Despite my concerns about the Eldest moving away to Manchester, I think they may at least have some of the vibe sorted.
Their brother and The Girlfriend ™ popped round on their moving in day, and they all went shopping for some essentials*.
*They went to Afflecks (Palace) to buy a bong. Priorities.
All I see is a buttplug in a lantern.
I think they're only TELLING you it's a bong because that's what they think you can handle.
How does the melody go?
West of Chicago, we used to take a one-gallon milk jug, cut the bottom off, put a Smoaking Buol into the screw-on cap - and submerge the rig in the kitchen sink up to near the top.
We'd pack ignite the Combustible Materials, then slowly pull the jug up, creating suction. Don't pull it all the way out of the sink... lest the Smoak you have captured escape out the bottom.
Now remove the cap, apply yer Lipps and inhale Jah's Fine Yarbs.
The Gravity Bong it is called.
AKA the plunge here
Manchester has the much-loved Afflecks Palace. Chicago's equivalent is Maxwell Street, also home of blues music.
That's supposed to be a flame. Honestly, you lot on the Fediverse have filthy minds!
(Says he with a straight face and an air of moral superiority)
@wendinoakland @amiserabilist @TheBreadmonkey @Kierkegaanks LOL. My brain/eyes did the positive/negative space perception thing and the top shelf looked like a fluro rave display of black butt plugs. (I'm pretty sure that's not what is being displayed/sold here. Pretty sure).
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Maybe black light wasn't such a good idea as at least one or two of the old grey matter inhabitants in my head went to the same place with that photo.
Also, The Flaming Buttplugs does have a bandname quality to it.
Indeed. Or just seeing stars for that matter.
LOL. My favourite comment when the kids come back from a meeting with Mr Street (the teenage weed dealer) and stink the house up is "this place smells like Bob Marley's pockets".
I need a stomp around Afflecks again. It has been far, far too long! I used to bunk off school and go there as a kid
There's not quite as many vintage clothes shops as back in the day but the vibe is still pretty much the same.
I have such fond memories of that place. School was a living hell for me, but there no-one cared how weird I was and that was like a slice of heaven
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