GreenNight posted:

GreenNight posted:

GreenNight posted:

NancyPants posted:

How are you supposed to curl around this when you're blind drunk sick?

My Lovely Horse posted:

I woke up this morning with a bad hangover
And my teepee was low-cost again
This happens all the time
It's untaxable

GreenNight posted:

Facebook Aunt posted:

What is the bucket for?

GreenNight posted:

Platystemon posted:

“private balcony”

Ashcans posted:

If the balcony was there first, shouldn't it have a railing? It only makes sense like that if you know there's a wall to prevent anyone selling off it.

couldcareless posted:

Is this below ground level? Did the "patio" exist before giant gently caress off cement wall? If not, why put so much money and effort into making it look nice?!

GreenNight posted:

Ashcans posted:

If the balcony was there first, shouldn't it have a railing? It only makes sense like that if you know there's a wall to prevent anyone selling off it.

Platystemon posted:

“private balcony”

GreenNight posted:

MH Knights posted:

Maybe the people who own it have kids and they are REALLY freaked out about their kid's safety.

Baronjutter posted:

Crappy construction memory triggered!

Back when I was still living with my folks we had some new neighbours move in down the street. A couple with a kid and everyone got a really weird vibe off of them right away. Dude was like an alien trying to seem like a normal sociable human. Mom was fairly quiet and always seemed to be looking over her shoulder or scanning the room for threats. She was some academic from China who had to "flee" for political reasons. Kid was normal.

A few months after they moved in people noticed they were extremely paranoid about their home security and their child's security and privacy. They'd just drop odd little comments here and there about lurking child predators or kidnappers. They'd make little comments about how they got some super secure SUV because it was the hardest to break into or carjack. They got special reinforced and tinted windows for the back so that people can't see their kid when they drove him to school because of course they wouldn't let him walk to school with his friends, that's not secure. I mean not only could the kid be snatched at any moment, anyone could just look at him!

Where things got really weird is the plywood fort they built around their entire property. They didn't build a fence or hire someone to put up something nice, they just bought a load of plywood and 2x4's and built a 6' or so white painted plywood wall around their property along with a big rolling gate. It's a rich neighbourhood but there's no HOA or anything but people started to take notice of the "plywood fortress" and were pretty displeased with it. It wasn't very well built, sagged in areas, didn't follow the terrain nicely, and had a bunch of angled bits of wood propping it up from behind. Most of it was just plywood sitting on the dirt too. Why did they build it? Well they needed a wall for security, and privacy. It had to be tall enough so an adult could not peep over the fence and see their kid, and it had to be totally solid with no gaps or holes that would let someone spy a look at their kid. Wife was also paranoid about chinese agents or something.

When they moved out and sold their house they were SHOCKED that the first thing the new owners did was tear down the plywood hoarding. Why would he do that?? The new owner has 3 kids, why would they not be so happy to already have a pedophile privacy palisade? Now just anyone on the street could sneak a peek of his kids!! He also made sure the wall was listed as a feature for the house, he was so proud of it and thought everyone would want it. poo poo was rotting only a year after he built it.

Darchangel posted:

It always kills me how people can be happy with a substandard result. I mean, yeah, you built it, but even I can recognize when I do a lovely job. Have you never seen a good version, or are you just that infatuated with yourself? Or can you really just not tell the difference between good and poo poo? (I'm guessing the last describes most, with "don't care" coming in second.)

Baronjutter posted:

Oh also they had a wood stove installed to heat the house and the smoke it made smelled horrible, like chemicals and burning meat. Everyone joked that they were so weird and private because they were burning bodies in there.
He did build the kid a play house with the spare plywood, and decorated it with squirrel tails. That's a normal healthy father son activity, trapping and killing squirrels, chopping the tails off, and using them as trim for your kids play house.

The new owner continued to use the wood stove but it never smelled bad, just like normal smoke, and the dude was cheap and would burn every scrap of construction wood or old pallet he could get his hands on. We could never figure out what the hell the fortress people were burning to make smoke that smelled so terrible.

Tunicate posted:

were they burning their trash?

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Crappy Construction Tales: A Pedophile Privacy Palisade

null_pointer posted:

Crappy Construction Tales: A Pedophile Privacy Palisade

Baronjutter posted:

Crappy construction memory triggered!

Back when I was still living with my folks we had some new neighbours move in down the street. A couple with a kid and everyone got a really weird vibe off of them right away. Dude was like an alien trying to seem like a normal sociable human. Mom was fairly quiet and always seemed to be looking over her shoulder or scanning the room for threats. She was some academic from China who had to "flee" for political reasons. Kid was normal.

A few months after they moved in people noticed they were extremely paranoid about their home security and their child's security and privacy. They'd just drop odd little comments here and there about lurking child predators or kidnappers. They'd make little comments about how they got some super secure SUV because it was the hardest to break into or carjack. They got special reinforced and tinted windows for the back so that people can't see their kid when they drove him to school because of course they wouldn't let him walk to school with his friends, that's not secure. I mean not only could the kid be snatched at any moment, anyone could just look at him!

Where things got really weird is the plywood fort they built around their entire property. They didn't build a fence or hire someone to put up something nice, they just bought a load of plywood and 2x4's and built a 6' or so white painted plywood wall around their property along with a big rolling gate. It's a rich neighbourhood but there's no HOA or anything but people started to take notice of the "plywood fortress" and were pretty displeased with it. It wasn't very well built, sagged in areas, didn't follow the terrain nicely, and had a bunch of angled bits of wood propping it up from behind. Most of it was just plywood sitting on the dirt too. Why did they build it? Well they needed a wall for security, and privacy. It had to be tall enough so an adult could not peep over the fence and see their kid, and it had to be totally solid with no gaps or holes that would let someone spy a look at their kid. Wife was also paranoid about chinese agents or something.

When they moved out and sold their house they were SHOCKED that the first thing the new owners did was tear down the plywood hoarding. Why would he do that?? The new owner has 3 kids, why would they not be so happy to already have a pedophile privacy palisade? Now just anyone on the street could sneak a peek of his kids!! He also made sure the wall was listed as a feature for the house, he was so proud of it and thought everyone would want it. poo poo was rotting only a year after he built it.

peanut posted:

It sounds to me like *they* were the kidnappers.

GreenNight posted:

Tunicate posted:

were they burning their trash?

null_pointer posted:

Crappy Construction Tales: A Pedophile Privacy Palisade