I saw a story advertising that it sells antiques and mantiques. I guess antiques are too womanly!
I wonder what mantiques are. Rusty razor blades? Ancient battle axes? Gatling guns?
I saw a story advertising that it sells antiques and mantiques. I guess antiques are too womanly!
I wonder what mantiques are. Rusty razor blades? Ancient battle axes? Gatling guns?
@MLE_online every piece comes with a set of truck nutz
@rose_alibi Bronze wagon nutz given the the Rough Riders by an act of congress
@MLE_online All of those things and beer signs. Perhaps putting rusty swords above a fireplace isn't ladylike.
Whatever they mean by "mantiques", I expect that they look pretty rough and smell very bad.
@MLE_online mantle ornaments?
@MLE_online Japanese mall store swords from the 80s
@smellsofbikes if this is true, your house qualifies as a mantique shop
@MLE_online but none of mine are japanese swords from a mall!
TOTALLY DIFFERENT.
@smellsofbikes viking swords from the mall?
@MLE_online NOW we're talking.
and yes my house is a giant mantique exhibit.
@MLE_online Overpriced old woodworking tools
@lolcat @MLE_online Is that a The Sneeze reference!?
Don't know 'The Sneeze" other than a painting I remember seeing. But, I recall that picture hanging in a friend's house, so I doubt that's what you're referring to.
I was referencing a YT channel where Steve, the creator, displays and eats the contents of old military rations - sometimes, it seems, without regard to his health.
I find his videos oddly relaxing - something about his voice, and the predictable pattern, maybe.
@lolcat @MLE_online Oh, you know what. I've definitely watched that, assuming it's at minimum a decade old? I was referring to a blog from back when blogging was hip and people did it just to do it. There's a series of posts called Steve, Don't Eat It! (Spoiler: he eats it)
Regardless, I'm currently rereading all of them in order, so thank you for inadvertantly bringing it to mind. I have been transported back to a time when the Internet felt like a utopian future instead of endless an endless stream of icepicks to the temple. I highly recommend the entry about Beggin' Strips.
@lolcat @MLE_online okay, exactly a decade old. Solid guess lol. Honestly don't remember if it was this guy, but there was a moment in time when I thought MREs were hella interesting.
Thank you so much for this. It's 2:00 am. i should be asleep in bed. But this is so much better. Could not stop laughing.
@lolcat @MLE_online You are so very welcome. And yeah, I'm in the same boat (except in my case it's 4:00am lol).
@MLE_online All sounds like "old shiny stuff" to me!
@MLE_online "Antiques for the gender insecure"?
(the men I see who are extremely concerned about manliness, I am convinced, were either teased or were worried they were gay when growing up. 🤔 )
@ai6yr getting teased that you're gay or a pussy when you're a teen is a good way to make a make a very insecure adult
@MLE_online Yes, most certainly 😢
I am convinced that young boys (especially) who were teased about "liking other boys" or "liking things girls like" to the point of feeling shame for those feelings were traumatized by the very people who wanted them to grow up well adjusted. Their parents and other adults they looked up to.
@MLE_online That's the dumbest shit I've ever heard (tied for first with all the other dumbest shit I've ever heard).
@MLE_online ...unless they're selling octogenarian men? Surely that can't be legal.
@gordoooo_z they could be renting them
@MLE_online I'm not sure that's any more legal, unless they're independent contractors, as opposed to company property 🤔
@gordoooo_z It could be legal in some parts of Nevada
@MLE_online LMAO
@MLE_online would it be antiques and uncletiques?
@MLE_online Surely mantiques are just men who are at least 50 years old?