Weird Things I Bought

kmikeym · Post by **kmikeym** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:26 pm

So I bought $100 of onions from onions.com.
And I bought a bike mount for my phone because I use Strava now and I'm turning into a "bike jock" which is weird.
And I bought too much coffee, because we were running low and I got scared.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:30 pm

I had a panic attack the other night and bought 85 pounds of dog food

Post by **joni** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:32 pm

As told by the other thread, I bought a scrolling message LED sign for $74.74

sashaburchuk · Post by **sashaburchuk** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:37 pm

We bought a bidet attachment because there's still no toilet paper. But that's not even that weird.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:38 pm

Jona we are all impressed by your scrolling message LED sign as well as by the slightly lower price you were able to negotiate

Sasha I disagree, I do find that weird, and very cool

Post by **joni** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:38 pm

I LOVE BIDET

Post by **joni** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:39 pm

ritchey wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:38 pm Jona we are all impressed by your scrolling message LED sign as well as by the slightly lower price you were able to negotiate

Sasha I disagree, I do find that weird, and very cool

Ritchey, eat shit: my shit.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:39 pm

jona wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:39 pm
ritchey wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:38 pm Jona we are all impressed by your scrolling message LED sign as well as by the slightly lower price you were able to negotiate

Sasha I disagree, I do find that weird, and very cool
Ritchey, eat shit: my shit.

NO

Post by **joni** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:40 pm

I love the way message replies look. That color!

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:41 pm

the whole board looks really, really good. I am not being sarcastic although I do think you should eat shit

sashaburchuk · Post by **sashaburchuk** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:48 pm

It's how a lot of the world does it! I think it's better for the earth and also having a clean derriere all the time will be so nice.

I LOVE MY CLEAN BUTTTTTTTTTT

ritchey wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:38 pm Jona we are all impressed by your scrolling message LED sign as well as by the slightly lower price you were able to negotiate

Sasha I disagree, I do find that weird, and very cool

alexshred420 · Post by **alexshred420** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 1:36 pm

We bought a month's worth of ground turkey and froze it for our cat Benny because we cook his food from scratch and were worried about the ground turkey supply chain. Seems fine thus far, though.

GARY-19 · Post by **GARY-19** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 2:57 pm

I bought three pounds of vacuum-sealed raw capers for $50

Phil · Post by **Phil** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 3:25 pm

I came pretty close to paying like $1400 for a rarified traditional Japanese court music instrument (a sho) that I don't know how to play and probably would tire of. Also child sized bagpipes.

Mostly have not spent money though. Eating through the freezer and cans.

josh · Post by **josh** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 4:26 pm

I think we're going to run out

(of toilet paper)

please send toilet paper

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 5:53 pm

I bought some plaid ska pants at Wall Mart for $3 (on sale).

sashaburchuk · Post by **sashaburchuk** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 8:39 pm

I have a few rolls you can have, but you really might want to look in to the bidet attachment

josh wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 4:26 pm I think we're going to run out

(of toilet paper)

please send toilet paper

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Fri Apr 03, 2020 1:05 am

jonathan_stick wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:40 pm I love the way message replies look. That color!

Is this how I reply?

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Fri Apr 03, 2020 1:07 am

I bought soooo many meters of elastic for making my own underwear, guys.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Fri Apr 03, 2020 3:58 am

Phil wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 3:25 pm I came pretty close to paying like $1400 for a rarified traditional Japanese court music instrument (a sho) that I don't know how to play and probably would tire of. Also child sized bagpipes.

Mostly have not spent money though. Eating through the freezer and cans.

Fudge, Gary bought a THEREMIN

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Fri Apr 03, 2020 3:59 am

ritchey wrote: ↑Fri Apr 03, 2020 3:58 am
Phil wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 3:25 pm I came pretty close to paying like $1400 for a rarified traditional Japanese court music instrument (a sho) that I don't know how to play and probably would tire of. Also child sized bagpipes.

Mostly have not spent money though. Eating through the freezer and cans.

Fudge, Gary bought a THEREMIN

(In addition to the huge bags of capers)

willowowow · Post by **willowowow** » Sat Apr 04, 2020 4:43 pm

josh wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 4:26 pm I think we're going to run out

(of toilet paper)

please send toilet paper

Do you still need TP Josh? I have probably 3 rolls to spare...

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Sat Apr 04, 2020 5:49 pm

I figured I’d have so much time on my hands I bought an old Sony DSR-45 DV Tape deck to import all the old tapes I shot in junior high and high school.

Abe · Post by **Abe** » Sun Apr 05, 2020 8:22 pm

I recently repaired three things I brought broken for repair:
* A Tapco 440 stereo spring reverb
* 2 Urei LA-4 compressors

That left me with a lot more ins and outs and as a treat I bought another UAD Apollo that was pretty cheap to increase my i/o from 8 to 24. Also more processing power!
Now I won't have to mess with the patchbay that much, which is great, as that can really slow down music making.

alexshred420 · Post by **alexshred420** » Mon Apr 06, 2020 12:24 pm

Ok, we finally bought some weird stuff (ok, just a weed whacker and some pruning shears) and I'm ABOUT to buy a bunch of 4ft X 225ft rolls of "jute netting" to put over our back hill to prevent erosion after we pull up thousands and thousands of feet of invasive English ivy.

sashaburchuk · Post by **sashaburchuk** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 7:16 pm

I bought a Theragun, because I have bad painful scoliosis and it's been a month since I've been to the chiropractor. The Theragun is a percussive massager. It repeatedly hits you with 35 pounds of pressure like 40 times/second. I got the cheapest one I could find. It is loud as hell and offgassing weird motor smells but as far as I can tell it's working.

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 5:34 pm

sashaburchuk wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2020 7:16 pm I bought a Theragun, because I have bad painful scoliosis and it's been a month since I've been to the chiropractor. The Theragun is a percussive massager. It repeatedly hits you with 35 pounds of pressure like 40 times/second. I got the cheapest one I could find. It is loud as hell and offgassing weird motor smells but as far as I can tell it's working.

I also have painful scoliosis and use a theragun knock off. I love it, but it feels weird on my lungs— ha. I started doing yoga with my girlfriend, and I also ordered a pull up bar to try and build up some upper back/core strength and that's been helping a LOT too. But my curve isn't super terrible— so it's been doable.

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 5:47 pm

ooooh, I want one!
I have the theracane, for prodding one's own fucked up muscles with incredible pressure. I like to do it when stoned, but then sometimes go too hard and get more sore :/

uncleboatshoes · Post by **uncleboatshoes** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 6:25 pm

I bought a lot of stamps today on the internet.

In case I need to mail out more coffee and to do my part for the USPS.

We’re talking like $112 worth of stamps

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 6:43 pm

Vegetarian salami
No sugar-added canned cherries
$8 sage and vetiver deodorant

Phil · Post by **Phil** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 7:07 pm

uncleboatshoes wrote: ↑Tue Apr 14, 2020 6:25 pm I bought a lot of stamps today on the internet.

In case I need to mail out more coffee and to do my part for the USPS.

We’re talking like $112 worth of stamps

Thank you Steve. The news on the radio today made me so sad and worried for our beloved USPS.

rcnederveld · Post by **rcnederveld** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 7:37 pm

6 lbs of butter for me and my 2 housemates to freeze so we are shopping less. Not that weird for the times but... weird otherwise?

also hiiiiii

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 7:51 pm

YESSSS welcome <3

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 1:23 am

Would you pay 112 American for stamps that were gum though?

Guys, I am up to just about 200 euros in elastic related purchases. Plus I just made a flopsy-aroundsy linen dress and now I need buttons. UGH.

alexshred420 · Post by **alexshred420** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:19 am

We got a Tushy to make up for the lack of toilet paper in stores and BOY OH BOY are our bungholes clean, plus it feels good to use way less TP!

infopetal · Post by **infopetal** » Tue May 12, 2020 9:53 pm

I recently discovered something about myself in that apparently if left to my own devices for a few months I'm someone who can get in WAY too deep researching mechanical keyboards. was recently many up hours into the early morning watching youtube videos of people mashing cherry mx switches before impulse purchasing a ducky tenkeyless with brown switches. who am I…? anyone here all in on mechanical keyboards?

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Tue May 12, 2020 10:11 pm

[mention]infopetal[/mention] i am very close to dipping into that subculture. I feel it coming like menopause! In the interim my writing tool of choice is the Alphasmart 2000, a battery-powered keyboard manufactured for students in the late ‘90s. It holds like 9 documents of 10 pages each and has a tiny-ass screen so you can only read three or four lines at a time, which has the unexpected advantage of aborting run-on sentences. They’re $20 on eBay and I can’t write anything longer than two paragraphs without mine.

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Wed May 13, 2020 6:58 am

ALFASMART 2000!!! That poor growth stunted lil' sis! Do you just write completely in stream of consciousness? Can you scroll up and see what you've written?
Man, I love a mini branch-off from the way technology seems to be inclined. The only other one that comes to mind immediately is the sony minidisk which is a terrible example because that technology was clearly superior to the mainstream.

[mention]infopetal[/mention] the phrase "mechanical keyboard" is very similar to "computer music" to me in the way that I know they mean something way more specific than they sound like and still somehow reading that definition almost immediately has me lost in a mist. My dearest Korn is talking A LOT (for him) and shopping A LOT (again for him), trying to build himself the midi keyboarding device of his dreams. I assume that it is not anything even resembling a mechanical keyboard but I have seen a lot of guys on youtube with homemade devices more or less against my will recently.

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Wed May 13, 2020 9:33 am

[mention]m o l l y[/mention] yeah full stream-of-consciousness! Since the screen is so small it’s easy to just keep going without getting caught up in how much I’ve written or how much I have left to write. At the end of a session I’ll plug the Alphasmart into my laptop using a USB cable into a USB-to-USB-C adapter and it prints everything in real-time. I’m always surprised at how much I’ve written. I used to do all my drafting longhand, but this saves me the headache of transcription and gets me straight into editing. I got into this tool AFTER I finished my book but I’ve been using it for everything since and I can’t wait to write my entire next book on a $19 child’s toy

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Wed May 13, 2020 9:44 am

This def feels like a game changer.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Wed May 13, 2020 10:40 am

this is truly WILD

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Thu May 14, 2020 10:45 am

I spent all my airline miles on a sewing machine

Post by **joni** » Thu May 14, 2020 12:22 pm

I bought a variety of unpopular (aka not sold out) colors of clay from polymerclaysuperstore.com

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Thu May 14, 2020 12:51 pm

sculpey!!

infopetal · Post by **infopetal** » Thu May 14, 2020 9:52 pm

[mention]yourfriendclaire[/mention]—your forthcoming mechanical keyboard preoccupation and your Alphasmart have earned you membership into Computer Club. welcome!

[mention]m o l l y[/mention], I love both "mechanical keyboard" and "computer music" being so generic they become specific, or vice versa? I imagine the videos with which you are now unintentionally familiar are very much like the ones I was watching. it's not a corner of the internet that I find particularly validating but sometimes the quest for knowledge takes you to strange places. I wish Korn the best in his midi keyboarding journey!

infopetal · Post by **infopetal** » Thu May 14, 2020 9:53 pm

joni wrote: ↑Thu May 14, 2020 12:22 pm I bought a variety of unpopular (aka not sold out) colors of clay from polymerclaysuperstore.com

what are the qualities that make a particular color of polymer clay unpopular? brownishness?

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Fri May 15, 2020 9:21 am

I went directly to the clay website and started putting molds and things into a basket before taking a deep breath and closing that tab.

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Fri May 15, 2020 9:22 am

alexshred420 · Post by **alexshred420** » Fri May 15, 2020 12:05 pm

I want some 25lb dumbbells but they literally don't exist rn and I refuse to buy anything from Bezos and co. If anybody wants to send me some for my 40th birthday next Wednesday I wouldn't complain

Post by **joni** » Fri May 15, 2020 12:26 pm

[mention]alexshred420[/mention] Oh yeah, are you going to have an online party with Mike that is NOT related to, or sponsored by K5MCON?