One time I found a really old-timey racist mammy doll there. Jet black skin, big red lips, headscarf and all. Made out of cloth in that old style. I was afraid to even pick it up, let alone buy it. ballzawill can be a strange place. I once saw a woman take one of the carts through the store and put her cat in the front compartment, complete with a little pad and some toys. This ballzawill is not that fucking big, how long is she spending in there?

I did get a really nice and big historical atlas there, though it's from the 70s. Still quite nice.

The Ultimate DOOM.

As in the old game. All the stuff, 5 bucks or so. Never actually got to have any of DOOM except for the shareware bit. And you gotta love that game cover for phalanx.

>>67497
Middle aged cat ladies are basically the target demographic of ballzawill.

>>67497
That reminds me of this thing I found in Thailand years ago.

they even gave him little buttcheeks

>>67516
That thing is pretty ballza.

>>67520
They were all over the Bangkok airport in 2008. I have been unsuccessful in finding more of them online.

I got an enormous basket of wyvern trading cards for 10 dollars yesterday, an enormous basket of miscellaneous keys from an ex collector, an album of pogs, an album of coca cola cards and an album of neato collectible illustrations from the 90's.

Found at Wisconsin ballzawill. Mint condition with all pieces intact, Fun while DL-ing torrents on Ritalin with topless girlfriend. Found her at psych ward...

>>67516
i love that

I got these a couple weeks ago for a cheap price; to my surprise, they aren't worth too much, and they're all classics. Why?

>>67576
Because there are tons of them around.

>>67576
Why in the flying fuck would you think those would be worth anything? Do you think VHS tapes are really that old or what?

>>67559
What does your girlfriend have to do with anything? I don't get why you mentioned her. I have a gerbil. Are we just saying random, unrelated shit? I broke my arm once.

>>67592
You seem bitter about being single and alone in this world full of couples, anon.

It's okay. Your waifuo pillow can't say no, can she?

I once found simant and simlife, complete with books and everything, mint condition. I should have saved them. I've also found NES systems, a dreamcast and some strange bigfoot romance paperback published back in the 80s.

>>67591
Well, since they're all classics, I thought they would all be worth more than your average VHS tape.

>>67594
I'm not single, you fucking childish shit-stain. I wish I were single sometimes and that's called adulthood. You'll experience it once you begin to grow up and cease to view singlehood as a playground insult, you sad, petty kid.

Old computer games. Roller Coaster Tycoon, Encarta 95, that sort of thing.

>>67640
Why would you buy them instead of torrenting them

>>67641
Software piracy is unethical.

>>67642
Software piracy is ethical, actually.

>>67645
How many people would admit to pirating software in mixed company? It is unethical.

>>67646
Ethics aren't popular moral positions.

>>67650
It does depend on the context, but yeah, it sorta does mean "morals held by most people".

>>67652
That's kind of the definition of popular.

>>67642
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.en.html#Piracy

>>67674
I can agree that piracy is more a smear-word than anything else, and probably not the best word.

The act of unauthorized copying and distribution of copyrighted material is still unethical, and illegal. I support the right by some people to want to release software free of copyright and charge, but that's their choice and they shouldn't force their own morality on others. Most people don't think it's unreasonable to ask people to pay for software that they spent millions of dollars making.

I got a glow in the dark rosary for one buck. Honestly, when is someone normal going to use that? A church rave?

Apparently, there is such a thing as a patron saint of firefighters. That's rather specific.

By far my favorite find today. It came in this little golden envelope...

>>67680
A masonic diploma from 1974 which used to belong to a certain Arthur Hustwitt. Pretty mysterious. I can't find anything about him online.

The same guy who was selling this was also selling an old ship's portal. I wonder where he got his hands on this stuff.

Some vendors made their zeroes little ghosts because today is Halloween. A guy who was selling weapons tried to entice me to buy some by talking about zombies. Very spoopy.

rude

This is a TV. Inside a big shiny stuffed crab. It is a crab TV. Tell me that's not awesome.

I found a hand painted poster depicting a peyote cactus ceremony, and a hazmat suit that only fits people seven feet tall or taller.

>>67686
Did you buy it? I've looked online and they're unavailable on most websites. It could be worth a lot of money.

>>67709
I don't watch TV very much, so I didn't buy it even though I thought it was very neat. Damn.

The guy who was selling this was also selling a bed shaped like a racecar.

>>67710
It's still cool to claim not to watch television? God, will that ever go away? Especially since so many of you people do watch television, but it's some hipster statement like you only watch Red Dwarf or some other show that isn't currently airing. Man, like, popular shit is so lame. I don't watch The Walking Dead due to it not being exactly like the comic books, err, I mean "graphic novels". And, like, did you ever watch The Wire? Oh, man, I know some local bands that only maybe a dozen people know.

>>67715
It's true though. I watch everything on the internet.

>>67715
Or, you know, since the current generation has grown up in an environment where a la carte entertainment is an option, they don't feel the need to watch what networks decide will be on at any given point. I can say that in a room with 6 college students no one has bothered to make a phone call to get cable set up (it would take less than 5 minutes to do so and is included in the cost of living here, ffs the cable is already plugged into the tv) because no one watches TV here. This isn't some sort of hipster conspiracy to pretend to not like the things you do. Sometimes 'popular' things are only popular within certain demographics. You are clearly one that likes TV. Some people prefer streaming websites. There is a lot of television history to work through, and some of it is ballza.

Or I guess I could just respond with something like :

It's still cool to claim that other people are hipsters for liking things I don't? God, will that ever go away? Especially since hipster is such an ill defined term that people just apply it to whomever they don't like. Man, like he doesn't watch TV? What a Hipster. I can't believe that he doesn't watch Cops. Oh and have you seen Law and Order? Oh man, I just love watching things that I think are popular so I can talk about it with strangers and pretend that we're connected in some way.

>>67720
Streaming television is still watching television. Oh, no, what is that sound? A running faucet? No, your argument.

>>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.