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  1. Haus

    Home buying thread

    And in a nutshell you have just encapsulated one of the myriad of reasons that no matter how much it's "just how things work now" I plan on NEVER living anywhere where an HOA has any dominion over my home, let alone I "owe" it dues for the privledge of them bossing me around.
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    Home buying thread

    In the 50's it was common to do "pier and beam" Where you'd have rectangles of piers set deep into the soil (preferrably to bedrock) and then beams of concrete over them making rectangles. Then you'd do wood joists across and floor on top, a little like this : My grandparents house, built in...
  3. Haus

    Superstore

    My wife and I thought this was funny enough... up until they did the "He's an illegal immigrant and getting hauled away" episode. At that point we stopped and have never looked back. Wisdom which applies to series and dating.... Know when to date em... know when to dump em.
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    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

    Which, unfortunately, means it will tell them this is the EXACT TYPE OF MOVIE they need to start stenciling out and pushing into theaters....
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    You know you're getting old when.....

    "Doc.. when I look at your tits they seem small and unimpressive, and when I look at your ass it looks kinda lumpy... Is this something that happens to eyes as they get older? Or something that happens to your tits and ass?"
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    She needs an additional charge option where she will come up to the coffin, dump salt around your body, and scream "And this time you'll STAY DEAD" then walk off without talking to anybody. Related:
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Yes, but to do that they would need to hack my credentials, and wouldn't actually need the card (like Amazon). In this case they get the card, so it would be that they would put it into some new website that I don't have it registered to, or it would come across as a new account number using...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    That is not a bad idea at all. But at least some of the ass beating is diffused. Seems that Chase cancelled the card itself, but can differentiate and not cancel the websites and automatic payments. Then it also has a capacity to update the card info at a disturbingly large number of the...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    I know... amirite?
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Additional bonus thing which pisses off Haus today... Realizing you're going to need to get new underwear because the elastic on the boxers you have is giving up the ghost. And they're barely 15 years old.
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Already checked every pocket of every pair of pants I've worn in the last week. Checked floorboards of cars and under seats.. The worst part it I don't use the physical card that much, it's my google wallet pay card, etc... Tracked down the last few places I would have used the physical card...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    In today's episode of "Things that piss off Haus".. Losing the credit card I use for daily purchases. Now to deal with reporting it lost (no unidentified charges on it, so that's good). But it's the card that's ties to damn well everything, so I will get to go through a cascade of fixing...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I keep feeling like we haven't seen the bottom yet. That part of me that wants to see people on crypto twitter openly posting videos of them crying and .. as they would say... capitulating.
  16. Haus

    Post Your Pet

    I'll at least call this... Pet adjacent...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I find it entertaining that you might think it's ONLY BTC shitting it's bed. ;) I'm suddenly glad I have been sitting on a pile of uninvested cash and too lazy to have put it anywhere yet.
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    You know you're getting old when.....

    Related : You know you're old when your bowel regularity is a matter of personal pride.
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  22. Haus

    Westworld

    Well that's often the problem when people who want to work in "their own vision" into a classic IP. They start off with the IP in the space which made it great, then each iterative step from there they move it further from what made it great until they're pumping out drivel and wondering why...
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    Investing General Discussion

    In my org as a pre-sale engineering/architectural resource I'm usually the person who does the initial design, and I'm considered in the path of escalation. Also it's that way because I handle what are called "strategic" tier customers and if they aren't happy I don't make my money for the...
  25. Haus

    HDTVs

    Yes, she has Gig Fiber so streaming is an option here. Just trying to be as cost conscious as possible since she's retired and on a fixed income. (Which is why I'm looking for a way to get rid of the stupidly expensive DirectTV) I had heard some of the "Roku TVs" could integrate with a guide...
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    HDTVs

    OK, Question for you TV fancy pants big heads.... I want to find a solid new TV for my mom. Doesn't need anything massively fancy, probably in the 47-55" size range. Here's the thing though. She watches a grand total of two things on TV : Local channels for News/Sports/Soap Operas/The Price...
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    Investing General Discussion

    I still have the majority of the older phones @Mrs. Haus and I have retired over the last 10-12 years in a drawer in my desk and most still work. I keep one without a sim in it in my trunk, since if I'm on a roadtrip and someone steals my phone or there's an emergency, you can still make 911...
  29. Haus

    Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

    I need to find the clips, but there are some bits from interviews on the press tour for this where Weird Al and Ratcliffe are both completely keeping up the schtick. Ratcliffe saying "this is all true.. every bit of it"
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    That's 1/3 what it cost to redo my WHOLE KITCHEN.. INCLUDING APPLIANCES... Since he has returned...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Apparently there are a TON of good on and off ramps for fiat to MATIC.... If you're not in the US. But having any CC or bank account in the US blocks ya right on out of them. Maybe it's time to find a way to get an offshore account. heh
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    You know, to this day I'm still looking for a good and easy fiat on/off ramp to go directly onto $MATIC and not have to use the ETH/MATIC gateway (and ergo pay stupid ETH gas fees.)
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    Investing General Discussion

    I see this as a sign of the problems hitting the entire mobile phone market. Until there's another big leap forward in technology there will be more and more people realizing that their old phone can keep on truckin. With at most needing a $50 visit to a cel phone shop to slap in a new...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Wonder what's happening in $MATIC land.... on the 4 hour chart....
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    There's a reason the devs put the "penny pouch" in as a booby prize drop in the Hallow's End event in WoW.... That was a real thing. But you seem to be more than making up for it. Myself, I just now have a ton of candy and box of full sized bars staring me straight in the blood sugar... Of...
  37. Haus

    The Fast Food Thread

    Hell, I'm a leg guy. I'd happily buy an 8 piece all legs, and you can't get those anywhere. Well, nowhere fast food. You CAN order an "all leg plate" at Babe's. But that's another story.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Tonight's spread, and not a single kid has knocked on the door. Probably because a couple blocks down, unbeknownst to me, they threw a "Halloween carnival" on Saturday.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    So.. What are the over/under odds that since Elon has already mentioned extended the functionality of Twitter into realms like payments, and there's already a tipping option in the platform... that he standardizes on DOGE as the crypto underpinning of choice? heh (Trying to give the DOGE folks...