>>67720
what are some decent quality streaming sites that don't have a bunch of popups?

>>67715
they watch television shows. they don't watch televisions.

I am so horn that I could bone a cow.

>>67600
They're "classics" so there are literally millions of them out in the world and, this is key, no one wants them because people very rarely watch VHS tapes any more. The only people I know who watch VHS tapes are people who couldn't be bothered to replace their tapes with DVDs 10-15 years ago and film buffs who like weird, out of print movies that aren't available in any other format.

>>67679
That's actually a pretty sensible one. There are patron saints for everything.

>>67682
That's fucking cool.

>>67686
Oh man, it's a bummer you didn't buy that. There is a possibility to flip cool shit like that for a profit, especially since, as another poster pointed out, they're unavailable or out of stock virtually everywhere. I'll bet some kitschy collector would pay some decent $ for something like that.

>>67737
Firefox with Adblock Plus.

>>67682
I think he might be an attorney.

https://attorneyfee.com/attorney/profile/William-Arthur-Hustwit/358964

>>67786
The masonic diploma thing was found in Las Vegas and this attorney lives there, so it would make sense. Interesting.

Found a cheap-ass PS1 with gran turismo for basically fuck all.

I found this a few years ago and it is still one of my favorite finds. It is a french new-age book from 1983 about people going under hypnosis to see year 2000. The prophecies inside it are dead wrong.

>It is june 13 2000... I am in Quebec. How strange.. a sort of orange veil clouds the sky. It is difficult for the sun's ray to pass through this veil. The air that I breathe smells strange. The atmosphere is not like it was in the 80's. They say that a nuclear explosion which happened three years ago, 100 times more powerful than an atomic bomb, may be the cause for the strange color of the sky.

>>67803
Kindly, post more.

>I see a man, a Japanese doctor. He discovered the solution to the problem that is cancer in 1987. It is now possible to identify people who are predisposed for cancer from the moment they are born. Preventive measures are taken. The person will still get cancer, but it will be no more crippling than tuberculosis. Anyone with cancer is put under a strict diet (they may not eat carrots or chicken), but they can live nearly normal lives. The treatment of cancerous cells now uses laser rays, radiography and computers.

>In 1994, world peace was achieved. Humanity had no choice. The orange veil which clouds the sky across the world worries everyone. Humans have decided to work together to get rid of it. Humans have stopped fighting with each other because they are afraid. Heads of state want only one thing: peace. Every country is now represented in the united nations. Today, in year 2000, this organisation has a new name: "the intercontinental assembly".

>>67803
Interesting. The author of this book has a website. It looks like he still believes in time travel through hypnosis, despite the failed predictions in his book. He recently released one about year 2020.

He also believes "people of light" live inside the earth.

It's all in french, but:
http://www.aussantsolaris.com/

A stuffed doll of Dex Dogtective from the best movie ever made, Food Fight. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249516/

korean thus spoke zarathustra

>>67827
Even the merch for that awful movie is creepy and terrible.

>>67871
Is it in Engrish? "God is dead and we have kirred him."

I posted Napoleon Bonyparts here before, right?

napoleon has a bad nosepicking habit

>>68722
>>68723
That's dumb.

>>68755
You're a dumb. Think about it, I can have a literal skeleton in my closet!

He only cost me 50 bucks. Normally, skeletons like this go for 2.5k.

http://www.buyamag.com/skeleton_model.php

Not a thrift store but a pawn shop find. Got a Tenori-On for $300. Not the original magnesium one but the cheaper plastic one.

What's a tenori-on?

>>68833
In the picture it looks like its on some kind of table, or maybe a chair.

*Ba-dum-TSHH*

>>68833
It's an instrument. It has a bunch of different modes, but basically you push in the little buttons to map notes on the grid. Y is pitch, X is time, mainly, but there are other modes as well built on the grid layout. It has a sound library (many of which are quite ballza, especially run through external effects) or can be used as a MIDI sequencer for external sound sources; I've been using it to trigger a sampler. It's pretty damn fun and one of the only really fluid tools for improvisation with electronic sounds I've used.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URlZa2BxGnE

that

I found a lovely used book store today. I got five New Kids On The Block romance novels from the early 90's and this lovely masterpiece which predicted that the world would end in 2012. Would you gentlemen be interested in reading excerpts of failed prophecies?

"Upheavals in the sun's magnetic field will reverse all at once with catastrophic consequences for humanity. Massive earthquakes will destroy all buildings on the planet and instigate colossal tsunamis and intense volcanic activity. In fact, the earth's crust will shift, sweeping continents thousands of miles away from their present positions."

>>68983
Make a video of yourself playing a melody on the tenori-on! Maybe the 99chan song?

>>74121
WHAT IS IT WITH 99CHAN AND NKOTB

>>74135
Jordan Knight is a mod here.

>>74136
No I'm not.

>>67679
Most saints are the patron of multiple groups and things. St. Florian is also one of the patron saints of Austria, I believe.

>>67715
What's wrong with Red Dwarf? Catching up on it now might be ballza so you're ready for the new episodes that are supposed to get released in 2016 and 2017.

I got "The Ultimate Doom" for windows 95(I think?) for $5 at a ballzawill. Gonna install that bitch.

>>74225
I don't know about either of you, but I watched Red Dwarf a couple of years ago and I was booooored. There was nothing interesting going on, the comedy was lame and predictable, and rule of 3 is a cruel mistress (not that I only have 2 reasons). It's like watching more than a season of Always Sunny in Philly: once you know the schtick for that episode, you can basically predict the whole thing. Except Red Dwarf does it more.

And that little old guy on the Phalanx box reminds me of Flashback of the same system. That I liked.

new kids on the block had a bunch of hits
chinese food makes me sick
and i think it's fly when girls stop by
for the summer
for the summer

>>74241
LFO is a shit band. NKOTB recorded an album with the backstreet boys.

>>67679
You have to remember that back when that saint was named, fires would destroy entire cities if left unchecked, firefighting technology consisted of a few guys on a ladder quickly passing buckets of water up and down, and firefighters consisted of any nearby man who could hold a bucket. There are also a lot of patron saints for even more specific things, many of them match with the areas of protection of the various Roman-era pagan gods and demigods. It's a lot easier to get someone to follow your new religion when it's not completely alien and you can tell them "well just keep doing what you were doing except pray to St. Christopher instead of Hermes for safety while traveling okthx" .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patron_saints_of_occupations_and_activities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patron_saints_of_ailments,_illness,_and_dangers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patron_saints_of_places

>>74250
NKOTBSB performed on the Today Show last year, doing a medley of New Kids and Backstreet hits. The New Kids sounded terrible. Off-key, no harmony, bad timing.

The Backstreet Boys, on the other hand, were pitch perfect. It was like being serenaded by choir boys. Which they are, I guess. They had great energy but everything was dead on and their harmonies were super tight.

I bought a blender with no lid for $6 now I just need to steal a lid from a thrift store and I'll be set.

I also love finding random science fiction from the sixties in the book sections of second hand stores. I found an Emil Petaja novel about giant space crabs which has a surprising amount of depth for a book about giant space crabs. There's also "time-space gas."

What do you expect from "time-space tacobell"?

I thought for a second that "time-space tacobell" was the new board name, scrolled up and was disappointed. Thanks a lot jerk.

I got half of a time-space taco. The space part, at least. If it makes you feel better, I'll never get to eat giant space-murdercrabs. And I want to eat them. Just gotta be so much meat in each arm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRllv78Gax8

I'd love to learn how to fold a tesseractal burrito.

So I bought this ornamental blade for 50 bucks at ballzawill. Apparently it's an ornamental "kukri", inward carved machete-knife used by Nepalese Gurkha soldiers for all kinds of things. I'm not an expert on such things, but the whole thing appears to be handmade, the blade is engraved and doesn't show signs of machining. I can find two pictures of something kind of like it (though not exactly) on the internet, but not much more information, I have no idea how old it is. It seems to have some age to it, the only "new" part is a newer leather strap someone added onto it later (suggesting that someone had an interest in actually wearing it). The yin-yang on the scabbard also appears to have been re-glued on by someone. The handle appears to be made out of bone, and the gold bits might actually be gold, but I don't have the knowledge to test for it.

One of the interesting things about it is it's strange mix of symbolism, it has an engraving of Ganesha (hindu elephant god) on the scabbard, the yin-yangs are Chinese/Taoist, and the blade has a collection of Buddhist symbols on it.

Why someone would ever throw this away at fucking ballzawill I don't know, even if it's a bit gaudy it's quite the conversation piece. Maybe an autistic knife expert can tell me something about it on here but otherwise I plan on taking it to some knife expert near me to try and get some more info on it.

Some close-ups. The engravings on the blade are of (from left to right), a fish, a parasol, a conch shell, the endless knot, and a lotus flower (you can see it better in the first pic). All of them apparently Tibetan Buddhist symbols.

The grip. There's the obvious yin-yang, but also another engraving of an elephant's head (Ganesha).

The other side of the blade. A rather cool engraving a dragon along with two fish.

The top of the scabbard. Hand-engraved "Nepal" written on it along with the flag and that funny little hat they wear sometimes. There's big button at the top is Ganesha, the smaller buttons are Gurkha symbols of two crossed Kukri with a hat.

>>75834
I know nothing about knives, but I just want to drop by and say that you have made a hellza neat find. I am jelly. Most Nepali Kukuris I can find online are significantly less ornate than the one you found.

>>One of the interesting things about it is it's strange mix of symbolism, it has an engraving of Ganesha (hindu elephant god) on the scabbard, the yin-yangs are Chinese/Taoist, and the blade has a collection of Buddhist symbols on it.

That's Nepal for ya. In that country Asian religions blend together in a unique way, it's rather interesting. Most people there believe in a local mixture of Buddhism and Hinduism.

>>75834
Post about it in a forum for knife fans. Surely someone there would be able to tell you more about it. We want to know its meaning and history, too!

>>75851
I'm mostly interested in the age of it, that would say a ballza bit by itself. There's one self-proclaimed knife-expert but he lives in a backwater, so I'll have to go this weekend or later. If nothing else he might be able to give a date range on it and assess the quality of the steel. The goldish bits are most likely brass, as there's some tarnishment and discoloration on a part of it, but it is quite thin.

Another interesting factoid about the Kukri is the notch at the base of the blade, there's a variety of different reasons given for this. It acts as something to stop blood/liquid/sap from getting onto the handle, but it's also shaped like a cow's hoof (or teat according to some), or the Om symbol. Other sources suggest that it's the vagina of the blade, meant to mind remind warriors not to kill women/children (as well as cows).

>>75854
I'd be interested in what you learn from it, if you wouldn't mind. Heck, I've already learned a bit. I never noticed the cow hoof shape and never knew the vagina angle.

I learned that knives are sharp. Mommy said no no to the knives no no. Mommy spanks me when I am bad.