Wrong thread:
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/7...xt-msg-791726/

Unparalleled support.

A new ipad at 1/3 off on Black Friday to replace one 5 yrs old.

What a difference a new processor makes !!!!

Bought an Acer 15.6" Chromebook for work on Cyber Monday for $135. Using it for all reading these days.

Picked up some yellow watermelon. Delicious.

Now that 2019 is done, here's my top several items. Most of them this year are super cheap, silly looking things that have brought me outsized use or joy:

Google Mini Outlet Mount: I had several google minis from a year or two ago when you could basically get them for <$10 or free and never used them. But I realized I was always turning my UE Blast speaker on in the bathroom to listen to music while I showered, and it was a little finicky to get it to connect right each time (sometimes it would preferentially pair with my wife's phone). So I bought this thing and mounted one of the minis in the bathroom. Awesome upgrade and don't need to mess with the bluetooth speaker for this anymore.

Smart Powerstrip / Surge protector: bought on a lightning deal for $2x and allowed us to put our bedside lamps on voice control via alexa. These were the only lights that were still 'dumb' and a quick fix.

Shoe stretchers: Did not really expect this to work but for <$20 I figured I'd give them a shot. Bought a pair of final sale cole haan sneakers that were too small for me. I could wear them for about an hour before I needed to take them off. They now fit perfectly after about a week of progressive stretching.

Toothpaste corkscrew: Really struggled to buy this but I figured it wasn't a super passive aggressive way to get my wife to squeeze the toothpaste from the bottom rather than the middle, and put the cap back on. She loves it, we gave the other 2 as presents to her parents and mine, and as a bonus it makes tubes stand up on the vanity.

Tongue Scraper upgrade: I think this is the original thing I posted ITT and I've tried several different versions. The plastic ones I originally posted can be too harsh, and the Dr. Tung one posted afterward is excellent, but the rubber handles get gross. These stainless ones are just as good as the Tung one, but they don't get moldy, and they can easily go in the dishwasher if you want to sterilize them. I keep one at work, one at home, and one in my toiletry bag

wtf a yellow watermelon??

is it citrusy?

Got a big, heavy Lenovo gaming laptop. Probably paid too much for it, but I hadn't bought a new computer in ~15 years so whatever. Started playing Magic Arena god help me...

Still not sure what I want to get to stretch the hardware

Red Dead Redemption II

The graphics are awe-inspiring.

The buying a million charging cords and putting them everywhere has been awesome

My low lag projector is the best thing I've bought

JL what noticeable things have you seen with the tongue scraper?

The standard USA#1 watermelon started out white/yellow from Africa until we bred them to be pink/red. You can also get orange. This new trick is worth learning, old dog.


No, but it's certainly sweeter and has a bit of a honey taste to it. Give it a go, you'll be happy you did.



Vintage cube is available and you're playing Arena. cmon son

Been umming and ahing about this, but been put off by the poor reviews on Steam. Think I'll probably wait a while until a) it's a lot cheaper and b) they've hopefully ironed some of the technical problems out.

I have a ~20 year gap in even cursory knowledge of cards + mechanics...hard enough to keep up with the current sets. I've watched a few vintage cube videos, though. Looks fun (as long as your on the giving end of a degenerate turn-2 kill deck)

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt...has-ever-known

Surprisingly interesting read about this type of watermelon.

Low THC/+quality wax, 50% range. Reason is it is less incentivizing for overuse, which seems counter intuitive to how flower normally is.

I don't get it, I guess I've crossed the fuddy-duddy line, what are you talking about here?

Better breath in general, although especially after milk, sugar, or coffee. I'm not sure if other people notice the film/thickness on your tongue after dairy, or the uncomfortable (for me) feeling after eating something super sugary, but tongue scraping really helps this.

Better tongue health (I think). Since tongue scraping my tongue has been red/pink, not whitish like it used to be.

Better tasting / more enjoyable strong flavors. I can notice an immediate improvement in my ability to taste complex flavors in things I like when I have a "clean" tongue vs not. For example, coffee, wine, chocolate. This fact alone makes my weekends much better because I like to have coffee in the morning, but if I brush my teeth I can't drink coffee for a while due to the taste. If I don't brush my teeth or scrape my tongue it's hard to taste the coffee, it's mostly just hot liquid. So normally I scrape my tongue, have an enjoyable coffee, and brush my teeth sometime after.

Plus it's pretty gross seeing the carpet of stuff that comes off your tongue. I don't think I could go back to not scraping now that I know what I'd be leaving behind.

my tongue when im kinda sick is suepr white but normally its not that bad, ill check tonight.

do you just scrape it and thast it? how often do you scrape 2x a day and when you do scrape is it like 10 back an forths or what

Haha um I'm not sure I'm really qualified to give the how-to of tongue scraping but here goes:

I scrape my tongue typically after brushing my teeth in the morning (exception coffee weekends as above). I scrape probably 2-5x and until I don't see a lot of stuff on the scraper. Once you get one and do this one morning you'll understand.

I scrape my tongue before bed after brushing my teeth in the same way.

And then I scrape any time during the day where I feel like I could use a breath refresh but can't brush my teeth. In practice this doesn't happen very often but it's nice to have the ability to quickly get my mouth back to neutral if I have a touchbase with a direct report or I'm meeting someone for the first time etc.

There's no back and forth. You stick the thing towards the back of your tongue, drag forward, and then wash the detritus under running water and repeat as needed.

i might buy on esince its only like 8$ but I have ahard time seeing it really getting a lot off of it, unless you liek dig dep but not sure how much it will scape.

anyways thanks for your input

It's like a fruit punch pickle.

Shoe stretcher is interesting for people like me with slightly wider feet since all shoe style don't have a wide version. It's funny because as I read about those shoe stretchers, I have some underwear stuffed in my shoes for a couple days to stretch them.

If you’ve never used one in your life, you are going to be blown away by the amount of crud you scrape off your tongue.