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    • mietze
      mietze last edited by

      Oh my fucking god. There is a FB group called "Show Me Your Aspics"!

      As a lifelong fan of these I am over the moon. I would love to do a cocktail and aspics dinner party sometime though I think my local crew's stomachs would rebel...

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      • TiredEwok
        TiredEwok @mietze last edited by

        @mietze

        My nana used to make tomato aspic that was so good. It was just tomato juice and lemon jello, as far as I remember. real simple fare as was everything else she would make, but it was wonderful.

        "Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here." - ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

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        • surreality
          surreality last edited by

          Creative problem solving with repurposed objects.

          There are about a dozen long-winded explanations that would be required for it to make sense. The tl;dr is that I like a certain kind of yarn, because it is neato-keen. I have studied various means of producing it and can do all the ones I've read up on or been taught by my former mentor and came up with a few more variations on those themes as well. None of these methods are without their share of 'that is a lot of hoop-jumping pains in the ass' or 'more money than you could ever afford to spend or would ever make back' on a machine that can only be described as 'you didn't really need a living room, either, did you?' or 'oh, you really think you can get one of those vintage refurbs they only ever made a dozen or so of in the 40s in the first place and there's only one presently known of on earth known to still work?'

          Over the past two weeks I have found a way of drastically reducing the amount of ass-pain this causes with a weird little widget ordered from the UK, a cordless powered screwdriver, and a combination ash tray/trash can. It isn't quite on par with the speed or ease as the thing that'd cost as much as a brand new luxury SUV and take up roughly the same amount of space, but it's one hell of a lot closer than it was and it takes up the amount of space as, well, a 12 inch diameter, 3ft tall trash can.

          This just might work. Yay.

          Oh fucking well.

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          • Ex FaviIIa Surgo
            Ex FaviIIa Surgo Banned last edited by

            Weapons in general. Guns, knives, they're all fucking fantastic

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            • Meg
              Meg last edited by

              Can I have my downvotes back? I love my downvotes.

              #FreeFarfalla

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              • Thenomain
                Thenomain @Meg last edited by

                @Meg said in RL things I love:

                Can I have my downvotes back? I love my downvotes.

                Winnie the Pooh's original voice actor died November 22, 1992.

                (I might not be able to vote you, but I can bring you down.)

                “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
                ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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                • Tyche
                  Tyche Banned @Ex FaviIIa Surgo last edited by

                  @Ex-FaviIIa-Surgo said in RL things I love:

                  Weapons in general. Guns, knives, they're all fucking fantastic

                  I've always been partial to the Panzer VI Tiger.

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                  • Arkandel
                    Arkandel Admin @Tyche last edited by

                    I watched It over the weekend and had a blast! So much screaming from the audience throughout the movie.

                    Also, is it weird whenever I watch a horror movie I wonder what would happen if Sam and Dean showed up?

                    • He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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                    • Aria
                      Aria last edited by

                      I literally just heard one of the kids across the street yell, "Mom, do you love me?!?!"

                      And because the kid was being a complete shit, she just replied "No." That lady is savage af.

                      https://whatiswrongwith.me/Mia
                      There were never any good old days. They are today. They are tomorrow. It's a stupid thing we say, cursing tomorrow with sorrow. -- Gogol Bordello

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                      • Auspice
                        Auspice last edited by

                        I adopted a cat today:
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                        Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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                        • D
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                          And she is naming him Catface.

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                          • WTFE
                            WTFE last edited by

                            ITYM Catty McCatface.

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                            • Tempest
                              Tempest Banned last edited by

                              That is a pretty cat.

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                              • Auspice
                                Auspice last edited by Auspice

                                His name will be Action Jackson.
                                aka AJ
                                aka Action Jackson on the Scene!

                                not Catface damnit.

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                                Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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                                • WTFE
                                  WTFE last edited by

                                  He will be Catty McCatface to me for all time.

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                                  • WTFE
                                    WTFE last edited by WTFE

                                    So, I'm getting into weird-ass Chinese pendants now.

                                    The first batch are carved ox horn. They are, respectively, a lotus blossom, some weird Buddhist iconography, and the badass warrior god Erlang Shen. (How badass is he? In Journey to the West, after Sun Wukong/The Monkey King pretty much cleans up on all of the heavenly forces of the Yellow Emperor and is close to final victory, Erlang Shen fights him to a standstill.)

                                    These next ones ... aren't particularly SFW after the first image, so I'm not going to actually inline the rest.
                                    #1 front view.

                                    #1 rear view.

                                    #2 front view.
                                    #2 rear view.
                                    #2 with necklace.

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                                    • Aria
                                      Aria @WTFE last edited by

                                      @WTFE -- Considering that I have a pretty massive collection of BPAL and my favorite line is by far the Lupercalia releases, I feel morally obligated to upvote weird Chinese sex pendants. What can I say? Deep down, I have the sense of humor of a fifth grade boy.

                                      (With that said, if you don't know what BPAL's Lupercalia line is, DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES LOOK THAT UP WHILE AT WORK. Don't. Just don't. There's a lot of dicks, and while they're usually hilarious, HR reps are required by federal regulation to have no sense of humor.)

                                      https://whatiswrongwith.me/Mia
                                      There were never any good old days. They are today. They are tomorrow. It's a stupid thing we say, cursing tomorrow with sorrow. -- Gogol Bordello

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                                      • Caryatid
                                        Caryatid @WTFE last edited by

                                        I can't be the only one who clicked those links and thought "but those are all the rear view." My inner 12 year old is strong this morning too.

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                                        • Auspice
                                          Auspice last edited by

                                          I just want that lotus blossom one. ;.;

                                          Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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                                          • Arkandel
                                            Arkandel Admin @Auspice last edited by

                                            On the last week of probation at my new job it didn't hurt that one of the incoming client reviews I got asked that they clone me.

                                            • He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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