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And I just want to mention that some people have far worse things in their avatars than me. 
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Tortuga posted:What was in the plastic carry box that you swiftly panned over without comment at 4:50, is it Serbian? Does it work too? Ahh, that's my ISKRA power drill from Slovenia, then-Yugoslavia - it's over 40 years old but it still works great. My grandpa's brother was some sort of mini-boss at the factory, and he picked up this suitcase set for free because it had a factory defect - the plastic insulation on the mains cable would rot and crumble into pieces only after a few months, and the factory management was aware of this problem, that's why they gave the whole set away for peanuts (or even for free, I'm not sure.) I replaced the mains cable and ended up with a brand new power drill!  Now that we're on drilling, I'm using the power drill to sand away my freakishly thick toenails; they're so thick from fungus that there are no scissors or clippers in the world that can go through that. I got the idea while watching that "dumb and dumber" movie and figured that although they were joking, that it can't be all bad so I adopted the practice to everyone's benefit. Toenail fungus is a motherfucker to get rid of, I tried all kinds of medications but even the best of them only have a temporary effect.... while punching holes in my liver, so I basically quit trying to remedy the problem as it doesn't bug me much, actually (even though my toenails look deformed and gross.)
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Booger Presley posted:Lol! So that makes you Lloyd Božić? Hey, I never said I was a smart guy. Besides, let's be realistic here, there's no way to shorten my goddamn toenails if you're not using some sort of power tool.  And there's quite a story about my toenails, I'll tell you in the morning when I pull myself a bit.
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A SWEATY FATBEARD posted:Hey, I never said I was a smart guy. Besides, let's be realistic here, there's no way to shorten my goddamn toenails if you're not using some sort of power tool. Actually, I'm going to say it here and now. Back in the day, some twenty years ago, I had a bizzarre manifesto webpage detailing my often-difficult life with ingrown toenails and the resulting hideous infections. I was surprised to see that archive.org spidered all of it for us to gloat about in the distant future (which is now.) I of course wrote under a pseudonym, and the archived site is here, though it's gross on any level imaginable: http://web.archive.org/web/20050308093953/http://bing.20m.com/toenails/index.htm Also do note how much my English has improved in the past twenty years. Too bad that nobody makes hilarious manifesto pages anymore  This website was in fact what brought me to SA: somebody linked my retarded website to Portal of Evil (remember it?) and I became a regular there. One of the websites they had linked on their front page was Something Awful, and that's what brought me here. So that's my story. I'll be glad to answer any questions. (by the way, is it distasteful if I ask the readers to become my patrons here? I'm all new to this stuff and I yet don't know the do-s and don't-s.)
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:Lol, the hits just keep on coming. God bless the Wayback Machine. Nah buddy, just send some money over to PayPal, it's going to be appreciated. https://www.paypal.me/fatbeardo Your loose change is going to be more than appreciated. Like, err got a cigarette buddy?
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spankmeister posted:
This was one of the best ones IMO By the way, I set up my old "ingrown toenails horror" webpage so you can all gloat at the horrible, horrible things that can happen to your toes and toenails. the link is here: http://fatbeard.epizy.com/toenails/index.html I'm going to hit the sack, over and out
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...and of course, no Slav neighborhood is complete without a mountain of junk just stewing there on the street corner. 
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And finally, have a link to the updated website about my toenails, called "Ingrown toenails horror!" http://fatbeard.epizy.com/toenails/ It contains all kinds of gross pictures but it's well worth the read. I also fixed up my engrish a bit.
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AlbieQuirky posted:So many questions. The city council collects all the physically large and unwieldy junk for free. The procedure is as following, you fill out a form on the city council's webpage, and a few weeks later they call you and say something like "our truck will be there on Thursday 8AM." Then you take all of your junk to the street corner the night before, and the following morning the truck will come and pick everything up. Well, that's how it goes in theory. The heap of junk in the picture started out as a few old kitchen cabinets which nobody came to pick up as something obviously went wrong and well, the cabinets stayed there to this day, though they've been stewing there for at least two weeks. To add an insult to an injury, now other tenants piled up their own junk onto the already sizable heap, seizing the opportunity to get themselves rid of the junk without the hassle of setting up an appointment with the city sanitation workers. Somebody WILL eventually pick up all the junk, as well as a mountain of cinderblocks somebody tossed in the corner of one of my towers. Christ, the rednecks I'm living with. 
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Aug 23, 2019 10:16
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Bobbie Wickham posted:You can treat toenail fungus with hydrogen peroxide, white vinegar, and tea tree oil, but you have to be consistent. Like, "two or three months" consistent. But, considering some antibiotics have to be taken for up to twelve weeks, this is better. You know, I actually did all of that, chlorine, hydrogen peroxide, tea tree oil (which smells nice but it useless as a remedy) and nothing helped. I've come to terms that I'll have old man toenails for the rest of my life. And when I need to clip my toenails, which I do once a year, I use a power drill with a sander - it's much faster than a file, which is also something I used in the past.
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Aug 24, 2019 19:59
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Deteriorata posted:See a doctor about it. I had a toenail fungus and tried to treat it myself with over-the-counter stuff and nothing worked. My doctor gave me one pill that stopped it cold. Tried Itraconazole, healthy nail started growing from it but the growth of the toenail was so stunted and slow that fungi spread to the healthy new portion of the nail. I called it quits then. Bobbie Wickham posted:For how long, and how consistently? It literally requires several months to treat nail fungus, like three months for just antibiotics. Topical treatments can take twice as long, but they don't gently caress up your system the way three months of antibiotics do. I did the peroxide-tea tree oil thing for around a year, no improvement. Well, I guess I'll just have old man toenails for the rest of my life.
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I'm sending a package to America, to my buddy Caleb in Indiana. I put lots of various balkan things inside, I wonder how the guy will react to cemetery vodka and Pelinkovac.  Also, it's been four months since my seizure on the street. As luck would have it, and I mean bad luck, it just had to happen on the stairs. My bud Igor who was with me, said that I kneeled on the stairs and started shaking like crazy while holding onto the railing. I can somehow predict when I'm about to have a seizure, a few seconds before the event I already know what's gonna happen - that's why I haven't collapsed, but instead kneeled and said "give me a minute". This is the goddamn scar on my knee, it's probably going to stay there indefinitely, reminding me that too many funny pills can result in a biiiig crap.  I'm gonna be very active tommorrow, because I'll be romping around with the post office, and I'll take many pictures. C'mon, become my patron, your five poxy dollars can mean the world to me.
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Gervasius posted:I had a group of Australians swear that Pelinkovac Antique is the greatest thing they have ever tasted and even tried to import the thing. You know what's actually the best thing about Pelinkovac? The name is derived from the croatian name for wormwood, which is "pelin". Russians have an oddly fitting name for wormwood, it's "Chernobyl". So this drink is in all reality a vodka distillate mixed with woodworm macerate and tons of sticky sugar, and when you realize what it is, you're also going to realize you're basically drinking "Chernobyl candy vodka".
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I also need to add that Pelinkovac is also sold in large 1 Liter bottles but they're quite problematic in their essence and I never buy them anymore. Why? Since Pelinkovac is so sweet and smooth, you'll be downing shots like a hero and you won't have a problem chugging down a whole bottle in one sitting. Then you'd attempt to stand up and then you'd realize you've just downed a whole goddamn liter of vodka, have fun puking on the cat and passing out in the back yard
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The package was sent! It only cost me $60, which is little for a 20lb package! The post office where I went is located in the brutalist commieblock that was recently patched up a bit where the concrete was flaking, but the resulting repair looks like an Atari game!  Right next to the Atari tower lies this quaint but very run down street with the classic Soviet 'Kruschovkas' from the early 60s which are in many ways cheesier than the McMansion, and a whole lot more depressing. These poverty rabbit pens were built in massive numbers all the way from Prague to Pyongyang and all of them are badly decayed these days because they were temporary, extremely cheap housing solutions that were considered 'disposable'.  Well, they stayed here to this day because we ran out of money in the 1980s. The apartments in these things came factory-equipped with many unpopular features because corners had to be cut on literally everything, and then some. For example, the ceiling lamp fixtures are not on the ceiling as you'd expect, they are mounted sideways on the wall close to the ceiling: this saved a few feet of electrical cable. Inside walls between the rooms are plywood and asbestos, offering no sound protection: a friend says she can hear neighbor's dogs scampering around the linoleum floors every single day at 5:30AM and that it wakes her up. There is very little privacy here. As far as the electricals are concerned, there are no grounding lines in the electrical system, and the fuse fixtures are scary black bakelite boxes with screw-in ceramic fuses, most of which were rigged to never blow years ago, turning the buildings into huge fire hazards. Not to mention that the insulation on the entire electrical wiring in the building is done with cotton, the old and then-cheaper style. Outside walls are pressed asbestos sheets, because concrete and bricks cost money.  Soviet architects went even further: the washbasin was located right next to the tub in the bathroom cubicle, but there was only one faucet mounted on the wall right in the middle between the two. It had a long hose though, so if you wanted to wash your hands, you'd the turn the hose to one side, and if you wanted to fill the tub, you'd turn the hose the other way. This saved on one faucet, but it was unpopular as there was usually water everywhere from this contraption. In a particular fit of irony, these walled-in mansions for the political elite went up only around a decade later. There was no speak of any sort of equality in Yugoslavia.  The garages are stacked two stories up, but most now lie abandoned and full of junk. The reason was when these garage went up, everybody drove tiny little rear-engined Fiats and these garages were made to accomodate only the tiniest cars, which was cool because that's what everybody was driving anyway. The standard back then was 12 square meters floor surface for all industry standard garages. The cars have grown dramatically in size over the years, and you just can't fit your average modern car into these tiny garage cubicles anymore.  All kinds of wild animals such as ferrets and all kinds of birds now live in these abandoned garages, which there are many of. I hear we even have a bum living in one of the garages, but he causes no trouble for anyone, and apparently doesn't stick much out of the usual crowd. Bobbie would've murdered him! 
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You know guys, this thread has definitely run its course. I figured the other day that I'm engaging in antisocial behavior just so I'd have something to write about, even though at the moment my life is more or less back on track. The patreon money bumming was the icing on the cake, I don't know what I was thinking at the moment but a few days later it struck me just how negatively it reflects not just upon me, but upon the whole thread. I even stopped posting elsewhere on the forums but in this thread, which takes away the joy of posting, it feels like a chore that needs to be done. As far as the drugs are concerned, I'm just smoking weed these days and I'm sticking to my therapy. In a way I didn't want to disappoint people who have enjoyed my drug-fueled antics of yesteryear and thought that this should keep on ad infinitum. Another thing is that I apparently chose Chris Chan, of all the people, as my role model in life, despite being head and shoulders over him. The patreon money, all eight dollars, was reinvested in the new-old avatar without the bumming link. It was an embarrassment from day one, because I don't feel I'm entitled to other people's hard earned money, however small the sum is. And this welfare money I'm getting invokes similar feelings in me, an unending stream of embarrassment because once again, I don't feel I'm entitled to other people's money, despite being crippled both physically and mentally. I would like this thread to be closed because it's been going on for a preposterously long time and it's become a massive burden and moreover, it's egging me to do stupid poo poo I inevitably regret later. So lock/gas/goldmine, do as you please, just remove it from the active forums because while I admit that this was once a great thread, it has long since jumped the shark.
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