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I'm not against guns. Could you not?
Which social norms do you dislike?
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I own a few. Just in case.
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My goodness, you are slow on the uptake.
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My association fees are, maybe 20% of my maintenance costs on my old house. I certainly don’t mind them. So what is your point?
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This makes no sense to me.
A tip is a way of rewarding quality service.
How could I possibly know if the carry-out food I pickup is worth tipping for in the moment I am paying for it?
What if I don't like the cashier's attitude, but I really enjoyed the food?
What if the cashier was nice, the food turned out to just be ok, but I thought the guy who brought the pizza from the back was an asshole?
I know the argument here will be "Just throw a couple bucks at them as a group regardless" but this goes entirely against the purpose of tipping.
I'm not cheap, I tip generously when I tip, but telling me I should throw tips at carry-out staff in order to supplement criminally low wages, and just hope my generosity actually makes it to those workers... that's a bit off-putting to me.
But now I feel bad for the cooks so I will probably tip lol
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He either had a bad experience with an HOA or has heard plenty of HOA horror stories and has lumped them all into one and every HOA is the devil now.
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His HOA officers were socialists
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HOA is basically socialism
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So thankful you got the joke!
Keep it to yourself
Keep it to yourself
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Listen here buddy
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I'm not your buddy, pal!
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I never got the grass fetish either. "Hey, let's bring in some high-maintenance non-native plant that requires copious amounts of care and completely obliterates your weekend."
Sign me the **** up for that. :shot:
Sign me the **** up for that. :shot:
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I've never thought more about grass/lawns than I have over the last 13 hours.
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I don't mind the maintenance on grass. I would just prefer to maintain something more fruitful than a bag full of clippings that just go straight to the compost pile. Gardens, native prairie spreads, heck, even some useful non-native cover are good. Just not creeping charlie (but hay, that's a preference).
Over time, I've reduced my lawn by a few feet every year. I just use a reel mower now. Trying to use incrementalism to prevent neighbors who have this golf-green fetish to not make any trouble. I do have lemongrass as the perimeter border, that also helps, and is also useful, smells wonderful. And I have planted white and yellow oxalis/sorrel which are those shamrock looking things you see everywhere. Next I'm going to add more red clover (also edible), but don't want to attract more rabbits, so still thinking through some ideas to go from door to street without grabbing any more attention.
Over time, I've reduced my lawn by a few feet every year. I just use a reel mower now. Trying to use incrementalism to prevent neighbors who have this golf-green fetish to not make any trouble. I do have lemongrass as the perimeter border, that also helps, and is also useful, smells wonderful. And I have planted white and yellow oxalis/sorrel which are those shamrock looking things you see everywhere. Next I'm going to add more red clover (also edible), but don't want to attract more rabbits, so still thinking through some ideas to go from door to street without grabbing any more attention.
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gonna replace my grass with marbles
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You're a really weird dude, but to each his own.
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It's gonna look like you live in a fishbowl
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do you have anything to contribute other than running commentary on other people's posts?
Shut up!