Other things you can do with your extra stamps:
Use one or more as personal travelers for when you meet other boxers at events.

Set one or more free as hitchhikers.

Use one or more as envelope art when you’re doing postals.

Use some as LTCs, if you like making trading cards.

Plant some as traditional letterboxes.

For all of these, be sure to add each stamp as a letterbox here on AQ, then include the box # wherever you stamp/release/share it.

Well put your mind to rest. This seems very unlikely. I think on a personal level, Trump couldn't care one way or another about gay marriage. He'd be against it if it helped him politically, and he'd be for it if it helped him politically. And he'd probably prefer everyone against it thinking that he's against it and everyone for it think that he supports it.

So what he says would probably change depending on whoever he was talking to, but even Republicans as a whole are generally leaning more towards tolerance of gay marriages nowadays. They have other fish they'd rather fry.

-- Ryan

Just a gentle clarification here... your response was to a post by Dingus Dufus, though he was just quoting/summarizing/counterpointing a previous post. DD is a staunch advocate and defender of our LGBTQ+ friends and loved ones (and one of my personal favorite AQ personalities), and is NOT the one who is trying to make people feel "other". I just want to make sure the reply is aimed at the correct party.

Absolutely!! It was not aimed at DD AT ALL and I apologize for not paying attention to which I responded.
Thank you Wassa. Hugs ♡

Thank you Ryan and you are probably right ;)
Hugs

What are some good brands of carving blocks out there??
I have used...
- Pink Stuff (prolly my favorite, so far)
- A Grey, hard material (almost impaled my hand due to being so hard to carve)
- Blue stuff (horrible/crumbles)
- White stuff (horrible/ crumbles worse than the blue stuff)
- I have just ordered some different stuff that is pink on top and blue on bottom. I guess the carve goes on the pink side and the blue let's you know how deep you are?? Idk, but I'm excited to try it.

Opinions?? We need more carving block sheets cause all we have left are pieces too small for some carvings. I was hoping for a wider variety to look into. Lol

This won’t help you unless you know someone from Spain, but they make a blue material that is superior to pink, imho.

Just a little friendly fire, no need to apologize!
Keep fighting the good fight!

The conversation evolved, as they are wont to do. The attack on gay marriage mishap was corrected early on, but I have to say, it's a reasonable fear because we re living in times where political powers are taking human rights seemingly daily & it's hard to trust that the courts will intervene or that anyone is safe until they do.

When Trump got elected, who would of ever thought that a woman's right to choose would be taken away?

Who would of thought that 'late night talk show hosts' would be taken off the air because the POTUS didn't like anyone making fun of him? Not to mention, he makes fun of people constantly.

Who would of thought that if you were a person of color, you would be at risk of a group of men holding guns, wearing face masks, dragging you out of your car in front of your children?

Who would of thought the POTUS would have no idea if he needs to uphold the constitution?

Who would of thought that a man who stood up and preached racist crap that he would be looked up as a saint and the POTUS would order flags to fly at half mast for him?

Who would of thought that the POTUS would be BFF's with Putin and he would shiton our own Allies?

Who would of thought that a man who was convicted of 34 felony counts, called our Military 'losers' and that people would actually vote for him to be the POTUS?

I can go on and on as Im sure others can too. The bottom line, I am not convinced that he wont go after gay marriage. He has already proven he has no problem with hurting people who feels are less then.

The man just lies and makes stuff up and I cant help but wonder if he actually believes is his own lies.

The man is a well known crook, a con, and is evil at his core. I don't even think he is capable of feeling empathy.

I do believe he shows signs of being a narcissit which is pretty scary.

I know at this point, his priority is his ball room, but what will happen when its done? Will he go back and start screwing people over more then he already has?

So I do think there is a strong possibility that he will try to take away gay marriage.

He is textbook DSM Personality Disordered.

Dont feel bad, I've done that.

I know for me, I read everything first before I comment, get my thoughts together and whoever ends up being near the end of the comment board get the reply...lol.

I try to post one comment with all my thoughts on the last 20 comments I just read...lol.

What are travelers and hitchhikers? 😍

He is textbook DSM Personality Disordered.

A personal traveler is similar to a signature stamp in that you carry it with you, but it’s not your primary for stamping in logbooks. Great to take to events. Some boxers wait for you to say a certain phrase in order to earn the privilege of seeing and stamping their personal traveler.

A hitchhiker is a little stamp and logbook with their own mini box or pouch. They are moved from box to box. I once found a hitchhiker that hadn’t moved for eight years.

Then there are cooties and fleas…

This resource is required reading IMHO:
https://www.atlasquest.com/about/glossary/.

Hello capricious peaches.
Check the drop-down menu under HOME for Glossary

https://www.atlasquest.com/about/glossary/h/

https://www.atlasquest.com/about/glossary/p/#personal-traveler

Lenticular clouds and years ago I had a dog name Cassiopeia

I have DSM-5
can you point me towards the section?

Thank you! Reading the glossary now! 😍

Personality disorders, specifically, Narcissistic Personality Disorder. I see they've updated the DSM 5 to the DSM 5 TR, but i don't see aynything different in this section.

Hysterical!!
Came across her stamp in a log book recently and it made me giggle...now I'm sitting here chortling.

So well written! Now, let’s but it on a billboard!

thanks WM

Will I get a "hug" from you if I ask very politely if we can get the "smite" button back, Ryan? 😉

I know someone who lives in Spain! What's the name of the material?

I’ll research it. I saw someone using it on instagram and mentioned it on these boards and someone replied that they were headed over and graciously got some for me while they were there.

I’ll look through my old posts…

ETA: found it, it’s called FACTIS
https://www.gerstaecker.nl/FACTIS-Artist-s-Carving-Block.html

Looks like it’s made in Spain - available in Europe. If you are able to get some, I’d like to place an order 😉

Back then I wrote to Dickblick and Micheal’s, neither was interested in carrying it.

So, you've actually had some that you carved? What did you think? I'd seen posts about the legendary blue stuff from Europe quite a few years ago. My sister lives there and I'd thought to ask her to send me some, but around the same time another US letterboxer got her hands on some and said it was very, very similar to pink Speedball and it probably wasn't worth the postage to send the blue stuff here.

I've made notes... some of these were on our list - some not :)

Thanks for the input

I had a letterboxer, returning from Europe, bring some back and send it to me. I found it really easy to carve, and almost the same as pink stuff, possibly ever so slightly firmer, but international postage (with tariffs and customs), would likely make it unreasonably expensive for most people.

I follow this stamp carver on Instagram, who carves beautifully with that blue material.
https://www.instagram.com/cassastamps?igsh=MXdleXp2N3RnYmwzOQ==

Although some don't like the stickers, I like to put a sticker on the cover of my logbook (it doesn't have to be large). I have filled so many logbooks that it makes it easier to find the correct logbook when I have the sticker on the cover. (Yes, I do go back to old logbooks to look for specific images etc.)

My favorite swag is the battery which I'm still using. I like patches. I'm OK with no swag too (keep costs down).

Look under DSM-5 Personality Disorders Cluster.
It should be under Cluster B.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder:

Narcissistic personality disorder involves a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy. Those with narcissistic personality disorder may

-Have a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents).

-Be preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love.

-Believe that they are “special” and can only be understood by other special or high-status people.

-Require excessive admiration.

-Have a sense of entitlement (i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment).

-Take advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends.

-Lack empathy: or is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others.

-Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of them.
Show arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes.

TO dx someone with NPD, they must have 5 of these symptoms.

Trump appears to have all of them.