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Probably, each of us has strange things, similar to a suitcase without a handle - they're hard to carry, but it is absolutely a pity to leave them behind. Things that once mattered to us or someone close to us, but today gather dust somewhere in the attic or sometimes 'float to the surface' during a thorough cleaning of the house.

The most interesting thing about these items is that almost every one of them has its own story, thrilling or amusing, and sometimes it sounds so incredible that it looks more like an excerpt from some adventure movie than a story from real life. Perhaps it is precisely because of the memories that these things give us that we continue to selflessly store them at home, brushing off the dust and wiping an occasional tear from our eyes.

Once a thread appeared in the AskReddit community, which instantly went viral with almost 40K upvotes and around 23.3K different comments. The author of the original post asked "What is the most controversial thing you own?" and if you're a writer experiencing a genre crisis, there's just an endless sea of fresh ideas here for you. However, the selection made by Bored Panda based on the original thread will be interesting for literally anyone, so please feel free to scroll it to the very end and tell your own stories in case you own some strange items as well.

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28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online A Bengal tiger pelt. My wife is half Indian. A friend of her family died, and they found a tiger pelt in his belongings. He was early 80’s and was born and raised in India before moving to my country (Canada). The estate was split in 3 so most everything had to be liquidated. Well you can’t sell tiger pelts here, and no museum or anything seemed to want it. So somehow I wound up with it. My wife’s a vegetarian for ethical reasons. So naturally I was floored to bring it home. Id never hunt an endangered species, and I’m firmly against hunting for sport. But I wasn’t going to let it get thrown in the trash.

skinrust , Thomas B. Report

Strings
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Would seem to me that throwing it away would be disrespectful to the animal

Patricia
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I agree. Throwing it away won't bring the animal back, and I would treasure it as I would have treasured the living tiger, only from a distance.

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Thegoodboi
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In this scenario, a professional cleaning and displaying all the glory of a beautiful animal is the best thing if it's already gone...I hope that these cats can make a come back in numbers but the trash isn't the way...everyone should see how beautiful they are and learn the best way to see these animals is on a camera in the wild and not on a wall or on the floor

Mercedus Long
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Heirloom it. The gent was in his 80's. Chances are it wasn't illegal to hunt the tigers then but is now. Find out how he came into it and make it part of the families history. So it becomes a family treasure and not something stored with mothballs.

Sunny Day
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Check with your local museum or zoo. They could use it in a display about the plight of tigers.

Phoenix the Frog
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is what I always debate when I go to thrift stores. I might like something but it's leather so come the question would it be wrong to buy it since it's not contributing to killing animals ( I am an ethical vegetarian). I don't get them though since I still haven't answered that question.

Maria
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have the same discussing in my head about sweatshops and second hand.

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Scrolling Panda
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd buy it in a heartbeat. I live and old fashioned lifestyle and utilize pelts for warmth. Finding vintage pelts is always preferable, as the pelt if well cared for can go on to serve a purpose for many generations, but when I cannot, I source mine through subsistence herders with free range herds. Fur farms are evil and I do my absolute best to make sure that absolutely NONE of my money makes it back to those places.

Tushar Roy Mukherjee
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

hey. High -five OP. My granddad was the chiefforest ranger at Buxa Tiger reservein India,and during a night patrol, he once recovered a freshly-skinned Tiger pelt from a group of poachers he and his team apprehended . Problem is, back in the day there was no proper system to register these recovered items, so my Granddad had to hold onto it, and after his death, his cousin was given the pelt. The whole family has been unable to sell it, because of the aforementionedlack of registration

Best Behave
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don’t believe displaying it is t the way forward. I might try talking to an anti hunting campaign group to get some ideas about what to do

Manjula Sridhar
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just so you know, tiger pelt is used for spiritual practices. People sit on it and use for meditation and other practices. Most of the practitioners are staunch vegetaraians too.

Aspasia
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you ever want to get rid of it, try contacting conservation groups. Sometimes they use things like that for educational purposes.

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    #2

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online My great grandpa was a medic in ww2 and we own a little chest with his personal belongings, including his diary, some old bandages And 3 vials of 1940s morphine

    i_wanted_memes , Jess Loiterton Report

    Donkeywheel
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What’s the problem? How is it controversial to own 3 vials of morphine? Anyway It most certainly is not morphine anymore, the solution is not stable and would not last 80 years.

    Ralph Watkins
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At our local flea market the one vendor cleared out an old drug store from around 1900. He just had everything up for sale without paying attention to what was in the bottles. Alcohol was in every one of them. Also various concoctions of heroin, morphine, strychnine, mercury, & cocaine. I told him about it & now he worried.

    Austin Sauce
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was waiting for the “…btw he was a Nazi medic” reveal

    Sherri Mantooth Bagwell
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    80+ yo Morphine probably has the current strength of 2 Xtra strength Tylenol!

    Beck
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sears catologue (geez how do you spell that) had them by the syringe in the early 1900s.

    Marie Dahme
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Years ago the library had a reproduction of a early 20th century Sears & Roebuck catalog. I loved looking at it. For mere 95 cents I could have a set of fancy silver jeweled hair combs that are probably worth bank now. Now I want to google for it. Lol

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    Max Fox
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I gave back my syrettes of morphine the last time I served as a reservist. I had the since my regular service, 12 years earlier. You have sign them out, but after a shell landed in the medical clinic when we were out on maneuvers, we listed all of our morphine as destroyed, in case one of us lost ours. Still had a bunch, so each of us took a set of 5 home. I can't remember who I handed off mine to. If I wasn't moving overseas I would have kept them. It's been almost 40 years now.

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    #3

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online Apparently, a full vaccination card. (A genuine one.) And a mask.

    TinyKeebe , Markus Winkler Report

    Jocie (they/them)
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this should be way higher!!

    Sponge Blob
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's no possibility of it being above #1.

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    Dani M
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    lol. there are so many idiots... i am happy with my 4 vacchines and diligent mask wearing - I have actually avoided the plague so far! and most importantly- not killed my elderly parents.

    RamiRudolph
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    2 years ago

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    I'm not vaccinated, but I haven't got Covid so far and none of my family members have died either. So what.

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    Michael Largey
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Since when is doing the sane and responsible thing controversial?

    Lacia Lew
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have one too. We're still using mask too. Health safety precautions are still in effect too. What is so wrong with that. Are you guys okay over there.

    Der Kommissar
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some people and certain media sources have politicized the vaccine and just plain lied about its effectiveness. That is why, in the USA quite a few more Republicans have died from Coronavirus than Democrats.

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    Fintan Lawton
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why would anyone avoid talking about being vaccinated? That would be like not talking about taking paracetamol surely?

    Bryan W.
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I got a genuine chortle out of this. It's going to be such a non-issue in a year or so. I wonder what nonsense the uber-right will be in uproar about by then. Maybe something even dumber like gas stoves. Oh...

    Michael Fernandez
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Left-handed Zoroastrians with pierced septums who wear pleather jackets are grooming our children!

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    Headless Roach
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had to wear a mask to see a doctor this morning, felt very much like 2020.

    Ephemeral Mochi
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    wait how do you wear a mask if you have no head?

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    Jesse
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    upvote for german passport, recognised my neck of the woods

    Michael Fernandez
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still wear masks in indoor public spaces. Nobody gives me any grief.

    Ralph Watkins
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That WHO issued vaccination pamphlet is standard in the US military, US State Dept, & other US govt agencies. My family & I still have our's from over 30 years ago.

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    #4

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online A packaged stick from Afghanistan that claims to cure all known illnesses, including cancer, if you rub it on you. I traded an energy drink for it. I think it’s pretty controversial since I now own the cure for all ailments.

    isnoe , Ali Yasser Arwand Report

    Headless Roach
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can you fix a missing head? Asking for a friend.

    Sleepy children love Moon
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know if the stick can, but if you come down to Parts and Service, I'm sure we can get you a robotic head if you want

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    James Tartaglione
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    can it cure depression, adhd, crippling anxiety and maladaptive daydreaming? . . . . asking for a friend

    BoredPandaSucks
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    if it will cure all ailments, try rubbing it on humanity and see if it will cure stupid. it would make things much better if it worked.

    Doofus Jerry
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My uncle owned one of those sticks. He got AIDS. He accidentally broke the cure the day before. It was a sticky situation.

    raisin hippo
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Similar to Headless Roach's comment: can you fix shriveled-up skin on a hippo?

    Kilo Jones
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But without the energy needed to perform them.

    Procrastination 2.0
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can it fix procrastination, though?

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    #5

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online As a joke I told my mom I wanted my dogs testicles in a jar after we had him neutered…. She took it seriously and now I have had my dogs balls in a jar for almost a decade

    GhostBoy301 , John Loo Report

    Carlos
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow, this is just nuts man.

    Jude Kay
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's really funny. You'll have to search for more articles on neutering so you can use it again on the comments. My post SOUNDS a little sarcastic when I read it, but it's a compliment!

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    Peppy
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is literally the mutts nuts

    KathleenJ
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have my cat's! since 2011! and I'm not ashamed. they're in my frig!

    Jude Kay
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You could put them in resin and make paperweights!

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    Robert T
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well that's absolutely the dog's doodahs!

    Jude Kay
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Know why dogs lick their nuts? Because THEY know they're going to lick you in the FACE!

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    EvilNob
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Your mom has a wicked sense of humour.

    Jami Stewart-Laycock
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My niece requested the umbilical cord pieces from my boys after birth (after falling off obviously) but didn't get either since both fell off while with my grandma and were disposed of without my knowing. I'd have done it just to gross out my mom. Lol 😂

    Thegoodboi
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well if i would've kept something it would've been the boujee (pronounced booshy) tail but balls it is!

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    #6

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online Allister Crowley's Key of Solomon. It's a book about summoning demons. It's just a curiosity piece.

    MadMath477 , Steven Miller Report

    and_a_touch_of_the_’tism
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where does one get such a book? …asking for a friend.

    Headless Roach
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can't have it. There's only one copy and it's in my possession. I am possessed too.

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    Elaine N
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    fun fact: this is the book that Belle from 'beauty and the beast' is reading when she is sitting next to the fountain.

    Claire Kaplan
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait, so when Belle says "here's where she meets prince charming"...

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    Gustav Gallifrey
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Aleister Crowley was a clever trickster who made a living from stupid well-off people who wanted to be a bit 'daring' for their time. Whatever 'magick' he possessed is to be found in all successful con-men.

    Veronica Jean
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "It's just a curiosity piece" - The Cat

    detective miller's hat
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is that considered weird? I have all of his books, including that one...

    Lacia Lew
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unless you owned the original handwritten script by Crowley himself, I don't think it's weird. I mean, it's right there on Kindle nowadays?

    PinkLadyEmpress
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The book in pic is exactly like the one Belle is reading in Beauty and the Beast

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    #7

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online My Scottish family crest is a hand holding a severed head on a sword. The owner of the head is a Moor who allegedly was wanted by the king. The reward was land. My ancestor caught this guy, cut off his head and brought it to the king. Pretty controversial when you know what a Moor was.

    lady_jaynes_secret , Mike Mozart Report

    Salty.Hag
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why hide it? It's part of history and it's in the past. Plus if my memory serves me right the moors were the raiders and enslavers back then.......for 700 plus years if not 800.

    SirDigbyChickenCaesar
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My family crest is of a woman, carrying the severed head of a man in one hand and holding up an anchor with the other. I find many crests have somewhat cryptic images but these seem pretty straight forward.

    Elaine Morinelli
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My family comes from the tip of Italy's boot. We are very dark, which I attribute to the Moors invading and ruling that part of Italy for hundreds of years. They were just everywhere. Every family has one (or more).

    CV Vir
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also there is no such thing as a family crest. A heraldry/arms was given to a specific person by the king; that person’s single heir could inherit it (sometimes.) Think of it like a teapot: one person can inherit it, not five people.

    Heather Barnett
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm curious though if it was that specific Moor for real reasons? Like a crime beyond being born. Or just the head of any Moor?

    Tawnie Bryan
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You're a descendant too?? Small world!

    Valerie G.
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was a volunteer at a cat shelter, I visited the booths at the fair. One sold books with histories about various clans. Mine was Macintosh. I picked it up and asked the guy who ran the both if this was a joke. He wanted to know why. "well, for one the slogan for my clan name is "touch not the cat but a glove". Sir, I work at a cat shelter.

    Philenzortia
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I read "chest" instead of "crest" and I was highly concerned that this person had a human head saved somewhere in their house....

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    #8

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online When my sister was in high school she wrote letters to Charles Manson. He wrote her back. My dad intercepted the letters in the mail. He never opened them, but still has them. My sister never knew he wrote back. **Edit to answer some questions** I can’t believe I woke up this morning to this explosion… My sister is 7 years older. Mental health was left generally undiagnosed and untreated in the 80s. She was a rough kid to parent, and even as a sibling there’s a lot of trauma stemming from her I’ve had to work through. I haven’t spoken to her since I was in my 20s. She’s estranged from my dad, my other sister, and I. She has worked her way back into my mom’s life as she’s gotten older, more than likely to benefit from her death. I do remember her being obsessed with Manson when I was a kid. She was a f*****g menace, constantly getting into some sort of trouble, running away, police calls, etc. As soon as she turned 18 she was kicked out. She turned 50 last month, and according to my mom “she finally has her life together, she bought her first house”. My dad told me about the letters approximately a year ago. This happened 30 years ago, I’m pretty sure there wouldn’t be any federal charges brought against him (haha), and he has no reason to make this up or lie about it. I told him I want them left to me in his will. To the people messaging me to buy the letters…big fat f*****g NO. If and when I get them in my possession, I’ll evaluate what I want to do with them at this time. I agree they’re worth more sealed than opened.

    sloth_the_syd , Karolina Grabowska Report

    Kat Min
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am realy impressed that people didn't open them. The curiosity would just kill me

    Brittany Howard
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I imagine it could be really painful, too, especially if you could infer what your child had written based on his replies.

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    EJBWritesBooks
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who is he? Please don't downvote I just live under a rock...

    csnakey
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How would want to buy Mansons letters and why?

    Awkward Lady
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are collectors out there, who would pay good money for anything connected with major criminals and killers. The Krays, for example, used to sell their art.

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    JOHN DOE
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd sell the only known and unopened letters from Manson. Some idiot would pay a fortune for them.

    Marie Dahme
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’m sure a historian would view this as worthy of examining to get more of a perspective on how Manson influenced people while he was still in prison. Can’t deny the man did influence the psychology and psychopathy of mass murderers. Ironically, the crimes of Sharon Tate and the Libianca murders….Manson never actually touched any of them. But his influence was powerful. Imagine if OP’s sister was writing to Manson while he was NOT in prison. She would have easily have been influenced to run away and could’ve been a criminal as well. This is just a WOW story. Thanks OP for sharing l.

    Jude Kay
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd talk to a professor or religious leader I trust to see if I should burn them or give to someone who studies criminals. Maybe read them first. But I wouldn't PROFIT off them.

    JoJo Anisko
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Would OP consider donating to the behavioral science unit of the FBI?

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    Junebugjump!
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is extraordinary. Thank you for the edits to tell more of the story. My brother and I had carte blanche in the Library, but NOT for Helter Skelter or any books about Manson.

    M J
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would not take them if you paid me. As the years have gone by, I'm less and less inclined to the voyeuristic attraction of the odd and painful episodes in others lives. Especially those who should be left to anonymity.

    Matt
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow the op seems a little entitled wanting letters addressed to his sister like he has a right to them

    Upstaged75
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tell me you didn't read the whole thing without telling me you didn't read the whole thing....

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    #9

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online Probably a small bone I lifted from a catacomb In Peru when I was younger. Technically I’m a grave robber and definitely getting haunted.

    igotdeletedonce , Deann DaSilva Report

    Brunning6
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You could repatriate the bone.

    Doctor Strange
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Please Do Not take artifacts from sites. Even just moving them can destroy valuable information about our past. The precise location something is found can be very important.

    Valerie Lessard
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't take anything from historical sites. Ever. But having said that I don't think the owner of that bone gives a c**p where the bone is.

    Jude Kay
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd get some advice from a university or priest. Then it's on THEM!

    ShaZam Beaubien
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hmm ... I seriously wonder what the fine or jail time or both would be?

    Max Fox
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think that those of us who are curious about how to summon a demon are also curious if a human bone would be helpful. Just curious, of course.

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    #10

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online 5 grams of uranium metal, stored under oil in a glass vial.

    ScienceAndNonsense , Larry Nutt Report

    Cyndielouwhoo
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The accompanying photo is uranium glassware tho.

    and_a_touch_of_the_’tism
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    BP is notorious for ill-fitting pictures. I suspect they’re picked by AI based on code words, not actual people.

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    Thegoodboi
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ok but the real question is...will I turn into a super wolf if I drink it?...

    LoneTomato
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd kind of like to know how they got it. And does the oil neutralize the radiation? I would have thought it needed to be kept in a lead box or something.

    M O'Connell
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can just buy it. Uranium metal is generally "depleted uranium" which is what's leftover after refining fuel for use in nuclear reactors. The oil is there to prevent it from forming an oxide layer on the surface which would interfere with whatever scientific purposes it might be used for.

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    Jude Kay
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would find out how to get rid of it. A scientist at a University or something. What would happen to it if you die?

    M O'Connell
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It isn't terribly hazardous. Depleted uranium does emit the odd alpha particle. However, α-particle radiation cannot penetrate your skin (or even a sheet of paper) so as long as you don't ingest it, it's harmless.

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    Donkeywheel
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nothing controversial. 5 grams of depleted uranium if harmless, freely available and cost less than 100 euros/dollars.

    Lord of the laserprinter.
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have started to collect uranium glass.... sooo pretty.

    Eve Ballein
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    WHY!!!???? Just asking for a friend...

    Damon Smithwick
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just don't be too critical about it.

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    #11

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online Not me, my parents growing up.. they had an actual elephant foot turned into a table. Like an actual foot cut from an elephant and taxidermied made into an end table. Had a glass table top. You could feel the thin hairs on it. F****n haunted my dreams man.

    bobsux1234 , Melqui Report

    zak
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We have an elephant foot in my family, too; it was made into a stool/ottoman, and has the skin/hair/toenails still intact. I posted in another thread a while ago about the leg bone that I have. My grandfather was a professional archer with a long bow (he's actually in the hall of fame). For the record, I don't condone killing elephants.

    Max M
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wonder what arrows could penetrate an elephant

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    Robert T
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We only ever had their footprints in the fridge. [For those wondering, an elephant's footprint is a type of creamcake]

    walkabout
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was gifted a pair of elephant hide western style boots. They are quite similar to a pair featured in a recent issue of National Geographic magazine. Their provenance is unknown. They are likely African, culled from a herd in the interest of population control; the skin lawfully sold to a large and popular U.S.A. bootmaker. According to the article DNA testing is usually inconclusive due to the tanning and treatment process. When I learned of the controversy I wondered if anyone would notice or care. No one does. I plan on returning them to the giver. I won't own any another exotic hide items in the future.

    Shyla Bouche
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've had lots of elephant ears. They're basically pie crust sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon, then deep fried.

    Lacia Lew
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have never understand why people taxidermied dead animals. They're f*****g dead. Let those poor things go.

    Patti
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I own a ivory bracelet I bought back in the 80s. Don't have the heart to wear it or get rid of it.

    Salty.Hag
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You don't have to wear it but def keep it, I'm sure it's atlease a lovely bracelet. Getting rid of it won't bring the animal back, I feel like keeping it's better to honor that creature it came from.

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    James Edwards
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We had an elephant's foot too but it was connected to my ex wife!

    Jane Cortez
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    :( this makes me want to cry, the atrocities that man committed and continues to commit.

    Marek Čtrnáct
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There was a Far Side cartoon with an elephant, who is missing a leg, on the phone with someone. "What? They turned it into a WASTEBASKET?!"

    Niall Mac Iomera
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was a kid we had friends that had one turned into an umbrella stand. So weird.

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    #12

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online My family owns a petrified walrus [wang], my grandmother took it to get it identified at the Smithsonian several decades ago. Apparently her grandfather or maybe it was her great-grandfather brought it home after he spent several years on some type of expedition up around northern Alaska and points north. It has been loaned out to several museums at different times. The family has talked about selling it but everyone has to agree and so far there is no agreement about selling it. So I own 1/67th of a petrified walrus [wing-dang-doodle].

    Robyn_withaY , Jonathan Cooper Report

    Robert T
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is just getting silly, BP. So w**g is acceptable, but penis, w***y, d**k and k**b are not. Edit apparently w**g isn't, but penis actually is. So instead of childish language, why can the post not just say penis, like a grown up?

    A Random Anvil
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sucks if your name happens to be any of those.

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    Gerald Ogden
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Inuit used them as war clubs... those bones are no joke. But still have to say that it's the worst way to get d*#k slapped...

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    Roddfergg
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My family has one. It is capped in ivory. Back in the 70's, everyone in Alaska had one.

    Maria
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why though? Why not a flipper, or a tooth?

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    Thegoodboi
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well that's an ice breaker if I ever heard one...

    Wondering Alice
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Growing up, my dad had an embryonic whale in a jar on the mantle piece. It upset him, he did not like like it. No idea about any back story, but on my grandfather's dea death, my dad called a few museums and gave it the first who said they would like it. My dad and his sisters enjoy arguing over minor inheritance (there is nothing of real value) but on the subject of the whale, they all find it horrid. I kind of wish I knew the story though

    Austin Sauce
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Props for the Futurama reference

    AK to LV
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Isn't there a museum of penises some where in the world? I seem to remember seeing something about it.

    El Howard
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's an Oosik. They used to sold in lots of tourist traps in Alaska. I used to see them all the time, but never bought one. I just have an ivory Billiken, which is another bizarre Alaskan souvenir. I was never quite clear if it was the part of the walrus they claimed it was, or was just carved from a tusk.

    Mark Melton
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    These Walrus penis bones are ivory and called, Oosik. I have a 20 inch long one from Alaska.

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    #13

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online Umm mortuary toe tags from an asylum in New York ....like twenty or so of them ... I think they could be the only things left showing that these people actually lived

    ironviking13 , Amy the Nurse Report

    M Whee
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You should scan these so there is a record, a university library would be a good place to see if they want them for their archives. If I had an ancestor that was committed, I'd want a photo of the tag. Especially as it might be the only record of their death date.

    Nichole Harris
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is cool! Thank you for finding a way to remember the forgotten!

    Say What
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They should be given to a historical society

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    Junebugjump!
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's heartbreaking. Glad you have them and honor their memory.

    ShaZam Beaubien
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm not sure why you would take them ... to honor them ... for horror stories ... I'm not sure.

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    #14

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online An ornate, Boer tobacco jar from the 1800s. My great grandfather looted it off a dead militiaman during the Second Boer war.

    deathtotheminutemen , Joe Haupt Report

    Lord of the laserprinter.
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There was at one time in the family, (somewhere) a woman’s breast, cut off and cured and turned into a tobacco pouch by a great, great uncle during the Boer wars. I remember seeing it as a kid and being totally scared by this gruesome thing Back in the sixties. Seems these tobacco pouches were a thing back in the day and it is said, that some could hold a pound of tobacco.

    Valerie Lessard
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Today I learned from bored panda commenters that you're allowed to, nay, encouraged to steal from the dead body as long as you don't like who it belongs to.

    Austin Sauce
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not gonna lie… had to look up Boer.

    Vermontah
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My dad looted a gun from a dead enemy soldier in WWII

    Raelene Christie
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I grew up in South Africa and my great great grandfather and my great grandfather fought on opposing sides, apparently if they were in a skirmish the made sure to avoid each other. Also fyi the British out over women and children in internet camps and there was a cholera outbreak and they were give Epsom salts which the board thought they were being poisoned and the Afrikaans name for Epsom salts is Engels se do it which literally me and English salt. Sorry for the random piece of trivia but I love this story.

    Pete Deegan
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Internment camps, not Internet camps. Basically, the British invented the concentration camp during the Boer War, killing over 25,000 civilians, mainly women and children, with children accounting for 80% of the deaths.

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    Max Fox
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My great grandfather fought for the Brits in the Boaer, war, or more correctly was a saddlemaker. He even got a medal or something. He shouldn't have been there but decided that he would go to South Africa instead of to the USA like he was supposed to.

    Jude Kay
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    2 years ago

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    I'd want to respectfully get rid of it. You might want to Google your dilemma for advice.

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    #15

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online I have a glass vial/small bottle of pure histamine. If anyone would be exposed to this they would get a deadly allergic reaction. I have it double sealed.

    TheRealMonreal , RF._.studio Report

    LoneTomato
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not being shady.... but I'm highly curious as to how people acquire some of these things

    SarahBee
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And if the glass vial falls and breaks around the wrong person...

    Andrea Careless
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why? Are you planning on killing someone? Get rid of it.

    Sophia Watanabe
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What is histamine and is it legal to throw it at someone that is LITERALLY DESTROYING THE EARTH (like a alien or something) - asking for a friend

    Mommitude Attitude
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What would be the purpose of it? Genuinely curious

    Ginger Ghost
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Histamine is an ingredient of topical drugs for the relief of joint pain or muscle aches and pains. [https://go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB05381]

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    Amanda Wise
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a used covid vaccine vile. Found it left behind at work (so weird because I don't work in any type of medical setting whatsoever) couldn't resist taking home a piece of pandemic history

    Raelene Christie
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where on earth did you get such a thing and why? Seems really dangerous, I really hope it is marked or has a label it would be awful if someone opened it in error. Very very cool but a little terrifying.

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    #16

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online A first print edition of Batman Damned #1, the one featuring Batman's "little batman". (From DC Black Label featuring more adult content. Violence and swearing are totally fine, but a shadowy [phallic] profile made people flip out enough they removed it from subsequent print runs).

    1nd1anaCroft , Fiona Henderson Report

    Cyndielouwhoo
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm confused about the cake photo here...

    Mouse
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's up there as one of my favorite boredpanda wrong photo matches

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    David
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The cake photo BP chose makes me lol. Looks like it should have a my little pony figurine in the middle. Last minute someone says - but I wanted a Batman cake!. No problem (swaps out MLP figure for Batman figure)

    PotatoNinja5000
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have the whole series in first print, and then I bought the collected hardback edition. The originals have only been opened to check quality, so the hardback is my reading copy. It's a pretty good read with brilliant artwork, but people only seem to talk about the Batwang.

    Icecream Sarang
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I own The Little Mermaid in the original VHS box. For those wondering Google The Little Mermaid cover art.

    Kathi Firns-Hubert
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Reminds me of my neighbors, where my daughter spent a lot of time growing up. They would watch the grossest, most violent movies & that was okay, but their son was told not to watch any more movies at our house after they watched one that showed kissing (heaven forbid people show love)!

    Ham Fright
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm not wearing hockey pants.... or any pants.

    Maggie
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Off subject, but I would love some jazzy drops chocs from the cake.

    Mimi M
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Couldn't find the front, but here's the back - pretty cool: 26367173._SX540_.jpg 26367173._SX540_.jpg

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    #17

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online A small horse figurine made of ivory. I have a small collection of horse figurines, and it was a gift from my grandmother from when I was little. Nothing I can really do about it, but I still feel a little icky for having it.

    ThotTamales , Sean Report

    Paul Pienkowski
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My girlfriend showed me her grandma's eagle hat. Or headdress, she called it. She's only allowed to own it because it she is half Native. Apparently you can't own eagle feathers otherwise.

    and_a_touch_of_the_’tism
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yup, and even then it’s pretty strict. Migratory bird act, I think.

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    M Whee
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I worked for a state wildlife agency, and whenever we got a dead eagle, usually from roadkill, the bird would be frozen and shipped to a repository where Native Americans could request feathers. Eagles don't need to be killed for the feathers anymore.

    TheBadHalfofHel
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I inherited 2 ivory bracelets from my mother who got them from my grandmother. My grandmother was a missionary in, what was then, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso). The village leader gave them to her as a farewell/thank you gift and she was afraid not to accept them.

    Cheryl Ramsay
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a hand carved ivory elephant. My mom visited a friend in Belgium in the 1960's and they went to a "bazaar" where my mom found this elephant. Her friend had been a missionary in South Africa and told her the people selling the elephant were from a good company in South Africa. I love elephants but am unsure exactly what to do with my beautiful elephant as I don't have any authentication that it was purchased before the ban.

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    Jude Kay
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Google and see if someone has an answer about not feeling guilty if it's old. There are pianos with ivory keys I'm sure are still played. Tough one.

    Little L
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a chessboard made out of ivory and ebenholtz. It really old. I won't throw it away but it bothers me.

    SweetCheesySpaghetti
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    my husband has two ivory statues that has been past down through several generations of his family. We don't tell anyone it's real ivory.

    memyselfandI
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The damage has been done, and it would be wasteful to get rid of it.

    Alecto76
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I understand. After my dad died, I have all of my grandparents ivory figurines (or their parents? Honestly I don't know where these came from). No idea what to do with them.

    Exotic Butters
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All you can do is keep them, gift them (but who wants ivory?) or throw them away.

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    Sassawrasse
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We have a large heirloom piece of ivory (not sure if tusk or tooth) with scrimshaw on it. Historically it's very cool, but ethically it sometimes feels off. It's been around for ages and I've admired it since I was little, so I hope the honor and admiration it's been given in our home is giving the animal's memory some of the respect it deserves. (We absolutely do not condone animal trophies of any kind. Shed antlers are ok tho!)

    Kat Min
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have an ivory bead necklace from vietnam from the 1980s. They were a gift from some Vienamese official ot my Dad, so I assume they are not from a poached, but I still wouldn't be able to wear them. They are pretty: small and a creamy white, but they are ....elephant teeth. It didn't use to bother me but my sensibilties really have changed over the decades.

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    #18

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online An original Asteroids arcade machine. But my brother and I removed the original (burned-in) oscilloscope screen and replaced it with an LCD panel, replaced the controls with six-button arcade fighter sticks, and hooked the whole thing up to a hacked Xbox with thousands of dumped ROMs on it. The original board was gone before we got the cab, donated to another machine that did have a working monitor. Controversial because some arcade historians would prefer to see these cabs preserved rather than hacked. But with a burned screen and no board, this cab was pretty useless.

    Adventurer_By_Trade , Wolfgang Stief Report

    M O'Connell
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As long as the sticks were installed in the original button cutouts and nothing was done to damage the rest of the original cabinet then what you've done is fine. Mods are totally ok as long as they are done in a way that is reversible.

    RyanRyanRyan
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    original, with every part replaced like new.. 🤔

    Marco Richter
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do you own by chance a working Polybius cabinet?

    aldebar
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Soooooo it's not an original Asteroids MACHINE. It's an original cabinet. So misleading. Ship of Theseus theory: if every piece of a ship is replaced when it breaks, is it the same ship?

    Valerie Lessard
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It ceases to be original after all that

    Twit Hunch
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Always brings back good memories to see those cabinets. My brother-in-law was a security guard at the Atari HQ in the early 80s. They had an "employee game room" staff could book for friends and family use. Every game was free, just press "Start". I had more "friends" than I could count once word got around I had access to that room.

    Rostit .
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    most of those cabinets were bastardized anyway. If it was a jamma board then even more of a chance.

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    #19

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online An original copy of Mao’s Red Book from when they were distributed in China back in the 60s Also a copy of Mein Kampf but I’m not sure about this copy’s backstory

    Themasterofcomedy209 , shankar s. Report

    Paul Pienkowski
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mein Kampf is terrible. But it is a great insight into the mind of a complete nutball.

    and_a_touch_of_the_’tism
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And an excellent study in the psychology of manipulation. Hitler was a complete nutball, but he was upsettingly clever.

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    Blyss Blyssylb
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I found a hard copy of Stephen Vincent Benet's writings/poetry/stories doing a vacancy clean out at an assisted living facility for the elderly. This book was even signed by the original Stephen Vincent Benet! The book was full of his writings starting from when he was a little boy (10 yro). If you've never heard of him, that's ok. He was a Halo cast survivor. One of the few to leave Nazi death camp, Auschwitz. Some of his best known stories, "The Hemp" & "Krystal Nacht" are in this book. It has become a most cherished piece of history and one of my favorite books!

    Heather McDonald
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can just buy Mein Kampf at most bookstores. Having one isn't that controversial.

    Katie Lutesinger
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh hey, I have the red book too. Got it off my dad who got it from my grandma. It's dated 1972 and has my grandfather's name pencilled in the front. No idea why he would have wanted it or where he got it from.

    Otto Katz
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had/have a copy of the red book, or, i did.I have no idea where it ended up.

    A Random Anvil
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's worth money. The little Red Book, if original, and in good shape, can fetch thousands.

    Der Kommissar
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is a collectible. The Black Panthers would buy copies (in the 60s) for a dollar and sell them to the radicals in Berkeley for $5

    Alexandru Bucur
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ha. I also have both - Mao's book was a gift to my grandfather from a visiting Chinese delegation in the 60s (we were "communist bothers" after all and the book was a Romanian translation made especially for this trip) and the other was a gift to my other grandfather in the 90s and it comes with a modern preface and postface putting it all in historical context. I kept them both because it's useful to know what some of the world's worst humans were thinking and, let me tell you, you cannot read Mein Kampf and then claim ignorance about what that lunatic is going to do once in power, because he literally spells it out...

    KMill
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I once saw a first edition Mein Kampf in a rare bookshop. It was in a glass case. Probably haunted.

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    #20

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online Troll dolls we're very big in the early 90's. I have a confederate soldier troll doll in full uniform with flag in hand. Thanks Dad!

    JohnSterlingSanchez , Hoboh Official Report

    Dani M
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Weird, but even as a child i absolutely hated these trolls!! the were the hottest s**t with the other children but they are super gross to me

    Jude Kay
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The trolls look like two twin former child stars. They're really pretty today. But they did look like trolls when they were on TV.

    OnAFreakingRollercoaster
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mary-kate and Ashley by any chance? They still look like trolls imo. Far too skinny

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    Marie Dahme
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They actually made a confederate troll doll on purpose ??? Wow.

    Bubs623
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow. White nationalists even infected cute little troll dolls?? So sad.

    Crude Tuna
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My mother was a member of the "Troll of the month club"

    deejak
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They were known as "dammit dolls" back in the 60s in my neighborhood. Anyone else?

    kitteh floof lover
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i had a bunch of trolls and rat finks in the 60's. we used to trade them at school.

    Sophia Watanabe
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A few words for the picture- creepy and nightmare fuel— extreme.

    Mimi M
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I never had a regular doll or a barbie, but I had a whole collection of trolls!

    PenguinQueen
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait.... I had these... But just assumed they were Trolls - Like depicted in children's story books about the made up creatures who lurk under bridges (UK) like even in the TV show they were just depicted as mischievous beings going about their innocent random lives.... But now I'm guessing there was a sinister undertone of discrimination or racism? Is that what's going on?

    Isaac7lego🇺🇸
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    no this one just had a confederate outfit for some reason

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    #21

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online A copy of The Anarchist's Cookbook

    Ihadacow , Kirrus Report

    Alias-the-shade
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For a second I thought it said Antichrist cookbook but know I’m disappointed 😭

    Amy S
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Agreed, I wanna know how the antichrist is spicing up his chicken wings.

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    zak
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh man, I forgot about that thing. I remember looking it up online in the early days of the internet

    Genericist
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same... pretty sure I downloaded it from KaZaA! But took one look and it was boring af for a young teenager who had no interest in or desire to actually blow things up so I binned it XD I was just being an eDgELoRd

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    Justin Thyme
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Plenty still around-- Paladin Press deliberately changed a lot of stuff so that explosives recipes are missing key steps and ingredients

    Marie Dahme
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hey, I used to order from them back in the 80’s. Is Paladin Press still around ???

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    Alyssa Phillips
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In high school I worked at a bookstore that did a lot of special orders, I ended up ordering five of them for some kids I went to school with. My bosses were not happy when we got some letters in the mail a few months later asking about our purchase history.

    Steve Robert
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A lot of us who grew up in the late sixties and early seventies had a copy of this book

    Marie Dahme
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’m a 70’s baby. My parents had a copy of this. And books on how to change your identity, how to create secret hiding places in your home, how to hide money and so on. Kinda makes me wonder what my parents were up to before I was born !

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    Lydia Owen the Bi-tch
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to own one back in 2005. Sucks I let my ex keep it and he lost it.

    James Edwards
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have one too, it's a bunch of c**p!

    James Arvidson
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The common, newer versions are edited. If you find the originals they are "interesting". Only saw an old one once but was able to compare to the common Paladin Press version from the 80's. Much different.

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    kristinak911
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a copy of one as well.. It's pretty crazy read!! .💀

    Bill D3agl3
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In true anarchist fashion a friend and I printed that sucker up in the late nineties on a dot matrix printer, over 200 pages, hole punches them and stuck em in a binder. I've still got it floating around somewhere

    DeoManus Argentem
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to sell copies of it on 3.5" diskettes to my friends in elementary/middle school. Never found anything particularly interesting to do with it given our limited access to resources at that age, but we felt badass.

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    #22

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online I have a few Ivory jewellery pieces from the early 70s my parents bought back from Botswana, and a poison arrow kit. Mum has the 3-metre long python skin she just put in her luggage from back then too.

    Icy_Hippo , Steve Parker Report

    Lydia Owen the Bi-tch
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I got handed down ivory domino's that were my grandmother's.

    ShaZam Beaubien
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would have to display the poison arrow kit.

    Jessica Amie
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dang, my parents were in the peace corps in Botswana in the 70's and they too brought back a set of poison tipped arrows and a bow as well as a zebra skin and a plethora of baskets, like so many baskets that 40 ish years later they still give them away as presents.

    Vermontah
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    mink coat owners - I know someone that had their mink coat made into a teddy bear and little dog. you need to store the mink properly or it will fall apart.

    Valerie Lessard
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You could just have anything in your luggage in the 70s

    Robin Roper
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I too have several Ivory pieces of jewelry I bought in the 70's. I should probably burn them.

    Sophia Watanabe
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You have a poison arrow kit?!?!?! Where are you that this is ok to have in a house?!?!?!

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    #23

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online I bought a used Bill Cosby comedy album on vinyl and the next week everything started coming out about the horrible things he had done ☹️

    alpal05144 , Ted Eytan Report

    BeaBea
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's a lot more to surface about men who were adults between 1970 and 1990s. A lot more. We would be surprised to hear half of it. Women who were adults in those times, well, they've turned the blind eye and kept hush way too many times

    Jules Ashley
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ok im so sorry for sounding like a complete imbecile but what the heck did he do?

    dReZ bEeZ
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still remember watching the Cosby show as a kid. and when his nastyness was exposed I said to myself I always knew there was something not right about him. intuition is real!

    Tiffi
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a VHS of Cosby, Himself. We had watched it so many times back in the 90s. His riff on giving his kids chocolate cake for breakfast and his wife's reaction to it was so just so good though. I can't watch it anymore though. I have pretty extensive VHS library.

    Kat Min
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I adored his show when I was a kid. My brain just refuses to merge those memories with the disgusting man he is. Every time, I try to think about it, I just get a 'NOPE, not going there.'

    Impasta (she/they)
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I once spent 15 dollars on a hand blown glass bottle just for my mom to break it

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    Mary Kelly
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    his pic is no longer painted on the side of ben's chili bowl: https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/01/26/bens-chili-bowl-removes-cosby-mural/#:~:text=Photograph%20by%20Flickr%20user%20Ted,Donnie%20Simpson%2C%20and%20Chuck%20Brown.

    Cheryl Ramsay
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I do not condone the things he's done but d@#n he was funny!

    Vince Colucci
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have them all spent years collecting them then...

    Steven Gardener
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have EVERY Bill Cosby stand-up album.

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    #24

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online A piece of a radiation bore drill encased in resin. It has a cloud floating above it in the resin where the focal point is. It's safe now, bizarre to think about, and probably illegal as f**k for a civilian to aquire today.

    Adept_Cranberry_4550 , Kim Stiver Report

    M O'Connell
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    These devices are used in resource-extraction drilling. The way the radiation reflects back to the source allows measurement of material density. Less dense material is desirable because it is more likely to produce oil or gas.

    Xenon
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a chunk of Trinitrite, fused sand from the Trinity bomb.

    Satan Laughs
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    These stock photos are killing me.

    Kelley Gilbert Zumwalt
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Score another fail for the BP picture bot who saw the word "drill" and ran with it!

    Beans
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    BP use royalty free pics from like sites like Pexels etc so they don't have to pay anything, Pexels pics are all volunteer pics so they might not have what you want... That's why they are so whack. I think it's a real person picking them though

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    #25

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online A switch knife. Technically one with a blade as long as mine is illegal in my area. I don't know I would rather have it and risk the misdemeanor than not have it with me.

    Not_Adobe , George Redgrave Report

    Son of Philosoraptor
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just get a good assisted opener. Same effect as a switch without the legal hassle. Try Benchmade for a good factory brand.

    Vermontah
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I bought one in Mexico 30+ years ago. The boys on the flight line were impressed except for one who could whip a butterfly knife into ready before the switchblade

    ShaZam Beaubien
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I never thought to look to see if a knife was illegal due to length.

    Austin Sauce
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why would Nintendo sell such a thing???

    Xenon
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Risk the misdemeanor!

    Invisible Panda
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a metal billy club with a hidden sword inside. Its designed to screw together to make a short staff with the sword at the end or to have a sword in one hand and club in the other. Totally illegal but somehow buying/selling them along with other illegal blades is perfectly fine at the flee market. Lol

    Rostit .
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    its legal here in the USA.

    James Arvidson
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the US a lot of knife laws are changing but an interesting item. I wouldn't carry it around. Especially if it is older as it could be a collectible.

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    #26

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online An uncut DVD of Caligula. I am not sure if it is still banned or not.

    EnigmaCA , Mati Mango Report

    Carlos
    Community Member
    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not sure why people buy anything other than uncut DVD's, if the CD is cut, it wont play.

    Manny_Flawz
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sometimes they are cut for religious reasons. 😉😉😉

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    Jude Kay
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A white elephant gift for a church party.

    Lee Stone
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Caligula is infamous. Written by Gore Vidal (who later had his name removed from it), starring Helen Miren and Malcolm McDowell. The movie was produced in partnership with Hustler who did their work largely in parallel to the more serious actors. The uncut version is *shocking*, and for many reasons other than the highly pornographic material heavily sourced throughout. Anyway, the video made it to mainstream store shelves and the ensuing panic saw it dramatically pulled from shelves, burned, etc. It's a truly brilliant piece of work if you're able to dissociate a bit from the material. Not for the faint of heart though. If you have *any* serious trigger, chances are it's in this movie.

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    talliloo
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    omg! i remember seeing this once...and only once. i am a history nerd and back in the day when video stores were just coming out i saw it and thought it would be fun to watch as i had just finished a course in ancient civilizations. imagine my surprise as the movie played! and, especially knowing now that a very young helen mirren was in it.

    JOHN DOE
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'll never forget that machine they had for cutting off heads.

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    cadena kuhn
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nah bought one years ago for $11. Friend was pissed as he bought a copy few months b4 for $60 thinking it was rare

    Ed Brandon
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hardcore scenes were spliced into an otherwise fairly straightforward if VERY 70s movie with a few soft Erotic scenes. It has long-since been un-banned and in uncut form (in the UK at least) although the blu-ray is out of print. Neither the whole film nor the added sex scenes are anything to get very excited about, despite the presence of some great actors like Helen Mirren, Malcolm McDowall, and Sir John Gielgud.

    Jay Son
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had one a long time ago, not knowing what it really was. I hadn't seen it and one day asked my relatively new gf if she wanted to watch with me. Needless to say we were both in for a surprise 🤣

    Maltaros
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I asked my now wife if she wanted to go see some Spanish foreign films at a local theater. They were doing a Pedro Almodovar festival. The first one was Law of Desire, which has a guy masturbating, fairly explicitly, right at the start. We were both embarrassed by that one.

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    shymuse0507
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I own the original VHS, the DVD and just pre ordered the picture book they're making off stills taken during production. The controversy was due to the contracts that were signed and had to be honored. Helen Mirren Peter O'Toole, in a pornographic movie made by Penthouse. If they didn't make they would have been blacklisted in Hollywood

    Marie Dahme
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Caligula, “Little Boots”. truly was mad on an epic level.

    Israel Martinez
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had a burned copy of "Salo" ... after I watched it, I broke the DVD and trashed it ... reasons ...

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    #27

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online Kony 2012 Kit. It’s a whole thing and I don’t want to talk about it.

    XDXkenlee , Ryohei Noda Report

    and_a_touch_of_the_’tism
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Calling all pandas… what is this. I must know.

    Headless Roach
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not sure if it's the Kony I know about, but... the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for Uganda's Joseph Kony's arrest in October 2005, which accused him of human rights violations that included some 10,000 murders and the abduction and enslavement of more than 24,000 children.

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    Shyla Bouche
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Seems odd to post something one doesn't want to talk about....

    Marie Dahme
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Kony was a evil warlord. He was convicted for war crimes in 2005 by International Tribunal Court at The Hague but the guy has been elusive and has been caught from what I understand.

    DaNV22
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Crazy to think this whole thing was more than 10 years ago. Time really does fly, I guess.

    M. William Bell
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    Premium
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have Kony! (don’t tell)

    naylene hess
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Omg i remember watching the stupid documentary with my ex bfs family and they took it so serious but i was reall suspicious of it lmao

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    #28

    28 Things People Keep At Home But Avoid Talking About Because They Are So Controversial, As Shared Online My 26.5” scale 8 string guitar is apparently super controversial to every guitarist I’ve ever shown it to.

    yokaishinigami , Eric Golub Report

    Chucky Cheezburger
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's a picture of a 4 string acoustic bass in the foreground. Cant tell if the controversial instrument is the one in the background. Kinda sounds like they have an 8 string bass.

    Lo_buck
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Looks like maybe the author just grabbed images of the blurb topic for these posts; stock photos etc

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    Dan Holden
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A little unusual i guess, but how is it controversial?

    Lisa H
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Many (not all!) musicians have giant egos about their instruments and there will be lively debates on which instrument/brand is better. Like the pineapple on pizza debate.

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    Ludwig Michiel
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Probably something like this: schecterhe...serc-8.jpg schecterhellraiserc-8.jpg I guess this would be controversial to the guitar purists for whom nothing good was designed after the telecaster or the Les Paul.

    Mario Strada
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That in the picture is my acoustic bass from Ibanez. I am looking at mine right now, it's identical. An 8 string guitar is a very different thing. I played one once, it was like trying to play a cutting board with strings.

    Chucky Cheezburger
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, an 8 string sounds like a lot of real estate to cover. I imagine it would be like when I play my six string bass.

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    Juli Page
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Another bass player. I saw that! The one in the background appears to have 4 tuning keys on each side of the headpiece.

    Chucky Cheezburger
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fellow bassist here.I dunno what the one in the background is. Tis a beast I am unfamiliar with.

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    Marco Richter
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is it by chance made out of illegal woods (like rosewood p.e.)

    Niall Mac Iomera
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because that's a really short scale length for an 8 string, so probably won't sound very good.

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