• @troglodytis
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    8 months ago

    Exactly why I didn’t don’t have any tattoos.

  • @[email protected]
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    8 months ago

    even worse: what if I decide where to put it, but in a few yeats get bored with it and peel it away, only to see the surface below not discolour the same way the unstickered parts have?

    • @eatthecake
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      28 months ago

      This is why i never move or remove my fridge magnets.

  • @[email protected]
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    278 months ago

    I was a poor kid. The aunties and uncles would chip in to get us Lego cars and hands-in-pockets minifigs as kids. It had stickers for stuff like truck grilles before there was silk-screening.

    They’re still on the sticker pages, so many decades later, carefully stored so a small boy can look at them.

    It’s weird, of course, to someone who never experienced ‘eke’ level of working poverty, but it’s the situation. My nephew will pass these parts onto his kids who I hope will use them all in a week with wild abandon.

    • @chemical_cutthroat
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      148 months ago

      I feel the same way about things. Growing up poor I didn’t really get much, so when I did I never used it for fear of losing it. My parents bought me a book of paper airplanes where you rip out the paper and follow the instructions to make a unique plane. I never used it. I still have the same problem with receiving food as a gift, I won’t eat it. I make enough now to be comfortable, but I have shoes that are worn through that I won’t throw away because I rarely got new shoes when I was a kid. I form crazy emotional attachments to gifts because they were so rare and typically meant someone I loved had to go without just to afford it.

    • @f314
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      88 months ago

      You still get sticker sheets in Lego sets! Only some pieces are screen printed, and usually only in more expensive sets (or on super common pieces).

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        8 months ago

        Yes, and stickers are universally hated when they are in some more expensive sets because they are a pain to apply neatly and they don’t last as long or look as good as printed parts.

  • @[email protected]
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    168 months ago

    i got a reusable sticker book exactly for this reason. it’s a notebook with pages of release paper so that you can stick and peel off stickers easily. it gives me the satisfaction of “using” my stickers without the permanence of losing them after sticking

    • @[email protected]
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      48 months ago

      I keep meaning to buy some of those like $5 bags of 100 stickers or whatever that you can find online for this reason. I love the aesthetic of something like a phone or a laptop covered in stickers, but I don’t like the idea of losing one I care about, like you. So I figure if I just get a bunch without selectively choosing them, there’s likely to be a number that I don’t really care about and therefore won’t be worried about losing that I can use to fill the majority of that sticker space with.

  • @[email protected]
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    98 months ago

    I’m the opposite. As soon as I have a sticker I have to put it on something. The sticker that came with my lockpicks is on my 3D printer. The JWST sticker that I got from the Lake Afton observatory is on my Xbox. If there’s a flat surface with enough space for it, that sticker is on it

    I still regret not putting that JWST sticker on my actual telescope

  • @[email protected]
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    78 months ago

    These guys would go crazy seeing my kid with stickers. There’s not hesitation, those bad boys will get stuck on something, no matter how trivial.

    • The Picard ManeuverOP
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      78 months ago

      I was thinking the same thing. My house is littered with random stickers that have run out of stickiness from being put on everything.

  • slurpyslop
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    78 months ago

    the only solution is to buy so many stickers that you couldn’t possibly use them all in your lifetime

  • @Glowstick
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    28 months ago

    Broken link on lemmy.world

    • The Picard ManeuverOP
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      18 months ago

      Really? I’m logged in through lemmy.world right now and see it, but this happened to another post of mine earlier today too…

      • @Glowstick
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        28 months ago

        Yeah it’s just showing the broken image icon

        • The Picard ManeuverOP
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          18 months ago

          Mind checking again now? I re-uploaded with a screenshot of the original image, which sometimes fixes it.

              • @Glowstick
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                28 months ago

                Where’s is the original image from? What file format is it?

                • The Picard ManeuverOP
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                  28 months ago

                  Either twitter or tumblr, I think.

                  It was a .jpg, 44kB