MAGA: making clown shoes literal since 2024.
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@MonitorGold10 - on the lapel of your tweed jacket?
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Had a blitz on vinted and made a lot of cash.
Three Real McCoys items pulled in £350 alone.
Paid for my tent.
Odd how some decent items I’m selling are so cheap it’s madness not to buy, yet they linger, and the high price stuff I worried about has gone in a flash.
Same with a lot of stuff I’ve been selling recently including comic books and video games. Its the highest price stuff that flies out first, I guess reflecting its greater collectability and demand which is why it commands higher price in the first place).
I think people are suspicious of lower price stuff.
Certain brands are watched and can sell in under a minute.
There are plenty of resellers who live there and hoover items up. A pair of Fjallraven walking trousers I sold went back up for double before the buyer had even accepted my sale. Cheeky git.
In light of the improving weather* I have this morning swapped out my heavy, lined denim jacket for an unlined jungle jacket.
It occurred to me that this involved swapping my public allegiance from Amen Ra
to Einstürzende Neubauten
* sorry lads, this obviously means that the temperature will drop to 8°C and it will piss with rain for two months.
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Have a wedding in September so picked up a cheap suit from the charity shop over the road. Actually fits quite well.
It has what looks like dried on speck of blood on the sleeve. Don’t know if it was previously owned by a smart/casual serial killer or something else.
Any tips to remove it?
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Tell them you did it rescuing a dog from a burning building.
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Or any independent dry cleaners that will use this product:
Which is very effective indeed! Fun fact. Dry cleaning doesn’t remove odours!
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Congratulations. Who’s the lucky lady?
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Tailors get blood out of fabric by rolling up a length of white thread in their mouth, soaking it in saliva. This is then rolled over the stain until it is drawn up into the thread and disappears. Enzymes. Not sure if it works on someone else’s blood though!
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Probably does. I’m guessing the enzymes evolved not for dealing with your own nosebleeds or needle pricks but for breaking down red blood back when whatever we could catch or forage was eaten raw. If that’s right then they should work even if the blood is from a different species. Which I suppose it might be in Stu’s case (the dress code for my sister’s wedding was ‘tweeds, if you have them’ as a lot of the groom’s mates were/are game shooters).
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Continuing the theme of my lapel pin disorder I see that Public Service Broadcasting have a pin celebrating the 10th anniversary of The Race For Space.
No wait, there are two
No, five of the bloody things. In a nerdy little “collector’s” box 
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