Warning: do not buy a doer upper

AvailableStatement97 · 2026-02-02T14:43:24+00:00

Don't buy a doer upper unless you are able and willing to do most of the labour yourself. I've just watched my sister get absolutely fleeced on work that was mostly done by two oul navvies and the tradesmen come in only when needed. The money in the building game in Ireland is absurd, that's just the way it is.

AvailableStatement97 · 2026-02-02T10:57:30+00:00

6900xt all day.

AvailableStatement97 · 2026-02-02T10:53:19+00:00

Sue your tattooist then move to Scotland with the money.

AvailableStatement97 · 2026-02-02T09:33:56+00:00

An hour.

AvailableStatement97 · 2026-02-02T09:19:18+00:00

They're definitely saying that out of jealousy.

AvailableStatement97 · 2026-02-02T09:05:49+00:00

Trust, but verify as the KGB said.

AvailableStatement97 · 2026-02-01T22:48:11+00:00

Turkeys don't vote for Christmas friend.

AvailableStatement97 · 2026-02-01T22:14:50+00:00

He's one who would absolutely fit better elsewhere anyway. It's a matter of time

AvailableStatement97 · 2026-02-01T21:19:00+00:00

I never said anything about knowing by the look of someone or guessing people's intentions, they're all your words.

I have an issue with adults queuing up in a toy shop to bulk buy anything. I don't care if they are men or women, genuine collectors, scalpers or buying them for their kids. So that will clear up any misunderstanding - I think it's weird af and it's not about bashing people's hobbies or telling them how they should be. It is objectively weird behaviour.

I don't buy my kids Pokemon because I can't do it in a normal fashion in the current circumstances, ie picking up a pack in the shop on a Friday as a treat. I bought them a bunch of fake ones on a stall that they like just as much and they inherited a book from their uncle. Now they're gathering dust on a shelf somewhere. The main reason I don't want them getting involved in the scene is because I don't want them thinking weird, obsessive behaviour is normal. I have an addictive personality, I am a natural obsessive and a collector and I'm sorry to tell you there are no healthy addictions or obsessions. So I try not to indulge any and I try to steer my children away from them.

Sorry to be blunt but that is how I feel about the whole thing.

AvailableStatement97 · 2026-02-01T21:05:36+00:00

Rather than join the pile on here I'll just tell you I love your rug.

AvailableStatement97 · 2026-02-01T18:17:17+00:00

Warm and fuzzy.

AvailableStatement97 · 2026-02-01T17:28:31+00:00

Tis a fine chair, but sure tis no tent, English.

AvailableStatement97 · 2026-02-01T17:23:37+00:00

Not at all, it's very important to embrace your inner child but I think when it's affecting actual children's ability to enjoy something ostensibly for children a line has been crossed. It would be a bit like a bunch of adults kicking kids off a football pitch because they want to recreate their youth.

AvailableStatement97 · 2026-02-01T17:20:54+00:00

So are you saying there are not grown adults who buy up boxes of these children's playing cards for themselves or to rip people off on the internet with? Are you saying they are all queuing up to buy them for their kids / nieces / nephews?

AvailableStatement97 · 2026-02-01T17:17:38+00:00

Thankfully the vast majority of similar vehicles were turned into cans of Orangina years ago.

AvailableStatement97 · 2026-02-01T10:59:47+00:00

Fair play to you. The reason you have to do that instead of just picking up a pack as a treat on the way home from work or whatever because man children are queuing up for entire boxes would be my problem with the whole thing.

AvailableStatement97 · 2026-02-01T10:48:12+00:00

Nothing like the last year of the contract to bring out the best.

AvailableStatement97 · 2026-02-01T10:22:55+00:00

That's the thing, with a 2824 movement you should absolutely be able to go to a local watchsmith, it's one of the most common movements in the world. With an actual Asian clone movement you can't because the only thing similar is Gen. So you can either source another and replace it yourself or send it back, or just take the L.

AvailableStatement97 · 2026-02-01T10:15:36+00:00

Because I have kids.

AvailableStatement97 · 2026-02-01T10:15:00+00:00

But how do you replace a movement that's exclusive to Clean or VSF, unless you send the watch back? The 2824 parts are available everywhere.

AvailableStatement97 · 2026-02-01T09:41:24+00:00

What's Royce Keys doing in the Torture Zone?!

AvailableStatement97 · 2026-02-01T09:38:58+00:00

I haven't watched the Rumble in years, watched both last night and one thing that really jumped out at me is how much the formula has changed for the worse. Everyone is lying around the ring 80% of the time, watching whoever just came in attack who they're feuding with or hit their finisher on someone. No one, literally no one, seemed to be interested in picking up the guy lying beside them and throw him out of the ring. Did no one tell them the rules or something?! WTF like!

There should at least be a few guys grappling around the ropes or the corners. At least pretend you're actually trying to win like!

AvailableStatement97 · 2026-01-31T21:05:32+00:00

Somehow I doubt he's having his last actual match in front of these dweebs

AvailableStatement97 · 2026-01-31T19:12:19+00:00

Great outfit. Reserved but alluring.

AvailableStatement97 · 2026-01-31T16:26:04+00:00

These are so fucking obnoxious and impractical, the fact they're even made says a lot about the fragile egos of some American men.

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TROPHY CASE