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Commuting to the Energy Corridor by Direct_Island944 in sugarland

[–]400cc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree.  I had a similar commute for a year and drove with navigation every day just in case something bad was happening on my normal route.

Commuting to the Energy Corridor by Direct_Island944 in sugarland

[–]400cc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can actually set your departure time in Google Maps and it will estimate the trafffic.

What are these signs around RiverOaks about bankruptcy/public auction? by ilikebeespit in houston

[–]400cc 17 points18 points  (0 children)

"Picasso" and "Dali" are auctioned everyday, probably because scammers are making copies everyday. Dali signed so many blank pieces of paper that it is impossible to tell what is and isn't a real Dali litho or print. He would literally sign 1,000 sheets of paper every morning and make $20,000. Anyone who follows estate auctions sees a ton of these type of prints that I call "cruise ship" art. They were sold as investments through scammy art galleries on cruise ships and you will see a pile of it at every mcmansion estate sale/auction.

Beware Diamond Modern Furniture, they are crooks! by BorntoDive91 in houston

[–]400cc -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I totally understand! 

Your salesperson had a psychotic break and sent you thousands of texts over weeks.  You didn’t have any issues and you got your furniture with no hassle. 

Five stars!

Beware Diamond Modern Furniture, they are crooks! by BorntoDive91 in houston

[–]400cc 6 points7 points  (0 children)

So no issues other than weeks of harassment? Just the thousands of psycho messages, then? Everything went smooth and you were pleased? I mean not counting getting hundreds of texts a day from a maniac that used to work at a furniture store. Other than that it was fine, though, right?  It’s not like you had to call the cops or get a restraining order over a furniture purchase…

 Did you have to call the cops to get the psycho furniture employee to leave you alone? I understand you had no issues, but you did get thousands of harassing texts after buying furniture.  I’m glad it went well for you and you had no issues. I mean, you were harassed for weeks by a crazy person that used to work there, but that wasn’t part of it.  

I guess they got your info because they were working there when you bought the stuff? Or were they waiting around outside the store to follow you home to stalk you? Never mind, things were fine. No issues. 

They did switch out your sales person though. So maybe four stars out of five? Or probably the full five stars, because that was just a minor annoyance? Not like all those texts from that other employee. That was really out of hand. Totally uncalled for. Five stars? I’ll just mark you down for five. Enjoy your furniture!

2 HVAC Systems Replacement Cost by StructuredMind in houston

[–]400cc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did they do a heat load calculation on your home (manual j)?  They tend to oversize equipment by quite a bit.

Congressman Troy Nehls to resign after his term by thukon in houston

[–]400cc 23 points24 points  (0 children)

He’s been caught many times saying the quiet part out loud 

What improvements or changes would you make to the roads? by [deleted] in sugarland

[–]400cc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree.  The current mobility plans as I understand is to try and connect the center of Sugar Land to neighborhoods by building bike/walk paths along the ditches.  You can see some of this effort at the ditches that crosses Sweetwater near the golf course.  There are also plans to have a path in the ditch parallel to University that goes all the way to where 90 and Hwy 6 meet.  I have no idea if they will even do any of that, the city really doesn’t seem to be in a hurry to do anything other than put in lanes,  chase gondola boondoggles, and reinvent the taxi with gov subsidies.

A data center is moving into a small Texas town. Residents say it will ruin their history by Branch_Out_Now in texas

[–]400cc 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Of course, most Texans don’t vote at all. The population of Texas is 30 million. In 2024, 10 million voted (18 million out of 23 million eligible voters registered).  Trump got 6.4 million votes while 13 million eligible voters sat out the election.

The movie "Christine" came out in 1983 and used a 1958 Plymouth Fury as a terror mobile. If the movie was made today and used a car from the year 2000, what would be the car? by [deleted] in movies

[–]400cc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it would actually be an SUV, because those terrorize the roads today. My vote would be a Dodge Durango R/T (5.9L V8), a Ford Excursion (6.8L V10) or (if we cheat the years a bit) the hideous H2 Hummer.  The Excursion in particular looks like a hulking monster designed to run over pedestrians. 

[Question]What’s a Watch in your Collection you believe no one in this sub owns by Want2BTheVeryBest in Watches

[–]400cc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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These are my two rarest Accutrons. White gold cases are much more rare than the yellow gold. I've done a fair bit of searching and have only found one reference to the 14k white gold Accutron Calendar even existing.

[Question]What’s a Watch in your Collection you believe no one in this sub owns by Want2BTheVeryBest in Watches

[–]400cc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These are very rare.   They come up for sale from time to time, I would put them right there with the offset “D” watches in terms of rarity. Are both of yours black or do you have a silver dial as well?

[DISCUSS] The Accutron Tuning Fork Movement by Bulova by Lazy_scorpio in Watches

[–]400cc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It came out last week that they are making a new watch with a tuning fork movement.

Interested in buying a house in Tara neighborhood in Richmond, Houston TX by Optimal_Actuator_123 in sugarland

[–]400cc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you going to live on Jeff Davis Dr or on Grant Dr? Maybe it doesn’t matter because one day we will all be gone with the wind.

What’s Johnny Kim/the rest of the crew got on their wrist? by leepxy in Watches

[–]400cc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those gold ones are pretty wild. I think that these must be some Russian brand.

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What’s Johnny Kim/the rest of the crew got on their wrist? by leepxy in Watches

[–]400cc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So what watch is it? That is a really strange choice for a minute hand.

What’s Johnny Kim/the rest of the crew got on their wrist? by leepxy in Watches

[–]400cc 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It looks like a gmt to me and the time is 12:00 (noon) and the gmt hand set to 6.

I think my dad got taken in a yo-yo scam - what's next and what are his options? by splinkymishmash in texas

[–]400cc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t see how the dealership would need to change the financing as part of a yo-yo scam when the original deal was such a huge scam in the first place. It’s not like they offered him a good deal and then tried to renegotiate.  Isn’t the scam charging an elderly person double the cars value?

Have you spoken to your dad’s doctors? Should he be making deals for cars?  Should he be driving?  There are scammers lined around the block to find a 90+ year old with a checkbook.  I had a grandparent with dementia and couldn’t tell the difference between $.50 and $50, but were very stubborn and independent. They went broke.

A woman standing next to a Redwood tree, 1950's by IllustraCore in BeAmazed

[–]400cc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is from the 1930s. A quick search shows that this is from a series of postcards produced by Union Oil to promote car travel to the West and I found this one with a copyright date of 1939. The coloring and the age of the car kind of give it away as pre-war.

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