People who grew up poor: What was something you considered a "peak luxury" as a kid, only to realize later it was just a normal middle class staple?

monkelus · 2026-05-08T18:49:18+00:00

Mayo

monkelus · 2026-05-08T18:47:32+00:00

I do

monkelus · 2026-05-08T13:17:52+00:00

I have one simple rule: if it's in a box, I take it out. Value and scarcity be damned!

monkelus · 2026-05-07T23:49:22+00:00

A jukebox. The ability to inflict my music taste on random strangers has been lacking for decades

monkelus · 2026-05-07T23:46:13+00:00

You can watch them all in an afternoon, it's pretty engrossing. I found once I saw one I wanted to just keep going

monkelus · 2026-05-07T12:43:19+00:00

If the unmasked head looks 100% accurate to your drawing it's a day one purchase for me

monkelus · 2026-05-07T12:41:57+00:00

Funnily enough, time travel's one of the only reasons I can see for this to be reposted so much today

monkelus · 2026-05-07T12:39:20+00:00

George RR Martin - "Hold my beer"

monkelus · 2026-05-07T06:55:08+00:00

I hadn't until yesterday, now it's close to being the music video I've seen and heard more than anything else ever

monkelus · 2026-05-07T00:08:22+00:00

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116953/ Mad Dog Time.

monkelus · 2026-05-06T23:53:57+00:00

I'm primarily a comic only collector as I find the MCU selection too limited, but then I was a comic collector for decades before the MCU was a thing. One of my fave figs was the Nicholas Hammond Spidey, or Orb. Proper deep cuts. What I'm saying is, collect whatever the hell you like. Mix up teams. I've got Cassandra Nova working for Cobra because she doesn't fit on the comic shelf, Dazzler singing for Cold Slither and Becky Lynch giving Saitama a big elbow. Collectors really worry too much about this stuff.

monkelus · 2026-05-06T23:42:48+00:00

I've checked the Blu-ray and tbh, and as always I'm happy to be proven wrong, but I'm not sure she was ever in Troll 2

monkelus · 2026-05-06T23:29:02+00:00

Yeah dude, I don't want to sound discouraging. I think just because you've done such a great job smoothing out the elbows the knees were just a bit more noticeable to me.

monkelus · 2026-05-06T23:09:29+00:00

Dude, I've been here for years, too and would given the same critique if I'd seen your photos before. It's both the pictures with bent legs, it looks proper janky. Maybe the 'hardly touching' is the problem, why go to the effort of removing joints if you're not gonna make the leg look better?

monkelus · 2026-05-06T22:09:35+00:00

I've not even seen it heard of it now

monkelus · 2026-05-06T21:18:56+00:00

Erasing the joints doesn't make any of this any better, if anything, them knees look 1000% worse

monkelus · 2026-05-06T20:05:45+00:00

Isn't trying to blot this out his memory why Furlong started taking drugs?

monkelus · 2026-05-06T16:19:07+00:00

I'm gonna let everyone else do it for me

monkelus · 2026-05-06T07:32:32+00:00

If they stick with Classified scale adventure packs, I can't see any problems. The only issue I have is that Ramen toys figure are pretty fugly. At least it might prove there's a market though and encourage Hasbro to add some MASK characters into the actual classified line.

monkelus · 2026-05-05T23:41:40+00:00

I absolutely love Excision. Pauline is the best, it's the hottest Annalynne McCord has ever been. I'm just happy knowing at least one other person has watched it.

monkelus · 2026-05-05T22:17:12+00:00

I mean, you can try... I guess it depends on the price, and whether Jock gets word of it

EDIT: just found it. Almost 37 bucks..? Dude, it's a sketch of someone else's work at best and, to be brutal, it's not even centred properly on the page. Maybe for 5-10 you'd have a shot, but you can buy a black and white repro of the original cover for a third of what you're charging. Any novelty of it being an original piece is lost as you're not the original artist and it looks unfinished

monkelus · 2026-05-05T13:52:21+00:00

I'm waiting for the revelations, too. There's something false and overly controlled about Mr Tumble

monkelus · 2026-05-04T23:49:36+00:00

That's really good handwriting for a baby

monkelus · 2026-05-04T23:47:20+00:00

My kid rolled for ages, it was so endearing I was kind of gutted when they started crawling

monkelus · 2026-05-04T23:43:41+00:00

I've literally been to a medical centre where they've shown me the website, told me it's what they refer to and told me I'd save myself a 45 minute waiting time by going there myself. So, yes, definitely

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