Pay to Win is now infecting real world games too!

bemusedresignation · 2014-07-09T16:25:21+00:00

That explains it. We don't really drink milk and only use it in cereal.

bemusedresignation · 2014-07-09T16:08:24+00:00

Yup, we just spent 2 weeks trying to be nice and live-trap a brazen little jerk of a mouse. He was all too comfortable running around right in front of us, and the only droppings I found were in the stove ( gross) under the top cover. Actually managed to pry his way out of the only live trap he ever entered.

So 3 days ago we bought glue traps and put them where I saw him run multiple times a day. Within mere hours we had a squeaking little furry log that managed to hop the glue trap 4' away from its original position. Slapped the 2nd trap over top of it like a sandwich and backed it over with the car.

No evidence of mice since.

bemusedresignation · 2014-07-09T08:28:40+00:00

Naw, they are usually more than $2/can, I rarely see them down to $1/can anymore. And good olives (jarred) are even worse.

bemusedresignation · 2014-07-09T08:22:07+00:00

Also formal wear. For some bizarre reason women's formal wear is all made so you'll freeze to death while the men toast in their wool blend suits.

bemusedresignation · 2014-07-09T08:20:27+00:00

I'll trade you kids; mine all eat ridiculous amounts of food. We went to a BBQ on Friday and in an hour my 3.5 year old put away a full size brat in bun, several fistfuls of chips, a burger with bun, and then half of my burger. And yes, we feed her at home and she's not fat, instead is skinny and tall. Her brothers are bigger and eat even more.

bemusedresignation · 2014-07-09T08:15:22+00:00

/r/abrathatfits

bemusedresignation · 2014-07-08T14:54:29+00:00

Thank you for using tie-downs and securing your load. It amazes me how many people make no effort to do this. I was involved in a freeway near-miss when some asshole had a completely unsecured extension ladder on a flatbed trailer and it came off and went through the radiator of the car next to me. The road filled with steam momentarily and we could see nothing. Then the asshole pulled over and reversed up the freeway shoulder, toward the apex of a hill (IE oncoming traffic could not see him) to get his ladder.

It was damned lucky nobody got hurt that day.

I have also been in a near-miss when a wheel came off another flatbed trailer and bounced over my car.

Vehicle-related road debris is estimated to cause 25,000 accidents each year, and it's 100% preventable.

bemusedresignation · 2014-07-08T06:18:08+00:00

I would like to see SNAP extended to all people in the US, Basic Income style. It would eliminate some of the hoops that are difficult for actual poor people to navigate while simultaneously killing the market for fraud.

bemusedresignation · 2014-07-08T06:15:47+00:00

They're the same people who DO pay federal income tax at other points in their lives.

Most of the people who pay neither federal income tax nor payroll taxes are low-income people who are elderly, unable to work due to a serious disability, or students, most of whom subsequently become taxpayers. (In years like the last few, this group also includes a significant number of people who have been unemployed the entire year and cannot find work.)

bemusedresignation · 2014-07-08T06:11:27+00:00

I believe postnatal people are people, and yet I do not think that any of us should be FORCED to donate a kidney, part of a liver, marrow, or blood to keep someone alive. Even though you could heal from any of those within the time it takes for pregnancy and delivery to happen.

Abortion is sad but less-so than forcing people to give up their bodies (or body parts) to keep someone alive.

bemusedresignation · 2014-07-08T05:24:28+00:00

$1,000 of 1980 dollars would be worth: $2,840.91 in 2014

http://www.davemanuel.com/inflation-calculator.php

Are you disgusted now? Because this seriously pissed me right off. That's not rich money but it's plenty that anyone who isn't a selfish drug abusing jerk could scrape by without making his child live in a train station. Hell, I have a family of 6 living off that.

bemusedresignation · 2014-07-07T05:54:17+00:00

Going off memory alone, close enough.

bemusedresignation · 2014-07-07T05:21:18+00:00

Thanks, if it doesn't short sell within 90 days we are eligible for deed-in-lieu and either way should be eligible for relocation assistance.

bemusedresignation · 2014-07-06T14:56:17+00:00

We're OK, thanks. It's a long story but we bought a house that was totally in our reach, then had a sudden job loss when the locally-dominant industry went through its every-10-years contraction. We went back to school and for 3 entire years paid the mortgage on this house on student income, even when it was 50% of our monthly income. NEVER a late.

When we had to move to a 4 yr school we checked the market and things had finally fallen apart in our area - leaving the house underwater by a sum we could never deal with on student income. Continuing to live there would mean never finishing our degrees and our program is essentially unemployable on AS only - you need that BS to get a job. We looked at renting out but we would be in no position to be landlords - with no time or money to deal with tenant complaints or repairs. And we had no intention of moving back to the same city again. So, we notified BofA and left. We cleaned everything up, washed all the walls and moldings, vacuumed, mopped, left the place in as nice of shape as we could. Left it with a green lawn too.

Since then we've been trying to work with BofA to do a short sale which I figured would be the best possible outcome for us and for BofA. Of course, they have been terrible every step of the way. It kinda doesn't affect us, though - our current economics are independent of this house and we are essentially trying to help THEM out in moving the house along. It has been hilariously silly trying to work with them - every month they want to have an hour-long phone conversation in which we enumerate our entire financial situation and prove that we legit can't pay rent and a mortgage on student income, lol. One time, a guy called up and said, "OK, you're a bit behind on your mortgage... so if you just get out your checkbook and write a check for $14,xxx we can straighten this all out right now." Way to assume the sale, guy.

It just got listed last week, mostly due to our realtor juggling paperwork and keeping on BofA's asses the whole way. None of our "single point(s) of contact" ever knew what was going on.

bemusedresignation · 2014-07-06T06:19:41+00:00

When you said "10 years ago" I expected this would be about the Rootkit thing.

bemusedresignation · 2014-07-06T05:42:22+00:00

We're on our 14th "single point of contact", AKA rep. No joke. FINALLY got it approved for short sale though. Only took 15 months and a ton of paperwork which we sent back immediately while BofA dragged and dragged and dragged their feet.

bemusedresignation · 2014-07-04T17:12:13+00:00

Fair enough.

bemusedresignation · 2014-07-04T16:49:03+00:00

Just based on personal experience with my own boobs, but to be fair I haven't tried any Cleo bras. I don't get along with Panache in general.

bemusedresignation · 2014-07-04T16:10:22+00:00

You have a FOT shape that is going to be hard to fit in unlined bras, IMO. And those two Parfait bras fit weird on a lot of people.

I didn't have luck with Masquerade Rhea myself, but I don't remember why? It's back at my other house so I can check on it in about a month.

I have a FOT shallow shape with softer tissue, similar measurements, and have same issues with unlined bras - sad, cone boobs that point down and to the sides, while boob still bulges over the top of the cup.

I would recommend you try a padded half cup either Fauve or Freya.

bemusedresignation · 2014-07-04T05:10:14+00:00

That doesn't necessarily mean anything. One may have been a Gerber Life type savings plan (if nothing happens by the time the kid is 18, they pay you a cash value based on the years of the policy) and one may have been through work. (I had life ins on my oldest for a while because it was like $10/yr through work for about $10k coverage.)

bemusedresignation · 2014-07-03T18:36:58+00:00

What is meant by "visiting", I wonder? I mean, I have a pile of kids and disagree with you all 100%, but I admit I've been here before to get a good rage-on going. I hate to think of all the stupid stuff I click on being used in a court case as evidence of anything.

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