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  1. I read this morning about a pair of socks that costs…40 Euros!

    The thing about these socks is that they have a lifetime guarantee..if they ever get a hole, you have to cut the socks up,you take a picture of them cut up and send it to the manufacturer (which has a register of who bought them).

    Then they send you a new pair.At least that’s the theory!

    What do you think? Would you spend 40 Euros for a pair of ‘everlasting socks’?

  2. Eeep I am a day behind on Inktober. Here’s [arctic,](https://www.deviantart.com/tereyaglikedi/art/Inktober-2025-Day-19-Arctic-1254509915) [rivals](https://www.deviantart.com/tereyaglikedi/art/Inktober-2025-Day-20-Rivals-1255695786) and [blast](https://www.deviantart.com/tereyaglikedi/art/Inktober-2025-Day-21-Blast-1255696241). Today’s prompt is easy, so hopefully I can do two and get back on track.

    I need to remind myself that just because I can automatize some things, it doesn’t mean I should. Sometimes slow and manual is better.

    Is there some film music that you know, though you have never seen the film? Yesterday I came across Hans Nickel playing Cavatina from Deer Hunter on tuba (honestly everything sounds better on tuba) and remembered that I’ve heard this tune a million times, but I didn’t even know what the movie is about. Seems like a banger, actually I should watch it.

  3. Bird watching subreddits are cool, but as Reddit is so heavily American, I keep seeing a ton of bird species that are relatively close in appearance to species that can be spotted in Finland, but the detail and colouring are just a bit off.

    I wonder if I should refrain from following them, as it would be super useful at this stage of the hobby to etch images of the exact birds I can see over here into my memory…

  5. 4 in the morning here and still very jetlagged after having just come back from a conference in Paris. How did the conference go, you may ask? Well, let’s just say my boss, who’s his own esoteric combination of [Alan Partridge](https://youtu.be/IdaOo6OkP8E?si=4rl8tg4aXVSYw2Ag&t=35s) and Moss from the IT Crowd, decided to respond to perfectly legit questions about our presentation by (I paraphrase) telling our audience that they were just a bunch of stupid French Europoors who didn’t understand the gloriousness of his scientific vision and it’s all their fault for not reading his papers. We came close to getting egged off the stage.

    So to not have to spend any more time thinking about…*that*, let’s just talk about things that have changed in Paris, London and…Copenhagen airport (layover) since I last visited:

    – Dear teenage boys from Britain and the Nordics, the whole [oversized-baseball-cap-that-barely-fits-on-your-head](https://share.google/S18PaSWYENWTi0B6Q) thing really does look very very stupid on you. And also don’t take the piss out of British people for dressing like [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/dYrlcuILci) when you dress exactly the same. Rarr get off my lawn.

    – When you live in the US for too long and lack exposure to these things, spoken Danish does sound suspiciously close to English being spoken by someone from England (especially the North-East). I never thought I’d regularly mistake Danish for English, but I guess I do now. Maybe it’s just that it’s the only Germanic language that doesn’t have any weird sounds like *ch* or *sj* that you don’t get in at least one regional accent of English? Dunno.

    – The Paris Metro has finally got rid of those stupid paper tickets and replaced them with a rechargeable card. Fucking finally. Only about twenty years late to the party, but better late than never.

    – And oh me and my 5 year old self do love to see all those metro line extensions finally get finished. I’m really pissed off with myself that I didn’t fly into Orly instead of CDG to be able to use the new 14 extension.

    – I do still miss living in Paris. There wasn’t the moment of absolute dread and sadness coming back to the US as there was when I still lived in LA, but I do still miss Paris.

    – The amount of newbuild construction happening in the outer London suburbs is just insane (and they all look the same). I guess they must have relaxed planning permission and height restriction rules in the outer boroughs. About time.

    – My, the price of fizzy drinks has gone up in England hasn’t it.

    – I find it hilarious that the Eurostar goes through all the ugliest parts of Paris and London thereby entrenching whatever confirmation biases French people have about England and vice versa.

  6. I had a day off so I went to the makeup store. While swatching stuff and trying to match my foundation. I decided to try and recreate skin tones in an artist kinda way, but with makeup on my hand.

    So I started with Sienna brown lipstick as a base then some red for warmth and, yellow for cool tone, a bit of blue in there bc I think it was too red.

    I know how to shade in monochrome such as black and white drawings, but yea skin tones always just fascinated me. I do want to learn to paint, I love looking at the textures.

    https://timgagnon.com/overall-skin-tone-color-mixing/

    I also just started wearing shorts all the time even when it’s cold. Idk I just like how freeing it feels. But as long as I’m warm on top I’m ok.

  7. Well, it’s here. The moment I’ve been dreading would happen at some point in my life, has finally happened.

    Earlier this year, I stayed with a relatively distant aunt of mine that I’ve never met before, for a grand total of, oh, 2 days? Perfectly nice experience and perfectly nice aunt. Anyway, she texts me again recently asking me if I’d like to join her for Thanksgiving. Ok let me check if my other plans fall through first, but otherwise sure why not, I say. She replies “oh btw there’s a lovely girl I should introduce you to while you’re here”.

    Wait, what?

    Yes, turns out that when I visited her last time, not only did I forget to tick the box that says “I do not wish to be contacted about special offers on potential heteroromantic partners from India”, but it turns out that I also have several other distant aunts and uncles, most of whom know me even less than she does, also taking it upon themselves to be my personal Tinder service without my prior consent. Now of course they can’t go by things like personality or general interests, so they’re instead going by what middle-aged Indian people consider to be highly desirable traits in the industry, namely a) having Dr in front of my name, b) studying STEM subjects at prestigious universities 10-15 years ago, c) being tall and having light skin by Indian standards (I don’t know how being a half-breed affects my total score, or if it’s even being taken into account) and d) having a British passport. In fact, one particular service (not in the US, calm down NSA) told me that I’m SUCH a highly desirable commodity that I should ONLY settle for the most beautiful women no older than 25 (for context, I’m approaching my mid-30s).

    I’ve been told I have to keep an open mind about this. Ummm…how about no? So since the “unsubscribe” button appears to be unavailable to me, I guess I’m just going to have to automatically redirect all my suggestions to the recycle bin while screaming “AVAST! SHE IS NOT YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL ENOUGH FOR ME” like a mad mediaeval monarch. “But Your Majesty, we have scoured all the youngest and most beautiful women of the l…” “WELL HAST THOU THOUGHT ABOUT LOOKING IN OTHER LANDS THAT AREN’T INDIA PERCHANCE? HAST THOU MADE ANY CONSIDERATION OF MINE PREFERENCES OF A SEXUAL NATURE OR EVEN IF I AM OF UTMOST SATISFACTION OF THE BACHELOR LIFE?” “Your Majesty, with good grace you must understand this is an unreasonable reque…” “THOU MOULDY ROGUE, THOU ART A BOIL, A PLAGUE-SORE, A CANKER BLOSSOM, OFF WITH THINE HEAD”

  8. I was driving home on the ring road and there was a huge fire at some industrial building next to it. You could see the smoke rising up to the sky from kilometres away. I think it had just recently started, because I saw a bunch of fire engines going to it. There’s a fire station fairly close to where the fire was. I hope nobody was hurt.

    It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a fire like that. Probably around 20 years. Back then a house in our neighbourhood burnt.

  9. Youtube recommended be a livestream from the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit board of directors regular meeting which I’m now watching. There is 16 people watching the livestream. It’s really fucking boring. Why did Youtube think I’d like to see this? Why did I click it? Why am I still watching it?

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