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#1 SpleenBeGone

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Posted 04 February 2017 - 08:19 PM

And I've always been fascinated with how heavy tungsten is from messing with welding electrodes. I decided to see if I could buy one. They're a little expensive. >.>

https://www.amazon.c...s=tungsten cube

 

But I digress. What kind of nifty desk toys do you enjoy?  


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Posted 05 February 2017 - 04:24 PM

I have a small plastic cow (maybe an inch tall) and a toy Mercedes SLS with working gullwing doors and a rubber ball that I toss around.

 

 

I keep meaning to pick up some of the neat stuff thinkgeek has but they seem to have this weird aversion to bringing back old products they used to have (like the desktop forklift that could move around full drink containers) and they're getting a little more pricey with what they do have lately.


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Posted 05 February 2017 - 06:40 PM

Man, think geek used to have some awesome stuff. It's getting way more commercialized now.

I think this is the same forklift. https://www.amazon.c...esktop forklift

Bonus pallet coasters. https://www.amazon.c...=drink forklift


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Posted 05 February 2017 - 08:54 PM

I did not know I needed a tiny block of tungsten until now. Fuck that's expensive for a paperweight/tiny missile weapon.


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Posted 05 February 2017 - 09:16 PM

Right? It's 6 pounds in a two inch cube. An aluminum one is 12 ounces. I need the pair. 


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Posted 05 February 2017 - 10:12 PM

Right? It's 6 pounds in a two inch cube. An aluminum one is 12 ounces. I need the pair. 

I like that idea, but only if visibly they are virtually unable to be discerned from one another. Would make it interesting when someone picks one up randomly.


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Posted 06 February 2017 - 07:04 AM

That's what I was thinking. Tungsten and aluminum have slightly different sheens, but you could paint them both and it would work. 


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Posted 06 February 2017 - 08:54 AM

I'm definitely going to need a few of those cubes in the future.

Stupid expensive interests.

 

Other than notepads and whatnot I always have a little plastic Homer Simpson that holds my mail keys on his arm, and a papercraft Calvin that I made a while back.

I just looked around and apparently I also have a superball, nice.


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Posted 06 February 2017 - 09:39 AM

Things you never knew you needed. 

 

Superballs are pretty awesome. I'm on the second floor though, my coworkers might not appreciate it. 


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Posted 06 February 2017 - 02:43 PM

Things you never knew you needed. 

 

Superballs are pretty awesome. I'm on the second floor though, my coworkers might not appreciate it. 

Probably not, in my case the other people in my building can fuck right off if they ever had an issue with my noise.

One of them is cool, but the rest are a bunch of infighting bitches who seem to think that it is their business to fuck with everyone else's business.

I'm at the back of the building and the two cunts at the front have actually turned customers away from me by telling them I'm not here, or that my business has closed down. I lost my shit on one of them after that and went on a rant telling her that if I ever caught wind that she or the other witch ever pulled anything like that again I would come down on them like they didn't even think possible. You can act like a piece of shit all day and I will shrug you off, but as soon as anyone takes deliberate steps to hurt or hinder my well being I will feel zero remorse for what I do in return. So if Ichoose to bounce superballs off the walls all damn day they would be wise to keep their qualms to themselves.

 

I know that's a random angry rant, but these people are just the worst.


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