I split my tongue in 2017. Zero regrets. I show it off all the time.
Hey! I never imagined I’d ever meet you. Big fan!
That gif kinda makes me want a split tounge now, looks like a fun way to eat noodles!(Innuendo not intended)
3 gm/3 ml of oud oil for $650 plus shipping. Was amazing! No regrets whatsoever.
What do you use it for? Anything more than perfume?
A VR headset. have only gotten to play it a couple of times. my apartment is a bit too small.
Buuuut, in not too long I am moving to a bigger one. So then I can continue playing Half Life Alyx :D
My car. I bought a luxury car back when I was in grad school and it cost me a year’s salary used. I would tell anyone else not to do that, but over the years I have had so much fun driving that car. It’s a 2008 BMW 328i with a manual transmission and sports suspension (which makes it rather uncomfortable, but it corners so well). It has been breaking down a lot recently and I’ll probably have to get rid of it soon, which I’m not happy about. They don’t make cars like that anymore and even if they did, I can’t reasonably justify buying such an impractical car at this stage of my life. Maybe I’ll make another irresponsible purchase anyway…
A very very expensive sixth scale action figure
My previous bass guitar had one of its machine heads snap off, and I had rehearsal that same day, so I looked online at the used instrument stock at local music stores and found a bass guitar used that was a very unique, discontinued model that I’d been essentially dreaming of for a while, and happened to be there.
What I probably should’ve done is replaced the machine head, which wIt was a bit pricey, and the store was not very close, but I was able to get it and then take it to use at rehearsal. Now it’s my daily driver and I’m very glad I got it.
Musicians curse.
I’m a multi-instrumentalist and I now have 3 guitars, a bass, a banjo, two ukuleles, a sousaphone, trombone, trumpet, soprano trombone, bugle, clarinet, tenor sax, Roland keyboard, melodica, cajone, stylophone, otamatone, ocarina, concertina, and a recorder. My goal is 50 instruments by the time I’m 50.
I have a problem.
If you can play sousaphone and other various brass, you might be able to pick up the didgeridoo. The embechure is kind of similar (see also: alphorn). It’s the circular breathing I’m still trying to get the hang of.
And a I picked up a hand pan drum last month for giggles. It has a lovely tone.
Edit: I’m a shameless enabler.
RIP my bank account
I have a similar problem, but what is worse, most of them I can’t really claim to “play”, I’ve just kind of fooled around with them.
I bought a high end home stereo setup with large speakers and a subwoofer with my first credit card when I didn’t really have the money to pay it off quickly. Ended up paying an extra 25% of the cost in interest and had to really go cheap on food for a couple years.
Still use it 20 years later.
Pellet grill, the larger size, and I got WiFi. If I’m smoking something fir hours, I can see grill status and meat temperature remotely
I’ve made so many outstanding meals and the WiFi really is useful for something that cooks that long
I don’t make big money irresponsible purchases, but I have spent money needlessly on Star Trek decorations for my house.
I have a picture of this one in my house somewhere, but I can’t find it, but I do own it. If you press the button, it plays the fight music. And it plays… and plays… and plays… for like 60 seconds!
That’s not irresponsible. That’s logical.
Mini-split AC for my office. My central air always struggled to keep the room cool with all the computer equipment. Work & gaming is so nice now.
300 euro’s worth of cocaine that I smoked in a day.
I’m not proud of it, and I don’t often smoke it, but it was a fun day.
Not to judge you or anything, as I really don’t, but I think it’d be more accurate to say “crack”, as in order to smoke cocaine, you’d have to freebase it. And freebase cocaine is crack.
When consumed, cocaine can be found in two primary forms:
A water-soluble hydrochloride salt, which is typically snorted
“Crack” cocaine, a water-insoluble base form that is smoked
That being said I’ve inhaled a few hundred euros a night at times as well so again, no judgment. I’m just pedantic.
Crack comes from the crackle sound you get when smoking if you use baking soda to make the freebase. I use ammonia. Nowadays they just use the name crack for freebase cocaine, which isn’t really accurate. Where I live we just call it smoking coke because almost everybody uses ammonia, and most people don’t buy freebase directly.
So to be accurate we should call it “freebase cocaine” and not “crack”.
So to be accurate we should call it “freebase cocaine” and not “crack”.
I agree with you. Unfortunately most drug users I know (both recreational and problem users) aren’t too strongly into prescriptive language use.
My most irresponsible purchase was definitely a high end stereo system. I got into it in college after hearing some amazing rigs. It’s the irresponsible thing I’ve always wanted but really couldn’t afford (starting life, marriage, kids, school bills, etc.). Eventually we had saved enough where we had some $ leftover after getting lucky timing things in the housing market.
I begged my wife like a kid begs his mom in a toy store (I’m not proud). She didn’t get it, but was all “do it if you want it that bad.” It. Is. Awesome. It has gotten used everyday for like 7 years now. My wife has even become a big fan - she “gets it now, this is awesome”
I have to pry her music away from it to play mine! :) My kid’s friends like to come over our house and hang out watching movies and listening to music on it. Totally frivolous and way too much money - but no single thing has brought people together quite like awesome music.
100% would do it again.
What set up do you have?
- Emotiva 5x200w modular amp
- Marantz pre pro
- Ascend acoustics towersx2 up front, sierra2’sx2 rears, horizonx1 center
- Pair of Rhythmik sealed 15’s, with integrated amps 600W each
- Misc. stuff - blue ray player and whatnot.
I really like the ascend stuff. Most of my audiophile friends can’t believe the bang for the buck. Tough purchase though - internet only. No easy way to demo unless you find someone in their forums willing to invite you over (which I’ve done).
I also really like the Rythmik subs, but only as a pair.
I hate my marantz. That’ll get replaced soon. I’ve got my eye on Anthem’s gear.
Amp is fine.
Excellent and nice choices! I feel the same way about the Revel F208 speakers I bought a while back. Completely didn’t need them since the Revel F36 were already pretty good but oh was the improvement noticeable. I honestly don’t think I will replace them as long as the are working properly.
That would involve quite a bit of begging if I were to try that too.
where we had some $ leftover
- Emotiva 5x200w modular amp - $3000
- Marantz pre pro - $3,199.00
- Ascend ELX TOWER SINGLE - $2,649.00
- Rythmik E15HP/HP2 15" Subwoofer - $1,599.00
Prices taken from first hit I found. Total ~$10500
I’m not judging (I acutally somewhat envy you), I am just saying that $10000 is more than some leftover money.
Moved across country for a job. Super high market to one less crazy. Had to do stupid things to buy into the first market, recouped that money and reinvested it back into my retirement (where it belonged) when we moved back. Decided to have some fun as well. “Leftover” in terms of housing money is where that term slipped out from.
It was insane $ for me ;) But it was something I wanted for almost 30 years and couldn’t afford. It’s insane what you can spend on stereo equipment. My wife and I both drove cars until they broke, 14 and 15 years, both over 350k miles. Some people buy sports cars - we chose a stereo ;)
We bought a new house in our same town because it was slightly bigger and closer to the downtown area. We didn’t need to move, but did it anyway. Offer accepted in February of 2020, rate locked at the end of March.
I bought my house July 2019.
Got the lowest price the market had seen and the lowest rate in decades.
I’ll never fucking move at this point
I spent over 2k on this 2B statue but to me it’s worth it since Nier Automata is one of my all time favorite games
Worth it, looks dope
Damn 1/3rd scale. So like 1-2 foot tall? Fair play. Nier Automata was one of my favourite gaming experiences, so many feels. I love the end sequence more than about any other gaming moment.
Whoa looks like she’s covering her twat with dental floss.
That’s top tier armor.
24gb GPU
