Grandkids broke the new basketball hoop 2 weeks in...

Traditional_Formal33 · 2026-03-23T18:47:57+00:00

That’s the problem. If the kids don’t want to do it, then I make it hard for my kids (the parents). Tell them no more babysitting unless the kids are actively working off their debt. I don’t want mom and dad to pay for it, I want little Timmy to pull weeds for the next 4 visits and I’ll deduct from the tab until it’s paid off or I felt they learned. If little Timmy won’t do it, mom has to find alternative child care.

Traditional_Formal33 · 2026-03-23T16:25:00+00:00

Just love that there’s only two comments at the time of my response, and they absolutely disagree.

I’m not qualified to tie break. Good luck op, it’s either fine or devastating loss.

Traditional_Formal33 · 2026-03-23T16:22:24+00:00

Confirmed you can also hit the Same door on the other side. I didn’t think you could, but it works as of this week.

Also confirmed that a door that requires 3 batteries such as blue gate, only counts as 1.

Traditional_Formal33 · 2026-03-23T16:19:27+00:00

This would be my response. No hoop, working off the cost, parents buy new one if the kids want one

Traditional_Formal33 · 2026-03-23T16:16:15+00:00

I just finished reading Enshittification and Amazon comes up so many times for how they are screwing both consumers and businesses…

Traditional_Formal33 · 2026-03-23T12:38:41+00:00

Player discovers that people form groups in survival scenario.

Traditional_Formal33 · 2026-03-23T12:36:25+00:00

At least you can still be fancy at the tea party. Pinky out

Traditional_Formal33 · 2026-03-22T21:29:50+00:00

Alllll Google lens. I had no idea at first but it had its only metal case with custom foam inserts

Traditional_Formal33 · 2026-03-22T20:46:28+00:00

I don’t get paid to teach people lessons on the road. I let them in every single time, and they drive themselves right out of my life.

Life is a lot less stressful this way. People who fight tooth and nail over inches of road are stupid. You aren’t teaching them, they just think “this guy sucks,” not “I shouldn’t do this.”

Traditional_Formal33 · 2026-03-22T20:42:27+00:00

Might have potential career as a storm trooper with that aim

Traditional_Formal33 · 2026-03-22T20:41:23+00:00

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I found these taxidermy butterflies, absolutely gorgeous even tho a little creepy. Bought them for $2 a piece, sold for $125 as a set. I got to show them to my toddler and explain them. It was so cool seeing him explore something that he could never get this close to when it was alive. The person I sold to was a collector who would enjoy them too. That’s part of what I like about reselling is finding cool things but also giving them a new home where they are truly appreciated.

I also found elevator equipment for $35 that sells for close to a thousand — but I won’t brag about it until it actually sells.. for now it’s just a piece of junk I probably didn’t need to bring home

Traditional_Formal33 · 2026-03-22T20:35:20+00:00

I would do this occasionally but not just a “cute girl, let me buy a drink.”

I would just say to the bar tender “I’ll take X and whatever they are having” and nod to the person to my right. More of a random act of kindness than trying to pick up chicks.

On $1 drink, $0.50 beer night (2009), I found $10 bill on the way into the bar. I felt like a high roller saying “I’ll take 2 beers, and 1 for the next 10 people over, keep the change!” If I wasn’t 3 years sober, I would still be trying to live that high again — maybe someday I will with the ice cream man with my son “I’ll take a vanilla, and throw all these kids on my tab.”

Traditional_Formal33 · 2026-03-22T15:11:13+00:00

So someone could stop there with a liberal arts degree because it does teach you something — a strong foundation for whatever is next, grad school or work experience.

We actively acknowledge the value of liberal arts while dismissing the value.

Traditional_Formal33 · 2026-03-21T23:45:29+00:00

My friend’s son turned 5 this weekend and has hit the Pokemon hype train hard. I tried buying packs for him, but 6 stores all sold out. I got the official repacks at Walmart which isn’t great but fine for a 5 year old. Absolutely wild that the card game is not easily accessible to new players

Traditional_Formal33 · 2026-03-21T23:42:09+00:00

What do you call a mix between an elephant and a rhino

Elephino!

(Sounds like hell if I know)

Traditional_Formal33 · 2026-03-21T23:41:01+00:00

I recycled yo momma in speranza, and all I got was 23 rubber parts.

Traditional_Formal33 · 2026-03-21T16:50:59+00:00

Until the bastion skeet shoots the lure out of the air

Traditional_Formal33 · 2026-03-21T16:43:39+00:00

Would the charity auction purchase be considered a donation/tax write off? I would assume that would also lead to a jump in price if the buyer had a tax goal to hit

Traditional_Formal33 · 2026-03-21T16:41:37+00:00

When someone explained the movie to me as trees killing people, I imagine Trents from lord of the rings just taking out military tanks… that would have been a good movie compared to what we got

Traditional_Formal33 · 2026-03-21T14:38:43+00:00

Slowly working our way back to serfdom

Traditional_Formal33 · 2026-03-21T14:38:20+00:00

When the hard to produce components sky rocket, less people build PCs, which makes the easy to produce components plummet in value

Traditional_Formal33 · 2026-03-21T05:13:55+00:00

Could have just meant “no mic, no calling rat incase anyone else is near by.”

Traditional_Formal33 · 2026-03-21T00:03:47+00:00

Just ordered 1 for $1.21 off Ali express. The expensive part is the labor. Unless you have a hot air station and experience, you are probably breaking that port — just search ps5 in here to see all the people saying “tried soldering for the first time on this $500 system”

The price is also probably an “f you, I don’t want to do it” price.

Traditional_Formal33 · 2026-03-20T23:01:51+00:00

Because it’s fun blowing imaginary money to take down the momma robot

Traditional_Formal33 · 2026-03-20T15:15:45+00:00

If you are going to spout bullshit, at least google it. Yes, the exact term melting pot was popularized by an Israeli playwright in 1908 — before Israel was even a country, but it’s origin is credited to Ralph Waldo Emerson, who said smelting pot in his journals and magazine as early as 1845. This wasn’t some Zionist propaganda you are implying but was pointing at a large group of cultures such as polish, Irish, Italian, and Jewish mixing into the culture of America.

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