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FMguru posted:See if you can guess the make and model of the car that OP spent $50k and "thousands of man hours" restoring. That's a hell of a lot to put into a car, but then again, when there's clearly that much sentimental value, and apparently a hobby as well, it's understandable. loving lol that the parents think that a secondhand "sorry" is enough to make everything good.
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Coffee Sludge posted:Well I was all excited until I found the one instance of the car type you missed spoilering. As someone whose first car was a hand-me-down 1975 Nova I just can't get over investing that much time and effort into one.
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CommissarMega posted:Okay, as someone not into cars, is the car a good or bad vehicle? I tried looking at the Wikipedia page, but it's late and my eyes kind of glazed over. It's was just a standard sedan of the time, so generally terrible to drive by modern standards, as nephew discovered.
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MK-Ultramarathon posted:Since we all love Bidet Chat: If they weren't from the US there is a small chance the foot washing assumption was cultural but since they are from the US they're just a dumbass.
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Seth Pecksniff posted:All right this thread has an absolutely batshit relationship with animals and it's getting ridiculous so starting immediately we're done speaking about them. I do not care about whether or not you like or hate dogs or some bizarre story about how you saw animals kill each other it's gotten out of hand I want to see everyone’s wholesome pet stories/pictures. But yes no more disturbing stories I can’t unsee. Also would be nice to include TWs for spoiler tags! AITA for slowly throwing away all of my sisters belongings? quote:Ok so after I (28M) got kicked out of my apartment I needed a new place to stay. My sister (24F) is living at her friends house and says they are cool with me crashing for the summer. I only need about three months anyways. When I show up the place is a MESS and even worse the room I was suppose to take is a dump ground for my sisters stuff. The kitchen is cluttered and disgusting. The bathroom is cluttered, moldy, and stinky. I decided to stay anyways because hey free rent. Over the course of the past month I have been cleaning and decluttering everywhere I could. I cant believe her friend puts up with her actually I can she is also responsible for the mess. I have thrown away countless cups, plates, canned food, candy, pasta, coffee, tea, hair accessories, cheap rings, sandals, Tupperware, trash, clothes, hats, countless socks etc. I know it sounds like this stuff could have been donated but all of her clutter comes from cheap dollar stores. They both love having me as a roommate because they think I am handy. I am.
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CommissarMega posted:Okay, as someone not into cars, is the car a good or bad vehicle? I tried looking at the Wikipedia page, but it's late and my eyes kind of glazed over. It’s not like a super fantastic car but “the chevy nova you restored with your father together until he passed” is never going to be a bad car, you know?
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Assumed it was a foot wash station? Lady, it's 2023. You have to presume any appliance or gadget in the bathroom you don't recognize is some sort of intimate care or sex toy.
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Jun 8, 2023 18:45
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Crocobile posted:Thank Yeah if you know a hoarder throwing their stuff away is like the worst thing you can do because it validates literally every anxiety they have. Some documentary about it, trying to help them, had the following - lady being asked to get rid of dozens of commerative 9/11 plates breaking down weeping because she says it would diminish their sacrifice - guy living with his hoarder father, slowly becoming a hoarder himself trying to explain why he keeps balls of his cats fur because he feels like throwing it away is throwing away parts of the cat and someday the cat will die and seeing that fur might help him cope It's a serious mental disorder, not just being lazy.
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Jun 8, 2023 18:55
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Fajita Queen posted:It's a "classic" car from the early 70s that you can easily buy for under 10 grand, which means it's a piece of poo poo. Calling bullshit on rolling a car from 1968 hard enough to make it not worth fixing and not being injured. Those cars were not designed to crumple, so all the forced get transferred to your squishy little body and organs, and the steel of the car will have barely a dent.
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Coca Koala posted:It’s not like a super fantastic car but “the chevy nova you restored with your father together until he passed” is never going to be a bad car, you know? The 60's ones get modified into drag or muscle cars with big engines a lot, since they're stout and have massive engine bays. I'm assuming it had quite a bit of engine and chassis work done to it. It doesn't really matter though, I have a piece of poo poo Ford Ranger that belonged to my dad, it's worth almost nothing, but we used to drive it to jobs we did together when I was a teenager, before he passed. While it's not a timeless relic, and I still use it to haul stuff from the hardware store and to the dump, I'd be pretty loving pissed if someone just wantonly wrecked it.
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Coca Koala posted:It’s not like a super fantastic car but “the chevy nova you restored with your father together until he passed” is never going to be a bad car, you know? speaking of, does anyone have the aita about the guy who spent something like $20k on a used old Bronco, for that reason it was the same model as him and his dad's project car growing up. I think he spent money that was supposed to be for a home down payment or something equally serious, and his gf/wife flipped the gently caress out.
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pentyne posted:speaking of, does anyone have the aita about the guy who spent something like $20k on a used old Bronco, for that reason it was the same model as him and his dad's project car growing up. He claimed it was literally the exact same car, but the rest is accurate
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Jun 8, 2023 19:22
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FMguru posted:See if you can guess the make and model of the car that OP spent $50k and "thousands of man hours" restoring. That's impressive that the brother and SIL are whining about it's "unfair" for OP to refuse to hand over the Mustang that OP paid for and worked on. Wonder what other poo poo that kid's gotten to skate on without any consequences whatsoever.
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Jun 8, 2023 19:22
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Crocobile posted:AITA for slowly throwing away all of my sisters belongings? My mom is a hoarder and our house is just a bunch of trash and bullshit everywhere, and yeah, it loving sucks, and it's terrible for everyone else's mental health because having to walk through it to get anywhere is depressing. I've gotten into screaming matches with her years ago. Asking her why she cares more about some decades-old catalog than about her own daughter. But it's a serious mental illness and if they don't see a problem with it then they will just die alongside all their junk. As much as it sucks, I'm an adult choosing to stay here. In fact she's out of the country for the first time in years and specifically told me not to touch her stuff, so guess what, I'm not touching her stuff. I just feel sorry for kid-me who had to live with this, because I didn't have any options, and I also could never invite any friends over or do anything fun like that.
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Jun 8, 2023 19:28
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Kit Walker posted:I had a friend who was fluent in five languages and took another two language courses as electives “for fun” in high school. I also have a friend who is fluent in five languages but it’s more impressive because they’re all fairly unrelated (English, Spanish, German, Russian, and Japanese). The story is still fake, though, for other reasons From a few pages back but English, Spanish, German and Russian are all related. English and German are even quite closely related.
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Jun 8, 2023 19:44
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Pope Hilarius II posted:From a few pages back but English, Spanish, German and Russian are all related. English and German are even quite closely related. Related in that they're methods that humans use to make sounds that other humans understand? Because you've got three different major language groups there, and English, while it started as a Germanic language and still counts as one, it's gone through some changes over the last thousand years.
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Silly Newbie posted:Related in that they're methods that humans use to make sounds that other humans understand? Because you've got three different major language groups there, and English, while it started as a Germanic language and still counts as one, it's gone through some changes over the last thousand years. They're distantly related, they share a common ancestor and you'll see cognates here and there. The forks go back ~4000 years, so there's not that much in common anymore but they're going to be closer than e.g. Eastern Asian or sub-Saharan African languages that evolved independently.
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I think he means they’re all indo-European. English & German are Germanic, though English borrows quite a bit from French and other Romance languages. It’s interesting talking to linguistic majors who are good at picking up the patterns/rules of different languages, even if they can’t speak them. When I went to Norway I was impressed at how much I could understand by reading things out phonetically (Norwegian is also Germanic). Still a far cry from fluency. I’m impressed with anyone who’s fluent in more than one language but maintaining fluency in 4+ is buck-wild to me.
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AITA for using money we "earmarked" for our 6 month old's college fund to buy back the exact 1972 Ford Bronco I owned as a teenager?quote:So how to begin with this...I realize that on paper I am totally the rear end in a top hat but when you dig deeper into my motivations I'm hoping its more of a grey area that anything else and maybe even I did the right thing.
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FMguru posted:See if you can guess the make and model of the car that OP spent $50k and "thousands of man hours" restoring. The OP is doing his brother a solid because giving a restored 80s Mustang to a teenage boy who is prone to hooning around is the sort of thing that ends with someone in the ER.
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Sir DonkeyPunch posted:Sad that Kyle is allergic to having an income Respect people's allergies please! What are you plotting, tricking him into going to a job interview or something?
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Clocks posted:My mom is a hoarder and our house is just a bunch of trash and bullshit everywhere, and yeah, it loving sucks, and it's terrible for everyone else's mental health because having to walk through it to get anywhere is depressing. I've gotten into screaming matches with her years ago. Asking her why she cares more about some decades-old catalog than about her own daughter. But it's a serious mental illness and if they don't see a problem with it then they will just die alongside all their junk. I make a point of seeing and talking to my parents regularly, while completely avoiding the house that they live in.
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FMguru posted:See if you can guess the make and model of the car that OP spent $50k and "thousands of man hours" restoring. His mistake was not having triples of the Nova. Triples makes it safe. Triples is best.
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pentyne posted:AITA for using money we "earmarked" for our 6 month old's college fund to buy back the exact 1972 Ford Bronco I owned as a teenager? This stupid motherfucker
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poo poo like this is why I don't respect car people.
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Kite Pride Worldwide posted:This stupid motherfucker One of the stupidest things I’ve ever read in this thread. Worst negotiator ever and decided to just lie some more as a way to fix his problem lmao
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Tarkus posted:Yeah, you can buy a bagged out rust heap one for maybe 10 grand. 1968 Nova's are pretty nice when restored and resell for 45-65ish. yeah, presuming it was actually like, restored and in good shape (given he and nephew have been working to do another one like that it doesn't seem out of line) 50k is a perfectly reasonable estimate Coca Koala posted:It’s not like a super fantastic car but “the chevy nova you restored with your father together until he passed” is never going to be a bad car, you know? this is the bigger issue. he says the family knew that and the parents and kid are trying to pretend it's nbd.
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pentyne posted:AITA for using money we "earmarked" for our 6 month old's college fund to buy back the exact 1972 Ford Bronco I owned as a teenager? R/relationships: It’s going to take all my lying skills to pull this one off over the next few years.
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My favorite car guy story is the woman who's co-worker got completely obsessed with her cheap generic whatever-the-hell car. He kept talking to her about it. Asked to ride in it. And she eventually caught him in the parking lot rubbing his hands along it. She had to talk to HR to get him to leave her car alone.
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I've gotten super paranoid about old food after having covid because my olfactory nerves were damaged and my nose has difficulty recognizing smells now. It's usually the opposite problem: I mistake good food for bad until I get a really strong sniff from up close. Chicken smells like cat piss and bleach. Dijon mustard smells like sour milk. Fruit smells like decaying animal corpses. It's a nasty experience. So now I'm always worried that I'll end up having taking big strong whiffs of actually rotten food because I won't know if I'm just mistaken or not until I do and that's so nasty, I don't stomach gross smells very well.
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SulfurMonoxideCute posted:I've gotten super paranoid about old food after having covid because my olfactory nerves were damaged and my nose has difficulty recognizing smells now. It's usually the opposite problem: I mistake good food for bad until I get a really strong sniff from up close. Chicken smells like cat piss and bleach. Dijon mustard smells like sour milk. Fruit smells like decaying animal corpses. It's a nasty experience. So now I'm always worried that I'll end up having taking big strong whiffs of actually rotten food because I won't know if I'm just mistaken or not until I do and that's so nasty, I don't stomach gross smells very well. Make Toby smell it.
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quote:Second and probably final update for now: Google is removing the reviews. Whackadoodle and her idiot family all have the same last name so it was pretty easy to see the reviews weren’t genuine. The ones from her friends with different names were removed too because again, it was poorly executed at best. Ex has apologized for her behavior and apparently he is “taking some time away” and she thought he was with me. I have no idea where he went after he left my house Tuesday night when the kids went to bed. He certainly is not staying here. We have only spoken to confirm pick up from swim lessons today. My parents had already planned to have the kids this weekend (ex has a graduation to go to and I am going to the beach with friends) so I don’t have to worry about where they’re going since ex is effectively homeless right now. I'm sure he's with his new mistress.
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AITA for telling my son he's not going on his senior class trip if he doesn't show up to his brothers graduation?quote:My three kids all have graduations this week.
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AITA because I want my stepdaughter to live with her mom for a while?quote:My husband and I have a 14 years old daughter together(let's call her Maisie). He also has a 17 years old daughter with his ex(let's call her Danielle)
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i am a moron posted:One of the stupidest things I’ve ever read in this thread. Worst negotiator ever and decided to just lie some more as a way to fix his problem lmao There's no way in hell a dude who's this into his car is going to be able to be patient and keep it quiet for years on end. He might make it a month before he decides to start repairing the car on the sly, suddenly spends lots of time at his mom's, etc.
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Oh god spending 23k you can't afford to lose to buy a car that doesn't even run. What is wrong with people?
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Pomme de Terror posted:AITA because I want my stepdaughter to live with her mom for a while? This woman's comments are particularly despicable. She does not remotely hide that she loving hates this child and massively favors her own. You could drive a train through what's missing in this story.
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Midnight Voyager posted:This woman's comments are particularly despicable. She does not remotely hide that she loving hates this child and massively favors her own. You could drive a train through what's missing in this story. From being the Danielle in a fairly identical situation as a kid, I was in the way and everyone knew it. My stepmother hated my guts, and told me so in private many times. The feeling was mutual, and while I adored my stepsister, there were times where I knew what she represented (and that she was my replacement) and I couldn't help but show my frustration at her. That wasn't fair on her. Thankfully, at seventeen she's probably not that far off from being able to get out of there. Refocus, and concentrate on just having a relationship with her dad. Maybe grow older, see past all the politics and have an organic relationship with Maisie on their own terms.
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