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redmercer posted:I seriously didn't think you could get filthier than that one dude who lived in the dusty-rear end crawlspace but drat. I've known unemployed smack addicts who took better care of their homes.
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Nathilus posted:Yeah, totally missed that. I'd still give it a 3/10 on the livability scale at the minimum though. There's too much poo poo in that small joint (I can commiserate, having once had to throw out a bunch of my stuff when I moved from a much larger apartment to a smaller one) and it's incredibly unorganized, but there IS floor space and not nasty piles of detritus everywhere. If that's a 3 I'd hate to see the things you'd call a 1. Who am I kidding, I'd love to see it. Imp of the Grotesque and all that.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 04:57 |
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The Squidbillies live in a tiny shack that is better kept than your home. I grew up poor in a mobile home in rural Texas; and I recall my mom freaking out when an egg broke and dribbled on the kitchen counter...she kept everything spotless. We were always broke, but my parents had standards, and as I grew older I became more and more thankful of them for that. I don't even want to make fun of the OP, because there's really no point to it. You badly need help, and as much as I dislike what I read about CPS cases, I have to agree with them here.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:01 |
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Nathilus posted:Yeah, totally missed that. I'd still give it a 3/10 on the livability scale at the minimum though. There's too much poo poo in that small joint (I can commiserate, having once had to throw out a bunch of my stuff when I moved from a much larger apartment to a smaller one) and it's incredibly unorganized, but there IS floor space and not nasty piles of detritus everywhere. Yeah, it's not clean but there don't appear to be piles of rotten food and bags of human diapers like in real squalorbut it's definitely heading that direction. Just give it a few years.  I think the OP is genuinely delusional about the state of his house or else he wouldn't have posted pics (which it's obvious his wife took so she must share his delusion) to get validation. He probably was told "it isn't that bad" a few years ago because it wasn't that bad then and has gotten steadily worse without him realizing. Hopefully, the mass revulsion from the thread will convince him to figure out how to dig himself out and get his kids back.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:02 |
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If anyone has never seen the dwelling and mindset of what is popularly called White Trash I would like to submit the OP as Exhibit A. Bear in mind, this distinction isn't really even about money or even social class, it's just a distinct way of living and frame of mind that exists entirely outside of how much money you make or what you do for a living. Edit: Just for full disclosure I was born and raised lower-middle class in Billings, MT and spent the first few years of my life in a trailer home. My parents are not tidy people by any means but there's no way in hell they would ever let the house get to that state. Even with my Dad working two jobs and my Mom going to college and working full time. The economy in the 80s in Montana was not so good.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:03 |
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I live in Newark NJ and I've had to testify in court to the NJ equivalent of CPS (DYFS) on crack dens and meth labs that are cleaner than your house. Jesus loving christ. At first I felt slightly bad with the rampant minimization in the OP, but then I realized "wait... 10am and they're still laying in bed, and they didn't even notice their kid get up and walk right out of the house..." This, by default, makes you lovely parents. And as a pediatrician in one of the shittiest cities in the country, trust me when I say I've seen some lovely parenting. Then the pictures.  I pity your children, I really do. Not saying they'd be better off in foster care, because honestly, a lot of foster homes are almost as bad as yours, but still... clean your poo poo up, get a job, learn to live like a loving human being, and throw out all your excess useless poo poo. I can only imagine the smell in that place. 
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:04 |
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Nathilus posted:Yeah, totally missed that. I'd still give it a 3/10 on the livability scale at the minimum though. There's too much poo poo in that small joint (I can commiserate, having once had to throw out a bunch of my stuff when I moved from a much larger apartment to a smaller one) and it's incredibly unorganized, but there IS floor space and not nasty piles of detritus everywhere. Keep in mind he may be posting the pictures that don't make it look that bad. There may be other spots we do not see with a pile of soiled year old diapers or something worse. EDIT: Oh my god, I just realised he mentioned he's doing pharmacy in school. I hope he doesn't kill any of his patients.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:05 |
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Poor kid. I hope she finds a nice, new family.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:05 |
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Where does your 9 month old spend the day? Crawling through that poo poo heap? Your lucky he isn't dead from something falling on him or the mess of black mold that is undoubtedly covering your wet floor. And how the gently caress are you sleeping in with a baby that young? Do you just leave him to his own devices too? Your kids are better off in foster care. Get hosed, OP.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:12 |
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I've never posted in an E/N thread before, so congratulations for getting me pissed off enough that I can't fall asleep. I grew up with a mother who would buy things from the Christmas Tree Shop, HomeGoods, or other stores that sell poo poo you don't need. She'd go shopping around three times a week. Each time, she'd come back with 2-3 bags of useless crap. She'd bring back chairs she thought she could "restore", she'd curtains and rods and just let them sit, she'd buy stacks of old decorating and gardening magazines and insist she was working on some ~grand project~ to turn our house into some sort of suburban palace. She was hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to my elderly grandmother but flaked on repaying her, to the point that my grandmother had to take out a loan against the home my grandfather had built and owned free-and-clear for decades to cover the credit payments. My mother never stopped buying poo poo. By the time I escaped to college, our dining room was full, the large basement had a couple of precarious paths through it, and the garage was half-jammed. It got worse every time I came back. The last time I visited was about six years ago. All but one room in the house was jammed full of poo poo. My old room had been piled high with - you guessed it - bags of poo poo from the Christmas Tree Shop. My younger brother volunteered to give me his bed because he could fit on the only couch in the house that wasn't covered in trash. I haven't been back. I haven't spoken with her in over five years. I gather she's still alive - I got a piece of forwarded mail from her a month or so ago - but that entire pathetic part of my life is dead to me. When all is said and done, this is what your children will think of you. Perhaps your five-year-old already does. It wouldn't surprise me, considering that she seems fairly resourceful; this isn't uncommon for the children of neglectful parents. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to spend the next week cleaning my apartment until it loving shines.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:15 |
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redmercer posted:If that's a 3 I'd hate to see the things you'd call a 1. Your wish is my command. I just pulled these off of google images, I don't exactly keep a photo archive of the nastiest places I've ever seen. These should still work as examples though. I'm linking them because they are really nasty and might seriously upset people. Click at your own risk. I'll start with the nicest one. http://i.imgur.com/I9ojl.jpg This gets a one for massive piles of rotting food and poo poo. A pile of laundry all over a room and bed is one thing, having your kitchen be completely unusable because of all the rotting garbage piled up is quite another. Actually, it would probably be better to consider these all a zero, or completely unlivable. Here's another kitchen filled with mounds of unholy god knows what. http://i.imgur.com/7LaYv.jpg Ok, you're thinking it doesn't get much worse than this. HA. Have a room completely filled with garbage up beyond average adult waist level. http://i.imgur.com/iv4dt.jpg Note that behind the woman standing on the pile is a kitchen counter, around chest height on adults in the sixish feet range. ... AND BEYOND! http://i.imgur.com/u1AOQ.jpg
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:15 |
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Nathilus posted:That house isn't half as bad as you guys are making it seem. Sure there's a lot of crap all over the place and that needs to be taken care of but at least there's no rotting food and feces. It looks relatively sanitary. The junk is an easy fix. There is cat poop on the floor. The floor is rotting out. There are precarious piles of poo poo everywhere. Add to that the whole "my child was able to get up, dress, pack a bag, and LEAVE WITHOUT ME HEARING IT" thing and this guy should not be raising children ever.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:15 |
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Nathilus posted:That house isn't half as bad as you guys are making it seem. Sure there's a lot of crap all over the place and that needs to be taken care of but at least there's no rotting food and feces. It looks relatively sanitary. The junk is an easy fix. There's floating particles of something in all the photos. You can see all the floating orbs. I'm not sure if it's dust or mold but it's all going into their children's lungs.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:17 |
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Chickalicious posted:Where does your 9 month old spend the day? Crawling through that poo poo heap? OP said the son has a playpen in the bedroom, which is apparently also his crib? Anyway, I suspect the poor kid spends all his time penned up in there, being neglected. I doubt the OP is interacting with his baby at all on a regular basis.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:19 |
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The Saddest Rhino posted:EDIT: Oh my god, I just realised he mentioned he's doing pharmacy in school. I hope he doesn't kill any of his patients.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:20 |
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redmercer posted:If that's a 3 I'd hate to see the things you'd call a 1. When I was a little kid I remember having some neighbors that were easily worse than the OP. Their house was completely filled with garbage and smelled like hell. You couldn't even get to their back door because the rear enclosed porch was waist high in trash (a lot of it was in bags though, I guess they were just too lazy to carry it 50 feet to the curb for the garbage man). It was also a giant roach breeding ground. If you looked inside, the walls, floors and ceilings of the house were moving because every surface was covered in roaches. They couldn't even open the front door because it was jammed shut due to the roach issue. When the filthy tenants either moved out or were evicted they had to bug bomb and then gut the house. There were literally dead roaches spilling out of the walls. While the OP's trailer is disgusting and no place for a kid it's definitely not the worst out there.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:24 |
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Reiley posted:There's floating particles of something in all the photos. You can see all the floating orbs. I'm not sure if it's dust or mold but it's all going into their children's lungs. Considering he has tons of "soft spots" where the floor sags due to extreme water damage there's probably a thick black mold that we're not seeing.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:26 |
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Their little girl showed more initiative, resolve, maturity, and personal responsibility in one morning than both of her parents have for her entire life. I hope she'll be ok. She'll be ok 
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:28 |
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OP reminds me of a girl I knew in high school who ended up getting married and having two kids. I'd lost track of her until she friended me on Facebook, but apparently she spent that lost decade becoming a loving psycho and taking lessons in lovely parenting. One day she made a hysterical post wailing about how CPS had "profiled" them (they're white) and taken them under investigation and were threatening to take their babies away, all because a spiteful former roommate had filed a false report trying to get them in trouble. It turns out that both children were nonverbal (3 years and 18 months respectively), and the younger one had fractured his skull TWICE and gotten a concussion on top of that in three separate incidents in the span of like 6 weeks. Supposedly he'd "jumped" out of a first-story window and off various furnishings. But apparently those things, along with their frequent mutual accusations of domestic violence and her explosive temper, weren't the problem--no, CPS was just unfairly targeting them because of that one "false" accusation. They, uh, got to keep their kids. To be fair to the OP, this couple was way worse at parenting than he and his wife, no contest. I mean, at least their older kid seems to like school and can presumably talk. But the phenomenon of "I have no idea why CPS would take my precious children!" followed by horrifying discoveries is loving uncanny. Also, I know CPS procedures vary from state to state and even from county to county, but I've known a lot of foster kids over the years and I'm suspicious of how things went down in the OP. Sure, that house is vile, and a 5-year-old wandering the streets alone is a cause for serious alarm. But every CPS investigation I've ever seen requires more than that to take the kids, and virtually all the ones I know of have at least an attempt to place the kids with someone they know before putting them with foster parents. It isn't like that one Simpsons episode where all it takes is a pile of old newspapers and a case of head lice.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:29 |
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I haven't felt so much revulsion scrolling through a set of pictures since Keyboard Goop. WNxOddJob, if you're reading this, you live in the home equivalent of Keyboard Goop. (Oh also, please don't rereg. Please don't spend any more money on internet things.)
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:30 |
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I am not the one to say that 'Poor people don't deserve luxury/nice things in life or else they shouldn't be called poor!' But if you were as financially troubled as you said it yourself it probably wasn't very sound decision-making on your part to spend 1600$ on a gaming computer.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:34 |
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It doesn't look that bad guys, you are just house-triggering.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:37 |
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I Ozma Myself posted:You must have missed the dusty vacuum cleaner in one of the living room shots. These pics really are like some sort of horrible Where's Waldo? or Highlights magazine. Can you find the: Ketchup stain? Vacuum cleaner? Kid's bed? Dead cat? My desk is a bit untidy.. But I'm feeling way better about it now.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:40 |
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I hope this thread and, more importantly, losing his kids have given the OP some perspective and he'll get his poo poo together.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:41 |
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Goobish posted:So how many goons are going to obsessively clean their homes tonight and/or tomorrow? This thread has seriously motivated to clean the gently caress out of my place. Thanks! Yup. Knocked out a load of dishes. Loadin' laundry into the sea bag for tomorrow since the washers and dryers are locked up. Hoarders and posts like these are great motivation...
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:41 |
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Nathilus posted:Your wish is my command. I just pulled these off of google images, I don't exactly keep a photo archive of the nastiest places I've ever seen. These should still work as examples though. I'm linking them because they are really nasty and might seriously upset people. Click at your own risk.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:42 |
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Yeah on the one hand, I'm morbidly curious for updates, but on the other I'm really hoping this ban might force him to ignore his computer and deal with real life. Also I totally imagine that little girl as Matilda and it makes me hopeful. Poor kid.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:44 |
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Nathilus posted:pictures of poo poo
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:45 |
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slinkimalinki posted:Sure, I've seen pictures of worse squalor on the internet. But there's a 9 month old baby involved, and the trailer must be freezing with the holes in the floor and just because it's not the worst case ever doesn't mean it's not sad. Yeah, this. There's a difference between "liveable" for a goonlord and "liveable" for innocent children.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:46 |
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Rabbi Raccoon posted:Hey remember those I Spy books? I just found where they got the pictures. I spy where you found this joke. On the last page.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:47 |
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Reiley posted:There's floating particles of something in all the photos. You can see all the floating orbs. I'm not sure if it's dust or mold but it's all going into their children's lungs. ORBS? This is worse than I thought 
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:47 |
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PopRocks posted:Yeah on the one hand, I'm morbidly curious for updates, but on the other I'm really hoping this ban might force him to ignore his computer and deal with real life. Maybe that's why there are white floating spheres everywhere in those pictures.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2011 05:48 |
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Rabbi Raccoon posted:Hey remember those I Spy books? I just found where they got the pictures. That's the one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ADgCeYJMN4
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