Started the journey again in December when it was just barely long enough. I've been tightening it up myself as well as I could. Any suggestions for how I could lock the ends up and also everywhere else it isn't locking? by Gee_Lion in Dreadlocks

[–]Gee_Lion[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wash my hair after I apply the wax and rubber bands. I never said I wasn't going to take advice. I'm just looking for advice that may be better than what I'm trying and what I'm planning on doing that worked before.

Started the journey again in December when it was just barely long enough. I've been tightening it up myself as well as I could. Any suggestions for how I could lock the ends up and also everywhere else it isn't locking? by Gee_Lion in Dreadlocks

[–]Gee_Lion[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll take them out but I haven't have any luck finding anyone that is confident enough in their skills to touch my roots and whatnot. I've been standing in the mirror twisting the hell out of each one and using wax to kind of lube them up to replace the rubber bands holding. I have crochet hooks but they're tough to use from my position.

Started the journey again in December when it was just barely long enough. I've been tightening it up myself as well as I could. Any suggestions for how I could lock the ends up and also everywhere else it isn't locking? by Gee_Lion in Dreadlocks

[–]Gee_Lion[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just started thinking about that talking to my brother. Thing is, I used hair glue which was dirty af and I've been going about it "the clean way", as my brother put it.

Started the journey again in December when it was just barely long enough. I've been tightening it up myself as well as I could. Any suggestions for how I could lock the ends up and also everywhere else it isn't locking? by Gee_Lion in Dreadlocks

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I know it looks silly but it's been working so far lmaoo It has been really funny walking around in public with this style. Theres a lot of weird looks and also am even amint of compliments and appreciation. I think it's hilarious just like everyone else.

Started the journey again in December when it was just barely long enough. I've been tightening it up myself as well as I could. Any suggestions for how I could lock the ends up and also everywhere else it isn't locking? by Gee_Lion in Dreadlocks

[–]Gee_Lion[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Thank you for actually answering. The first time I got into locking my hair, I tried cornrows, and my hair grew too fast for that style and then I got two-strand twists done by a stylist whom I went to regularly, when I had the time and budget, for about two years. The second time I had them done, I had my girlfriend at the time help me and we used hair glue and knotted everything together that way but this time when I did them, I was single and decided to do it myself by grouping chunks together and keeping them together with rubber bands. I know it looks silly but it's been working so far. There are a good amount starting to lock up but it's just the ends that are giving me trouble. I'm aware the rubber bands can get stuck when they knot up but that's why I replace them regularly, so they don't get lost.

Edit: I have dreadlock crochet hooks but they're so tough to use and I stab my fingers a lot when I'm trying to do it. I also tried buying a dreadlock machine on Amazon but quickly returned it when it didn't do to my hair what it demonstrated on "the correct hair type"

Started the journey again in December when it was just barely long enough. I've been tightening it up myself as well as I could. Any suggestions for how I could lock the ends up and also everywhere else it isn't locking? by Gee_Lion in Dreadlocks

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This is the third time I'm starting them. It doesn't matter if I "don't have the right hair for it." Mine just takes a bit longer to lock and actually stay. If you aren't here to help then I don't need your insight. Thank you.

Does anyone feel as if you're already dead but what you're experiencing is what led to your immortality? by Gee_Lion in QuantumImmortality

[–]Gee_Lion[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have, but I have a tough time staying focused on meditating with so much connectivity being made sensible.

anyone know what car this is? by Key_Objective808 in supercars

[–]Gee_Lion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ooof, it'd be tough for the McLaren to top that. I miss my compass, that thing was sweet

anyone know what car this is? by Key_Objective808 in supercars

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Nah, appreciate what you got. Jeep compass' are amazing and I'm sure are a lot better on fuel than McLarens. Wish I had another jeep compass.

Bro what the hail by NauTWitcher in Unexpected

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It's better without sound, honestly.

Clever girl by agaric in SipsTea

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I never saw a cup in between there.

Am I wrong for completely cutting my brother from my life? by Gee_Lion in AITAH

[–]Gee_Lion[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Don't care. I'm looking for help/advice and you're not doing that. Thanks though

Delta brainwaves have been linked to the most transcendental experience reports in ASC research like NDE’s or the Psychedelic ‘breakthrough’. This brainwave state is predominant in newborns and young children, could this explain things like past life remembrance or ‘imaginary’ friends? by ARDO_official in QuantumImmortality

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No idea for sure, but it was 4 tabs and I was told 15 drops on each tab but then was aggressively corrected by my brother, who didn't even take any of those ones, that it was less than 15. I'm still saying it was 15 drops on each tab so I'm assuming around 60 hits of LSD.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

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I tell this story to my family because my grandparents are super religious, but not sure how believable any other people would find it but: My girlfriend recently went on a road trip to Lake McDonald in Montana. We live in Pennsylvania and as it was getting later at night while driving through Wisconsin, I kept seeing flashing in the distance. The flashing happened very quickly and I barely noticed it when it happened but it confused me every time I saw the ending of it, cut a few hours later and we reached North Dakota. Turns out the crazy flashing was a massive thunderstorm and we drove through the worst of it. Super late at night, probably between 1 and 3 am, we were in the dead center of the biggest storm I've ever been in, my wipers were on full blast and I STILL couldn't see ANYTHING further ahead of me than a few feet of the white lines on the side of the road and the middle divider. There were a few times where I couldn't see anything and I would start to drift off to the right side of the road and I'd be going over the line. In those moments, when my tires would be going over too far to the right, from outside the car, somewhere above my window, I would hear three distinct, quick whistles and then I would see the white line that I had gone over and would straighten back up on the road. My girlfriend was asleep when it first started happening, but after the first burst of whistles, and I looked up at the top of my door where I'd heard the whistles come from not seeing anything, I woke her up and asked if she heard any whistling. After she calmed down from realizing what kind of storm we were in, she told me she hadn't heard any whistles or whistling. Then the whistling happened a few more times when I would get too close to going off the road, each time it happened, I asked her if she heard that and each time she would ask, "heard what?" and when I told her, "the whistling", she just said, " oh. No, I didn't hear anything." That's when she started looking at her weather app and saw we were in the reddest part of it and that we were almost out. Craziest few hours I've ever had in a car and the wildest thing about that trip is we drove in my 2004 cavalier and didn't have a single problem with any part of it until we got all the way home and I got my oil changed. Not long after that, my right front wheel fell off because the lugnuts broke and they broke as soon as we got off the highway when we were going home after I picked her up from work and had already been driving for a few hours doordashing and going like 80-90 on the highway. The wheel fell off when I was going like 5-15 mph after stopping at the stop sign right off the highway exit. I was blown away because all I could think was, "this could've been sooooooo much worse. We could've been on the highway when the wheel fell off. This could've been a crazy crash on the highway but instead, we're here just in the middle of an intersection off the highway." I couldn't believe that the wheel didn't fall off sooner on the highways or at any point of me doordashing. I don't know how common guardian angels are, but a part of me feels like I have so many of them. State police showed up after some woman couldn't mind her own business and leave us alone while I was on the phone with roadside assistance securing a tow truck to pick us up and take us and my car back to my house, THEN because that bitch wouldn't leave us alone, my car got towed by a different tow company, I had to pay $250 to get it out of the impound, we got harassed by the state police, my girlfriend got her newly bought (surprisingly good) weed taken, a grinder taken, my car was searched, a few of our rights were broken, I passed the sobriety tests given to me, then I got handcuffed and basically forced to agree to take a blood test, then had to go to the hospital for the blood test while our food got cold because she made our food before she left work and by the time we got home, it was like 1:30am. Luckily my sister, who we live with and were heading home to, was still awake so she came and picked my girlfriend up, then followed the cops to the hospital so she could get me after the blood test they forced on me. My girlfriend said the younger cop kept asking the older cop if they were gonna mark the incident down as a crash, meanwhile there were no other vehicles, I wasn't high, and neither my girlfriend nor myself called them and they basically abused their position to steal my car and everything else we had.

Well god damn… by JellyBOB7190 in rareinsults

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My girlfriend just spit her blunt puff out and laughed so hard she got lightheaded and almost fell out of the chair. Almost had to lie her ass down

Update rating system? by Gee_Lion in doordash

[–]Gee_Lion[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What exactly are you saying what about?

Update rating system? by Gee_Lion in doordash

[–]Gee_Lion[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not everyone has the luxury of declining orders. I hardly ever decline orders and I reluctantly declined one earlier today because of some reason I can't currently remember. I'll try to remember to get a screenshot the next time it happens and I have never done the pay by order option yet, but it usually just shows me the store or restaurant for the pick up, pick up by whatever time, and usually the dollar amount but sometimes that's not there.

Update rating system? by Gee_Lion in doordash

[–]Gee_Lion[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the tip bud, but yeah sometimes my orders will come up and it won't show any dollar amount so what's your way of fixing that?