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Looks to me like lampwork by a street vendor- typically they make animals, like giraffes, using a blowtorch.
The Venetians have just fined a German couple 700 dollars for making coffee in the street, so I don’t think they allow street vendors! Even ones with snorkels.
Just tell ’em “It’ll look super-duper on you!” Your ass (Polish ‘dupa’) will look great, the rest of you not so much.
I had complaints about bringing old books into the house from my friend’s mother (elderly Polish lady). I suppose once you open a book and see a mess of bookworms wriggling about it would tend to turn you off old books.
I reported a buyer who lives up a tree in Lapland, for not claiming a refund from eBay (item lost in GSP). Sent him the relevant T&C translated into Finnish and he messaged back asking me to write in English as “Google translate does not work on Finnish”. Perkele!
@Amatino- if you follow the rabbit hole that starts with tailor’s scissors, at some point you’ll come across the lady that makes scissors in a converted public lavatory in Sheffield. Very impressive!
The black finish on the sewing machine might be japanning-it’s used on tailor’s scissors. Might react with solvents.
I had a hundred-dollar silk scarf that someone had fixed to a board with masking tape, leaving that solid yellow gunk. The residue is supposedly rubber.
I just looked on a UK Volvo forum from 2009, and someone was providing the codes from either the VIN or the UK reg, so long as the radio was original to the car. I suppose the VIN is marked elsewhere on the car?
Some Ford radios display the serial number after (I think) the 1 and 6 buttons are pressed. Mine doesn’t 🙁 Where I live there are several independent car audio workshops which should be able to sort it (I’m too cheap and my passengers hate my musical choices anyway) Might be worth seeking out one of those where you live.
07/15/2019 at 11:53 am in reply to: Bold Listings aka "Would You Like To Give Ebay an Extra $4.00 for No Reason" #64941I’ve got some Finnish geezer on my case; he hasn’t received his Stanley plane sent via GSP and wants a refund. I clicked on the link to ask eBay to “step in” and I ended up going round and round in circles, so I “reported” him instead. Seemed to be the only way to actually contact eBay about his problem.
I’m thinking now that next time I get some non-urgent problem and I need to contact eBay I’m going to sit right down and write them a letter. In green crayon. “Sorry, they don’t allow things with sharp points on this ward”.
There’s only three (or maybe two) eBay-approved grading services- Paper Money Guaranty (PMG)
Professional Currency Grading Service (PCGS Currency) and Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS Banknote Grading). What I think happened is that the concatenation of the numbers 1932 and the words “Numistrust Graded” caused some algorithm to reject the listing.i.e. it didn’t recognise the numbers as a year date.(wild-haired guess) Numistrust maybe not a recognised grading company. The title might be seen to imply that Numistrust has given a numeric grade of 1932 to the coin (you’re not allowed to give numeric grades from a non-recognised grading firm in the title).
Anyway, Nu Mistrust?
I sometimes end up on the US site when I type in ebay in the browser bar. Just checked one of my listings and it gave the dollar amount first, followed by the pounds. Also got a message on the overview page that I haven’t got any active listings, which is true re the US site- this might be a quick way of checking whether you’ve accidentally listed on the UK site.
Actually xe.com says $124.99 equals £372.15, which is a bit odd… oh, hang on, I typed the wrong year in. That’s next year’s rate. 😉
07/08/2019 at 5:24 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 418: Brick & Mortar Store Is Not For Us #64609“Honestly, this forum has a high barrier for participating, and the upside is that all of us who run the gauntlet to get in are very motivated to be here. So the conversations are constructive and professional”
Yes!
People are seldom more innocently employed than when they are honestly making money.
Samuel Johnson (amended)
Gimp does what you need for eBay (levels, unsharp mask, cropping and straightening). I started out on Photoshop 3- as far as I remember layers came in with 5 or 5.5, issue 6 was sorted and after that it was just bloatware. A graphics programmer told me that the basic operations are part of the operating system- Gimp and Photoshop are front ends for that.
The old golf story- never bet against a player with one club and a deep suntan. The same with software- the operator who can work channels, layers and pen tool can do most everything. I can’t 🙂 but I can do ‘orrible things with the Plastic Wrap filter.
I use Gimp on a Mac, after losing a copy of Photoshop 8 on an old G5 Mac. I find it clunky.
Flock paper- took me back to memories of the 1970s- my parents decorated an alcove with flock wallpaper, where the patterns were printed in glue and then flocked. The plain stuff was sprayed green and used as “grass” on model railways.
Not sure, but I don’t think it’s possible to draw on flock paper without damaging the surface, so the picture may be a print.
Dried bird poo and flock fibres; mmm… histoplasmosis and flock worker’s lung. “It wasn’t the cough that carried him off, it was the coffin they carried him off in”.
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