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      Take apart their vape pens for the flashable MCUs, microphones, decent battery, and sweet magnets, and then bounce

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    My husband’s immediate response: “what about all the men who have licked the salt lamp before me?”

    spoiler

    It’s extra funny because he didn’t care about how much of a ho I was.

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      I was a kid and had some classmates over for a slumber party. Unknown to me, at some point someone cracked open the top to my lava lamp and it somehow dribbled over the top and ruined my PS1. I can’t look at a lava lamp the same again.

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          Popped the soda cap top and put the little black lid back on that hides it. My sister and I shared a room and she needed the lamp to sleep so I had it turned on and I think that’s what made it overflow over night. The next morning, I was looking around for the source of this goo all over my console and the lava lamp was sitting on a shelf above the TV,

          I checked for cracks and then splashed the whole thing when I picked it up and saw the cap sitting on the shelf right next to the lamp. I wish they had just said and I wouldn’t have turned it on that night. I was a poor kid and me having that console was a big deal at the time. My uncle won it at a poker game and we couldn’t afford to replace it. It was the nicest thing I owned at that time and owned for a while.

          I never found out who did it. I’m grown now and got a PS1 for old times sake to emotionally right that childhood wound so I guess it all turned out okay in the end.

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    my grandma used to have one in the back of a fireplace to make it look pretty. I asked her what it was and she said a salt lamp. I was a dumb kid so OBVIOUSLY I needed to know what it tasted like. When she wasn’t around I crawled back there and took a lick. What I didn’t account for is that it would be covered in ash and dust and my tongue would just be covered in that instead.

    Good times.

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    Make sure you wrap your licker! You don’t know how many unwrapped licker people have licked that Himalayan salt lamp before you! Or even which animals! You could end up with … Dry Tongue!

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      A block of pink salt heated by a lamp that users believe gives them health benefits. No proven medical benefits have been established and is as a result a superstition.

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          One claim is it adds negative ions to the air which the claim is are good for you. There’s no evidence they’d release anything more than an infinitesimal amount. Salt is pretty stable.

          Another claim is it helps purify the air by trapping toxins, which, even if true, would quickly become useless as the surface area becomes saturated. There’s also no evidence any pollutants end up on the lamp beyond pure coincidence/chance.

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          The heat makes the lamp atoms vibrate at a higher frequency, which in turn makes it deteriorate. To maintain its structure the lamp seeks out emotions vibrating at other frequencies to pull within itself. Drawing these “Bad Vibes” into the lamp is what makes it salty, and a naturally gifted or properly trained Empath can taste this salt to see what has been absorbed by the lamp, to gain knowledge of the owner’s troubles.

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        Not fair, I like having a salt lamp because it’s taking a piece of enormous historical wealth and using it for shitty lighting