Whats rustling your jimmies?
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Hoss
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I have never lived somewhere with a HOA. At least, not for any length of time that was enough for me to know they existed.
I can't believe people put up with this shit just because you don't want to live somewhere where your neighbor might decide they don't want to cut their grass.
Georgia homeowners describe being terrorized by predatory HOAs, forced to move: Report
Some Georgia residents are speaking out after facing the wrath of their local HOA, with some being driven to bankruptcy or even having their homes foreclosed on them.www.foxbusiness.com
When I look for houses I always tell the agents my #1 priority is no HOA/POA. It blows my mind how hard they ignore that requirement and sometimes even try to convince me that HOAs add value. I'm like "Cool, that means the house I want will be cheaper". I have fired a few agents who couldn't get that through their heads.
But I did wind up in a place with a POA. It's voluntary and has no enforcement mechanism. I went through the deed restrictions with a fine toothed comb. There were a couple of bullshit restrictions like no businesses, no houses under 1k sqft and no horses unless you have written permission from your neighbors. We have no intention of getting horses but we made the seller get that permission for us before the sale. At the time we bought the house there were at least 3 businesses being run out of houses in the neighborhood and the guy we bought from kinda ran his electrical business from the house. Like I said, no enforcement mechanism whatsoever. They can send you a letter and that's it.
We still go to the POA meeting every year though because a few years after we moved in, they tried to change the deed restrictions. Tried to add a bunch of bullshit like like no metal exteriors, make the POA mandatory, and added enforcement. Coupla things pissed me off about that.
1. My neighbor who had just rebuilt his house with metal siding and roof voted for the new deeds even though the new restrictions specifically outlawed it. He said he figured he'd be grandfathered. I like the guy but god damn he's dumb. The deeds said nothing about grandfathering anyone. The way the entry read, not even a metal roof was allowed. No metal exterior at all.
2. The current deeds had a clause for modifying the deed restrictions. It could be done every 10 years. These bozos had missed the 10 year mark by 2 years. But the scheister lawyer told them it would be fine and that part didn't matter.
3. The current deeds also spelled out that it was one vote per lot. You need 75% of the number of lots to alter the deeds. They were taking the votes by number of houses and only looking for 50.1% to pass. This is bullshit because we owned 3 lots and had one house, while other people had 3 houses on a single lot.
4. Wife and I saw they were pulling this bullshit and checked with the county on how we dispute it if they try to file a new deed. We were told we can't. Someone brings the deed and the county accepts it. So now we pull our deeds occasionally and make sure no one has changed them. If they do, we plan to refile the original ones. We would also probably need to sue the person who filed the false deed if that ever happened.
That means his story belongs in the YGWYFD thread.
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First complained that our less than two year old fridge/freezer combo started having the freezer not get as cold as it was supposed to. Bought a chest freezer and moved everything to it while i tried to see if I could figure out what’s wrong. No luck there, but now the fridge side is also starting to warm up…cool. Have a small mini-fridge to move some items and cat food over, but going to probably lose a decent amount of cheese and sausage that we can’t eat fast enough.
Just checked for shits and giggles to see how much it’s going to be if I call good ol’ GE service. $125 just for them to show the fuck up, not including whatever fucking part they replace and however much they mark up their fucking labor for probably 15 minutes of work. Also how the fuck does a large appliance only come with a fucking 1-year warranty? What the fuck.
Going to try and replace the compressor relay and hope to hell that’s the problem and maybe we can get away with a ~$40 fix, but I doubt I’m that lucky.
Sure as hell, as soon as I wait for a nice bonus from work so I could treat myself to a nice computer for once, expenses just show the fuck up out of nowhere to fuck me in the ass. Car needs service, fridge is being a cunt, radon installation was like 3x what I was expecting to pay, and a bunch of random other shit that’s nickel and diming me to death. Fuck.
Just checked for shits and giggles to see how much it’s going to be if I call good ol’ GE service. $125 just for them to show the fuck up, not including whatever fucking part they replace and however much they mark up their fucking labor for probably 15 minutes of work. Also how the fuck does a large appliance only come with a fucking 1-year warranty? What the fuck.
Going to try and replace the compressor relay and hope to hell that’s the problem and maybe we can get away with a ~$40 fix, but I doubt I’m that lucky.
Sure as hell, as soon as I wait for a nice bonus from work so I could treat myself to a nice computer for once, expenses just show the fuck up out of nowhere to fuck me in the ass. Car needs service, fridge is being a cunt, radon installation was like 3x what I was expecting to pay, and a bunch of random other shit that’s nickel and diming me to death. Fuck.
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If you need any help check out Troubleshooting Refrigerator Problems: DIY Refrigerator Repair Help. I've used that site for repairs and ordering parts in the past and it has a lot of useful tips/videos/diagrams/etc. That link is for general stuff, you can search for your specific model number and get into more common problems for that unit.
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My coworker's old teacher asked me to give a presentation to the middle school about drones. I'm dressing up and, for the second time in my life, I put masking tape over my nipples. Can't have these little demons making fun of me for my diamond cutters.
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Goatface
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thought i posted about this here, but was in the covid thread
after that just gave up until late last year, another new place opened up. think in nov got cleaning appointment for march.
march comes around, show up. hygienist takes me to xray 1st thing, ask what is going on as here for cleaning. she says, has me down for new patient testing.
ok whatever, she does a couple xrays on the big machine. then takes me back to a room to do more pictures (bilateral images?). she does a lot of these.
she is friendly and after a while says, well the next patient can wait, your teeth are in very good shape so a cleaning won't take that long.
this place is a little different, it has 2 dentists and 1 hygienist (in march). the dentists rotate days. hygienist told me another hygienist was coming on soon.
male dentist looks at my stuff, says i have a bad filling with a small cavity. appointment is 2 months.
2 months later, show up, female doctor is out with a sick kid, appointment postponed till today.
get there, only person there. female dentist comes out and asks, have you been here before? they can't find any of my records. after about 5 mins, they find one of the big x rays, but non of the little images or notes. she says it looks like i have 2 small cavities. (i have no pain). so she fixes one of them.
female dentist tells me, today is her last day there. she is going to open her own practice up hopefully in july. then says, the male dentist last day was last week. this place is just going to do cleanings and stuff until they get new dentist(s). which will probably be sept.
after that just gave up until late last year, another new place opened up. think in nov got cleaning appointment for march.
march comes around, show up. hygienist takes me to xray 1st thing, ask what is going on as here for cleaning. she says, has me down for new patient testing.
ok whatever, she does a couple xrays on the big machine. then takes me back to a room to do more pictures (bilateral images?). she does a lot of these.
she is friendly and after a while says, well the next patient can wait, your teeth are in very good shape so a cleaning won't take that long.
this place is a little different, it has 2 dentists and 1 hygienist (in march). the dentists rotate days. hygienist told me another hygienist was coming on soon.
male dentist looks at my stuff, says i have a bad filling with a small cavity. appointment is 2 months.
2 months later, show up, female doctor is out with a sick kid, appointment postponed till today.
get there, only person there. female dentist comes out and asks, have you been here before? they can't find any of my records. after about 5 mins, they find one of the big x rays, but non of the little images or notes. she says it looks like i have 2 small cavities. (i have no pain). so she fixes one of them.
female dentist tells me, today is her last day there. she is going to open her own practice up hopefully in july. then says, the male dentist last day was last week. this place is just going to do cleanings and stuff until they get new dentist(s). which will probably be sept.
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Very rustled...
Human behavior has taken a nasty turn on sooooooo many levels. That's a treatise in itself.
I was in the supermarket - one of those semi-fancy ones that has their own sushi bar and pizza shop, rotisserie/fried chicken place, pharmacy, etc etc. in the store. They even a nice little sitting area with wifi. So I order a pizza-- because I want it a particular way and for it to be fresh, and wait about 15 minutes. It's a holiday weekend and it is dinner time. While I am waiting, the store is getting PACKED and lines are forming. This is not a place that has self-checkout. (It's too boujee for that). So I end up with this hot pizza box on one of two express lines behind 7 other people. The express lines are segregated into "less than 15 items" and "less than 5 items." I am on the latter of the lines.
Then comes Ms. Prissy-pants with her one item of sushi. She cuts in front of everyone else because she only has one item. I wait about 3 seconds to see if anyone else says anything. Nope.
So I do. I say out loud, "Excuse me. There is a line and there are 8 people in front of you." She ignore me.
So I step out of line (and I know I am losing my space because there are now 3 other people behind me). I have to repeat myself loudly and instruct the cashier NOT to ring her up.
The lady looks at me and says "I only have one item." (I guess my pizza is MORE than one item?)
I tell her very pedantically that she needs "to get to the back of the line!" Not a single person in the entire fucking store said anything or did anything. Everyone just looked in different directions like it wasn't happening.
I felt like I was in "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and I was the only non pod-person.
I approach her, holding my pizza, losing my place in line and tell her again, "That's the line. Get to the back of it.!" She pauses for a moment and then hits me (actually the pizza box) with her purse. She drops her sushi on the ground in the process and wrecks my pizza (though I didn't drop it). Then she takes off out the store. I put (the now semi-smashed) pizza box on top of the Sprite display and go after her. I won't go into the details of what followed too much. But she started crying in the parking lot when I caught up to her, then threatened to call the police (which I encouraged her to do) and then started yelling to other people in the parking lot that "I am being attacked." Good thing the pod-people don't give a fuck in the parking lot any more than they do in the store! This chick was a conniving, evil, lying, entitled, manipulative douchebag. Mostly, because people allow her to be one.
It's that sort of fucked-up culture we live in now.
Later,I had cold, macerated pizza. And not a soul in the store gave a hint of support. I wonder if I'm the ass-hole for standing up?
Human behavior has taken a nasty turn on sooooooo many levels. That's a treatise in itself.
I was in the supermarket - one of those semi-fancy ones that has their own sushi bar and pizza shop, rotisserie/fried chicken place, pharmacy, etc etc. in the store. They even a nice little sitting area with wifi. So I order a pizza-- because I want it a particular way and for it to be fresh, and wait about 15 minutes. It's a holiday weekend and it is dinner time. While I am waiting, the store is getting PACKED and lines are forming. This is not a place that has self-checkout. (It's too boujee for that). So I end up with this hot pizza box on one of two express lines behind 7 other people. The express lines are segregated into "less than 15 items" and "less than 5 items." I am on the latter of the lines.
Then comes Ms. Prissy-pants with her one item of sushi. She cuts in front of everyone else because she only has one item. I wait about 3 seconds to see if anyone else says anything. Nope.
So I do. I say out loud, "Excuse me. There is a line and there are 8 people in front of you." She ignore me.
So I step out of line (and I know I am losing my space because there are now 3 other people behind me). I have to repeat myself loudly and instruct the cashier NOT to ring her up.
The lady looks at me and says "I only have one item." (I guess my pizza is MORE than one item?)
I tell her very pedantically that she needs "to get to the back of the line!" Not a single person in the entire fucking store said anything or did anything. Everyone just looked in different directions like it wasn't happening.
I felt like I was in "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and I was the only non pod-person.
I approach her, holding my pizza, losing my place in line and tell her again, "That's the line. Get to the back of it.!" She pauses for a moment and then hits me (actually the pizza box) with her purse. She drops her sushi on the ground in the process and wrecks my pizza (though I didn't drop it). Then she takes off out the store. I put (the now semi-smashed) pizza box on top of the Sprite display and go after her. I won't go into the details of what followed too much. But she started crying in the parking lot when I caught up to her, then threatened to call the police (which I encouraged her to do) and then started yelling to other people in the parking lot that "I am being attacked." Good thing the pod-people don't give a fuck in the parking lot any more than they do in the store! This chick was a conniving, evil, lying, entitled, manipulative douchebag. Mostly, because people allow her to be one.
It's that sort of fucked-up culture we live in now.
Later,I had cold, macerated pizza. And not a soul in the store gave a hint of support. I wonder if I'm the ass-hole for standing up?
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Control
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No, you're just the only one that wasn't afraid of getting shot, jailed, doxed, and fired.
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I am pretty sure somebody has the entire interaction on their phone or security camera.
Sludig
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Your shopping at a self described bougie grocery. Youre among the enemy and it's not that much of a suprise. Even if they agree with you, they are still leftist cucks, or in general the pussy upper middle class soccer mom generation that are helpless
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Geography is a reality.
but maybe you think this:
Sludig
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This is non sensical, you've been beating it to too many self made zombie girl porn wierdo.
You could be in Wyoming, there's still liberals or swaths of suburbia where everyone is useless.
I moved to be away from the worst of it, and would rather shop somewhere more basic than be hanging out at some yuppie place which as I said even you described it as
Furry
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As someone who has some extremely perky nipples, and has since I was in high school for the first time, I've never once taped my glass cutters down. Just gotta roll with the punches bro. Gives me a good reason to quote christmas vacation when someone mentions that it seems a bit cold.
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I make fun of people too much to just hand them a win like that.
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Hoss
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That's surprising considering the number of frozen potatoe products in the grocery store. But come to think of it I do usually hear about people canning potatoes.
What is the difficulty? Do they need to be dried out? Flash frozen? Maybe you can freeze them after cooking.
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what i gathered potatoes have to set at 0 for several hours, then can be put in bags for storage. never canned potatoes as been told need a pressure cooker. i know my luck, shit will turn into a bomb.
only thing we can these days is red/green tomatoes and apple butter.
Fucker
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You followed a woman out into the parking lot over a cut in line? That's not only asshole behavior, but also completely psycho. You need to seek help. Also, that's a menacing charge which is either a misdemeanor or felony depending on how much of a psycho you were. It is also a good way to get yourself shot.
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