Things you recently bought or got

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  1. Some Guy

    Some Guy Manguage Langler Supporter Contributor

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    Odered it in a gun shop, waited two weeks, got it home - no fitee. I might put another hole in the rail. I don't want to mess with the barrel. Probaly need to get calipers, though.
     
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  2. Homer Potvin

    Homer Potvin A tombstone hand and a graveyard mind Staff Supporter Contributor

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    You got high ceilings, I'm assuming?
     
  3. Catrin Lewis

    Catrin Lewis Contributor Contributor Community Volunteer Contest Winner 2023

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    20200707_212610_copy_1836x2448.jpg I have acquired a new cat. He was a neglected stray, is very sweet, and his new name is Rhys.
     
  4. Glen Barrington

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    That's weird, I'm stuck in Illinois as well.
     
  5. GraceLikePain

    GraceLikePain Senior Member

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    Uh, exercise trampolines don't actually go that high. Only a bit higher than jumping from the floor.
     
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    You'se a funny guy, a wise guy!
     
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  7. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    Gorgeous!
     
  8. Friedrich Kugelschreiber

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    I guess that would depend on the tensile strength of the springs and the hamstrings of the jumper.
     
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  9. GraceLikePain

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    I guess, but I've used them before and you're not really in danger of hitting a normal ceiling. Unless the ceiling fan is in the way.

    Also, your cat is very pretty, Catrin!
     
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  10. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    Also local gravity and the height of the jumper.
     
  11. Glen Barrington

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    You got to jump a LOT harder to get any "air". Backflips are close to impossible with those things. But it IS good exercise.
     
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    Soylent Green DVD... thanks to the 'best way to die' discussion in the Random Thought thread.
     
  13. Iain Aschendale

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    A honing steel for my good knife.
     
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    Bought a new laptop that arrived yesterday. Spent yesterday mostly getting it set up. Started using it properly today, and had my most productive day in a very long time. 3k written in a day!
     
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    Me, too, and the main thing I've figured out so far is that I hate Windows 10 with the white-hot heat of a thousand suns.
     
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    I know! Infuriating, right?! I got windows 10 forced on me a some time ago, but I still remember how nothing worked the way I wanted it too. It is as as my brother (who got Windows 10 before I did) told me: Forget everything you know about Windows, chances are they have changed it. He was right, unfortunately.
     
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    I just remember having Window 7, heading to the smallest room in the apartment for a quick weight loss program, and returning five minutes later to discover I was being nonconsensually "uprgraded."

    I have occasional fantasies of doing the same to Mr. Gates and his minions, but I'd like to emphasize that I'm not a danger to myself or others




    :)
     
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    I believe that is the same sentiment people had about 8.
     
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    Does the root canal I just sat through count? How ‘bout the antibiotics I’m waiting on?
     
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    Cave Troll It's Coffee O'clock everywhere. Contributor

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    Ooh, ouchies. :friend:
     
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    which isnt much of a surprise since 10 is 8 with most of the bugs fixed (just like 7 was a fixed vista)
     
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    Why?
     
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    I remember Windows Vista (at the end, after the bazillion upgrades) / Windows 7 era being the best.

    Least amount of bloatware. They weren't trying to nickel and dime you (my mum is livid over the things they did to Solitaire in Win 10, hehe). And it was the least amount of windows to get through to what you want, not to mention everything under the hood was more readily accessible.

    Windows 10 feels like an app that doesn't want me to go near the more technical stuff to customize it to how I want, for fear of me being a Mobile App muppet that might switch something off that he didn't intend to. Getting below the surface now takes more than twice the amount of clicks that it used to, and tries its best to say "You don't want to go that way" at every turn as if I'm an imbecile.

    Just the other week, that Microsoft Edge update? It physically would not let me access windows without clicking through the "take a look" or whatever that button was. FORCING me to look at stuff? That's microtransaction freemium App levels of audacity, Microsoft. If you want me to use Edge then make it better than the alternatives, don't force me to look at it like Malcolm McDowell with eye clamps.
     
  24. Some Guy

    Some Guy Manguage Langler Supporter Contributor

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    :superlaugh::superlaugh::superlaugh:
     
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    I just impulse-bought a collapsible pool for my dog. And also for me. But it's for my dog. (And me.)
     

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