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Sham bam bamina! posted:Reminds me of the I sure would love to rub my face around in there!!!!!!!!!!!
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Is this near St. John's University in Queens? I'm certain I've walked by this house before.
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Mar 24, 2014 02:23
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Hoarding your house until it explodes is quite an accomplishment.
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The Devil Tesla posted:Never forget that Japanese people find otaku just as strange as we do, if not to a greater degree. My friend unironically thinks everyone in Japan watches anime and when I told her a friend of mine who is Japanese and goes to my university probably doesn't, I had to seriously convince her otherwise. But no, everyone watches it, it's on all the time!  She's lived with a handful of like minded individuals on the past who are the filthy, libertarian "gently caress the system" types who all work at a call center. So many dirty dishes. So many creepy anime dolls. So many bugs under the floor-mattress. 54 40 or fuck has a new favorite as of 04:25 on Mar 24, 2014 |
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Mar 24, 2014 04:19
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Toriori posted:My friend unironically thinks everyone in Japan watches anime and when I told her a friend of mine who is Japanese and goes to my university probably doesn't, I had to seriously convince her otherwise. But no, everyone watches it, it's on all the time!
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Not a 'goon' lair, but a house of disgusting squalour nevertheless. One with a tragic ending also. http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/we-loved-our-children-squalorhome-father-says-20140403-35zvt.html At least the other kid has been taken away. Looking at the police photo I was disgusted most by the fact that whatever the gently caress that it is that is in the bathtub is green. Also that they let the 5yo alone in his bedroom for days before taking him to the hospital.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Not a 'goon' lair, but a house of disgusting squalour nevertheless. One with a tragic ending also. That poor kid  . And of course the house was in the north-western suburbs. For the rest of you, the general northern suburbs of Melbourne are Bogan country. They're the Aussie equivalent of trailer trash or rednecks, only in low-income suburban housing instead of trailer parks.
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Apr 3, 2014 05:22
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That poor boy, and his poor eight year old brother. Eight. That's old enough that you're not going to forget. Ugh. They were on the radar. I wish more had been done.
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Apr 3, 2014 07:03
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At least they're doing something. I hope the parents never get the other child back. I know another person who talked about her elderly father dying in her mother's hoard the same way. Cut his toe on a tuna can, got a really bad infection. They had to amputate his leg and he never fully recovered from the infection.
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theage.com.au posted:In a separate statement given to police, made on the day the boy died, the father said his wife was a "magnificent mother", who would "cut her left arm off for the boys". She would've cut off her arm for her children but she couldn't just keep the house clean? Not even a little? If your house is so bad that your children have to wade through a sea of filth to get around, and run the risk of dying every time, how can you call yourself a good parent?
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bossy lady posted:She would've cut off her arm for her children but she couldn't just keep the house clean? Not even a little? If your house is so bad that your children have to wade through a sea of filth to get around, and run the risk of dying every time, how can you call yourself a good parent? That's how I feel too. And the father is not owning any part of it either. "We're a two-parent household who loves their children!" Great! Everyone loves that! "We're not going to admit we need help, or take advantage of the services that are offered!" I'm placing the blame of this horrendous death on the parents but social services also plays a part because they knew that things were messed up.
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There's a related article talking about how the parents also played golden child/scapegoat with their two kids. The five year old who died was the "bad" one. http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/dead-boys-parents-had-two-faces-for-the-world-20140320-355wq.html
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 From the YOSPOS post your setup thread, so this is a genuine goon lair people. Edit: And this  They where doing so well up until these posts. vodkat has a new favorite as of 21:02 on Apr 3, 2014 |
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Apr 3, 2014 20:40
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vodkat posted:
oh my god the walls and pillow
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Sham bam bamina! posted:What's keeping you guys together? I'm honestly curious. These days? Not much. She's gotten more and more reclusive and though I've done what I can to offer support in the past she picks the like minded individuals I had mentioned and I'm an adult who doesn't have time for that anymore! Sad, really. We went thought the "weird adolescent" stage together but I grew out of it to a larger degree I suppose. In the sense that I do not still sprinkle Japanese words into my day-to-day vocabulary. 54 40 or fuck has a new favorite as of 02:10 on Apr 4, 2014 |
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Steampunk iPhone posted:oh my god the walls and pillow Did you not see dude's pants? Jesus loving Christ.
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vodkat posted:
The dirty pants really announce his status. This is not just a normal Goon, this is a GoonLord.
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The number of people whose lairs are posted in this thread who seem to be unaware of the existence of pillowcases and sheets...
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Apr 5, 2014 05:47
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AlbieQuirky posted:The number of people whose lairs are posted in this thread who seem to be unaware of the existence of pillowcases and sheets... He's got a sheet, though. It's tacked up over his window.
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AlbieQuirky posted:The number of people whose lairs are posted in this thread who seem to be unaware of the existence of pillowcases and sheets... Pillowcases and sheets are things that appear and clean themselves magically when you're living with your mother but for some reason just rot away if you move out. We just don't know why this happens 
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Jerry Cotton posted:Pillowcases and sheets are things that appear and clean themselves magically when you're living with your mother but for some reason just rot away if you move out. We just don't know why this happens Thank god my parents forced me to do chores growing up so I'm not a complete manbaby (I'm still a manbaby)
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Jerry Cotton posted:Pillowcases and sheets are things that appear and clean themselves magically when you're living with your mother but for some reason just rot away if you move out. We just don't know why this happens My wife and I have an extra bedroom in our apartment, so we offered to let a friend move in for about five months while she was trying to finish college. She had been living with her mom, but her mom chose to move out of state just ahead of her last semester. She's a good person but definitely has the whole, "living with mom has insulated me from learning household living skills" thing in spades. For example... We have an extra bed in the spare room and we let her use it. She has since slept on the bed for four months without sheets or bedding of any kind. My wife is sketched out to even use the mattress now and we'll probably just give her the thing. We don't have any evidence that she's done anything specifically gross on the bed, but it's just all the normal stuff of four months of a body sleeping directly on it that usually, you know, gets laundered with the bedding. BO, basically. Her room looks mildly squalid compared to some of the stuff ITT (if she had pizza boxes full of poop in her room, we would have thrown her out), but it would still fit right in here. I'm polite enough that I'm not going to invade per privacy and take pictures for the thread (but not polite enough that I won't talk about it here). It's your textbook goony hole in the ground: weeks of laundry in sedimentary layers all over the ground, dozens of dirty dishes on every surface, and trash strewn about the room. She asked me how to operate our washing machine for the first time over a month after moving in. Our washer isn't complicated. it's 20 years old and pretty simple. Also: a month worth of dirty laundry. Welp. She was using my shampoo, which isn't a big deal really, but I pointed it out just because it's usually considerate to at least ask before you use other people's household items. I had just noticed that I was going through shampoo at four times the normal rate since she moved in. So she bought her own bottle of shampoo. My wife recently pointed out that the shampoo bottle she bought has been full of water for a month. I get the trick to squeeze more out of the bottle by putting water in at the end, but at this point the water is clear. There has not been shampoo in the bottle for weeks, if not longer. She can afford shampoo, she just chooses no to get more. I can cook pretty well and I do the lion's share of the cooking for my wife and I (and our roommate when she's around). It's something I like to do, so I don't mind. Our roommate, on the other hand, literally did no know how to use a stove when she moved in. If it wasn't pre-made or microwavable, she didn't/couldn't eat it. My cooking was the only reaosn she didn't get scurvy or something from eating nothing but ramen noodles for months at a time. At the same time, she wanted to start feeding her dog homemade food (rice, beans, ground beef, mixed veggies). She tried to figure out how to cook beans on the stove while I was gone. She apparently poured a whole bag of dry kidney beans in a pot, put about a cup of water in, and set it on medium heat. She then went to her room to surf the internet for an unknown number of hours. I got back from work to find beans burning on the stove and my whole apartment smelling like poo poo. She didn't notice because her door was shut and the funk in her room probably dampened the bean smell. She never wears socks with her shoes, which would be alright if she wore flats or other slipper-ish lady shoes. But she wears boots and sneakers, so the foot smell gets heinous and at this point all of her shoes are saturated with the smell. Every time I walk into my apartment, I get hit by a wave of intense foot stench form the shoes in the doorway. Whenever she opens the door to her room, the dog/human/old food stench is strong enough to actually make my eyes water. My wife and I are dreading cleaning that room after she's gone. I would say she's going to clean it when she leaves, but there's no reason to think she'll do a good enough job at it. I just don't want it to smell like BO and dog and feet and old milk by the time we need to use it for a nursery in a couple months. I feel kind of bad because she's a good person and she's an easy-going, considerate roommate otherwise. She means well, but she just never learned basic household habits. I actually worry for her when she moves away to live on her own. Moral: try to learn household living skills when you're a kid, and move out when you're 18.
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Railing Kill posted:
You should cross post this to PYF Awful Roommate Story I'm not gonna pretend my apartment is some paragon of cleanliness, but at least I do laundry every week. The punchline is I only own about a week's worth of clothes.
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Railing Kill posted:Moral: try to learn household living skills when you're a kid, and move out when you're 18. Mandatory conscription is pretty good for the sheets thing. And not moving out when you're 18 to me is a completely foreign concept. As in literally a thing only weird foreigners do.
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Nastyman posted:Vassendgutane - I Love You Geir Wales has a ton of this stuff, too. You can be listening to the local radio stations late at night, all top 40 stuff, then some welsh language country song will pop up in the middle.
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Railing Kill posted:her dog Learn to take care of yourself, then consider getting a pet. I'm not fond of seeing young kids' first inclinations as soon as they leave the nest be "I'M GONNA GET A PUPPY!" It usually doesn't end well for the owner or the poor animal.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Mandatory conscription is pretty good for the sheets thing. And not moving out when you're 18 to me is a completely foreign concept. As in literally a thing only weird foreigners do. Really unmotivated people do it, too!  But really, like, I understand how it can work. I high-tailed it the gently caress out of my grandparents' house when I was 18 to go to college in another state, and never looked back. This is because I place high value on my own independence and autonomy, and don't really like my hometown that much. The trade-off was that I only see my old friends like once a year, and all the friends I made in college moved away from here, too  Most of the people I know who live with their parents are either using it to save money while they go to school, didn't go to school and can't afford to move out in our busted-rear end economy, have an incredible bff relationship with their mom, or have a mentally destroyed mom who emotionally blackmails them into staying around. Probably like half of those scenarios are pretty okay, but none of them really give the outside observer the impression that the person living with their parents isn't some kind of useless child-human around the house unless we're talking about the Amish.
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deadly_pudding posted:Really unmotivated people do it, too! Nah. If you stay with your mother she'll make you take the trash out or something at least. If you live by yourself you can just let your home comfortably fill up with pizza boxes and piss bottles while you sleep in a vaguely human-shaped empty area on the mattress.
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Yeah, but you don't have to worry about dealing with rent or shopping or laundry or anything with your mother. It all just happens magically, I guess.
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MooCowlian posted:Yeah, but you don't have to worry about dealing with rent or shopping or laundry or anything with your mother. It all just happens magically, I guess. The trick is to a) live in a welfare state; b) live close enough to your parents to raid their fridge for cheese and take the dirty clothes there to be magically cleaned; and c) it's actually even worse for them than you just living there I guess
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Going to raid the fridge is already a chore when it's just down a flight of stairs, dude. The food comes to you if you're in the spare room. If you're already making GBS threads in the bin so you can stay within range of your dual monitor furry porn + EVE setup, the last thing you want to do is to have to call your mum and ask to be picked up.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Learn to take care of yourself, then consider getting a pet. I'm not fond of seeing young kids' first inclinations as soon as they leave the nest be "I'M GONNA GET A PUPPY!" It usually doesn't end well for the owner or the poor animal. Well, to be fair to her, this is a dog she had when she was living with her mom. She's had the dog since she was a young teenager, and her mom was not going to take her dog with her when she moved. I understand the want to keep the dog, but it's definitely not an ideal situation. I just don't get the whole "stay at home and live with mom as long as possible" thing because I couldn't wait to get the gently caress out. I love my mom and she didn't do anything in particular to drive me away, but I value the comfort of my independence more than I value the kind of comfort I could get from living with mom. My wife's older brother still lives with their mom. He's goony as hell but he at least helps pay the bills, helps clean the house (albeit poorly), and holds down a job. His living space would fit right in here, and I'll get some pics sometime because he doesn't care and I'm frankly surprised he doesn't have a forums account already. He lives in piles of his own dirty laundry, empty beer cans/Mt. Dew bottles, and Magic cards, but it's less depressing than a lot of the stuff ITT because he has a job and contains his squalor to his own room (and a corner of the living room). I like to think of him as what some of the folks we see ITT could aspire to, if living a sanitary, well-adjusted life isn't in the cards for them. Relative to this thread, it's heartwarming. 
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I don't know, I'm 21 and live at home and I take care of myself and living space/have total independence. Whenever I hear about people leaving home at 18 except to move away for school I usually assume they have a lovely relationship with their parents. In fact most of the people I know who moved out at 18 are now saddled with ridiculous debt and are terrible slobs anyways. But hey, they're independent adults now right :V I just don't get why you'd put yourself in a worse off position for some misguided sense of what being an adult is unless your relationship with your parents is bad in the first place.
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korusan posted:I don't know, I'm 21 and live at home Everyone lives at home though. e: Not homeless or transient people I guess.
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I hope it feels good to look down on the people that are just thinking forward. In ten years we'll all be living in multi-generational homes and working off our indentured servitudes to various multinational corporations. Or I suppose if you want to be an "adult" with "independence" you'll be working some fat military contracts for a PMC or something.
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Apparently 45% of college graduates still live with or moved back with their parents in 2011 so it's really not as uncommon as this thread makes it seem.
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Sure, freak, go tell your mom about it.
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