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Dr.Caligari
May 5, 2005

"Here's a big, beautiful avatar for someone"

A SWEATY FATBEARD posted:

Well yeah, apart from benzos and tramadol, the drug test would have turned up amphetamines and weed too. The HR in the company is staffed by ex-police officers (or so I have been told), so the situation could rapidly spiral out of control. Then again, maybe I should just drop the speed and weed altogether. Mmmyeah.

Unless there is some hosed up laws I don't know of in Croatia, the worst they are going to do is say "sorry, you failed your drug test"

Honestly amphetamines are out of your system quick, so take a few days off. The marijuana might be a problems since it sticks around forever, but it's worth a shot.

I always found it humorous that the least harmful drug sticks around the longest and causes the most drug test failures. A meth/crack smoker that has the restraint not to get high for a few days: A-OK! A pot smoker that last got high 2 weeks ago : WE DON'T WANT YOUR KIND.


I'm rambling, but thanks for keeping this thread alive SFB. I am excited anytime I see an update

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Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan
To be fair a meth head who restrains from smoking meth for a few days is a pretty willful meth head.

Millow
Apr 30, 2006

some say he's a rude dude with a crude 'tude
Sup buddy? How's it going?

A SWEATY FATBEARD
Oct 6, 2012

:buddy: GAY 4 ORGANS :buddy:

Millow posted:

Sup buddy? How's it going?


Well guise, here's sort of an update.

Both of my Marios turned out to be totally awesome and they're paying their rent fully and on time! I can't express how glad I am that this story had a well, sort of a boring end. I'm not really used to having loose cash laying around. :)

Mr. Weed and I have become best buds. He is a carpenter and a drywaller and now he's planing to start working solo/freelance and he's egging me to be his helper and to work for him - and I'm totally in for it. We'll buy some tools and I'll buy a van to transport the said tools.

Now that we're on "buying stuff", looks like I'll get my money from the sale of the house during the autumn or so. The paperwork is a huge mess and the aunt is going to hire a lawyer to try to fix the multitude of problems in the books. Let's just say that the landowning maps haven't been updated since World War I and that they're full of ridiculous mistakes and omissions. But we'll sort that out as well.

And lastly, here's what happened last night:


(picture of my exceedingly fine bathroom from 1971)

I was high on xannies and decided to take a whiz in the middle of the night. I apparently sneezed violently and rammed my head into the wall mirror and the results are as you can see. The strange thing is that I have very vague recollections of this event, I woke up in the morning and was like, WHAT THE EVERLOVING gently caress. :stonk:
I wasn't mad though, planned to toss that ugly old poo poo anyway and replace it with a modern bathroom cabinet, no real damage done. The most amazing thing of all is that I haven't a slightest cut on my forehead. There's a Croatian saying that goes; "God watches over drunkies and little children." Maybe there's some truth in that saying. :)

Shadow0
Jun 16, 2008


If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.

Grimey Drawer

Looks like things are starting to go well for you! I hope they keep going as so!
Maybe try not to go too crazy on the recreational drugs this time; it might help.

Maybe just go for more anime instead?
Though that may have an even bigger negative affect on your life.

By the way, did you ever get that bath plug you wanted?
Anyway, I hope this job works out for you!

A SWEATY FATBEARD
Oct 6, 2012

:buddy: GAY 4 ORGANS :buddy:

Shadow0 posted:

By the way, did you ever get that bath plug you wanted?
Anyway, I hope this job works out for you!

Nope, no bath plug. In fact, the bathtub is so tiny that you can't really submerge yourself, you can only sort of sit in it and then your knees are going to stick above water and what's the point in that then? This tub is in fact the ideal size if you want to take a shower. Mr. Weed, who lives in a two-bedroom apartment, has a standard large tub, but I'm in a studio so everything is squeezed down to the tiniest possible size. Therefore getting the drain plug is moot because I wouldn't have used it anyway. :)

And as for the job, everything is still up in the air. Mr. Weed is sick and tired of corrupt bosses who skimp out on paying him and/or have ridiculous demands out of him. He wants to strike out on his own, be his own boss, because he's a very good craftsman and he has no problems finding new jobs on his own. I'm also very handy with tools, and since he and I are good friends, we simply clicked two and two together. :)

You know, the concept of "best friend" is childish and kids usually grow out of characterizing people that way by the time they hit puberty or something. But I really need to say that mr. Weed is truly the best friend I've ever had. Every nerd needs a cool friend. :)

fuck off Batman
Oct 14, 2013

Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah!


Hey Sweaty, have you or Mr. Weed looked this through?

http://www.kagor.hr/hr/poticaji-potpore-eu-fondovi-vodic-za-poduzetnike/

Maybe there's something here that will help you guys starting out?

Shadow0
Jun 16, 2008


If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.

Grimey Drawer

A SWEATY FATBEARD posted:

Nope, no bath plug. In fact, the bathtub is so tiny that you can't really submerge yourself, you can only sort of sit in it and then your knees are going to stick above water and what's the point in that then? This tub is in fact the ideal size if you want to take a shower. Mr. Weed, who lives in a two-bedroom apartment, has a standard large tub, but I'm in a studio so everything is squeezed down to the tiniest possible size. Therefore getting the drain plug is moot because I wouldn't have used it anyway. :)

And as for the job, everything is still up in the air. Mr. Weed is sick and tired of corrupt bosses who skimp out on paying him and/or have ridiculous demands out of him. He wants to strike out on his own, be his own boss, because he's a very good craftsman and he has no problems finding new jobs on his own. I'm also very handy with tools, and since he and I are good friends, we simply clicked two and two together. :)

You know, the concept of "best friend" is childish and kids usually grow out of characterizing people that way by the time they hit puberty or something. But I really need to say that mr. Weed is truly the best friend I've ever had. Every nerd needs a cool friend. :)

Your country doesn't seem to be adapting to capitalism very well...

I often hear people warn against going into business with your friends. So maybe that's something to research ahead of time? I think that might be for more lucrative operations though, not sure.

Also, I don't think anyone would consider you childish for calling someone you're best friend. We all need such people in our lives; I'm glad you found one. :)

Fo3
Feb 14, 2004

RAAAAARGH!!!! GIFT CARDS ARE FUCKING RETARDED!!!!

(I need a hug)
To go into business for yourself (well him, with you financing it), you need more skills than just being good at the job. You need to be pretty good at accounting - keeping good records and not getting into trouble with the government for taxes. You need to be very good at getting money off your customers - strict with debt collection and have legal or not so legal solutions when people aren't paying. You need to be very good at advertising as well, being a good salesman all around: not just being a good tradesman/labourer.
In general just having a well-rounded strong business sense setting everything up to succeed and making sure you're covered (like insurances, back up income streams etc)

Bare in mind also there's other companies that make a living doing these things to "help" new start up small businesses that struggle with these facets, and they'll probably rip you off too.
E: Just being good at a job or trade and having a couple of contacts is not enough and you need to be able to do everything yourself, and be good at all those other things.

Fo3 fucked around with this message at 12:41 on May 27, 2017

boar guy
Jan 25, 2007

lol @ the reasonable advice in this thread, you guys know this is ASF right

ChickenOfTomorrow
Nov 11, 2012

god damn it, you've got to be kind

A SWEATY FATBEARD posted:

corrupt bosses who skimp out on paying him and/or have ridiculous demands out of him

Shadow0 posted:

Your country doesn't seem to be adapting to capitalism very well...

i'd say it was adapting perfectly

A SWEATY FATBEARD
Oct 6, 2012

:buddy: GAY 4 ORGANS :buddy:
An update!

I've been to court a few days ago, over the unpaid utilities in the CrackDen apartment I sold to Nicholas the flipper back in '13. I (un)wisely chose to represent myself at the court - the first hearing went better than expected. And, uh, I don't think the judge realized how high I was at the court, but I presented a helluva defense.
The verdict; I was found guilty and ordered to pay $250 to the water utility company. This was beyond unfair. So basically, I am going to pay the fine and then pressure Nicholas into paying me back my money I forked over for this, because these debts accumulated after I sold the CrackDen and Nicholas played stupid and sort of "forgot" to pay the bills.

I cooked helluva plan - I already told him that if he doesn't repay me back my money, that I'm going to write an eloquently written artice and send it to leftist newspapers who just love these kind of stories. It doesn't matter actually, I intend to googlebomb Nicholas so that every time someone googles up his name, he'll be presented with an article on how "Nicholas screwed over a man who was dying from cancer" and that's spectacularly bad publicity. After that noone in their right mind wouldn't want anything with Nicholas, thus ruining his real estate career. I told him this and his response was that "we'll sort it out." He has every right to be afraid of me. $250 just ain't worth ruining your career, and I think Nicholas is smart enough to realize this.

A few days ago I went onto a photo-safari and gained entry to the railway depot!


As evidenced by the plaque, this tiny rusty cistern was built in 1942! I have no idea why they kept it all this time, as it's completely useless in 21st century.



An abandoned French DMU from the 1970s, has clearly seen better days. Slated for the axe before too long.



The locomotive of the said DMU. The doors are wide open, but I didn't want to go inside because the guard in charging the stuff (garbage) safe was nearby.



Electric locomotives - I'm not sure if they're waiting for a repair or if they're gonna be scrapped. Either way, they don't look very good.



Garbage! Wild garbage dumps are a serious problem in Zagreb and Croatia in general - you typically need to pay someone to take the trash away, logic mandates that it's simpler to dump your poo poo in the boonies where nobody will look. Notice the corrugated asbestos sheets in the pile of refuse!



The mountain in the background is a garbage landfill. They began dumping trash there in 1950s and over time, the pile of trash grew to a sizable mountain. There are plans to relocate the dump but nobody wants to have a landfill near them, so this landfill will stay here for the forseeable future. In summer, the whole thing smells rather exciting.



Oh man what a place for a pinata-style suicide! :D


Back to the town. This picture was taken in the Dugave estate which was built from 1977 till 1983. The construction was cost-no-object, so this place came to be regarded as a socialist paradise in a way. Here you see a car climbing onto a pedestrian viaduct which also doubles as a parking lot - the garages are located underneath the viaduct. Sure, all of this was architectural masturbation. It turned out that these viaducts are mega-expensive to maintain - especially as they're considered private property and landscapers won't touch them. In the winter, the viaduct turns into a lumpy ice-skating rink - the tenants are in charge of removing the snow and ice on the viaduct, and this goes as well as you'd imagine. In practice, when the snow falls people will create narrow walkways between point A and B which are free of ice, but 99% of the viaduct freezes over and is extremely dangerous to walk on.


You've gotta admit that the viaduct doesn't look too bad in the summer. Until the first snowfall, that is.



Garages are underneath the viaduct. A great place to shoot dope.



This apartment block is called "Super Andrija" (Super Andrew) and looks like a giant human ant farm. Brutalism ahoy!


Super Andrija was built in 1974 to survive extreme earthquakes. Notice the massive concrete gantries - to stabilize the highrise in an extreme earthquake - and how tiny a man is compared to the gantry!



And here's how new commieblocks are built. Concrete, concrete, and more concrete. :)

That's all for the time being. Let me know if you'd like me to take more pictures. I've been flipping the gently caress on the bike, racked up sixty miles the other day without stopping. My legs are made of steel but my upper torso and arms are rather weak. Gotta hit up the gym or something. :)

dpack_1
Mar 23, 2009

Let another's wounds be your warning
Great photos, shame about the court stuff, hope you get it sorted.

Jerry rig the bike to use hand-powered pedals!

Twenty Four
Dec 21, 2008


A SWEATY FATBEARD posted:

Let me know if you'd like me to take more pictures.

:yeah:

Thoras Hammer
Oct 15, 2009
Out of curiosity, what does the graffiti in the picture say?

A SWEATY FATBEARD
Oct 6, 2012

:buddy: GAY 4 ORGANS :buddy:

Thoras Hammer posted:

Out of curiosity, what does the graffiti in the picture say?

It says "HRZO (it's some sort of acronym which I'm not familiar with), pls Im'ma deal all of you." The writing doesn't make any sense in Croatian either.

Here's a quickie. I crashed on the bicycle once again because I was high as gently caress while I rode it, so I sort of dozed off while pedaling. I ended up in a roadside ditch - and it's a miracle that I haven't mowed down any unsuspecting pedestrians! I'd open an eye every 20 seconds to confirm that I am, in fact, still riding on the road, but at one point the scheme went south and I was like woahwoahWOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *crunk wonk plang*

The bike is currently broken. The chain snapped in half and sloughed off the gears, luckily this took place near my house, so I just pushed the broken bike back home. One of these days I'm going to a bike mechanic and ask him to put in a new chain onto the bike.

And Mr. Weed and I are starting to work together this Monday! His friend has a house wedged onto a hillside in the boonies, and she has moisture and mold problems in the house because the groundwater gradually seeps through the back wall since the hillside (dirt, rocks etc) is in direct contact with the wall. The house is ridiculously inaccessible, there's no way you'd get an excavator up there, not even a tiny "Bobcat" one, so everything has to be done by hand. Mr. Weed is going to break the stones with a pickaxe and I'm going to shovel the rubble into a wheelbarrow and then dump the poo poo in a ravine. He reckons that it's going to take us at least a month to free the back wall, the trench behind the house has to be at least two feet wide, but the hillside is towering over the ROOF of his friend's house - and we've got to crush all of that and dump it somewhere. It's about 40m3 of rubble, I reckon.

Actually I'm very happy about this, I think I said before that my legs are made out of steel and that I can pedal for 50 miles without a break, but my arms are decidedly scrawny. This job is going to put some real muscle onto me. :getin:


e: oh and that lady has an extremely friendly doggo! It's some sort of pitbull/bully mix but the pooch isn't aggressive at all and loves to be petted. God drat it I just love pets. :)

A SWEATY FATBEARD fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Jun 24, 2017

Millow
Apr 30, 2006

some say he's a rude dude with a crude 'tude
Don't ride your bike hosed up man. I've cracked a rib, gotten road rash on my head (multiple times) and arms before I learned that lesson for good.

redreader
Nov 2, 2009

I am the coolest person ever with my pirate chalice. Seriously.

Dinosaur Gum
ASF has lived more in 40? years than most people would live in 5 lifetimes.

CarForumPoster
Jun 26, 2013

⚡POWER⚡

redreader posted:

ASF has lived more in 40? years than most people would live in 5 lifetimes.

Nearly died more times too.

Old Binsby
Jun 27, 2014

A SWEATY FATBEARD posted:

And Mr. Weed and I are starting to work together this Monday!

Mr. Weed is going to break the stones with a pickaxe and I'm going to shovel the rubble into a wheelbarrow and then dump the poo poo in a ravine.

e: oh and that lady has an extremely friendly doggo! It's some sort of pitbull/bully mix but the pooch isn't aggressive at all and loves to be petted. God drat it I just love pets. :)

Sup ASF, still alive between the artisanal demolishing, killer bike and pitbull ladyfriend? Perilous conditions for a man who manages to scrape shoulders with doom and misfortune even while zonked out in his flat :haw:

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan
How's the excavating with Mr Weed going?

A SWEATY FATBEARD
Oct 6, 2012

:buddy: GAY 4 ORGANS :buddy:

Old Binsby posted:

Sup ASF, still alive between the artisanal demolishing, killer bike and pitbull ladyfriend? Perilous conditions for a man who manages to scrape shoulders with doom and misfortune even while zonked out in his flat :haw:

Hey there, sorry for the delay. :haw:
The bike is repaired, but it took no less than two service calls to get the drat thing running again. The first guy wouldn't even take the bike in, said that the gears are way too worn and that the new chain woudn't fit, as well as not having parts for ancient Slovenian bikes. I practically had to beg him to repair the bike, which he did, albeit not too well - the new chain and handiwork ran me around $20 and the chain indeed slipped with an unnerving snap. I then took the bike to an old guy who lives three bus stations from my house - i.e. pushing the totally broken bike all the way to his workshop was not an option - and then he fitted a new gear to the rear wheel and charged me only $10 for everything, and I think it's important to say that it took him all of six minutes to get the bike back into pristine state. The guy just told me to sit down and I was fascinated at the speed with which he got the bike running - and not only that, with new transmission, the bike goes like insane. If I put my heart into it, I can overtake goddamn cars on the road. :haw:

...except for those times when I get run over. Nearly happened again a few days ago. I was riding slowly across the pedestrian crossing when this broad in a black BMW failed to yield to me - which is against the law as I was legally a pedestrian on a pedestrian crossing - upon seeing me she slammed on the brakes, stopping the car a few inches from my person and then had the nerve to sit on the horn button as if it was ME who did something wrong! The PTSD kicked in and I lost it completely, started screaming obscenities and banging my fists on the hood of her car, while she locked herself in the car out of fear.

See, this is the reason I'm ALWAYS unarmed, even when it's clearly against my interests, like when I'm walking the bad parts of the town at night which is pretty much all the time. If I were armed, I just KNOW I would've done something that would've landed me in prison one way or another. There was this dude who offered me an immaculate M-70 (it's a Serbian folding-stock AK) for 2000 Croatian Kunas ($315) and I turned him down even though I had the money for the gun - I just knew that if I actually bought it, sooner or later I would've used the drat thing - either on myself or on random pedestrians, doesn't matter really. That guy is doin' time right now for serious drug related charges, so don't ask. :ughh:

Moist von Lipwig posted:

How's the excavating with Mr Weed going?

Better than anyone expected! :)
We're 95% done digging the trench, which is by now some 9ft deep and we're going to cast a support wall against the hillside to prevent the whole thing from caving in. Have a few pictures!


This is how the side of the house looks like, and it's where we began digging. The real trench is on the back side of the house.


And this is the trench. I'm precisely 6ft tall and the whole thing dwarfs me. I personally carried away all this rubble in a plastic bucket and a wheelbarrow.


We crafted a makeshift brige out of a piece of railing and an old clothes hanger in order to gain access to the second floor of the house. :haw:


And the doggie says hello, she's a laid-back senior lady doggo. :) She doesn't bark, actually, she does, but it sounds more like muffled coughing and it isn't loud at all. :)

Now if you think this post will be without classic drug related shenanigans, you'd be wrong. :haw: A week ago I ate way too much Valium and it got me flipping out instead of causing me to pass out as advertised. I desperately wanted to drink something, so like a hardened alcoholic, I went rumaging around my kitchen to find the elusive bottle of emergency booze. I then spotted vinegar and mistook it for wine ("it's the same thing, right?") Sat at the computer and started chugging the gently caress out of vinegar. At one point it dawned on me "oh gently caress this isn't wine", I hurriedly opened the desk drawer and puked my guts into it. :ughh: The more you know: high-quality puke will indeed corrode your USB memory sticks! :ughh:

This particular one was kind to me as I actually got the data off the sticks before junking them, but the drawer is now full of rust outlines, computer gore, soaked with acid and reeks of puke. Time to buy a new desk I suppose. :ughh:

Teketeketeketeke
Mar 11, 2007


I had been missing your updates, and that MORE than delivered. Holy poo poo.

Tippecanoe
Jan 26, 2011

A SWEATY FATBEARD posted:

...except for those times when I get run over. Nearly happened again a few days ago. I was riding slowly across the pedestrian crossing when this broad in a black BMW failed to yield to me - which is against the law as I was legally a pedestrian on a pedestrian crossing - upon seeing me she slammed on the brakes, stopping the car a few inches from my person and then had the nerve to sit on the horn button as if it was ME who did something wrong! The PTSD kicked in and I lost it completely, started screaming obscenities and banging my fists on the hood of her car, while she locked herself in the car out of fear.

You're my hero, Sweaty.

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
I think it's time to take a collection to get you a head-mounted GoPro.

Old Binsby
Jun 27, 2014

Gopros are tough but are they tougher than ASF?

The idea is probably fun to watch though. I filmed a 30 min bike ride to/through the centre of amsterdam one busy friday night of a coat pocket. Much like the blair witch project it's shaky, crap image quality stuff with some good jump scares due to traffic idiocy. Zagreb's probably similar but scarier cause cars also don't acknowledge cyclists instead of just the pedestrians

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Hell I absolutely never ever trust somebody driving while I'm on foot to give me the right of way or yield to me no matter where I am at.

Only if I know I'm 100% sure the person knows I'm there I will go

Doctor Malaver
May 23, 2007

Ce qui s'est passé t'a rendu plus fort

A SWEATY FATBEARD posted:

See, this is the reason I'm ALWAYS unarmed, even when it's clearly against my interests, like when I'm walking the bad parts of the town at night which is pretty much all the time. If I were armed, I just KNOW I would've done something that would've landed me in prison one way or another. There was this dude who offered me an immaculate M-70 (it's a Serbian folding-stock AK) for 2000 Croatian Kunas ($315) and I turned him down even though I had the money for the gun - I just knew that if I actually bought it, sooner or later I would've used the drat thing - either on myself or on random pedestrians, doesn't matter really. That guy is doin' time right now for serious drug related charges, so don't ask. :ughh:

Nice stories about bikes and ditches but this is bullshit, sorry. :shobon:

Zagreb doesn't really have bad neighborhoods, especially not the kind where you'd need a gun. You'd have to cross several international borders to find such a neighborhood. Nobody in Croatia carries guns or buys guns or needs guns unless they are actual bank robbing criminals. Or rarely in countryside to shoot at the sky at weddings.

So this is some kind of "I'm a bad mothafucka" posturing. Entertaining thread otherwise.

Bobbie Wickham
Apr 13, 2008

by Smythe

A SWEATY FATBEARD posted:


A week ago I ate way too much Valium and it got me flipping out instead of causing me to pass out as advertised. I desperately wanted to drink something, so like a hardened alcoholic, I went rumaging around my kitchen to find the elusive bottle of emergency booze. I then spotted vinegar and mistook it for wine ("it's the same thing, right?") Sat at the computer and started chugging the gently caress out of vinegar. At one point it dawned on me "oh gently caress this isn't wine", I hurriedly opened the desk drawer and puked my guts into it.

I missed you.

TitanG
May 10, 2015

Doctor Malaver posted:

Nice stories about bikes and ditches but this is bullshit, sorry. :shobon:

Zagreb doesn't really have bad neighborhoods, especially not the kind where you'd need a gun. You'd have to cross several international borders to find such a neighborhood. Nobody in Croatia carries guns or buys guns or needs guns unless they are actual bank robbing criminals. Or rarely in countryside to shoot at the sky at weddings.

So this is some kind of "I'm a bad mothafucka" posturing. Entertaining thread otherwise.

I think you're at least partly incorrect. I live in Ljubljana, and I'm about 2 phonecalls away from an M70 rifle. Illegal M70 and M57 pistols are everywhere, two of my uncles used to have one before turning it in around 2000. Certain people, a lot of them former war refugees, have a loving lot of hardware stashed from the fall of Yugoslavia and later wars. poo poo, we used to have about 5 kg of plastic explosive just sitting in a bucket in our backyard until like 2005 when my father finally took it to the police station. I also personally know a Croatian guy whose then 15yo son traded his Nokia 3310 for an M84 (Scorpion) in like 2008. Sure, a lot of weaponry got cleaned out in the amnesties and public drives past 1997, but there's still plenty to go around, and BiH (~350-750k) and Serbia (1-3 million pieces of illegal weaponry) aren't really far away.
So yeah, while you definitely don't need a gun in Zagreb or Croatia (or most of the Balkans really), saying there's no guns is just plain wrong. Sane people just keep them safe and hidden.
Also ASF, you might consider cleaning the drawer out with baking soda. It should neutralize the acid and (most of) the smell.

SaltyJesus
Jun 2, 2011

Arf!

TitanG posted:

I think you're at least partly incorrect. I live in Ljubljana, and I'm about 2 phonecalls away from an M70 rifle. Illegal M70 and M57 pistols are everywhere, two of my uncles used to have one before turning it in around 2000. Certain people, a lot of them former war refugees, have a loving lot of hardware stashed from the fall of Yugoslavia and later wars. poo poo, we used to have about 5 kg of plastic explosive just sitting in a bucket in our backyard until like 2005 when my father finally took it to the police station. I also personally know a Croatian guy whose then 15yo son traded his Nokia 3310 for an M84 (Scorpion) in like 2008. Sure, a lot of weaponry got cleaned out in the amnesties and public drives past 1997, but there's still plenty to go around, and BiH (~350-750k) and Serbia (1-3 million pieces of illegal weaponry) aren't really far away.
So yeah, while you definitely don't need a gun in Zagreb or Croatia (or most of the Balkans really), saying there's no guns is just plain wrong. Sane people just keep them safe and hidden.
Also ASF, you might consider cleaning the drawer out with baking soda. It should neutralize the acid and (most of) the smell.

Another ex-Yu goon here. I don't think Doctor Malaver is saying there are no weapons around (he did say people get them to shoot in the air at weddings), just that there aren't really neighborhoods where you'd need them when just walking around which is more or less correct.

e: Ok, saying nobody buys guns is kinda silly. Didn't a Croatian guy win the sports shooting gold at the last Olympics, I'm sure he bought one somewhere. :v:

SaltyJesus fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Aug 11, 2017

Gervasius
Nov 2, 2010



Grimey Drawer

SaltyJesus posted:

Another ex-Yu goon here. I don't think Doctor Malaver is saying there are no weapons around (he did say people get them to shoot in the air at weddings), just that there aren't really neighborhoods where you'd need them when just walking around which is more or less correct.

Yeah, I grew up in Zagreb in the nineties and there was no need ever to carry a gun for self defence. Not then, not now.

There is greater risk in some taxi driver hitting you while crossing the road than getting robbed or murdered.

Doctor Malaver
May 23, 2007

Ce qui s'est passé t'a rendu plus fort
You are right. To nitpick, I didn't say that nobody here has guns. I said that nobody carries them, buys them or needs them. ;) Thankfully they are stashed away for the most part.

My issue isn't with ASF being offered to buy a gun, it's with the "Today was a good day" part of his story (phoneposting, otherwise I'd link the Ice Cube video).

edit: I was responding to Titan, but Salty and Gervasius are right too.

Doctor Malaver fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Aug 11, 2017

Cuddly Tumblemumps
Aug 23, 2013

Postmodernity means the exhilarating freedom to pursue anything, yet mind-boggling uncertainty as to what is worth pursuing and in the name of what one should pursue it.

Gervasius posted:

There is greater risk in some taxi driver hitting you while crossing the road than getting robbed or murdered.

Those experiences can all be easily confused when under the influence of research chemicals

A SWEATY FATBEARD
Oct 6, 2012

:buddy: GAY 4 ORGANS :buddy:

Gervasius posted:

Yeah, I grew up in Zagreb in the nineties and there was no need ever to carry a gun for self defence. Not then, not now.

There is greater risk in some taxi driver hitting you while crossing the road than getting robbed or murdered.

Yes... and no. Couple of times I was dragged into a drunken brawl at the bus station in 2 in the morning. And when I said "weapons", I didn't mean guns, a good ole butterfly knife would have been just fine.

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
ASF you are a character in a Neil Stephenson novel.

I'm going to skip to the ending and see if you save the day!

A SWEATY FATBEARD
Oct 6, 2012

:buddy: GAY 4 ORGANS :buddy:
I really need to find me a girlfriend. Mr. Weed almost got me a kitten the other day but ultimately decided against it because surprising someone with a living animal is never a good idea. I'm borderline asexual and lonely (thus the kitten). Basically, have a few pics mr. Weed took of me couple of days ago. Do you think I'm looking good enough to start dating? I don't even know where to begin!





It's interesting to note that beards are currently fashionable, but I've always sported a bushy beard - not because I wanted to make a fashion statement or some poo poo, I'm just too lazy to shave. :haw:

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
This GTA DLC looks fantastic! :eyepop:

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



I don't think you look bad. Certainly don't wear those clothes on a first date, and don't go straight from a dumpster diving expedition, but yeah you're good.

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A SWEATY FATBEARD
Oct 6, 2012

:buddy: GAY 4 ORGANS :buddy:

Midjack posted:

I don't think you look bad. Certainly don't wear those clothes on a first date, and don't go straight from a dumpster diving expedition, but yeah you're good.

I understand this much, but where do I even meet women? I've never really been "in the game" so to speak, so I'm totally lost on this one! :)

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