Blistering blue barnacles
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I hear that. Solving problems is either a wonderful nest of problems that have to be fixed before I can fix the problem preventing me from fixing the problem that's stopping me from fixing the problem that keeps me from fixing the problem I caused when I tried to fix the problem or oh god I should stop trying to fix the problem
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Well, at least I could put the old cracked mirror back, thus returning to square one.
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ucim wrote:It is most definitely a logical fallacy. If the house actually sells for 550k, then that's a great flip. But then you wouldn't say "try to sell". You'd say "sell".suffer-cait wrote:yeah, the houses all sell, because location is desirable, and no one moves in without money. It's not a logical fallacy, it's you making assumptions.
Comparing "actually buy" with "try to sell" is deliberately disingenuous.
Comparing "actually buy" with "actually sell" is the proper way to do it.
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yes, apologies for not wordsing good enough for you. they try to sell, and then they succeed.
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The U.S. got independence by fighting the British government.
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So, the theme of the shirt appears to be, "Fuck the British government".
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suffer-cait wrote:the bleeding upside-down flag confuses that summat though.
That's a sign of distress. Maybe it's meant to symbolise that us Brito-European liberal dimocrabs is oppressin' the native-born sons o' the US of A bah tearkin' aweh they gunz.
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suffer-cait wrote:yes, apologies for not wordsing good enough for you. they try to sell, and then they succeed.
They try to sell (for 150K), and then they succeed (at 122K). Not the same.
If however they actually succeed at the asking price, then "they buy at 100K, put 7K into the house, and then sell at 150K" would make the point.
But... what it tells me is that somebody managed to create 50K of value with 7K of money and 43K of cleverness. What's wrong with that?
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Oh me yarm, THE AREA IS IN HIGH DEMAND. THEY PROBABLY GET EVEN MORE. IT LOOKS SHITTY AND I CAN't IMAGINE PEOPLE FEELING THAT THAT"S OK, THAT THEY WANT TO PUT THEIR NAME ON THAT. THE FACT THAT PEOPLE PAY FOR IT IS PATHETIC, BUT THEY ALL STILL GO WITHIN A COUPLE WEEKS. WHY IS THAT SUCH A FUCKING PROBLEM FOR YOU?
you are purposely being dificult and nitpicky. for why? you clearly understand what i meant to say, so what is the point now? cause it gives you some small feeling of satisfaction? does it make you feel like maybe you are better than me? cause if that's really what you need out of this, if that's really all you have to your confidence's name, then take it. because that is a sad state, and i can see how if this is your normal behavior, you really do need all the victories you can get, huh?
you are purposely being dificult and nitpicky. for why? you clearly understand what i meant to say, so what is the point now? cause it gives you some small feeling of satisfaction? does it make you feel like maybe you are better than me? cause if that's really what you need out of this, if that's really all you have to your confidence's name, then take it. because that is a sad state, and i can see how if this is your normal behavior, you really do need all the victories you can get, huh?
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you won't actually be better than cait though.
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Yeah ucim is a little twerp and needs to be a fucking nitpicky asshole all the timesuffer-cait wrote:because that is a sad state, and i can see how if this is your normal behavior, you really do need all the victories you can get, huh?
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Aren't you supposed to scream at the world in this thread rather than scream at each other?
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There is already an entire board for screaming at the world.
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Thesh wrote:There is already an entire board for screaming at the world.
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Weeks wrote:Yeah ucim is a little twerp and needs to be a fucking nitpicky asshole all the timesuffer-cait wrote:because that is a sad state, and i can see how if this is your normal behavior, you really do need all the victories you can get, huh?
I meant if they are always this terrible, then they probably doesn't have much else in their life, probably not very many people, either. In which case, they really do need this stupid victory, and as such, I gift it to them.
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how did my track pad palm check get turned back on. it's the malevolent ghost of sticky keys here to make it impossible to play any game.
I paid $22 for a $14 cellphone case just so UPS could knock on my door at 2 in the afternoon, to get a signature from Any Rando who happens to be in the house they bring it to. I missed 'em the first time because i, a skulking night person, was trying to sleep. 75 cubic inches of unnecessary packaging later, and I don't like it. it kind of gets in the way of doing anything i want to do with the phone.
I paid $22 for a $14 cellphone case just so UPS could knock on my door at 2 in the afternoon, to get a signature from Any Rando who happens to be in the house they bring it to. I missed 'em the first time because i, a skulking night person, was trying to sleep. 75 cubic inches of unnecessary packaging later, and I don't like it. it kind of gets in the way of doing anything i want to do with the phone.
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When I'm right in the middle of dealing with a poblem and needing all my focus, somehow everyone nearby suddenly wants all my attention and ignores my signing and asking them to wait for a tiny moment. Makes me mentally rip their bloody heads off.
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Ok, whoever is trying to charge $22.32 for a pdf repair manual is out of their bloody mind. Not only did the actual cassette deck cost me less than 30 bucks, I can have a physical copy shipped to my doorstep for that sort of money. Not that I'd spend that sort of money on a deck I bought for less than $30, which is why I don't understand how these repair manuals are this expensive. It's not like the Fisher CR-125 is the holy grail of cassette decks trumping anything Nakamichi ever made...
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They'll catch an old fart who doesn't know any better, probably.
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So they set up a trap for the single old fart in the world, who 1) doesn't know the price of repair manuals on ebay, but 2) wants to read it as a pdf file on his computer? Seems like "sell to everyone who owns this deck for $2" would yield more bucks, but maybe my math is off...
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Most people dont do their own repairs of anything so high price low volume may make sense. For something uncommon like a cassette deck its probably even more the case.
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Ebooks tend to have a high VAT, could be something to do with that?
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Chen wrote:Most people dont do their own repairs of anything so high price low volume may make sense. For something uncommon like a cassette deck its probably even more the case.
I think most people buying old cassette decks do their own repairs, either because it's part of the fun or out of necessity. Exactly because tape decks are uncommon, so there aren't that many places still repairing them.
Kewangji wrote:Ebooks tend to have a high VAT, could be something to do with that?
Maybe, I've never heard about that before. Why do ebooks have higher VAT than any other commodity?
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Physical books tend to be a very low VAT, while ebooks are a standard service VAT, the way I understand it. I have no idea if this tends to extend to books in the form of instruction manuals tbh.
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I'll be honest it took me a couple readings to realize you were talking about a manual to repair a cassette deck in pdf form. Instead of a manual about repairing pdfs. I was very confused for a minute.somitomi wrote:Ok, whoever is trying to charge $22.32 for a pdf repair manual is out of their bloody mind. Not only did the actual cassette deck cost me less than 30 bucks, I can have a physical copy shipped to my doorstep for that sort of money. Not that I'd spend that sort of money on a deck I bought for less than $30, which is why I don't understand how these repair manuals are this expensive. It's not like the Fisher CR-125 is the holy grail of cassette decks trumping anything Nakamichi ever made...
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Yeah, I read it that way at first too.
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I just got a new car, and the total psychos are out on the roads. Coincidence? Probably.
But this week is the first time I've ever seen anyone driving the wrong way up the highway (I witnessed them make their 3 point turn in a 90 zone as I approached), or parking in a roundabout (had to honk to get them to move).
And the week isn't even half over.
But this week is the first time I've ever seen anyone driving the wrong way up the highway (I witnessed them make their 3 point turn in a 90 zone as I approached), or parking in a roundabout (had to honk to get them to move).
And the week isn't even half over.
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pseudoidiot wrote:I'll be honest it took me a couple readings to realize you were talking about a manual to repair a cassette deck in pdf form. Instead of a manual about repairing pdfs. I was very confused for a minute.somitomi wrote:Ok, whoever is trying to charge $22.32 for a pdf repair manual is out of their bloody mind. Not only did the actual cassette deck cost me less than 30 bucks, I can have a physical copy shipped to my doorstep for that sort of money. Not that I'd spend that sort of money on a deck I bought for less than $30, which is why I don't understand how these repair manuals are this expensive. It's not like the Fisher CR-125 is the holy grail of cassette decks trumping anything Nakamichi ever made...

Meanwhile my amp has issues again. I already had the damn thing repaired twice, it's just.... *unarticulated frustration*. Quite frankly, had I known about the impeding doom of the power supply before the first repair, I wouldn't have bothered.
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HellSteedTrotsky Today at 12:22 AM
If black privilege keeps increasing I think more people will start investing in skin dyes.
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Wow. I've got to stop reading discord. It's got humans on it.
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So I came here to complain about university and my lack of motivation, but reading all this somehow stopped me from doing that. I literally don't know how to feel about that...Sableagle wrote:Wow. I've got to stop reading discord. It's got humans on it.Ohh mah gawd, some ceeveeleeans fromm thaat lahner wee torpeedoed dunn gonn 'n' survivored. Wee behter shooot themmm queek.Spoiler:
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On one hand, it's some blow hard who's all talk, and no balls. On the other hand, we just had at least two incidents on the news when one of those blow hard actually does what Trump and Co keep talking about. If you know him for real, get him some help. If you don't know him, it's just an internet stranger.
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I think of them as ripples. Alone, it's just some blowhard on the internet, but in an echoic environment with a lot more of the same ...
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I am not sure why we are making efforts to prevent people from starving to death other than it tends to make them less dangerous
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PSA: Follow leash laws.
Im fucking sick of getting charged on public trails. And ill feel really bad if I have to pepper spray YOUR dog because YOU didnt follow the rules.
But this is the last time Im getting pinned down and terrified of being bitten on a busy public walking trail cause MrMcGrowlerson von PrettyTeeth is “really so friendly!”
Yes. Growling and not letting me move with barking and snapping and piloerection is sooooo friendly
Im fucking sick of getting charged on public trails. And ill feel really bad if I have to pepper spray YOUR dog because YOU didnt follow the rules.
But this is the last time Im getting pinned down and terrified of being bitten on a busy public walking trail cause MrMcGrowlerson von PrettyTeeth is “really so friendly!”
Yes. Growling and not letting me move with barking and snapping and piloerection is sooooo friendly

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You shouldn't feel guilty for pepper spraying a dog under those circumstances.
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Hilarious horrible things I enjoy too much - so my wife's friend has a bunch of goats and has taken them to a new local beer fest thing - Bock Fest. The 4H kids who own some of the goats take them and race them down the street - no dragging or anything, just herd animals, if you start running, they start running. It's a fun thing but inevitably people bring their dogs by and some are well behaved and some... not. Those are the ones I enjoy fucking with their owners.
Me, motioning at dog right at fence barking like crazy, shoving it's head through it and the four or five full grown adults staring at it from three or four feet away - "Might want to watch your dog"
Dog owner who was half paying attention to their dog "Oh, it's fine, my dog's a sweetheart"
Me, smiling because I'm an asshole "Yeah, no, that's not what I'm saying. They hate strange dogs. With it sticking it's head through, those goats are about kill it to protect their kids. "
Dog owner, realizing the danger their dog has been in for however long they've been ignoring it and the half ton's worth of angry goats staring at it "Oh shit!"
And then the take their barking dogs elsewhere!
So.. there you go, just keep five full grown goats with you at all times. The problems will solve themselves! Also I'm not kidding about them trying to kill the dog. They'll fuck that dog up. I'm just an asshole for smiling about it.
Me, motioning at dog right at fence barking like crazy, shoving it's head through it and the four or five full grown adults staring at it from three or four feet away - "Might want to watch your dog"
Dog owner who was half paying attention to their dog "Oh, it's fine, my dog's a sweetheart"
Me, smiling because I'm an asshole "Yeah, no, that's not what I'm saying. They hate strange dogs. With it sticking it's head through, those goats are about kill it to protect their kids. "
Dog owner, realizing the danger their dog has been in for however long they've been ignoring it and the half ton's worth of angry goats staring at it "Oh shit!"
And then the take their barking dogs elsewhere!
So.. there you go, just keep five full grown goats with you at all times. The problems will solve themselves! Also I'm not kidding about them trying to kill the dog. They'll fuck that dog up. I'm just an asshole for smiling about it.
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My mom was a letter carrier before she retired. She always responded to the phrase "He doesn't bite" with "He doesn't bite you."
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My dad used to tell a story of how he used to own a Chow (the full size version ). He was walking it one day (on a lead) when a woman let her pit bull off the lead and it attacked the chow. She seemed to be encouraging it right up until the point when the pit bull realised it had a mouthful of fur and the chow chomped down on it. The chow let go immediately, the other dog ran back to the owner and she had the nerve to yell at him for his dog hurting hers.
He said chows were bred as bear hunters or something so their fur is designed to not need much force to come out. Not sure how true that is but makes an interesting story.
He said chows were bred as bear hunters or something so their fur is designed to not need much force to come out. Not sure how true that is but makes an interesting story.
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My SO wants goats, maybe I will have to try that!
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