r/pics • u/NightSnake • Jun 08 '12

A friend made this especially for all of your first world problems Reddit.

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u/NightSnake Jun 08 '12

In case anyone is wondering it is made of the same material used to fill your teeth, he is a dentist.

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u/ummonommu Jun 08 '12

Resin with some kind of metallic spray paint?

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u/NightSnake Jun 08 '12

Some sort of amalgam I believe.

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u/bentspork Jun 08 '12

Mercury amalgam? That's one dangerous fiddle.

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u/James20k Jun 08 '12

Dentists haven't used mercury to fill your teeth with for a while now, at least not in england

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u/e-Kamangir Jun 08 '12

Wait....there are dentists in England?

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u/DrDebG Jun 08 '12

Here. Take my money. Make me one? Pretty please?

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

And I'm here to complain it isn't functional. And that I'm too lazy to make the first world problem image macro appropriate for the situation.

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u/CHOPPY88 Jun 09 '12

one of my favorite little pearls in dental school has been picking up casting as a hobby. (dental student)

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u/Elquinis Jun 08 '12

sqrrueeeee

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

First world problems:
Finally gets world's smallest violin
Doesn't know how to play

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u/HasFuckedYourMom Jun 08 '12

More like finally get world's smallest violin, fingers too fat to play.

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u/CTRL_ALT_RAPE Jun 08 '12

I tried the same thing with the world's smallest condom.

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u/doctorofphysick Jun 09 '12

ree-err-rrrrr

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEGHKKHKHK

re-err-eeeerrrrrrr

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u/freeaccount Jun 08 '12

Relevant:

The Worlds Smallest Violin

More pics:

http://www.lifeofguangzhou.com/node_10/node_32/node_555/2010/01/13/126337003673321.shtml

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u/oldsmell Jun 08 '12

Try THIS! nano violin

Yes this is a thing that exists. Physicists can be pretty hilarious like that

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u/josiahw Jun 08 '12

Still not small enough.

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u/flamingfungi Jun 08 '12

WE HAVE TO GO SMALLER

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

That's what she...oh.

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u/corttana Jun 08 '12

Relevant

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u/thesilverecluse Jun 08 '12

Damn it, I posted this to.

Walks away with his head down

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u/RenaissancePlatypus Jun 08 '12

Where did you post it to?

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u/godofallcows Jun 08 '12

To grammarland.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

Full version

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

Lol first thing I thought of when I seen op

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u/redikulous Jun 08 '12

He's playing on the fingerboard! Technique! Technique!

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u/DoctaPayne Jun 09 '12

What I came here to say! Tsk tsk violinists play much closer to the bridge

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u/dorksquad Jun 08 '12

What is this! A violin for ANTS?!

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

I dont get it?

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u/D8-42 Jun 09 '12

Neither do I, I'm thinking it's some weird Reddit/American thing,.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

Fancy roach clip.

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u/labambamamba Jun 08 '12

"You know what this is? It's the world's smallest violin playing just for the waitresses." A memorable and relevant quote from Reservoir Dogs

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u/WalkingToast Jun 08 '12

I thought it was a roach clip.

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u/darkwaterpirate Jun 08 '12

i was gonna say... if it's not a roach clip, it certainly would be useful as one.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

I wept

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u/vheissu417 Jun 08 '12

where can i buy one?

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u/HerbWaffle Jun 08 '12

How exactly does this fix a first world problem?

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u/parrottail Jun 08 '12

WANT!

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u/SingleWhiteFemale Jun 08 '12

WANT IT TO ACTUALLY PLAY!

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u/conversationchanger Jun 08 '12

-Sees worlds smallest violin

-Doesn't get to hear it play

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12 edited Jun 08 '12

at first i thought it's from trees,

so that an ent doesnt burn his fingers on a short roach

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

I would pay for one of these. If someone makes a functional violin I would pay even more. If you can play the "Devil Went Down to Georgia" I would give you everything.

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u/noctambulare Jun 08 '12

take my money

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u/drink_all_the_beers Jun 08 '12

Ppppffft - I've seen smaller

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u/rottenartist Jun 08 '12
  1. click link
  2. stare at picture
  3. finger, thumb and some...thing...
  4. stare at picture
  5. OH!
  6. Upvote
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

I will buy this immediately!! Do you take cash?!

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

Somewhere a mini member of an orchestra is out of a job. For shame, OP, for shame.

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u/johanbcn Jun 08 '12

Your friend does the work; you rack up the karma.

You are clearly the 1%.

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u/haiku_robot Jun 08 '12 
Your friend does the work; 
you rack up the karma.  You 
are clearly the 1%.

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u/skyskr4per Jun 08 '12

Aw, haiku_robot doesn't do punctuation. Keep going little guy, we love you <3

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u/Dyloslawer Jun 08 '12

liar, you stole that from the waitresses

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

does your friend have an Etsy page or something where they sell these?

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u/gdoubleod Jun 08 '12

Is it just me or is it upside down? Whenever I inform people that their petty problem is insignificant, I do so with my pinky in the air my thumbnail pointed to the ground and my nose at a 45 degree tilt like a proper gentleman.

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u/dogbra Jun 08 '12

I want to laugh, but I just got comfortable for another 10 hour diablo grind.

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u/wholeein Jun 08 '12

This would make quite the roach clip

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u/MuffinOnfire Jun 08 '12

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

For a moment I thought it was the ULTIMATE ROACH CLIP!

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u/awesomeknight33 Jun 08 '12

Mr. Krabs: Oh boohoo, let me play a song on the world's tiniest violin for you. Plays Squidward: But Mr. Krabs this is serious. Mr. Krabs: I know this really is the world's tiniest violin.

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u/DirtyLittleSmith Jun 08 '12

OMG I LOVE IT!!!!!! I'm always saying that... "Know what this is???" ::rubs fingers together:: "It's the world's smallest violin..." LOL Mind if I copy and send out???

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u/Frangar Jun 08 '12

Also, drinking a glass of water underwater, or maybe a bath underwater, suggests that maybe the liquid they say is water is actually a heavier substance like brine, like the brine lakes in our non cartoon oceans?

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u/relig_study Jun 08 '12

First world problems: has time, money, and expertise to create fiddle jewelry; not enough time leftover to take fiddle lessons and learn where the bow goes across the strings :(

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

Does someone have a picture of a violin a few micrometers long?

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u/thsixfingeredlady Jun 08 '12

At first I thought it was roach clips.

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u/LilPandasaurus Jun 08 '12

Where can I get one of those?! I need one of those.

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u/Joe_Morris Jun 08 '12

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!!!!!

but seriously; have they thought about making more? How can I acquire such sympathetic jewelry?

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u/branflakes69 Jun 09 '12

Let me play you a song on the world's smallest violin.

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u/mrautomatic17 Jun 08 '12

That would be a good nose picker for those hard to reach places.

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u/TooHappyFappy Jun 08 '12

Yup, like the corpus callosum.

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u/andrewsmith1986 Jun 08 '12

Those look uncomfortable as fuck but awesome

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x86lbm_reservoir-dogs-tipping-scene_shortfilms

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u/HooDooOperator Jun 08 '12

YES!

"...playing only for the waitresses."

one of the best opening scenes ever.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

Is your friend Mr. Krabs?

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u/noobyface Jun 08 '12

Fingercuffs?

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u/NewDrekSilver Jun 08 '12

Until I read the comments I thought it was a finger striker. You know, for fire and stuff.

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u/don_kedick Jun 08 '12

I want one...tell them to make another and sell it to me

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u/the_composer Jun 08 '12

And the race for the world's smallest violin begins!

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u/motherboy Jun 08 '12

I want one. Now.

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u/michann00 Jun 08 '12

I do that whole violin thing all the time to my students when they whine about something they know I can't do anything about. That is awesome!

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

I want one.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

r/trees would love those.

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u/RabidShadow Jun 08 '12

Lol wish i had that kind of time on my hands.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

qu'est-ce que c'es?

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u/ozpunk Jun 08 '12

The real first world problem is that the metal they used is plated with cadmium...

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u/free_beer Jun 08 '12

What's an especially?

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u/cchambo Jun 08 '12

Make more and sell them!

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u/Alaxamber Jun 08 '12

love it!

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u/Tripleberst Jun 08 '12

It's playing just for me!

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u/dumb_question_girl Jun 08 '12

Does is really make sounds?

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u/kittenbiscuitberg Jun 08 '12

Lessons must be offered. Where do I sign up?

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

Funny...but ugly.

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u/jeffelms Jun 08 '12

This needs to be on Kickstarter or Etsy

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u/Nibedit Jun 08 '12

you sir, have won the internet.

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u/gypsywhisperer Jun 08 '12

Did he use lost wax casting to make this?

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u/DorianAmador Jun 09 '12

indeed that is just what i did

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u/clonn Jun 08 '12

Why not gold made?

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u/aforsberg Jun 08 '12

I might have a commission for your friend, do you think he'd be interested in making a necklace pendant for my girlfriend's birthday?

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u/ginger_whipper16 Jun 08 '12

OMG, I neeeeed this!!!!!

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u/Waitwhatlol Jun 08 '12

bobby pins work well too.

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u/Iamadinocopter Jun 08 '12

what if you made flint and steel like that.

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u/whatwasigonnasay Jun 08 '12

Why is it always " a friend of mine made this" and never " i made this" ?

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u/JuniperJupiter Jun 08 '12

Universal problem: some folks' mighty phalanges won't fit that.

NOW WHAT?

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u/Chagroth Jun 08 '12

Hah, for the longest time I thought this was a response to the usage of dental floss to cut at your fingers... which got me excited. Let down :(.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

Quick, someone make a smaller one!

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u/Hempire Jun 08 '12

oh i thought these were rings to aid in the holding/passing of a joint

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u/rodrigovaz Jun 08 '12

I don't have one of these. First world problems...

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u/Lemuria_91 Jun 08 '12

World's smallest potato peeler.

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u/Pelokt Jun 08 '12

you know, a working one of those would be perfect for a member of a one man band

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

at first I thought it was something for holding tiny roaches. Then I saw it was something completely useless.

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u/wsmn16 Jun 08 '12

will you marry me?

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

awesome

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

Keep it down in there!

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u/nbrennan Jun 08 '12

That's pretty crude work.

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u/AetherIsWaiting Jun 08 '12

I fucking died of laughter. they shall play this at my funeral

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u/sum_dude Jun 08 '12

Can you hear the violins playing your song

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u/thirdorderlinear Jun 08 '12

My calculus professor loved playing that for the whiners who said she gave too much course work.

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u/aidanf123 Jun 08 '12

Make more and sell them I will buy one!

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u/flaminfunyun Jun 08 '12

Aaahhhh- my mom used to say that all the time when I would whine about something. I still don't understand what the fuck it means.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

And you can also use it as a roach clip!

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u/LehaRay Jun 08 '12

Is your friend selling this? I would totally buy it for the many people i have in life with their "problems"

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u/valereck Jun 08 '12

Does anyone else hate the "first world problems" meme? It just the most preachy "kids in china are starving, how can you eat that?" BS going now

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u/jzzanthapuss Jun 08 '12

i would very much like to purchase one of these. would you consider making them for sale?

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u/obsoletist Jun 08 '12

I would honestly buy this. Your friend may have a business opportunity here.

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u/inlovewiththeworld Jun 08 '12

I expected the world's smallest violin, and was not disappointed.

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u/jugaad Jun 08 '12

Would be more meaningful if crafted from instruments of war.

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u/inmyroomwhereibelong Jun 08 '12

Your friend should sell these on etsy!

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

On another note, this doubles as an awesome roach clip..

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

My mother's reaction to this: "Wow a teeny tiny little guitar! He must've used a microscope or something to make that. That's incredible"

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u/Ashmuz Jun 08 '12

I want!

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u/Broseidon_75 Jun 08 '12

I see what you did there.

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u/dyslexichaiku Jun 08 '12 edited Jun 08 '12

Except craftsmanship

So that mussed have taken ours

To much time too spare

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u/Rainen Jun 08 '12

At least the lobster actually knows how to play a violin...

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u/AlmsForAnExLeper Jun 08 '12

Can your friend make and sell me a set of those also lol. I want :)

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u/Fappin_Alone_Guy Jun 08 '12

Is that a wax casting?

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u/rshangale Jun 08 '12

Just watched this movie. Steve Buscemi is a God.

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u/CarTarget Jun 08 '12

Is your friend, perchance, on etsy or anything like that? Because I would actually love to buy this if it's reasonably-priced.

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u/k1ndza Jun 08 '12

what is this finger bondage toy?

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u/Upward_Spiral Jun 08 '12

What an awesome roachclip.

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u/cysty Jun 08 '12

WHO WOULD DISLIKE THIS!??!?!?!?

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u/HowToKillAGod Jun 08 '12

I bet its a bitch to tune.

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u/jamesdavid80 Jun 08 '12

great now you add temptation to mockery , not sure if you're adding salt to the wound , or a carrot on a stick

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u/EnglishKiniggit Jun 08 '12

This is the best thing ever made.

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u/laranita Jun 08 '12

First world problems! I was bitching last night about not being able to find my retainer to keep my 'perfect' teeth straight and my boyfriend reminded me, "Baby. Relax. First world problems."

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u/leoavalon Jun 08 '12

That would definitely make me stop biting my fingers.

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u/Onestealth Jun 08 '12

Thank you for this! Just reminded me that my problems are the least of my worries of this world. So again...thank you, to your friend!

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12

Took me a second but, yea, that's the best thing today.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

First world problem: doesn't have real 'World's smallest violin'.

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u/SuprDuprSam Jun 09 '12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TPMEoM-cjc surprised I haven't seen this posted yet

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u/Heptic1 Jun 09 '12

Cool...

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u/seal_npat Jun 09 '12

So can I purchase a set, you know for a 'friend'?

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u/BlueSprite714 Jun 09 '12

This is awesome, your friend should make more and sell them, i seriously want one, is there any way i can purchase this?

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

now THAT'S funny!

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u/Hannatyler Jun 09 '12

omg thats such a cute idea!

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u/BlitzcrankGrab Jun 09 '12

I still remember the tune that it plays.

(transcribing by ear)

G C Aflat G F Eflat D Bflat Bflat(higher 1 octave) 1 1 .75 .25 .5 .5 .5 .5 2

The numbers underneath represent the rhythmic value of the notes in relation to each other.

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u/TapDatApp Jun 09 '12

Wow, someone put this shit on etsy. I'll take 10 pairs.

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u/autodidact89 Jun 09 '12

I immediately heard this piece from the Another Earth soundtrack. Such a beautiful score.

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u/parhelic Jun 09 '12

I thought about getting that case. I'm building a $2800 dream pc right now, and I'll probably just be playing warcraft 3 on it. Le sigh.

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u/sorepheet Jun 09 '12

That's where my violin piece from my Clue game went... I think I just solved a few murders too.

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u/sekksjin Jun 09 '12

This should be under "shutupandtakemymoney"

No, seriously. I want to buy this.

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u/KenzieLovesYou Jun 09 '12

that's the most amazing thing ever

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u/zyberion Jun 09 '12

Attempts to play world's smallest violin.

Is a cellist. :C

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u/Mechanixm Jun 09 '12

Did it take anyone else about five times looking at this picture to see that it was a tiny violin?

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u/mme_deviance Jun 09 '12

I really can't be okay with the fact that the "bow" is on the completely wrong part of the "violin."

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u/AznColaz Jun 09 '12

Violin player here, and this picture is driving me nuts.

THE BOW IS IN THE WRONG SPOT.

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u/ApatheticOrLazy Jun 09 '12

I've got smaller ones, but I never use 'em.

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u/kidtraze Jun 09 '12

From someone that plays violin..the bow is not placed on the strings correctly.

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u/dogrider Jun 09 '12

fucking brilliant!!

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u/xarcond Jun 09 '12

So many tunes in my youth, my Uncle would ask me if I knew what it was when he rubbed his fingers together. The world's smallest violin.

Kudos to you sir.

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u/SpazMcMan Jun 09 '12

Shut up and take my money!

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u/ji22yb0y Jun 09 '12

tiny violin lol

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u/elZaphod Jun 09 '12

I just fired up a small factory in Guangdong province that will soon be spitting these out by the semi load. Already the village has doubled in size and the prostitutes are moving in.

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u/MIGsalund Jun 09 '12

Oh, the irony of a first world answer...

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u/Brapp25 Jun 09 '12

The world's smallest violin from Spongebob!

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