Angel turns out to be inflatable sex doll

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@Mister44

I am about to pull the trigger on a katana

Katanas have gotten much more complicated than I had thought!

[Mister44]

Hah. Well you would be surprised. Mashups are cool, right?

Also - sword guns were a real thing, though rare. Historical example:

[OtherMichael]

You’ve never bothered to look on Alibaba.com?

Great deals are to be had in the order of 10,000 units per month RELIABLE SHIPPER.

[Sqarr]

Those seem like incredibly detailed feet for an inflatable.

[Sludge]

This is a slightly “Angel Is The Centerfold” situation.

[Garymon]

I’m still learning how to see good glass versus crap. There are obvious things like the quality and thickness of the glass. A better piece will be weighted at the bottom to reduce the chance of an empty piece tipping over. The precision of the glass joints can vary. Glass dangly bits on the inside such as percolators will have small supports welded on for support with better made pieces versus a cheap piece will just let it hang free (and it will snap off the first time you shake it hard with water to clean it). On the outside if there are tight bends in the glass that make it structurally weak nice pieces will again add a bit of support.

I have always bought from local glass makers but its at least 10x more costly. On DHGate there is a sea of junk but some forums have highlighted vendors that don’t cut corners, ship fast, are good with returns and so on. Id like to experiment with different types of rigs but there is no way I could afford to do so at hundreds per piece. But $40 - $100 I can try a bunch and see what I like and not worry.

[awfulhorrid]

@Garymon

… the ongoing debate between buying from local glass blowers for a pretty penny or buying knock off from DHGate for a fraction of the cost and where quality can range from great to watch this break after one use.

So tying this back into the article about an inflatable sex doll … um … yeah, you know what, never mind. (OK, I guess I will say that this is why we buy our glass toys from known makers, regardless of the availability of cheaper alternatives of dubious origin.)

[RConBB]

There’s got to be a Trump joke here somewhere. Maybe politician turns out to be a doll constructed of fear and seething hatred - or something. You guys are the experts.

[Giuseppe]

“His family took care of the doll, and pictures soon spread online along with claims it was an angel.”

“They have no internet, they don’t know what a sex toy is,” the police chief was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.

???

[Melizmatic]

I don’t know what’s worse; that someone truly believed an over-sized inanimate toy was actually an angelic freakin’ being, or that the people who found it are so disconnected from the rest of the world that they allegedly “have no internet access…”

[FunkDaddy]

Now there’s a job for a truly hard skeptic…

“No, no, no…you got it all wrong friend, this thing isn’t an angel, it’s not supernatural…”

“Then what is it, how did it appear there? You can’t explain that!”

“I can bro… you’re supposed to fuck it.”

“WHAT!?”

“No Srsly, that’s what it was made for.”

“So…if I do it right, I’ll be closer to God…?”

“For a minute, subjectively speaking…sure, why not.”

“So it IS an angel! Praise be, let us fuck it!”

“Okay, you do that, I’m out.”

[nimelennar]

@FunkDaddy

Now there’s a job for a truly hard skeptic…

In your scenario, it doesn’t sound like the skeptic is the one who is truly hard.

######_{I’ll see myself out.}

[RogerStrong]

Wikipedia: Friendly Floatees

In 1992 an intermodal container was washed overboard in the North Pacific, carrying 29,000 plastic yellow ducks, red beavers, blue turtles and green frogs. As they wash up on shore around the world, an oceanographer has used them to model ocean currents.

I’m disappointed in the universe that it wasn’t a container of “angels.” Even without the trademarked name, the Wikipedia entry could have kept the same title.

[Mister44]

@FunkDaddy

“So…if I do it right, I’ll be closer to God…?”

According to the Apostle Reznor, yes.

ETA

I just realized too - remember the Chinese who confused a sex toy for a fungus?

- YouTube

And the Japanese call these angels.

Evangelion 1.1 You Are (Not) Alone - Eva Unit 01 vs. Shamshel [480p]

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@Garymon

I so want to know the back story.

really you probably don’t…

[redesigned]

old but good:

[Garymon]

@redesigned

really you probably don’t…

There are plenty of topics I steer far away from but this isn’t one of those.

[Skeptic]

So…can anyone here prove that Angels aren’t sex dolls? I mean, what does an all powerful being really need with minions anyways?

[wrybread]

Man I have never been more disappointed in BB.

Not only do TWO editors find this story news worthy and post it within NINE minutes of each other, but they completely fail by reporting it is a BLOW UP DOLL, when it clearly is one of those silicon dolls, like a Real Doll ( don’t even own a sex doll, and I can see that). Even fishermen would not mistake blow up doll for an angel.

Well to be fair, if the worst they’ve ever done is double post the same hilarious story while getting the specifics of a sex doll slightly wrong, I’d say they’re doing pretty damn well!

[Michael_R_Smith]

Reminds me of the time a shipboard sex doll was found to transmit an STD. Better take care with the disposal or recycling of this product.