There was a story years ago about a kid who punched 5318008 on his calculator in class and got expelled after the teacher saw it in reverse walking down the aisle, got her pants in a knot and reported the kid.
You gotta admit, she is impressively efficient with those implements at the end of her fingers.
Iâll never understand super-long nails - especially gluing them on on purpose. It looks like a self-inflicted disability to me.
Iâm more worried about people with a willful deficiency of the brain than intentional deficiency of dexterity.
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It is, and I really avoid them - but there are other self-inflicted disabilities I like a lot, for example high heels. No, theyâre not practical at all. I canât run with them, I deeply hate cobblestones, grass or drain covers, and I risk hurting myself if I do stupid stuff while wearing them.
But theyâre beautiful, and I just like them. Same with corsets⊠or even jewelry, sometimes.
So I guess some / many people are willing to get a few disabilities if it fits their personal view of beauty 
You hurt your feet just wearing them. But I agreeâŠ
Still, as much as I like tasteful high-heels on the right woman for them, I like barefooted women better. Theyâre even rarer than us barefoot men thoughâŠ
Oh, there is quite a community for that! Youâre definitely not alone with that taste
I know I do, thatâs why I wear them rarely⊠in our house, I walk barefooted or just with socks, and at work I wear my dear leguano barfoot-shoes. Thatâs really great for my feet, and so they donât kill me if I decide to wear my high heels for a night or so
The last time I wore âniceâ shoes for the sake of wearing nice shoes and comfort be damned was a pair of black Italian pointy things i bought for my Dadâs funeral. It hurt more than hiking 20 miles with army boots and a backpack full of stones, which was actually quite fitting for a funeral.
I took the shoes off on my way out of the cemetary and gave them to a beggar who was sitting at the gate, and told him he could probably pawn them for cecil or two. They were brand new and really expensive.
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Yeah, thatâs those one-occasion-clothes⊠itâs so stupid, but sometimes you just âhaveâ to get them. And you made someone happy with the shoes, in the end
I decided to give the dress I had to buy for my friendâs wedding to a nice little secondhand shop - I wore it once, and I know Iâll never wear it again⊠I mean, itâs pastel pink⊠
You should have rented the dress.
Iâm sorry that I watched that, I could literally feel my braincells dying.
âThere is something I donât understand in my bra, it must be for sex trafficking. And look, it doesnât burn.â
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Agreed. In fact this is why I donât like AR-15s or variants. Too swiss army knife.
Thought about them. Just donât know if they can wrap their head around the idea that I DONâT want extra bells and whistles. Just a touch longer.
I donât know if anybody saw this. This isnât new by any means, and it isnât an implant, but it is about DIY human augmentation (sort of). And Ben Krasnow being Ben Krasnow, it is a cold reality check on whatâs truly achievable by a hacker with a decent workshop. In any case, as always with him, quite interesting:
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I was just explaining the pre-decimal nightmare system to my girlfriend last night she was horrified.
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Itâs all subjective. It depends on what youâre used to. She knows how to tell the time donât she? Everybody on Earth is perfectly comfortable using a weird mix of decimal, sexagesimal and duodecimal systems to tell the time and nobody is particularly horrified by it. Yet itâs really no easier to use than the Lsd system if you think about it.
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Eh, i totally disagree. I think for money the fairly standard decimal system just makes more sense. Having foreigners ask what the hell a Ten Bob Note is must get exhausting.
Wouldnât decimal time make more sense too?
Strangely Antiquarian booksellers were still pricing books in Guineas (ÂŁ1.05) in the 1990âs. (I donât know if theyâve stopped)
Until they produced new 5p and 10p coin designs in the 90âs the old ones were interchangable with shilling and florin coins and you would still get them in circulation from time to time.
Iâm surprised Ben didnât attempt at all to tune the coils to each other⊠but whatever, it worked.
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