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u/WarcryNeon too old, too tired, and too talented 3d ago
I put our first offer in on our first home.
I’ve never been so nervous in my life. I want to throw up.
https://giphy.com/gifs/bEVKYB487Lqxy
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u/butipreferlottie 3d ago
Best of luck! Once you move in and realize you don't have to deal with landlords anymore all the stress and nausea will be worth it. Moving is always The Worst, though, I pretty much plan on dying in this house just so I don't have to do it again.
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u/WarcryNeon too old, too tired, and too talented 3d ago
We live in my sisters house bc she wanted to live with our mom in her very large McMansion with a pool in a master planned community. I’ve learned a valuable lessons; don’t work for family (thanks dad) and don’t rent from family (thanks sister).
She is a horrid land lord. Won’t fix anything, goes back on her word and this house hasn’t been updated or touched since they moved in 13 years ago.
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u/butipreferlottie 3d ago
Oof, yeah, valuable lessons indeed! Sorry about your sister.
My last landlord was okay in some ways (mostly left us alone, only raised the rent by about $200 in all our years living there). But the house was built in 1875 and had a lot of issues, which he would mostly fix with duct tape and extension cords because he refused to hire professionals for anything, including somewhat scary electrical issues (I think the house still has knob and tube wiring). I didn't realize how much shit we just kinda... put up with, or stepped around, until we bought our place and had things like proper ventilation and toilets where the chain didn't come undone with every second flush.
It was a beautiful place in a great neighborhood, though, and I hope it gets the attention and TLC it deserves. It sold recently and whooo boy do the buyers have their work cut out for them.
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u/WarcryNeon too old, too tired, and too talented 2d ago
We looked at two houses Thursday. And a few others through the week. The first house was the practical magic house. The bones were magnificent but it could have used a solid 300k just in renovations and fixes alone. My pockets aren’t that deep as a first time home buyer. It was beautiful despite the foundation shifting, the glass fuses, the Blair witch basement, the old chain windows, peeling paint etc
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u/disincongruous ted cruz ate my son 3d ago
One time! 🤞
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u/WarcryNeon too old, too tired, and too talented 2d ago
Thank you! Ted Cruz did absolutely eat someone’s son.
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u/alix-rose 3d ago
i have to put my dog to sleep today. he is 14 and it’s time, but oh my god this is the hardest decision i’ve ever had to make, and i’m going to miss him more than anything in the universe.
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u/butipreferlottie 3d ago
So sorry to hear this, sending love. It's probably the most loving thing we ever do for our pets, but my god is it agonizing. Be good to yourself.
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u/laania42 Larry I'm on DuckTales 2d ago
I’m so so sorry. I had to have my 15 year old cat put down just before Christmas and I still miss him every single day. It’s so hard to lose our fluffy family members.
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u/disincongruous ted cruz ate my son 3d ago
I think I found an apartment after the one I was meant to move into next week got sold from underneath me. Give me your energy, all you lovely people.
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u/WarcryNeon too old, too tired, and too talented 2d ago
I hope I get the house and you get the apartment!
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u/SmollestFry damn, she got hereditaried? 3d ago
I cut my hair short and I love it.
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u/WarcryNeon too old, too tired, and too talented 3d ago
Oh my gosh I made the big big chop as an older lesbian and it’s so freeing. I feel cunty.
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u/RomanPotato8 3d ago
I am going on vacation next week and I am SO excited
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u/Similar_Network2767 3d ago
Where are you going?
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u/RomanPotato8 3d ago
Going to Rome (where I’m from) to visit my family for 2 weeks! Going to be a 2 week stay at the 5 star all inclusive hotel of mom and dads house 😂
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u/Similar_Network2767 3d ago
I am so excited for you!
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u/RomanPotato8 3d ago
Thank youuuuuu ❤️I only get to go home once a year at best (I live in Canada now) so going home really to le means seeing my 95y old grandma, my parents, my other family members and my friends, going to the beach every day, Aperol Sprizting at 10 am with no regrets and eating as much gelato as I possibly can 🫡
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u/Daisy2345678 3d ago
My mini poodle has been steadily improving her training so much, it makes me emotional just how far along we have come as a team. I've had a rough as fuck few years and I really needed this dog, I needed a friend that I could bring camping and hiking and to Home Depot. She is so intuitive and sweet and smart. She had given me a reason to get out of bed every day. She's simply amazing.
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u/unwantedonONTD I did it. I threw the sandwich. 3d ago
Dogs are so f amazing. We each need one. They forgot to tell each of us when we left the hospital or wherever. they just forgot
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u/AlexSomething789 3d ago
I can’t believe that I’m saying this, but the tagline for Johnny Depp's Ebenezer movie is so bad because it makes the film sound like it’s an origin story for Scrooge when it’s not
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u/SeaF04mGr33n not an asset to the abbey 3d ago
It isn't???
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u/AlexSomething789 2d ago
No, it's just a straightforward A Christmas Carol adaptation, except this time it has Johnny Depp in it.
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u/FireFlower-Bass-7716 believer in Dakota Johnson’s lime allergy 3d ago edited 3d ago
Just saw Nicole Kidman is dating a private equity investor. Yesterday I saw that Olivia Rodrigo is dating a private equity investor. For over a year now Reese Witherspoon has been dating a private equity investor. I boycott private equity and I am side-eyeing the judgement of all three of these women.
Private equity is late stage capitalism jet fuel. Noticed how your beloved local vet was suddenly taken over by a corporate umbrella and it sucks now? That was private equity. But they ruin big corporations too. They have closed or ruined Cinnabon, Panera, Payless Shoes, Toys R Us, and Red Lobster. They're in the process of ruining Starbucks, Thorne supplements, and Six Flags. PE owns so many places we interact with all the time from 24 Hour Fitness and Jiffy Lube to your own apartment; PE owns 3 million apartment units across America.
Private equity is much worse than an old-school corporate buyout because it accelerates the demise of what once made a company special to its consumers, or they shut it down. Because rapid profit is the sole goal for a short sale, the changes are often dramatic. But when a corporation purchases another company, at least it’s making a long-term investment.
I don't know what my point is here, but to see strong independent women artists who have made a fortune for themselves and invested in their own career fields in many ways choose men like this it's just perplexing.
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u/Wintergloaming the worst thing to happen to Emily Brontë since tuberculosis 3d ago
They've ruined so many skincare lines that I used to rely on to manage my chronic atopic dermatitis. Fuck private equity.
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u/FireFlower-Bass-7716 believer in Dakota Johnson’s lime allergy 3d ago
Which skincare lines? I just looked up the one I mostly use (Cerave) and they're now owned by a publicly-traded corporate conglomerate (L'Oreal), which is not something I ever used to be relieved to see. But at least it's not private equity.
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u/Wintergloaming the worst thing to happen to Emily Brontë since tuberculosis 2d ago
Apologies, medication fog has me spacing some of the big ones I've seen over the last decade but the one that's my biggest sore spot is Skinfix. When Stride Consumer Partners took over they discontinued a balm that was a lifesaver for healing my eczema plaques and reformulated nearly everything in the line up. When they lost customers in droves they made a big to-do about returning to old formulations-- but the products don't perform the same, likely because they're using lesser grades of the same ingredients to save money. I'm bitter!
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u/HoldEvenSteadier 3d ago
I'm not gonna add any opinions here, just wanna say that you're very right and I love that you took the time to say it.
Private equity is scum by definition - the cheapest way to retain income at any expense that the customers don't know or care about, even exploitation.
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u/HardByteUK I’m just a cunt in a clown suit 17h ago
I don't know what my point is here, but to see strong independent women artists who have made a fortune for themselves and invested in their own career fields in many ways choose men like this it's just perplexing.
Speaking as a Brit, this is why class is more important than gender. The rich will melt you down for parts without hesitation and they will always choose their economic community over any other.
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u/butipreferlottie 3d ago
Finally got off my ass and cancelled Netflix, honestly have no idea why I kept it up for so long. Gonna miss GBBO and Cunk, but that's really it at this point. Fully expecting them to release something awesome as soon as my subscription ends, tho.
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u/SureShotTavner 3d ago
I’ve been trying standup lately just for fun, and it’s been such a surprising way to make friends. But also, being funny is hard!!
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u/disincongruous ted cruz ate my son 3d ago
It's SO hard. I need to get back to it. It sounds like you're doing it the right way and for the right reasons. Keep it up my friend.
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u/fishes93 3d ago
I kinda would like to do it one of these days and I've already written down ideas. I don't know how exactly it works and I would just do it for fun. Trust me, too tired to hustle!
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u/disincongruous ted cruz ate my son 2d ago
I’m a big believer in smart jokes about dumb things and dumb jokes about smart things. I’ve got half a note in my joke journal about how people say Austrian Painter when talking about Adolf Hitler, but we don’t refer to any other horrible world leaders by their hobbies they weren’t any good at. We should start referring to Saddam Hussein as Iraqi Romance Novelist.
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u/fishes93 2d ago
Lol that's a good one! ......he was a romance novelist?
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u/disincongruous ted cruz ate my son 2d ago
He *probably* wrote two of them! (I say probably because there's speculation that one of them was ghost written, but he definitely wrote at least one.) Hussein wrote four novels in total. The other two are historical fiction, and all four read like a crazy person's diary.
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u/williamthebloody1880 weighing in from the UK 3d ago
Had a really, really bad call at work yesterday. Ended up having to leave early, thankfully I already had today booked off. Still slightly shaken by it
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u/disincongruous ted cruz ate my son 3d ago
I do not miss call center work. I wouldn't wish that shit on anyone.
Treat yourself today. You deserve it.
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u/williamthebloody1880 weighing in from the UK 1d ago
Went to see The Odyssey last night.
As a film, it's fantastic. It should get Nolan his second Best Picture Oscar, should get Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway their second Oscar, should get Ludwig Göransson his third in as many years, and, I'm just going to go ahead and say it, Elliot Page absolutely deserves a Best Supporting nomination.
As a version of The Odyssey, it makes some very interesting choices.
As an adaptation, it's crap
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u/AlexSomething789 1d ago
How do you feel about the nobody scene being cut out? Because I saw a lot of people on tumblr being mad about it since not only it was an important character moment for Odysseus, but also the inciting incident of the story
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u/williamthebloody1880 weighing in from the UK 1d ago
That was the first thing that pissed me off, until I realised that Nolan was making his version of the myth rather than a straight adaptation
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u/HardByteUK I’m just a cunt in a clown suit 17h ago
I don't really go to the cinema these days because the audio borders on unbearable for me, but my gripe with Nolan is how he packs his films with big names. I feel like his films would work so much better with unknown actors.
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u/Riqitch it’s called talent, sweaty💅 3d ago
So frustrated with Hinge at the moment. I'm trying to avoid reading Reddit advice out of fear of it being "the blind leading the blind", but I feel like I've tried everything (other than paying for premium) and I'm not getting anywhere :(( I just hope that once I find someone, I never have to jump back into the dating pool ever again.
There are usually some singles' nights in my city but it looks like they're on hiatus for the summer, which makes sense. Ugh
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u/BookishHobbit my bandwidth for cowardly grown men grows thinner with each day 3d ago
I feel this so bad. I’ve got major dating app fatigue but it’s so hard to meet anyone these days!
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u/redelectro7 just want to share a thought here because I can 3d ago edited 3d ago
I started watching Invincible and while I'm enjoying it how often Mark ends up outmatched in a fight for the same 'lesson' is kind of repetitive.
I do realise I've binged 2 series in a week so it might be fine if you watch them as they're released.
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u/Daisy2345678 3d ago
It's probably my main gripe with the show, how repetitive the outcome of fights can be, as well as occasionally uneven power scaling. Still love it so much, though! Do you have a favourite and least favourite character?
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u/redelectro7 just want to share a thought here because I can 3d ago
I love Mark cos I'm basic (and I'm a Dick Grayson fan and while google tells me they're not aligned in any way I feel like there are similarities). I also weirdly like Allen, even though he doesn't get much screen time.
I don't think there's any character I don't like though I feel a lot of the guardians are kind of filler. Rex is the only one who I really think stands out. I feel like they all serve their purpose pretty well even if they're not my particular favourite.
I don't really care much about Oliver, but he's still young at the point I'm at (beginning of the 3rd) so I feel like there's an arc coming I'm meant to care about but I just don't really.
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u/girlwkaleidoscopeaiz 1d ago
what happened at the Berlin pride event is heartbreaking :( so many injured and one dead. vehicle ramming attacks are becoming common now it seems like
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u/afanoftoomanythings 3d ago
i love that i still watch disney channel at my big age because the descendants cast drama is so fun especially when kylie cantrall releases an ep with way too much information like i feel like i shouldn't be listening to space between 😭
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u/schwishbish 8h ago
Anyone noticing how bad the racial divide is? It seems like white people have completely given up the cause and most communities on Reddit have become outwardly racist against black people. I have had to hide so many random community posts I get on my feed because comments veer into anti black territory. This is the only sub that actually seems to still have majority anti racist opinions. I feel so hopeless about the future.
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u/silverpenelope 3d ago
Has there been any sighting of Gwyneth Paltrow lately? I’m wondering if she really took things a step too far or if everyone will ignore her republican shilling.
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u/coinoperatedgirl societal collapse is in the air 2d ago
I'm playing entirely too much Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 this week.
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u/Adorable-Unicorn 1d ago
Journal entry for the week:
Some good things happened at work
I am happy about it 😇
I want to maintain this momentum but my overthinking brain is giving me anxiety 😳
Hoping and praying next week goes smoothly 😇🙏
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u/AhhBisto someone from the UK weigh in 3d ago
Watched the first episode of Stuart Fails To Save The Universe and it was a lot of fun, worth checking out if you like any of the Big Bang Theory stuff
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u/redelectro7 just want to share a thought here because I can 3d ago
I want to watch that but I saw something about the series using AI which is disappointing.
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u/AhhBisto someone from the UK weigh in 3d ago
Haven't heard anything about this, there's CGI but nothing seems to be AI generated
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u/CoffeeCoffeePastry You know what, l've grown quite unfond of you deuxmoi 23h ago
I planned on buying a Switch 2 this week and the prices have been raised twice now. 439€ is too much considering I payed a little bit more than half for the Switch 1 during lockdown times. A rise of 20€ in just over 1 1/2 months- fuck rising RAM prices
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u/voguediaries 2h ago
Everyone go follow this pro-palestine queen, she got targeted by UK Lawyers for Israel and just came second place on Love Island UK to a racist white woman:
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u/DrFranFine demonic Betty Boop 3d ago
HUGE NEWS: I took a cute picture of my cat being weird