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Fried Watermelon posted:I always locked my door even in apartments because more than once every time someone would get off on the wrong floor and try to open my door. Yep, only has to happen once and you'll never fail to lock it again
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Here in SF thieves will smash your windows even if the inside is immaculate just to get a reeeeallly good look around in case there’s a penny between the seat cushions or whatever. Our cops are useless lazy fucks and won’t do poo poo about it either (too busy harassing the homeless or just sleeping in their squad cars knowing it’s drat near impossible to fire them). I still feel safer in my apartment than in any house I’ve ever lived in. My windows have bars and any burglars have to bypass three locked doors or scale a giant wall in view of a bunch of other apartments to get to me and it’s basically impossible to case my place. My FIL has a super complex alarm system with cameras everywhere in his lily white exurban subdivision because he knew someone who knew someone who got robbed at gunpoint in a different neighborhood back in ‘92.
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Jan 23, 2021 16:23
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nishi koichi posted:who’s that guy  I've had literally this, and literally 'why are they doing this?' *next scene seconds later is explaining why they're doing things*
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Jan 23, 2021 17:17
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Picnic Princess posted:Leave your car door unlocked but superglue a razor blade underneath the handle. Seems like a good way to get ALL your windows busted
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Jan 23, 2021 17:58
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Sabotaging things to injure people is a lot more reprehensible than stealing. What a gross thing to suggest.
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Jan 23, 2021 18:03
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nishi koichi posted:who’s that guy The best part is when they do this in the first 10m of a movie or first episode of a show. I've seen just as much as you, dad, its being deliberately mysterious, that is the entire hook, shut up. Boomers also get upset if you pause the movie to answer their questions about the movie.
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Jan 23, 2021 18:26
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I know two people who got their windows smashed in (both in Providence, because of course) and in both cases they only bothered to report it to the police for insurance purposes. They aren't going to do gently caress all about it and everyone knows it.
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Jan 23, 2021 22:01
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nishi koichi posted:who’s that guy My mom stopped doing this when I started just leaving the room and doing something else.
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Jan 24, 2021 01:39
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I left my backpack in my car overnight once when I lived in Fremont in a pretty nice neighborhood and someone smashed my window to get it, rummaged through the (worthless) contents, and just left them scattered around my car. It's the only time my car got broken into and it was a $140 lesson about leaving a backpack in a car parked on the curb overnight. While we do in fact lock our front door our house got burglarized in broad daylight as well. Turns out waiting until residents leave for work gives thieves a window of time to kick in the door and rasack the place and get out. Nerghbors saw the thieves leave and called the cops, but of course they never caught the people nor did we ever see the stolen items again. Luckily they didn't steal much of value; by some miracle my wife's laptop containing her Master's Thesis was spared. The biggest hassle was fixing the door they kicked in and the fact that we thought they stole a checkbook, went and changed our checking account/all the attached stuff only whoops the checkbook was there all along a few weeks later.
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Jan 24, 2021 01:59
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When my mom and I started binge watching shows, starting with Breaking Bad, and then Mad Men, Game of Thrones, etc, we'd make some good lunch beforehand, and I'd recap everything from the past episode or two to limit questions. I kept the Red Wedding a secret for her for months. gently caress that was so worth it.
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Jan 24, 2021 02:24
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Harvey Mantaco posted:Do I have the brain worms where everything is loss or is this loss please help It's not Loss, it's a take-off of the comic commonly referred to as "Bike Cuck." 
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Jan 24, 2021 06:41
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What a stupid loving comic
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Jan 24, 2021 13:53
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My boomer FIL will explain jokes I tell. To me: the guy who wrote the fuckin’ joke. Last night I mentioned I wanted to start smoking heavily and gain a bunch of weight to jump the line for vaccinations . He replied, “heavy smokers and people who are obese are at high risk for getting COVID.” Dude is a doctor. Drunk Nerds fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Jan 25, 2021 |
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Jan 24, 2021 16:04
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CaptainSarcastic posted:It's not Loss, it's a take-off of the comic commonly referred to as "Bike Cuck." So the artist then donated all his material possessions to charity and live in a barrel like diogenes? No? huh.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:It's not Loss, it's a take-off of the comic commonly referred to as "Bike Cuck." This comic possibly might have had a healthy point as in "There is no chance you will get your bike back ever so just move on with your life. If possible try to get some money from home insurance." but framing the issue so that the bike thief will cycle around happily instead of selling it for drug money is silly. No matter what the point was the comic should not have been made. That goes for almost all comics ever written.
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Jan 24, 2021 17:45
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seems like someone who can afford a new bike got their bike stolen and decided to show how much better of a person they are than someone who cannot afford a new bike
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Jan 24, 2021 17:46
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lobsterminator posted:This comic possibly might have had a healthy point as in "There is no chance you will get your bike back ever so just move on with your life. If possible try to get some money from home insurance." but framing the issue so that the bike thief will cycle around happily instead of selling it for drug money is silly. This is why the Fargoth version is superior. The Ring of Healing is an essential survival tool at level 1 in Morrowind and I was more happy to have it than a guy who stands around in town all day not getting injured.
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Jan 24, 2021 17:53
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It’s a revolutionary comic to get people to feel better about eating the rich and their bikes.
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Jan 24, 2021 17:53
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nishi koichi posted:who’s that guy One of my friends (who comes from China) was kinda like this. Except they always asked (whenever someone new was on screen) 'So, is he gay?' 'Is he gay?' It gave the whole experience a surrealistically hilarious vibe.
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Jan 24, 2021 18:10
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this was how my chinese friend acted before he moved to sf came out of the closet and now he and his husband make a nice couple and poo poo
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Jan 24, 2021 18:17
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bob dobbs is dead posted:this was how my chinese friend acted before he moved to sf came out of the closet and now he and his husband make a nice couple and poo poo good, making GBS threads is normal.
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Jan 24, 2021 18:38
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they got a war goin on w his parents who are huge homophobes tho
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Jan 24, 2021 18:40
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bob dobbs is dead posted:they got a war goin on w his parents who are huge homophobes tho he should poo poo on them
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Jan 24, 2021 18:58
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Time to start blocking poo poo on my mom's Facebook. of course all the "news" on there is about how Biden is a communist and is putting businesses out of business and the economy was so great before he came to power! Now billions are losing their jobs! of course she KNOWS she can't get mad at her new coworkers if they make $14 an hour to start and she makes $18 after working there for 13 years, but it's the unfairness of it all. She couldn't say what they SHOULD be paid, only "Less!"
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Jan 24, 2021 22:53
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CaptainSarcastic posted:It's not Loss, it's a take-off of the comic commonly referred to as "Bike Cuck." Truly a Millennial Buddha
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Jan 24, 2021 23:19
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It wasn't until I started watching The Lockpicking Lawyer that I realized most bike locks are utterly useless. When I got my bike out of the garage, it still had the old lock on there and I popped it off with a screwdriver. Locks are for honest people. I leave my car unlocked because I have two counterfeit hundred dollar bills in the glove box that I'm hoping somebody can make use of. Please don't steal the jumper cables though, those are actually useful.
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Jan 24, 2021 23:39
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"Locks are for honest people." is flawed logic. People who steal poo poo are just looking for the path of least resistance most of the time. It's much easier to walk through someone's door than pick a lock or generally stand around doing something that takes time, makes noise, and/or attracts attention. Aside from living in some kind of impregnable fortress you're never 100% protected from break-ins and theft but if you actually use a lock you're reducing the chances your poo poo gets stolen.
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Jan 25, 2021 00:01
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CPL593H posted:"Locks are for honest people." is flawed logic. People who steal poo poo are just looking for the path of least resistance most of the time. It's much easier to walk through someone's door than pick a lock or generally stand around doing something that takes time, makes noise, and/or attracts attention. Aside from living in some kind of impregnable fortress you're never 100% protected from break-ins and theft but if you actually use a lock you're reducing the chances your poo poo gets stolen. Agreed. It doesn't have to be 100% secure, just not 100% easy. Putting some measure of difficulty in place will deter a large number of thefts. It's also why fake alarms/fake cameras are effective - they present an appearance of difficulty.
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Jan 25, 2021 00:39
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So in other words, people are lazy.
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Jan 25, 2021 01:17
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wesleywillis posted:So in other words, people are lazy. It's more like when someone is committing a crime they don't want to linger around and attract attention or otherwise be seen. It's a lot easier to get away with stealing poo poo when you can just grab it and walk off.
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Drunk Nerds posted:My boomer FIL will explain jokes I tell. To me: the guy who wrote the fuckin’ joke. My old man has literally come in to my room to repeat a joke he heard on Seinfeld. He knows I love the show, he knows I remember a good deal of the episodes, but he still has to come in and repeat the entire scene to set up the punchline. He also mangles the whole thing, and not just because he's sitting there, laughing as he tells it. "So then, heh, Costanza comes in, and, ha ha ha..." He always refers to George as "Costanza" no matter what. I know that's the character's last name, but that's what he latches on to, and not his first name like most of the characters and viewers. Obviously, I don't laugh even though I know the scene.
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CPL593H posted:"Locks are for honest people." is flawed logic. People who steal poo poo are just looking for the path of least resistance most of the time. It's much easier to walk through someone's door than pick a lock or generally stand around doing something that takes time, makes noise, and/or attracts attention. Aside from living in some kind of impregnable fortress you're never 100% protected from break-ins and theft but if you actually use a lock you're reducing the chances your poo poo gets stolen. yep. you don't have to make your poo poo impossible to steal, you just have to make it less appealing and more time consuming/risky to steal than someone else's. put a $75 U-lock on a $200 bike, and park it next to a $1800 bike secured with the same U-lock, and the only way you're shits ever getting stolen is if someone already pinched the rich guy bike
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Jan 25, 2021 22:56
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A weird derail in the pyf worst book thread comes to mind that as a generation millennials have basically grown up entirely used to grown adults constantly throwing tantrums of entitlement and indignation when they don't get their way, or just want attention or get bored. Liberal boomers are shocked and terrified by someone like Donald Trump, but to millennials he's the average boss.
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Jan 27, 2021 06:33
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Boomers love to leave their shed door open and think someone broke into their shed when they see the open door.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:A weird derail in the pyf worst book thread comes to mind that as a generation millennials have basically grown up entirely used to grown adults constantly throwing tantrums of entitlement and indignation when they don't get their way, or just want attention or get bored. Liberal boomers are shocked and terrified by someone like Donald Trump, but to millennials he's the average boss. We had a straight up Ur boomer as our treasurer. Retired and volunteering so all the time in the world to do anything he wanted. He would come into the office every week and waste a few hours ranting about the budgets but always refusing to actually look at them or make any attempt to fix the problem. Eventually we froze him out and he quit. Now we have some odd old guy who's competent and proactive and doesn't care as long as poo poo works. And wow suddenly everything is working and we've gone from almost having to close shop to having so much work we're going to hire more full time staff. In the middle of a pandemic. gently caress you, you boomer shithead gently caress. I nearly lost my job because of your wretched ego driven incompetence.
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Outrail posted:Ur boomer as our treasurer. . So stupid boomer, and less stupid boomer?
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Outrail posted:We had a straight up Ur boomer as our treasurer. Retired and volunteering so all the time in the world to do anything he wanted. He would come into the office every week and waste a few hours ranting about the budgets but always refusing to actually look at them or make any attempt to fix the problem. Eventually we froze him out and he quit. Now we have some odd old guy who's competent and proactive and doesn't care as long as poo poo works. And wow suddenly everything is working and we've gone from almost having to close shop to having so much work we're going to hire more full time staff. In the middle of a pandemic. gently caress you, you boomer shithead gently caress. I nearly lost my job because of your wretched ego driven incompetence.  We had a boomer who was in charge of contracts retire last year. We've been getting new contracts in and hiring hand over fist since then, including hiring two people to basically unfuck whatever he was doing for the last 25 years. Luckily the pandemic happened so we don't have to deal with him showing up and doing the whole "I'm bored and had no life outside of work" show up and bullshit thing that boomers do when they retire
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Meme Poker Party posted:This is why the Fargoth version is superior. The Ring of Healing is an essential survival tool at level 1 in Morrowind and I was more happy to have it than a guy who stands around in town all day not getting injured. It is morally correct to steal from Fargoth because he's a disgusting Bosmer and they're worse than animals. Gross little s'wit, just look at him!
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Mad Hamish posted:It is morally correct to steal from Fargoth because he's a disgusting Bosmer and they're worse than animals. Gross little s'wit, just look at him!
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