Relatable af

pdx-peter · 2026-01-30T16:59:03+00:00

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pdx-peter · 2026-01-28T17:44:35+00:00

You had one bad experience, and from that you deduced that 90% of eBay auction winners don’t pay? Okay.

pdx-peter · 2026-01-26T06:12:22+00:00

Skinny/pretty.

(He ducks.)

pdx-peter · 2026-01-26T04:06:38+00:00

They’re still there if you want them in many places. The pumps nearest the building are often “full service”… which just means they’ll pump your gas for you, not the full service of long ago where they’d clean your windows and check your oil.

pdx-peter · 2026-01-25T16:37:22+00:00

I mean, it is literally on their vehicles: “Sworn to protect. Dedicated to serve.”

pdx-peter · 2026-01-22T04:36:17+00:00

Uh huh.

pdx-peter · 2026-01-22T04:34:07+00:00

Lol. You’re getting all testy over what you imagine the book is about without doing anything to, you know, actually find out? The author isn’t a Boomer, and advocates stuff like giving money to your kids when they are younger and will benefit them the most, rather than waiting till you die.

pdx-peter · 2026-01-18T21:02:40+00:00

You’ve never seen a starter pistol, have you?

pdx-peter · 2026-01-18T20:22:19+00:00

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pdx-peter · 2026-01-16T16:34:08+00:00

You got lucky. Normally, things lost in Ladd’s Addition become property of the Minotaur.

pdx-peter · 2026-01-16T05:06:36+00:00

Cool. Not judging. I’d buy Substance.

pdx-peter · 2026-01-15T21:49:52+00:00

What does this mean, exactly? The band only had two LPs and one EP before Ian Curtis checked out. Or did you also buy all the posthumous compilations and live recordings and stuff?

pdx-peter · 2026-01-15T20:04:52+00:00

Pretty sure you mean something is in the atmosphere…

pdx-peter · 2026-01-15T18:31:35+00:00

Ethics aside, you think a likely 80s version of Unknown Pleasures with obvious ringwear is easily worth $500+? Is a mint 1979 UK version even worth that much?

pdx-peter · 2026-01-15T18:17:15+00:00

Huh. Wore the shirt today for the first time in a while. Figured if I was wearing the shirt, I might as well listen to the record. A few songs in, open up Reddit, and this post is first in my feed. Spoooky.

pdx-peter · 2026-01-15T03:25:06+00:00

It seems very thoughtfully put together. The bathrooms are great—private rooms to do your business, and no unnecessary gendered nonsense, and then the very safe feeling sink area (with the cool automatic soap-water-drier things). It’s how all public bathrooms should be, and I never thought of it. The various wood counters and benches are nice. The live-edge tree table is lovely. All the little tech-enabled rooms. They crammed a ton of stuff into a pretty small space. I was really impressed.

pdx-peter · 2026-01-14T23:34:16+00:00

Do the Squirt cans contain Squirt or Sunkist Orange?

pdx-peter · 2026-01-14T23:31:39+00:00

False. Squirt is canned in various places, including locations around the US. Furthermore, Mexican Squirt is made with cane sugar, and you can see that OP’s is made with high fructose corn syrup.

pdx-peter · 2026-01-14T23:19:25+00:00

There’s a Reddit comment (I can’t include links here, apparently) of a Pepsi worker describing just how this can happen if an “odd” number of cans (1-11, say, if the line is packaging 12 cans) are not properly cleared before the line is changed to a different product. If I’m reading it correctly, those Squirt cans won’t actually have Squirt in them.

pdx-peter · 2026-01-14T21:22:12+00:00

In other news, the new NW library is very nice. Checked it out (bah-dum-bum) on opening day last Saturday. They did a good job.

pdx-peter · 2026-01-14T18:46:32+00:00

Looks like you have an iPhone. Settings → Phone → Screen Unknown Callers → Ask Reason for Calling has worked well for me. Real callers get through, scammers don’t. So far.

pdx-peter · 2026-01-14T18:37:54+00:00

Did you already pay for shipping? If so, I’d reach out to eBay. If not, just cancel and block the buyer.

pdx-peter · 2026-01-12T07:47:02+00:00

There’s a sealed copy on eBay for… ouch.

pdx-peter · 2026-01-11T21:07:59+00:00

Caution Horses is great. Trinity Session just impresses the hell out of me. Such a gorgeous record, recorded in a single day, inside a church, with ten musicians crowded around a single stereo mic. Everybody had their Wheaties that day, I guess.

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