I bought a safe. wtf do I need a safe for?

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    7 hours ago

    A rubber egg. Sold at an odds-and-ends booth at a teaching fair, this egg looks like a real, brown-shelled chicken egg. More than once I’ve dropped this “egg” in front of people while cooking.

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      Also have one. I keep placing it among the réal eggs. it got boiled once . wife ans kids triéd to crack it a few times. Latest win was placing it in my daughter’s makeup kit. It looks a lot l’îke one of her spongy thingy.

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    9 hours ago

    I bought a hand made squirrel shaped water pitcher at a ren fest. It was like $200. Pretty sure it’s one of a kind and you won’t be able to Google what it looks like.

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    Buddy living on a friends couch dropped $8k on a Hayabusa despite having no idea how to ride a bike at all and the town this took place in having no paved roads. Financed the thing too. Kinda wonder where he ended up sometimes

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    I went over to my old boss’s house one time and saw a car under a cover. He explained that it was a custom ultralight racer built off the chassis to a 1967 Lotus Europa. I was blown away and said that I hadn’t realized he was a car guy.

    He laughed and said “I’m not. Don’t go on ebay drunk.”

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    23 hours ago

    I got an entire cake decorating kit. Guess how many times I’ve made cake and icing after the first time.

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    23 hours ago

    I got drunk and bought a t-shirt on eBay.

    It featured a rainbow unicorn with the text “HAIL SATAN”.

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    23 hours ago

    Not from my own experience but something most of us witnessed was Musk‘s proposal to buy Twitter. It will never not be funny how drastically he overspent there, then tried to walk back from it but was ultimately ordered to buy it for his offer.

    Some people with bad memory or a broken moral compass will claim he destroyed the platform or turned it into something evil but as we know that wasn‘t the case. Because it was already awful long before that. Remember the never ending headlines of „Trump tweeted“ between 2015 and 2021? Well now you do.

    Xitter was always shit but at least more and more people are talking about it now. And that purchase was definitely the most batshit insane impulse buy I have ever witnessed.

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      22 hours ago

      I was on Twitter somewhere in 2009 I think, and I agree, it was shit then.

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    A high quality love doll. I believe I paid 1600 bucks for it. Used it for about six months while my depression was at its worst. That was a year ago. How the f does one discard a love doll?!

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      I would assume you dispose of the parts that frequently touched your bodily fluids and list the “frame” and where to purchase replacement parts in the eBay listing. Somebody out there wants a sex doll and only has $500. Or contact the manufacturer.

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        Oh boi… Just when I thought this thread couldn’t get any weirder xD image finding a cut out pussy in the dumpster XD

        But in all seriousness, it doesn’t have any detachable parts. It’s cleaned internally with a douche and externally with wipes. :)

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      16 hours ago

      I assume you dump it in a creek like an old tire.

      “Good evening, officer. No, I was just… Uhhh… Can I just pay the fine?”

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        16 hours ago

        Not too shabby, but I think I’m gonna do some research. I’m thinking Edgar Allan Poe, some Stephen King and maybe even some Junji Ito before I decide on what my next step should be.

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              18 hours ago

              ah gotcha, always puts me on edge seeing 88 in a username as it’s a very common neonazi dogwhistle (8th letter of the alphabet)

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                  “H” is the eighth letter of the alphabet, so “88” is often used as a shorthand for “Heil Hitler”. It sometimes gets incorporated into usernames.

                  searches

                  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_(number)

                  In neo-Nazism

                  Neo-Nazis use the number 88 as an abbreviation for the Nazi salute Heil Hitler.[11] The letter H is eighth in many European Latin alphabets, whereby 88 becomes HH.[12]

                  Often, this number is associated with the number 14, e.g. 14/88, 14-88, or 1488; this number symbolizes the Fourteen Words coined by David Lane, a prominent white supremacist.[13] Example uses of 88 include the song “88 Rock ‘n’ Roll Band” by Landser, and the organizations Column 88 and Unit 88.

                  The number is banned on Austrian license plates due to its association with “Heil Hitler [and] where H comes in the alphabet”.[14] In June 2023, the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) and the Italian government announced that the number 88 would be banned from use in Italian association football, as part of a joint initiative to combat antisemitism. This followed an incident in March of that year in which a Lazio supporter wore a club shirt bearing the name “Hitlerson” and the number 88, which led to the supporter receiving a lifetime ban from attending Lazio matches.[15]

                  In the US, former FBI assistant director of counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi declared in 2019 that something as innocuous as raising a flag on the White House to full staff on 8 August (i.e. 8–8) is a “messaging” problem because “the numbers 88 are very significant in neo-Nazi and white supremacy movement.”[16]

                  https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/88

                  88 is a white supremacist numerical code for “Heil Hitler.” H is the eighth letter of the alphabet, so 88 = HH = Heil Hitler. One of the most common white supremacist symbols, 88 is used throughout the entire white supremacist movement, not just neo-Nazis. One can find it as a tattoo or graphic symbol; as part of the name of a group, publication or website; or as part of a screenname or e-mail address. It is even sometimes used as a greeting or sign-off (particularly in messages on social networking websites).

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                18 hours ago

                This’ll have to be a placeholder xD

                The crane is - alongside the tortoise - a symbol of longevity in Japan :D

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        7 hours ago

        Hm… I’ll just check the current market value of bodily fluids per ounce so I don’t get ripped off. :D

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    17 hours ago

    I bought an electronic whiteboard for like 10k

    It arrived without a stand (it had a stand in the photo, but the small print said it was sold separately).