Exactly why I ~~didn't~~ don't have any tattoos.
this post was submitted on 26 May 2024
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I CAME HERE TO WRITE THIS.
Wait. Didn't?
I still don't, but I didn't too
So maybe more than one reason
Oops. Thanks.
And thus, my drawer of stickers
I was a poor kid. The aunties and uncles would chip in to get us Lego cars and hands-in-pockets minifigs as kids. It had stickers for stuff like truck grilles before there was silk-screening.
They're still on the sticker pages, so many decades later, carefully stored so a small boy can look at them.
It's weird, of course, to someone who never experienced 'eke' level of working poverty, but it's the situation. My nephew will pass these parts onto his kids who I hope will use them all in a week with wild abandon.
I feel the same way about things. Growing up poor I didn't really get much, so when I did I never used it for fear of losing it. My parents bought me a book of paper airplanes where you rip out the paper and follow the instructions to make a unique plane. I never used it. I still have the same problem with receiving food as a gift, I won't eat it. I make enough now to be comfortable, but I have shoes that are worn through that I won't throw away because I rarely got new shoes when I was a kid. I form crazy emotional attachments to gifts because they were so rare and typically meant someone I loved had to go without just to afford it.
You still get sticker sheets in Lego sets! Only some pieces are screen printed, and usually only in more expensive sets (or on super common pieces).
even worse: what if I decide where to put it, but in a few yeats get bored with it and peel it away, only to see the surface below not discolour the same way the unstickered parts have?
i got a reusable sticker book exactly for this reason. it's a notebook with pages of release paper so that you can stick and peel off stickers easily. it gives me the satisfaction of "using" my stickers without the permanence of losing them after sticking
I'm the opposite. As soon as I have a sticker I have to put it on something. The sticker that came with my lockpicks is on my 3D printer. The JWST sticker that I got from the Lake Afton observatory is on my Xbox. If there's a flat surface with enough space for it, that sticker is on it
I still regret not putting that JWST sticker on my actual telescope
These guys would go crazy seeing my kid with stickers. There's not hesitation, those bad boys will get stuck on something, no matter how trivial.
I was thinking the same thing. My house is littered with random stickers that have run out of stickiness from being put on everything.
the only solution is to buy so many stickers that you couldn't possibly use them all in your lifetime
Get a sheet of magetic paper or similar and put them on that.
my stickers were all unused
Broken link on lemmy.world
Really? I'm logged in through lemmy.world right now and see it, but this happened to another post of mine earlier today too...
Yeah it's just showing the broken image icon
Mind checking again now? I re-uploaded with a screenshot of the original image, which sometimes fixes it.
Now it works!
Sweet, thanks. I wonder what the deal is...
Where's is the original image from? What file format is it?
Either twitter or tumblr, I think.
It was a .jpg, 44kB
I don't know then, that sounds very standard