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[Bella]

I've had good luck avoiding them at in person (and, well, I've only seen one at college and he wasn't being particularly aggressive - i.e. waiting for people to come and talk to him), I was taken by surprise getting a call from one! 

[Chocofreak13]

i'm thankful they'll never contact me, for various reasons.....

just tell them you're considering defecting to Canada.

[Nichi]

I've never had them contact me; seems strange they'd do that :\

[Goujer (she/her)]

I've also never heard of direct contact for recruitement. I can ask my friend in the forces and see the scoop.

Quick dumb story going back to the beenie babys. When I was like 10 I inherited a huge box of beenie babies including the 4 McDonalds world countries beenie babies in perfect mint; so I opened there boxes, tore off there tags and played with them. A few years ago I heard beenie babys could go for a lot on eBay, I looked it up and found the same set I had going for $400. The guilt I felt...

[Nichi]

Mmm. The Beanie Babies market is a screwy thing; I recall a time when even commons could command decent resell value, but the bubble burst with the stunt they pulled in the early '00s; with The End Bear. It was a special edition announced to be the last Beanie Baby ever produced...and then, with the prices for all Beanies hitting their absolute peak on eBay, they released The Beginning Bear as a counterpart to it, and continued producing more Beanies thereafter. The market died overnight because of that, with even the rare ones dropping to almost worthless for a time.

But, if it makes you feel better, I could have won $1,000 back in 1999, in a contest held by Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut during the multimedia blitz promoting Star Wars: Episode I. It was like the McDonald's Monopoly promotion, except you had to collect these cardboard coins (They were basically Pogs), which they gave you a random one with every meal, and when you had a complete set of a certain color, you'd be able to win a prize...and we had the 3 needed to win the $1,000 prize, which my sister realized first. However, it just so happened one of them was the R2-D2 coin that was part of my collection of R2-D2 stuff, and being dumb as fuck, I ignored my sister trying to tell me that we could have a large amount of money, because I thought she was trying to be mean and take away my R2-D2 coin, so mom made her drop it entirely. When I got older (I'd say this was about...'06?), and I stumbled onto all 3 coins in my closet, I realized that I basically threw away $1,000 over a fucking Pog that just happened to have a character I like on it. I honestly wanted to go back in time and punch myself for being so stupid.

[Cockleshell]

i have 5 hours of calculus class and then 3 hours of work after :^) kill my ass

[Chocofreak13]

*cocks gun*



@pent: we all have things we'd like to go back and punch ourselves over

in my case it involves past boyfriends and being a pretentious little fuck in middle school on gaiaonline

[Cockleshell]

bella !!!!

https://twitter.com/jaypinkerton/status/612113790750961664

miss pauling is confirmed GAY AS TIDDIES

you probably saw this already but !

[Chocofreak13]

[Nichi]

>MFW

[Bella]

Not sure how to feel, on one hand I completely support Scoots being 5everalone4life (because I love seeing my favorite characters in agony), on the other Scout/Pauling is one of the few het ships I'll abide. That said, I interpret her character as a "too busy for a romantic life" type a la Princess Bubblegum, which kind of renders her orientation a moot point, at least as far as storyline development goes. 

This really ups the stakes for those Pauling/Zhanna shippers though...

[Cockleshell]

SARDONYX REVEALED DID YOU SEE THIS BIG GIRL

[Chocofreak13]

FUCK MAN I NEED TO GO SEE

[Cockleshell]

JUST KIDDING THAT WAS CITRINE THEY SHOWED AT COMICCON

[Chocofreak13]

BITCH SHE SAID HER NAME IN THE CLIP AND THEY ALREADY ANNOUNCED IT

SARDONYX CONFIRMED, CITRINE IS STILL THE STUFF OF MY DREAMS