And in/around Yosemite, you lock your car to keep the bears out

Good to know, I thought silicon valley had a monopoly on that

Uneducated question: what do insurance agents do? Allstate more than doubled our premiums and I switched to USAA 100% online, where would the agent come in?

For $465k, my living room fridge has to be stainless!

I would definitely rather rent (or leave LA) than pay 465k for that

Back to the regularly scheduled programming of "what were they thinking??" It's the basement that really sets this one apart

https://www.redfin.com/OR/Portland/35-SE-32nd-Ave-97214/home/26612729

We had one of those come off in our previous home. Not due to shower banging unfortunately, if I recall correctly, it got cracked and then I just took it off. I replaced it with another tile rather...

Skip the one in Spokane then. There's a good number of old houses here, but it seems like people take everything to the dump when they remodel. It's ridiculously difficult to find old hardware or...

https://www.ilovebigals.com

Is the website for an arcade called Big Al's.

I was wondering the same thing. I'm guessing Fast Fred's nephew? Or much younger half brother?

Don't forget ice storms and unusually cold weather (many burst pipes in Spokane this winter even though the lows were only around zero). Is there anywhere in the US that's free from all that?

Nice, I like that! I'm going to keep that in mind in case I'm ever lucky enough to be faced with this situation. I'd rather have a nice sized garage than a nice sized house

Allstate raised our premium from like $1,800 to $4,800 after we made a claim for a burst pipe. USAA is quoting me $2k, so good riddance Allstate. We beat the house: they paid out more in claims than...

Oh no, I absolutely have. That was tongue-in-cheek

Thanks guys, I don't know why folks are so anti-dirtbag. I'll definitely take a close look for those kinds of restrictions if I'm ever looking for some land in the country?

I think that's situation dependent. If you're flying somewhere like Boise, I could absolutely imagine that they would have drug dogs in the airport screening people arriving from legal states. That's...

Not sure this will ever be a problem that I have the luxury of worrying about, but if you were to buy an empty lot somewhere outside of town and wanted to throw up something cheap where you could...

Fine, shit on my dream

Yeah, it's for people who are flying to less enlightened states/countries

"Rehab" shows where people rehab old houses by gutting them to the studs. Why don't those assholes just buy a tract house with some nice gray lvp?

Weed amnesty box at O'Hare for the convenience of people who forgot to clean out their pockets before going to the airport. Just imagine the fights the airport staff are having over this thing....

Those commenters are a bunch of fucking nutjobs. As far as the GSD bites in the White House: 1) maybe the White House is the wrong place for a highly protective breed 2) after the first five or six...

I just spent $27 for dinner for one person at portillo's in Chicago. That's arguably a step up from McDonald's, but still...

The OJ trial happened when I was in college, and one of my professors told the story in class for some reason. "I asked my neighbor who's African American what she thought about the verdict, and she...

It may be true that it's better than most drivers, but personally I'd rather drive myself than trust self driving even if I know autonomous vehicles have 90% (or whatever) fewer collisions. I'd...

Thanks for that. I went from "shit, sounds like everyone is saying TGR is sunsetting the forums" to "oh, the software is borked, the admins know, and they're working on it". Still open to chipping in...

I was an exchange student in Japan in 1994-95 and watched a reasonable amount of sumo on TV. JFC, Akebono was a legend. Sad to hear of his passing, he wasn't much older than I am

The alpine snowboard forum that I hang out on went to voluntary subscriptions a few years ago and it seems to be going fine. Costs about five bucks a month and you get a badge. I'd be happy to do...

Oh, one more thing: I'm actually going to have my nephew take the photos. He has about 300 followers on Instagram so I think he's pretty good. And I can save a few hundred bucks, right?

That's hilarious. I think that's the first time I've gotten a belly laugh from a Zillow listing

Damn, just tried to copyedit my post, but it just deleted instead. Maybe logging into tgr from the brave browser on my phone is not the best approach

What's the best place to eat after Beecher's? Why is it so damn crowded? It feels like it's at 105% capacity every time I'm there

Nice to know that developing claustrophobia in mid life is not totally unheard of. Fingers crossed it spontaneously goes away just like it came

In the 17th circle of hell, toilet paper comes in blister packs, two sheets per pack.

Confined spaces. Somehow in my 30s I became claustrophobic. Everyday stuff like elevators are fine, but one time I was in a middle seat in economy on a plane that was stuck on the tarmac with no...

10th circle: SeaTac
11th circle: cereal but no milk

There are the seeds of an award-winning documentary here if some filmmaker could get this guy to go along with it. Sex, old money, hubris, an architect cynical enough to take the money, it has it all

I'm waiting for a flight at SeaTac and there's a pretty good busker who takes Venmo (but not PayPal, just saying). Anyway, I have a big Venmo slush fund now so I guess the busker won too. Too bad...

I've heard that about tools before, but was never sure if it was true or not. The idea that Home Depot is selling crappy versions of the tools bothers me, but I have to admit that even if the HD...

Thanks!

Hey Liv2ski, thanks for taking over! Did you get my two bucks for Bourbonisgood? I sent it over last night around 10:30 p.m. Pacific

Just passed on $2 for Bourbonisgood - he hadn't gotten the memo re: Liv2Ski being the new sheriff in town and sent it to me initially

Yeah, imagine all the NSFW images that they don't own the copyright to that they're hosting. I admit, I felt a little guilty every time I clicked "download and host on TGR servers" but I did it...

Rolled out on August 8th, in service August 9th, 2060

It was good for them because now they're not associated with a dictator. Turns out their reputation in every other country in the world is worth way more than the revenue they got from their handful...

QFT. We've squashed a bunch of gremlins, and the only remaining issues are cosmetic. With no state income tax and ADU rental income, the financials here are great and I did like the best gravel ride...

If any mods are checking in, I agree there definitely seems to be an issue with photo posting right now. If y'all can spot us a new box fan, we'll pay you back Sunday after we hit the jackpot.

Yeah, I hear that re: working the math to come up with the number we asked for. Honestly was hoping for an independent assessment. She would say that her independent assessment supported the number...

That thought definitely crossed my mind - by reducing the buyer's commission for offers under list price, we're incentivizing them to push their client to offer list price, which is maybe a little...

Thanks Liv2ski! Saturday jackpot is 1.25 B, we've got 'em right where we want them!

I know we're going to win it all on Saturday, but if not, can you take over for subsequent drawings? I'm going...

Our sellers agent came up with the list price through a scientific process of evaluating comps and deep study of the state of the market, i.e., it's an arbitrary number that she came up with and told...