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Suspect Bucket posted:Is it strange that I am not at all bothered and actually strangely comforted by a B# note and the noise of vuvuzelas? Eh, I prefer the C-natural vuvuzela 
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Ignoranus posted:Eh, I prefer the C-natural vuvuzela aatrek's vuvuzela was tuned to the key of A minor
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canyoneer posted:I missed power stealing and breaker chat, but here's my contribution. This actually is plausible. At least in the US, traffic lights just use 120V line voltage. There are wires going to each signal light, and the control box just closes a relay to turn on the correct light and opens the relay s for the other lights. If you tapped into one of the hot wires going to a traffic light, it would only have voltage when its light was switched on.
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My girlfriend's dad is insane and doesn't believe in deposits or progress payments, only payment on completion. This results in both paying more and less quality work (because it seems only lovely companies accept this form of payment). The solar power inverter just broke, its a few weeks inside the 5 year warranty but the company that installed no longer exists and the manufacturer of the inverter no longer has a presence in the country. Before this it was the lovely gates that were made out of recycled material and are just all sorts of wrong. Before that it was the airconditioning that failed after two weeks and my girlfriend had to get the manufacturer out to fix it because the installers refused (this is illegal btw). Thankfully she's figured out how to work around his insanity with the patio that's going to be installed, she's loaded up her credit card with the progress payments and will get the money from him after it's done. For some context, I live with her in an investment property that he owns, and he pays for some home improvements.
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In the US? Spookydonut posted:
And what would happen should he not be happy with the quality/timeliness of the work and demand a discount on work she's already paid for? Will she be holding the bag? Sure hope nothing happens to him between now and then. Spookydonut posted:
Why isn't he paying for all home improvements on an investment property he owns?
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Cindy Shitbird posted:aatrek's vuvuzela was tuned to the key of A minor 
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NancyPants posted:In the US? NancyPants posted:And what would happen should he not be happy with the quality/timeliness of the work and demand a discount on work she's already paid for? Will she be holding the bag? Sure hope nothing happens to him between now and then. NancyPants posted:Why isn't he paying for all home improvements on an investment property he owns?
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This is at my house: To the left is the shutoff valve for our incoming water main, and then the pipe goes back down underground. As you can see, the original owners planted what would become a decent sized tree directly above the water main, and right next to a brick dividing wall. So not only did the tree take out the dividing wall, it also took out the water main. Their fix was to just take out the bottom bricks of the wall, stick in a steel beam to support to top half of the wall, then run the water main back above ground along the wall. I'm sure at this point the water main is a structural support for the wall.
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House Of Snakes: Dream Home Turns Out To Be A Nightmare "Several walk-throughs and an inspection of the house yielded no trouble, but 45 minutes after closing on that October day, plenty of it slithered in. “I brought my first sort of box here to my bedroom and I found a snake,” Whitley said. “One quickly turned into 3,4,5. Today is 6 months later and I’m about 95 snakes that I’ve found inside my house,” Whitley said. That’s 95 inside and a few hundred more outside." http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2017/05/01/house-of-snakes-nightmare-home/
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I was going to say that that was old news, but apparently this is an entirely new snake house, and not the one from a few years ago. How often does this happen?quote:"One day, we caught 43 snakes in total and that was it. The next morning I almost stepped on one in our house and I had enough, we can't do this anymore," she told ABC News. "I don't know how we stayed there as long as we did.[ (That family actually signed off on a 'snake disclaimer' though)
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If I ever go house shopping and get a snake disclaimer, I will buy a house as far as possible from the goddamn snake house.
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It kinda depends on what kind of snake. I mean, a house full of garter snakes? I'm pretty okay with that, could be fun, certainly a good ice breaker when you have company over. Hand out snakes as door prizes. Pin the snake on the donkey. Snake garnishes.
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I'd amend the snake disclaimer to note that any and all snakes may be delivered directly to the seller/realtor in original working order. Fake edit: looks like I misspelled "may" there; should read "will".  Fake edit 2: Bullshit, at best I'd enjoy having 'em around, even with the chance that I'll be trading the occasional Jehova's Witness for frothing Pentecostals; at worst, welp, Snakes-By-Mail is a valid business model.
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I mean at least you won't have a mouse problemSpookydonut posted:I have no answer for this Demand a percentage stake in the property for every dollar you spend improving it. Of course you won't get it and you'll keep doing what you're doing anyway for the sake of familial harmony etc. but at least it'll put it into your father in law's head that you're not a gullible idiot.
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Its Minnesota, so garter snakes clump together in hidey holes to hibernate for the winter. Fortunately they are non-venomous and have a single tiny tooth that is about as hamful as an insulin tester. I don't think there are any venomous snakes in MN. Not in the northern half anyway. Polio Vax Scene fucked around with this message at 18:32 on May 2, 2017 |
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Bad Munki posted:It kinda depends on what kind of snake. I mean, a house full of garter snakes? I'm pretty okay with that, could be fun, certainly a good ice breaker when you have company over. Hand out snakes as door prizes. Pin the snake on the donkey. Snake garnishes. I was thinking it wasn't that big of a deal either but one of the quotes from those articles was "the water started to taste like them" and that's when I decided a snake infestation was too much to deal with.
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ElCondemn posted:I was thinking it wasn't that big of a deal either but one of the quotes from those articles was "the water started to taste like them" and that's when I decided a snake infestation was too much to deal with. Like they'd know what snake tasted like... drat dirty snake-lickers
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Ashcans posted:I was going to say that that was old news, but apparently this is an entirely new snake house, and not the one from a few years ago. How often does this happen? There's a life lesson in that second article: quote:"This is a buyer beware nation," New York City broker Brian Lewis told ABC News. "You have to do your research because if you don't do your research, you end up with a house full of snakes."
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I must have dodged a bullet then, because I didn't do an ounce of snake-related research when buying my house but I've only seen like one in the yard since I've been here. 
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Bad Munki posted:I must have dodged a bullet then, because I didn't do an ounce of snake-related research when buying my house but I've only seen like one in the yard since I've been here.
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Bad Munki posted:I must have dodged a bullet then, because I didn't do an ounce of snake-related research when buying my house but I've only seen like one in the yard since I've been here. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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More than half the species of snakes native to my area are venomous, so a snake house would be a dealbreaker for me. 
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Polio Vax Scene posted:Its Minnesota, so garter snakes clump together in hidey holes to hibernate for the winter. We've got some rattlesnakes in the far South Eastern corner of the state. "2" species, one of which hasn't been seen in 50 years. The other is pretty chill: During a twenty-year period, from 1982-2002, 31 snake bites from Timber Rattlesnakes were reported in Minnesota. However, only five of these were considered “legitimate” bites, in which a person inadvertently encountered a rattlesnake and was bitten. The other 26 bites involved captive snakes or people who deliberately handled rattlesnakes, and most victims were under the influence of alcohol. No fatalities due to Timber Rattlesnake bites were reported during this time frame (Keyler, 2005
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Just don't leave your doors open, and they can't get in, I've got a Snake Problem https://vid.me/qfxL Simple.
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I really appreciate that they deliberately separate the people who got drunk and decided to pee on a rattlesnake or something from the regular statistics. No Jeff, gently caress you, I'm not counting your bite because you had it coming. shortspecialbus posted:There's a life lesson in that second article:
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Spookydonut posted:In Australia Well, thanks for answering my questions. I hope that company doesn't suddenly become insolvent or something.
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Leperflesh posted:they probably poo poo everywhere tho If they're like rat snakes they only poo poo once a week.
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One summer in Texas we filled a 50-gallon barrel with rattlesnakes from the crawl space under the house. This wasn't even newsworthy, but it sure as poo poo explains why we don't have basements in Texas.
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Cocoa Crispies posted:If they're like rat snakes they only poo poo once a week. Yeah so if there's 100 snaks making GBS threads once a week that's 100 shits a week or an average of over fourteen and a quarter snak shits daily in under and around your house
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Lime Tonics posted:Just don't leave your doors open, and they can't get in, "That's bad" 
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Leperflesh posted:Yeah so if there's 100 snaks making GBS threads once a week that's 100 shits a week or an average of over fourteen and a quarter snak shits daily in under and around your house How much snake poo poo does it take to secure my motorcycle?
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High Lord Elbow posted:One summer in Texas we filled a 50-gallon barrel with rattlesnakes from the crawl space under the house. What did you do with the barrel?
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tomapot posted:How much snake poo poo does it take to secure my motorcycle? Exactly 400 pounds 
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Used it to secure his motorcycle obviously
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Secure your motorcycle with a fifty gallon barrel full of rattlesnakes.
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gently caress the motorcycle, just train the snakes up to pull your carriage.
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Bad Munki posted:I must have dodged a bullet then, because I didn't do an ounce of snake-related research when buying my house but I've only seen like one in the yard since I've been here. Another innocent player rolls the dice in Snakes and Property Ladders...
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JBark posted:This is at my house: I'm going to assume that you live where there is no cold. That poo poo would freeze up solid even her in TX, in the winter.
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NancyPants posted:Well, thanks for answering my questions. I hope that company doesn't suddenly become insolvent or something. They've existed longer than any other currently existing company that does this kind of work and exist because of the founder's early experiences in the industry. They pay and treat their installation crews well and as a result they stick around a long time and perform superior work (so they claim, but the ones I've looked at were built very well).
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