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By popular demand posted:Was posted in the weird news thread of all places I'm the unimpressed, adorably round cat in the cardboard box kingdom. It just keeps going, and going... there's of course a Gamecube sitting next to the oddly similar looking CD burner, for the proper hot couch experience. And this is just the main building, not the attached massive sheds.
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tater_salad posted:Ohh I just noticed.. I'm the washer n dryer like in the bedroom. Guess I can't really toss some clothes in before I go to bed then eh? Splicer posted:Nah you turn it on when you go to bed for the soothing white noise effect. Not sure if this is sarcasm, but washing machines and dryers have always put me right the gently caress to sleep. Might be the autism.
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Ashcans posted:Americans worry about their house being haunted because it’s the only pest they can’t shoot away. If only there was someone they could call.
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Dareon posted:I would actually watch a movie with that premise. Impressionable young new homeowner moves into spooky house, discovers each new haunting has a completely mundane, yet still hazardous, explanation, fixes them with the help of a friendly neighbor who works as a contractor. Stinger is talking with some of his local coworkers about all this, and someone goes "Uh... we haven't had a local contractor in this town for years, the last guy died in an electrical accident in the house next to yours." Puts it up on the market with 'Haunted by friendly home maintenance ghost'
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There's probably a haunted house story where it tries to drive its inhabitants insane but they're already burnt out millennials who welcome death so it gives up, and/or teams up with them against the landlord
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By popular demand posted:
I've said that sufficiently advanced Catholicism is indistinguishable from being goth as hell
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Mar 30, 2021 11:28
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IIRC that place isn't so much necessarily a hoarder house as it is acting as a warehouse and home for an operation selling stolen/counterfeit/fallen off the back of a truck goods which happens to be really weirdly constructed. IIRC it used to be a church? I imagine the rent was cheap. That said, there's something new every time you look, like the cabinet in the kitchen that's completely empty except for four kitschy figurines. How much did they arbitrarily move around/clean up/grab and bug out before the photos were taken? Who knows.
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I'm not surprised, it's sealed up among stacks and stacks of random crap. I do have to wonder how often they actually used it, especially since it's just curtained off from another carpeted room of stacked Girls Gone Wild DVDs. There's some bathroom stuff in it, so maybe? It seems like it might be less claustrophobic in person.
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Youth Decay posted:
I swear this is on Starfish Island in Vice City.
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At least the dog matches the couch.
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Platystemon posted:I had a reptile tank that sold as an aquarium, but even then, the aquarium thread told me “not worth the risk that it’s not long-term watertight when you can get a new one for under fifty dollars”. I agree. Or just look on Craigslist or equivalent for one a budding hobbyist now wants to get rid of. Could just get a reptile.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:new mushroom just dropped It's the home of a space hobbit. I want to be a space hobbit.
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A rabbi and an imam just to cover your bases.
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Still kinda surprises me how universal an experience it apparently is for contractors to just stop showing up halfway through the job, and everyone just apparently shrugs.
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Aug 31, 2021 12:56
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And suddenly I'm reminded Footrot Flats has the hippie farmer neighbour's house have a full blown tree growing in the middle of it. Also in retrospect that dude definitely is Wal's weed hookup.
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dwarf74 posted:How has nobody even mentioned the giant spooky skull with a top hat looking over this nightmare and probably smirking Mr Bones' Wild Ride, in house form.
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I've said before: never buy a house from an electrician. Source: landlord is an electrician.
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mostlygray posted:I almost bought a house from a plumber. It didn't work out, but holy crap did it have the best plumbing in the world. The soil pipes and stacks were copper. Who does that? It was the best plumbed house I've ever seen. He left the plumbing all exposed like it was a showroom. No light in the kitchen though so it was a pass. It did have a badass garage though. It had a garage in the garage to store your garage. There was room on the back to add another garage. Still, no light in the kitchen, no deal. A man's gotta cook. There's an old post in AI somewhere that goes into detail that you should never buy a car from a mechanic, because it's always either a barely-functional daily beater or an irresponsibly tuned toy, and otherwise prone to completely falling apart if anyone but the mechanic uses them in exactly the right way. (and sometimes even then)
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:I appreciate that these pets have the same tuxedo on. Having a matching cat and dog is always great. Border collies and tuxedo cats are like the original odd couple.
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Jows posted:Yeah my first assumption was it was a thermocouple reader. Then I looked closer... My Fallout instincts come in handy suddenly. Isn't water an extremely good radiation shielding?
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alnilam posted:I won't lie, I've always dreamed of hooking like 10 metal toggle switches in series with the ignition of a car, up on the front of the ceiling, so you have to go flip flip flip flip to activate it like you're in a cool spaceship I recall this being an anti-theft measure in Fury Road.
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power crystals posted:It's time for those terrifying six words, "so we just bought a house". This is the first place I've owned instead of rented. All the important stuff is in good to excellent shape, it has a gorgeous yard, etc. But halfway through the sale the realtor told me the PO was an electrician and my mind immediately went to "this is either very good or very bad". I'll give you a hint: I'm posting in this thread. Never buy a house from an electrician, and never buy a car from a mechanic. Source: renting a house from an electrician.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Funnily enough, this is among the oldest recorded proverbs (from a Sumerian book of proverbs that educated people kept around in their houses about 4,000+ years ago) Proclick link. There's a lot of donkey jokes.
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A lot of those don't make sense out of context but I love that the fox is clearly the stock character of the fool with unlimited self-confidence unless something might be hard.
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Sloppy posted:Same, just annoyed by the downspouts. Like you spent all that effort on a really expensive design and build and couldn't be bothered to hide them? I dunno, kinda feels like they're incorporated into it.
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Cat Hatter posted:drat, I was going to post that video. Biggest offender of home shows ruining people's houses with tacky crap was Monster House, the spinoff of Monster Garage where you had to live in whatever that week's team hacked together. Their version of every white person wanting a tiki bar in their house was to put the giant Olmec head Mr. Burns gave Homer Simpson into someone's living room and make it shoot a fireball into the middle of the room. Does their home security system also include a gelatinous cube?
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MrYenko posted:Thread pays off hard the whole way through. This one was my favorite though: Sassy Mouth Photography, whose motto seems it should be 'We won't second-guess any of your horrible decisions!' Lead out in cuffs posted:Yeah based on further in the thread it sounds like it was in fact a sex castle - "massage" rooms everywhere, showers designed for large groups of people, etc. The "modelling" business he tried to start was hiring out models by the hour to satisfy customers' "desire, intrigue and lust". That certainly adds even more layers to the story, especially given how apparently the owner ended up moving in with his pregnant mistress after his divorce.
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j.peeba posted:I expect that you'd have to tear the place down and do like a 90% rebuild unless a wet stanky lowpoly disco dungeon with mold is exactly what you've been looking for. I hear a possibly former cop in Revachol is looking for a new home.
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LonsomeSon posted:There’s a place for slipshod but functional for now and whatever else it is, it’s emphatically nowhere near water, imho. I think there's a Chinese phrase for this often used in particular examples of terrible construction that translates to something like 'good enough' or 'not my problem anymore'.
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As far as boats go that seems like one of the less bad with money options.
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PurpleXVI posted:I remember once while we were doing some renovations at this kinda mansiony-looking place, we found some ancient newspapers, narrating the uncertainty and upheaval of mandatory public schooling's introduction in Denmark. Stuff like that is kind of interesting. Superman comics in the newspaper under the carpet. I think as cheap insulation.
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Put a trampoline at the bottom.
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The VA is also notoriously trying harder than most of America's enemies to kill its soldiers.
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Emu farms were a big thing in the US in the late 90s/early 00s apparently, much to the amusement of any Australian.
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If you think that's funny, the way Hank Hill pronounces 'Emu' is loving hilarious.Motronic posted:I don't remember that, but I do remember alpaca being a huge thing. It was sold as basically printing money by raising cute (they ugly as poo poo) animals and selling wool into premium markets for premium prices. So you had to spend a ton of money on the best bloodline of aplaccas. Alpacas do actually have a use for sheep farmers iirc, since they (usually) get along great with sheep and will kick wild dogs to death, so they basically guard flocks.
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Reminded of an ad for gas water heaters with a giraffe taking a bath.
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Platystemon posted:That’s not cold enough to warrant a fireplace. Adelaide houses are also built to vent heat as quickly as possible!
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Inspired by the first draft of H. P. Lovecraft's darkly imaginative but poorly spell-checked novella, The Wall of Ctuhulhu. Missed opportunity for the horror story literally about air conditioning.
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koshmar posted:So it's got 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, a spacious kitchen and direct access to a large cave system. Something about cottagecore Batman.
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Vim Fuego posted:Your "buddy" sounds like a side character in a thriller movie Certainly something out of Nope.
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