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# about as interesting as ...
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:06, archived)
# Oh-Em-Gee
U were rilly drying paper
LOLz
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:07, archived)
# Please tell me you're not drying toilet roll for reuse.
Otherwise, top papiering.

edit: fuck it - arts and crafts it is.

(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:08, archived)
#
180gsm watercolour paper from France.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:09, archived)
# Aha.
I have trouble finding sufficiently smooth paper for colour pencil work. WH Smith's do the best for me.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:11, archived)
#
120gsm should do. Above c.200 and it's card.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:17, archived)
# The matt A4 photo paper (for printing digital photos) sold cheap in supermarkets is actually a pretty good drawing surface.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:19, archived)
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really, I thought colour pencils and/or pencils would slip rather :?
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:20, archived)
# Fair point,
The paper does have to have a little bit to it to put the wax down. Might give it a try, though (if I ever get the time to draw again).
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:21, archived)
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alternatively, the back of old wallpaper does offer some good purchase, for pastels. But for pencil work I would recommend some nice heavy paper. The best comes from Italy, but is quite pricey.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:24, archived)
# No, it's pretty great. The matt kind.
Though one aspect of this greatness is the cheapness, I admit.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:24, archived)
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just make sure you don't get confused or drunk and end up asking for Matt Goss paper. You'll get funny looks.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:27, archived)
# And what I did at the weekend
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:28, archived)
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very nice
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:30, archived)
# Rough and ready, but will keep them happy.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:34, archived)
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the pattern on that 2quid coin always reminded me of the cover off of Pink Floyd's Pulse. good solo on Comfortably Numb on that, though TBH I prefer the one on the Delicate Sound of Thunder.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:37, archived)
# nice whittling
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:32, archived)
# the amazing thing is
he did it all with his teeth
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:33, archived)
# And polished on the stiffer arse hairs.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:34, archived)
# You let them have real money to play with?
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 8:42, archived)
# whittle-tastic!
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 9:15, archived)
# Is that one there an eating implement for crabs?
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 7:22, archived)
# It's a lucette.
Very old cord-making device.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 10:22, archived)
# Poetry Parchment! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:08, archived)
# How are you getting on with growing your own drugs?
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:09, archived)
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alright, thanks
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:09, archived)
# Ahhh, the warm whiff of mind piss.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:10, archived)
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If you studied your history you would know that piss bleaches cloth and paper. The dye is in the tanins from tea. And old coffee beans.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:12, archived)
# Oh aye, the urea and ammonia do the job if you don't have anything else.
You do know about the mind piss, right?
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:14, archived)
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no. But togas were made a whiter-than-white with piss. And horse britches too, in the era of the Peninsular War. Scorched earth .. piss and all that.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:22, archived)
# also the tweed that posh people wear
hence why the house of lords smells like piss
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:24, archived)
# Aha, mind piss is a venerable tradition here
going back way before I joined. Basically occurs when two people post the same thought at the same time.

dictionary.mictoboy.co.uk/define/mindpiss/
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:30, archived)
# You may wish to obscure the titles of some books there.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:10, archived)
#
pourquoi?
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:11, archived)
# Fair enough.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:12, archived)
# Grow your own drugs
It's some wanky hippy book about growing medicinal herbs in the garden, and not the "I need a mars bar" kind.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 5:48, archived)
# needs more feathers
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:11, archived)
# Show us the dead birds!
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:12, archived)
# pluck your own
:D
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:16, archived)
# fucking hell
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:19, archived)
# last year i was working in a cabin that had been closed for the winter and we noticed there was a funny smell coming from the stove
when we opened it up there were 5 or 6 dead starlings in various states of decay. fucking grim. we cleaned them up with a spade and threw them into the woods but then my co-workers dog went and fetched them back.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:27, archived)
# Ha ha...good dog!
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:31, archived)
# So right. :)
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:34, archived)
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sorry no feathers. they're in the garage.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:13, archived)
#

(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:14, archived)
# You seem to enjoy a very theatrical sort of authenticity
what with this and the ballpoints with blue feathers stuck in them and such. Which is fine, I'm glad your mind is untroubled by the falseness of it all. Real quills would have had the barbs shaved off, though, and would only have been good for writing on actual parchment (less abrasive). If you get anxious, I encourage you to go out and skin a young goat.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:14, archived)
# After fucking it half to death.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:15, archived)
# a YOUNG goat, eh?
Hmmmm.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:15, archived)
# He's just kidding
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 8:46, archived)
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You are rude. My quill has a gold nib.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:16, archived)
# Oh, OK. That's classier, although it makes equally little sense.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:27, archived)
# yeah, cut your own nibs, sandy, you big faker.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:37, archived)
# Well the fakeness has a certain appeal, the more I think about it.
I mean no amount of authentic equipment is going to cause actual time travel to 1820, or whatever golden age of poetry Sandy is trying to emulate. Perhaps it's better done lazily.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:43, archived)
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why the fuck would I put a ballpoint pen in a feather??
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:19, archived)
# Why the fuck would you scrawl doggrel on a stylishly distressed piece of paper and frame it with a feather?
In fairness, I did ask first, some time back.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:21, archived)
# WTFITS
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:14, archived)
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Poetry don't mean shit unless it's on some wrinkled, water-damaged, brown paper with the edges burnt, and put in a frame with a feather.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:17, archived)
# ... at which point, it DOES mean shit.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:19, archived)
# Fancy shit in'it?!
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:26, archived)
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so where is the feather? hmmm?
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:21, archived)
#
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:23, archived)
# ...too easy...
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:23, archived)
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well I can't see any fucking feathers in the photo. Maybe you are dreaming.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:26, archived)
# So now you deny having feathers stashed in your pillow?
Down with this... v
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:28, archived)
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have you been sniffing my pillow again?
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:32, archived)
# Look behind you!
(Ha ha...made you look)
Don't you feel foolish now?!
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:35, archived)
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BUNCH OF FUCKING NONCES. I'LL NUKE THE THREAD!
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:39, archived)
# I care not.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:45, archived)
# good for you!
it's a shit thread anyway
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:45, archived)
# WAILAAPOYDP
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 2:33, archived)
# Oh you dip paper in tea to make it look all old
Bless your heart
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 8:19, archived)
# I've done this sort of thing before
Teastaining paper, that is, not growing my own drugs. Used the paper for a LARP prop.
(, Thu 29 Aug 2013, 8:45, archived)