wearily awaiting some troll responses.
Billy Goats Gruff for the book. I'll let you know shortly on the others.
Not sure why that's a troll response. It's quality reading material. Or are you trolling by giving serious answers?
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Jennifer Steadman wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:
Jennifer Steadman wrote:Wearily awaiting some troll responses.
Billy Goats Gruff for the book. I'll let you know shortly on the others.
Not sure why that's a troll response. It's quality reading material. Or are you trolling by giving serious answers?
Oh Jen.
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Dave Preece wrote:Zzzzzzzzzz this site needs cremating!
You first.
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In response to the actual topic, I'm actually genuinely thinking hard about the songs, I'm trying to have one for any mood I might be in on my island.

However as a luxury, I think I'd like a net/rod to catch fish with. I don't know I'd be very good a fashioning a spear, so it seems like the best option. And I think I'd like the HUUUUGE complete version of Encylopedia Britannica as my book. I could learn so much.
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In response to the actual topic, I'm actually genuinely thinking hard about the songs, I'm trying to have one for any mood I might be in on my island.

However as a luxury, I think I'd like a net/rod to catch fish with. I don't know I'd be very good a fashioning a spear, so it seems like the best option. And I think I'd like the HUUUUGE complete version of Encylopedia Britannica as my book. I could learn so much.
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Isn’t taking a laptop kind of against the spirit of Desert Island Discs? Effectively you’re being asked what handful of songs + book + luxury item you’d take with you if they were the only songs you could ever listen to again. And you’re saying “I’d take these eight songs and this one book.... and for my luxury item I’d take another 2,000 songs and 1,000 books. “
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sean d wrote:Isn’t taking a laptop kind of against the spirit of Desert Island Discs? Effectively you’re being asked what handful of songs + book + luxury item you’d take with you if they were the only songs you could ever listen to again. And you’re saying “I’d take these eight songs and this one book.... and for my luxury item I’d take another 2,000 songs and 1,000 books. “
Yeah, I agree. It think the luxury item can't include any of the other types of thing. You can have a laptop but it would have to have limited functioning.
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Gavin Chipper wrote:
sean d wrote:Isn’t taking a laptop kind of against the spirit of Desert Island Discs? Effectively you’re being asked what handful of songs + book + luxury item you’d take with you if they were the only songs you could ever listen to again. And you’re saying “I’d take these eight songs and this one book.... and for my luxury item I’d take another 2,000 songs and 1,000 books. “
Yeah, I agree. It think the luxury item can't include any of the other types of thing. You can have a laptop but it would have to have limited functioning.
Ok. I was going to take a laptop but now I'm taking a laptop case containing a laptop instead.
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Jon O'Neill wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:
sean d wrote:Isn’t taking a laptop kind of against the spirit of Desert Island Discs? Effectively you’re being asked what handful of songs + book + luxury item you’d take with you if they were the only songs you could ever listen to again. And you’re saying “I’d take these eight songs and this one book.... and for my luxury item I’d take another 2,000 songs and 1,000 books. “
Yeah, I agree. It think the luxury item can't include any of the other types of thing. You can have a laptop but it would have to have limited functioning.
Ok. I was going to take a laptop but now I'm taking a laptop case containing a laptop instead.
Are you trying to be clever or something? It doesn't change anything.
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Gavin Chipper wrote:
sean d wrote:Isn’t taking a laptop kind of against the spirit of Desert Island Discs? Effectively you’re being asked what handful of songs + book + luxury item you’d take with you if they were the only songs you could ever listen to again. And you’re saying “I’d take these eight songs and this one book.... and for my luxury item I’d take another 2,000 songs and 1,000 books. “
Yeah, I agree. It think the luxury item can't include any of the other types of thing. You can have a laptop but it would have to have limited functioning.
I wouldn't be taking it for the music so that's fine. Depends what you mean by books; I have no ebooks on it, but would Word documents I've written/accumulated over the years count? The priorities of functionality would be having MS Word and Pinball/Tetris/Mahjong/Football Manager on it so I can write/play games to entertain myself but it would be nice to also have photos/Word docs from before I became stranded, to stave off homesickness. Is that ok?
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Jennifer Steadman wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:
sean d wrote:Isn’t taking a laptop kind of against the spirit of Desert Island Discs? Effectively you’re being asked what handful of songs + book + luxury item you’d take with you if they were the only songs you could ever listen to again. And you’re saying “I’d take these eight songs and this one book.... and for my luxury item I’d take another 2,000 songs and 1,000 books. “
Yeah, I agree. It think the luxury item can't include any of the other types of thing. You can have a laptop but it would have to have limited functioning.
I wouldn't be taking it for the music so that's fine. Depends what you mean by books; I have no ebooks on it, but would Word documents I've written/accumulated over the years count? The priorities of functionality would be having MS Word and Pinball/Tetris/Mahjong/Football Manager on it so I can write/play games to entertain myself but it would be nice to also have photos/Word docs from before I became stranded, to stave off homesickness. Is that ok?
From the spirit of the programme and a look at a list of what celebrities have previously taken I'd suggest maybe you'd have to choose one of:
1) word processor
2) laptop as solely a games machine
3) photo album
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Matthew Tassier wrote:
Jennifer Steadman wrote:I wouldn't be taking it for the music so that's fine. Depends what you mean by books; I have no ebooks on it, but would Word documents I've written/accumulated over the years count? The priorities of functionality would be having MS Word and Pinball/Tetris/Mahjong/Football Manager on it so I can write/play games to entertain myself but it would be nice to also have photos/Word docs from before I became stranded, to stave off homesickness. Is that ok?
From the spirit of the programme and a look at a list of what celebrities have previously taken I'd suggest maybe you'd have to choose one of:
1) word processor
2) laptop as solely a games machine
3) photo album
The luxury rules are clearly a bit stupid. I'm not allowed to take a real thing that happens to have multifunctionality, but people are allowed magic wine cellars and unlimited supplies of things?! In any case, some guy called Ian Bostridge has been allowed to have "A solar computer loaded with pictures of my family and friends" as his luxury on the show before. Surely he'd just have said a photo album if photo viewing was the only functionality of the computer.
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Jennifer Steadman wrote:
Matthew Tassier wrote:
Jennifer Steadman wrote:I wouldn't be taking it for the music so that's fine. Depends what you mean by books; I have no ebooks on it, but would Word documents I've written/accumulated over the years count? The priorities of functionality would be having MS Word and Pinball/Tetris/Mahjong/Football Manager on it so I can write/play games to entertain myself but it would be nice to also have photos/Word docs from before I became stranded, to stave off homesickness. Is that ok?
From the spirit of the programme and a look at a list of what celebrities have previously taken I'd suggest maybe you'd have to choose one of:
1) word processor
2) laptop as solely a games machine
3) photo album
The luxury rules are clearly a bit stupid. I'm not allowed to take a real thing that happens to have multifunctionality, but people are allowed magic wine cellars and unlimited supplies of things?! In any case, some guy called Ian Bostridge has been allowed to have "A solar computer loaded with pictures of my family and friends" as his luxury on the show before. Surely he'd just have said a photo album if photo viewing was the only functionality of the computer.
"You can only use the computer for that though, we'll disable all other functionality."

I think I'd go for a snooker table.
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As long as you don't use it to play pool.
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