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An engine hoist is gonna provide a good safety factor, much better than a hook in the ceiling. Nothing crappy about that.Dienes posted:Seems like the problem is less the swing and more the gossipy judgmental real estate lady. 
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Dienes posted:Seems like the problem is less the swing and more the gossipy judgmental real estate lady. If your told strangers are going to come look at your house, take down the sex swing. Also it was a family looking at the house including minors. Dillbag posted:Sex work is work Did you ever see the E/N thread about the autistic goon who hired sex workers to dress up like a cow? and the QCS thread about it?
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Let's get back to crappy construction instead of Fwd: Fwd: Re: You'll Never Believe What This Realtor Found!!!!1! E: Ups_rail posted:Did you ever see the E/N thread about the autistic goon who hired sex workers to dress up like a cow? and the QCS thread about it? This isn't the sagas thread, don't bring that poo poo in here. corgski fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Apr 15, 2022 |
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kid sinister posted:
OK, but why is the ultimate fighting heavyweight world champion there?
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Ups_rail posted:If your told strangers are going to come look at your house, take down the sex swing. Also it was a family looking at the house including minors. Counterpoint: don't bring your minor children into the homes of strangers.
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BonerGhost posted:Counterpoint: don't bring your minor children into the homes of strangers. Depending on the age of the children, I think it’s actually pretty important to involve them in the home shopping experience so that they feel included in a process that is going to result in a major change to their life.
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Then you simply explain to them before they enter someone else’s home that they may see some things they don’t understand now but will make more sense later in their lives unless they’re boring
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Putting your sex stuff away when visitors are coming over might be the gooniest thing I've seen the forums get up in arms about in a while. Do you all just leave your browsers on porn when your roommate/wife/boyfriend/mother is over too? I'm not about to pearl clutch about children seeing a sex toy but goddamn, take five minutes and straighten your goonlair up a tich before the outside world gets a peek into it.
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If I personally were having company over, I would tidy up. If my landlord were trooping people through my rental apartment so that they could sell it off and kick me out, I might go out and buy some sex toys to display specifically for the occaison.
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how DARE you shame sex workers by *checks notes* …wait this can’t be right? Tom, Tom did you check this? They’re mad about what exactly? Oh aight… How DARE you shame sex workers by…saying they should put away sex stuff when showing a home for sale.
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You mean a UV floodlight isn't industry standard equipment when viewing a home? This is very disturbing. I need to call my realtor.
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kid sinister posted:Dublin Airport, ladies and gentlemen. This happened with glass at the store I worked at. In our vestibule area where we had shopping carts there was a floor to cieling window, but they had thought ahead and installed a bumper about floor to +4 inches. Except over time everything gets bigger and stupider in america, including shopping carts. So in my era the front "bumper" of the shopping cart would top the curb. But wait, someone saw that coming too and installed a rail structure kinda like that! Except you could apparently get the front of the cart to hit the glass if you pushed one in at exactly the wrong angle. It took 6 years but one day I walked past and noticed the pane of glass was loving shattered and cracked from floor to cieling. My solution after it was fixed was to cut down about 1 foot of plywood, spray it black, and lay it in there sideways as an extra bumper. Corporate recently remodeled the vestibule, and I noticed they made them remove my plywood bumper. So it's primed to happen again. Store manager knows it, and according to him the bigwigs didn't care. Said "That can't happen."
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Idk, if I was getting evicted I might be petty as all hell and opt for the dildo decorations. What else can the landlords do? Stop showing the house to get a court order that I remove/hide the chastity cage statue that I removed a load bearing wall for?
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Sure, if you're being malicious and trying to sabotage showings that your landlord is holding then all bets are off. It's the people acting like putting your sex swing away when company's coming over isn't normal that I'm laughing at. edit: that said, iirc most states have some stuff about how you can't just break a lease to sell a property from under a renter. Buying a house with someone renting it is a huge headache from what I've read in the home buying thread. So either you know the lease is coming up and the landlord has already communicated that they won't be re-upping it, or you're going to be a tenant of the new owner. Now the real pro move to be a malicious dick and try to sour the sale would just be to tell the prospective buyers about all the problems with the property that you're aware of due to actually living in it. Cyrano4747 fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Apr 16, 2022 |
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I thought the standard solution for hiding your sex swing hook was a hanging planter.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I thought the standard solution for hiding your sex swing hook was a hanging planter. drat, now I got flashbacks to all the hanging planters my folks had in their bedroom in the house I grew up in.
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GreenNight posted:drat, now I got flashbacks to all the hanging planters my folks had in their bedroom in the house I grew up in. Your folks got freaky.
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Hempuli posted:
I would be trapped in that room if I tried to use the bathroom while high. I'd go crazy
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I would be trapped in that room if I tried to use the bathroom while high. I'd go crazy As a former tweaker or Tesla
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lol if you don’t know how to use the three thousand shells
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GreenNight posted:drat, now I got flashbacks to all the hanging planters my folks had in their bedroom in the house I grew up in. Were the planters hanging off small hooks, or M14 eye bolts in 316 SS?
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kid sinister posted:
I remember this episode of Gintama.
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evobatman posted:OK, but why is the ultimate fighting heavyweight world champion there? He's gonna kick it.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:As a former tweaker or Tesla 
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~Coxy posted:Were the planters hanging off small hooks, or M14 eye bolts in 316 SS? um.....I did that in the living room, had 4 of them in each corner.....and yeah some people raised their eye brows about it. The eye brows went up even further when I laughted it off and explained for a real good time you need to have a spring on the end of the hook. Dont have a photo but were smoothing out a ceiling. and found that for a crack in a seem they former maintence people just put caulk in it. Also relocated a bee hive last week....nothing like having bees land on your face and just move their legs
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Cyrano4747 posted:Sure, if you're being malicious and trying to sabotage showings that your landlord is holding then all bets are off. It's the people acting like putting your sex swing away when company's coming over isn't normal that I'm laughing at. the first time I was going to rent an apartment of my own in college, I drove over to the building, started to talk with the manager, when a resident came up and started bitching about their apartment problems to him in front of me the manager turned around, got in his truck and drove away without saying a word to me
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OJ MIST 2 THE DICK posted:the first time I was going to rent an apartment of my own in college, I drove over to the building, started to talk with the manager, when a resident came up and started bitching about their apartment problems to him in front of me Tha t is both the best move the manager could choose and a damning confirmation at the same time, he must be a pro. so much saved effort.
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I was going around with an apartment agent once looking at places. One place we were at the tenant came home while we were there, looked at me, shook his head, and mouthed "no" to me. No better negative endorsement than the guy that's lived there!
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Jows posted:I was going around with an apartment agent once looking at places. One place we were at the tenant came home while we were there, looked at me, shook his head, and mouthed "no" to me. No better negative endorsement than the guy that's lived there! Same reason they don't let the foreign teachers talk to prospective foreign teachers alone in Korean schools.
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Leviathan Song posted:In my experience, SBA set asides are a massive source of fraud. Most of the official small business are just subsidiaries of some massive conglomerate. We bid one small business set aside contract where all three companies that entered a bid were Honeywell subsidiaries obviously colluding on price. I don't know about GSA but SBA is a loving joke. Even when the SBA office isn't being played directly by giant companies running sock puppet bidders you still get issues. I've work for the VA in Iowa and Now Virginia doing construction and in both places we had a tiny pool of general contractors that when we have to go though before we were allowed to go to open competition. Issue is these contractors specialize in getting these contracts and getting a low bid, often by intentionally underbidding and then inflating their change orders to make the money back. Even if they start out ok they inevitably go to poo poo as there is basically no competition. It was also a huge issue that there wasn't nearly enough staff, at least in engineering, to actually managing all the projects we were getting funded for so there was a ton of burn out, people quitting and the remaining engineers having to take their load and then them burning out and just not having enough time to actually properly police the contractors. There also seems to be a big issue with old guard engineers and contracting staff having just given up on believing that things can be fixed even though relatively younger people like myself are pushing to change things and making visible headway. I haven't seen much if any direct graft or corruption in the VA, especially compared to working for the DoD. It's mainly the whole organization had just atrophied into the mindset that things are poo poo and always will be. May not be nearly as big of an issue in the not to distant future if the AIR commission suggestions are acted on as written. Close all the old VA infrastructure and build new (good), but drastically reduce the size of the new facilities and offload basically all in-patient and large parts of out-patient care to the private sector (very very bad). It that happens as recommended then all the fraud and waste that went on under the Veteran's Choice program is going to be chump change.
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-Zydeco- posted:Even when the SBA office isn't being played directly by giant companies running sock puppet bidders you still get issues. I've work for the VA in Iowa and Now Virginia doing construction and in both places we had a tiny pool of general contractors that when we have to go though before we were allowed to go to open competition. Issue is these contractors specialize in getting these contracts and getting a low bid, often by intentionally underbidding and then inflating their change orders to make the money back. Even if they start out ok they inevitably go to poo poo as there is basically no competition. Why do you have to go through a specific pool of contractors first?
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CarForumPoster posted:Why do you have to go through a specific pool of contractors first? That's the point of a small business set aside. Only the pool of qualified small businesses are allowed to bid on the contract. Theoretically it gives small businesses a chance to compete with the larger corporations. Depending on the industry, it can be a very low number of small businesses or even just a couple of sham companies specifically set up to bring in small business set aside contracts.
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Leviathan Song posted:That's the point of a small business set aside. Only the pool of qualified small businesses are allowed to bid on the contract. Theoretically it gives small businesses a chance to compete with the larger corporations. Depending on the industry, it can be a very low number of small businesses or even just a couple of sham companies specifically set up to bring in small business set aside contracts. OP mentioned Iowa. In Iowa there are 479 active construction (NAICS 26) contractors on SAM.gov. Prob most will be a small business. Further, of those, 140 self certify as a small disadvantaged business. (Prob 50% don't meet that definition but that's not the topic here.) I wouldnt call that a tiny pool of contractors. I suspect Zydeco will say they have a policy of asking for 8(a)/HUBZone/WOSB/EDWOSB first, but I am curious if he says theres some preapproved short list of unknown origin (maybe the list may be created via kickbacks?).
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"self certify as a small disadvantaged business" is connecting to gender identity in my head, which is making the cynical part of my mind think some of those businesses are identifying as attack helicopters, i.e. taking advantage of the system for their benefit without actually being an entity the system is in support of.
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Dareon posted:"self certify as a small disadvantaged business" is connecting to gender identity in my head, which is making the cynical part of my mind think some of those businesses are identifying as attack helicopters, i.e. taking advantage of the system for their benefit without actually being an entity the system is in support of. Form an LLC, put a veteran (with a disability rating) in as CEO, claim veteran preference. The government loves giving preference to small veteran businesses.
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