Inspired by recently buying a cajon, and my husband immediately buying another for additional living room seating because he loved it.
Uuuhhh… Cameras… Computers… Having sex… Uh… A fidget cube… Swiss army knives… I’m not good at this.
Cheap camera lenses are a drug
A mouthful of titty.
Clay teapot.
Aged sheng pu’erh tea cake.
A good steep of a dan cong tea (so rare).
Live opera experience.
Vegetable patch.
Slushie.
My favourite pair of shoes (I did).
Alpaca/silk dress (yup).
Orgasm.Eerily enough, I would have checked six of these off the list in the past day alone… I banged my wife, cut some fresh chives from our balcony garden for our omelettes, made some pu’erh tea with breakfast, then got a slushie on my way into work at the opera, where I wore my favorite shoes.
Cigarettes. Fuck them
A couple of mentions for cocaine here, but for me it was MDMA. I never understood how you could get addicted to anything until I was at the club and I really really really wanted another line of that love powder and immediately decided to never do it again. Then I did it again.
Mine was, oddly enough, LSD. It’s not even physically addictive. I didn’t even particularly enjoyed tripping, but in my day-to-day life I have aphantasia; I can’t visualize anything.
If I asked you to close your eyes and picture an apple, then rate 1-5 how realistic you could make it look, most people would probably land somewhere around a 3 or a 4. Not photorealistic, but it would at least be recognizable as an apple and convey the important parts. A few artists or particularly visual people may land on a photorealistic 5. The people who are more biased towards speech (like an internal monologue) may land closer to a 2, like a rushed sketch, or even a 1 where it’s just a coarse outline and some color.
I land on a 0. I just see the backs of my eyelids. I can describe an apple to you. I can tell you what it smells like, what it tastes like, what color I would want it to be, how big it is, how heavy it is, what it feels like to crunch into it and get a little bit of the peel stuck between your teeth, et cetera… But I can’t visualize it.
I always thought the “picture yourself doing/going/working/etc {x}” types of things were just a figure of speech. Like if I was in elementary school and an art teacher said to picture a thing then draw it, I would just skip the first part. I’d still use my imagination before putting anything on paper, but it wouldn’t be visual.
But with LSD, that’s different. I can actually visualize things. Not particularly well, because everything is wobbling around like it’s made of tiny ocean waves… But I can do it. I quickly found that creative outlets were much easier when I could actually plan things out visually before putting them on paper. It was like I had been stuck using black and white paints my entire life, and then someone handed me some red, green, and blue for the first time. I also quickly realized how boring life was when I couldn’t just conjure images out of the ether at will.
Sadly, shrooms (which is commonly compared to “like doing LSD then smoking a blunt” in terms of feeling) doesn’t do it for me. I guess it doesn’t activate the same parts of my brain. But for whatever reason, LSD specifically allows me to overcome my aphantasia. I haven’t done it in years now, but I occasionally get the whim to try it again. Not enough to actually bother tracking down a new plug, but enough to muse about it while I type out shit like this.
A break
Sports cars. It sucks knowing you are contributing to climate change AND not even having fun doing it. Family sedans, SUVs and big trucks suck shit. So I drive my little MX-5 as much as I can now. And get to smile that I’m making double the gas mileage of my jeep and having 10X more fun while doing it.
Miata
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AnswerUpvote for one of the classics :-)
No argument here. It’s by far my favorite car I’ve ever driven, and I’ve owned a couple corvettes, a GTO (second favorite), a firebird, WRX. I’ve driven cars of friends with everything from M3s to 911s and honestly everything in between. Nothing has put a smile on my face like the MX-5.
I feel similarly about my compact. It’s easy to park, it has plenty of space for everything I need, it’s adorable, and I fill it like once a month maybe? Honestly sometimes less?
I’ve driven everything due to work, from compact cars to SUVs and even small trucks. I can parallel park with all of them, even with a trailer added.
I have once driven a Smart Fortwo. I could not park. I could touch the rear window from the drivers seat, but I could not park.
USB rechargeable AA batteries.
I still have friends who she’ll put like 20 bucks for a 4 pack of AAs regularly. Dude just get the rechargeables
Depends on the device, some really don’t like rechargeable ones. And for device that get changed so infrequently, like tv remote, use alkaline.
The brand of rechargeable batteries matters a surprising amount, if your device doesn’t play nice maybe try a better brand? My Quest 1 basically only accepts Panasonic Eneloop Pros, I get quite a bit of input lag when using random offbrand rechargeable batteries
If I had to take a guess, it’s probably from the voltage of the battery, if you have a volt meter/multimeter you can test out how the batteries work before putting them in
A potatoe chip.
External hard drive
Cat.
Cats are pretty great
To be fair I always wanted more than one cat, just had to start with one.
A vacation
Cocaine. It had absolutely no effect on me other than making me want more instantly. I tried it like three or four times before realizing that it didn’t really do anything. Granted, the third and fourth time I only got it because my dealer was exceptionally hot and he allowed me to snort the cocaine off of his abs.
Cocaine is connected to so much pain and suffering in this world, it’s one thing one should really abstain from in my opinion
Do you have ADHD? I’ve heard that people who do and try coke end up pretty calm or unchanged.
Very much so. My ADHD has ADHD
Parts of your life are definitely more interesting than mine
Cocaine definitely. Downside of the stripper salt is its a fairly short lived high and the comedown always results in a headache for me so gotta keep doing it to go the night.
Pussy. Also cock.
