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    Pet Peeves: Aka Things That Make You Go "Gah!"

    in Everything Else

    On 4/15/2018 at 10:44 AM, Katy M said:

    Do you think there might be a difference whether merging early or zipper early, depending on how much traffic there is?  I'm asking this seriously.  I can understand how zipper merging would be more efficient in heavy traffic.  New York City, LA, Boston, other places.  But, when you live in a rural area, for example, I live in Vermont, and there's not that much traffic and traffic is very light a mile out from the merging area, and only has about 5 or 6 cars slowing up towards the merging point, wouldn't it just be better to get in behind the 5th car instead of driving past those 5 cars. We're not talking major traffic jam here.  Not even close.

    If these people are slowing down earlier than is absolutely required, then I would absolutely pass them and I wouldn't feel the least bit bad about it. I've got stuff to do and I don't have all day to do it. If people want to slow down miles beforehand to whatever the construction zone speed limit is, then they should expect to get passed and they shouldn't get upset about it. I already spend way too much time in my car. I've got zero patience for people like that - no matter how much or how little traffic there is.

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    Pet Peeves: Aka Things That Make You Go "Gah!"

    in Everything Else

    On 3/24/2018 at 11:51 AM, DeLurker said:

    That's my next step - I'll use it in the house and then go around the outside and dust near the house and any windows where they might be entering.  

    I'm used to the Ants of August when the little tiny ones come looking for water, but these were good sized ones - but not fire ants thank goodness.  We're already seeing a lot of fire ants this year since the last few months have been so wet.

    Ants find cinnamon to be poisonous to them. They will not cross it. We used it once to prevent their incursions to our apartment from the unit below ours where a complete slob lived. They were climbing the kitchen drain pipe and coming in from under the kitchen sink. My wife put cinnamon under/around the edges of the sink. It's not a permanent solution, unless you make sure it's always there. So, not great, but workable.

    On 3/24/2018 at 9:23 PM, Nordly Beaumont said:

    I know three people that have gotten Roombas  - they all love them. Two of them love them so much they've given the Roombas names and treat them like pets!

    I'm tempted to get a Roomba just to see if our orange tabby cat will ride it.

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    Pet Peeves: Aka Things That Make You Go "Gah!"

    in Everything Else

    On 3/23/2018 at 1:03 AM, AgentRXS said:

    My annoying next door neighbor is complaining that he has bugs in his kitchen (our kitchens are adjacent to each other)  so I was informed that I need to be home tomorrow to let the exterminator inspect my unit as well. Even though I've never seen a bug in the 5 years I've been living here,so presumably my cats do any exterminating for me.

    So now I have to use up a vacation day for no reason. I am pissed. I am also concerned that the pest control stuff will pose a risk to my cats. This is the same neighbor that comes onto his front porch every time I sit on mine, and smokes his cigarettes, and lets the smoke waft in my direction. I think I am going to talk to her about the smoking issue if she comes by tomorrow with exterminator.

    Take a fan with you onto your porch, aim at her, and set it on high. She'll get the message PDQ.

    On 3/23/2018 at 4:47 PM, bilgistic said:

    We were talking about vacuums a few days ago. I just vaccuumed and was reminded how astoundingly terrible my vacuum is (Hoover upright red plastic piece of shit). I would like to drop if off a tall building.

    I live in an 800-square-foot apartment and it takes half an hour to vacuum because I have to go over everything three to 10 times. Half of the time, it spits back out more cat hair and dirt than it just picked up.

    I need to start a GoFundMe for a new vacuum.

    Check out the Shark vacuums. My wife loves hers and got it for $100 or $150. I know you may still need a GoFundMe, but at least it'll be easier to reach. :)

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    Meri Brown and her Wet Bar of Tears

    in Sister Wives

    Just now, Gothish520 said:

    Cinnabons are AMAZING. I was really obsessed with them for a while. Then the one closest to me (about 20 minutes away), closed, and that was that. The ones in the grocery store are ok, but not like the shop ones were back in the day. 

    Cinnabons are why we ever bother to go to the Mall of America.

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    Meri Brown and her Wet Bar of Tears

    in Sister Wives

    Just now, Natalie68 said:

    I know I am weird but we had to sell my parents house after they died (dads gf stole all the equity before he passed and we had to sell or lose, no the police/APS/DA didn't do anything to her so she went and did it to another man, they got her out before she stole his house but I have heard she is still trying).  I don't even want to see a picture of the house.  They filmed some waterfront house hunter show from my home town and I could see my old house in the footage and it really upset me.  So I may have a warped way of looking at it.  I refuse to even go to my hometown and I only will step foot in the county because my sister still lives there.  Once she is gone, I will never go back.  Sometimes a memory needs to stay just that.

    I don't think you're weird. You grew up in that house. There are a lot of memories and a lot of sentiment attached to it. If it were your great-grandparents' house, you wouldn't feel as connected to it. Like I mentioned in my last post, I don't drive by my grandmother's house anymore. It just feels like my memories are being trampled. Clearly, you feel the same way about your parents' house. I think you're perfectly normal  - at least in this regard. Maybe you're weird in other ways! :D

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    Meri Brown and her Wet Bar of Tears

    in Sister Wives

    @MonicaM I agree! My mother's mother's house was sold some years ago. It was situated on its own block and my grandmother had a large garden at the opposite side of her block from the house. I enjoyed staying there when I was a child. However, I would never want to own it because what's the point? Everything that made it a place I wanted to go is gone. The cousins are grown, moved away, and have their own families, and my grandmother has passed away. Plus, when her house and the block on which it is sited were sold, someone came along and built two four-plexes over the area where my grandmother had her garden. It makes me claustrophobic just to look at it. In fact, whenever I am in that town now, I never drive by the house anymore because I can't stand to see the new buildings.

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    Meri Brown and her Wet Bar of Tears

    in Sister Wives

    20 minutes ago, Normades said:

    That sounds so cool.  I've always wanted to live in a small town.  Maybe someday when I retire.

    We dream of moving back there. It was great. Time seemed to pass more slowly. I worked from home full-time during that time. The car got turned on once every two weeks to go grocery shopping in Richland Center. The rest of the time we walked anywhere we went. Every Saturday morning we went for breakfast at Vicki's Cozy Cafe, and hit up Wolfie's Irish Inn for reubens around St Patrick's Day (once they started selling those). We have an Irish Wolfhound and he chased a young black bear out of our yard on a couple of nights. LOL.

    The best part of it? Honestly, the best parts were the quiet and lack of traffic, and being able to see the night sky in all its glory. Living in cities you forget how beautiful it is.

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    Meri Brown and her Wet Bar of Tears

    in Sister Wives

    · Edited by MrSmith

    2 hours ago, Kohola3 said:

    Especially in a podunk town like Parowan.  There are probably not a lot of charming little bistros in which to dine in the area.  If you Google it, Subway and the Dairy Freeze are in the top ten places to eat in town.

    Well, it's a town of 2800 people. I'm honestly surprised it has more than one cafe/restaurant at all. When we first moved to Muscoda, WI years ago, it had one restaurant that was open for mornings and lunch, and a bar/restaurant that was open for dinner/evenings. None of the other bars served food, except one that served shitty frozen pizza. Of course, Muscoda was only 1300 people when we moved there; so, smaller than Parowan.

    Edited to add: Though I have relatives that live in Cadott, WI, which is a town of between 2k and 3k people. The only restaurant is part of a gas station.

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    Janelle Brown: Smarter Than Your Average Brown (Maybe)

    in Sister Wives

    @Roslyn Thank you for the information! My wife and I have what I call "Midas Touch in reverse" and what she calls "a brown thumb": Every plant we attempt to keep alive very quickly crosses over into that great Plant Heaven in the sky. I like to think that I might eventually really invest myself into getting good at gardening. I realize, however, that day will never come because there's no possibility of it happening before I retire and, once I do retire, gardening will be too much work! LOL

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    Meri Brown and her Wet Bar of Tears

    in Sister Wives

    · Edited by MrSmith

    15 hours ago, Mindthinkr said:

    Of course it hasn’t. They’re just waiting for the golden Apple to fall into their laps like this reality show did. They are enabled, entitled half wits sometimes. Just know that I don’t hate them but what do they expect from life? If they aren’t willing to do much for themselves (get a job with all those mouths to feed Cody), why do they expect the world is going to do it (provide endlessly) for them? That we are going to love them because they are golden haired gods on tv (their probable opinion not mine). Well. Let’s see what hair brained scheme they can come up with next. 

    I’ll go sit in the corner now. 

    You know, I was going to comment that this should be "hare-brained scheme". Then I realized that any plan a rabbit could come up with would be far too advanced, well thought-out, and intelligent for these people. This, then, led me to the conclusion that you are exactly right: It is a "hair-brained scheme". Thank you for educating me today! :D

    13 hours ago, DakotaJustice said:

    as far as the kitchen goes, unless Meri has done some very expensive and extensive remodeling, I don't see a caterer being able to accomplish much. Note the tiny dishwasher next to the fridge.

    http://victoria-s-bed-and-breakfast-parowan.ibooked.ca/

     

    Jeebus! That thing looks like you can only fit dinnerware for two in it! It would take weeks to clean all the dishes for a wedding party using that.

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    Meri Brown and her Wet Bar of Tears

    in Sister Wives

    15 hours ago, LilWharveyGal said:

    How much do you want to bet she hasn't even set the wedding prices yet?  I smell an emergency meeting of the Brown brain trust.

    That's going to be a lonely and unproductive meeting. One brain cell isn't capable of much, especially when it's shared amongst five people and responsible for all of their autonomic functions.

    15 hours ago, LilWharveyGal said:

    Pardon me, I shouldn't have been so "trite" as to "wing it."  :)  I was thinking more of the nitty-gritty when I said pricing.

    So let's just say the price is $5000.  What does that include?  Does the B&B provide folding tables, chairs, an arbor, etc.?  If not, is there a limit to what sorts of furniture can be brought in?  Does the B&B make their kitchen available to caterers, and is it even large enough with the right tools for caterers to use?  What's the maximum capacity of the property, both staying in the rooms and how many guests can be set up outside?  What kind of decorations will they allow to be put up?  Are there noise ordinances in the neighborhood that would limit a DJ/band?  Is there a high season price and a different off-season price for those intrepid souls who prefer December weddings in Utah?  Is there an extra cleaning deposit or fee for these weekend long wedding parties?  Do Meri/Bonnie have any way of arranging extra off-site parking, if needed?  Etc etc etc.

    I'm willing to bet that none of this has been hashed out.

    Well, that's not very fair. I mean, I know gambling is legal, but the house always wins. Everybody wants to be the house; this time, that's you. I'm taking my money and going home! :D

    15 hours ago, Mahamid Frauded Me said:

    phew, I thought I heard a rumor the only thing spewing would be street taco's

    No, no, no. Everyone would be spewing ... their lunch, that is. What's truly amazing is that no one is spewing their lunch by dint of being in his presence.

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    All Episodes Talk: Let’s Talk About Dr Phil the Show

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    34 minutes ago, poeticlicensed said:

    To say that your 31 year old, seemingly functional son can't  live outside  your cocoon leads me to believe there's a lot of codependence going on.  

    I strongly suspect that should you go look up "codependence" in the dictionary, they'll be referenced with a "See also: Family on Dr. Phil S2039, E451" (or whatever actual season and episode they're on).

    Meri Brown and her Wet Bar of Tears

    in Sister Wives

    38 minutes ago, tabloidlover said:

    Of course it says single woman -- she is a single woman legally!  The government and banking industry do not recognize "spiritual marriage" for fucks sake!   

    *not a slam on you @Kyanight - she just frustrates the shit outta me.

    Well, technically, legally she is a divorced woman. Legally, a single woman is a woman who has never been married. For us "normals" (non-plyg), if you ask someone in her position what their relationship status is, they can opt for "divorced" or "single", but their legal status is "divorced".

    Source: My brother-in-law's ex-wife tried to claim her legal status was "single" when applying for Wisconsin State benefits for needy families and nearly got herself thrown in jail for fraud over it.

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    Meri Brown and her Wet Bar of Tears

    in Sister Wives

    11 minutes ago, Kyanight said:

    Seriously!  If any of your husbands had done this, how would you feel?  ESPECIALLY if he was getting sex from three OTHER women - so didn't want you anymore!  I don't think he was being deliberately cruel, but that was SOOOO thoughtless and unkind!

     

    2 minutes ago, Kohola3 said:

    I think you give him too much credit.  I think he knew what he was doing.

    Whether he did it intentionally or not, that requires a level of mean-spiritedness, vindictiveness, cruelty, and inhumanity of which I am not possessed and struggle to understand. There are other things he could have said that did not rise to that level and still communicated the totality of the situation between them effectively and clearly. Even if there weren't other things he could have said to get his point across, it's more important to have care for and mercy upon other human beings (especially one to which you were married and with whom you share a child) than it is to explain to the world what your relationship with that person is.

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    All Episodes Talk: Let’s Talk About Dr Phil the Show

    in Dr. Phil

    1 hour ago, Zahdii said:

    Hardly.  A suspicious person will simply make up a reason for why they should be suspicious.

    OK. I was going to reply and say that this is true and also far less funny than what I posted....... Then I read the rest of your post and was howling with laughter by the end of it. So, while I know you are deadly serious, you're also aces at creating comedy gold at the same time. I would like your post more than once if it were allowed!

    7 minutes ago, farmgal4 said:

    Seriously?  John Taffer?  This show is scraping bottom w/zero redeeming qualities.  Someone, ANYONE, should cancel this train wreck.

    I am very excited to watch that episode! I love Bar Rescue!

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    Meri Brown and her Wet Bar of Tears

    in Sister Wives

    12 minutes ago, DakotaJustice said:

    Dude, that photo is from 1889. Get over it. 

    Although he's proud because as I've always said, he gets off on thinking he's an outlaw. 

    LOL. Sorry, this makes me think of the lyrics to Lapdance by NERD:

    Quote

    I'm an outlaw
    Quick on the draw

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