I share a birthday with Shania Twain
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Fair, she was hot but she did dump her bloke who financed her whole career as soon as she made it so… fuck her.
Swap it for Savage Gardens debut album if it makes you feel better.
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yeah innit, she evil to the core.
Pretty sure he was a top dentist too.
Poor old Mutt
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Mrs has a pair of Vans sk8 lo’s and realised she wears skate shoes more than I do.
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Anyone got any designs or tips for a homemade manual pad/steel edge curb? I’m thinking something I can drag out the garage easily onto the road outside the house but shift if cars come; maybe a metre wide by two metres long; soft steel edge on one side for grinds; six inches high? Wheels one end, handle the other for moving about?
I made this out of a load of scrap wood, roughly 25cm x 90cm x 2m a while back. Used scrap 20mm box mild steel on the edges. You should get a rough idea of how to make it from my pics.
Some say it could be over engineered with the 3x2 frame, but it’s solid as fuck, will last for years and can be re-clad if needed.
It now lives at the pioneer and is well used.
As for wheels, I’d get a sack barrow. It will be much easier than having wheels/castors screwed to the end.
If you do, have these (toolstation) attached right at the bottom/ground edge of the end so when you lift the other end, the wheels makes contact with the floor .
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I built my first grind box ever using this last week. I just have to find a coping now. Looks solid so far. Can’t wait to skate it.
138 x 48 x 27 centimeters, so I can put it in my car and skate it in car parks or anywhere.
No wheels or handles, I’ll carry it as it is, it’s not that heavy.
Let me know if you need more info.
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The amount of people on eBay that think just because a few people are asking a certain price, means that’s what it’s worth.
I’m looking for a second router at the moment, and loads are listed at £70, but when you go to completed listings, they are actually selling for half of that.
Price gouging. It’s dumb.
So surely you just make an offer for what you want to pay? Depop seems to have influenced eBay selling, with people listing a crazy prize in case some maniac wants to pay that, but ultimately being happy to sell it for, as you say, half the price.
It’s not price-gouging when they’re taking offers and selling for half the listed price. It’s just mindless optimism.
Yeah, not sure what it’s called when more than 1 seller has the same thing and they all put a stupid price.
A monopoly? haha.
Marketing? Financial natural selection?
Just a way to get gullible people who don’t know how eBay works to pay twice as much as they should.
Tried that, they just refuse the offer, as they think it’s worth far more. They don’t even come back with a counter offer.
I don’t mind, I just wait for ones at a reasonable price and bid on those.
A guy I know is on Depop, and it seems like listing everything you own at a ludicrous price is normal. So if somebody wants to give you £500 for whatever-it-is, then fine. You’re not actively trying to sell, but the stuff is available if somebody really drunk decides they want it. And also fuck Depop.
Gone back into the ‘‘hmm it’s quiet in work let’s see what old skate shoes I can buy for a steal’’.
I haven’t even skated through all the stuff I bought from one of these phases 7 years ago haha.
But yeah, some mad stuff on there. Get some people who don’t know what they have and charge pennies. But then you get the ‘collectors’ charging mental money on Lynx reissues that are still available to buy.
Jokers, mun.
This pisses me off to no end with Tarantino and I think “for the art” is being generous.
I constantly have this mental image of him giggling behind the camera like a bratty little kid, going “Look at what I’m getting away with.”
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I think it’s over the top as hell with D’jango, but it bothers me a bit less in there because it’s contextual for the setting/story. Whereas with his other films, I can’t overlook what I said above.