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Tony Bologna
Sep 21, 2007

Talk real good 'cause I'm smart and stuff
here ya go!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46kdCar6EKg

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pookel
Oct 27, 2011

Ultra Carp

hyperhazard posted:

No, what's weird is that there are at least 2 threads in PYF right now discussing fairy porn.
What's the other one?

AlphaKretin
Dec 25, 2014

A vase to face encounter.

...Vase to meet you?

...

GARVASE DAY!

pookel posted:

What's the other one?

Tasteless Tattoos.

LITERALLY A BIRD
Sep 27, 2008

I knew you were trouble
when you flew in

hyperhazard posted:

No, what's weird is that there are at least 2 threads in PYF right now discussing fairy porn.

PYF does this thing where every couple weeks the goon consciousness overlaps and two to four threads all arrive at the same derail at the same time. It's great.

C.M. Kruger
Oct 28, 2013

DropsySufferer
Nov 9, 2008

Impractical practicality
"Washer dryer combo" and "overwatch position" is some kind of sexual euphemism right...?

Ein cooler Typ
Nov 26, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
do people literally still think they can get $50 for CRT TVs?


sweeperbravo
May 18, 2012

AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)
Maybe people in Bolivia use them for weight training

Knormal
Nov 11, 2001





Edit: The "domestic gigs" section is a goldmine for creepy job offers.






Edit 2: This poor idiot.

Knormal has a new favorite as of 10:19 on Jan 17, 2017

RatHat
Dec 31, 2007

A tiny behatted rat👒🐀!

Ein cooler Typ posted:

do people literally still think they can get $50 for CRT TVs?




If anything you have to pay people to take them.

treiz01
Jan 2, 2008

There is little that makes me happier than taking drugs. Perhaps administering them, designing and carrying out experiments that bend the plane of what we consider reality.

Ein cooler Typ posted:

do people literally still think they can get $50 for CRT TVs?




Hey man, you can't play Duck Hunt on a flat screen TV.

Black Mage Knight
Jan 25, 2012

stop biting my cape

Ein cooler Typ posted:

do people literally still think they can get $50 for CRT TVs?




While I usually see people just give them away, I have seen Melee players willing to pay for them. Running Melee (old fighting games too) on anything that isn't a CRT kinda sucks basically.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Black Mage Knight posted:

While I usually see people just give them away, I have seen Melee players willing to pay for them. Running Melee (old fighting games too) on anything that isn't a CRT kinda sucks basically.

Running them on a CRT also sucks :smugmrgw:

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Knormal posted:

Edit 2: This poor idiot.


Sorry to kill the joke, but it's actually a legitimate attack vector to post "did x get hacked" or "is this a virus" because a lot of people open it to check for the person, thinking they're being helpful, instead of thinking "maybe I shouldn't click that."

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!

Grassy Knowles posted:

Sorry to kill the joke, but it's actually a legitimate attack vector to post "did x get hacked" or "is this a virus" because a lot of people open it to check for the person, thinking they're being helpful, instead of thinking "maybe I shouldn't click that."

x2, that's just a public phishing thing.

Grumbletron 4000
Nov 30, 2002

Where you want it, bitch.
College Slice

RatHat posted:

If anything you have to pay people to take them.

Not true. People will take ANYTHING if it's free. Craigslist is great for that. I've gotten rid of two CRTs, a lawnmower that was hosed and a piss drenched mattress. The lawnmower guy insisted on looking the thing over like I was trying to rip him off. No dude, it's a completely hosed lawnmower just like the ad said. No surprises here. Just take it away from me. Even the piss reeking mattress just disappeared from my yard within 24 hours of posting it. CL is like a magic spell that makes your trash go away.

Knormal
Nov 11, 2001

Grassy Knowles posted:

Sorry to kill the joke, but it's actually a legitimate attack vector to post "did x get hacked" or "is this a virus" because a lot of people open it to check for the person, thinking they're being helpful, instead of thinking "maybe I shouldn't click that."
Oh right, duh. That's why you don't fish for content at 1:00 AM. Well at least the 50 Shades guy's a legit pervert.

Khazar-khum
Oct 22, 2008

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
2nd Battalion

Grumbletron 4000 posted:

Not true. People will take ANYTHING if it's free. Craigslist is great for that. I've gotten rid of two CRTs, a lawnmower that was hosed and a piss drenched mattress. The lawnmower guy insisted on looking the thing over like I was trying to rip him off. No dude, it's a completely hosed lawnmower just like the ad said. No surprises here. Just take it away from me. Even the piss reeking mattress just disappeared from my yard within 24 hours of posting it. CL is like a magic spell that makes your trash go away.

We have a truck, so people often ask for help. One time we dropped a refridgerator off by a Goodwill trailer. About 2 blocks away we realized we still had its grill, and went back to put it on. The fridge was gone.

Slime
Jan 3, 2007

Grumbletron 4000 posted:

Not true. People will take ANYTHING if it's free. Craigslist is great for that. I've gotten rid of two CRTs, a lawnmower that was hosed and a piss drenched mattress. The lawnmower guy insisted on looking the thing over like I was trying to rip him off. No dude, it's a completely hosed lawnmower just like the ad said. No surprises here. Just take it away from me. Even the piss reeking mattress just disappeared from my yard within 24 hours of posting it. CL is like a magic spell that makes your trash go away.

I wonder how many of those free things either get put back up for like $10 or they find out it really is a worthless piece of junk and put it up for free themselves.

Sentient Data
Aug 31, 2011

My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!
The gasoline tycoons are laughing and twirling their moustaches at the neverending free cycle

Joey Freshwater
Jun 20, 2004

Always playing with my meat
Grimey Drawer

Grumbletron 4000 posted:

Not true. People will take ANYTHING if it's free. Craigslist is great for that. I've gotten rid of two CRTs, a lawnmower that was hosed and a piss drenched mattress. The lawnmower guy insisted on looking the thing over like I was trying to rip him off. No dude, it's a completely hosed lawnmower just like the ad said. No surprises here. Just take it away from me. Even the piss reeking mattress just disappeared from my yard within 24 hours of posting it. CL is like a magic spell that makes your trash go away.

People will just take anything period. I had a vacuum that was completely broken, wouldn't turn on and the chamber that collects dirt was shattered. (I accidentally dropped it down some stairs). I took it out to our dumpster, went back out around an hour later to toss some trash and the vacuum was gone.

I could understand someone thinking they could fix it if it wasn't destroyed and was just a wiring issue but it was very visibly hosed up. I guess whoever took it thought they could scrap it for parts.

neogeo0823
Jul 4, 2007

NO THAT'S NOT ME!!

Joey Freshwater posted:

People will just take anything period. I had a vacuum that was completely broken, wouldn't turn on and the chamber that collects dirt was shattered. (I accidentally dropped it down some stairs). I took it out to our dumpster, went back out around an hour later to toss some trash and the vacuum was gone.

I could understand someone thinking they could fix it if it wasn't destroyed and was just a wiring issue but it was very visibly hosed up. I guess whoever took it thought they could scrap it for parts.

Anecdotally, if i thought i could fix up a broken vacuum motor and keep it for free i would. This is because I'm looking for one to make a ghetto sawdust sucker for a work bench I'm making, but still.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Joey Freshwater posted:

People will just take anything period. I had a vacuum that was completely broken, wouldn't turn on and the chamber that collects dirt was shattered. (I accidentally dropped it down some stairs). I took it out to our dumpster, went back out around an hour later to toss some trash and the vacuum was gone.

I could understand someone thinking they could fix it if it wasn't destroyed and was just a wiring issue but it was very visibly hosed up. I guess whoever took it thought they could scrap it for parts.

A former co-worker picked up some new work boots and when he was taking the horrible old boots to the garbage bin outside someone called him back in and he left them on top of a sand box. When he came back like a minute later the old boots were gone. Also on his first day another former co-worker went around the corner for a smoke without locking the door to his office and when he came back someone had stolen his chair.

Slime
Jan 3, 2007
A roommate of mine wanted to get rid of an old, broken laptop . He put it outside the house in the middle of the night with a sign that said it was broken, declaring it would be gone soon.

Like an hour later we checked on it and poof, it was gone.

Devdisigdu
Mar 23, 2016

The shadows lengthen
In Carcosa.
Did he at least remove the hard drive?

Or was there no personal data on it so didn't bother?

Aleph Null
Jun 10, 2008

You look very stressed
Tortured By Flan

Slime posted:

A roommate of mine wanted to get rid of an old, broken laptop . He put it outside the house in the middle of the night with a sign that said it was broken, declaring it would be gone soon.

Like an hour later we checked on it and poof, it was gone.

To be fair, I bought a "broken" hard disk drive off of eBay for almost nothing because thought I knew what the problem was. When I received it, I fixed the jumpers and it worked without issue.
So, sometimes it works out.

Slime
Jan 3, 2007

Aleph Null posted:

To be fair, I bought a "broken" hard disk drive off of eBay for almost nothing because thought I knew what the problem was. When I received it, I fixed the jumpers and it worked without issue.
So, sometimes it works out.


Devdisigdu posted:

Did he at least remove the hard drive?

Or was there no personal data on it so didn't bother?

He was a compsci student so yeah he was smart enough to at least attempt to repair it + yank out the HDD before throwing it out.

Joey Freshwater
Jun 20, 2004

Always playing with my meat
Grimey Drawer

neogeo0823 posted:

Anecdotally, if i thought i could fix up a broken vacuum motor and keep it for free i would. This is because I'm looking for one to make a ghetto sawdust sucker for a work bench I'm making, but still.

I probably could have fixed it if it was just a wiring/motor issue but the thing wasn't going to be fixed unless you replaced the entire middle chamber that the dust/dirt collects in - it was destroyed, and I didn't see an easy way of doing that. Plus it was a cheap vacuum anyway so it's not like they sold replacement parts for it that were readily available.

e: Now that I think more about it I think it was more weird that someone climbed into the dumpster to take it. It's not like I'd sat it outside on the curb or next to the dumpster. It was IN the dumpster. One of those bigass ones you see in the back of a grocery store and the like.

Joey Freshwater has a new favorite as of 00:34 on Jan 20, 2017

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

Lager beer is proof that god loves us
Pillbug
I put out the first 7 Star Trek movies on VHS at the side of a quiet residential street and they were gone in 15 minutes.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

Just me and my 🌊dragon🐉 hanging out
Accordion, ten minutes.

MY PALE GOTH SKIN
Nov 28, 2006


meow
A bunch of empty, totally destroyed cardboard boxes, damp / still with a bit of water in the bottom from the sewage leak coming through the ceiling.

Two hours later it was all gone and I still don't know WTF. I went to bag it so the garbage guys wouldn't have to deal with falling-apart shitboard, and it was gone.

Antivehicular
Dec 30, 2011


I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

MY PALE GOTH SKIN posted:

A bunch of empty, totally destroyed cardboard boxes, damp / still with a bit of water in the bottom from the sewage leak coming through the ceiling.

Two hours later it was all gone and I still don't know WTF. I went to bag it so the garbage guys wouldn't have to deal with falling-apart shitboard, and it was gone.

My guess would be "it was move-out time and someone was getting desperate." I know box-scrounging hit totally ridiculous levels during my college move-outs.

walrusman
Aug 4, 2006

Broken mini-freezer with an awful stench, 10-15 minutes.

MY PALE GOTH SKIN
Nov 28, 2006


meow

Antivehicular posted:

My guess would be "it was move-out time and someone was getting desperate." I know box-scrounging hit totally ridiculous levels during my college move-outs.

They weren't even boxes anymore! It was just soggy cardboard. I can't see any if it holding anything heavier than a single book, and that's after drying out.

Plus they stank of poo poo. This happened in high summer, garage is not air-conditioned, and it took three days for anyone to do anything about it because I foolishly assumed one of the other adults of the house would be like "okay I'll clean this stinky poo poo-piss mess" or at least say "hey, are we gonna clean this stinky shitpiss mess up?" to me. First day was that assumption, day 2 & 3 were tests. Literal poo poo tests.

I actually assume someone needed some kind of filled for something. Hole in the backyard that they didn't quite have enough dirt for or something.

Aesop Poprock
Oct 21, 2008


Grimey Drawer

Black Mage Knight posted:

While I usually see people just give them away, I have seen Melee players willing to pay for them. Running Melee (old fighting games too) on anything that isn't a CRT kinda sucks basically.

I picked one up on the side of the road a few weeks ago cause I found a copy of house of the dead 2 for dreamcast and no way to play it with the light guns. The thing weighs like 7 tons and it uh was not really worth lugging it down our staircase for a game that's like an hour long

there wolf
Jan 11, 2015

by Fluffdaddy

MY PALE GOTH SKIN posted:

They weren't even boxes anymore! It was just soggy cardboard. I can't see any if it holding anything heavier than a single book, and that's after drying out.Someone'

Plus they stank of poo poo. This happened in high summer, garage is not air-conditioned, and it took three days for anyone to do anything about it because I foolishly assumed one of the other adults of the house would be like "okay I'll clean this stinky poo poo-piss mess" or at least say "hey, are we gonna clean this stinky shitpiss mess up?" to me. First day was that assumption, day 2 & 3 were tests. Literal poo poo tests.

I actually assume someone needed some kind of filled for something. Hole in the backyard that they didn't quite have enough dirt for or something.

Someone's compost heap ate well that night.

bongwizzard
May 19, 2005

Then one day I meet a man,
He came to me and said,
"Hard work good and hard work fine,
but first take care of head"
Grimey Drawer
Four cases of nonalcoholic beer, and about six moving boxes full of plastic oranges, gone in one workday from a loading dock in a very small alley.

walrusman
Aug 4, 2006

Do you have any more of those plastic oranges?

hyperhazard
Dec 4, 2011

I am the one lascivious
With magic potion niveous
Two less oranges in the sea.

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monolithburger
Sep 7, 2011

MY PALE GOTH SKIN posted:

They weren't even boxes anymore! It was just soggy cardboard. I can't see any if it holding anything heavier than a single book, and that's after drying out.

Plus they stank of poo poo. This happened in high summer, garage is not air-conditioned, and it took three days for anyone to do anything about it because I foolishly assumed one of the other adults of the house would be like "okay I'll clean this stinky poo poo-piss mess" or at least say "hey, are we gonna clean this stinky shitpiss mess up?" to me. First day was that assumption, day 2 & 3 were tests. Literal poo poo tests.

Nothing a (lot of) little duct tape won't delay the inevitability of your sci-fi novels spilling out all over the road at some point in your move fix.

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