cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Not long ago I experienced something odd yet of no consequence involving one (1) of my armpit hairs. Looking for a context in which to rationalize a) telling it and b) feeling smug about it, I sought a category that might merit a thread. T&T has several long-running threads where the old-timers and the surviving rookies congregate to smoke their coffee and share tales of our town. These long-running threeads are home, in a sense, for some of us. This thread will certainly not become one of the Page 1 Elite (I think of Accomplish, Pix LOL, Random Jib and Friday Dance as examples.) But perhaps it will have its place (which will be to be necroed by a surviving mainie in 2024).
I recently came to the realization that i had a tale to tell This is a thread our "other" superpowers. The things we can do that are odd, fun but otherwise without utility or other redeeming value. We already have a thread for legitimate accomplishments, wherein some folks give beautiful and inspiring pictorial essays on laying stone, rebuilding vehicles, cooking something lovely.
These then are our guilty pleasures, things we did or experienced that require no effort or discipline at all, and yet we are unreasonably pleased by them. They feed our egos while getting exactly "the square root of dick" actually done. Like growing an awesome armpit hair, or accidentally farting a word in Spanish.
Spotting a Madonna in a Chee-To.
Coming up with a lyric to a persistent commercial jingle.
Accidentally getting a basketball balanced on a telephone pole.
Talking a squirrel into doing something.
Being able to call in a duck using your voice.
Caveat: It is too easy for such a thread to cross the line into gross, offensive, repellent things. For that, we have other threads. There's a poop thread somewhere else for the tier-1 secretions, and other threads constantly being deleted as someone shows off some genitals. Let's endeavor to keep this thread "family friendly" for our under-18 clientele. Someone must think of the children.
OK on to accomplish lots and lots of nothing! Preee-sent BONGS (a hundred boots go Thump)
I recently came to the realization that i had a tale to tell This is a thread our "other" superpowers. The things we can do that are odd, fun but otherwise without utility or other redeeming value. We already have a thread for legitimate accomplishments, wherein some folks give beautiful and inspiring pictorial essays on laying stone, rebuilding vehicles, cooking something lovely.
These then are our guilty pleasures, things we did or experienced that require no effort or discipline at all, and yet we are unreasonably pleased by them. They feed our egos while getting exactly "the square root of dick" actually done. Like growing an awesome armpit hair, or accidentally farting a word in Spanish.
Spotting a Madonna in a Chee-To.
Coming up with a lyric to a persistent commercial jingle.
Accidentally getting a basketball balanced on a telephone pole.
Talking a squirrel into doing something.
Being able to call in a duck using your voice.
Caveat: It is too easy for such a thread to cross the line into gross, offensive, repellent things. For that, we have other threads. There's a poop thread somewhere else for the tier-1 secretions, and other threads constantly being deleted as someone shows off some genitals. Let's endeavor to keep this thread "family friendly" for our under-18 clientele. Someone must think of the children.
OK on to accomplish lots and lots of nothing! Preee-sent BONGS (a hundred boots go Thump)
