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[–] 63 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I have four big black bins in my closet, full of… adult stuff I think those would definitely qualify. Maybe the foxtails, or my hot pink bunny mask, I’ve got a bunch of weird costumes that would raise eyebrows

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    I don’t think anyone in my family is ready to confront the reality of a knotted dragon dick, but my friends have all seen Chance before!

    I have a family member who has walked in on tail things, but even that family member would not be prepared for the sheer quantity of tails…

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  • [–] 47 points 1 month ago* (7 children)

    Honestly, my network and server.

    I am self learned so i often come up with my own creative solutions instead of knowing about a common standard. I can’t imagine anyone but me could maintain it.

    In a previous iteration of my server i bent over backwards to make sure /home did not contain any user folders and instead only the mount points to numerous drives. Why? Inexplicably even if you do consider autism.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    What the fuck. That's hilarious. My first thought for this questions was 'sex toys' too, but those are easy to explain. I also have a dildo lamp, but I got that from my sister, so also very easy to explain.

    My tech stuff is likely going to be the least explainable, but because it's eBay scrap parts hardware, not because I changed /home to a mounting folder though. That's crazy.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    My first home server did something like this. I didn't understand permissions very well yet (still not 100%, but certainly much more capable now). I think I used /var and maybe /etc to hold my docker compose folders.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

    The... fucking what... Let me guess, user dirs go into /var?

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  • [–] 36 points 1 month ago (12 children)

    A military medal that was awarded to me.

    I have never been a member of any nation’s armed forces.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    It’s not really that exciting, in retrospect:

    I used to work for a charity doing construction in disaster areas; building schools, medical centres, plumbing etc. We’d turn up after wars, floods, earth quakes and other stuff like that. Most of us were single men, with zero attachments or responsibilities, so we took the more (potentially) dangerous jobs out there - purely for the adrenaline and the madness.

    On arrival in the country a car load of us traveled 100km-ish away from the capital to scout the location we’d be at. After a day or two there we discovered that the situation on the ground really didn’t match the information we’d been given. A rebel army, of sorts, (maybe a militia, more accurately) had regrouped and were coming back towards us. As we were, uh, not local then there was the potential for some kidnapping - or worse - type shenanigans.

    Me, 2 colleagues and our fixer (and his mother) decided to get out of there immediately. We “swapped” the charity’s car for a battered Toyota and some local clothes from our fixer’s uncle. (I’m sure he had about 600 uncles in total…)

    We encountered a four man forward operations group of the proper army on the road. They asked us to follow them and detour to a village and help evacuate a group of people. We got there, “borrowed” a coach, loaded it up and then we got out of there, quick sharp. Zero incidents.

    I don’t think we got the medal for bravery, as such, but more for a lack of cowardice and just doing the right thing when we really could’ve just fucked-off straight to the capital and boarded a plane out of there.

    I didn’t mention it when I got back home because if I did it would just look like I was glazing myself - or lying.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    It’s not really that exciting,

    Mate. That's exciting as fuck.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    I think we ran on adrenaline, fear, and cigarettes for about seven / eight hours… numb, in a kind of autopilot. Apart from the pressure of a fighting force that we never actually encountered it was like a really aggressive hitchhike ride through some extremely gnarly terrain in an underdeveloped country. It sounds far more exciting, and heroic, than it genuinely was.

    But, yeah, between you and me I do think it was a cool as fuck thing to do - and survive…

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I want to hear the story about the fixer’s mother. She sounds impressive.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    She worked and lived in the town we’d driven to. She was like a teacher, nurse, midwife type for the local women and children around there. She’d been campaigning for the “medical centre” we were gonna build. Seemed friendly, but a little suspicious/wary of us; but that’s kind of understandable. Great cook and a good singer. Super passionate about helping people to be well and better themselves.

    The rebels weren’t hugely into female autonomy and education our fixer told us… so we told him to go grab her as we swapped clothes and readied the truck.

    I didn’t spend much time with her when we began fleeing because me and my two colleagues bounced around in the flat bed of the Toyota whilst she was upfront in the cab with her son.

    You could see she’d been crying - hard - when we got to the other village but she then kind of took charge of the situation and got all the folk onto the coach and started taking care of everyone. She was genuinely pretty solid all around, when she needed to be.

    I went back about a year and a half later for the same project and she almost hugged me to death and just wept - I don’t think I’ve ever encountered such raw emotion.

    Nothing but respect for her.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Similar for me: two challenge coins of units that did not officially exist (at that time).

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Good stuff. I really think It’s a genuine honour to be an outsider whose actions are recognised and applauded by insiders. It’s basically professionals looking at beginners and saying: good job, well done. It warms my little cockles.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    The massive horse dildo may be a bit of an head scratcher, though knowing me - maybe not that surprising thing to find.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 month ago

    I have a ton of unique 3d printed firearms. They are legal for me to make and own where I live, but I can't legally sell them or give them away so they have just accumulated over the years haha

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  • [–] 30 points 1 month ago

    I'm the guy in the office people come to when they need something. Ibuprofen? Got it. Superglue? Got it. Change for the vending machine? Yup. I keep the change in an envelope I've labeled "petty cash". Inside that envelope , I have a smaller envelope that I've labeled "mad money". I have about $27 worth of Monopoly money in that one.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago

    Nice try, CIA guy, how about you come on down and see it for yourself if you really must know.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    Probably curious about why I, an atheist, have the Book of Mormon, the Catholic Apocrypha, the Books of Enoch, the Quran, and the standard Bible along with my collection of books on energy healing and astrology.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    If an atheist didnt have these I'd consider them a contrarian rather than an atheist. Maybe agnostic but not an atheist, atheists have made an informed decision which you can't do without being informed.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I don't have to read fairy tales to refute that they were real events that actually happened. I would tend to agree with your overall sentiment, but if someone was raised non-religious, had to take history classes, and had a light exposure to different mythological frameworks, I would not say that they are uninformed if they claim to be atheist. I dont have to do a deep dive on Christmas lore to come to the conclusion that Santa is not real.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Went to a religious school and hated everything about the religion. Its awful. Constantly being forced to pray and sing, occasionally having to kneel on a hardwood floor with all your weight on your knees. My knees still hurt thinking about it. Fuck everything about it.

    Then I got in trouble for saying I didn't believe in god at the age of like 9 or so. Didn't change my opinion, if anything it reinforced how much I hate religion. But I kept quiet about it to keep out of trouble.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Sorry you went through that. I went through the average American evangelical upbringing on the tail of the "satanic panic". D&D, Pokemon, most television shows, horror movies, certain music, all satanic...Gay people bad, willful women bad, closeted racist predispositions...Evolution and science, wrong...Young earth beliefs...

    I bought it all initially because I was not as well educated as I could have been. Luckily, I rolled a high intelligence score, and managed to break out. I look back at that me with disdain and regret, I was a horrible person on religion...

    I just read books on everything that I was trained to think was wrong. Evolution fake? Read "On the Origin of Species". Communism is an evil satan movement? read the communist manifesto (did not turn me communist, but at least I understand it). Other religions are wrong? Look into some of their texts, look at them from a historic/mythical lense. Conclusion, religions are myths, and nearly nothing I was told as a kid was as black and white as I thought it was...

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  • [–] 41 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Weirdest for sure would be the contents of my journals. For a while during and after the pandemic I wrote a lot of entries very altered and I've also written a lot of entries at the top of some pretty spectacular manic episodes and the bottom of some very dark holes. I can't read them myself because they make me seem quite insane.

    Most unexplainable would be a 50 alliance credit note from the Firefly/Serenity universe. They were produced by a gaggle of nerds and exact down to the paper, which is a semi-transparent nylon blend. I was given 300 credits in mixed bills as a joke from someone I had a one night stand with as payment for services rendered, but I've given them out to various fans of the show I've met over the 20 or so years they've been in my possession. If you weren't a mega fan of the show though, they would look like money from some obscure Asian country.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    An antique magic wand made of carved oak and opals, I keep locked in an antique wooden case in the top / back of my closet. The entire reason I keep it there like that, is so that when I die, someone will find it.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    My family probably wouldn't be surprised about anything I own. They know the kind of guy I am.

    A stranger might be a bit concerned about a certain wooden chest in my dining room. Large enough to fit an adult man (yes, we tried) but filled to the brim with swords, axes, pieces of armor and a 3 foot wooden spoon.

    Edit: second place to a glittery pink princess themed friendship book filled with entries from adult millennials who like retro games, horror movies and metal.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    probably the zombie porn.

    yeah... that or the Dino porn.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)
  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    what can I say, I'm a man of simple tastes.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    What can I say, I'm a man of niche and geo restricted porn. I have a small collection that I'm trying to broadcast. I saw stache but they dont allaw multi users. Should I just spin up a jellyfin instance and host people and media there?

    The later is a question for lemmings ty!

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (11 children)

    Hmmm. Probably a (real) human spine (not my own).

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    ...was it ethically sourced, at least?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Hmmm. I actually don't know. I hope so. It was from a chiropractor relative that passed. (Not his spine, but he had a human one for display purposes).

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    That's like...99% probably stolen from some Indian graveyard then...lots of bones used by anatomists back in the day (1800-1950)came from graveyards in india.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    My Zip discs. Kids today barely recognise floppies; they'd be completely stumped with those fat floppies that don't seem to fit anywhere.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I have a cursed mouse.

    Not like a taxidermied mouse, but a cursed computer mouse.

    It looks and functions like a normal wireless mouse... Until you get to a page where there is horizontal scrolling capability. Instantly, the mouse will scroll the page all the way to the right. This is especially fun in spreadsheets. The mouse will do this even if it is turned off. The problem is really the wireless reciver, not the actually mouse, but it is still a fun cursed object that I hope to someday unleash on some unsuspecting sibling.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I have a collection of Quack medical devices from the early 1900s. Some of them are used now as electrostatic sex toys.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Aside from adult items, it would be my collection of 400 keys all on a bunch of different connected key rings or maybe my rum bottle full of used needles.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Why the FUCK do you have a bottle full of used needles‽‽‽

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    Why would I buy an actual sharps container? I gotta take weekly injections.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Tbh you're some guy on the internet, so anything's possible ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

    But yeah that makes sense, I also kept the boxes from my meds as a 'memorial' of sorts.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Probably my 2lb jar of mercury. Have fun disposing of that toxic waste!

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  • In my desk drawer is a small, plastic black box. Emerging from its surface is a toggle switch, some lights and wires that end in alligator clips. There is no writing at all, inside or out, It starts blinking lights and making an ominous buzzing sound if you let the wires touch each other while it's turned on. I built it myself, and you've got no hope of figuring out what it's for if you don't know already.

    spoilerIt's a test light for setting the external ignition timing on airplane engines, to make sure both spark plugs in each cylinder fire at the same time. I doubt even most aircraft mechanics would recognize it because it doesn't look like a "real" one.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    Nice try, feds... Just kidding, I think my place would be pretty boring, actually.

    Also I have no idea who would be sorting through my stuff. I'm what's called a "solo ager". I imagine that the first thing to go deliquent would be property taxes. So maybe some city worker that prepares houses to be auctioned or something? Or maybe they don't bother with that and whoever buys my place from auction will be the ones to deal with it?

    In my younger years I was a really bad pack rat but I've been pretty successful in getting rid of things (mostly donating it). I always wondered why my grandparents had such barren houses. They weren't rich but they weren't poor. But I did a decent amount of traveling for work with a single carry-on and realized how little I actually need or care about anymore. So the stuff I have is basically utilitarian now. Stuff I don't use is just more to clean and maybe someone else could benefit from it. Even have spare room in my storage shed and I can access everything, which felt like a major accomplishment.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    Why'd he have a Super Nintendo mouse but not the system, no games, nor anything else related?

    Nobody will actually ask that, though. Because nobody would assume it was anything other than an old-school computer mouse with an obsolete connector. And even if they did recognize what it was, nobody would think twice about how odd it is to have that, and only that. The only strange thing, maybe, is that it's stored with my keepsakes and not the rest of my obsolete tech, various cords, & connectors.

    But the answer is: When I went away to college, I didn't take my video game stuff with me. My cousins asked to use my SNES and games, so I gave them permission while I was away. They grabbed everything except the mouse. At some point, they decided to sell my stuff to help purchase their Playstation, so I never got my SNES or games back. Then when my parents lost their house to foreclosure a few years later, they packed my things into a box, and gave it to me. I've held onto it for all these decades.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Remember that one really dark hentai that became a meme, "Emergence" or "Metamorphosis?"

    I got the bright idea to get a paperback copy of it and now it's just waiting for some catastrophe to unearth it from its hiding place, like a time capsule of bad decisions

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    The few dozen communist books I have

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    I think you mean we have, comrade.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    I do share when I can, but usually I just send links to online resources and books as that's typically easier for most people.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Hahah I'm just being dumb. No worries.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Yea I know it was a joke, haha. Just wanted to respond earnestly.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    My family are all pretty used to my esoteric magpie habits, but if it was a rando person and assuming my friends came through on their promises about the box in my closet that needs to be burnt before anyone else sees it... there are a lot of options. It's a six-way tie between the box of 2' long molybdenum disilicide foundry heating elements, the remilled RPG-7 (anniversary gift), the 11 steamer trunks, the 16' paper mache snake (I don't actually know where that came from), the fusion reactor or the signed first edition of Uncle Fester's "Silent Death".

    (Honerable mention goes to the weirdly high number of harpoons that are just scattered around)

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I fear typing it out would put me on a list ._.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago*

    either a finger made out of wood or soviet mortar shell

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    A tiny clay penis made by my best friend years ago.

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