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wesleywillis posted:Whatever happened to Grover anyway? House got bombed in a hit by the saddam's special forces (since civilian contractors are legit targets, and he was the equivalent of a lieutenant colonel or whatever )
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he kept posting for a long time, and was a mod for Goons in Platoons, no idea if he’s still around there someone on the Well There’s Your Problem discord posted pictures they claimed were from a drone overflight of the Groverhaus about six months ago. People still live there
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Groverhaus is in the latest Microsoft Flight Simulator.
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LonsomeSon posted:he kept posting for a long time, and was a mod for Goons in Platoons, no idea if he’s still around there This is ancient lore at this point but I'm fairly sure there was a mass revolt in gip specifically about the fact that he was a mod. He is no longer active there in any way shape or form.
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Its wild to me to know there's still houses anywhere remotely liveable for under a million dollars. My friend bought a house maybe 10 years ago for 150k in a medium US city and its worth about 350k now. Amazing gains.
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HolHorsejob posted:House got bombed in a hit by the saddam's special forces (since civilian contractors are legit targets, and he was the equivalent of a lieutenant colonel or whatever ) .....was he saying this just because his level on the GS pay scale was equivalent to that of an O-5? if so holy 
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LonsomeSon posted:someone on the Well There’s Your Problem discord posted pictures they claimed were from a drone overflight of the Groverhaus about six months ago. People still live there I think laughing at some blowhard's photos that they publicly posted of their own free will is one thing, but this is a bit creepy.
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If I was sure it was still grover living there I wouldn’t give a poo poo but it’s very upsetting to imagine some family getting bilked into buying a shitbox which is a niche internet microcelebrity in its own right for how terribly it was built and then being subject to intermittent nerd surveillance.
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Some fucker flies a drone around my house every so often and it enrages me beyond belief.
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LonsomeSon posted:someone on the Well There’s Your Problem discord posted pictures they claimed were from a drone overflight of the Groverhaus about six months ago. People still live there This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
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Platystemon posted:This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here. this
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ROJO posted:.....was he saying this just because his level on the GS pay scale was equivalent to that of an O-5? if so holy Iirc something like that, it came out he was vastly inflating his importance somehow.
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ROJO posted:.....was he saying this just because his level on the GS pay scale was equivalent to that of an O-5? if so holy Yes.
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Baronjutter posted:Its wild to me to know there's still houses anywhere remotely liveable for under a million dollars. My friend bought a house maybe 10 years ago for 150k in a medium US city and its worth about 350k now. Amazing gains. I'm not shocked. I live in a close-in Northern Virginia suburb (drive downtown in 20 minutes, faster than Metro) and there's still perfectly good, intact four bedroom houses with prices starting with a 7 or 8. Nice, quiet neighborhood with virtually no crime (Not even I HEARD GUNFIREWORKS on our Nextdoor.), kids running around in the streets, and any kind of amenity you could need.
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Blue Moonlight posted:Now, every time I talk to him, he tells me about the latest thing he’s had to fix. It’s basically a house of Theseus at this point.
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All of the poo poo your landlord was refusing to do and also was preventing you from doing, you now have to actually do. It’s still better, unless you gently caress it up enough that you have to post your own work in this thread.
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the yeti posted:Iirc something like that, it came out he was vastly inflating his importance somehow. He wasn't even a government employee; he was a contractor trying to conflate his salary to a military rank by 2 degrees of separation. There are some really good reasons to have a translation between long serving civil service rank and commissioned officer rank but they have gently caress all to do with contractors or enlisted military. The whole point of it is to inform some 22 year old 2nd lieutenant that they do not in fact outrank the 50 year old civilian GS-12, not so some contractor can claim to be a technical colonel by way of analogy. By his logic every Fortune 500 CEO is a 5 star General. Leviathan Song fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Jan 31, 2024 |
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lmao I never heard that he didn’t even have a GS grade, he was just, what, claiming equivalency for falling in a salary range? Beautiful, never more proud that my only ban to date was for posting GroverHaus in a gip thread.
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Complete with typo, of course. ("nothing valued is here")
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I had no idea that that screed about nothing of here being of value etc was a nuclear waste storage facility deterrent meant for some civilization 10,000 years into the future or whatever to read and understand that it was not safe.
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https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7329338313184349486 I'm genuinely wondering why a home inspector was even involved in this process. I get it's a seller's market or whatever, but SURELY anyone who is making an offer on that house is doing so with the intent to just tear it all down, right? DrBouvenstein fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Jan 31, 2024 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7329338313184349486 I'm wondering why I watched a talking head (sound off of course) for as long as I did when it was clear he was never going to show anything interesting.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I'm wondering why I watched a talking head (sound off of course) for as long as I did when it was clear he was never going to show anything interesting. Maybe be a little more patient? It's like 30 seconds of talking head and then it's shots of the actual problems.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Maybe be a little more patient? LMAO gently caress no.
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DrBouvenstein posted:https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7329338313184349486 I don't buy that was a flip at all, I suspect that someone he knew was planning to tear that house down and allowed him to make a video pretending to inspect it to get some outrage clicks and shares. The furnace fuel supply was literally an unlabeled plastic jug on the floor.
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Yea, I don't think that was a flip, nothing about it looks remotely new or patched over, it looks more like the result of years of neglect and decline than someone trying to paint over as many issues as possible. I think there are some places that require inspections pre-sale, I feel like I've heard that for some towns in California, so there's a chance it's one of those places and he got to film it as a lark for a required inspection no one cares about. I'm not sure how 'I can smell propane and see a damage gas pipe' doesn't result in an immediate call to a fire department and disconnect, though. Edit: Although with the fuel jug I guess they may not be hooked up to anything anyway.
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My home's previous owner did me the favour of securing the dishwasher though not only the manufacturer-approved sidemount manner like a normal human would, but also directly into the floor though a couple of random holes in the unit's frame. Not with the special floor-mounting brackets that you can buy; no. On the outside edge of the dishwasher, as in, towards the cabinet on the side. Based on the angle in which they were inserted, I figure they most likely way they pulled off such a manoeuvre was to put the dishwasher in place, drill in the screws and then install the cabinets around it. So that's the kind of thing that can turn a 20 minute job into a five hour affair.
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Shifty Pony posted:I don't buy that was a flip at all, I suspect that someone he knew was planning to tear that house down and allowed him to make a video pretending to inspect it to get some outrage clicks and shares. This is a very likely scenario. But never underestimate stupidity A real estate agent hungry for a commission could be filling some idiots head with hopes, dreams, and outright lies to push a sale.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Maybe be a little more patient? It's like 30 seconds of talking head and then it's shots of the actual problems. Can't you skip ahead or go back and such in TikTok?
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That's so web 2.0 Now you have to watch the thing in a loop
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Antifreeze Head posted:My home's previous owner did me the favour of securing the dishwasher though not only the manufacturer-approved sidemount manner like a normal human would, but also directly into the floor though a couple of random holes in the unit's frame. My Gary took the opposite approach and decided not to secure my dishwasher to anything so every time I open the drat thing if I am not careful it starts to lean and then topple forward out of the cabinet. I've lost a few ramakins that way.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Can't you skip ahead or go back and such in TikTok? The desktop web version, yes. Mobile web version, I don't think so because like all websites, they just want you to use their app. I tried to tap it to get the progress bar to appear and it only ever kept linking to their app store page. I don't have the TikTok app, I just found that and posted it here, maybe it's mirrored at a "better" places like YT or IG (using the word better very loosely.)
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I guess using a backhoe to resolve building defects is one way to go... https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/mike-holmes-lawsuit-demolition-1.7091774 Mike 'Holmes Approved Homes' demolished due to alleged defects Consumer watchdog Tarion condemned 3 homes in a housing development endorsed by celebrity Mike Holmes
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I can’t conceive of the kind of brain worms that would lead you to think a celebrity endorsement means anything
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Tristesse posted:My Gary took the opposite approach and decided not to secure my dishwasher to anything so every time I open the drat thing if I am not careful it starts to lean and then topple forward out of the cabinet. I've lost a few ramakins that way. That seems to keep it secure enough, and I've been able to use the same screw hole the 6+ times I've taken it out.
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Jorath posted:Mine is held in by 1 screw up into the sub-countertop plywood at an angle, in the center above the handle. Mine has 2 screws, same deal. Have had to take it out a few times, same hole etc..
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Tristesse posted:My Gary took the opposite approach and decided not to secure my dishwasher to anything so every time I open the drat thing if I am not careful it starts to lean and then topple forward out of the cabinet. I've lost a few ramakins that way. Why don't you attach it then?
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the yeti posted:I can’t conceive of the kind of brain worms that would lead you to think a celebrity endorsement means anything I don't know, but our entire economy depends on it. And no one is immune. I use a loofah because Ironhead Heyward commanded it to be so, 30 years ago.
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Sash! posted:And no one is immune. I use a loofah because Ironhead Heyward commanded it to be so, 30 years ago. I did what now?
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