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#106
Bring and Brag / Re: P3nT's Shoops
November 18, 2019, 11:26:05 AM
Quote from: nullified on November 18, 2019, 05:32:51 AM
I demand you name this creature for us. They are excellent and wonderful.

Rabbit Slug.
#107
Bring and Brag / Re: P3nT's Shoops
November 18, 2019, 04:58:46 AM
#108
"I also wanted to ask him" just got funnier every time she said it. Her timing and deadpan delivery fucking priceless :lulz:
#109
Bring and Brag / Re: P3nT's Shoops
November 01, 2019, 01:16:05 PM
Halloween sexy pinup witch




#110
Quote from: nullified on October 07, 2019, 11:45:07 AM
I've bought many things, and honestly I'm not too keen on capitalism. I purchased video games, music, clothes, hygiene products, medical care, food. This isn't my first rodeo here.

It's not about "I bought a blanket", that's just the description of what happened. It's about "I have a blanket that no one gave to me or donated or threw away." It is a blanket I actually wanted, and I got it, and I got it for me, and for no one else.

The feeling doesn't boil down to simplicity or possessiveness. It's legitimately nigh impossible to explain if you haven't been where I've been. But I'm going to try, because I'm in that twilight state where I've been trying very hard to sleep and failing, and now have mere hours until I need to go to work.

Having a blanket is important.

It is a symbol of triumph over a life of bullshit. Not only do I have money I can spend on things. I chose to spend that money on something that, while wholly unnecessary for survival, greatly improves comfort.

It's a symbol of triumph over the kind of mental illness that says "I do not deserve this." For years I decided my comfort and well-being was secondary, because I had it drilled into me that anything I wanted was the least important thing possible. Other people mattered more, I was dirt. Now I have a blanket. I got it for myself, because I deserve it.

It's a symbol of triumph over the kind of poverty that people don't believe exists outside of Africa and Indonesia. It's a symbol that whatever help I might need, I no longer need support for basic necessities. For most of my adult life, I've been on the streets, begging people for a way to survive one more day. Now I have a blanket. I didn't need that money for food. The blanket was all I needed and I got it.

Moreover, I wanted it. It wasn't someone else's cast-off detritus, or a beloved but impermanent loaner. That makes it a symbol that I have the power to choose what I get, even if it's in trivial ways. Before, comfort and even survival came with a caveat: this is what you are getting because it is what we can afford to give to you. Now I have a blanket, and it is exactly the one I wanted to purchase. I could have picked any blanket they had in stock. This is the one I wanted. I saw it and made my decision immediately. I checked the others and considered them. But this one is the one I decided on. So I got it.

Buying a blanket that I wanted with money that is my own says, in short, "I win." It doesn't matter if I lose later or not, I have this tangible proof that for a time, I rose above.

Yeah, mate, I get it. I've been there. Like I said - congrats. Sincerely
#111
Quote from: nullified on October 06, 2019, 06:55:19 AM
Today marks an important milestone.

I have a blanket.

I bought this blanket. It was not given to me, loaned to me, taken from a charity. I went to Target and looked at blankets and chose one blanket in particular and purchased that blanket with my money that I earned and is mine. The blanket belongs to me, and no one else may lay any claim to it. No one else is responsible for it.

It is comfortable. There are more comfortable blankets. Some of them were even cheaper than this blanket and I could have chosen them. But this is the one I wanted. Now it is mine. I did not have to beg. I did not even have to ask. I said "I will take this one," and was told to pay and sent on my way.

This all probably sounds ridiculous. Please understand that I have NEVER HAD MY OWN BLANKET BEFORE. I have had hand-me-downs and gifts and loaners and never, ever, a blanket I owned that was mine that I bought that no one could take away ever under any circumstances.

It's a big day.

Congrats, you just took your first hit of capitalism! My first taste was so long ago I can't even remember what I bought (probably drugs) but for me it felt like ideological suicide. Nonetheless I sucked it up and you know what? It's a fucking sight more straightforward than leaving the village, heading out into the wilderness and finding some wise person you can cajole into teaching you how to make a blanket, right?

Just remember the first rule of capitalism: You own the blanket. Blanket does not own you :wink:

#112
Only Maybe Arts Lab / Re: WEIRDOVERSE
September 30, 2019, 11:23:49 AM
Pure nostalgia! No lower form of pigfucking degenerate than the one who returned an unwound tape to the video store.  :lulz:
#113
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 28, 2019, 07:27:50 PM
Hey now, viseers are far more competent than this worm. Don't go tarring everyone with an exquisite goatee into the same level as this nonce.

Also, calling a paedophilic related charge on Cummings in less than five years. Absolutely no proof or even hearsay, it just seems obvious for our times though.

Calling toddler shagging discovered to be part of the entrance exam in around the same timescale. I've a sneaky suspicion "pigs head" is a euphemism
#114
I'd tell you that you're a bad person but you know that already and would most likely accept it as a compliment so I'm not gonna give you the satisfaction  :argh!:
#115
Bring and Brag / Re: The day it all went to Hell
September 18, 2019, 10:19:55 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 17, 2019, 05:36:39 PM
It IS good art, P3NT, and you should be ashamed.

Somewhere, William Topaz McGonagall is rolling around in his grave.

:spittake:
#116
Bring and Brag / The day it all went to Hell
September 16, 2019, 10:22:06 PM
I remember
flying in the moonlight
Looking down at
something that was so right
I was immortal
soaring from a great height
I remember
the day it all went to hell

I was breathless
vibrating with the cosmos
X-ray vision
moving with a purpose
God was watching
spirit it was flawless
I was perfection
the day it all went to hell

Screaming at the medic who had pinned me to the ground
Foaming at the mouth until the needle took me down
Slide into a coma til the morning brought me round
Prisoner in my own skull
the day it all went to hell

Sick and tired
Of being sick and wide awake
Slipping sliding
side effect of what I take
Got religion
Sanity's so hard to fake
Caught me praying
the day it all went to hell

Lying cheating
Nothing wrong I'm doing fine
Sees right through me
I got demons deep inside
In the spotlight
Nothing I can do to hide
They had my number
the day it all went to hell

Reality imagination no way I can tell apart
Fibrillation palpitation maybe this will break my heart
Now I'm acting crazy and the needle goes back to the start
Thirty days added to
the day it all went to hell
#117
I demand meaty tooth eyes and I demand them right fucking now!
#118
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 12, 2019, 09:30:21 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 12, 2019, 09:25:39 PM
Oh right, blues are Tories, red is Labour, dark yellow is the Lib Dems and that light yellow is the SNP.

As you can see, there's a whole bunch of Tories sitting directly south of the border.

I'm betting on the Scots.

I wouldn't. Half of us are unionists/members of the 1690 re-enactment society and the other half are fucking liberals who's idea of battle tactics is to hold their hands up and try to diffuse the situation, right up until the dude they're trying to placate is pulling his machete back out their skull, after which you can't really rely on their support much beyond sandbags and meat. Bit different in "actual scotland" north of Tyndrum, but there's so few of us up there that we'll be stuck fighting guerrilla fashion. Works for me, tho, so that's where I'll be headed if shit kicks off. I know a couple of - ripe for the picking - shooting estates where I can stock up on weapons, once I've dealt with the gentry there. Of course, my fellow primates are a constant source of disappointment and this whole shitshow will probably blow over with barely a drop of blood spilled but I can dream.
#119
Certainly not the guy in charge. He has a proven track record of having zero fucking idea how business works :lulz:
#120
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Re: DRUGS
August 31, 2019, 05:32:55 PM
Verbot macht frei :lulz: