Desert Island Discussion

[davywavy]

My sister buys a wide variety of girl-related magazines like Marie Claire, Vogue and Red; I've never really understood why (maybe it's because she's a girl), but I usually pick them up and read them too in a 'know your enemy' sort of way.

Anyway, I was browsing a recent edition of Red magazine when I came across the results of a survey they'd carried out amongst their readers and amongst the various answers ("On average, our readers own three cats and seventeen pairs of shoes") I found the claim that "For most of our readers, their desert island 'must have' is Mascara". I blinked hard several times and read it again just in case I'd got it wrong and it had actually said "For most of our readers, their desert island 'must-have' is a fishing net", but no. Mascara. Mascara.

Okay, so the cast of Lost obviously have a branch of Gap, several crates of conditioner and a bowflex machine to sustain them on their lonely island sojourn, but part of me wonders just what someone must be thinking when their answer to the question "If you were trapped on a desert island, what couldn't you do without?" is "Lippy". Perhaps they're planning on seducing Man Friday and getting him to do all the fishing, but even if that's your survival plan then some form of birth control might be more practical.

But I reckon you lot are perhaps more sensible than the readers of Red magazine so as it's Friday, and nobody works on Fridays, a question to wile away the day: What is your desert island 'must have'?

And don't say Mascara.

Comments

[crocodilewings.livejournal.com]

A ferry back to civilization?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I was hoping for something more imaginative?

[razornet.livejournal.com]

If its just one thing? A very good knife.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

You're right. Man Friday might turn nasty when he learns he'll be doing all the fishing.

[sea-cucumber.livejournal.com]

I'm torn between a machete and a bottle of good gin...

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

For you, that's a desert island. For me, it's Saturday night.

[belak-krin.livejournal.com]

A luxury yacht with a well stocked bar.

Even if the damned thing won't sail, you've got shelter, fire wood and the ability to mix a decent rum & coke.

[(Anonymous)]

An internet connection, David, so I can read your livejournal.

H

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Is my rent going up or something?

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

The cast of Lost.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I'd settle for Michelle Rodriguez. Ding-Dong!

[calligrafiti.livejournal.com]

Two-way radio with a fully charged battery.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Or one of those hand-cranked radios so the battery would never run down?

[blue-cat.livejournal.com]

BEar Grylls

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Emma Peel.

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

I was going to say "Internet access", but got beaten to it.
A phone line to a pizza delivery place (who do deliver to said desert island).

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

There are several curry houses which boast of being willing to deliver anywhere in the world. Would one of those do?

[nicnac.livejournal.com]

A davywavy, obviously.

Or, if we're being serious, SCUBA gear.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Just imagine the fun you could have with me *and* some Scuba gear!

I mean, below six fathoms nobody would ever find my body.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

A still

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I like your thinking.

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

I think these magazines make up the answer to these surveys. Was it a specific brand of mascara? Because I'm willing to bet product placement was involved.

I don't read "gender specific" magazines because they piss me off. I also don't understand why "Wired" was shoved into the "men's interest" section at WHSmith.

Oh, and a helicopter with a pilot and fuel.

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

+ 1

[(Anonymous)]

Dice.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

So it wouldn't just be the breakers which were rolling? Ha! Ha! Ha!

Thank you, I'm here all week.

[thatursula.livejournal.com]

A jug of gin, a loaf of uncut cocaine and thou.
(Actually, a noife, if it had to be one thing.)

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I would say that if I were there you wouldn't need the intoxicants. However, thinking about it, I think my presence would make them absolute essentals.

[medusa-nw.livejournal.com]

A hammock.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I must say that according to a strict pleasure:cost ratio, my hammock is undoubtedly the best purchase I've ever made.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

That's easy: 4 8 15 16 23 42.

[supermouse.livejournal.com]

A library.

I can read it, shelter within it and even burn the worst parts of it if I need to.

(I was assuming that I'd been given 'a really good knife' just to stop me being the umpteenth person to reply with that.)

[manywaters.livejournal.com]

A heavy duty multitool.

[beeblebear.livejournal.com]

A mansion with full staff, delivery service from John Lewis, and internet access.

[diamondkelt.livejournal.com]

I don't have anything of interest to add by I really lol'd at the comment:

I'm torn between a machete and a bottle of good gin...

and your reply of:

For you, that's a desert island. For me, it's Saturday night.

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

A goddamned genie with 3 wishes.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing that your first wish would be that I was there with you.

[raggedyman.livejournal.com]

A Leatherman multitool, cause it basically has every tool you'll ever need (including a flint). It also comes with an selection of screwdriver heads for almost every screw you will ever come across in IT/basic home DIY & electrics, which wont be very useful unless your island has a Maplins or a Homebase on it.

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

Salma Hayek in a bikini
a Leatherman (top of the range, I'd be surprised if they didn't do a Leatherman Desert Island XL Deluxe)

very large bottle of Tanqueray, source of ice, infinite supply of tonic water, two glasses

I think that's probably it

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I was concerend what a Leatherman might be until I googled it.

Salma Hayek appears to have gone hollywood crazy in the same way that Chirstina Ricci has, to my dismay.

[hiromasaki.livejournal.com]

I always take that question to be, "Assuming you have the Standard Adventuring Toolkit of fire-making materials, some type of knife, a bit of rope, etc."

If not, then some form of a water filtration device. I know how to distill water (in a 9th-Grade Basic Science kind of way...), but the glassware is so fragile I'd be worried about it breaking in a storm or something if I left it out, and a metal still might be asking too much. I always have my Victorinox in my pocket, so I'd have a knife by default.

But, under the aforementioned assumption... I'd have to say my MP3 player and either a solar or hand-crank charger. Music is too important to me to be without.