When I was young and my Mom took my brother and me out and we started acting up, all she had to say to us was, "wait till I get you home". We were angels after hearing that.

Good luck with the guitar, great hobby, just gotta practice!

That’s the daily struggle, I need to go out and try to be sociable. Relocated here about 5 years ago. Covid lock downs turned me into a bit of a shut in. All my good friends are still 1000 miles away.

Are there any pinball tournaments going on locally? Perfect place for meeting like minded and have a few beers.

I took up lawn bowls and got 40 new friends overnight. Plus it's a fucking great game!

I went to buy shaving cream yesterday, only to find that it no longer exists at my supermarket.

Confess i missed the move from shaving cream to shaving gel.

I know a can lasts a long time, but ffs.

I do it old school. It’s how my dad taught me, his dad taught him, etc. Plus it’s way cheaper with a better shave!

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We sound alike.

What she needs you there for? Just give her the credit card.

Are you taking applications? I could move to Australia.

Yeah while never having used a straight razor, i do have a $60 boar bristle brush.

Just don't use it since i moved here.
I even bought an electric 2 years ago, first i've owned and I use it occasionally for a quick, dirty shave.

I don't mind people bringing dogs in the big box home improvement stores as long as it's an appropriate dog. Last time this dude had a German shepherd with the leash wrapped around his waste. He had no real control and that dog would go up to people and one lady had to snatch her dog out the way. People just need to have a brain.

She did because I eased the pain before I would go.
Did score these cool kicks though

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Exactly. I don’t mind dogs. Bad owners are the ones that suck

Nice, it's how i like to roll too.

Comp day here today, but these are my daily runners.

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Bit of good ol US country.

Confess I tried this for a year, seemed like a little too much work for not much benefit. Still have all the stuff though, just in case I want to try it again.
I use a gel now and like it, but made a mistake last time I needed a refile and thought I would save some $$ getting the Walmart equate brand instead of a name brand gel (two pack no less). This stuff sucks, noticeable different than the name brands. I refuse to throw away it away though, but I am almost done with the second can, then back to something good...

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I rarely shave clean but this stuff seems to work pretty good. When I bick my head it's smooth with no burn

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I normally just use water but now I’m paying the price. Might check that one out.

On the topic of animals...the hardware store that I work in allows dogs if they're well behaved. Luckily the worst I've seen in my time there are some really yappy little dogs, and every now and then you get a dog peeing on the floor as well (my queue to go on break).

We also have two cats at the hardware store, Midnight and Petey, and they stay in their enclosure in the break room during store hours, but get free roam of the store during the night to kill the rats.

I confess I generally don't really like small dogs, mainly because the majority of them yap a lot. And I detest yapping dogs. For me it's worse than hearing a normal bark. However, I have also met some small dogs that I really do like, because they don't yap.

I used to have a friend who had a little white poodle, and she was the most detestable little shit. She yapped like crazy, was treated like a queen, and would occasionally bite me when she felt like it. My friends mom really liked that dog, for what reason I can't imagine, and I think she was more or less the only one that did.

Maybe the dog was too much like the mom.

Same here - safety razor though, never tried a straight rszor, but I get 100 Shark blades for $6.99, can't bitch about that. I probably have half a dozen different soaps/creams depending on how I wanna smell that day. Latest favorite is tobacco.

Always on the same page Punkin! Why did sweets (your snake) bite you?

I’ll have to check out the tobacco! I order from a few places online for different things. Sweyn forkbeard is really my favorite for soap and they send a few tester soaps with each order!

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His name is snake as he was the first one i got and didn't need to tell him apart. Sides, don't matter what you call em, they won't come.

The strike was a reaction to being startled. They don't have eyelids, so unless they have their head stuck under their arse (they sometimes do), you can't tell if they are asleep or off daydreaming when you go to pick them up.

That and the 24hrs after feeding are the times that you can be struck.

I could (and should) avoid it by using a hook to rub their back to let them know i'm there before picking them up. They never strike after being out for a few seconds.

I confess I have probably been bit more by dogs than you have by snakes. And the funny thing is just like you are saying snakes bite if you wake them up, most of the dog bites I ever had were from waking them up also.

I’ve only been bit once and walked by a dog on the sofa.

Now I’ve had dog teeth sunken into me countless times while playing with them but it never hurts.

Mostly I order from a place about an hour from my house now, I'll go there once a year or so and grab a few different things. It's nice being able to smell them before you buy. They make brushes and blades and refurbish old razors and straight razors. Friendly people, good prices. One day I'll have to get an actual shave there, never done that before. I can remember going to the barber shop w my dad and him getting a shave, the barber sharpening the blade on the leather strap.

www.maggardrazors.com

I've been using a milk crate for a washing basket for 5 years.

No one here to tell me not to.

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Like AL Leiter for the Jays. Now I get it.

Maybe that's where the saying "let sleeping dogs lie " came from.

There was a place in Summerset mall that had some nice stuff. I haven’t been to the states in a little while! I’ll check the website thank you!

I confess, that I have Jury Duty tomorrow. But I always remember the one thread from years ago when I thought about it this week.

There's a new bowls tourney starting this week and going for two months.
Called 'King of the Mountain', it's a challenged based system of individual games where you can challenge anyone up to three places ahead of you for their spot on the board. Game played at agreed time with an agreed scorer within 5 days of the challenge.

Quite looking forward to it, i've been given a handicap of 8 from a possible 10 shot advantage, but i still don't think it will be enough to beat most players.

Will be $10 worth of fun though!

That sounds awesome. When you say bowls, is that like bocce ball?

sorta, but not really

lawn bowls, outdoor game in which a ball (known as a bowl) is rolled toward a smaller stationary ball, called a jack. The object is to roll one's bowls so that they come to rest nearer to the jack than those of an opponent; this is sometimes achieved by knocking aside an opponent's bowl or the jack.

Confess. When I hear bowls I think of this.

When punkin mentioned bowl competition I pictured a bunch of guys smoking weed and playing pinball

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Ok I just looked it up. Seems like lawn bowling uses a somewhat squashed ball rather than a round one like bocce. Looks like fun and I love the running tournament idea!

Around here we get a lot of corn hole (aka bean bag toss), ladder ball, and washers (a.k.a. Sewer hole if you are a New Englander), and pickle ball is also taking off a lot recently.

Probably the closest sport would be curling.

But the bowl (not ball) is built with a bias so it rolls in a slow curve with a hook at the end. You can get different model bowls with different curve and hooks as the bias is built in differently.

It's usually a team game, although the comp i mentioned is singles. Yesterday we played triples, where each of 3 players per team rolled 3 bowls each.

It's a game of angles and muscle memory, like snooker.

Work has been slow. I have only worked 1 shift in the last 8 days, and it’s been glorious!

Sounds even more fun if I was doing brownies..

I have to keep the brownies separate. I fall to bits trying to play when I'm stoned.

Does me good to have a late start once or twice a week anyway and beer is encouraged.

As I get older, I stay away from brownies/shrooms. Just don’t like the way I feel the next day. But always enjoy a few tokes when playing golf, w a few beers too. I play to have fun, not competitive by any means-but like having a lower score then my partners

I have about 1 in 5 people that i share with that say the same thing. It leaves them having difficulty functioning next day.

The answer, of course, is to build a tolerance. But some people are just fine and happy without them.

The wednesday comp i played in yesterday is a basic social comp. There's bowls from 9am till 1pm, with drinking in between ends. All somewhat competitive as we are trying to win, but like my pinball comps, the object is to compete and play well, do a bit of sledging, not to win.

Then it's into the club where there are lucky number raffles and most of the $8 it costs to play is divvied up among a couple of lucky numbers, some meat trays etc for an hour or so and it's over. No talk about scores or any record keeping.

Confess I go without food for 48 hours or more at least once a week.

It's not on purpose, i just get to stage of an evening where I'm drinking and not feeling like eating, and i rarely eat in the daytime.

No munchies then?

Don't really get hungry. Sometimes i'll have some chicken chips during the day or some pretzel sticks.