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Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 02:00 PM (fwDg9)
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Oh yeah, I agree!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 07, 2024 02:01 PM (1y1PF)
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Get synthetic
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 02:01 PM (fwDg9)
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We donated our last feather stuffed couch due to getting stabbed in the back (yeah, that was it, the back!) one too many times.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 07, 2024 02:02 PM (1y1PF)
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I do remember the horse hair furniture. I was never sure what they were stuffed iwth.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2024 02:02 PM (D7oie)
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Arthur Avenue area of the Bronx in the 70s every home had a parlor where the fancy furniture covered in plastic was. Children were only allowed in there when there was company. Furniture was usually red or gold, BTW.
Posted by: Stereotypes For Any Occasion at July 07, 2024 02:04 PM (V5BDR)
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It all started when I wallpapered the foyer and now we need a new couch.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:05 PM (p4NUW)
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A high school buddy's parents had plastic covers over all their living room furniture. They went out of town and he threw a kegger.
You'll never guess what happened next.
You'll never guess what happened next.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 02:05 PM (Q4IgG)
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Plastic covers are a must! Hookers have terrible muscle control and pesky rundown is inevitable...
Plastic covers are a must! Hookers have terrible muscle control and pesky rundown is inevitable...
Posted by: Hunter Bidet at July 07, 2024 02:06 PM (IvSLs)
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The real question is how did that quill escape? Also, how long was it lurking in the furniture waiting to ambush the next victim?
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 02:06 PM (W/lyH)
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My FWP was, I had a painting contractor out to the house to discuss a paint project. Kitchen and a bathroom. Guy looked it over, took some pictures, said I'll email you tonight with an estimate. He was never heard from again.
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:06 PM (/7KEl)
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Getting poked with a feather quill while relaxing on the couch is pretty much like getting shot. Only it's worse because it's so unexpected.
Burn the house down? Or just throw away the couch, the cushions, and maybe the rug just to be safe.
You're really just an appeaser. The correct answer is hunt down every goose and duck, and destroy them! Include swans because they're assholes. You may rule over a desert, but by God, it's YOUR desert!
Burn the house down? Or just throw away the couch, the cushions, and maybe the rug just to be safe.
You're really just an appeaser. The correct answer is hunt down every goose and duck, and destroy them! Include swans because they're assholes. You may rule over a desert, but by God, it's YOUR desert!
Posted by: Archimedes at July 07, 2024 02:07 PM (xCA6C)
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The plastic covers did keep the fabrics from being funked up by tar, nicotine, and smoke.
Posted by: Slip Covers Mahoney at July 07, 2024 02:07 PM (V5BDR)
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I H8ed going into houses with plastic covered furniture
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 02:07 PM (fwDg9)
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The plastic covers did keep the fabrics from being funked up by tar, nicotine, and smoke.
Great. So your expensive clothes are marinating in tar.
Great. So your expensive clothes are marinating in tar.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 07, 2024 02:07 PM (xCA6C)
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How many geese had to give their lives just so your lazy overweight ass could be cushioned while you swilled beer and watched reruns of The Simpsons?
Posted by: Your insufferable sister in law at July 07, 2024 02:08 PM (dg+HA)
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I don't think plastic covers for furniture is for you CBD. You don't strike me as one of the mob wives from Goodfellas
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2024 02:08 PM (aYD2Z)
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My FWP was, I had a painting contractor out to the house to discuss a paint project. Kitchen and a bathroom. Guy looked it over, took some pictures, said I'll email you tonight with an estimate. He was never heard from again.
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:06 PM (/7KEl)
I always found painting contractors to be just plain flaky. I attribute it to years of inhaling paint solvent fumes.
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:06 PM (/7KEl)
I always found painting contractors to be just plain flaky. I attribute it to years of inhaling paint solvent fumes.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 02:09 PM (Lvojk)
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This transcends first-world problems to that of effete snob problems.
Posted by: Halfhand at July 07, 2024 02:09 PM (xdrSQ)
Posted by: Madge at July 07, 2024 02:09 PM (dg+HA)
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Plastic covers are a must! Hookers have terrible muscle control and pesky rundown is inevitable...
Posted by: Hunter Bidet at July 07, 2024 02:06 PM (IvSLs)
Don't get me started. Whether your gay black hooker dies or not, you get schiff all over the place.
Just an easy wipe up! Unless you gotta get rid of the body, I mean, but that's why it's good to have the ops guys on speed dial.
Posted by: Hunter Bidet at July 07, 2024 02:06 PM (IvSLs)
Don't get me started. Whether your gay black hooker dies or not, you get schiff all over the place.
Just an easy wipe up! Unless you gotta get rid of the body, I mean, but that's why it's good to have the ops guys on speed dial.
Posted by: Adam Schifforbrains at July 07, 2024 02:09 PM (qgNVD)
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That's no feather. It's a spider.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 07, 2024 02:11 PM (mH6SG)
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Flammenwaffer
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 02:12 PM (7Z4GG)
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I was giddy over my first grown-up furniture purchase, a NEW couch from Ethan Allen. I thought it was so luxe. In about a year, feathers were sticking through it. I took it to a local upholsterer's shop (they exist) and the lady told me they could make some super-fine inner liners to prevent the poke-through. I said fine, but while we're here, isn't a year in premature degradation of product? She made a vomit face and said Don't even get me started on what's happened to quality nowadays.
I was giddy over my first grown-up furniture purchase, a NEW couch from Ethan Allen. I thought it was so luxe. In about a year, feathers were sticking through it. I took it to a local upholsterer's shop (they exist) and the lady told me they could make some super-fine inner liners to prevent the poke-through. I said fine, but while we're here, isn't a year in premature degradation of product? She made a vomit face and said Don't even get me started on what's happened to quality nowadays.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 07, 2024 02:12 PM (lCaJd)
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Time was, men of the past were more stalwart and just shrugged off being tickled by a feather. It's another symptom of emasculation and the general descent into degradation, frippery, and Sodom.
Posted by: Look On the Sunny Side at July 07, 2024 02:12 PM (V5BDR)
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Just an easy wipe up! Unless you gotta get rid of the body, I mean, but that's why it's good to have the ops guys on speed dial.
Posted by: Adam Schifforbrains at July 07, 2024 02:09 PM (qgNVD)
FWP. A dead hooker to dispose of and your EV is low on charge.
Posted by: Adam Schifforbrains at July 07, 2024 02:09 PM (qgNVD)
FWP. A dead hooker to dispose of and your EV is low on charge.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 02:12 PM (Lvojk)
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Neighbors of mine not only used the furniture protectors, they also laid down clear plastic for walkways through the living room.
It was a weird time.
It was a weird time.
Posted by: 496 at July 07, 2024 02:12 PM (8I99k)
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My FWP was, I had a painting contractor out to the house to discuss a paint project. Kitchen and a bathroom. Guy looked it over, took some pictures, said I'll email you tonight with an estimate. He was never heard from again.
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:06 PM (/7KEl)
Before I sold my house last year, the biggest issue was getting it painted. What I learned is, some contractors don't want the job, so as you suggest, they don't return your calls, or like mine did, they give you an outrageous estimate, so you won't call them back.
Or they lowball you, and are so unreliable, if you end up finding a decent guy, you end up paying him to clean up the mess left behind by the lowballer, so the total cost is roughly what the overpriced estimate would have been months earlier.
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:06 PM (/7KEl)
Before I sold my house last year, the biggest issue was getting it painted. What I learned is, some contractors don't want the job, so as you suggest, they don't return your calls, or like mine did, they give you an outrageous estimate, so you won't call them back.
Or they lowball you, and are so unreliable, if you end up finding a decent guy, you end up paying him to clean up the mess left behind by the lowballer, so the total cost is roughly what the overpriced estimate would have been months earlier.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:14 PM (qgNVD)
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27 Neighbors of mine not only used the furniture protectors, they also laid down clear plastic for walkways through the living room.
It was a weird time.
Posted by: 496 at July 07, 2024 02:12 PM (8I99k)
My grandmother did this. And underneath that carpet was the most amazing hardwood floors. Her house was a time capsule. I wish I could have bought it.
It was a weird time.
Posted by: 496 at July 07, 2024 02:12 PM (8I99k)
My grandmother did this. And underneath that carpet was the most amazing hardwood floors. Her house was a time capsule. I wish I could have bought it.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:14 PM (p4NUW)
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Ethan Allen died in 1789. Not surprised the feathers on his couch are starting to poke through.
Posted by: Quality Is Job 1 at July 07, 2024 02:14 PM (V5BDR)
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18 My FWP was, I had a painting contractor out to the house to discuss a paint project. Kitchen and a bathroom. Guy looked it over, took some pictures, said I'll email you tonight with an estimate. He was never heard from again.
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:06 PM (/7KEl)
I always found painting contractors to be just plain flaky. I attribute it to years of inhaling paint solvent fumes.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 02:09 PM (Lvojk)
Many times, contractors bail when they don't think your project is big enough/expensive enough to be worth it.
Ask me how I, who live in a townhome, know...
PS - I had a 1st world success, and got a gorgeous roof/gutters/downspout (last 2 thrown in free b/c guy wanted pics to sell) done in 2 days from meeting to contract completion (contract Tuesday, work done Thursday). Maybe I could have saved $500 if I went the estimate and bring a ton of folks here...but I had a crew looking for work on sunny days b/c there's been so many in June/July here. And 10 years for them to show up and tell me if they screwed it up (50 year warranty, but I know that part is worthless - the 10 years less so)...
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:06 PM (/7KEl)
I always found painting contractors to be just plain flaky. I attribute it to years of inhaling paint solvent fumes.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 02:09 PM (Lvojk)
Many times, contractors bail when they don't think your project is big enough/expensive enough to be worth it.
Ask me how I, who live in a townhome, know...
PS - I had a 1st world success, and got a gorgeous roof/gutters/downspout (last 2 thrown in free b/c guy wanted pics to sell) done in 2 days from meeting to contract completion (contract Tuesday, work done Thursday). Maybe I could have saved $500 if I went the estimate and bring a ton of folks here...but I had a crew looking for work on sunny days b/c there's been so many in June/July here. And 10 years for them to show up and tell me if they screwed it up (50 year warranty, but I know that part is worthless - the 10 years less so)...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 02:15 PM (exHjb)
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Arthur Avenue area of the Bronx in the 70s
Posted by: Stereotypes For Any Occasion at July 07, 2024 02:04 PM (V5BDR)
I went to school with Tommy Addeo of bakery fame.
Do you remember Randazzo's Fish Market?
Posted by: Stereotypes For Any Occasion at July 07, 2024 02:04 PM (V5BDR)
I went to school with Tommy Addeo of bakery fame.
Do you remember Randazzo's Fish Market?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2024 02:15 PM (d9fT1)
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Degradation, Frippery, and Sodom is a Rolling Stones cover band that plays The Birchmere a couple times a year.
Posted by: They're not bad at July 07, 2024 02:15 PM (dg+HA)
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22 That's no feather. It's a spider.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 07
It better get back into the roomba!
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 07
It better get back into the roomba!
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:16 PM (p4NUW)
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>>A high school buddy's parents had plastic covers over all their living room furniture. They went out of town and he threw a kegger.
I had one of those parents are out of town, party at my place parties in high school. Got way bigger than I had planned, even that girl from a different high school you didn't know showed up.
A couple friends helped me clean up and get rid of all the bottles and cans. Other than the ones some chucklehead decided to put in the wall oven.
That was a costly omission on my part.
I had one of those parents are out of town, party at my place parties in high school. Got way bigger than I had planned, even that girl from a different high school you didn't know showed up.
A couple friends helped me clean up and get rid of all the bottles and cans. Other than the ones some chucklehead decided to put in the wall oven.
That was a costly omission on my part.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 02:16 PM (LkLld)
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I H8ed going into houses with plastic covered furniture
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 02:07 PM (fwDg9)
Had a grandma who had all of her upholstered furniture covered. Then she died, but she died fulfilled in the knowledge that beneath the plastic, her furniture was like new.
I always wondered what she was saving it for.
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 02:07 PM (fwDg9)
Had a grandma who had all of her upholstered furniture covered. Then she died, but she died fulfilled in the knowledge that beneath the plastic, her furniture was like new.
I always wondered what she was saving it for.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 02:16 PM (guGkK)
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Why bother painting if you're selling? The new owners are just going to tear the house to the studs and rebuild it to their needs/wants.
So, you get an extra 10k. You spent 5k getting the job done and interest rates went up another quarter of a percent making it harder to sell.
Get all your shit out. Mop the floors. Clean the bathrooms. Vacuum the carpet. Close the door.
So, you get an extra 10k. You spent 5k getting the job done and interest rates went up another quarter of a percent making it harder to sell.
Get all your shit out. Mop the floors. Clean the bathrooms. Vacuum the carpet. Close the door.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 02:17 PM (7Z4GG)
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FWP. A dead hooker to dispose of and your EV is low on charge.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 02:12 PM (Lvojk)
I don't know how any respectable hooker killer gets away with it these days. Your cell phone is tracking you, your vehicle is tracking you... red light cameras are tracking you...
The fact so many of them get away with it is evidence how shoddy police work really is, unless you practically hand them your semen to test against the dead girl's clothing.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 02:12 PM (Lvojk)
I don't know how any respectable hooker killer gets away with it these days. Your cell phone is tracking you, your vehicle is tracking you... red light cameras are tracking you...
The fact so many of them get away with it is evidence how shoddy police work really is, unless you practically hand them your semen to test against the dead girl's clothing.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:17 PM (qgNVD)
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I don't know about feather quills, but sometimes my dog gets on my bed with all foxtails and burrs. It's not as bad as getting shot, but it's a lot like lying around in a bed full of foxtails and burrs.
Maybe I should have saved all this for the pet thread.
Maybe I should have saved all this for the pet thread.
Posted by: Tom Perry at July 07, 2024 02:17 PM (MX0bI)
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So what do we do about this feather-jabbing problem? Try Very Expensive Sofas, like the Cloud from RH, or things you get at estate sales? Is there a satisfactory foam alternative? A stuffing that doesn't sink? We need real answers, not the disappointing compromises we've been accepting for far too long.
So what do we do about this feather-jabbing problem? Try Very Expensive Sofas, like the Cloud from RH, or things you get at estate sales? Is there a satisfactory foam alternative? A stuffing that doesn't sink? We need real answers, not the disappointing compromises we've been accepting for far too long.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 07, 2024 02:17 PM (lCaJd)
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Do you remember Randazzo's Fish Market?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
I remember the Fish Market, but it was my boss who lived in that neighborhood. I lived in Riverdale (Bronx) then.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
I remember the Fish Market, but it was my boss who lived in that neighborhood. I lived in Riverdale (Bronx) then.
Posted by: Stereotypes For Any Occasion at July 07, 2024 02:19 PM (V5BDR)
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The gravy is ready.
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:19 PM (/7KEl)
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Time was, men of the past were more stalwart and just shrugged off being tickled by a feather. It's another symptom of emasculation and the general descent into degradation, frippery, and Sodom.
Posted by: Look On the Sunny Side at July 07, 2024 02:12 PM (V5BDR)
Men of the past would relax on the couch wearing nothing but a cotton (because it's summer) union suit, wool trousers, a shirt, vest, and a waistcoat. No mere feather would penetrate that.
Posted by: Look On the Sunny Side at July 07, 2024 02:12 PM (V5BDR)
Men of the past would relax on the couch wearing nothing but a cotton (because it's summer) union suit, wool trousers, a shirt, vest, and a waistcoat. No mere feather would penetrate that.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 02:19 PM (Lvojk)
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Why bother painting if you're selling? The new owners are just going to tear the house to the studs and rebuild it to their needs/wants.
So, you get an extra 10k. You spent 5k getting the job done and interest rates went up another quarter of a percent making it harder to sell.
Get all your shit out. Mop the floors. Clean the bathrooms. Vacuum the carpet. Close the door.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 02:17 PM (7Z4GG)
If the house is in decent shape, the math is exactly the opposite of what you suggest. Not doing $10K worth of painting/carpeting/windows (or whatever, the type and amount varies of course) will cost you $20K in the sale price.
So, you get an extra 10k. You spent 5k getting the job done and interest rates went up another quarter of a percent making it harder to sell.
Get all your shit out. Mop the floors. Clean the bathrooms. Vacuum the carpet. Close the door.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 02:17 PM (7Z4GG)
If the house is in decent shape, the math is exactly the opposite of what you suggest. Not doing $10K worth of painting/carpeting/windows (or whatever, the type and amount varies of course) will cost you $20K in the sale price.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:20 PM (qgNVD)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 07, 2024 02:21 PM (mH6SG)
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Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 02:17 PM (7Z4GG)
If the house is in decent shape, the math is exactly the opposite of what you suggest. Not doing $10K worth of painting/carpeting/windows (or whatever, the type and amount varies of course) will cost you $20K in the sale price.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:20 PM (qgNVD)
Ok, not exactly the opposite, but the math was worth it.
If the house is in decent shape, the math is exactly the opposite of what you suggest. Not doing $10K worth of painting/carpeting/windows (or whatever, the type and amount varies of course) will cost you $20K in the sale price.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:20 PM (qgNVD)
Ok, not exactly the opposite, but the math was worth it.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:22 PM (qgNVD)
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Time was, men of the past were more stalwart and just shrugged off being tickled by a feather. It's another symptom of emasculation and the general descent into degradation, frippery, and Sodom.
Posted by: Look On the Sunny Side at July 07, 2024 02:12 PM (V5BDR)
Shackleton's crew would have sneered at the idea of being poked by a feather.
Posted by: Look On the Sunny Side at July 07, 2024 02:12 PM (V5BDR)
Shackleton's crew would have sneered at the idea of being poked by a feather.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 02:22 PM (guGkK)
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37 Why bother painting if you're selling? The new owners are just going to tear the house to the studs and rebuild it to their needs/wants.
So, you get an extra 10k. You spent 5k getting the job done and interest rates went up another quarter of a percent making it harder to sell.
Get all your shit out. Mop the floors. Clean the bathrooms. Vacuum the carpet. Close the door.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 02:17 PM (7Z4GG)
Depends on your house price in this environment - I can tell you no one buying townhomes/conods is buying and stripping them. They are reaching just to buy the townhomes, so they'd love move-in ready b/c they have no money left to fix anything.
I know when I bought my townhome, I was happy it was move-in ready. I repainted a total of 4 walls in the home (all in bedrooms as accent walls so everything wasn't tan), and left it 15 years til last year's large paint job (which we did ourselves)...
So, you get an extra 10k. You spent 5k getting the job done and interest rates went up another quarter of a percent making it harder to sell.
Get all your shit out. Mop the floors. Clean the bathrooms. Vacuum the carpet. Close the door.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 07, 2024 02:17 PM (7Z4GG)
Depends on your house price in this environment - I can tell you no one buying townhomes/conods is buying and stripping them. They are reaching just to buy the townhomes, so they'd love move-in ready b/c they have no money left to fix anything.
I know when I bought my townhome, I was happy it was move-in ready. I repainted a total of 4 walls in the home (all in bedrooms as accent walls so everything wasn't tan), and left it 15 years til last year's large paint job (which we did ourselves)...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 02:22 PM (exHjb)
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France is lost. I guess people do give deference to their footballers.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 07, 2024 02:23 PM (dB8SF)
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I think the price you'll get for property depends on where it is, not whether it's got new curtains and paint.
It's never the house.
It's where the house is.
It's never the house.
It's where the house is.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 02:24 PM (Q4IgG)
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well I've been looking at these grotesque colors for years because I live alone and didn't GAF. But now I do, the hour is getting late, and I want a nice kitchen.
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:24 PM (/7KEl)
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Ya know first world problems are racist.
Some Troll.
My FWP today is moving enough stuff around in my shop to make room for my drum set and kid proofing it so the grands can come out here and play.
Quad runner project is going to the dump. I found a better one a couple of months ago.
Further into the drum set is combining the two sets, one electronic, one acoustic. First though I have to build an 8'x8'x8" riser with a four gang outlet in it.
I probably should get to work before it hits 10,000 F in here.
Some Troll.
My FWP today is moving enough stuff around in my shop to make room for my drum set and kid proofing it so the grands can come out here and play.
Quad runner project is going to the dump. I found a better one a couple of months ago.
Further into the drum set is combining the two sets, one electronic, one acoustic. First though I have to build an 8'x8'x8" riser with a four gang outlet in it.
I probably should get to work before it hits 10,000 F in here.
Posted by: Reforger at July 07, 2024 02:24 PM (xcIvR)
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So what do we do about this feather-jabbing problem? Try Very Expensive Sofas, like the Cloud from RH, or things you get at estate sales? Is there a satisfactory foam alternative? A stuffing that doesn't sink? We need real answers, not the disappointing compromises we've been accepting for far too long.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 07, 2024 02:17 PM (lCaJd)
I'm a comfort over style guy, and I have cats, so I just don't see the point of expensive furniture. Is it comfortable? When the cats tear it up, can I just replace it without breaking the bank?
That's all that matters.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 07, 2024 02:17 PM (lCaJd)
I'm a comfort over style guy, and I have cats, so I just don't see the point of expensive furniture. Is it comfortable? When the cats tear it up, can I just replace it without breaking the bank?
That's all that matters.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:24 PM (qgNVD)
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I lived in Riverdale (Bronx) then.
Posted by: Stereotypes For Any Occasion at July 07, 2024 02:19 PM (V5BDR)
That's where my family lived when I was born.
Posted by: Stereotypes For Any Occasion at July 07, 2024 02:19 PM (V5BDR)
That's where my family lived when I was born.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2024 02:24 PM (d9fT1)
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With plastic carpet runners, our home nearly Saran wrapped. God bless the 70’s
Posted by: jimmymcnulty at July 07, 2024 02:24 PM (6Qw2E)
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49 France is lost. I guess people do give deference to their footballers.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 07, 2024 02:23 PM (dB8SF)
Le Pen always gets the same percent...there was no way she was ever getting a majority...consider her the reverse-Bernie of France.
I told my spouse this was coming, and he didn't believe me.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 07, 2024 02:23 PM (dB8SF)
Le Pen always gets the same percent...there was no way she was ever getting a majority...consider her the reverse-Bernie of France.
I told my spouse this was coming, and he didn't believe me.
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 02:25 PM (exHjb)
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Remember that weird 1970s thing where people would have plastic covers on their expensive furniture?
~~~~~
My Mom was classy. She had slipcovers made in the exact same fabric as the furniture. Why I'll never know.
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My Mom was classy. She had slipcovers made in the exact same fabric as the furniture. Why I'll never know.
Posted by: IrishEi at July 07, 2024 02:25 PM (3ImbR)
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Men of the past would relax on the couch wearing nothing but a cotton (because it's summer) union suit, wool trousers, a shirt, vest, and a waistcoat. No mere feather would penetrate that.
Imma call BS. A vest is a waistcoat. I suppose someone, somewhere, wore two of them, but it's certainly not common.
Imma call BS. A vest is a waistcoat. I suppose someone, somewhere, wore two of them, but it's certainly not common.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 07, 2024 02:25 PM (xCA6C)
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I lived in Riverdale (Bronx) then.
Posted by: Stereotypes For Any Occasion at July 07, 2024 02:19 PM (V5BDR)
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That's where my family lived when I was born.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2024 02:24 PM (d9fT1)
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Ahoy there mateys!
I was born in Manhattan, but my first apartment was on 259th Street, across from Van Cortlandt.
Posted by: Stereotypes For Any Occasion at July 07, 2024 02:19 PM (V5BDR)
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That's where my family lived when I was born.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2024 02:24 PM (d9fT1)
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Ahoy there mateys!
I was born in Manhattan, but my first apartment was on 259th Street, across from Van Cortlandt.
Posted by: IrishEi at July 07, 2024 02:28 PM (3ImbR)
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France is lost. I guess people do give deference to their footballers.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 07, 2024 02:23 PM (dB8SF)
Everything was arrayed against the people outside Paris. Of course the left was going to win. They have an Olympics coming up, they can't have muzzie and yoot rioters in the streets.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 07, 2024 02:23 PM (dB8SF)
Everything was arrayed against the people outside Paris. Of course the left was going to win. They have an Olympics coming up, they can't have muzzie and yoot rioters in the streets.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:28 PM (qgNVD)
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My FWP:
Who in the Hell decided fingernail clippers had to be chromed? That makes them slippery and hard to hold and sure as God made little green apples, when you go to cut a nail, it slips and bends the nail back.
And this hurts a lot more than some wimpy little feather poking through your shorts.
Who in the Hell decided fingernail clippers had to be chromed? That makes them slippery and hard to hold and sure as God made little green apples, when you go to cut a nail, it slips and bends the nail back.
And this hurts a lot more than some wimpy little feather poking through your shorts.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 02:28 PM (W/lyH)
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Aunt Marion and Uncle Al had furniture covers, and plastic carpet runner things too.
Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at July 07, 2024 02:28 PM (Z8Yh2)
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My Mom was classy. She had slipcovers made in the exact same fabric as the furniture. Why I'll never know.
Posted by: IrishEi at July 07, 2024 02:25 PM (3ImbR)
Sed quis tegit opercula?
Posted by: IrishEi at July 07, 2024 02:25 PM (3ImbR)
Sed quis tegit opercula?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 02:28 PM (guGkK)
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Re: France, also forgot the influence of the topless protesters. Great to see women leading the charge toward the destruction of Western culture. The downfall of the West begsn with World War I which coincided with the rise of women’s suffrage.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 07, 2024 02:28 PM (YIxO9)
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50 I think the price you'll get for property depends on where it is, not whether it's got new curtains and paint.
It's never the house.
It's where the house is.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024
I used to stage houses for selling in college and you would be stunned at the difference it makes in terms of time on market and selling price. You want people to walk in and picture themselves living there immediately. Neutrals, no personal pictures up, tables set, closet with most of the items out and what is left is displayed and organized. Pantries carefully set up.
It’s truly so the buyer feels like the could live there but it’s hard as hades for the seller to actually live there.
It's never the house.
It's where the house is.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024
I used to stage houses for selling in college and you would be stunned at the difference it makes in terms of time on market and selling price. You want people to walk in and picture themselves living there immediately. Neutrals, no personal pictures up, tables set, closet with most of the items out and what is left is displayed and organized. Pantries carefully set up.
It’s truly so the buyer feels like the could live there but it’s hard as hades for the seller to actually live there.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:29 PM (p4NUW)
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Furniture, being non-perishable, does not need plastic wrap.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 07, 2024 02:30 PM (aCj1E)
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Who in the Hell decided fingernail clippers had to be chromed? That makes them slippery and hard to hold and sure as God made little green apples, when you go to cut a nail, it slips and bends the nail back.
And this hurts a lot more than some wimpy little feather poking through your shorts.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 02:28 PM (W/lyH)
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got me a really nice set of nail clippers, matte black. Get a good grip on them and they look expensive. I hide it from my family so they won't disappear.
And this hurts a lot more than some wimpy little feather poking through your shorts.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 02:28 PM (W/lyH)
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got me a really nice set of nail clippers, matte black. Get a good grip on them and they look expensive. I hide it from my family so they won't disappear.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Come Sail Away with me, You guys at July 07, 2024 02:31 PM (hZc6Q)
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I used to stage houses for selling in college and you would be stunned at the difference it makes in terms of time on market and selling price.
Staging makes sense when even average tract homes are priced out at well above $1 million. In my area, staging is the rule rather than the exception.
Staging makes sense when even average tract homes are priced out at well above $1 million. In my area, staging is the rule rather than the exception.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 02:31 PM (guGkK)
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Men of the past would relax on the couch wearing nothing but a cotton (because it's summer) union suit, wool trousers, a shirt, vest, and a waistcoat. No mere feather would penetrate that.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 02:19 PM (Lvojk)
My dad wore a suit to church on Sunday. Otherwise, he wasn't "relaxing" on a couch in the damn thing. He came home from working his ass off all day, in a t-shirt and loose pants, he'd collapse into the couch and often be asleep before Walter Cronkite was finished lying to the nation.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 02:19 PM (Lvojk)
My dad wore a suit to church on Sunday. Otherwise, he wasn't "relaxing" on a couch in the damn thing. He came home from working his ass off all day, in a t-shirt and loose pants, he'd collapse into the couch and often be asleep before Walter Cronkite was finished lying to the nation.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:31 PM (qgNVD)
Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at July 07, 2024 02:31 PM (Z8Yh2)
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Who in the Hell decided fingernail clippers had to be chromed? That makes them slippery and hard to hold and sure as God made little green apples, when you go to cut a nail, it slips and bends the nail back.
You have fingernail clippers? I mean, a tool whose entire function is to clip fingernails? Excuse me, your majesty. We had to use a meat cleaver, and let me tell you, you knew when your aim was off.
You have fingernail clippers? I mean, a tool whose entire function is to clip fingernails? Excuse me, your majesty. We had to use a meat cleaver, and let me tell you, you knew when your aim was off.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 07, 2024 02:32 PM (xCA6C)
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Fire fixes everything.
Posted by: ZooomZooom at July 07, 2024 02:32 PM (rfnUk)
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About painting before sale. It usually makes economic sense but then there's the tale of one our neighbors in the small condo complex where we used to live. Before putting his condo on the market, the owner had some "designer" friend of his advise him on a new paint scheme. (He was an engineer and didn't know any better.) It was a nice paint job but, as our realtor neighbor diplomatically described it very "taste specific."
The people who bought it immediately repainted everything. Don't know how the weird paint affected the sales price--but it certainly didn't help.
The people who bought it immediately repainted everything. Don't know how the weird paint affected the sales price--but it certainly didn't help.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at July 07, 2024 02:32 PM (FEVMW)
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It’s truly so the buyer feels like the could live there but it’s hard as hades for the seller to actually live there.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:29 PM (p4NUW)
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When we were looking at houses my go to thought was "would I want to have Thanksgiving here".
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:29 PM (p4NUW)
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When we were looking at houses my go to thought was "would I want to have Thanksgiving here".
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 07, 2024 02:33 PM (CQ8KO)
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Sed quis tegit opercula?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 02:28 PM (guGkK)
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Hah! Latin IV. Spent entire Senior year translating The Aeneid. Nuns know their way around cruel and unusual punishment.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 02:28 PM (guGkK)
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Hah! Latin IV. Spent entire Senior year translating The Aeneid. Nuns know their way around cruel and unusual punishment.
Posted by: IrishEi at July 07, 2024 02:33 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 02:34 PM (xjTDL)
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Pottery Barn sofa
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:34 PM (/7KEl)
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It’s truly so the buyer feels like the could live there but it’s hard as hades for the seller to actually live there.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:29 PM (p4NUW)
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I had someone come in and stage my last house before an open house. The place looked incredible - like a Mediterranean villa. It truly never looked like that before.
Not sure how they did it, but the transformation was amazing.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:29 PM (p4NUW)
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I had someone come in and stage my last house before an open house. The place looked incredible - like a Mediterranean villa. It truly never looked like that before.
Not sure how they did it, but the transformation was amazing.
Posted by: 496 at July 07, 2024 02:35 PM (kOTaV)
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I now need to fold up my popup tent for the first time.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 02:34 PM (xjTDL)
Easy-peasy.
But that sonofabitch sure isn't going back in the box.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 02:34 PM (xjTDL)
Easy-peasy.
But that sonofabitch sure isn't going back in the box.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 02:35 PM (W/lyH)
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It was a nice paint job but, as our realtor neighbor diplomatically described it very "taste specific."
The people who bought it immediately repainted everything. Don't know how the weird paint affected the sales price--but it certainly didn't help.
That's the reason my wife and I ended up with our very nice house. The previous owner had hideous taste; the whole thing was an optic assault. However, it wasn't my first rodeo, and I knew all that could be fixed. We were at the limit of what we could pay, so fortunately, we didn't need an escalator clause or any of that nonsense.
The people who bought it immediately repainted everything. Don't know how the weird paint affected the sales price--but it certainly didn't help.
That's the reason my wife and I ended up with our very nice house. The previous owner had hideous taste; the whole thing was an optic assault. However, it wasn't my first rodeo, and I knew all that could be fixed. We were at the limit of what we could pay, so fortunately, we didn't need an escalator clause or any of that nonsense.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 07, 2024 02:36 PM (xCA6C)
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It’s truly so the buyer feels like the could live there but it’s hard as hades for the seller to actually live there.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:29 PM (p4NUW)
We were going to do some staging, but sorta ran out of time (since the painting took so long). Took about a month to sell, and that was probably longer than it could have.
I'm going to be buying later this year, and keep selfishly hoping interest rates come down, and prices start to burst their bubbles.
Both would mean the country is is bad shape, but at this point I don't much care.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:29 PM (p4NUW)
We were going to do some staging, but sorta ran out of time (since the painting took so long). Took about a month to sell, and that was probably longer than it could have.
I'm going to be buying later this year, and keep selfishly hoping interest rates come down, and prices start to burst their bubbles.
Both would mean the country is is bad shape, but at this point I don't much care.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:36 PM (qgNVD)
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Hah! Latin IV. Spent entire Senior year translating The Aeneid. Nuns know their way around cruel and unusual punishment.
Posted by: IrishEi at July 07, 2024 02:33 PM (3ImbR)
That Virgil knew his cacas all right.
Posted by: IrishEi at July 07, 2024 02:33 PM (3ImbR)
That Virgil knew his cacas all right.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 02:36 PM (guGkK)
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>>Staging makes sense when even average tract homes are priced out at well above $1 million. In my area, staging is the rule rather than the exception.
Last house I bought in MA the real estate agent made the appointment very time specific. We had to be at the house at the assigned time, she was adamant about it.
Seemed a bit weird but whatever. Got to the house and the whole place smelled of cookies. Fresh baked, right out of the oven chocolate chip cookies to be specific.
We had pretty much already decided to buy the house but that closed the sale. Yes, it was a cheap trick but it worked.
Last house I bought in MA the real estate agent made the appointment very time specific. We had to be at the house at the assigned time, she was adamant about it.
Seemed a bit weird but whatever. Got to the house and the whole place smelled of cookies. Fresh baked, right out of the oven chocolate chip cookies to be specific.
We had pretty much already decided to buy the house but that closed the sale. Yes, it was a cheap trick but it worked.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 02:37 PM (LkLld)
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"A high school buddy's parents had plastic covers over all their living room furniture. They went out of town and he threw a kegger.
You'll never guess what happened next.
Posted by: Martini Farmer"
The plastic covers were removed and used as ice bins to keep the kegs cold? That would make perfect sense to any enterprising teenager.
You'll never guess what happened next.
Posted by: Martini Farmer"
The plastic covers were removed and used as ice bins to keep the kegs cold? That would make perfect sense to any enterprising teenager.
Posted by: Ripley at July 07, 2024 02:37 PM (GUOwU)
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The pen is mightier than the sword!
Posted by: Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton at July 07, 2024 02:37 PM (GKq2S)
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There are two ways to fold it. The first just does one loop. You can fold a two loop and it will fit in a car trunk. But the cover is overlarge for that. I'm sticking with one loop. It is a bit scary to open it up though
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 02:39 PM (xjTDL)
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68 I used to stage houses for selling in college and you would be stunned at the difference it makes in terms of time on market and selling price.
Staging makes sense when even average tract homes are priced out at well above $1 million. In my area, staging is the rule rather than the exception.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07
My problem is I default to a staged look. Decorators are driven by looking good and functionality. Stagers don’t give a rip about functionality.
Staging makes sense when even average tract homes are priced out at well above $1 million. In my area, staging is the rule rather than the exception.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07
My problem is I default to a staged look. Decorators are driven by looking good and functionality. Stagers don’t give a rip about functionality.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:39 PM (p4NUW)
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I remember our couch had those feathers. It made us into tough little kids.
Posted by: 4thewin at July 07, 2024 02:40 PM (37cEZ)
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The people who bought it immediately repainted everything. Don't know how the weird paint affected the sales price--but it certainly didn't help.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at July 07, 2024 02:32 PM (FEVMW)
Yeah, we had my house painted off white. Trying to more or less match the rest of the color scheme, it leaned toward a brown on the white scale.
The biggest reason various potential buyers gave for why they didn't want the house was the lack of room for RV parking.
Yeesh, people.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at July 07, 2024 02:32 PM (FEVMW)
Yeah, we had my house painted off white. Trying to more or less match the rest of the color scheme, it leaned toward a brown on the white scale.
The biggest reason various potential buyers gave for why they didn't want the house was the lack of room for RV parking.
Yeesh, people.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:40 PM (qgNVD)
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When I bought my house, the walls and ceilings were a light tan color. Turned out that they were actually white, and the previous owners had been very serious smokers.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 02:41 PM (Lvojk)
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Time was, one could order velours, brocades, pillowed, car upholstery on your Caddy, Olds 98, Lincoln, Or Chrysler. Of course you could go to an upholstery shop to have clear covers put on.
Posted by: Remember Flaming Seeds? at July 07, 2024 02:41 PM (V5BDR)
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Rich Corinthian leather!
Posted by: The Chrysler Cordoba at July 07, 2024 02:42 PM (dg+HA)
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77 Pottery Barn sofa
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:34 PM (/7KEl)
FWP: So, we are also exchanging our cheap, broken, old living room furniture, which I thought would be pricey, but Value City Furniture came through (my spouse was surprised, but I guess when you can't afford food, no one buys furniture, unless it's Target/Walmart/Ikea quality)...BUT, they no longer will take your old furniture. That was a change from the last time I bought from them - said it's liability-related or something. So, I have another contractor coming the day before delivery to take my old couch and 1.5 loveseat (replaced with 1 couch and 2 reclining seats coming)...
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:34 PM (/7KEl)
FWP: So, we are also exchanging our cheap, broken, old living room furniture, which I thought would be pricey, but Value City Furniture came through (my spouse was surprised, but I guess when you can't afford food, no one buys furniture, unless it's Target/Walmart/Ikea quality)...BUT, they no longer will take your old furniture. That was a change from the last time I bought from them - said it's liability-related or something. So, I have another contractor coming the day before delivery to take my old couch and 1.5 loveseat (replaced with 1 couch and 2 reclining seats coming)...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 02:42 PM (exHjb)
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We had pretty much already decided to buy the house but that closed the sale. Yes, it was a cheap trick but it worked.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 02:37 PM (LkLld)
Any time I was looking at a house, and it smelled of cookies, all I could think of is it was hiding the smell of dog shit.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 02:37 PM (LkLld)
Any time I was looking at a house, and it smelled of cookies, all I could think of is it was hiding the smell of dog shit.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:43 PM (qgNVD)
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We sold our place in CA to a couple who totally renovated it. Busted out walls, moved plumbing, etc. Re-landscaped it.
Then sold it.
Talk about flipping... they made a lot off it and bought a place in Pebble Beach.
I has teh sadz I didn't think of that.
Then sold it.
Talk about flipping... they made a lot off it and bought a place in Pebble Beach.
I has teh sadz I didn't think of that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 02:43 PM (Q4IgG)
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My problem is I default to a staged look. Decorators are driven by looking good and functionality. Stagers don’t give a rip about functionality.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:39 PM (p4NUW)
Yep. How does a real person do anything productive in a "home office" when the room contains a fancy carved wooden table and a high-backed chair, with a couple of accent pieces arranged in the corner?
But it does make the room look big.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:39 PM (p4NUW)
Yep. How does a real person do anything productive in a "home office" when the room contains a fancy carved wooden table and a high-backed chair, with a couple of accent pieces arranged in the corner?
But it does make the room look big.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 07, 2024 02:43 PM (guGkK)
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It was really strange to see my aunt's place staged for sale. I recognized a lot of the stuff. Very sterile looking. Sold for less than it should as they found cracks in the foundation and it couldn't be financed.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 02:44 PM (xjTDL)
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Try riding around on plastic seat covers in a car with no A/C in the Florida heat and humidity. If anyone is owed reparations, it's Weasel.
Posted by: Weasel at July 07, 2024 02:44 PM (JwHpX)
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To slow the rise in Global Warming in the Western States I am invoking through Executive Order and with the recommendation of Representative AOC the following:
There will be no Outdoor FARTing between the hours of sunrise to sunset when heat is at the most extreme.
There will be no Outdoor FARTing between the hours of sunrise to sunset when heat is at the most extreme.
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 07, 2024 02:44 PM (rcLES)
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Bath tub clogged with pull tabs. No idea how they got there.
If I could have gotten up and showered before my parents got home I would have gotten away with one of the most epic end of school year parties ever.
Instead I spent the whole summer grounded and lost my car for the next year.
If I could have gotten up and showered before my parents got home I would have gotten away with one of the most epic end of school year parties ever.
Instead I spent the whole summer grounded and lost my car for the next year.
Posted by: Reforger at July 07, 2024 02:45 PM (xcIvR)
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When I bought my house, the walls and ceilings were a light tan color. Turned out that they were actually white, and the previous owners had been very serious smokers.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 02:41 PM (Lvojk)
Oh yeah, that too. Your fake smell of cookies and flowers is masking the cig smell.
I'm not buying a house that smells too good.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 02:41 PM (Lvojk)
Oh yeah, that too. Your fake smell of cookies and flowers is masking the cig smell.
I'm not buying a house that smells too good.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:45 PM (qgNVD)
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Or...get those plastic covers for all of the cushions and pillows! Remember that weird 1970s thing where people would have plastic covers on their expensive furniture?
My folks just used them when expecting company.
My folks just used them when expecting company.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 07, 2024 02:45 PM (cOq4q)
Posted by: Bunter Hidet at July 07, 2024 02:45 PM (0ZYe2)
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Too show you that i am of sound mind I have scheduled a One-on-One interview with Max Headroom on CNN for July 21 at 2 PM. I scheduled it at 2 PM because I usually Sundown by 4 PM.
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 07, 2024 02:47 PM (rcLES)
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Nova Local-
some years ago I had a big club chair I needed to get rid of. This county makes it hard to get rid of stuff. So I disassembled the chair with a crowbar and a saw and put the pieces in one of the dumpsters in the neighborhood.
Tell me I can't throw something away....
some years ago I had a big club chair I needed to get rid of. This county makes it hard to get rid of stuff. So I disassembled the chair with a crowbar and a saw and put the pieces in one of the dumpsters in the neighborhood.
Tell me I can't throw something away....
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:47 PM (/7KEl)
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I bought leather sofas. They look good, and I can wash them with saddle soap.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 07, 2024 02:49 PM (lOjKE)
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Big 1st world problem: Communists.
The French voted for the communists whose leader detests "native French". Fuck em
The French voted for the communists whose leader detests "native French". Fuck em
Posted by: enough BS at July 07, 2024 02:49 PM (2NXcZ)
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Sold for less than it should as they found cracks in the foundation and it couldn't be financed.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 02:44 PM (xjTDL)
We looked at a house once, it was being offered around $200K less than their original asking price when they put it on the market.
Foundation problems. We had all the documentation, of everything that had been done to mitigate the problem, and on paper it looked like the problem was more or less solved.
Until we went to look at it, and saw the foundation wall.... eh... no.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 02:44 PM (xjTDL)
We looked at a house once, it was being offered around $200K less than their original asking price when they put it on the market.
Foundation problems. We had all the documentation, of everything that had been done to mitigate the problem, and on paper it looked like the problem was more or less solved.
Until we went to look at it, and saw the foundation wall.... eh... no.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:50 PM (qgNVD)
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...BUT, they no longer will take your old furniture. That was a change from the last time I bought from them - said it's liability-related or something...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 02:42 PM (exHjb)
Would your want your new furniture to be delivered from a truck that had previously hauled off furniture that was infested with bedbugs, mold, Yucatan Blood Spiders, and Honduran Bird-Killer roaches? Would you like to be the delivery guys handling such?
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 02:42 PM (exHjb)
Would your want your new furniture to be delivered from a truck that had previously hauled off furniture that was infested with bedbugs, mold, Yucatan Blood Spiders, and Honduran Bird-Killer roaches? Would you like to be the delivery guys handling such?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2024 02:52 PM (Lvojk)
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My folks just used them when expecting company.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 07, 2024 02:45 PM (cOq4q)
We're not slobs, for 364 days of the year we leave the furniture bare, but when YOU come over.....
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 07, 2024 02:45 PM (cOq4q)
We're not slobs, for 364 days of the year we leave the furniture bare, but when YOU come over.....
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 02:52 PM (qgNVD)
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94 Any time I was looking at a house, and it smelled of cookies, all I could think of is it was hiding the smell of dog shit.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024
When we sold our house before moving here, I baked cookies and put them on a decorative platter as we were running out the door. We sold it in less than 24 hours for more than we asked and cash. Now the market and location were huge drivers, not just the cookies. But I pretend the cookies were the final nudge. 😂
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024
When we sold our house before moving here, I baked cookies and put them on a decorative platter as we were running out the door. We sold it in less than 24 hours for more than we asked and cash. Now the market and location were huge drivers, not just the cookies. But I pretend the cookies were the final nudge. 😂
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:54 PM (p4NUW)
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105 Nova Local-
some years ago I had a big club chair I needed to get rid of. This county makes it hard to get rid of stuff. So I disassembled the chair with a crowbar and a saw and put the pieces in one of the dumpsters in the neighborhood.
Tell me I can't throw something away....
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:47 PM (/7KEl)
Since I'll be starting treatment in a few months (or less, depending what the doc says next month), time is important...so I preferred giving the spouse a break and letting some other guys come and take it. My spouse is performing admirable shuttle and cleaning services along with his full time job, instead (he doesn't really do "big tool" things, nor am I helping him carry a 3 person sleeper couch)...
some years ago I had a big club chair I needed to get rid of. This county makes it hard to get rid of stuff. So I disassembled the chair with a crowbar and a saw and put the pieces in one of the dumpsters in the neighborhood.
Tell me I can't throw something away....
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:47 PM (/7KEl)
Since I'll be starting treatment in a few months (or less, depending what the doc says next month), time is important...so I preferred giving the spouse a break and letting some other guys come and take it. My spouse is performing admirable shuttle and cleaning services along with his full time job, instead (he doesn't really do "big tool" things, nor am I helping him carry a 3 person sleeper couch)...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 02:55 PM (exHjb)
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When I bought this place, one of the 1st things I did was buy a washing machine. easy, right? Turn off the house water, hook up the washer, turn the house water back on. Except I couldn't find the water shutoff. Previous owner had walled it up inside the drywall. No access panel anywhere. How you find a walled-up water shutoff, is with a hammer. Make some holes. Gotta be in there somewhere.
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 02:55 PM (/7KEl)
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Before putting his condo on the market, the owner had some "designer" friend of his advise him on a new paint scheme. (He was an engineer and didn't know any better.) It was a nice paint job but, as our realtor neighbor diplomatically described it very "taste specific."
The people who bought it immediately repainted everything. Don't know how the weird paint affected the sales price--but it certainly didn't help.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey
The place I bought had some really bizarre colors. The dining room was some pumpkin color, and a north facing bedroom was a twilight purple. In broad daylight you needed multiple lights on to see across the room. It took four coats to light that room.
The people who bought it immediately repainted everything. Don't know how the weird paint affected the sales price--but it certainly didn't help.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey
The place I bought had some really bizarre colors. The dining room was some pumpkin color, and a north facing bedroom was a twilight purple. In broad daylight you needed multiple lights on to see across the room. It took four coats to light that room.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 07, 2024 02:55 PM (mJOpC)
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I'm a comfort over style guy, and I have cats, so I just don't see the point of expensive furniture. Is it comfortable? When the cats tear it up, can I just replace it without breaking the bank?
That's all that matters.
Posted by: BurtTC
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I'm right where you are and I don't buy expensive stuff anymore. I won't unless I become a multimillionaire. But I have to admit, I get sick of my junk. Just ugly junk that doesn't satisfy the eye or respect civilized sensibilities.
I'm a comfort over style guy, and I have cats, so I just don't see the point of expensive furniture. Is it comfortable? When the cats tear it up, can I just replace it without breaking the bank?
That's all that matters.
Posted by: BurtTC
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I'm right where you are and I don't buy expensive stuff anymore. I won't unless I become a multimillionaire. But I have to admit, I get sick of my junk. Just ugly junk that doesn't satisfy the eye or respect civilized sensibilities.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 07, 2024 02:56 PM (lCaJd)
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106 I bought leather sofas. They look good, and I can wash them with saddle soap.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July
Will last forever and look better with age, too. Unless you have my cats, in which case they will look like you sent them through the garbage disposal in a month.
They have destroyed my “pet proof” fabric Crate and Barrel couch. But they don’t seem to mess with velvet, so I am looking for a velvet slip covered couch now.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July
Will last forever and look better with age, too. Unless you have my cats, in which case they will look like you sent them through the garbage disposal in a month.
They have destroyed my “pet proof” fabric Crate and Barrel couch. But they don’t seem to mess with velvet, so I am looking for a velvet slip covered couch now.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:57 PM (p4NUW)
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My FWP:
Who in the Hell decided fingernail clippers had to be chromed?
Posted by: Diogenes
I had a hand in it.
Who in the Hell decided fingernail clippers had to be chromed?
Posted by: Diogenes
I had a hand in it.
Posted by: FUCKING TETANUS at July 07, 2024 02:59 PM (IG4Id)
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Got to the house and the whole place smelled of cookies. Fresh baked, right out of the oven chocolate chip cookies to be specific.
We had pretty much already decided to buy the house but that closed the sale. Yes, it was a cheap trick but it worked.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 02:37 PM (LkLld)
We once toured a home where they burned the cookies right before the Open House. The smell did not entice us to purchase.
We had pretty much already decided to buy the house but that closed the sale. Yes, it was a cheap trick but it worked.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 02:37 PM (LkLld)
We once toured a home where they burned the cookies right before the Open House. The smell did not entice us to purchase.
Posted by: Ann at July 07, 2024 03:00 PM (4neFu)
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First world problem: Two American Astronauts are stranded in space.
Local NPR article titled " ... a former astronaut discusses being stuck in space" astronaut Terry Virts explains that they aren't out of fuel, that the fuel isn't leaking anymore and there's no emergency and they aren't stuck in space.
"In fact, they've actually declared that if there were an emergency, they could jump in the capsule, close the hatch, and come back to Earth." (then, why don't they do that?)
He also says that this is a Certification Mission. In other words, if that piece of crap makes it back to earth in one piece with astronauts alive it will be certified by NASA as a viable space craft.
https://shorturl.at/mEZjY
Local NPR article titled " ... a former astronaut discusses being stuck in space" astronaut Terry Virts explains that they aren't out of fuel, that the fuel isn't leaking anymore and there's no emergency and they aren't stuck in space.
"In fact, they've actually declared that if there were an emergency, they could jump in the capsule, close the hatch, and come back to Earth." (then, why don't they do that?)
He also says that this is a Certification Mission. In other words, if that piece of crap makes it back to earth in one piece with astronauts alive it will be certified by NASA as a viable space craft.
https://shorturl.at/mEZjY
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 03:00 PM (B4c1t)
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Think about all those bare-naked geese freezing their goosey asses off so somebody can complain about one tiny feather. Forrest Gump would say ‘that’s all I have to say about that.’.
Posted by: Eromero at July 07, 2024 03:00 PM (P/fUq)
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Hope those astronauts receive extra flight and hazard pay.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 03:01 PM (B4c1t)
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116 106 I bought leather sofas. They look good, and I can wash them with saddle soap.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July
Will last forever and look better with age, too. Unless you have my cats, in which case they will look like you sent them through the garbage disposal in a month.
They have destroyed my “pet proof” fabric Crate and Barrel couch. But they don’t seem to mess with velvet, so I am looking for a velvet slip covered couch now.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:57 PM (p4NUW)
I admit, when I bought my recliners, my thoughts were less on aesthetics (they look nice, but others looked nicer) but on "could I sleep in the chair if I'm nauseous from treatment" and "can I sit in this chair for hours without killing my butt/back"...there was one set in the whole store I said yes to those questions (and I sat on every one). Spouse was not quite as picky. It did make for an easy decision-making experience (yes, I've walked out of stores if my butt and back didn't like anything...and I refuse couches with detachable backs/pillows - who does that)...
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July
Will last forever and look better with age, too. Unless you have my cats, in which case they will look like you sent them through the garbage disposal in a month.
They have destroyed my “pet proof” fabric Crate and Barrel couch. But they don’t seem to mess with velvet, so I am looking for a velvet slip covered couch now.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:57 PM (p4NUW)
I admit, when I bought my recliners, my thoughts were less on aesthetics (they look nice, but others looked nicer) but on "could I sleep in the chair if I'm nauseous from treatment" and "can I sit in this chair for hours without killing my butt/back"...there was one set in the whole store I said yes to those questions (and I sat on every one). Spouse was not quite as picky. It did make for an easy decision-making experience (yes, I've walked out of stores if my butt and back didn't like anything...and I refuse couches with detachable backs/pillows - who does that)...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 03:01 PM (exHjb)
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I'm right where you are and I don't buy expensive stuff anymore. I won't unless I become a multimillionaire. But I have to admit, I get sick of my junk. Just ugly junk that doesn't satisfy the eye or respect civilized sensibilities.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 07
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If it’s a solid color, you can change your whole look with pillows. We get down on Target, but they have some really cool home accessories where just swapping a few things here and there can make a huge difference. Tell me what your couch looks like.
I'm right where you are and I don't buy expensive stuff anymore. I won't unless I become a multimillionaire. But I have to admit, I get sick of my junk. Just ugly junk that doesn't satisfy the eye or respect civilized sensibilities.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 07
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If it’s a solid color, you can change your whole look with pillows. We get down on Target, but they have some really cool home accessories where just swapping a few things here and there can make a huge difference. Tell me what your couch looks like.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:01 PM (p4NUW)
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My current FWP...
Daughter and family are bailing out of California. They are moving here. They have no money and zero credit. We do not have room for a family of 4. So now we have to decide what to do with/for them.
Housing is always an issue...
Daughter and family are bailing out of California. They are moving here. They have no money and zero credit. We do not have room for a family of 4. So now we have to decide what to do with/for them.
Housing is always an issue...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 03:03 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:03 PM (p4NUW)
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Grandma lived in a 1 BR apartment and we never allowed in the "living room" unless there was "company"
It was encased in plastic.
It was encased in plastic.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 03:04 PM (RIvkX)
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The only good thing about the French result is that it makes it even less likely that Biden will agree to withdraw, given the way world political currents seem to be going.
With the results in Britain, France, and Poland earlier, it does seem that Europe is bent on civilizational suicide.
The new Polish government is removing crucifixes from all public buildings, just to show you how things are going.
With the results in Britain, France, and Poland earlier, it does seem that Europe is bent on civilizational suicide.
The new Polish government is removing crucifixes from all public buildings, just to show you how things are going.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 03:04 PM (uxCna)
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The wirst thing is that they'd bought the house about ten years before. And my uncle was an engineer so I'd expect him to check for issues like that. But it's sold.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 03:04 PM (xjTDL)
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99 To slow the rise in Global Warming in the Western States I am invoking through Executive Order and with the recommendation of Representative AOC the following:
There will be no Outdoor FARTing between the hours of sunrise to sunset when heat is at the most extreme.
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 07, 2024 02:44 PM (rcLES)
But there will be an exception for Members of Congress, right?
There will be no Outdoor FARTing between the hours of sunrise to sunset when heat is at the most extreme.
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 07, 2024 02:44 PM (rcLES)
But there will be an exception for Members of Congress, right?
Posted by: Eric Swalwell at July 07, 2024 03:05 PM (PiwSw)
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Housing is always an issue...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 03:03 PM (Q4IgG)
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But in the detergent commercial grandpa is happy to do laundry for 8 people.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 03:03 PM (Q4IgG)
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But in the detergent commercial grandpa is happy to do laundry for 8 people.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 03:05 PM (RIvkX)
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A feather on the breath of God.
Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2024 03:06 PM (oaGWv)
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See if you can find a place to rent. Pay first and last month. Or get them a used RV.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 03:06 PM (xjTDL)
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>>>If the house is in decent shape, the math is exactly the opposite of what you suggest. Not doing $10K worth of painting/carpeting/windows (or whatever, the type and amount varies of course) will cost you $20K in the sale price.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Prices and costs vary but new paint and carpet costs will be more than recovered by the sale price. Also the convenience of a quicker sale.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Prices and costs vary but new paint and carpet costs will be more than recovered by the sale price. Also the convenience of a quicker sale.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 03:07 PM (B4c1t)
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112 Since I'll be starting treatment in a few months (or less, depending what the doc says next month), time is important...so I preferred giving the spouse a break and letting some other guys come and take it. My spouse is performing admirable shuttle and cleaning services along with his full time job, instead (he doesn't really do "big tool" things, nor am I helping him carry a 3 person sleeper couch)...
Posted by: Nova Local at July
I am hoping your treatment is successful and as easy as possible on you.
Posted by: Nova Local at July
I am hoping your treatment is successful and as easy as possible on you.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:07 PM (p4NUW)
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I bought a wood framed futon on Amazon. The bed part makes a comfotable couch. My inside cat likes to claw the rugs, not the furniture.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 03:08 PM (xjTDL)
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Can't recall being stabbed by a feather ... but certain grass seeds get caught in my socks, then work through till it is jabbing me. They are hard to find since they working into the sock. Keep everything well mowed is an answer, and don't walk in the long grass.
Posted by: illiniwek at July 07, 2024 03:08 PM (Cus5s)
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125 122 @nova local
Your purchasing criteria is extremely valid. Nothing at all wrong with that!
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:03 PM (p4NUW)
Funny enough, I didn't look at price til the end. Spouse did...and was surprised how nice what we got was vs how expensive some of the other stuff was that I just vetoed straight up...
Sometimes, it's b/c of height (we aren't 6 foot people, but more height challenged), sometimes it's too narrow or too wide...and I decided consoles in couches are also the devil (let's get this disgusting AND make you lean one way into hard wood, so you only have one nice way to sit)...
I got the couch reclining and the chairs reclining (I like recliners and kid broke my current one - thus, as much reclining as possible in the set, so something will always recline for me - they now know I'll have a "declared" chair, but I might break mine) - and I felt good with feet on the floor and without...
Your purchasing criteria is extremely valid. Nothing at all wrong with that!
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:03 PM (p4NUW)
Funny enough, I didn't look at price til the end. Spouse did...and was surprised how nice what we got was vs how expensive some of the other stuff was that I just vetoed straight up...
Sometimes, it's b/c of height (we aren't 6 foot people, but more height challenged), sometimes it's too narrow or too wide...and I decided consoles in couches are also the devil (let's get this disgusting AND make you lean one way into hard wood, so you only have one nice way to sit)...
I got the couch reclining and the chairs reclining (I like recliners and kid broke my current one - thus, as much reclining as possible in the set, so something will always recline for me - they now know I'll have a "declared" chair, but I might break mine) - and I felt good with feet on the floor and without...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 03:08 PM (exHjb)
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Housing is always an issue...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024
If they need to stay with you a bit, charge them some rent, put it into a savings account and give it back to them when they move out find.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024
If they need to stay with you a bit, charge them some rent, put it into a savings account and give it back to them when they move out find.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:09 PM (p4NUW)
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Actually, maybe get them a couple of big tents. They'll figure something out.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 03:09 PM (xjTDL)
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Martini Farmer there must be the local down town where they can use plastic and shopping carts to make a homeless tent.
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 03:09 PM (fwDg9)
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The new Polish government is removing crucifixes from all public buildings, just to show you how things are going.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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What tf did the current government do to provoke people into voting for such extremist, anti-Polish lefties?
The new Polish government is removing crucifixes from all public buildings, just to show you how things are going.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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What tf did the current government do to provoke people into voting for such extremist, anti-Polish lefties?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 07, 2024 03:10 PM (lCaJd)
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124 My current FWP...
Daughter and family are bailing out of California. They are moving here. They have no money and zero credit. We do not have room for a family of 4. So now we have to decide what to do with/for them.
Housing is always an issue...
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Buy a nice used travel trailer for them to stay in until they get settled.
It will allow them the privacy they need during this unfortunate time.
Daughter and family are bailing out of California. They are moving here. They have no money and zero credit. We do not have room for a family of 4. So now we have to decide what to do with/for them.
Housing is always an issue...
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Buy a nice used travel trailer for them to stay in until they get settled.
It will allow them the privacy they need during this unfortunate time.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 03:10 PM (B4c1t)
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Nova Local, I didn't know about your medical situation and I'm sorry to hear it. Best of luck on your treatment and recovery.
Nova Local, I didn't know about your medical situation and I'm sorry to hear it. Best of luck on your treatment and recovery.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 07, 2024 03:11 PM (lCaJd)
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Just thinking out loud. Could you provide child care while your daughter looks for a job? Sounds as if you & your extended family are going to have to extemporize for awhile. I'm sure time will improve things, if the whole family forms a plan & commits to it. Good luck!
Just thinking out loud. Could you provide child care while your daughter looks for a job? Sounds as if you & your extended family are going to have to extemporize for awhile. I'm sure time will improve things, if the whole family forms a plan & commits to it. Good luck!
Posted by: mnw at July 07, 2024 03:13 PM (NLIak)
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Buy a nice used travel trailer for them to stay in until they get settled.
It will allow them the privacy they need during this unfortunate time.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 03
But still charge them rent so they stay used to paying and budgeting for this expense while you create a savings cushion, even a small one, for them.
Buy a nice used travel trailer for them to stay in until they get settled.
It will allow them the privacy they need during this unfortunate time.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 03
But still charge them rent so they stay used to paying and budgeting for this expense while you create a savings cushion, even a small one, for them.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:13 PM (p4NUW)
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I am hoping your treatment is successful and as easy as possible on you.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:07 PM (p4NUW)
Well, it will be 1st (of likely many), so it's gonna be SOP here. I now seem to have a combo of Mantle Cell Lymphoma with atypical CLL. So, you say that sounds sucky. Well, I already had the worst/rarest type of CLL, so adding MCL pretty much keeps all the same suck (life span, treatment path, etc) - I had 15 chromosomal changes in cancer cells on a (really expensive) cytogenics test done, so you just decide - somehow, I must be an X-Man b/c one chromosomal change can be devastating and here I still am...I also think I'm submitting the results to Guinness (b/c they got to the point, they didn't even identify a few, which may mean alien DNA). Doc and I get to talk them next month, so, it's not an emergency, but may make treatment quite the rollercoaster...
I am hoping your treatment is successful and as easy as possible on you.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:07 PM (p4NUW)
Well, it will be 1st (of likely many), so it's gonna be SOP here. I now seem to have a combo of Mantle Cell Lymphoma with atypical CLL. So, you say that sounds sucky. Well, I already had the worst/rarest type of CLL, so adding MCL pretty much keeps all the same suck (life span, treatment path, etc) - I had 15 chromosomal changes in cancer cells on a (really expensive) cytogenics test done, so you just decide - somehow, I must be an X-Man b/c one chromosomal change can be devastating and here I still am...I also think I'm submitting the results to Guinness (b/c they got to the point, they didn't even identify a few, which may mean alien DNA). Doc and I get to talk them next month, so, it's not an emergency, but may make treatment quite the rollercoaster...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 03:13 PM (exHjb)
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Listen to me all of you dumb ass losers in swing states that voted for me. Remember this so I can remain in power.......
Trump lied.... Inflation was caused by Trump..... Economy is great..... Global Warming is the most dangerous threat..
Vote for Joe Biden.
Trump lied.... Inflation was caused by Trump..... Economy is great..... Global Warming is the most dangerous threat..
Vote for Joe Biden.
Repeat until you pull the lever for my puppet Joe Biden...
Trump lied.... Inflation was caused by Trump..... Economy is great..... Global Warming is the most dangerous threat..
Vote for Joe Biden.
Trump lied.... Inflation was caused by Trump..... Economy is great..... Global Warming is the most dangerous threat..
Vote for Joe Biden.
Repeat until you pull the lever for my puppet Joe Biden...
Posted by: Barry O at July 07, 2024 03:14 PM (qpLSv)
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What tf did the current government do to provoke people into voting for such extremist, anti-Polish lefties?
When governments stay in power for too long, they get flabby and corrupt.
Also, the EU was withholding billions in payments to Poland and Hungary to force a change of government (the EU is still withholding money to Hungary).
Even so, it's hard to believe that a majority of Poles voted for a government that explicitly was going to accept hundreds of thousands of "migrants", given what is happening to Western Europe.
When governments stay in power for too long, they get flabby and corrupt.
Also, the EU was withholding billions in payments to Poland and Hungary to force a change of government (the EU is still withholding money to Hungary).
Even so, it's hard to believe that a majority of Poles voted for a government that explicitly was going to accept hundreds of thousands of "migrants", given what is happening to Western Europe.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 03:14 PM (uxCna)
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they didn't even identify a few, which may mean alien DNA). Doc and I get to talk them next month, so, it's not an emergency, but may make treatment quite the rollercoaster...
Posted by: Nova Local at
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I knew it! You are way too creative to be a mere human.
Posted by: Nova Local at
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I knew it! You are way too creative to be a mere human.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:15 PM (p4NUW)
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Daughter and family are bailing out of California. They are moving here. They have no money and zero credit. We do not have room for a family of 4. So now we have to decide what to do with/for them.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
If they claim to be Black or Illegal, they can have a zero down mortgage with no credit, and a car loan too!
Posted by: Martini Farmer
If they claim to be Black or Illegal, they can have a zero down mortgage with no credit, and a car loan too!
Posted by: Just Sayin at July 07, 2024 03:15 PM (0ZYe2)
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Nova Local, I didn't know about your medical situation and I'm sorry to hear it. Best of luck on your treatment and recovery.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 07, 2024 03:11 PM (lCaJd)
Thanks - it's been 4 years now, and by the numbers, there's no way I shouldn't have been treated by 7 months...so I've already had a good run.
Overall survival is supposed to be 4-9 years, but I plan on blowing that to smithereens, too. I mean, I've got 4 years done with no treatment...so what's 2 cancers with no cure vs 1...just same old, same old...
Nova Local, I didn't know about your medical situation and I'm sorry to hear it. Best of luck on your treatment and recovery.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 07, 2024 03:11 PM (lCaJd)
Thanks - it's been 4 years now, and by the numbers, there's no way I shouldn't have been treated by 7 months...so I've already had a good run.
Overall survival is supposed to be 4-9 years, but I plan on blowing that to smithereens, too. I mean, I've got 4 years done with no treatment...so what's 2 cancers with no cure vs 1...just same old, same old...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 03:16 PM (exHjb)
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Nova, feel better
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 03:16 PM (/7KEl)
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Now CBD, let's talk about that fire engine red couch
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 03:17 PM (/7KEl)
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It wasn't their "expensive" furniture, CBD. It was their "good" furniture.
Posted by: GWB at July 07, 2024 03:17 PM (AWrpC)
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We need to find a place suitable for a family of 4. Two kids in elementary school. I've seen the clientele at some of the RV parks around here... no thanks.
Even a mobile home park with rentals is $$. Influx of illegals and the big EV battery plant is causing a shortage of "affordable" housing.
And we simply do not have space for a family of 4 regardless how dire their situation.
We're looking at options. Including sending them to our place in WV which is sub-optimal as the daughter has a job here in KY. But that might be the solution, if only for a couple months.
Even a mobile home park with rentals is $$. Influx of illegals and the big EV battery plant is causing a shortage of "affordable" housing.
And we simply do not have space for a family of 4 regardless how dire their situation.
We're looking at options. Including sending them to our place in WV which is sub-optimal as the daughter has a job here in KY. But that might be the solution, if only for a couple months.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 03:17 PM (Q4IgG)
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The travel trailer thing for Mr Martini Farmer's daughter and fam only works until the water freezes.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 07, 2024 03:18 PM (ZtgZZ)
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FOX News reports that a Parkinson's specialist M.D. visited the WH 12 times during the last year.
Perhaps a social friend.
Perhaps a social friend.
Posted by: mnw at July 07, 2024 03:18 PM (NLIak)
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>>>We once toured a home where they burned the cookies right before the Open House. The smell did not entice us to purchase.
We once looked at a house that had a Casablanca- themed mural in the basement. And by "in the basement" I mean this mofo started at three walls at the top of the stairs and encompassed ALL of the basement walls. There were lots of palm trees, a Bogey silhouette and a monkey holding a margarita.
My husband told me that if we bought the house he would INSIST on keeping that monkey up on the wall.
You would think then, naturally, that this would have become "that Casablanca mural house" when referring to this house. However, the room that the teenage boy of the selling family inhabited smelled like a thousand unwashed jockstraps had been stuffed inside a high school gym locker and left to molder over summer vacation.
Ten years later when we refer to that house it is always "the house that had that room that smelled like balls."
We once looked at a house that had a Casablanca- themed mural in the basement. And by "in the basement" I mean this mofo started at three walls at the top of the stairs and encompassed ALL of the basement walls. There were lots of palm trees, a Bogey silhouette and a monkey holding a margarita.
My husband told me that if we bought the house he would INSIST on keeping that monkey up on the wall.
You would think then, naturally, that this would have become "that Casablanca mural house" when referring to this house. However, the room that the teenage boy of the selling family inhabited smelled like a thousand unwashed jockstraps had been stuffed inside a high school gym locker and left to molder over summer vacation.
Ten years later when we refer to that house it is always "the house that had that room that smelled like balls."
Posted by: Ravenmother at July 07, 2024 03:18 PM (oiHdz)
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149 they didn't even identify a few, which may mean alien DNA). Doc and I get to talk them next month, so, it's not an emergency, but may make treatment quite the rollercoaster...
Posted by: Nova Local at
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I knew it! You are way too creative to be a mere human.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:15 PM (p4NUW)
It's either that, or they got bored after change #13...I mean I got both the words "additional material" on a few chromosomes and "1-2 more chromosomal changes" on the document...I'm on a health board, and they were kinda floored - but said, it shouldn't actually change much b/c the treatment is the treatment and it should (hopefully) kill off all the crazy cells and let the few normal ones get back to shining...til we rinse, repeat, and do again over and over...
Posted by: Nova Local at
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I knew it! You are way too creative to be a mere human.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:15 PM (p4NUW)
It's either that, or they got bored after change #13...I mean I got both the words "additional material" on a few chromosomes and "1-2 more chromosomal changes" on the document...I'm on a health board, and they were kinda floored - but said, it shouldn't actually change much b/c the treatment is the treatment and it should (hopefully) kill off all the crazy cells and let the few normal ones get back to shining...til we rinse, repeat, and do again over and over...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 03:19 PM (exHjb)
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Where's the dog hair on that couch?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 07, 2024 03:19 PM (ZDrQf)
161
One would think the Polish government might fight a little be against Cultural Marxism and Muslim sensibility
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 03:19 PM (fwDg9)
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Your real estate agent, the man or woman who is selling your home is the best advisor on what color paint and carpet or whether it would be profitable to do it. They can offer other suggestions.
If they get carried away on what you need to do get a second opinion.
If they get carried away on what you need to do get a second opinion.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 03:20 PM (B4c1t)
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152 Nova, feel better
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 03:16 PM (/7KEl)
Thanks! It is why we are getting the "must do" home stuff done now...roof caving in or leaking (when it was failing) or me with nowhere to sit by a bathroom were two big issues.
The roof being done in 2 days was a godsend b/c I thought it would take months and effort to get done. As I told the spouse, time is money for me, and taking no time was so worth it...
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 03:16 PM (/7KEl)
Thanks! It is why we are getting the "must do" home stuff done now...roof caving in or leaking (when it was failing) or me with nowhere to sit by a bathroom were two big issues.
The roof being done in 2 days was a godsend b/c I thought it would take months and effort to get done. As I told the spouse, time is money for me, and taking no time was so worth it...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 03:21 PM (exHjb)
164
Joe Biden in Pennsylvania today told an audience that every time he ran for Senator it was Philadelphia that put him over the top.
Joe Biden was a senator from Delaware.
Joe Biden was a senator from Delaware.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 03:21 PM (LkLld)
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136. Can't recall being stabbed by a feather ... but certain grass seeds get caught in my socks, then work through till it is jabbing me. They are hard to find since they working into the sock. Keep everything well mowed is an answer, and don't walk in the long grass. - Illiniwek
Yes! Happens quite often when I've been working in the garden (also, the spearheads of pine straw).
Yes! Happens quite often when I've been working in the garden (also, the spearheads of pine straw).
Posted by: Paco at July 07, 2024 03:22 PM (njExo)
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164 Joe Biden in Pennsylvania today told an audience that every time he ran for Senator it was Philadelphia that put him over the top.
Joe Biden was a senator from Delaware.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 03:21 PM (LkLld)
He was probably right.. Cheat vote from Penn
Joe Biden was a senator from Delaware.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 07, 2024 03:21 PM (LkLld)
He was probably right.. Cheat vote from Penn
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 03:22 PM (IyPmt)
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Get all your shit out. Mop the floors. Clean the bathrooms. Vacuum the carpet. Close the door.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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This. I have an incredibly well built house, but it's all dated. Wallpaper is fading, kitchen counters and cabinets all custom built, but formica......
Clear out my shit and go when the time comes.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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This. I have an incredibly well built house, but it's all dated. Wallpaper is fading, kitchen counters and cabinets all custom built, but formica......
Clear out my shit and go when the time comes.
Posted by: From about that Time at July 07, 2024 03:22 PM (4780s)
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Going to have a bumper crop of mesquite beans this year. Flour making in the fall.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 07, 2024 03:23 PM (xpCR0)
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162 Your real estate agent, the man or woman who is selling your home is the best advisor on what color paint and carpet or whether it would be profitable to do it. They can offer other suggestions.
If they get carried away on what you need to do get a second opinion.
Posted by: Braenyard at July
They can also recommend a few stagers. All of my projects came from listing agents.
If they get carried away on what you need to do get a second opinion.
Posted by: Braenyard at July
They can also recommend a few stagers. All of my projects came from listing agents.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:23 PM (p4NUW)
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Phone test
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 03:23 PM (HOREe)
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They have destroyed my “pet proof” fabric Crate and Barrel couch. But they don’t seem to mess with velvet, so I am looking for a velvet slip covered couch now.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:57 PM (p4NUW)
One Kings Lane has quite a few. They get pricey but sofas in general are pricey these days.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 02:57 PM (p4NUW)
One Kings Lane has quite a few. They get pricey but sofas in general are pricey these days.
Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2024 03:23 PM (oaGWv)
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Nova local a prayer for complete and immediate recovery.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 03:23 PM (RIvkX)
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One would think the Polish government might fight a little be against Cultural Marxism and Muslim sensibility
The new government's allegiance is to the EU, not to Poland.
The new government's allegiance is to the EU, not to Poland.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2024 03:24 PM (uxCna)
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>Joe Biden was a senator from Delaware.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Delaware is really close to Pennsylvania, gotta give the old man that
Posted by: JackStraw
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Delaware is really close to Pennsylvania, gotta give the old man that
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 03:24 PM (/7KEl)
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171 One Kings Lane has quite a few. They get pricey but sofas in general are pricey these days.
Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2024
They have one that I love on my short list. It’s not slipcovered, but it’s gorgeous.
Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2024
They have one that I love on my short list. It’s not slipcovered, but it’s gorgeous.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:24 PM (p4NUW)
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172 Nova local a prayer for complete and immediate recovery.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 03:23 PM (RIvkX)
Thanks!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2024 03:23 PM (RIvkX)
Thanks!
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 03:24 PM (exHjb)
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155 We need to find a place suitable for a family of 4. Two kids in elementary school. I've seen the clientele at some of the RV parks around here... no thanks.
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I misunderstood. Thought you had acreage.
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I misunderstood. Thought you had acreage.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 03:25 PM (B4c1t)
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Posted by: Ravenmother at July 07, 2024 03:18 PM (oiHdz)
Oh my! That would leave a lasting, negative impression.
There is a claim that people no longer smell their home (bad odors in particular). Sounds like that place was a perfect example.
I wonder what it eventually sold for in relation to the listing price?
Oh my! That would leave a lasting, negative impression.
There is a claim that people no longer smell their home (bad odors in particular). Sounds like that place was a perfect example.
I wonder what it eventually sold for in relation to the listing price?
Posted by: Ann at July 07, 2024 03:25 PM (4neFu)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 03:25 PM (IyPmt)
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Must vote for Biden
Must vote for Biden
Must vote for Biden
Repeat until you fill out your fake mail in ballot.....
Must vote for Biden
Must vote for Biden
Repeat until you fill out your fake mail in ballot.....
Posted by: Barry O at July 07, 2024 03:25 PM (Mig/N)
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Here's my first world problem: the neighbors all have bird feeders. Mostly, we have mockingbirds in the neighborhood which drive away all of the song birds, so what's the point? More ominously, the bird feeders have been attracting rats. I've caught four in the last three days, which seem to have taken cover in a stand of black-eyed Susans.
Posted by: Paco at July 07, 2024 03:27 PM (njExo)
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Never thought of buying Ethan Allen furniture. How much extra is shipping from Vermont?
Posted by: Counting Pennies, Here at July 07, 2024 03:28 PM (V5BDR)
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179 Thanks!
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 03:24 PM (exHjb)
Prayers from me too
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 03:25 PM (IyPmt)
Thanks!
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 03:24 PM (exHjb)
Prayers from me too
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 03:25 PM (IyPmt)
Thanks!
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 03:28 PM (exHjb)
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Find an empty place near your house and squat it. It is apparently impossible to squatters out now.
Find an empty place near your house and squat it. It is apparently impossible to squatters out now.
Posted by: Just Sayin at July 07, 2024 03:28 PM (0ZYe2)
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I just caulked the shower. Lots of caulk. The jokes make themselves.
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 07, 2024 03:28 PM (WF/xn)
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I'm right where you are and I don't buy expensive stuff anymore. I won't unless I become a multimillionaire. But I have to admit, I get sick of my junk. Just ugly junk that doesn't satisfy the eye or respect civilized sensibilities.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 07, 2024 02:56 PM (lCaJd)
I know moving can't keep being the solution, but this will be the fourth time we've moved in 5 years, and every time I get quite the satisfaction out of getting rid of stuff.
You'd think I would learn not to buy/bring in more clutter, but so far, that's what I do. I don't have a sofa right now, and the chairs I have are not coming with us to the next destination (don't tell them, they don't know it yet).
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 07, 2024 02:56 PM (lCaJd)
I know moving can't keep being the solution, but this will be the fourth time we've moved in 5 years, and every time I get quite the satisfaction out of getting rid of stuff.
You'd think I would learn not to buy/bring in more clutter, but so far, that's what I do. I don't have a sofa right now, and the chairs I have are not coming with us to the next destination (don't tell them, they don't know it yet).
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 03:29 PM (gKarl)
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Never thought of buying Ethan Allen furniture. How much extra is shipping from Vermont?
Posted by: Counting Pennies, Here
No Ethan Allen Store near you?
Posted by: Counting Pennies, Here
No Ethan Allen Store near you?
Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2024 03:29 PM (oaGWv)
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Never thought of buying Ethan Allen furniture. How much extra is shipping from Vermont?
Posted by: Counting Pennies, Here at July 07, 2024 03:28 PM (V5BDR)
Not sure how good his furniture is, he is really old
Posted by: Counting Pennies, Here at July 07, 2024 03:28 PM (V5BDR)
Not sure how good his furniture is, he is really old
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 07, 2024 03:30 PM (WF/xn)
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181 Here's my first world problem: the neighbors all have bird feeders. Mostly, we have mockingbirds in the neighborhood which drive away all of the song birds, so what's the point? More ominously, the bird feeders have been attracting rats. I've caught four in the last three days, which seem to have taken cover in a stand of black-eyed Susans.
Rats are a bonus. The Master said I could have them.
Rats are a bonus. The Master said I could have them.
Posted by: Renfield at July 07, 2024 03:30 PM (V5BDR)
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France is about to have some 3rd world problems.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2024 03:32 PM (evvc2)
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190 France is about to have some 3rd world problems.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2024 03:32 PM (evvc2)
Have ?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2024 03:32 PM (evvc2)
Have ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 03:33 PM (IyPmt)
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Jill: You want answers?
Trump: I want the truth!
Jill: You can't handle the truth you MAGA Hating Lying Sack of Cow Dung !
Trump you are a felon, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by transgenders with pride flags. Who's gonna do it? You? You, MAGA Trump? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom because Joe is Clueless. You weep for people murdered by illegals, and you curse the the Gay Pride Movement. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know -- that innocent American Women being raped and murdered death, while tragic, probably saves Joe's Job, and my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves Obama's Legacy.
Trump: I want the truth!
Jill: You can't handle the truth you MAGA Hating Lying Sack of Cow Dung !
Trump you are a felon, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by transgenders with pride flags. Who's gonna do it? You? You, MAGA Trump? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom because Joe is Clueless. You weep for people murdered by illegals, and you curse the the Gay Pride Movement. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know -- that innocent American Women being raped and murdered death, while tragic, probably saves Joe's Job, and my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves Obama's Legacy.
Posted by: Jill Biden at July 07, 2024 03:33 PM (Mig/N)
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FOX News reports that a Parkinson's specialist M.D. visited the WH 12 times during the last year.
Perhaps a social friend.
Posted by: mnw at July 07, 2024 03:18 PM (NLIak)
Maybe Parkinson's is just his cover, and his main hustle is all the coke that keeps coming into the building?
Perhaps a social friend.
Posted by: mnw at July 07, 2024 03:18 PM (NLIak)
Maybe Parkinson's is just his cover, and his main hustle is all the coke that keeps coming into the building?
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 03:34 PM (gKarl)
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 03:34 PM (/7KEl)
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Remember that weird 1970s thing where people would have plastic covers on their expensive furniture?
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70s? From family photos, I would say at least the 50s.
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70s? From family photos, I would say at least the 50s.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 03:34 PM (a7ECP)
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France is about to have some 3rd world problems.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2024 03:32 PM (evvc2)
Have ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 03:33 PM (IyPmt)
About to?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2024 03:32 PM (evvc2)
Have ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 03:33 PM (IyPmt)
About to?
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 03:34 PM (gKarl)
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Have MORE 3rd world problems.
As predicted the left and right rallied together to screw le Pen out of victory.
As predicted the left and right rallied together to screw le Pen out of victory.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2024 03:35 PM (evvc2)
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 03:35 PM (/7KEl)
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Not sure how good his furniture is, he is really old
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 07, 2024 03:30 PM (WF/xn)
And dead. I don't imagine that helps the smell.
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 07, 2024 03:30 PM (WF/xn)
And dead. I don't imagine that helps the smell.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 03:36 PM (gKarl)
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Plastic covers for the furniture is very fifties. Outright plastic furniture was definitely seventies.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 03:36 PM (tT6L1)
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70s? From family photos, I would say at least the 50s.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 03:34 PM (a7ECP)
All my furniture is 50 's /60's except the bed and couch No plastic on it
I have a thing for mid-century
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 07, 2024 03:34 PM (a7ECP)
All my furniture is 50 's /60's except the bed and couch No plastic on it
I have a thing for mid-century
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 03:36 PM (IyPmt)
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I'm sort of interested in the whole poked by a feather = getting shot thing.
Next we'll find out CBD has a problem with the lump created by a pea under the mattress.
Next we'll find out CBD has a problem with the lump created by a pea under the mattress.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 03:38 PM (tT6L1)
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>>> wonder what it eventually sold for in relation to the listing price?
Posted by: Ann at July 07, 2024 03:25 PM (4neFu)
It was back during the buyer's market of 2015, and it was a foreclosure I think? You could definitely tell the sellers were NOT trying to sell that thing. All the other houses we looked at had been clean/orderly. But not Nutsack Manor, trash everywhere, dirty dishes in the sink etc. I am sure it finally sold but definitely at a discount.
Today's market they'd probably get over asking lol.
Posted by: Ann at July 07, 2024 03:25 PM (4neFu)
It was back during the buyer's market of 2015, and it was a foreclosure I think? You could definitely tell the sellers were NOT trying to sell that thing. All the other houses we looked at had been clean/orderly. But not Nutsack Manor, trash everywhere, dirty dishes in the sink etc. I am sure it finally sold but definitely at a discount.
Today's market they'd probably get over asking lol.
Posted by: Ravenmother at July 07, 2024 03:39 PM (oiHdz)
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193 FOX News reports that a Parkinson's specialist M.D. visited the WH 12 times during the last year.
Perhaps a social friend.
Posted by: mnw at July 07, 2024 03:18 PM (NLIak)
Maybe Parkinson's is just his cover, and his main hustle is all the coke that keeps coming into the building?
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 03:34 PM (gKarl)
It probably is a cover...many hematologist oncologists "specialize" in one form of blood cancer, but they can easily handle almost all of them. Who better to bring in than a cancer doctor that specializes in "Parkinson's", but is a premier neurologist...so, handling other degenerative neurology issues are probably also a cakewalk to him, while they all deny Biden has Parkinson's (b/c he doesn't)...
Perhaps a social friend.
Posted by: mnw at July 07, 2024 03:18 PM (NLIak)
Maybe Parkinson's is just his cover, and his main hustle is all the coke that keeps coming into the building?
Posted by: BurtTC at July 07, 2024 03:34 PM (gKarl)
It probably is a cover...many hematologist oncologists "specialize" in one form of blood cancer, but they can easily handle almost all of them. Who better to bring in than a cancer doctor that specializes in "Parkinson's", but is a premier neurologist...so, handling other degenerative neurology issues are probably also a cakewalk to him, while they all deny Biden has Parkinson's (b/c he doesn't)...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 03:39 PM (exHjb)
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As predicted the left and right rallied together to screw le Pen out of victory.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2024 03:35 PM (evvc2)
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Gosh, I seem to recall that happening in another country that is importing a bunch of third world diseases ridden criminals. Give me a moment to recall the name, it's on the top of my tongue....
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2024 03:35 PM (evvc2)
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Gosh, I seem to recall that happening in another country that is importing a bunch of third world diseases ridden criminals. Give me a moment to recall the name, it's on the top of my tongue....
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 03:40 PM (tT6L1)
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There is a claim that people no longer smell their home (bad odors in particular). Sounds like that place was a perfect example.
Nose blind.
Nose blind.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 07, 2024 03:40 PM (qZEuM)
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ie: buying furniture
North Carolina still has a lot of show rooms and furniture malls. And, it is inexpensive in comparison to other stores while still offering items made in the United States.
We went back there several times, including a few years ago when we moved to Florida and "covid" made it impossible to purchase new furniture without a year long wait. We had just moved to Florida and given away a lot of furniture up in NYS that we knew would not fit our new abode.
Something to consider if you are close to North Carolina, or need enough furnishings that a flight and hotel stay added into the cost still makes the discount NC purchases worthwhile.
North Carolina still has a lot of show rooms and furniture malls. And, it is inexpensive in comparison to other stores while still offering items made in the United States.
We went back there several times, including a few years ago when we moved to Florida and "covid" made it impossible to purchase new furniture without a year long wait. We had just moved to Florida and given away a lot of furniture up in NYS that we knew would not fit our new abode.
Something to consider if you are close to North Carolina, or need enough furnishings that a flight and hotel stay added into the cost still makes the discount NC purchases worthwhile.
Posted by: Ann at July 07, 2024 03:41 PM (4neFu)
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Next we'll find out CBD has a problem with the lump created by a pea under the mattress.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 03:38 PM (tT6L1)
You just don't understand!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 03:38 PM (tT6L1)
You just don't understand!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2024 03:42 PM (d9fT1)
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Plastic covers were needed for all the swingers parties.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at July 07, 2024 03:42 PM (2xB3Z)
210
Phone would send a comment without wifi during the book thread
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 03:42 PM (fwDg9)
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My wife got the kids new pillows. 6 year old pissed the bed the first night with it. Soaked everything. Hasn't done that in a year. I threw all of her bedding in the wash. Then found out the pillow was down. What a stench when that came out of the wash.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2024 03:42 PM (evvc2)
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gotta go- tablet running on fumes
catch you la
catch you la
Posted by: Don Black- idea man at July 07, 2024 03:42 PM (/7KEl)
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You just don't understand!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2024 03:42 PM (d9fT1)
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I believe we do, princess.
(this really won't end well, will it?)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 07, 2024 03:42 PM (d9fT1)
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I believe we do, princess.
(this really won't end well, will it?)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 03:43 PM (tT6L1)
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"Burn the house down?"
Bring back DDT. Kill them all, extinction level event.
I'll miss fried chicken.
Bring back DDT. Kill them all, extinction level event.
I'll miss fried chicken.
Posted by: Next2Nothing at July 07, 2024 03:44 PM (tA1/w)
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201 All my furniture is 50 's /60's except the bed and couch No plastic on it
I have a thing for mid-century
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024
I love mid mod! I have a pristine Kent Coffey walnut bedroom set. Footboard, headboard, 2 dressers, boomerang mirror, original boomerang hardware, even the original rails, both side tables. All in storage. Our last house was a Cinderella ranch, so we had a lot of mid mid going on.
I have a thing for mid-century
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024
I love mid mod! I have a pristine Kent Coffey walnut bedroom set. Footboard, headboard, 2 dressers, boomerang mirror, original boomerang hardware, even the original rails, both side tables. All in storage. Our last house was a Cinderella ranch, so we had a lot of mid mid going on.
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:44 PM (p4NUW)
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I was going to complain about the shitty duct work in this house and how I have to wait until it cools down at night to open a window.
But then I remembered that I don't live in the Valley of the Sunstroke anymore and that I don't have to wait until November to open that window.
But then I remembered that I don't live in the Valley of the Sunstroke anymore and that I don't have to wait until November to open that window.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 07, 2024 03:46 PM (dZVON)
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FOX News reports that a Parkinson's specialist M.D. visited the WH 12 times during the last year.
Perhaps a social friend.
Posted by: mnw at July 07, 2024 03:18 PM (NLIak)
I'm thinking Park 'N Sons decorators. Doc Jill was looking at some swatches.
Perhaps a social friend.
Posted by: mnw at July 07, 2024 03:18 PM (NLIak)
I'm thinking Park 'N Sons decorators. Doc Jill was looking at some swatches.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 07, 2024 03:48 PM (W/lyH)
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But then I remembered that I don't live in the Valley of the Sunstroke anymore and that I don't have to wait until November to open that window.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 07, 2024 03:46 PM (dZVON)
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So what if the temps get so high they shut down Sky Harbor, right?
I lived in Gilbert for three years. Unreal how hot it got during the summer.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 07, 2024 03:46 PM (dZVON)
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So what if the temps get so high they shut down Sky Harbor, right?
I lived in Gilbert for three years. Unreal how hot it got during the summer.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 03:48 PM (tT6L1)
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Coming to the conclusion that I really don't understand the French parliamentary system.
I've got a bunch of exit polls here showing Le Pen will win the most seats and picked up at least 40 in parliament.
But none of the "blocks" of left, center (current govt), or right have the 289 needed to have a majority.
Macron's party is going lose about 50 seats.
But reports are that the communists are claiming victory and demanding Macron step down.
So I dunno.
I've got a bunch of exit polls here showing Le Pen will win the most seats and picked up at least 40 in parliament.
But none of the "blocks" of left, center (current govt), or right have the 289 needed to have a majority.
Macron's party is going lose about 50 seats.
But reports are that the communists are claiming victory and demanding Macron step down.
So I dunno.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 03:48 PM (5p7BC)
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191 190 France is about to have some 3rd world problems.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2024 03:32 PM (evvc2)
Have ?
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They haven't any already yet?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 07, 2024 03:32 PM (evvc2)
Have ?
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They haven't any already yet?
Posted by: exdem13 at July 07, 2024 03:49 PM (W+kMI)
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Plastic covers for the furniture is very fifties. Outright plastic furniture was definitely seventies.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
Oh yeah. We had a lime green plastic parsons end table in our first apartment. I thought it was very stylish. LOL
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
Oh yeah. We had a lime green plastic parsons end table in our first apartment. I thought it was very stylish. LOL
Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2024 03:49 PM (oaGWv)
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My FWP last week was AI being used by Angi's List to send my plumber to a similarly-named street in another town, at a different time.
And the dude who was supposed to measure the dishwasher space was missing, was canceled when I asked a dimwit customer service about it (cancel first, ask questions later), and rescheduled for July 3.
The plumber did the dishwasher job, saved me 50 bucks, and gave me more cupboard space because he didn't run the hoses diagonally through it.
And the dude who was supposed to measure the dishwasher space was missing, was canceled when I asked a dimwit customer service about it (cancel first, ask questions later), and rescheduled for July 3.
The plumber did the dishwasher job, saved me 50 bucks, and gave me more cupboard space because he didn't run the hoses diagonally through it.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 07, 2024 03:50 PM (ZXHti)
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Be afraid. Maybe move. That's a warning from the Bird Mafia. Did you ever hit a made bird with your car or something?
Posted by: azjaeger at July 07, 2024 03:51 PM (3/XaG)
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I built all the furniture I have.Made to order for barndominium size.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 07, 2024 03:51 PM (xpCR0)
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"I have a thing for mid-century
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 "
Mid-century is nice.
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 "
Mid-century is nice.
Posted by: eleven at July 07, 2024 03:51 PM (fV+MH)
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> I misunderstood. Thought you had acreage.
Posted by: Braenyard
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We do. 5 acres. But an RV isn't really a suitable, long term solution. We figure it will be "a while" until they've got themselves on some solid footing (jobs, finances, etc.) So something they can either fix up (like a mobile home perhaps) or rent within a budget.
We're more than happy to help them out, but they made some really poor decisions prior to realizing they're totally fucked staying in CA.
Posted by: Braenyard
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We do. 5 acres. But an RV isn't really a suitable, long term solution. We figure it will be "a while" until they've got themselves on some solid footing (jobs, finances, etc.) So something they can either fix up (like a mobile home perhaps) or rent within a budget.
We're more than happy to help them out, but they made some really poor decisions prior to realizing they're totally fucked staying in CA.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 03:51 PM (Q4IgG)
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I lived in Gilbert for three years. Unreal how hot it got during the summer.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 03:48 PM (tT6L1)
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Went to visit my sister in Queen Creek in mid-September last year. Holy shit I am never doing that again.
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Went to visit my sister in Queen Creek in mid-September last year. Holy shit I am never doing that again.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 07, 2024 03:52 PM (js+sc)
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I lived in Gilbert for three years. Unreal how hot it got during the summer.
At least you did the smart thing and got the hell out. Took me 20 years to fix that mistake on my part.
At least you did the smart thing and got the hell out. Took me 20 years to fix that mistake on my part.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 07, 2024 03:53 PM (dZVON)
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200 Plastic covers for the furniture is very fifties. Outright plastic furniture was definitely seventies.
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How about furniture with towels and old blankets to protect it from cat hair? Darn shedding season....or maybe it just shed from feline mistemper?
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How about furniture with towels and old blankets to protect it from cat hair? Darn shedding season....or maybe it just shed from feline mistemper?
Posted by: exdem13 at July 07, 2024 03:53 PM (W+kMI)
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Not a constitution scholar, but don't think the wife of a president comes into play if she wants to leave or not the White House
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 03:55 PM (fwDg9)
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223 Be afraid. Maybe move. That's a warning from the Bird Mafia. Did you ever hit a made bird with your car or something?
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Having a Cooper's Hawk or Red-Shouldered Hawk move into your neighborhood might solve a few problems. Just saying. Do you know a falconer or someone from State F&W?
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Having a Cooper's Hawk or Red-Shouldered Hawk move into your neighborhood might solve a few problems. Just saying. Do you know a falconer or someone from State F&W?
Posted by: exdem13 at July 07, 2024 03:55 PM (W+kMI)
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224 I built all the furniture I have.Made to order for barndominium size.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 07, 2024 03
Wow!
Posted by: Ben Had at July 07, 2024 03
Wow!
Posted by: Piper at July 07, 2024 03:56 PM (p4NUW)
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The Mrs. was in the cushion business for 25 years. Go with 100% down if you want the good stuff. No stickey. Polyfill or kapoc for cheaper stuff.
Posted by: javems at July 07, 2024 03:56 PM (8I4hW)
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230 Not a constitution scholar, but don't think the wife of a president comes into play if she wants to leave or not the White House
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 03:55 PM (fwDg9)
Ask Edith Wilson how not true that is...
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 03:55 PM (fwDg9)
Ask Edith Wilson how not true that is...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 03:57 PM (exHjb)
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Went to visit my sister in Queen Creek in mid-September last year. Holy shit I am never doing that again.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 07, 2024 03:52 PM (js+sc)
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Things are usually cooling off a bit by then. Probably only 105 or so, during the day.
Went to visit my sister in Queen Creek in mid-September last year. Holy shit I am never doing that again.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 07, 2024 03:52 PM (js+sc)
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Things are usually cooling off a bit by then. Probably only 105 or so, during the day.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 03:58 PM (tT6L1)
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Moved from WI to AZ 20 years back. Yeah, it gets hot. Yeah, right now you really don't want to be outside during the day. It goes for about 3 months give or take. In WI it was the same, except it went longer and it waa cold and slush getting your feet wet. And in AZ your car doesn't rust, you dont have to shovel, or scrape ice off the window. Instead of having to make sure your furnace works, you have to make sure your AC works. Much easier to deal with dry heat than wet frigid.
Posted by: azjaeger at July 07, 2024 03:58 PM (3/XaG)
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Greetings! We saw 2 bird curiosities on our walk today. One was a red-tailed hawk sitting on a branch. He looked very well fed. The other was a small bird, maybe a sparrow. It saw a reflection of itself in a parked car's rear view mirror and was fiercely attacking it. Weird.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 07, 2024 03:58 PM (MeG8a)
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At least you did the smart thing and got the hell out. Took me 20 years to fix that mistake on my part.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 07, 2024 03:53 PM (dZVON)
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Bakersfield, CA, 110 during the summer. But, I met my wife there, so, it worked out. We're both thrilled to be back in AZ.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 07, 2024 03:53 PM (dZVON)
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Bakersfield, CA, 110 during the summer. But, I met my wife there, so, it worked out. We're both thrilled to be back in AZ.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 03:59 PM (tT6L1)
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225 "I have a thing for mid-century
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 "
Mid-century is nice.
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Mid-century is the style of the future. It's establishing the look of the New Frontier!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsRpNFXL67c
Posted by: It's me donna at July 07, 2024 "
Mid-century is nice.
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Mid-century is the style of the future. It's establishing the look of the New Frontier!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsRpNFXL67c
Posted by: exdem13 at July 07, 2024 03:59 PM (W+kMI)
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We do. 5 acres. But an RV isn't really a suitable, long term solution. We figure it will be "a while" until they've got themselves on some solid footing (jobs, finances, etc.) So something they can either fix up (like a mobile home perhaps) or rent within a budget.
We're more than happy to help them out, but they made some really poor decisions prior to realizing they're totally fucked staying in CA.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 03:51 PM (Q4IgG)
I'd have them rent, and "gift" them the 1st 2-3 months of rent and the deposits. At that point, money will be coming in, and they should get back on their feet themselves. You can always pay for grandkid stuff so they don't suffer b/c of the parents (so sports fees, dance classes, etc)...
We're more than happy to help them out, but they made some really poor decisions prior to realizing they're totally fucked staying in CA.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 07, 2024 03:51 PM (Q4IgG)
I'd have them rent, and "gift" them the 1st 2-3 months of rent and the deposits. At that point, money will be coming in, and they should get back on their feet themselves. You can always pay for grandkid stuff so they don't suffer b/c of the parents (so sports fees, dance classes, etc)...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 07, 2024 03:59 PM (exHjb)
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Looks like I was right. The headlines are about how Le Pen was beaten. But her party doubled their total representation in parliament.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 03:59 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: Skip at July 07, 2024 04:01 PM (fwDg9)
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By the way, Dave in Fla, good to see you posting again.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 04:01 PM (tT6L1)
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Mollie Hemingway was on 🔥 today on the Sunday talk shows. Says the entire WH Press Corps should resign for stupidity and corruption, but mostly corruption.
Posted by: Jmel at July 07, 2024 04:01 PM (bVhJi)
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Jake really misses the rats. He doesn't find killing snakes to be as rewarding.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 07, 2024 04:01 PM (xjTDL)
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Things are usually cooling off a bit by then. Probably only 105 or so, during the day.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 03:58 PM (tT6L1)
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It's supposed to be over 100 here for two days next week and everyone is losing their shit, calling it an "extreme heat event." Cracks me up.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 03:58 PM (tT6L1)
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It's supposed to be over 100 here for two days next week and everyone is losing their shit, calling it an "extreme heat event." Cracks me up.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 07, 2024 04:01 PM (js+sc)
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>>>They can also recommend a few stagers. All of my projects came from listing agents.
Posted by: Piper at July 07,
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Auntie Foo Foo, staged a house for me. She turned a drab so so into an inviting, wonderful place. (I thought the drapes looked like they belonged in a hore house). All of the accessories were bought at the Dollar Store and Walmart. It was the choice, the colors, and the placement that made all the difference.
Yes staging can be very important. I sold it within two weeks.
Posted by: Piper at July 07,
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Auntie Foo Foo, staged a house for me. She turned a drab so so into an inviting, wonderful place. (I thought the drapes looked like they belonged in a hore house). All of the accessories were bought at the Dollar Store and Walmart. It was the choice, the colors, and the placement that made all the difference.
Yes staging can be very important. I sold it within two weeks.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 04:04 PM (B4c1t)
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Bakersfield, CA, 110 during the summer. But, I met my wife there, so, it worked out. We're both thrilled to be back in AZ.
Parts of AZ are more liveable than others. Just depends on your attitude and your altitude.
Parts of AZ are more liveable than others. Just depends on your attitude and your altitude.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 07, 2024 04:04 PM (dZVON)
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It's supposed to be over 100 here for two days next week and everyone is losing their shit, calling it an "extreme heat event." Cracks me up.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 07, 2024 04:01 PM (js+sc)
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I was a weather wuss growing. Lived on the coast in CA. Cold night was 45 hot was 85. We thought we were dying of the heat when it hit 85. After graduation, I moved to MN. After a couple of decades in MN, I was cured of weather wussiness. The upper Midwest is not for the faint of heart.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 07, 2024 04:01 PM (js+sc)
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I was a weather wuss growing. Lived on the coast in CA. Cold night was 45 hot was 85. We thought we were dying of the heat when it hit 85. After graduation, I moved to MN. After a couple of decades in MN, I was cured of weather wussiness. The upper Midwest is not for the faint of heart.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 04:05 PM (tT6L1)
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Parts of AZ are more liveable than others. Just depends on your attitude and your altitude.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 07, 2024 04:04 PM (dZVON)
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Heh, We hit Bullhead City last year early summer and when we left our house, it was nice, maybe 95 or so, It was 115 in Bullhead.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 07, 2024 04:04 PM (dZVON)
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Heh, We hit Bullhead City last year early summer and when we left our house, it was nice, maybe 95 or so, It was 115 in Bullhead.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2024 04:07 PM (tT6L1)
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245 Jake really misses the rats. He doesn't find killing snakes to be as rewarding.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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Ha! Maybe he'll find some Vols this summer.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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Ha! Maybe he'll find some Vols this summer.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 04:09 PM (B4c1t)
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241 Looks like I was right. The headlines are about how Le Pen was beaten. But her party doubled their total representation in parliament.
Posted by: Dave in Fla
Vive Le Pen
Posted by: Dave in Fla
Vive Le Pen
Posted by: Braenyard at July 07, 2024 04:15 PM (B4c1t)
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it was Philadelphia that put him over the top." There weren't enough dead people in delaware to fluff the vote numbers.
Posted by: Edward at July 07, 2024 04:32 PM (93DJn)
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Burn it down!!!
Posted by: lin-duh at July 07, 2024 04:36 PM (PZo5T)
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Wouldn't be an issue if you had LEATHER Couches....as Gawd intended.
"Typically nasty weather...what did you THINK i said???"
"Typically nasty weather...what did you THINK i said???"
Posted by: birdog at July 07, 2024 04:45 PM (+Fkyb)
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I'm hungry. What's for dinner?
Posted by: Outside of Life at July 07, 2024 04:55 PM (89Sog)
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More ominously, the bird feeders have been attracting rats " Well, there's always this "https://goodnature.co/".
Posted by: Edward at July 07, 2024 04:58 PM (93DJn)
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Zoom call with Dem leadership happened today.
Nadler, Takano, Smith, and Morelle are calling for Biden to drop out.
Himer, Beyer, and Raskin are expressing skepticism Biden can win.
My personal feeling is that Jeffries wants Biden gone. With Biden off the top of the ticket, they have a chance to take the House.
Nadler, Takano, Smith, and Morelle are calling for Biden to drop out.
Himer, Beyer, and Raskin are expressing skepticism Biden can win.
My personal feeling is that Jeffries wants Biden gone. With Biden off the top of the ticket, they have a chance to take the House.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 07, 2024 05:13 PM (5p7BC)
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Dems have no street smarts...IF they throw Biden under the bus, EVERY dem group will fully understand, finally, that the Dem machine will do that to THEM too, if/when it's "Convenient" for the ruling Elite. If Not even the "Elected Elite" is safe, you certainly are not.
Damn Dems...they need a new muppet now that this ones sticks and strings started showing toooo much to maintain the suspension of disbelief. When we were young Carlie McCarthy seemed real...enough...for comedy. There are 2 generations that grew up with Sesame Street muppets as their full time, daily Role models, more a part of their lives in many ways than grandparents, cousins, neighbors...even parents. And more real, if you think it's real for your formative years, it's easy later to get sold into the charade.
Damn Dems...they need a new muppet now that this ones sticks and strings started showing toooo much to maintain the suspension of disbelief. When we were young Carlie McCarthy seemed real...enough...for comedy. There are 2 generations that grew up with Sesame Street muppets as their full time, daily Role models, more a part of their lives in many ways than grandparents, cousins, neighbors...even parents. And more real, if you think it's real for your formative years, it's easy later to get sold into the charade.
Posted by: birdog at July 07, 2024 05:37 PM (+Fkyb)
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Late to the Party - regarding plastic covers on furniture, does anyone remember the plastic bubble type covers for bench car seats? Kids would spend hours pushing in the bubble and watch it slowly rise back. By 'Kids' I mean ME.
Posted by: TXMarko at July 07, 2024 09:44 PM (7flhA)
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Check with Joe over at The View from Lady Lake on this. I'm also originally from NJ, and the only homes I recall growing up that had plastic covers were the real EYEtalian families. And while my hometown was WASPy to say the least, the next town over was were my high school (allegedly) horny Italian girlfriends grew up. And more than one of their homes had the plastic cover thing goin on.
Posted by: Steve the Engineer at July 08, 2024 03:16 AM (I1wai)
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I have a nasty feather allergy. Down pillows cause me sneezing attacks, puffy red eyes, and mucus everywhere. I had birds as a kids, and loved them (finches are fascinating). Apparently that sensitized me at a young age.
It took over 20 years to wean my husband from down pillows. When down coats were the hot thing, I had to get a giant plastic box, and make the kids put their coats into it. Just couldn’t tolerate close proximity with anything feathery.
It took over 20 years to wean my husband from down pillows. When down coats were the hot thing, I had to get a giant plastic box, and make the kids put their coats into it. Just couldn’t tolerate close proximity with anything feathery.
Posted by: Linda S Fox at July 08, 2024 10:19 PM (7Rs+y)
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