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Post by junkmonkey on Mar 23, 2021 14:53:16 GMT -5
Ah, the pains we go to in order to safely store what was originally intended to be "disposable" ephemera. I use old Lootcrate boxes which, strangely enough, are just the right size for floppies. I stick labels on the back so I know what's in them and when I've got enough of a run and I have the time I sew them together to make books.
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Post by junkmonkey on Mar 23, 2021 12:42:59 GMT -5
If you wants rude: (Seriously NSFW) Till the Cows Come Home by Lucille Bogan Nothing new under the sun.
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Post by junkmonkey on Mar 21, 2021 12:12:26 GMT -5
I keep $20-60 in my wallet. 95% of the time I don't need it. But there are some occasions like a roadside stand where they only take cash. Or I don't feel like using a card for something less than $5. Or the card machine is on the fritz at a store. Im irrationally irritated by the younger generations that pay for a $1 coffee with a card. Seriously you don’t even have a dollar on you?!?! 🤣 Not just a generational thing. I'm in my 60s and 95+% of the time, no, I don't have any cash on me at all.
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Post by junkmonkey on Mar 20, 2021 20:08:23 GMT -5
I seem to have slipped into a time warp.
I use plastic for everything. At the start of the pandemic, when we were all trying not to touch anything we didn't have to, I had my cashcard on the end of an old con lanyard round my neck which meant I could do contactless without even having to fanny about getting it out of my wallet.
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Post by junkmonkey on Mar 20, 2021 11:36:11 GMT -5
"Change"? I don't think I have actually used any real folding money (or coins) for a year now.
But what if you need to use a pay phone?
"Pay Phone...."?
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Post by junkmonkey on Mar 20, 2021 8:30:07 GMT -5
Even after a year of wearing a mask I still have to stop myself for asking for my change in "unmarked bills". I could never be a superhero. Not because I am old fat and out of shape. I have a hard time wearing a mask all day. When I would go into a grocery store and forget my mask they would give me a paper bag to wear over my head. Funny they used to do this before the pandemic.
"Change"? I don't think I have actually used any real folding money (or coins) for a year now.
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Post by junkmonkey on Mar 20, 2021 8:25:22 GMT -5
I paid far more than I usually do for a Spirou (nearly eight pounds inc. postage) but it went for a lot less than other copies have recently which is odd as it is in great condition and contains both its supplements. (Often the centre pages of Spirou were printed sideways with two smaller pages per page. They were meant to be detached, then folded and cut to make mini-comics.) Number 1000 fills a gap in a bound, collected edition I bought a couple of months ago.
The book was cheap too because it was coming to pieces. I restored it to readability but found this issue was missing. I don't THINK I'm going to add this to the restored volume I'll just slip the whole comic into place without glueing or trimming it down.
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Post by junkmonkey on Mar 13, 2021 11:48:39 GMT -5
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Post by junkmonkey on Mar 11, 2021 9:03:03 GMT -5
Jinkies!
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Post by junkmonkey on Mar 9, 2021 17:52:01 GMT -5
Royal Family shenanigans interest me as much as the Kardashians....they are both equally a waste of my time.
Don't mind the Queen on my pound notes though....
Luckily I live in a bit of Britain that doesn't have the queen on its notes.
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Post by junkmonkey on Mar 8, 2021 18:29:46 GMT -5
Today I went through the cattle call of Covid vaccine phase one... I celebrated by visiting a shop that I haven't been to in about 6 months-- not because of Covid, but because it's just a bit out of the way for me.
Came away with some offbeat oddballs-- no real keys here, just fun stuff filling holes and taking down my insurmountable want list by just a few more pegs. All in all, a good day.
Best find of the day was a Fine copy of Kirby's "Spirit World" magazine, complete with the un-attached poster inside! priced at $12, I had to look twice to make sure I was reading the tag correctly-- that's about 1/4 of the going price for a decent copy with the poster. Now to find its sister mag, "In the Days of the Mob"...
I've got a copy of that somewhere that I picked up stupidly cheap too - on Ebay. I suspect it was mislabled somehow and I chanced upon it. I remember I was the only bidder.
Like the Kamandi #40 I bought today which had been typo-ed so it was listed as: "Kamandi the Lady Boy on Earth". I was the only bidder on that too.
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Post by junkmonkey on Mar 8, 2021 17:55:49 GMT -5
Knowing not to go on a tirade about Nazis on social media when you're a very public employee of Disney of all places seems like a bare minimum intelligence check to work there. Plus, she was warned and given a second chance. Beyond that, I would be shocked if Disney didn't have some kind of morality clause or something they make people sign. I mean shoot, if you worked gathering shopping carts in a grocery store and walked around blabbing about Nazis I bet they'd fire you for that, too. Not because they think you are one, but that's going to wig out customers, and the company won't want to be associated with that. Hollywood (I know) has been putting morality clauses into contracts since forever (well since the Fatty Arbuckle / Virginia Rappe case at least). Agreeing while working for someone not to indulge in behaviour that could bring your employer into disrepute, or is contrary to their ethos - then doing just that thing - twice! - would seem like reasonable grounds for not renewing someone's contract to me. But I don't know the details so I'm going to bow out of this conversation.
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Post by junkmonkey on Mar 8, 2021 14:41:42 GMT -5
Everyone is up in arms about whether or not to cancel Dr. Seuss for outdated and racist content when it's just as easy to say they should be cancelled because they are terrible. Have you tried reading Green Eggs and Ham to a kid recently? I stopped when I realised I wasn't reading it out loud to them. I was reciting it. I could have been holding the book upside down for all that I was looking at the words. Same for The Sleep Book. I could do that one on autopilot too.
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Post by junkmonkey on Mar 8, 2021 14:36:40 GMT -5
Everyone is up in arms about whether or not to cancel Dr. Seuss for outdated and racist content when it's just as easy to say they should be cancelled because they are terrible. Have you tried reading Green Eggs and Ham to a kid recently? I'd rather help them math homework. I don't think people are reacting to some of Dr. Seuss's low-selling books being cancelled so much as to the self-serving virtue-signalling of the publishers. The latter's self-censorship, well intentioned as it might be, also reinforces the concept that people may be hurt by being exposed to a caricature in a children's book from sixty years ago, a concept that many people find patronizing. Warning: this episode of Star Trek includes scenes in which a character is being made fun of because he has green blood. Parental discretion is advised. That argument might have a little more validity if there were Kilingons here and now amongst us. There aren't. We've all got red blood but different coloured wrapping. Oh wait! Unless this cancel culture stuff is all a ploy by someone leading up to the Shapeshifting Lizard Bitches (who really rule the planet) accidentally outing themselves by complaining about Yertle the Turtle being a gross stereotype...
I'm going off to write that. There's a story in there somewhere.
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Post by junkmonkey on Mar 7, 2021 19:43:02 GMT -5
Sadly I had to cancel my son anyway about five years ago for financial reasons and lack of space. But this was definitely a great way to do it. This cancel culture is really getting crazy.
Beat me to it.
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