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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:The dumbest thing I own is a merlin enhanced vision electronic magnifier. It is supposed to be for old people to read the newspaper, but I use it to make miniature dollhouses, removing splinters, and trying to find my wiener. I agree with that other guy, this kinda owns. I'd also like to hear about these miniature dollhouses because just from the picture there, they also seem to be fuckin great Dr.Smasher posted:I had one. I still miss it. I don't miss throwing money at a 30 year old muscle car with unique brake systems. How unique?
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Athanatos posted:How unique? Mr. Burns: "I'm sure the manual will say which is the accelerometer and which is the deceleratrix"
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Big Beef City posted:Mr. Burns: "I'm sure the manual will say which is the accelerometer and which is the deceleratrix" https://youtu.be/rWTcPdYfsAc
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maybe this but I love it
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Bloopsy posted:These ads were all over the place in Okinawa like 15 years ago and now it's proudly displayed in my kitchen. oh my god I lived there on and off through the 2000s and I love you for this, absolutely not a dumb thing to own
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Knot My President! posted:Tomorrow I have a reprodution of an IBM Model F keyboard arriving that I've waited five years for. It weighs around five or six pounds. This will be by far the dumbest thing I own I have a 1987 Model M - it works well, is nice to type on, and I pull it out when I for some reason need a PS/2 keyboard. It's also about as noisy as a food processor full of pebbles.
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I bought shares in a sports team that I love, so now any bad news surrounding them has emotional and financial ramifications.
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Total Meatlove posted:I bought shares in a sports team that I love, so now any bad news surrounding them has emotional and financial ramifications. Hello Green Bay Packers fan.
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Athanatos posted:
Nothing fancy I just get little kits from Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TYZV3BJ
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Big Beef City posted:Hello Green Bay Packers fan. It is even more dumb than that
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Total Meatlove posted:It is even more dumb than that 
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangers_F.C. Has its own ownerships and finances section
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Looks incredibly like something from Lost in Translation, like the ads he came to Japan to do. Except that was Bill Murray right
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I don't know. But I do spend money on things that I really don't need. More t-shirts and shoes than I can even get around to wearing. Autographed sports memorabilia. I've just got to stop spending money like it grows on trees.
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I'll always take the opportunity to post this. I used to work at a 3D printing store and helped a dude fix his 3D printer and install some software on his laptop. He came back the next day and gifted me 3 of his self published books, signed with lovely notes in them, a promise that I'd be dedicated to in his next book and a box of chocolate liquors. The books are a play, an instructional manual on how to mathematically cut any polyhedral shape out of wood dowels of any diameter using only an angle grinder and a description of a computer game.    This one is out of the play, it describes how to cut the facets of the ruby that stars in it.   I will never get rid of these. They are prized possessions.
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I own a lot of dumb impractical poo poo for novelty or nostalgia's sake but these are probably the top of the pile as far as overall uselessness in the modern day, being a pain in the rear end to move and store, and not even being all that cool to people who don't know exactly what they are already. A 1970s mainframe era printing terminal  And one of those big change machines like you might've seen back in arcades 30-40 years ago 
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super nailgun posted:I own a lot of dumb impractical poo poo for novelty or nostalgia's sake but these are probably the top of the pile as far as overall uselessness in the modern day, being a pain in the rear end to move and store, and not even being all that cool to people who don't know exactly what they are already. as someone who does know what this is, this is extremely cool and I am very jealous
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Megabound posted:I'll always take the opportunity to post this. I used to work at a 3D printing store and helped a dude fix his 3D printer and install some software on his laptop. He came back the next day and gifted me 3 of his self published books, signed with lovely notes in them, a promise that I'd be dedicated to in his next book and a box of chocolate liquors. These are incredible. Just the works of an undiscovered renaissance man.
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goon holotype
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Spinz posted:A set of 49 high end Japanese watercolor brush pens that I paid 60 bucks for. make ane sell some art with em
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Dumbest thing I own is this book by the RAND corporation It delivers  Riveting stuff  08192 did it!
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I have an Ekeko figurine that I bought because I thought Gemusetto Machu Picchu was funny.
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Megabound posted:I'll always take the opportunity to post this. I used to work at a 3D printing store and helped a dude fix his 3D printer and install some software on his laptop. He came back the next day and gifted me 3 of his self published books, signed with lovely notes in them, a promise that I'd be dedicated to in his next book and a box of chocolate liquors. I have trouble pairing your descriptions with the book titles. The book about a computer game would be fantastic material for a game jam.
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Vim Fuego posted:Dumbest thing I own is this book by the RAND corporation 58008 or GTFO
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My parents brought this t-shirt back from St. Petersburg roughly 20 years ago. I made the mistake of wearing it to a nightclub once. As soon as I took my jacket off I was swarmed by three sasquatch sized bouncers -the sort that make me look small - telling me to put it back on. 
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Code Jockey posted:as someone who does know what this is, this is extremely cool and I am very jealous the people who do appreciate it really appreciate it :P I pulled two of them out of the attic of the parts department at a closed car dealership (second is with another local collector now). was really sad there wasn't anything else related to them left, but still such a neat thing to find in the wild.
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A circa 1994 Brother Wp-1700 MDS Which retailed for about $350-400 back then, or about $1000 cheaper than a laptop. For those not familiar, imagine a heavy and clunky laptop that can only run Word and has a built in printer, kind of the netbook of its day. It features: 3.5" 1.44 Floppy disk drive for MS-DOS file compatibility with PC's (software not included) 14 lines by 80 character LCD display; built-in handle for easy carrying Word-spell, 95k word corrector dictionary; 45K Thesaurus 198 business letter formats and more! It's actually a decent focused writing tool with a pretty comfortable keyboard, since I don't like writing longhand, but the main problem is that everything runs through a 3 1/2" floppy drive whose main format (.WPT) comes out pretty wonky on modern word processing software. You can convert to pure ASCII txt, but then you have to redo all the text formatting. Supposedly, there were disks you could get so you could play Tetris and Othello on it, but I've not been able to locate copies of those programs. I've long debated whether or not it would be easier to buy a floppy to flash drive conversion kit, or just grab a USB floppy drive for my laptop, but so far haven't done either. Perhaps even more stupidly, it's proven "easier" to just print out the text and scan it with OCR, because  I could just use one of my other 20+ typewriters, but this thing is just dumb and fun to use, like stepping into a parallel world where generalized computing never took off, and everything was a hyper-specialized, single purpose device.
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Toph Bei Fong posted:A circa 1994 Brother Wp-1700 MDS Hello, old friend. I used one of these until it died, long after I had plenty of computers to gently caress with. I would probably use a word processor again if I could get one that was new old stock.
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