It’s a beaut!

You suffer from false nostalgia. The old machine is a beast, yes, but it has a swing shuttle. It holds very little thread, is hard to wind and load, gets tangled and makes a really crappy lockstitch. Has no reverse, piss poor stitch length adjustment and not enough balls to handle any layers without the belt slipping.

The new one is a piece of crap in comparison of build quality, but in terms of function and utility it blows the old one out of the water. And price.

I have an old one and have used it lots. It’s fun to use, but far from efficient. I’ll keep it around for the apocalypse but I’ll use a modern one from at least the 70’s (the nineteen seventies).

10 packs of underwear for $8.99.

Anywhere else and it’s just sparkling cheese.

And you get to sleep soundly with the fact that if you did your job right more people died today than yesterday. Progress!

I’m a tradesman and get paid in $100 all the time. A guy from the city gave me $100 for a job. My wife, who is a treasurer for Girl Guides, traded her cookie money of $10’s and $20"s for my $100 and deposited it in the bank. Now the FBI can prove that my customer has an unhealthy cookie addiction.

Exactly.

Doesn’t work very well if you buy something directly from someone. Or if your cash is given out as change. Seems like it would make a wildly inaccurate profile.

This event teaches us the power of our purchases. If you want big businesses to not be evil, stop giving them money. Imagine what a general strike would accomplish if these guys couldn’t stand losing advertising revenue for a week.

How’d the miss Lute Skywalker?

Maybe it was picture worthy because a 10 year old wasn’t smoking a rollie.

Tailor mades even. Probably a rich kid.

Love. The language of love.

Yes, it’s repairable, but it’s fairly involved. A fair amount of the sofa needs to be “undone” to get the arm off. How much work that is depends on how the couch is constructed. Then it becomes a matter of matching the leather, which probably won’t be possible to make it invisible.

I am an expert. Or at least an upholsterer. When you say the leg broke, what broke? Did it snap? Did it push into the sofa? Some legs have a bolt sticking out and screw into a T nut that is on the inside of the sofa.

Sometimes that punches in and just spins when you turn it. You have to pull the bolt out as hard as you can and try to get those prongs to grab wood. Most legs are one of 2 sizes. You could find another leg and bolt it back on.

It may also be a block of wood that screws to the bottom of the sofa. The holes are probably hidden by the felt scuff pad thing.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with propping it up on a brick or book or whatever. If you want to be less ghetto, take a leg from the back and move it to the front so your guests can’t tell your couch is propped up on blocks

I miss read it as flesh floods, and was like, hell ya!

I called my mother by her name. My oldest brother started it.

You should read Flatland it’s an awesome book and blew my mind as a young textile geek.

Please excuse me, it’s diamond tufted not quilted.

Thank you for your time.

Dude, politics is a system that society has created to prevent change. When you get that, the western system of governance makes more sense.