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Somewhat related to this, there are places in the US that have ground rent, which I think dates back to like feudal land ownership bullshit, but basically you buy the property, but technically are just leasing the land from someone. They can be inherited just like any other sort of property. There's no obligation on the part of the person collecting their check on the rent to actually do anything. I looked it up and apparently this was reformed somewhat recently in Maryland because ground rent owners were seizing properties over unpaid ground rent, which are yearly payments of like $50. I think it's still possible for them to do that though it doesn't really seem like it happens.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Yeah I’ve also seen this happen a couple times and found dead squirrels who were ostensibly killed by a fall. They might not be heavy but they’re still squishy little mammals and pavement is hard. How do you guys know it didn’t die then fall to the ground?
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It had a comical smoking crater around it from the impact and it breathed its dying breath in their arms in very melodramatic fashion.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:I bet I could beat a squirrel in a fight.
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Memento posted:Also governments look at mr big business over here getting secret hints from the tax office 
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immolationsex posted:Siri, give me a practical and down to earth example of hubris This is some classic David and Goliath poo poo, you try to fight a squirrel and that little dude is gonna climb on you and take you down Shadow of the Colossus style.
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Regarde Aduck posted:How do you guys know it didn’t die then fall to the ground? There was actually a squirrel shaped hole in the ground, and it had climbed back out of that hole onto the sidewalk and finally died right next to it.
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Memento posted:Then you open it and it's like "tax tips for small businesses" which I am not nor ever have been. Gregor Samsa but he wakes up as a used panty vending machine.
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https://twitter.com/MrGordian/status/1466892326006108175 The whole thread is excellent  E: https://twitter.com/amovy0/status/1466800961138135045 BallerBallerDillz has a new favorite as of 21:44 on Dec 4, 2021 |
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Memento posted:Also governments I had a doctor once who sent me a “VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE” through their patient portal and it was that a doctor in their office (not even mine) was retiring. They could not understand why I was mad at them.
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This was a magnificent thread, but honestly it only half captures how incredibly weird the book is.
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With CGI, its time has come.
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Mauser posted:Somewhat related to this, there are places in the US that have ground rent, which I think dates back to like feudal land ownership bullshit, but basically you buy the property, but technically are just leasing the land from someone. They can be inherited just like any other sort of property. There's no obligation on the part of the person collecting their check on the rent to actually do anything.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I loving hate reddit https://twitter.com/doc_fathom/status/1466885137107505167
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The Neal! posted:The network I worked for (SBS) But seriously that was a very interesting post, I did a bunch of study at uni on the ABC and SBS charters and it would certainly add a big wrinkle to organising the programming. Hollandia has a new favorite as of 02:15 on Dec 5, 2021 |
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Hollandia posted:Why didn’t you reboot Life Support? The Backburner diaspora are still cranking out awesome stuff at least. You know that someone who wrote for that is worth pyaing attention to wherever they landed.
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That made me laugh far harder than it should've because ever since we found one in my buddy's grill cabinet all of them regardless of male or female have been dubbed "FRANK"
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The head of the science department at my high school found a baby possum that was too young to be out of its mother's pouch so she kept it in her bra during the day in class. His name was Norbit and once it was full grown it was given free rein of the high school. It knew what bells meant so it would hang out between classes in the hallway and get pets then when the bell rang it would choose a class to hang out in for the period. This is a picture of my mom, who is a teacher at the high school, with Norbit.
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god drat I want to hang out with a possum edit: i might get banned for this but i'm gonna doxx this goon https://twitter.com/0clu_/status/1466920890827001864
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Laptop is far too clean for that possum to be a goon.
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spookykid posted:That made me laugh far harder than it should've because ever since we found one in my buddy's grill cabinet all of them regardless of male or female have been dubbed "FRANK" My wife and I refer to our local opossums all as Frank too
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Frank Frank posted:Laptop is far too clean for that possum to be a goon. wait a second... your username... 
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Arsenic Lupin posted:This is still routine in the UK, and there's an ongoing scandal about the entirely-legal practice of jacking up ground rents on people's houses. I don't know of its still true, but in the fairly recent past , ground rents were a thing in Ireland. My grandmother had to buy a strip of land about 10 feet broad at the bottom of her garden from the local Earl. He used to own basically the whole town.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:This is still routine in the UK, and there's an ongoing scandal about the entirely-legal practice of jacking up ground rents on people's houses. In England and Wales we don't really do lease hold in Scotland. We do have factoring which is a bit like a HOA thing where you pay dues for maintenance but they can't charge you money to allow you to paint your front door.
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Ror posted:god drat I want to hang out with a possum https://www.frazierfarmsexotics.com/opossums
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Flash eclipse followed swiftly by bee storm.
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Atticus_1354 posted:What's a sexotic? Not much…
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Push El Burrito posted:Flash eclipse followed swiftly by bee storm. Sounds like a good gig tbh
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When I was a kid, we had a bird house, but a squirrel would hoard all the bread we tossed out inside the bird house. He got so tame he would eat out of our hands if you stayed still enough. Then he started chewing up our outside garbage bin. Really did a number on it. So one day, I open the door and he's in the garbage. I get my old pellet gun, I've literally got it to his head as we have a sort of grim staredown, but I'm a big softie and couldn't pull the trigger. He took advantage of my squeamishness and jumped between my legs into the house. I shut the porch door to at least contain him that much, and went and got my dad. He came out and found him in the porch closet, and hit it with a broom. Poor thing fell to the ground, leg apparently broken, a little bit of blood on the floor. Dad took it outside, by the tail, and whipped it off the side of the house 3 or 4 times, then shot him with the pellet gun and put it in a plastic bag and into the garbage. I felt so bad. I went out later on to look again, the squirrel was gone.
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codo27 posted:When I was a kid, we had a bird house, but a squirrel would hoard all the bread we tossed out inside the bird house. He got so tame he would eat out of our hands if you stayed still enough. Whoops
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Atticus_1354 posted:What's a sexotic? something drawn by phil foglio
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Atticus_1354 posted:What's a sexotic? That thing Tiger King did with his meth boyfriend in the tiger cages.
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codo27 posted:When I was a kid, we had a bird house, but a squirrel would hoard all the bread we tossed out inside the bird house. He got so tame he would eat out of our hands if you stayed still enough. Lol at losing out on blessings from Norse God Ratatoskr
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codo27 posted:When I was a kid, we had a bird house, but a squirrel would hoard all the bread we tossed out inside the bird house. He got so tame he would eat out of our hands if you stayed still enough. Gbs would love this poo poo
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