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I don't know if it has any international value, but furniture auctions can be extremely good sources of high-quality antique furniture thats just a bit out of style currently. We got a set of 6 very solid oak kitchen chairs plus a matching oak table for 100 euro in an auction a few years ago. The chairs have surprised horses or outraged gryphons on the seatbacks. In the same auction, we got the most amazing set of individually carved dining room chairs with distinct seat backs for 120 quid in total. The chairs are loving amazing, literally every one has a different decoration.
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AITA for insisting stepson gets searched thoroughly before entering our soon to be new home?quote:My step son is 16 and a massive pot head. His birth mother got him hooked at 13. Right now my SO is renting his parents basement. Stepson has pot stashes in at least 2 places that I know of. My SO doesn't want to put his foot down too hard on him smoking because he's terrified step son will run away to his birth mother and get back in acid, ecstacy, and Molly. With us he only does pot. We just got approved for a trailer park but one of their ground rules is no drugs. Tell us you live in Ohio without telling us you live in Ohio.
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Jan 23, 2022 21:07
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Pookah posted:antique furniture thats just a bit out of style currently. lmao
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Jan 23, 2022 21:09
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AITA for telling my friend blind people can’t drive?quote:Not the A-hole
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Jan 23, 2022 21:17
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Xakura posted:lmao Not even kidding, the horses look like you just said something insane, and the gryphons are complaining about a roll they just got served. Will photo when it's light again.
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Jan 23, 2022 21:31
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Piell posted:AITA for wanting a family meeting to discuss all of the single women in our family? There's so much missing information here. Are these three women jobless and living with their parents? Are the dads just constantly being called over to their daughter's places to move furniture and open jars? Is OP a time traveler from the 1840's?
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Jan 23, 2022 21:45
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As I was reading it I was envisaging farms and small holdings, where a lot of physically draining manual lanour might be expected? Like if you’ve not got a partner and can’t afford wages then there are going to be uncomfortable conversations about how you can keep running one?
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Jan 23, 2022 21:50
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value-brand cereal posted:I wanted to know what the hell manual labor meant but the OP hasn't commented. I assume household chores, because if it's some sort of Fruit Tree Orchard on a Compound...? The comments suggest things like plumbing and electrical, which is few and far between. Wild. It's far more likely to be traditional sexism and probably a very common view in places where contractors and handymen are poorly regulated and/or too expensive for the income level of the majority and/or it's a matter of pride for men to be handy (due to the first two reasons). Specifically, for folks who hold these views, there's women's and men's chores and men do not get to slack on them. A man may get away being worthless (and may even be unwanted) in the kitchen, with laundry and around kids, but he should be holding up his side of being handy and proactive (mental load) with home and vehicle maintenance, repairs and improvement, fixing leaky faucets, soft spots on the floor, having firewood chopped and piled, knowing how to attach a shelf and the like.
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Jan 23, 2022 21:52
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Total Meatlove posted:As I was reading it I was envisaging farms and small holdings, where a lot of physically draining manual lanour might be expected? Like if you’ve not got a partner and can’t afford wages then there are going to be uncomfortable conversations about how you can keep running one? That seems like the point at which you sell the land and take up a new trade.
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Jan 23, 2022 21:53
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Mr. Lobe posted:That seems like the point at which you sell the land and take up a new trade. If farmers took logical decisions on cost v benefit we’d have gently caress all to eat.
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Jan 23, 2022 21:55
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Total Meatlove posted:If farmers took logical decisions on cost v benefit we’d have gently caress all to eat. You mean there'd be a bunch of 1000+ acre farms owned by megacorps? Because that's already a thing and it's increasingly headed that way exclusively.
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Jan 23, 2022 21:57
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Sisal Two-Step posted:AITA for telling my friend blind people can’t drive? Sounds like ableism to me. I've known lots of blind people with valid drivers licenses.
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Jan 23, 2022 22:12
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SYSV Fanfic posted:Sounds like ableism to me. I've known lots of blind people with valid drivers licenses. i knew a dude, not well, more through friends. he was one of the most talented percussionists and whizzes at the keyboard. he was very obviously blind, big sunglasses, cane moving about. his big joke was to go out of the club and slowly walk to his friend's car, listening for patrons going to and from the parking lot. then he'd get in the car and start it, backing it up a foot or two, window down to listen for people booking it away
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Jan 23, 2022 22:18
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wibble posted:My dying mom made me [15F] promise never to tell my dad he's not my biological father. This is just pure abuse and misery. Please don't post something like this to the thread again.
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Jan 23, 2022 22:21
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mediaphage posted:i knew a dude, not well, more through friends. he was one of the most talented percussionists and whizzes at the keyboard. he was very obviously blind, big sunglasses, cane moving about. The people I know are just old and have a five year license.
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Jan 23, 2022 22:22
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Dr. Stab posted:A good can opener is a generational heirloom I have a family china service that I adored when I was a child. It's mine now. It has gold borders. It has to be hand washed. It has never been used since the day it was handed on to me.
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Jan 23, 2022 22:29
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SYSV Fanfic posted:Sounds like ableism to me. I've known lots of blind people with valid drivers licenses. ...You know there's other kinds of IDs that are mostly identical to driver's licenses, right? Also, there's a difference between legally-blind-but-corrective-lenses-help and "no eyes" blind. (and there's the ol "we don't re-test eyes so whoops your license is still renewable!") Midnight Voyager fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Jan 23, 2022 |
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Jan 23, 2022 22:35
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value-brand cereal posted:I wanted to know what the hell manual labor meant but the OP hasn't commented. quote:Southern US.
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Hughlander posted:AITA for insisting stepson gets searched thoroughly before entering our soon to be new home? Ecstacy is molly. Stupid square should stfu and let the kid rave.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:...quoting from Reddit poster... Man I am torn on this one cause I personally HAVE gotten ripped off on both buying a car and mechanic stuff. I only escaped contractor stuff cause I asked for a quote. It's this whole expectation that you'll have someone the salesman respects or knows the tricks with you. (I brought my dad to buy my first car but he basically let me screw myself over cause I should have "known better"). But still the attitude and the planned intervention idea suck majorly.
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Jan 23, 2022 22:46
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Shirec posted:Man I am torn on this one cause I personally HAVE gotten ripped off on both buying a car and mechanic stuff. I only escaped contractor stuff cause I asked for a quote. It's this whole expectation that you'll have someone the salesman respects or knows the tricks with you. (I brought my dad to buy my first car but he basically let me screw myself over cause I should have "known better"). But still the attitude and the planned intervention idea suck majorly. In that case though, you need "someone who knows what they are doing." Not just "A MAN".
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Jan 23, 2022 22:53
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Shirec posted:Man I am torn on this one cause I personally HAVE gotten ripped off on both buying a car and mechanic stuff. I only escaped contractor stuff cause I asked for a quote. It's this whole expectation that you'll have someone the salesman respects or knows the tricks with you. (I brought my dad to buy my first car but he basically let me screw myself over cause I should have "known better"). But still the attitude and the planned intervention idea suck majorly. Yeah, but the idea that a single woman isn't safe in her house if a contractor comes over ... welp.
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Beachcomber posted:This is just pure abuse and misery. Please don't post something like this to the thread again. I wish I hadn't read that 
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Midnight Voyager posted:In that case though, you need "someone who knows what they are doing." Not just "A MAN". You are correct but I've had to leave a car dealership cause a salesman was doing some weird reverse negging of "oh you have to wait for you BOYFRIEND to make decisions for you huh?" I imagine that wouldn't have happened if it had been men shopping. Arsenic Lupin posted:Yeah, but the idea that a single woman isn't safe in her house if a contractor comes over ... welp. Oh true. When I owned my own townhome, I had countless coworkers asking me if I felt safe living alone. Unprompted! I'd be talking about re-painting the living room and somehow that would be something they had to ask. Same for whenever I lived on first floor apartments.
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a podcast for cats posted:It's far more likely to be traditional sexism and probably a very common view in places where contractors and handymen are poorly regulated and/or too expensive for the income level of the majority and/or it's a matter of pride for men to be handy (due to the first two reasons). This really reminds me of my ex-girlfriend who was from Western KY, and any time poo poo went wrong and I knew I was out of my element, would whine "But you're supposed to be the maaaaan!" Sorry I have no idea what to do when your ignition just spins and your engine won't turn off. Also, we live in a rented apartment, it's their job to handle the garbage disposal that poo poo itself.
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Jan 23, 2022 22:57
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Shirec posted:You are correct but I've had to leave a car dealership cause a salesman was doing some weird reverse negging of "oh you have to wait for you BOYFRIEND to make decisions for you huh?" I imagine that wouldn't have happened if it had been men shopping. Yeah, that's fair. Car dealerships are hell
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Does the "single daughters" guy once reflect that he could have taught his daughters the same things he taught his sons? Also I figured this was the southern US. The southern, non coastal parts of Ms, La, and Al, and Ga are like another country. I call it the countries taint b/c it's between Tx. and Fl and taint no one isn't inbred who'd voluntarily live there.
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Jan 23, 2022 23:05
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lol at being thought a spinster at twenty loving seven
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My mom was (mostly) a housewife, but where we lived that meant being on the front lines if something broke. The garage workshop full of bits and bobs to kludge something back together with the right screw? That was her domain. She knew how to spot a leak in the sprinkler system before it became an even bigger problem. Knew when an electrical fix was something she had to call someone in from The City to take care of. She was the foreman; Dad was no slouch and taught me how to swing a hammer, but Mom taught me how to build poo poo. But even then, that stuff's systemic. She's got a blind spot to her own skills in that area and always thought of Dad as the fixer.
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Jan 23, 2022 23:08
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I have a family china service that I adored when I was a child. It's mine now. It has gold borders. It has to be hand washed. It has never been used since the day it was handed on to me. We inherited soooo much fancy dinnerware from a deceased grandparent. Service for 10 people. Infinite cut crystal that I'm scared to handle. A full set of silver that I've almost never used but hoooly poo poo does it need to be polished! I finally invested in a fancy storage set for the holiday-themed china because something about having Christmas plates on display year round was pissing me off immensely.
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And they have absolutely no resale value, because nobody else wants the family china and crystal. Millennials are destroying blah blah blah. I was struck by a sentence the other day: millennials don't want fancy china/silver, brown furniture, or rockers. The first two I get, but were they traumatized by their family's baby rockers, the ones with the gliding footstools? Also, my mother grew up among Southern Baptists; her crystal service was, no lie, ice tea glasses and sherbet dishes.
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can’t wait for my progeny to inherit my moms Welches grape juice glasses. The witch family heirlooms E:tbh the next time I’m at my moms I actually might bring them over if they fit a tea light. I need a Miss Poggy votive. teen witch fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Jan 23, 2022 |
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My grandma gave me her fancy china and then took it back to give to some friend of the family she decided she liked better so out of spite I got my own fancy china, which was the tackiest wizard of Oz themed set I could find.
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Fil5000 posted:We're in the middle of valuing and clearing out the contents of my dad's house and there's an entire Wedgwood China set in there that I don't think I've ever seen used in my four decades on this earth. It's nice, but what's the POINT.
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My mom has a ton of glass stuff from her grandmother and basically she breaks it out for any celebration she can. Same with her tablecloths because she figures if you don’t use it then it is even worse than using it and breaking it. I have seen it happen that my kid breaks or stains something and she says she just glad she got to use it while she could.
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Hi, Just time travelling in from this in thread nov 2020 to see if “complete normal” goons are still having freak outs and screaming that being a virgin in their late 20s is normal and not a sign of being socially awkward despite absolutely freaking out about an harmless comment made a month ago.
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AKA Pseudonym posted:lol at being thought a spinster at twenty loving seven According to some of the women in my life Women cannot: mow or weedeat the lawn, move furniture, move boxes, carry dogfood from the car to the back porch, anything involving a ladder, ride the bus, change the oil, assemble furniture, or pretty much anything thats icky, or they just don't want to do. I had a friend who gets her sixty seven year old father to do all those things without a second thought, and god help us all if he's not available. the last i heard about her was she had tried to offload most of those onto a lesbian lady we both knew, cause she was practically a man right? It didn'twork out. Some people are just like that.
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Extra row of tits posted:Hi, What
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Midnight Voyager posted:In that case though, you need "someone who knows what they are doing." Not just "A MAN". As a man who knows gently caress all about cars aside from "vroom vroom go fast" and "fun machine play music", this.
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WaywardWoodwose posted:According to some of the women in my life Women cannot: mow or weedeat the lawn, move furniture, move boxes, carry dogfood from the car to the back porch, anything involving a ladder, ride the bus, change the oil, assemble furniture, or pretty much anything thats icky, or they just don't want to do. I had a friend who gets her sixty seven year old father to do all those things without a second thought, and god help us all if he's not available. the last i heard about her was she had tried to offload most of those onto a lesbian lady we both knew, cause she was practically a man right? It didn'twork out. killing spiders, you forgot that one. or maybe it's under "anything thats icky" idk
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