Most autistic thing you've purchased lately - c'mon feel the cringe

[Aunt Carol]

Works like a charm, don't pay more than $10 (got it on eBay).
So much stress and mis-aimed hammer blows prevented by something so simple, albeit a unitasker.

 

[Fag Albert]

Every one of the main characters of this thing is just "character in metallic plain jumpsuit" and then you got the bad guy who's just a fucking weirdly awesome monkey lion alien space pirate guy.

Holy shit I haven't thought about Silverhawks in decades. I vaguely remember this dude and like some buzzsaw motherfucker being the only cool parts of that show. I'm shocked there's enough of a following that someone decided to print figures of them.

 

[Brickley]

Left the grocery store with only a five pack of canned sardines, a six pack of sour beer, and a jar of ground sumac berries.

 

[Helvetia]

i finally purchased special stamps, i can really see why people collect them - i got a Warhammer one in my first booklet and one that is a scratch and sniff for a type of cheese.

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

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Works like a charm, don't pay more than $10 (got it on eBay).
So much stress and mis-aimed hammer blows prevented by something so simple, albeit a unitasker.

I like the spring-based hinge pin removal tools like this one, mostly because it's small enough to tuck into the little case I keep my lock picking and other bypass shit in. Also, watching that pin just pop out is pretty hilarious

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

This little iron ball with holes to make tea with. I fucked up while checking its size and when the thing finally arrived, turns out it was too big to fit into my cup. Why do they make these that big even?

 

[The Lawgiver]

Holy shit I haven't thought about Silverhawks in decades. I vaguely remember this dude and like some buzzsaw motherfucker being the only cool parts of that show. I'm shocked there's enough of a following that someone decided to print figures of them.

There's a weirdly big enough following it seems because when first found out about these like a year or 2 ago it was due to people bitchng about them not being vac metal. There's vac metal ones now but they're apperently really flaky and fingerprint magnets moreso than usual. The vac metal ones are also only like the ones that were vac metal for the figures so not metallc finish for buzzsaw fucker or this guy.
Also double checked the buzzsaw fucker is literally just named buzzsaw understandable.

Anyways got the fucking chair now marked down to like 20 from 50. hate how fucking stupid expensive shit is these days even on discount at times. Been too dead to clear up space and open the thing/put it on a shelf but there's a pic I found on google images of the figure, the chair, and the previously mentioned buzzsaw fucker.


No I do not have the buzzsaw fucker. Also the boxes for these things are horrendously massive. Not that it's bad they have space for the figure and shit it's just It's so fucking wide of a box i have to put it in the fucking hallway despite these being 7-11 inch tall figures.

Once again not my photo but I now due to this have 3 of these red slip cover boxes with the dude's helmet on the front. It's high enough effort of packaging I don't want to destroy or throw it out so honestly I don't know what I'm gonna do with these yet.

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

This little iron ball with holes to make tea with. I fucked up while checking its size and when the thing finally arrived, turns out it was too big to fit into my cup. Why do they make these that big even?

Probably intended to use in a teapot for multiple cups, is my guess.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

Do any of you guy's know where I can get cartridge paper in Larger Imperial Sizes? I've been looking for some for a project I have in mind but sadly nobody sells it in custom sizing any more or will only do custom sizes if you buy a Ream or more, idealy I'd like it to be Ink Safe and Archival Grade but at the moment I can't find anywhere that does them - I know I could buy A or other ISO sizes but there is a antique book I want to make a modern version of an I would personally like it to be accurate as I can make it, an cutting it down seems wasteful.

I'm down to two hair sticks. I had to throw out one because it was damaged, but only the gods know where the others have disappeared to. I have begun to wonder if there's some tiny gremlin that comes out of hiding when the house is dark and everyone is asleep, and steals random hair bands, clips, claws and sticks in order to devour them. I honestly can't think of what else could be happening to them.

Ah I see Terrance has a cousin in the antipodes, What I tend to do with stuff I've managed to acquire a surfeit of without any immediate use for and no dedicated place to put them is have one of those massive plastic bedding box's in the wardrobe or alike and put it in there so when I am looking for that little thing I've got dozens of 9/10 it's there.

The only thing that doesn't work for is Pencils, or other stationary - whenever I need to make a quick note like - Dinner with bob 7pm 10th Feb I can't find something to write with or on and I've got about a million pencils, pens, notebooks, postit notes etc floating around.

Torque wrench. All my bolts are gonna be torqued to OEM spec from now on. No more guessing. Love a good tool. Its real clicky clacky

Welcome to the world of High Precision I sold a guy a welder last year who restores classic cars and he was a Rolls Royce Engine mechanic for the Concord an a lot of the tools he was using where the ones he used on that majestic aerial beast, He let me fondle a few of his tools an one of them was a RR made Torque wrench and I have very rarely felt something so fell an so precisely fitted it was a marvel to hold something that well made, and he had 3 of them in different sizes but they where all scaled to fit together in a case you'd normal see high end antique firearms in.

If you get into high precision tools, drop me a message I likely have stuff I can pass on for cost or free.

A vertical mouse. My arm suddenly started hating regular mouses.

Try a Trackball, I've been using one nearly solidly for 10 years no an on an off since I was a kid an honestly they are game changers for some stuff, I am using a wireless Logitech Ergo MX track ball an honestly I hate using other mice or pointer styles - my hand stays in one place, and I can adjust it without loosing desk space or travel of the mouse with a tiny footprint on my desk I've averaged about 4 months between charges on the OEM battery as well because it requires so little power.
The ONLY and I mean only downside is I have to clear our the ball socket every now an then but it takes no more than 30 seconds an using a paper towel or any other rag you have to hand.

 

[Éamonn Ceannt]

Crack

 

[glass_houses]

This little iron ball with holes to make tea with. I fucked up while checking its size and when the thing finally arrived, turns out it was too big to fit into my cup. Why do they make these that big even?

It's probably meant for brewing on a stove top, there are larger balls designed for spices that need to be taken out once the cooking process has reached a certain point.

That said, as someone who spends far too much of her life contemplating tea and the brewing thereof, I strongly recommend a basket instead of a ball or any other device. The balls are a bitch to load and a bitch to empty, same with any other device. The baskets are pretty much the easiest way to brewing loose leaf, other than buying empty tea bags and loading them to your taste.

 

[Helvetia]

It's probably meant for brewing on a stove top, there are larger balls designed for spices that need to be taken out once the cooking process has reached a certain point.

That said, as someone who spends far too much of her life contemplating tea and the brewing thereof, I strongly recommend a basket instead of a ball or any other device. The balls are a bitch to load and a bitch to empty, same with any other device. The baskets are pretty much the easiest way to brewing loose leaf, other than buying empty tea bags and loading them to your taste.

i was taught by an exceedingly old Chinese woman to put simmering spices in a reusable tea bag, she was convinced she could taste the metal.

for tea though, she used some sort of wicker / bamboo basket, then dumped the wet tea into the fire she was simmering the teapot over.

(not this exactly but you get my gist)

 

[glass_houses]

i was taught by an exceedingly old Chinese woman to put simmering spices in a reusable tea bag, she was convinced she could taste the metal.

I wouldn't dismiss her conviction entirely, some cooks have a superhuman sense of taste and the chemistry of cooking utensils definitely affects the food.

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

It's probably meant for brewing on a stove top, there are larger balls designed for spices that need to be taken out once the cooking process has reached a certain point.

That said, as someone who spends far too much of her life contemplating tea and the brewing thereof, I strongly recommend a basket instead of a ball or any other device. The balls are a bitch to load and a bitch to empty, same with any other device. The baskets are pretty much the easiest way to brewing loose leaf, other than buying empty tea bags and loading them to your taste.

I've always just used a French press for making hot tea or yerba mate - once you're done, transfer everything into a vacuum bottle to keep it hot.

 

[Myra]

I got tired of lighting candles using matches, traditional lighters, and aim and flames - especially when the candle gets low. So I bought this USB lighter.

 

[stupid fufu]

Don't ask me why, I don't even know why either.

 

[Aunt Carol]

I got tired of lighting candles using matches, traditional lighters, and aim and flames - especially when the candle gets low. So I bought this USB lighter.

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I have one of these lighters! I like the little noise it makes, like the world's tiniest mad scientist running his Jacob's Ladder.

 

[Zemblan Physics]

I got myself a ginormous crochet blocking board for a yuuuuge project I’m working on. I’m so stoked it’s ridiculous.

 

[Vampirella]

I didn't buy this but it was a gift sent to us. https://www.ranchogordo.com/

I now have 9 pounds of different beans, two cookbooks so I know how to cook them and a bunch of postcards with Mexican movie posters on them.

 

[Damien Thorne]

Le Samourai in 4K. One of the best crime movies ever produced.