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When the tornado of 2011 tore ours off I had them add a leaf guard screen to our new ones.
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13 years and never had to clean the gutters once. I have to pull leaves out of the drainage spout a few times a year. I've been concerned because everyone talks about this chore, but I look every few years, and nope.

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though. If I could do it all again, I'd have gone a different route. I'd probably look for a single dwelling condo with exorbitant fees so they take care of everything or simply rent a tiny house. I can't imagine going to back to not having a garage or having walls and ceilings separating me and my neighbors. Find me a cheap 300 square foot place with no attached neighbors and a garage where everything is someone else' problem and that's all I need.
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LordMortis wrote:13 years and never had to clean the gutters once. I have to pull leaves out of the drainage spout a few times a year. I've been concerned because everyone talks about this chore, but I look every few years, and nope.

I still concur with
F owning a home.
though. If I could do it all again, I'd have gone a different route. I'd probably look for a single dwelling condo with exorbitant fees so they take care of everything or simply rent a tiny house. I can't imagine going to back to not having a garage or having walls and ceilings separating me and my neighbors. Find me a cheap 300 square foot place with no attached neighbors and a garage where everything is someone else' problem and that's all I need.
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Jeff V wrote:
LordMortis wrote:13 years and never had to clean the gutters once. I have to pull leaves out of the drainage spout a few times a year. I've been concerned because everyone talks about this chore, but I look every few years, and nope.

I still concur with
F owning a home.
though. If I could do it all again, I'd have gone a different route. I'd probably look for a single dwelling condo with exorbitant fees so they take care of everything or simply rent a tiny house. I can't imagine going to back to not having a garage or having walls and ceilings separating me and my neighbors. Find me a cheap 300 square foot place with no attached neighbors and a garage where everything is someone else' problem and that's all I need.
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I don't need much bigger, maybe 1.5 times that size but I do need a garage that would be about the same size as the house in question.
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Buy a steel shipping container. Put a divider down the middle with a door in it. Park your car in one side, live in the other.
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That's too bad. If they had at least 10 more points of articulation I could use them.
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Maguires rubbing compound, I love you. It's amazing what modern science can do. I was afraid I'd have to shell out a couple hundred to get those damn bird poop stains off my car's top, but the body shop guys I trust told me to save my cash and try that. It worked freakin' wonders. :wub:
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I love Maguires products. A bit overpriced but the stuff Ive used is great especially the spray on tech wax.
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Circumstances compelled me to crawl under the kitchen sink with hand tools today. That's not a story worth telling, except that while I was under there I noticed the date stamped on our cast iron sink unit: 6/24/1948. I had always said we have a 1940s-era kitchen; now I can place it closer to 1950.
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Smoove_B wrote:I really do envy people that live in homes without gutters that are constantly clogged with leaves. If I haven't made it clear before, F owning a home in New Jersey.
FTFY (Because, let's face it, it's the US-equivalent of residing within dank, stanky buttock-cleavage).
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Kraken wrote:Circumstances compelled me to crawl under the kitchen sink with hand tools today. That's not a story worth telling, except that while I was under there I noticed the date stamped on our cast iron sink unit: 6/24/1948. I had always said we have a 1940s-era kitchen; now I can place it closer to 1950.
We're redoing our kitchen as part of preparing to put the house on the market. The idea is to bring it from the 1940's into the 1990s.
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Holman wrote:
Kraken wrote:Circumstances compelled me to crawl under the kitchen sink with hand tools today. That's not a story worth telling, except that while I was under there I noticed the date stamped on our cast iron sink unit: 6/24/1948. I had always said we have a 1940s-era kitchen; now I can place it closer to 1950.
We're redoing our kitchen as part of preparing to put the house on the market. The idea is to bring it from the 1940's into the 1990s.
I am adamant that if I ever get the kitchen update that I want, we're going with harvest gold appliances over avocado.
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Do you watch the reno shows? I love 'em. Gold over avocado would not be the first choice of most of the designers. You need stainless steel babe.
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dbt1949 wrote:Do you watch the reno shows? I love 'em. Gold over avocado would not be the first choice of most of the designers. You need stainless steel babe.
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I just watched Yakuza Apocalypse yesterday. I saw where it had been rated 3-4 stars by everyone.
They must have watched a different version than I saw. Not only was it absurd it wasn't even funny absurd. Only thing I can say about it is I watched the whole thing. Something I really should not have done.
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I love Yakuza Apocalypse! But you have to understand something: Takashi Miike is NOT a filmmaker you should be watching unless you enjoy watching someone who doesn't give two shits about rules. He can make an incredibly creepy and scary film like One Missed Call, a film that scares the crap out of you...right up until the final minutes of the film where he suddenly injects a freakin' musical dance number.

He does whatever the crap he wants to do, and he doesn't care one bit about his audience. For fans of his work (like myself), it's amazing to watch where he'll go. He'll make a children's movie that is both sweet and endearing one minute (Yatterman), and then an ultra violent condemnation of the darker side of Japanese culture (pick any of about a dozen films).

He also helped to usher in a new era in horror films with The Audition, a truly disturbing film that manages to make you feel both horrified by and sympathetic to the movie's "monster".

He also made what many consider one of the greatest samurai films of all time, 13 Assassins, which you should watch before writing him off.

Sorry, I'm a bit of a Miike fanatic. He's the very definition of rogue filmmaker. You never know WHAT'S going to happen in his films, and that's a rarity.

p.s. You didn't enjoy The World's Toughest Terrorist in Yakuza Apocalypse? :wink:
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hepcat wrote:p.s. You didn't enjoy The World's Toughest Terrorist in Yakuza Apocalypse? :wink:
WTF did I just watch?!?! :shock:

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Kraken wrote:
dbt1949 wrote:Do you watch the reno shows? I love 'em. Gold over avocado would not be the first choice of most of the designers. You need stainless steel babe.
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hepcat wrote:p.s. You didn't enjoy The World's Toughest Terrorist in Yakuza Apocalypse? :wink:
WTF did I just watch?!?! :shock:
You will ask yourself that many times during a Miike film. :lol:

But seriously, much of his work is heavily veiled allegories of aspects of Japanese culture he finds interesting (either out of disgust or admiration). That clip I linked to is positively reasonable compared to some of his other work. This is a man who filmed a segment for Showtimes Masters of Horror anthology series...only to have Showtime pull it from their roster because it was too disturbing.
Episode 13, "Imprint", originally scheduled to premiere on January 27, 2006, was shelved by Showtime due to concerns over its content. Mick Garris, creator and executive producer of the series, characterized the episode as "the most disturbing film I've ever seen". It is available only on DVD and Blu-ray by Anchor Bay Entertainment, along with the rest of the episodes in the first season. "Imprint" was shown in the UK on Bravo (7 April 2006).
This list of his essential films is a great start for those interested in watching this madman at work. Although I would add another 10 to that list.
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TheMix wrote:
hepcat wrote:p.s. You didn't enjoy The World's Toughest Terrorist in Yakuza Apocalypse? :wink:
WTF did I just watch?!?! :shock:
To me, that looked like Pepe reacting to the post-debate polls.
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Something must be wrong because Im watching music videos from the movie Xanadu.
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Are you at the roller skating rink?
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No, but I wouldn't mind being at one again. Fun days.
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You'd end up breaking a hip.
It's almost as if people are the problem.
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Isgrimnur wrote:You'd end up breaking a hip.
Thats probably true. I was talking to my wife about how if I tried stuff I did as a teen and 20 something now at 47 Id likely break a few things.
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Been there broke that.
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Creepy clown arrested for child neglect:
A creepy clown and his female partner were arrested on Friday for allegedly leaving their 4-year-old child unattended while they raised mischief in a Wisconsin town.

Dash-cam footage from a Menasha police cruiser shows authorities stopping two men, ages 29 and 20, dressed in clown costumes. Police also found the driver of their clown car, a 26-year-old woman.

Officers said that they were responding to 911 calls reporting people dressed as clowns chasing after cars, according to WBAY.

The older man and the woman “had left this 4-year-old girl home alone while they decided to go out and do their clowning activities,” Police Chief Tim Styka told the network.
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I don't know where else to put this -

80k Trout accidentally released in Denmark - potential ecological disaster.
A cargo ship on Monday accidentally tore apart a fish farm net off Assens, 200 kilometers (124 miles) west of Copenhagen in the western Baltic Sea, setting free the entire trout farm, which was estimated to hold 250 tons of fish.
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But now authorities fear the farmed trout wreak havoc on the region and eat the eggs of other trout species. Soeren Knabe of the environmental group Vandpleje Fyn is urging anglers to "grab their rods and catch as many as possible. I'll join them this weekend."

"Get yourself a fishing license and get out there. The more the better," he said jokingly.

Knabe said Wednesday that the rip happened "at the worst time" because sea trout "are about to spawn and their eggs are 'yummy' for rainbow trout."
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Why would you even have a potentially invasive species sharing the same water as local species? I thought the whole point of these fish farms was to produce fish on a large scale without risking local populations...?
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Dumped Netflix and sitting here trying to watch an old Star Trek ep on HULU and getting 4 ads per 10 min...paying for this shit makes me want to dump it also.
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Daehawk wrote:Dumped Netflix and sitting here trying to watch an old Star Trek ep on HULU and getting 4 ads per 10 min...paying for this shit makes me want to dump it also.
$3 extra bucks a month means no ads on Hulu.
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Well thats interesting. Wish cable had that. TY.
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Where's Ronald-o?
In a statement Tuesday, the fast-food chain announced that Ronald McDonald and his signature red and gold garb won't be seen in public for a while, at least until America stops being so collectively terrified of his kind.

The chain's more than 14,000 locations nationwide are "mindful of the current climate around clown sightings in communities" and "are being thoughtful in respect to Ronald McDonald's participation in community events for the time being," spokeswoman Terri Hickey said in an emailed statement to NBC News.
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In the face of such bad PR, "good" clowns have banded together to reclaim their profession. Ron Anglin, a professional clown who works at a children's health-care center in Atlanta, started using the hashtag #RealClownsAreAboutLove on social media to "counter all the horrible images out there," he told Buzzfeed News.
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A group in Tucson organized a peaceful "Clown Lives Matter" march for later this week "to show that clowns are not psycho killers," according to a flier, reported the Arizona Republic.
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Those are the ones to really hate, not the ones with knives and chainsaws.
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Whoa, whoa whoa. How am I just learning tonight that Toni Tennille sang backing vocals on the Pink Floyd Album, The Wall. Did everyone else know this but me?
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Nope. But why was Captain left out?
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Isgrimnur wrote:Nope. But why was Captain left out?
He was comfortably numb.
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