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teen witch posted:Realizing now that God is dead and I can have shots with dinner. I can just make up etiquette rules. Not crude, but up until last year when my grandma died, she would always bring out 'my' Snoopy glass for any drink I was being offered. I've been drinking from that thing since I was 4. I'm 40 now.
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Humphreys posted:Not crude, but up until last year when my grandma died, she would always bring out 'my' Snoopy glass for any drink I was being offered. I've been drinking from that thing since I was 4. I'm 40 now. Whenever I visited, my grandmother would set a special knife and fork for me. They looked pretty neat. Only as a teenager did I learn that the "SAS" engraved on the handles meant they had been stolen from an aeroplane.
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Apr 10, 2024 13:39
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Humphreys posted:Not crude, but up until last year when my grandma died, she would always bring out 'my' Snoopy glass for any drink I was being offered. I've been drinking from that thing since I was 4. I'm 40 now. That is very touching. Also, I'm guessing she made "Hair of the dog" jokes when giving you alcoholic beverages in it?
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Apr 10, 2024 13:46
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Humphreys posted:Not crude, but up until last year when my grandma died, she would always bring out 'my' Snoopy glass for any drink I was being offered. I've been drinking from that thing since I was 4. I'm 40 now. They also had glassware that they used for everything, and the Irish coffee glasses were used by us grandkids for root beer floats (and knowing my grandma, actual Irish coffee). After my grandpa passed, I used those same glasses to make my cousin’s kid his first root beer float. He was the only great-grandkid who got to know my grandpa somewhat. I felt a bit honored to pass along a corny bit of tradition. Next time I’ll make him a Shirley Temple, and then subsequently explain who she was. My childhood had a *lot* of kiddie cocktails which by no means affected me as an adult.
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Apr 10, 2024 13:56
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Randalor posted:That is very touching. Also, I'm guessing she made "Hair of the dog" jokes when giving you alcoholic beverages in it? Haha yeah, we went to Hawaii and from then on she'd make cocktails for us all and yup - all the fruit hanging out of my glass. My younger cousin had a similar glass but she threw it at a wall in a tantrum so missed out growing up to be an adult with something special.
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Apr 10, 2024 14:23
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Humphreys posted:Not crude, but up until last year when my grandma died, she would always bring out 'my' Snoopy glass for any drink I was being offered. I've been drinking from that thing since I was 4. I'm 40 now. lol, every time we go to my in-laws' place my wife uses the snoopy glass she’s had since she was a kid. She doesn’t even like snoopy.
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Apr 10, 2024 15:24
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It's a long shot but when I have to clear out my dad's house I'm hoping to turn up one of the happy face glasses from when I was a kid. We each picked a color that we always used.
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Apr 10, 2024 16:26
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teen witch posted:Realizing now that God is dead and I can have shots with dinner. I can just make up etiquette rules. This post is funny as all hell Creature posted:…. I honestly didn’t know there were Snoopy haters Is your wife the cat next door? Or Spike?
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Apr 10, 2024 17:50
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Whenever I visited, my grandmother would set a special knife and fork for me. They looked pretty neat. Only as a teenager did I learn that the "SAS" engraved on the handles meant they had been stolen from an aeroplane. My grandma had some better/worse stolen kitchenware, at her cabin in the woods. (Traditional Norwegian-style cabin, no water or electricity, outdoor shitouse, wood-burning stove and paraffin lamps, water from a well, battery radio, real cosy and nice and full of old comic books and such crap like a cabin should be.) Anyway all the dinner plates and coffee cups were military surplus. WW2 German military surplus, liberated from the occupiers after they hosed off in 1945, complete with the kind of decorations you'd expect. Lowkey trophies, as in "they lost the war so their poo poo is ours now".
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Apr 10, 2024 18:03
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My grandma left us 2 sets of tableware. A "fancy" set of decorated "china". And a set of boring mid priced porcelain tableware. So we went out and tried to sell the kitchy china, and buy some missing pieces for the comfy porcelain that we used every day that we visited. Everybody else had the same idea at the flee market. You couldn't give the china away, but the boring porcelain went for ludicrous prices.
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VictualSquid posted:My grandma left us 2 sets of tableware. A "fancy" set of decorated "china". And a set of boring mid priced porcelain tableware. Reminds me of last weekend when I was cleaning out my mom's house with her. We were going through closets & found a box we thought was either a jewelry box or maybe some kind of chess/backgammon game box. Turned out it was a box full of silverware...like REAL silver silverware that my dad's great grandma passed down. We were in shock & had no idea he had it stashed away, now we're trying to figure out where we can take it to get validated/appraised. Beautiful, heavy & some weird brownish-orange tarnish but really cool.
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Apr 11, 2024 01:56
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namlosh posted:Wut? Snoopy was way better when he was a dog.
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Apr 11, 2024 02:28
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having an opinion on snoopy is unimaginable
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Apr 11, 2024 08:29
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I have an opinion on Spoony.
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Apr 11, 2024 08:45
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goblin week posted:having an opinion on snoopy is unimaginable I mean cmon  imagine hating Snoopy?? It’s like “water is overrated”
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Apr 11, 2024 08:51
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All kinds of Smart Water and water with additives or imported from springs are completely overrated. The persistent lack of drinking water across the developing world is the important thing.
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Apr 11, 2024 08:55
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I saw a documentary on that dog and he can fly a plane and that's pretty cool
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Turned out it was a box full of silverware...like REAL silver silverware that my dad's great grandma passed down. We were in shock & had no idea he had it stashed away, now we're trying to figure out where we can take it to get validated/appraised. Beautiful, heavy & some weird brownish-orange tarnish but really cool. A few years back when precious metal prices were really high, I was cleaning up my house in preparation to move, and found my ex’s folios of silver dimes and quarters that she got when her stepfather died. She never gave a drat about her stepfather or his crap, plus I had no way of getting ahold of her(we’d split years earlier), so I took them down to one of those ‘Cash for Gold’ places that was paying a good rate. Once I got there, they took me in the back to do some sort of check to make sure the coins were solid silver, and the back room was simply PACKED, I mean floor to ceiling, with piles of silverware, silver tea sets, silver coffee urns, silver platters, silver urns, etc. there had to be hundreds of pounds of this poo poo. The guy said ‘eh, nobody wants this stuff, it all gets melted down once a month’. I felt slightly bad, as an antiques buff, sone of the craftsmanship was amazing, but hell, what would anybody do with it these days? Polishing silver is a tedious and crappy job, plus the style of it is way out of fashion.
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Apr 11, 2024 09:11
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It's not silverware, but my parents had a lovely 19th century horse-drawn agricultural machine of a pretty fancy sort taking up space in the barn (we used to live on an old farm, too small to make a full-time living in the modern age). When they retired and downsized they eventually had to take the thing to the dump because absolutely every museum and private collector who'd want one of those already have them; they were hugely mass-produced and sold in immense numbers back in the day. Felt kind of wrong but then again, it was by no means a rare machine.
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Apr 11, 2024 09:43
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namlosh posted:This post is funny as all hell I mean, as in I’m not sure if she’s even thought of forming an opinion on him.
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Creature posted:I mean, as in I’m not sure if she’s even thought of forming an opinion on him.
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Groke posted:When they retired and downsized they eventually had to take the thing to the dump because absolutely every museum and private collector who'd want one of those already have them; they were hugely mass-produced and sold in immense numbers back in the day. Felt kind of wrong but then again, it was by no means a rare machine. I've had friends who work at record stores, and its like when people will try to sell Beatles albums and get mad that the store's buying price will be less than a couple bucks. They were the most popular band in the world and there's millions and millions of records around. Unless it's the butcher paper record they ain't worth diiiiiiiiiick.
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JnnyThndrs posted:A few years back when precious metal prices were really high, I was cleaning up my house in preparation to move, and found my ex’s folios of silver dimes and quarters that she got when her stepfather died. She never gave a drat about her stepfather or his crap, plus I had no way of getting ahold of her(we’d split years earlier), so I took them down to one of those ‘Cash for Gold’ places that was paying a good rate. When everyone was going insane 1 week into lock down (lmao) the first weird thing I did was learn to polish silver. I too was going insane
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teen witch posted:Well she best start “I guess he’s fine”.
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Tall Tale Teller posted:I've had friends who work at record stores, and its like when people will try to sell Beatles albums and get mad that the store's buying price will be less than a couple bucks. They stopped this pricing thankfully and brought most things back down to $5 or less. I'm assuming no one was biting, and wouldn't be shocked if the crazy sticker prices just led to people shoplifting in hopes of reselling.
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beepo posted:The Value Village thrift stores in my area briefly got the idea that vinyl was valuable and were pricing up common records to ridiculous amounts. Beatles, AC/DC, etc records with covers that are too beat up to even be worth displaying as decoration and obviously unplayable scratches for $50+, and beat up but playable copies for near ~$100. Maybe they were hot stampers.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Maybe they were hot stampers. I'd be forced to respect someone so devoted to the hot stamper lifestyle that they'd buy scratched up unplayable records because they theoretically would have sounded great.
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Killingyouguy! posted:When everyone was going insane 1 week into lock down (lmao) the first weird thing I did was learn to polish silver. I too was going insane Did it affect your nose?
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Brian Eno — A Year With Swollen Appendices, Faber and Faber | 1996 posted:Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit — all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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I wonder if anyone's tried to get Brian Eno to listen to hyperpop. I'd be real curious what his opinion is.
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By popular demand posted:There have got to be more offensive shotglasses out there, this isn't even worth the Malort! ... oh god, I still have Malort in the house. Looks like I've still got fights to pick.
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I'd really like to try Malört, but I have no idea how to get my hands on a bottle in the EU.
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Catpain Slack posted:I'd really like to try Malört, but I have no idea how to get my hands on a bottle in the EU.
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Catpain Slack posted:I'd really like to try Malört, but I have no idea how to get my hands on a bottle in the EU. EU -> London -> Chicago Easy peasy
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I tried GoogleTM because I'm an idiot. Of course it just gave me a lot of results about, you know, wormwood.
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teen witch posted:It’s just bäsk, a type of brännvin, depending on the country it might not be terribly hard. I live and breathe bäsk, just haven't had the chance to try that particular one yet.
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Apr 12, 2024 15:47
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I finally tried malort last year, it's fine, not my favorite but I didn't find it especially offensive. I think it's just one of those things everybody loves to make a big fuss about.
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I've never had it before, but supposedly they changed the recipe at some point so instead of just being offensively bad, it's just a Chicago area running gag.
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Explosionface posted:instead of just being offensively bad, it's just a Chicago area running gag. Yeah the Pacific Northwest is like that with IPAs
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Explosionface posted:I've never had it before, but supposedly they changed the recipe at some point so instead of just being offensively bad, it's just a Chicago area running gag. The distillery that acquired it has made it a bit less aggressive.
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