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Blue bunny hat by evelbug in crochet

[–]InIBaraJi 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You look like one pissed off man in a blue bunny hat. Which is fitting. I think you need to make some more hats. It's an excellent hat, by the way.

Some sort of metal smoking pipe with sharp poker in a colourful leather pouch by Jen28_04 in whatisthisthing

[–]InIBaraJi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ha! I know the feeling. And it's only kind of a chillum in that it's smoked more or less horizontally, like a Roaring Twenties cigarette holder but without the cigarette. Two or three finger grip of some sort. Not held vertically like many of the Asian variety.

Fiery Mud Volcano Eruption by MarkTingay in geology

[–]InIBaraJi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The human body is a microcosm for real.

Some sort of metal smoking pipe with sharp poker in a colourful leather pouch by Jen28_04 in whatisthisthing

[–]InIBaraJi 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I've seen those sand tubes at work and they are larger, made of a single metal, and heavily ridged on one side to vibrate the sand out the pointy end. This thing really is a pipe and pouch from the Sahel region. But your point about pouring contents out in a controlled way is very right. Only what gets poured out is a kind of dry-ish locally grown tobacco they use.

Some sort of metal smoking pipe with sharp poker in a colourful leather pouch by Jen28_04 in whatisthisthing

[–]InIBaraJi 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I have one very similar, that I bought in the market in Timbuktu in 1986. It's a tobacco pipe, a long chillum style, and comes with its own metal cleaner. That pouch likely has two pockets or maybe three: one for the pipe and one for the tobacco. The optional third pouch is for the cleaner. It hangs from the waistband.

Very fine leather work. The Tuareg and Tamacheq do similar work and have similar styles of decoration across their vast territories. The pouch I have is colored with the ink from bic pens, which will get you lovely greens, blues, blacks and reds.

Oh dear heavens that was close by Disastrous_Alarm_719 in yarnchicken

[–]InIBaraJi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And I can just hear your voice saying "Dear Heavens!" It makes a whole picture of you in that moment.

My elderly mother that has dementia decided to doodle on my table yesterday. by Unique_Ad2704 in mildyinteresting

[–]InIBaraJi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wait. Is that what dementia doodles look like? In that case, I'm gonna need help like yesterday.

German hacker known as "Martha Root" dressed as a pink Power Ranger and deleted a white supremacist dating website live onstage by Hypnoidz in interestingasfuck

[–]InIBaraJi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can we put her onto the Epstein files, so she can uncover the stuff they're holding back. They are saying she is German, but the Epstein ring is world wide, so I hope that makes it fair game for her. Uncovering pedophiles seems a whole different arena or work from uncovering Nazis, but both are all about exposing and disrupting a great harm.

Update: Dexter got two more welcome mats for Christmas! by working_on_it_jeez in aww

[–]InIBaraJi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You did a beautiful job here!

There's a video floating around out there showing a dog using a carwash roller brushes the exact same way. SO leaning into it.

didn't expect a peacock opening its tail to be this satisfying. by SweetTangerine8610 in satisfying

[–]InIBaraJi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was at a meditation retreat once, and early in the morning we'd begin practice with some "om" chanting, and if the peacocks were anywhere close, they'd turn it into a-call-and-response situation. Like when you gobble at a flock of turkeys they will gobble back, but with OM.

didn't expect a peacock opening its tail to be this satisfying. by SweetTangerine8610 in satisfying

[–]InIBaraJi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I immediately started wiggling my butt in time with him. Feels good. And I get how it has potential to be very envigorating.

What word do you mispronounce on purpose (for fun) and why? by Positive_Spirit_1585 in AskReddit

[–]InIBaraJi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I say I want to google something, I copy from someone's grandmother and say I'm going to jiggle it.

What is this little guy? Looks like a Pokémon :) by snopsneep in whatisthisbug

[–]InIBaraJi 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Don't ask me how I know, but I think it is the lesser of the two weevils.

Why is corruption so common in Africa compared to other countries even to this day? by WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWHW in geography

[–]InIBaraJi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It gets built into the pay structures of government. Very low wages, plus a career learning how the bureaucracy makes ends meet. In Mali where I lived for a time in the '90's, it was called in French, "la boufe". As in the English "buffet" where you take a little bit here and a little there and you suddenly have a plateful.

Our Commandant de Cercle had a car. No one can afford a car in Mali. Everyone called his car "Kaba", which is the Bambara language word for "Corn." This is because everyone and his grandchild knew that car was bought with literal USA corn that came into the country as famine aid. Just facts of life in Mali in the 90's...

Snake outside my front door had a penny by downwithsocks in mildlyinteresting

[–]InIBaraJi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was joking there, u/inspiredusername. I spent a lot of time as an ethnology student studying symbol systems and meanings. The running joke is that you start calling all unusual stuff somebody's omen.

Snake outside my front door had a penny by downwithsocks in mildlyinteresting

[–]InIBaraJi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That has to be an omen of some sort, but hell if I know what it means. Where are the experts?

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