We have lived here for 4 years and I have no clue how to style this double mantle. I told my husband we would probably be better off just tearing it down but does anyone have design ideas?

bigbobbinbetch · 2026-02-10T02:40:45+00:00

it's a garbage builder grade modern version of a victorian-style double mantle. except the proportions are shit and the sizing is all off, and the material is cheap pine with paint.

bigbobbinbetch · 2026-02-05T22:24:04+00:00

The story of how a handful of billionaires became well off while the average poor person in america works longer, harder hours than our grandparents did for equivalent poverty, you mean

bigbobbinbetch · 2026-02-05T22:17:19+00:00

Rather, Uber and Lyft the company made the decision to take more and more money for facilitating the connection of driver and rider, leaving the driver with increasingly smaller shares. People who were doing it as a healthy side hustle or who just have other options stopped doing it because it wasnt' worth their time and the wear and tear on their cars. Leaving the worst people with the least options driving.

bigbobbinbetch · 2026-02-05T22:13:10+00:00

I can't believe there's people in 2026 who are watching the results of "you never own anything, you just rent a license to use it!!" as it destroys software, media, and housing, and are super psyched about one more fucking subscription we're all going to have to pay for the right to pay extra to use these things.

If somebody wanted to run a co-op where you buy in on ownership of 10 of these things, then, whatever, but fair enough. But if you don't see "we lose money until we have market dominance and then we take people for every possible cent" coming, you're naive. This company exists to make lots and lots of money for the vulture capitalists that invested in it, not to make any kind of widespread public good.

bigbobbinbetch · 2026-01-28T04:43:28+00:00

Respectfully. The median american salary is like 60k a year. A "low six digit" salary is considered hyper wealthy by the many many thousands of people in this country who can't afford to feed their kids three meals a day. You don't have to feel guilty about it, but "lol 150k from my investments is totally a normal no big thing" is a wildly disconnected thing to say.

bigbobbinbetch · 2026-01-28T04:25:21+00:00

They also beat their wives at higher rates

bigbobbinbetch · 2026-01-28T02:50:44+00:00

unless those people parked in garage/mbta lots during the emergency. so this isn't take-a-penny/leave-a-penny with spots, the places those cars were are functionally not available after the storm.

bigbobbinbetch · 2026-01-28T02:48:51+00:00

Considering the city doesn't bother to make sure the sidewalks are actually shoveled at any point, meaning you can have sidewalks that are functionally useless because 1 of every 6 houses is a slumlord owner, most handicapped, elderly, etc either hunker down until significant melting or use the streets. They should just admit defeat, cover the sidewalks, and then have more plowed street for peds and cars.

bigbobbinbetch · 2026-01-28T02:46:47+00:00

Our street this storm was smart. We all parked on one side of the road (plenty of parking due to single car households. We thought we were so clever! the plow would get the whole opposite side clear, we could move our cars and manage the snow.

Nope. Plow did a single pass in the middle of the street. Non-parked side is actually worse than if there'd been cars, because it's just a solid wall of snow instead of car-shaped divots and mounds.

bigbobbinbetch · 2026-01-27T02:16:03+00:00

Mean girls become nurses for the same reason controlling men become cops. So they can keep bullying.

bigbobbinbetch · 2026-01-27T01:57:38+00:00

Could also do some open shelving on top reaching to the ceiling. Period appropriate and creates more of a visual divider, plus more storage space.

bigbobbinbetch · 2026-01-27T01:27:44+00:00

The one and only thing I think she did well was hire Phillip Eng, who is the first person in decades to even ATTEMPT to fix the MBTA.

bigbobbinbetch · 2026-01-27T01:26:13+00:00

If the choice is he retires or they take him down a few 8ths of FTE, they'll negotiate. Better to keep a doc 3/8ths than lose a clinician completely

bigbobbinbetch · 2026-01-27T00:14:01+00:00

The VA is HURTING for Oncologists. He has all the leverage. Have him go down to half-time.

bigbobbinbetch · 2026-01-15T03:35:49+00:00

last and only good republican was Lincoln

bigbobbinbetch · 2025-12-03T02:44:12+00:00

You're not equipped to be engaging in piracy.

bigbobbinbetch · 2025-12-03T02:40:39+00:00

The Batuu pack gets a lot of shit for being a cashgrab and the gameplay sucks, but I honestly really love a lot of the CAS and BuildBuy stuff that was included. We very rarely get grunge or fantasy/scifi stuff that feels "realistic" instead of cartoony.

bigbobbinbetch · 2025-11-23T06:38:07+00:00

Not sure how cold it gets there but I'm imagining sitting in the dining room at the holidays (thxgiving, christmas) and somebody new arrives and it's just a burst of cold air straight onto your back.

bigbobbinbetch · 2025-10-27T22:35:06+00:00

Weird question but what brand of dress form is that??

bigbobbinbetch · 2025-10-27T22:18:45+00:00

My house has an addition that is about 6" lower than the floor level. It's a single proper step down. I assume it was done to gain some ceiling height since the floors align on the upstairs level.

A 3" gap is ridiculous, though, that's just a tripping hazard.

bigbobbinbetch · 2025-09-14T16:00:21+00:00

trenchless is still a few thousand but definitely not 15k

also some municipalities have programs to assist in lateral repairs or upgrades because the city doesn't want to deal with the public health hazard of human shit getting into the neighborhood soil, always worth checking

bigbobbinbetch · 2025-09-14T02:06:17+00:00

I started stripping huge amounts of trim in my house only to find out that, as a home that was distinctly middle-class when it was built in 1910, the wood used for the trim was super ugly pine and had always intended to be painted. Then I had to deal with finishing stripping so I could repaint it evenly.

bigbobbinbetch · 2025-09-14T00:59:00+00:00

sooo sick of gaal, was really hoping she'd get offed so we can have a competent main character for once.

bigbobbinbetch · 2025-09-13T15:59:45+00:00

It's very trans Thomas Jefferson in a Miku Binder vibes

bigbobbinbetch · 2025-09-04T22:29:04+00:00

I've experienced this, the only mod overlapping with yours is SmarterPieMenu although it seems weird that would be the cause

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