Random Unthreadworthy Questions

[heckacali]

Lemmy would like a word.

[muted reborn]

Ha, yep. I was also an whoopsie baby, all my siblings are 10+ years older than me and my parents were around 40 when I was born.

My dad was like 10 when WW2 ended, and I think my uncle got the dagger after the war.

My parents tried to have a 2nd kid for 5 years, they gave up and adopted. Then I came along 11 months later.

My Mom was 11 when WW2 ended, unfortunately she lived in London during war time. She got some crazy stories but no cool beer steins out of the experience.

[ötzi]

My mom was like 12 when the war ended, my Dad was 8 years older and was in it, he enlisted on his 18th birthday. He was a machine gunner for the 100th infantry and fought through France and into Germany. No souvenirs though.

[riser4]

Lemmy would like a word.

I believe the consensus was that Lemmy was a true collector and not a neo-nazi fetishist that would like to see a fourth Reich.

[heckacali]

I believe the consensus was that Lemmy was a true collector and not a neo-nazi fetishist that would like to see a fourth Reich.

That's what I meant, not all avid collectors are Nazis.

But then again there is just something very dark and bizarre about having hundreds of SS daggers hanging on your wall. The amount of death associated with them must be staggering

[riser4]

That's what I meant, not all avid collectors are Nazis.

But then again there is just something very dark and bizarre about having hundreds of SS daggers hanging on your wall. The amount of death associated with them must be staggering

In today's world of 2024, I am of the strong opinion that avid collectors, especially new ones, are in fact neo Nazis. I think the only responsible thing to do with unwanted Nazi paraphernalia in 2024 is to first see if a Holocaust museum wants it and then second destroy it so that it never falls into the hands of neo-nazi. I actually had no idea prior to this discussion that a Holocaust museum might want shit like this.

[m2711c]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/magazine/what-should-you-do-with-your-fathers-nazi-keepsake.html


https://www.dw.com/en/how-to-deal-wi...lia/a-60546431

[old goat]

I don't imagine neo Nazis have any trouble finding Nazi items, whether original or reproductions.

[Core Shot]

Keep it. It’s history. Why throw it out?
And museums have plenty of shit
They don’t need it.

I have an ss patch from my grandpa. He wasn’t a nazi. War souvenir. But it’s crazy to touch and feel history. It’s in a box somewhere. Haven’t seen it in years. But I can’t throw it out. It makes history reality.

A dagger is way more awesome. Not in a good way. But worth passing down to future generations. Again. Not to be a nazi. But to feel and hold a piece of history.

PS. Other than the cool thing of having irl relics you can touch and feel that aren’t under glass cases, this actually ties your family to the anti Nazi war from almost one hundred years ago. That’s awesome. It would be different if he never served.

[jm2e]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/magazine/what-should-you-do-with-your-fathers-nazi-keepsake.html


https://www.dw.com/en/how-to-deal-wi...lia/a-60546431

Reading that, all I could think of was all the Southerners romanticizing the Confederate army any claiming their flag isn’t a symbol of slavery. Most of you are probably unaware that Lee-Jackson Day was a State Holiday in Virginia until 4 years ago. Literally.


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[zion zig zag]

Question for the lawyers in the house: friend of mine got a DUI back in March. Paid a lawyer $6k who then did a poor job and gave bad advice (this is according to another friend of mine who is a prosecutor in DUI cases) which led to more charges. I think we've taken care of the subsequent charges but what is the next step with the attorney? Prosecutor friend said to file a Bar complaint, but I get the feeling that friend 1 would rather have the $6k back then to get "justice."

Does she reach out to the attorney, explain situation and say shes going to file a bar complaint or would like the money back? Or would the attorney just double down and prepare to fight and going straight to bar is the better option? Not looking for legal advice of course, just perspective from attorneys.

[old goat]

I'm no lawyer but it seems like threatening to report a lawyer to the bar unless they give your friend money is a bad idea. Like blackmail,

[mcski]

No way that pettifogger will give back a dime whiteout getting another lawyer to sue. Unlikely. File th bar complaint but they won’t pay much attn

[Danno]

way too outside my wheelhouse to even suggest a strategy.

[Lvovsky]

Small claims court? Judge Judy!

[zion zig zag]

I got a DUI and this person sucked at not making me pay the legal consequences?? Oh. Fuck. Off.

No, this person sucked at their job and as a result my friend paid much higher legal consequences than she should have, per state statute. Which is why the prosecutor advised filing a bar complaint, which is the minimum that will happen. I’m the last person who would argue for lighter sentences for DUI, but I don’t think it should turn into a targeted revenue stream for the county and devolve into a situation that keeps someone in the system. Now go fuck off with your hot take.

[zion zig zag]

Sure, sure. Go fight the good fight. You made it seem like it was about the $6,000.

6k is a big deal for her, I have to imagine as a percentage of income it’d be like you getting 30-50k back. Does that offer you any perspective? Young single mother who had to drop out of this semester and get a second job in order to cover that plus everything else that came with the bad advice, on top of what this would have cost in a best case scenario.

[Danno]

Mustonen, did you even read ZZZ's posts? You keep using "you" when it's not ZZZ, and none of your advice is responsive to the original request. ZZZ never once said his friend was seeking "vengeance", he made it clear that the friend is not seeking both a righting of a wrong and seeking the $6k, in fact he said that the friend would probably rather have the $6k than see any bar complaint be successful. And none of that has anything to do with the friend's responsibility for the underlying DUI. ZZZ was asking for strategic help for how his friend might get the $6k back because incompetent services were rendered for that sum, something you have not offered at all, but you sure have provided some high horse advice.

And if an attorney does a really bad job, people should file bar complaints. It has nothing to do with "vengeance", it has to do with making sure that the profession acts appropriately. It's not like you can just look attorneys up on Yelp, read the reviews, and know which ones are competent.

[Danno]

I have no idea about the best strategy to get her money back, I have zero professional experience in this arena. But a bar complaint, as I understand it, is not a way to get your money back. It's to get the lawyer in trouble with their licensing board. Which is why I said "warning others"; that doesn't have to be your goal but it is a possible outcome. If the lawyer acted incompetently, a complaint should be filed, period. Unless, I suppose, there is a different strategy that could get a refund, which is something I have no idea on. Or unless, and this is to your point, it would be better mentally for her to just completely walk away and move on.

[Beaver]

How the fuck does a product that I never recall a time that it didn't exist just quietly dissappear? Wtf? Stoned wheat thins are gone. I finished my last 6 row box this spring. Had I known that was the end I would have put both butter and cheese on them.

[mcski]

Just get a box of regular wheat thins like us Neanderthals

[dan_pdx]

How the fuck does a product that I never recall a time that it didn't exist just quietly dissappear? Wtf? Stoned wheat thins are gone. I finished my last 6 row box this spring. Had I known that was the end I would have put both butter and cheese on them.

Oh fuck! It's a dark day. Having said that, I had noticed quite a bit of shrinkflation. Hopefully Trader Joe's will put out a good substitute

[ötzi]

I was always a big fan of their name. I'm not gonna miss the crackers much though.

[riser4]

They disappeared in like 2022 I think. Causality of COVID. My grocery store kept a blank spot on the shelf for them for quite a while. And I loved them, both the name and the cracker.

[Beaver]

The crackers were nothing special, but they were a good cheese delivery system without overpowering the cheese.