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Lime Tonics posted:Just don't leave your doors open, and they can't get in, I ha a buddy that woke up for work, grabbed a shirt off the floor, and found a giant snake snoozing underneath it. Luckily he was able to take a picture from the closet he hid in to send his boss along with the text about coming in late.
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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. My old house got garter snakes. We referred to them as free cat toys.
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May 3, 2017 11:34
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My parents' old place was right along a riparian zone. Great view of the forest and stream, and a ton of backyard snakes. Didn't see any venomous ones, but there probably was a couple (central NC, couple of native venomous critters). I did have to escort the occasional lost rat snake out of the garage. Never had any rodent problems!
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May 3, 2017 15:46
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nm posted: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. I dunno, I lived in a place that had squirrels get into the attic every goddamned winter. One time the condo association had a guy come in to set traps and he pulled out 20 in one day. If the snakes mean no goddamned rodents, I'm good with that. This was also hosed up because squirrels getting in like that means major roof damage, but the condo association didn't want to do poo poo because the only people who were bothered by the squirrels were the people who lived on the top floor, under the attic. So instead of actually fixing the roof to prevent the squirrels from getting in, they just let it go and go until the upper units started getting water damage as well. Phanatic fucked around with this message at 16:33 on May 3, 2017 |
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May 3, 2017 16:30
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Coworker of mine is being sued for a snake infestation in a home they sold last year. I haven't pried too much, but they have been served papers and are prepping to go to court. Home buyer didn't inspect the home, and did construction work that caused a temporary open space below ground level in the fall. Still going to court.
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May 3, 2017 18:05
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My parents called me a while back to tell me the house I grew up in had been abandoned, and had been occupied entirely by squirrels. I emailed them this image in response: At least my mom thought it was funny. Turns out the people who bought the house from us went to Mongolia as missionaries and never came back.
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May 3, 2017 19:23
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DirtRoadJunglist posted:My parents called me a while back to tell me the house I grew up in had been abandoned, and had been occupied entirely by squirrels. I emailed them this image in response: That sounds ominous
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May 3, 2017 19:27
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spog posted:What did you do with the barrel? Washed it out and reused it.
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May 3, 2017 22:44
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These new FAA high regulations are getting out of hand.
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High Lord Elbow posted:Washed it out and reused it. Washed it out in a river of other snakes, or...?
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May 4, 2017 00:24
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there wolf posted:Washed it out in a river of other snakes, or...? Oh! You want to know what happened to the snakes? Google "rattlesnake roundup" and get back to me when you climb out of the deepest hole of redneckery you've seen all week.
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May 4, 2017 00:30
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High Lord Elbow posted:Oh! You want to know what happened to the snakes? That is amazing. It's like the Snake House in "A Man in Full" where a billionaire has a terrarium on his giant plantation/ranch where he puts all the big snakes he finds and then also has a bunch of snakeskin whatever in there. It's like his scotch and cigar mancave, except with snakes and hunting trophies.
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May 4, 2017 01:32
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High Lord Elbow posted:Oh! You want to know what happened to the snakes? I've driven to northern Georgia to sit on an outdoor recliner, get drunk, and watch men wrestle a goat. Try harder Texas. In other news there's a mysterious grinding/clawing noise coming from the air vent above me. Wish me luck.
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there wolf posted:In other news there's a mysterious grinding/clawing noise coming from the air vent above me. Wish me luck. That happened in my bathroom as well but I just waited it out I have no idea what was in there moving for like three months and I'm not going to look because it was probably something I don't want to fall on my face (the vent is on the ceiling).
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May 4, 2017 02:17
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Jerry Cotton posted:That happened in my bathroom as well but I just waited it out I have no idea what was in there moving for like three months and I'm not going to look because it was probably something I don't want to fall on my face (the vent is on the ceiling). Turned out to be the floor fan my roommate had running upstairs. Anticlimactic but better than an infestation.
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there wolf posted:Turned out to be the floor fan my roommate had running upstairs. Anticlimactic but better than an infestation. That's what they want you to think.
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May 4, 2017 03:14
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Get out of my vents, Jerry.
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there wolf posted:Get out of my vents, Jerry. Newman!
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Last_Taste posted:Coworker of mine is being sued for a snake infestation in a home they sold last year. I haven't pried too much, but they have been served papers and are prepping to go to court. Home buyer didn't inspect the home, and did construction work that caused a temporary open space below ground level in the fall. Still going to court. Hopefully they get a judge that will take one look at that and tell them to get out. That seems suboptimal. there wolf posted:I've driven to northern Georgia to sit on an outdoor recliner, get drunk, and watch men wrestle a goat. Try harder Texas. I, for one, am perfectly happy to let Georgia and Alabama fight for the crown of "most redneck." We've got enough here in Texas to be entertaining, but not an overwhelming state identity. I hope.
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May 4, 2017 08:16
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High Lord Elbow posted:Oh! You want to know what happened to the snakes? Oh golly, that's a whole barrel of stuff I wasn't prepared for. quote:Visitors, including children, can make rattlesnake blood handprints at the roundup. Nothing quite like a wall covered in children's bloody handprints. 
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High Lord Elbow posted:Oh! You want to know what happened to the snakes? My company's malware blocker says the Sweetwater site is compromised. Dammit.
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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? Pretty often. My grandparents lived in a garter snake house for a couple of years when my dad was a kid in the 50s. Dad tells stories of things like opening his dresser drawers and moving the snakes out of the way so he could get clothes. Grandpa didn't want to move because the rent was so dirt cheap.
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No pictures, but I have a beautiful crappy electrical story to share: When my office was built, the builders/electricians decided to wire the kitchen, men's room, and women's room all together on one circuit. But code for commercial electrical systems mandated/mandates occupancy sensors on those lights. So what ended up happening is that the lights would turn on whenever you entered one of those three rooms but would shut off as soon as the sensor for the first room to be turned on reached the end of the occupancy timer. For the kitchen, that's not a huge deal--just wave your arms a bit and the light turns back on and you can finish your sandwich. But for the bathrooms? Not so good. Many a poo poo had to be completed by the light of a smartphone because it's impossible to trigger the sensor from inside a stall. Things finally came to a head this week when the director called in an electrician to replace the sensors with standard switches in both bathrooms. (Pretty sure she got tired of having the light switch off suddenly while using the bathroom and got tired of the complaints from staff and clients.) Not, you'll note, the switch for the kitchen. So now the lights in either bathroom can be turned off or on via a standard switch but only if the kitchen light is currently on. And if/when the kitchen light turns off, both bathroom lights turn off and cannot be turned on again until someone triggers the kitchen light again. It's glorious.
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I loving hate motion activated lights in bathrooms, I've never seen them implemented in a way that works and doesn't result in making GBS threads in total darkness.
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May 5, 2017 00:41
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Lionfish Blasts are far superior to Rattlesnake Roundups. For one, this is on one of the T-Shirts you get for participating. (I own one and it is amongst the things I would grab if my house was on fire, I love it so) Second, Lionfish is a terribly invasive and delicious fish. Third, that fish is getting stabbed in the face
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Baronjutter posted:I loving hate motion activated lights in bathrooms, I've never seen them implemented in a way that works and doesn't result in making GBS threads in total darkness. They only work if they have line of sight to the throne and dual mode motion sensors set to high with the time out set to ten minutes or more. I have motion sensors in my bathrooms and closet and they're great once they're set up right.
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May 5, 2017 03:41
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Do motion sensors save significant electricity (compared to/now that we have) all LED lighting?
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peanut posted:Do motion sensors save significant electricity (compared to/now that we have) all LED lighting? Offices have used fluorescent lamps since the 1940s, and those aren’t a great deal less efficient than LEDs, so presumably they save enough.
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Europeans are insane about energy savings to the point of absurd diminishing returns. The worst motion activated bathroom horrors were all in germany. Fully LED light setups but only one sensor covering the sinks/door. Time-out was always set to like 20 seconds or something useless. One person slipping or hurting them selves because the bathroom went pitch black 20 seconds after they walked in isn't worth the pennies a year they're saving by having their LED's go out early.
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May 5, 2017 05:29
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peanut posted:Do motion sensors save significant electricity (compared to/now that we have) all LED lighting? They reduce my need to get up and turn them off at night when I forget, and my need to hear my wife complain even though I have explained that most of our electric usage is from the AC and our appliances.
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May 5, 2017 06:52
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I lol that Californians sit in the dark to save electricity but everyone uses home dryers because the law won't let them hang laundry outside like poors.
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May 5, 2017 09:30
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peanut posted:Do motion sensors save significant electricity (compared to/now that we have) all LED lighting? Irrelevant. LEED x spec or NAPERS y spec mandates that they must be present, so they are, so we can increase the rents on our office space. Same as seatbelt chimes on cars.
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May 5, 2017 12:41
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peanut posted:I lol that Californians sit in the dark to save electricity but everyone uses home dryers because the law won't let them hang laundry outside like poors. Wait, what? You can't line dry laundry in California?
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May 5, 2017 12:46
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flosofl posted:Wait, what? You can't line dry laundry in California? I'm assuming he's taking the piss, but a LOT of HOAs (which are everywhere in California) prohibit line drying clothes, yes.
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May 5, 2017 14:16
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Only if you have a high fence to hide your shameful habits.
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Hanging laundry out is the best. I live in Arizona, and in the summer when it's 100+ degrees with sub 20% humidity, they dry faster outside than they do in the dryer. Even in the shade 
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Why is anyone making GBS threads in the dark? It's 2017, doesn't nearly everyone have a cellphone with a flashlight function these days? Or take your fate into your own hands. Go in early one morning and install battery operated touch lights in the stalls. They even make them motion activated or with 5 minute timers now, so some idiot won't leave it on and run down the batteries. https://www.amazon.com/Meridian-Electric-11118-Touch-Light/dp/B00ISLJTBO https://www.amazon.com/Beams-Battery-Powered-Motion-Sensing-Stick-Anywhere-Nightlight/dp/B00BCCNZ98 Don't say anything about it, and everyone will assume someone else approved it.
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I would line dry my laundry if it wasn't going to get instantly covered in pollen and bits of grass and bugs. Also I do like six loads at a time over a weekend and gently caress hanging all that poo poo one sock at a time and then taking it all down again jesus
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