Okay, so for people in the UK we can do bank transfers and cheques and postal orders and things. But after PayPal facilitated the destruction of a $2400 antique violin in a way that doesn’t at all prevent fraud, I want out.
This comic is now anti-PayPal. Does anyone know of a good alternative?
Let me tell you about mooncups. 🙂
Okay, so those of you who read the comic probably are of a naturally enquiring mind. So you probably already know a bit about menstrual cups. You may, if you visit alternativey venues like environment centres and such, have seen toilet cubicles plastered with mooncup stickers. If this is the case, please feel free to stop reading and feel smug. I endorse your smugness.
But if you’re a bit new to the subject, let me just bluntly list the things I love about the mooncup.
So, you could totally buy one, for you or a friend. Genius. To be fair, I wouldn’t be badgering you if I didn’t get a little bit of money every time someone clicks on this here promotional picture and then buys a mooncup. But I love my mooncup so much, and it’s a great company, and it really does help support this site. If you know anyone who might like one, send a link to this blog post.
Thank you. 🙂
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GUYS. Look! The laces that I bought with my spending money arrived!
Each lace is 334cm long, and my boots have 12 pairs of holes and they seem to be just the right length.
I said that I would lace these boots corset-style, and I have. I’m going to show you how it went, but my photos and tutorialness are probably so bad that you might want to instead follow something like this. The important bit is that the bunny ears are at the cornery bend where your leg meets the top of your foot.
THE BOOTS OF GLORY
In case anyone is wondering, these are Doc Martens, Triumph 1914. See the silliness of the laces! One of the aglets even fell off during this tutorial. Pah.
I took out the old laces and flung them derisively to one side. Then I tied a little knot in the middle of the new laces, because they are very long and could do with a centre marker.
Perhaps it’s useful to note at this point that I started lacing these so that the little permanent knot where the ends of the laces are tied together would be at the bottom, as it would be on a corset. Anyway, so what you do is this:
Go outside-to-outside with the holes, then inside-to-inside, when you cross over. At the ankle-corner, go straight back in on the same side, leaving a loop, which Hannah tells me is a “bunny ear”. Do the same on the other side, so it’s all symmetrical. Notice that the crosses alternate between under and over.
Then tie your laces together at the very end, close to the aglets, as above. Below, you can see how you’re supposed to loosen the laces so that the crosses are all tighter and the bunny ears are long and ridiculous:
And then tie the bunny ears…
See the difference:
The old one looks a bit pants, no? But the little knot at the bottom was bugging me. So I relaced it exactly the same, but with the ends of the laces at the top: *
To tighten/loosen:
Picture the scene. Your boots have baggy laces, and your foot can get in; hurrah! Start at the bottom. The first cross on the top, pull it tight. Then the second top-cross from the bottom. Then pull the slack into the bunny ears. Next, do the same from the top down: starting with the top top-cross, tighten, pull the slack into the next one down, and so on until you get to the bunny ears. Then tie the bunny ears into a knot. To use another animal analogy, it will probably look like a loopy insect at a pride festival.
To loosen/escape from your boots, do the same but in reverse. Start by undoing the bow. Pull some of the slack from your bunny ears into the top-cross just above it, and then pull a bit of that slack into the next cross up, etc. all the way to the top. Do the same working down: pull some of the bunny-ear-slack into the top-cross just below it, then some of that slack into the one below that. Pull the sides of your boot to loosen it more evenly, and then yank the boot and embrace your freedom with toe-wiggles.
*As illustrated, stomp your old laces into the ground, especially the one where the aglet fell off, and then go kick the crap out of some mountains.
CAMERA CAMERA CAMERA CAMERA CAMERA!
It’s so pretty. It’s black and it has a decent macro setting and all the buttons are attached and it’s only once so far asked me to remind it of the date and time. It is a billion times better than my old camera.
I am so excited! Expect pictures of bizarre things in the background from now on.
I just want a little digital camera with a decent manual focus and a sensible rechargeable battery! Is that so much to ask??
Do you have one of these? What make and model is it? Can I buy it from you? PLEASE?
ETA: I may possibly have found something suitable, and I will know in a week. I am so impatient! But it is refurbished, and therefore probably second-hand, yay ethical stuff. And this one definitely does have a manual focus. I triple-checked.
