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

[lurkin]

If you really want to disappear down a rabbit hole, you should look into notgeld and other kinds of emergency currency.

Ironic you mention that, I got an Iraqi Emergency issue dinar. Are notgeld related to weimar currency? I started my collection with a bunch of that stuff.

Yeah, thats what everyone else is saying. If you're buying new, then they're the cheapest (without loss of quality). So its easier to decide if its for you without spending too much. I started with an ol' bent billiard I found in an antiqe shop. But anyway, yes I'll recomend it. I'm thinking of getting one myself actually, MacArthur style.

Tax:
A new rifle, more or less a spontanius purchase.

Very cool thanks for the heads up. I will look into it.

 

[Sayer of the N-Word]

Are notgeld related to weimar currency? I started my collection with a bunch of that stuff.

It was currency issued by local governments during the Weimar era as a substitute for hyperinflated "real" money, but within a few years they became more like art pieces for foreign collectors but with nominal cash values. They brought (foreign, and therefore stable) money to towns which were otherwise totally broke. There are hundreds of different kinds of notes, easily enough to keep a collector busy for a long time. Many of them are very affordable, but notes made of cloth or silk, and early notes which were actually used as cash, can be pricey.

 

[Spudnik]

This is from a fan-run simpsons bootlegging operation that makes shockingly high quality stuff, how can you say no? now to pray nobody in public ever mentions it. Plus, it has a front breast pocket, which I've grown fond of on shirts the older I get and more shit I carry around all day.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Some blurays at a closing FYE

 

[Aunt Carol]

Bowls of my childhood, from a restaurant supply store (in meatspace):

Time to make popcorn or salad with dressing from a cruet with the recipe printed on the side.

 

[Retarded Weeb]

Bought this Amaterasu plush for $70. Probably shouldn't have, but shit's fucking cute.

 

[TowinKarz]

Bought a working electromagnetic crane for the American Flyer train collection... it can actually pick up metallic things like nuts and bolts and drop them into the train cars parked on that siding track. It's a modern Lionel-made reproduction of the original 50's model, of which many can be found floating on eBay, but, will probably need resto work, so, nah..... I'll take working-out-of-the-box.

As you can see? Then I had to go and purchase a junkyard for it to work in. Well, not really "purchased" as much as "didn't throw away"

For about a month? I've been saving anything palm-sized and irregular that was going to hit the garbage can from the twist-ties off bags of bread to the little silicon tubs from pill bottles to any stray plastic scrap that looked halfway interesting or worn-out train parts.

Technically? I did have to buy some modeling clay and acrylic paint to build up the little mounds to stick the stuff onto and then paint it up like rusty junk

... Its not to-scale, but, it's nice to be able to work with the pressure "off", when I was modeling HO scale "realistic" trains? I'd obsess over detail and work in fear of screwing up. Here? Where it's just "toy" trains? Who cares if it's not as good as it could've been? Perfect is the enemy of good anyway. That pile was a way to get rid of a box of 1:18 model car kit parts and the loader was an old Matchbox toy found in a box of cars n' trucks leftover from neighborhood kid days.

 

[Mesh Gear Fox]

Time to make popcorn or salad

We had one of those bowls, too. And that's exactly what we used it for.

Thread tax, new set of headphones. Hopefully they'll be more comfortable that my previous pair. I have a large-ish head and it's hard to find headphones that don't make my ears ache after 30 minutes.

 

[glass_houses]

I got a tea tasting journal.

 

[Bassomatic]

Bowls of my childhood, from a restaurant supply store (in meatspace):
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Time to make popcorn or salad with dressing from a cruet with the recipe printed on the side.

Wow, I'm in my 40s and my grand parents on one side had those. Where in your childhood did you see them?

 

[Aunt Carol]

Wow, I'm in my 40s and my grand parents on one side had those. Where in your childhood did you see them?

We either had them before I was born or my parents bought them before I knew to ask questions of provenance. It was the 1980s, man.

Now that I think about it, at least one set of grandparents had them too. My parents had a couple of woven wood popcorn/salad serving bowls, but the grandparents also had smaller ones for your individual salads or cereal or serving potato chips.

Someone should do a deep dive on the origin and brief ubiquity of woven wood bowls. It's probably not the CIA or anything, but maybe there's a Gina Ekiss equivalent and that'd be fun too. (Jazz paper cups designer.)

Bought this Amaterasu plush for $70. Probably shouldn't have, but shit's fucking cute.

That cat has such an expressive little look of concern. "I'm not going to say anything now, but if it's wall scrolls next, I may have to."

 

[glass_houses]

Someone should do a deep dive on the origin and brief ubiquity of woven wood bowls. It's probably not the CIA or anything, but maybe there's a Gina Ekiss equivalent and that'd be fun too. (Jazz paper cups designer.)

I remember our family had some around the mid 90s. This was in Australia though, so we were probably a few years behind the rest of the world.

 

[Aunt Carol]

I remember our family had some around the mid 90s. This was in Australia though, so we were probably a few years behind the rest of the world.

To be fair, you can buy them new today... and my parents still own the same bowls in 2025. One of them did start to come unwoven at the edge so the last time I saw it it was on the counter, being used to hold tomatoes from the garden.

Who throws out a good bowl?

 

[glass_houses]

Who throws out a good bowl?

It is a scientifically proven fact that the uglier a practical item is, the more the thing refuses to take the hint and wear out/die.

 

[Flatline]

Bowls of my childhood, from a restaurant supply store (in meatspace):
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[Loris Yeltsin]

A woodruff-flavored energy drink.

 

[TowinKarz]

It is a scientifically proven fact that the uglier a practical item is, the more the thing refuses to take the hint and wear out/die.

The worst of those 70's green-brown-beige striped carpets didn't actually wear out until the early 00's ..... and in some low-traffic areas? Like the conference room of a C-tier hotel? THEY STILL PERSIST!

 

[Disastrously Dumb]

Carats in Uma Musume: Pretty Derby
so I can get some better Horse girls and/or Support Cards ingame to have better success at playthroughs

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

This thing is TINY and needs some cleaning inside and out but I feel like watching Dragon Ball Z from the comfort of my bed is the height of luxury.

 

[Jesus Swept]

A German, metal, hexagonal grip refillable multipen + mechanical pencil.

Yes I have autism.