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That’s a fire hazard, so there’s no ‘thinking’ about it, you should do it. Easy enough.

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Now I’m thinking that I should go hunting for discarded lava lamps.

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Austin close enough? They’d audibly fly around the inside of my apt. while I was trying to sleep. I was in that place for 14 years & (fortunately) that never happened until right before we moved away.

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I can only imagine you burned the building down

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I suspect you might have lived near the Barton Springs greenbelt. Absolutely gorgeous natural area. Giant roaches

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No, rented apt., so I left it for the next victim :grin:

The other weird thing that never happened, until the run-up to me moving away, was that my CO detector went off. More than once, & always at full strength - there was a low warning, for low amounts, which then escalated if the amount rose higher. But this thing would go straight to 11, do not pass “Go,” do not collect a gentler warning - with no evident source of CO to have set it off so thoroughly (at least, 22 years later, I am still here to type about it).

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That’s both horrific and wonderful.

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I had one in college. I found it restful to look at. But got knocked over, and the jarring turned the liquid into a cloudy slurry. Never looked right after that.

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That makes sense, but no, I lived a couple of blocks from McCallum High School (their marching band used to come down my street while practicing; I was tempted to pick up my sax & join them). I think Austin just has a lot of roaches - with maybe one exception, I saw them everywhere I lived (7 places in all), including in the Jester dormitory. (Just not the flying kaiju I encountered near the end of my time there.)

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groovy

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Lava Lamps are sposed to never be shaken b/c that result, and milder tho also annoying ones. I asked a friend to transport mine, and I told him and begged him to to shake it, that it fucks them up.

It was one of the V few times I’m known him to be idiotic. He shook it.

Now there are air bubbles in the heavy bits, and they don’t flow as well nor look as nice.

I really want another one.

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Looking online and there are guides for fixing the issue but seems like a mixed bag. Though i guess if the alternative is buying a new one then might as well try fixing the one that will be replaced

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Maybe (just a random thought, mind) this could be fixed by removing the goop, heating it up until it’s really liquid to let the gas bubbles escape and then putting it back in the lamp?

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Manufacturing moved to China. :roll_eyes:

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I grabbed this image and text, which together are hilarious to me without the context.

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Is this cute or what.

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Cute, yes, but pretty useless; it looks like it might accommodate 3 pairs of underwear and that’s about it.

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Bingo!

(from the link)

designed for delicate garments

gentle care for intimates

I suppose it’s aimed at people who don’t want to put their hands in soapy water to wash something out in the sink? Like, if they have expensive manicures, maybe? Or they just don’t have a clue how to care for different kinds of garments? Or they’re loath to have wet things hanging and drip-drying over the bathtub? (None of those things would be me.)

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Or they typically use a shared washer but don’t particularly want their intimates in there? I could see a lot of women who use a shared washer and dryer at an apartment complex or condo being very wary of leaving their intimate articles unattended in the washer

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