Ex-Priest Tobin posted:

how much did you pay for that?

Pick posted:

To be honest I don't really remember, north of $400 anyway, less than $700.

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

Lol wow

Let's instead post about ops poor spending habits

Ex-Priest Tobin posted:

why did you buy the cel op?

MettleRamiel posted:

I used to repair wheelchairs and such for work. I had one client with MS who our company took on after all the other mobility dealers in town had written her off as too difficult to handle. She was a three hour drive away so she understood that any work she needed would not be timely, but she had no other choice. She immediately warmed up to me because I was good at my job, I didn't bullshit her with stuff she didn't need like all the other companies did and I fixed a ton of stuff that they had done wrong.

In her foyer, she had a glass case with all these awesome hand sculpted and hand painted ceramics of birds, raccoons, marmots, moose, all kinds of animals. They were awesome. I always admired them, but even more so when she told me that she made them all herself. She never sold them, gave very few away, just made them for herself and put them on display to any visitors. Unfortunately, MS being the bullshit that it is, she was no longer able to make these things. She couldn't even sign her name anymore. She hated that she couldn't make them anymore and she would often look at them longingly.

When I was moving to a new city, she gave me this family of ducks here. I told her I couldn't accept them because she could never make them again and I knew how much that upset her, but she insisted.

When I was leaving, her daughter who lived in the basement saw me with the ducks and accused me of stealing them. She said that there was no way that she would give away one of her most prized possessions to some kid who fixed her chair a handful of times a year when she's been asking for one for years. She flipped out when her mom confirmed that she did indeed give them to me.

lovely camera phone does not do these things justice

Catastrophe posted:

I own this 1955 Rollei Rolleiflex 2.8D. It takes some of the most spectacular photos I've ever seen in my life.

Pick posted:

what the gently caress why does it have two eyes?

Catastrophe posted:

Serious answer. The top lens reflects up to the viewfinder you use to frame and focus with. The bottom lens is calibrated to be exactly in sync with the viewfinder lens and is the lens with a shutter that actually exposes the film when you press the shutter button.

Pick posted:

what the gently caress why does it have two eyes?

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Vaginal Vagrant posted:

pick trawling for dick pics itt.

Pick posted:

I said cool stuff not loving garbage

Former DILF posted:

alright pick i got something for you

meet Charlie (yes that is a racist name)





My Grandfather got this when he was working for IBM in the south pacific after world war two. They lived afaik in Japan Thailand and Hawaii during this period and collected all manner of bric a brac including Charlie.

I don't know exactly where Charlie came from exactly but they were living on an island paradise with a Host Family tasked with keeping families like my grandfather's comfortable. One afternoon after a downpour this statue washed out of the hills and down onto the property.

The Host Family was horrified and the translations came through that this was "a monument to the dead" and that it was "very bad luck"

They wouldn't even touch it.

So my Grandparents did what Baka Gweilo Hoalies do and picked the damned thing up and took it home to America.

Now I don't know if it's cursed or not but we've always kept the ritual of giving it offerings and keeping incense near it anyway

Jeffrey Dahmer posted:

Honky Dong Country posted:

This goon killed somebody for these teeth mark my words, prolly hosed with his punkins

a hole-y ghost posted:

Uh, yes; it's pretty well-known that Jeffrey Dahmer killed and ate multiple people.

Jeffrey Dahmer posted: