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VTwinVaper122 karma

I own a Lego reselling business. For an MBA project I passed out a red 2x3 brick from 1965 and one that I had just bought from a 2015 set in a store to show how alike they were. It's kinda crazy that 50 years wouldn't change the design that much.

Edit:the old bricks came from an estate sale from a handful of sets released in 1965 and stored in a lady's attic for several decades. They had the patent pending marking and based on the sets they were with would have been produced around '65 give or take a year or so depending on the production run time. Included were a VW and two Mercedes hot wheel style cars produced by Lego that are worth $30 or so by themselves.

VTwinVaper42 karma

If the sets are complete then eBay or BrickLink are good bets. Otherwise for a quick buck sell the figs separate and the bricks by the pound on eBay. If you segregate the figs by the set they came in you stand to make more.

VTwinVaper14 karma

If that fails we also pay by the pound. You won't make as much but it will be without the hassle of dealing with ebay.

VTwinVaper14 karma

He doesn’t care. The only chance is that someone close enough to him does care, and decides to take action.

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Not the OP but I’d like to take the opportunity to respond.

Suicide, or the conscious decision by an individual to end his or her life, has many forms. While some of these decisions are made after a long period of reflection, speaking with doctors, and weighing the reality of ones health and remaining qualify of life (such as in the case of doctor assisted suicide for terminal patients), most suicidal actions are made very quickly and while the individual is in a state of crisis or altered mental status.

The decision to take ones own life is often made during a small portion of an individual’s life that may not reflect how that person thinks or feels most of the time. An example: my father in law was a flawed individual but for the most part had his life together. Kept a good job, had a few kids and a wife and kept the bills paid. But during a particularly difficult month of his life (his wife left him, and his father had been diagnosed with end stage lung cancer), he chose to take his own life. Had he waited a few months it is quite possible that his life would have reverted closer to his “baseline,” or essentially what to him is “normal.” And if that had happened he likely wouldn’t have wanted to kill himself.

Another example: my own grandfather cheated on my grandmother and she discovered the affair. She stated her intent to leave and he shot and killed her, and then himself. Had he simply gone through the divorce he would have realized, even in the early 90s, that lots of people get divorced, his life isn’t over, and people may judge you or whisper for a day but not forever—but his pride coupled with likely undiagnosed mental illness drove him to take two lives instead of one.

So the best answer I can give is this: ever hear of the “drunk me” vs “sober me” stories? Like “drunk me set a bottle of water and aspirin on my bedside so sober me would feel better this morning. Drunk me is a bro.” So in a sense “crisis me called the suicide hotline because non-crisis me wouldn’t want to die, and since I want to live 95% of the time, I shouldn’t let that 5% of the time destroy 100% of my life.”

Whether you agree with doctor assisted suicide or not, the difference between that and most suicides is this: with doctor assisted suicide, the person is not in a temporary crisis, and is 100% on board with ending his or her life. They say suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem...doctor assisted suicide is a permanent solution to a permanent problem, and therein lies the difference.

Disclaimer: I am not a therapist and am not connected with the OP, and you may simply be a troll. But in case you aren’t (or if others are reading) I hope my tiny bit of insight may be of some kind of help.