Heavy Metal Laundry Tips
|The metal flow chart that made the rounds recently fell flat in my book. But these heavy metal laundry tips by WMUC metal DJ Scott Maxwell is pretty spot-on: ‘Allow your clothes to soak in waters as cold as the rivers of Blashyrkh itself, without agitation’. Comic gold.
Tagged: DJ Scott Maxwell, heavy metal, heavy metal laundry tips, metal flow chart, WMUC
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Sorry, I fogot to say that the shirt looks concert-ready.
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