Marie Monday

those photos are top tier. it must be so peaceful there

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Trollheart

1. What is obsolete in your house? To qualify as obsolete it must be something that is never, or seldom, used now and which you could not, and should not expect to be able to buy. So vinyl records, books, coal fires etc would not qualify. It doesn’t have to work, and it can be in a collection if that’s your preference, but it should be something most people would look at and say “why do you have that?”

2. What’s the longest you ever spent in an ER/Emergency Dept/A&E dept of a hospital?

3. What’s your favourite mnemonic?

4. What is the most useless thing you own?

5. What’s the biggest DIY job you’ve ever undertaken?

6. How much do you swear? Not when angry - we all do that. But in general usage?

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rubber soul

1. What is obsolete in your house? To qualify as obsolete it must be something that is never, or seldom, used now and which you could not, and should not expect to be able to buy. So vinyl records, books, coal fires etc would not qualify. It doesn’t have to work, and it can be in a collection if that’s your preference, but it should be something most people would look at and say “why do you have that?”

Man, I don't know. I have a lot of old stuff, but I don't know if it falls under obsolete. I'd say an old tape recorder but I don't think I even have that.

2. What’s the longest you ever spent in an ER/Emergency Dept/A&E dept of a hospital?

An ER before being sent home? About ten hours. It was in the middle of the Delta outbreak

3. What’s your favourite mnemonic? What's a mnemonic?

4. What is the most useless thing you own? A flashlight that doesn't work

5. What’s the biggest DIY job you’ve ever undertaken? I put together a cabinet once.

6. How much do you swear? Not when angry - we all do that. But in general usage? Very little actually. I only swear when I'm upset.

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Frownland

1. What is obsolete in your house? To qualify as obsolete it must be something that is never, or seldom, used now and which you could not, and should not expect to be able to buy. So vinyl records, books, coal fires etc would not qualify. It doesn’t have to work, and it can be in a collection if that’s your preference, but it should be something most people would look at and say “why do you have that?”

Probably some old cords in the cord drawer.

2. What’s the longest you ever spent in an ER/Emergency Dept/A&E dept of a hospital?

2 days with an intense yellow fever when I was five. They gave me a bunch of speed so that was pretty sweet.

3. What’s your favourite mnemonic?

FACE

4. What is the most useless thing you own?

Not sure, I have a lot of old clothes but use them as sweat rags which is pretty useful.

5. What’s the biggest DIY job you’ve ever undertaken?

Building a shack with power outlets.

6. How much do you swear? Not when angry - we all do that. But in general usage?

Depends on who I'm talking to. If they swear a lot, I'll swear more to better get my ideas across and vice versa. Generally it's a lot but not on a sailor level, I'd say in an hour long conversation I'll swear about five times. Fifty if it's about politics but I guess that's me being angry.

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Plankton

1. What is obsolete in your house? To qualify as obsolete it must be something that is never, or seldom, used now and which you could not, and should not expect to be able to buy. So vinyl records, books, coal fires etc would not qualify. It doesn’t have to work, and it can be in a collection if that’s your preference, but it should be something most people would look at and say “why do you have that?”

Serial printer cables.

2. What’s the longest you ever spent in an ER/Emergency Dept/A&E dept of a hospital?

Maybe an hour getting my head stitched up after a head-on crash.

3. What’s your favourite mnemonic?

Every good boy does fine.

4. What is the most useless thing you own?

See first answer above.

5. What’s the biggest DIY job you’ve ever undertaken?

I built a shelf once.

6. How much do you swear? Not when angry - we all do that. But in general usage?

A lot. Wtf.

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innerspaceboy

1. What is obsolete in your house? To qualify as obsolete it must be something that is never, or seldom, used now and which you could not, and should not expect to be able to buy. So vinyl records, books, coal fires etc would not qualify. It doesn’t have to work, and it can be in a collection if that’s your preference, but it should be something most people would look at and say “why do you have that?”

Nearly every object in my home is 40-175 years old. And visitors often state that I "live in a museum." Most items are present for their artistic value, so if we count objets d'art as a function, they are not necessarily obsolete.

2. What’s the longest you ever spent in an ER/Emergency Dept/A&E dept of a hospital?

I spent the entirety of my formative teenage years living in the hospital system. It dramatically impacted my outlook on life and my dissociation from my generational peers as I was absent from all of the cultural touchstones of my youth.

3. What’s your favourite mnemonic?

I have two strong favorite acronyms (which is close enough) -

laser
and
taser

...the latter of which stands for "Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle" based on the 1911 book of a similar name.

4. What is the most useless thing you own?

Despite my penchant for Victorian opulence, I embrace minimalism in my possessions, so very little of what I own is without use.

5. What’s the biggest DIY job you’ve ever undertaken?

I'm in the final stages of a massive 12-year solo undertaking, the news of which I hope to share soon.

6. How much do you swear? Not when angry - we all do that. But in general usage?

I know that I'm often prone to loquacious verbosity and grandiloquent or bombastically ostentatious language, so when I do opt to employ vulgarity it is used to great ****ing effect.

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Trollheart

Without pointing you to a Wiki link, RS, a mnemonic is a phrase you use to remind you of something, ie, as Plankton has shown "Every Good Boy Does Fine" (also can be deserves favour/fruit) to remember the chord progression E-G-B-D-F. Or it could be the colours of the rainbow: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet, remembered by the mnemonic Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain. That sort of thing.

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Marie Monday

1. What is obsolete in your house? To qualify as obsolete it must be something that is never, or seldom, used now and which you could not, and should not expect to be able to buy. So vinyl records, books, coal fires etc would not qualify. It doesn’t have to work, and it can be in a collection if that’s your preference, but it should be something most people would look at and say “why do you have that?”
Nothing, I'm a student with just my own room so not that much place for stuff
2. What’s the longest you ever spent in an ER/Emergency Dept/A&E dept of a hospital?
For myself I've never been I think
3. What’s your favourite mnemonic?
I don't like mnemonics but if acronyms count then WIMP
4. What is the most useless thing you own?
Myself
5. What’s the biggest DIY job you’ve ever undertaken?
I once painted a table with the abbey road cover image as a teenager. Or rather I drew it with a marker actually
6. How much do you swear? Not when angry - we all do that. But in general usage?
Regularly. As much as I do when posting here I think. Maybe more because here I don't swear reflexively of course, which in real life I do a lot

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Exo

1. What is obsolete in your house? To qualify as obsolete it must be something that is never, or seldom, used now and which you could not, and should not expect to be able to buy. So vinyl records, books, coal fires etc would not qualify. It doesn’t have to work, and it can be in a collection if that’s your preference, but it should be something most people would look at and say “why do you have that?”

I have some vintage Chinese fortune sticks that I have as a decorative joke kind of thing. They're the ones that you shake out of the tube. The fact that I have to explain it kind of proves the obsolete point.

2. What’s the longest you ever spent in an ER/Emergency Dept/A&E dept of a hospital?

Wasn't for me. I have been relativelt healthy/injury free my whole life but I did just spend like six hours in the hospital with my beother this year.

3. What’s your favourite mnemonic?

This is the most Trollheart question of all time.

4. What is the most useless thing you own?

Isn't this the same question as #1?

5. What’s the biggest DIY job you’ve ever undertaken?

I put down flooring once.

6. How much do you swear? Not when angry - we all do that. But in general usage?

I grew up in a firemans hall/bar in New Jersey. I swear like a fucking lunatic.

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Trollheart

I'm not sure what that's a mnemonic for, but I'm glad to see I've made it into one!

Also, no: question 1 asks what have you that's obsolete (but could still be used, ie an old tape recorder if you have tapes for it etc) but question 4 asks about something you have which has no use, eg perhaps a wind-up toy with the spring gone, a book with no pages left, a sweeping brush without a head or something that only runs on old batteries that are no longer made, maybe. Different question entirely. One COULD be useful, though obsolete, the other has NO use at all.

Like me.

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