Ah, memories…

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    9 months ago

    I really hope that isn’t arsenic teated wood. It probably is… Otherwise that’s awesome!

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      9 months ago

      Arsenic can leach to the surface of the treated wood, becoming accessible for absorption through exposed hands and skin touching the wood surface and, especially in the case of children, ingestion through normal hand-to-mouth behavior. […]

      Exposure to arsenic can cause cancer of the lung, bladder, skin, kidney, prostate, and nasal passage. Data released in November 2003 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show that 90% of children repeatedly exposed to arsenic-treated wood face a greater than a one-in-one-million risk of cancer.

      https://nchh.org/information-and-evidence/learn-about-healthy-housing/health-hazards-prevention-and-solutions/arsenic-treated-wood/

      Sounds like a great pipe :D

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      9 months ago

      My town set up wooden log fencing along our trails and sidewalks. They would decay so fast, the ranger would have to drive by everyday to check the fences.

      They treated the fence the same way you described. Kids would run their hand down it, on their way home. Enough kids got sick, that the town noticed.

      Did they take down the rotting, poisonous fence?

      Nope; everyone just knows not to touch it. They really like that “rustic” look.

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    9 months ago

    I don’t mean anything by this, Flying Squid, but are you a bot or something? I see you post in like every single thread on Lemmy.

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      9 months ago

      Sometimes that’s how seeding content goes. Most content in the beginning, is recycled and posted in mass. Even though it’s been out there, you’ve consolidated/ curated the content. That then draws in new users. Eventually, the goal is that they post their own content.

      We’re all just trying to get ball rolling without spamming.

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      9 months ago

      Maybe just someone with a lot of free time.

      I don’t mean that in an insulting way either. A lot of people frame it that way, but a life privileged by free time is better than a life lived in servitude of excessive work.

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    9 months ago

    I’ve seen a very similar picture of this a few years back. Happy to see it wasn’t removed but no fucking way I’m smoking out of that …

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      9 months ago

      Yeah no way that isn’t filled with dried piss or worse. Nowadays gas stations sell glass pipes, but even if you’re desperate an apple or soda can will do the trick.

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        9 months ago

        Pop can, apple, toilet paper roll wrapped in tinfoil, using tap aerator as pipe screen, hot knives on the stove, bottle tokes off the end of a burning cigarette, etc. Lol.

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          The pop can was my go-to in a pinch in my teenage years. Wonder if it left any lasting effects… I also recall using someone’s homemade bong made out of a Gatorade bottle and socket, pretty sure the original creator never cleaned it. Good times.

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          9 months ago

          hot knives on the stove,

          That first time you get a hash ball and completely waste it because you don’t know how to hot knife… Good times. I mean bad times at the time, but good times.

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            7 months ago

            Some time ago when visiting my parents i took a knive from the drawer and it was the one i remember quite well from my teenage years cause it has a permanent burn mark on it.

            My mom saw me looking at it and said, yeah that one just suddenly turned up like that, i still have no idea what happend to it.

            Sorry mom…

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            9 months ago

            you won my heart with the last statement. you can def tell someone’s age by how much shitty weed they smoked in their life.

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        9 months ago

        Pen + water bottle until they replaced the metal tip with chrome plated plastic onesa

        Apples always worked too