• tabris
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    I used to work in a new age shop that sold rock salt lamps. A woman came in one time to complain about the lamp she bought.

    Woman: My salt lamp was dusty and dirty.

    Me: Okay…

    W: So I took the rock salt off the base.

    Me: Hmm?

    W: And I washed it with hot soapy water.

    Me: Ah.

    W: And it just dissolved!

    Me: Yep, it’s salt.

    W: I want a refund.

    Me: laughs.

    • Flying SquidM
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      3810 months ago

      This has me wondering if art supply stores have people coming in complaining that their pencil ran out of lead when they were in the middle of drawing.

      • @MightyGalhupo
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        510 months ago

        Yes, I have seen that first hand. Crayons too.

        • @[email protected]
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          1910 months ago

          Im thinking she either just ran hot water over it, or decided to let it soak, only to come back to sea water in her sink.

          • @Tangent5280
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            310 months ago

            lmao reminds me of that raccoon with cotton candy

    • @robocall
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      1610 months ago

      I’d like to subscribe to more new age shop stories!

      • @spader312
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        610 months ago

        You’ve been subscribed to New Age Shop stories. For just $1 a day receive a new story delivered every morning. Reply HELP for help, STOP to unsubscribe. Msg& Data Rates May Apply

        • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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          2810 months ago

          I find breathing to be better than not breathing.

          Not licking the Himalayan salt lamp does not have the same effect.

        • Tar_Alcaran
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          Smell is based mostly on particulate. Anything you inhale gets at least partly broken down and absorbed.

          Thus, if you smell a fart, at least some small part of your body is metabolising someone else’s shit.

      • @[email protected]
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        1710 months ago

        Yeah licking random objects in your house is a little unsanitary.

        Thanks SatansMagottyCumFart

        • Iron Lynx
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          210 months ago

          Is Lemmy’s version of /r/rimjob_steve up already?

  • KillingTimeItself
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    5610 months ago

    my ass is installing linux on the first machine capable of having linux installed on it.

    You are not safe, there is nothing you can do to stop me.

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      Your tinder date brings you into their home. While they are having a shower, you grab their laptop to install Linux mint cinnamon on it, but the Ventoy ISO wont boot. The track pad is greasy and crusted up with yellow stuff. Screen hinge is cracked. You boot it up to get your bearings. Windows XP, service pack 1. No password. 1 GB RAM. 32 bit CPU. Super PC clean is running. Blatant malware. No antivirus in sight. Internet Explorer 6 lumbers to the foreground. Fifteen spyware toolbars visible. Popups start flooding the screen. You look at the desktop, its littered with zip files with random file names. The mouse cursor is a pirate with a wooden leg. The CPU fan loudens to an alarming volume even though there’s no programs running that you can see.

      Do you:

      • Continue and try to install a 32 bit version of linux

      • leave silently, unmatch them on tinder, and block their number

      • Leave, but not before performing a mercy killing on the laptop

      • KillingTimeItself
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        310 months ago

        leave, performing a mercy kill on the laptop.

        No associate of mine is going to be using windows xp.

    • @SpeakerToLampposts
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      2310 months ago

      Nobody has ported Doom to a Himalayan salt lamp.
      Yet.
      This is your opportunity!

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      1910 months ago

      Had an annon grindr date try this on me once. Except I already had Linux on all my electronics. Hottest sex ever. Happily married for 6 years.

    • @__dev
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      1010 months ago

      There’s a decent chance that’s still the salt lamp.

      • @miversen33
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        210 months ago

        I have an Ubuntu live disc and a Windows install on a USB drive on my keychain lol. The amount of times I’ve needed one of those and not had it is more than 0 lmao

      • @ikidd
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        110 months ago

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      • KillingTimeItself
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        110 months ago

        you think me, a linux user, is leaving home without a handful of bootable drives?

  • Synapse
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    3710 months ago

    I would rather check under the bed in case there are knives.

      • @[email protected]
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        If you go to someone’s house and they don’t have an elaborate and named knife collection that they’re oddly cagey about, don’t fuck them

        • @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA
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          810 months ago

          Why would I be cagey about my odd, elaborate and named knife collection? I’ve had most of those knives longer than I’ve known my wife. They’re great. Not very much blood at all.

      • @RealFknNito
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        810 months ago

        Gold karambit means she’s wife material

    • @thorbot
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      310 months ago

      Moooo I mean NO of course not

    • kase
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      310 months ago

      I’m a hamster (they lick salt too) 👅🧂

      • @robocall
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        310 months ago

        Don’t they eat their babies too?

        • kase
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          410 months ago

          ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ

          …yeah, but only sometimes

      • Tar_Alcaran
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        210 months ago

        I had never seen a hamster lick anything until today. You’ve enriched my life!

    • @tourist
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      1110 months ago

      Same. That lamp has absolutely been licked before. You don’t know by whom and you don’t know how recently. If you’re at least a tiny bit of a germaphobe, those statements should frighten you.

      • @[email protected]
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        The high salinity should take care of any bacteria in short order. It may not be clean, but there ain’t no bacteria on it!

      • @[email protected]
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        1010 months ago

        tiny bit of a germaphobe

        iirc salt is a has antimicrobial properties. So if anything, then licking that salt, will reduce the germs in your mouth. So a true germaphobe would be all over that lamp

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        810 months ago

        If you’re a germaphobe then surely you should know that 100% salt is enough to yeet literally any microorganism to the back of beyond; in fact anything over 30% is

        That lamp is more hygienic than your dinner plate, more than the inside of any food package and infinitely more than your hands even after you’ve just washed them

        • @[email protected]
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          310 months ago

          I think this is like when people say they have OCD when really they just like things tidy. I’m reality it’s more about the ick than any germs

          • @[email protected]
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            210 months ago

            Yeah agreed that while you’re more than likely not gonna get sick from it unless you have an allergic reaction of some sort, it’s still probably dusty as those things are a nightmare to clean and so not a pleasant lick

          • Tar_Alcaran
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            If it’s rooted in rational thought, it’s not a phobia.

            I’m afraid of hungry bears in the woods. That’s not a phobia. But constantly checking your 17th floor balcony for hungry bears is.

            • @[email protected]
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              The way I heard it is if your fear keeps you from doing “normal” activities, then it might be a phobia. Like if you won’t go for a walk on a trail because you might see a snake

        • @tourist
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          310 months ago

          well have you considered the fact that im stupid

  • @TengoDosVacas
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    510 months ago

    A whole lot of thise lamps are in my area so I dont understand why we still have a hospital

  • @[email protected]
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    Protip: If they have a lava lamp instead, you can take the lava lamp bottle out, unscrew the bottle cap and drink some lava lamp fluid.

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      My stepbrother did this once. He kept saying his throat was dry and we found the empty lamp a week later. After rushing him to the hospital to treat his near-fatal injuries, we were saying our goodbyes only two months later…

      “Can I get you any thing?”, my heartbroken mother said as she stepped into the room.

      “Yeah… I’d lava another lamp…”

      Thoroughly disgusted, the rest of our family shuffled out of the room muttering bye. I stayed, as I could take a joke. Suddenly, a monstrous shart leaked out of his ass. “Oh God!!! NURSE” I screamed frantically. “Good Lord,” she gasped while grasping several bedpans. “He should be dead!” “Auuughooohyeh” My stepbro moaned. I looked on in horror as the red ass ham began to burn away and melt his gown and the now 30ish bedpans lining the walls. The poop accelerates. “Somebody get Dr. Kruger!!!” The many nurses exclaimed. At this point they were frantically shoveling shit out the window as I desperately tried not to get burned. After around 10 minutes, Dr. Kruger arrived. “GREAT HEAVENS!!! We’ll need Kevin for this.” He waded into the dookie and tossed my stepbrother into pit dug into ground. The poop accelerates. Suddenly, a wiry, greasy, crazed looking man appeared at the door. At this point, the floor was disintegrating, so he leaped over the many holes and started devouring the kaka. “HOLY HELL,” I shouted in surprise. “Actual Zombie” I began to lose feeling in my legs. However, Kevin vrrmed like a anteater and sucked that shit up harder than 10 year old me getting hit by a Ferrari! Kevin leaped out of the room and slurped up all the poo poo in the ditch. But… something was wrong. The poop accelerates. Kevin didn’t stop. Kevin crawled into my stepbrothers anus and licked it clean. Before he could reach his colon, somebody said “call the exorcist!” and the Poope himself came down from the heavens and uttered three holy words…

      “no u”

      Kevin’s body is forcibly expelled from my stepbrothers colon and writhes in pain. He began to slowly and excruciatingly crawl into his own anus. The legion of nurses surrounding him pick him up and toss him- no it, into a coffin. My stepbrother staggered to his feet and exclaimed “What a nice shit! I feel great now!” and left. Fortunately we live in Europe so we didn’t have to pay for anything. All the feeling returned to my legs, my stepbrother is taking care of his 13 kids, and Kevin is probably chilling in some SCP containment unit somewhere. Good times!

  • @shalafi
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    310 months ago

    But my salt lamp is in my bathroom.

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      Hmm, now I wonder, if the lamp would slowly ‘melt’, from damp air condensing on it.

      • @Tangent5280
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        110 months ago

        ew poop particles every time they flush

        poop lamp poop lamp poop lamp poop lamp

  • @Mr_Blott
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    Right I’m confused.

    You’re in the bedroom but they go to the restroom

    Which fucking one are they in?

      • @Mr_Blott
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        You don’t live in your kitchen

        You don’t rest in your toilet

        Unless, like I say, throwing a whitey

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          oh I finally get what you’re saying. You’re taking issue with calling that room “rest” room instead of “toilet”

          but seeing as “toilet” literally means “a small piece of cloth” - if we’re going to go down that path, why are you calling both the room and it’s commode a piece of cloth?

        • Fudoshin ️🏳️‍🌈
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          Oooooh it’s just Americans with their funny words for things.

          Obviously they mean lavatory, toilet, loo, shitter, bog, water closet, facilities, tile palace, WC, khazi, ceramic throne of dreams, privy, latrine, etc.

    • @camr_on
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      2210 months ago

      restroom == bathroom

      • @Mr_Blott
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        So there has to be a bath in it? Is that not inconvenient?

        • Maven (famous)
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          1210 months ago

          The place with the toilet that you poop in.

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              The Middle French word ‘toile’ (“cloth”) had a diminutive form: ‘toilette’, or “small piece of cloth.” This word became ‘toilet’ in English, and referred to a cloth put over the shoulders while dressing the hair or shaving.

              Got em

              • @harry_balzac
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                It’s where I rest my brain from the stupid at work. Being able to sit on a nasty commode with my nethers exposed is a bonus.

      • @Mr_Blott
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        I’ve never seen anyone rest on a toilet

        Wait, no, I have done while throwin a whitey

        • @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA
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          They earn a dollar while I earn a dime that’s why I shit on company time.

          Congrats for always having had good bosses.

        • @[email protected]
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          210 months ago

          It’s restful because you’re not watching… At least without a consent higher than “let’s have sex”

    • Chaos
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      210 months ago

      There are many reasons toilets are called the restroom dated back in history. However these days it’s mostly just considered a polite way of taking care of one’s business, without projecting to a partner that you may be taking a massive duce.

    • KillingTimeItself
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      110 months ago

      are you not familiar with houses having attached bathrooms in the master bedroom?

      Its a thing here in NA for suburban homes, and for houses in europe to some degree im guessing.