Things you recently bought or got

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  1. OurJud

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    Is there any other type of cookie? Isn’t that a bit like saying coffee bean coffee?
     
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    yes, many other kinds
     
  3. OurJud

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    But all cookies are made mainly of sugar?
     
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    Friedrich Kugelschreiber marshmallow Contributor

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    yes, but sugar cookies are generally rolled in sugar. They look like this:

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    Diabetic’s nightmare!
     
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    -Cayenne pepper plants
    -Oregano plants
    -Basil plants
    -Flower seeds

    After 5 years of putting it off, I've decided to work in my flowerbed again and try to get a small garden going.
     
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    Waiting on my new guitar to arrive over the next few weeks. It was out of stock everywhere but they've got a shipment coming in pretty soon.

    To roughly misquote Mean Girls, you would never buy a guitar without chatting to your sister first, right? I couldn't pick between like 4 choices, then she was like 'which one could you see yourself sprinting like a chicken across the stage at Live Aid with?' and voila, we picked out the same one.

    [​IMG]

    I'm still waiting for my baby to arrive. I've been playing an old hand-me-down for like 6 years, so I figured it was time for something of my own.
     
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    That is an amazing picture.
     
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    I know, right? Apparently the guitar just comes like that.
     
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    What guitar did you decide to order in the end?
     
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    I sense more guitar pron on the way... :supergrin:
     
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    Oh yes, more exposed nickel wound steel strings, damn it! :p
     
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    And those sleek sensuous curves painted up like a racing car.
     
  14. alittlehumbugcalledShe

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    This one.
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    Very nice. Not quite my colour but lovely all the same. I’ve owned four guitars for about 18 months now and can’t even string two chords together. I sort of hate myself for giving up so easily, but I think sometimes we just know when we’re wasting our time.
     
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    Nice. Who's the manufacturer?

    I love the sound of the hollow bodies but I don't like is how the neck balloons out around 12 - 15 fret and makes higher access difficult. Bad for lead but great for rhythm.
     
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    2 tickets to Demon Slayer (hoping i dont have to go to alone... going to the movie theater is no fun alone :(...)
     
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    I have a new smartphone. And a new case to protect my new smartphone.

    The case is the second one I've ordered, and on both of them the tempered glass screen protector is a good 1.5mm smaller than the size of the screen.

    Is it supposed to be like that? I mean, do you just peel off the sheet and stick it on and ignore the gap all the way around? And if something happens to the protector, can you get it off without ruining your touchscreen?

    I've had smartphones since 2014, but this is the first time I've bothered to get a case for any of them. I'm tired of busting the screens. But I ain't using what I just bought until I know it's right.
     
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    I don’t use cases because smartphones are already too big to be practical. I don’t use these protective screens, either, but I’m pretty sure they’re designed to be replaced and not damage your phone’s screen when removed. I’m also pretty sure they’re supposed to be a mm or two smaller than your phone’s screen to prevent an overlap that might catch on things and be pulled off.
     
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    After I made my post, I hit on the right search terms and found a few Q & As on the subject. The thinking is that the glass screens on phones have radiussed edges and you don't want the protector lying over the entire footprint of the screen because it would hang over the radius and, as you say, catch on things. My annoyance is that the case covers most of the radius already, and the protector stops nearly a millimeter away from where the radius begins. What's more, the case makes a raised rim all around the phone, so what edge do you have left to catch?

    Oh, well. I'll slap the thing on and see how it works.
     
  22. Friedrich Kugelschreiber

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    I don't use a screen protector, but a case is good to have.
     
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    Just buy an iPhone - they’re bomb-proof anyway. My little SE has been dropped more times than I’ve had a hot meal and apart from the odd tiny dent on the case’s edge it looks as good as it did the day I got it.

    Mind you that was before apple decided they were going to design their phones to look like every other oversized smartphone out there, so I can’t speak for the newer models.
     
  24. Cave Troll

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    I haven't heard this before, not that it has been demonstrated either.
    But a gameboy did and still works. :)
    [​IMG]
     
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  25. Friedrich Kugelschreiber

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    I don't know which SE model you have, but I have the 2020 one and it's pretty durable.
     
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