I knew spoiled kids growing up too, so this is hardly new (and I know my parents railed about “kids these days” so I refuse). Some of the spoiled ones grew up fine; a lot of them still live with their parents (and insist that a) it’s fine to live at home in your mid- to late-30's, and b) it’s the man’s fault for…

Like I said, I agree, but it’s hard to protect someone who doesn’t think they need, or doesn’t want to be, protected.

On one hand I agree with you. On the other, I hear so many times from younger folk (I refuse to use the M word) that they “deserve” these nicer cars, and that denying these types of loans is prejudicial, so.... it’s kind of a no-win. You protect people from themselves and they get pissed at you and insist you’re…

Maybe it’s just covering your health insurance deductible :)

I understand, but presumably to update the “from” field you need your client (Apple mail) to have the login information for the address you’re trying to send from. Unless it let’s you spoof whatever address you want there, in which case.... That’s not great for other reasons (most notably because most recipients would…

I just went through this. It was a pain but still worth it to get away from the Evil Empire of BoA. Just keep a close eye on when everything is due, and make sure there aren’t restrictions at your CU like money transferred isn’t available for a few days during a probationary period — I had to do all my transferring…

I found it a little more difficult, but still worth it. For me the timing was the tricky part — different bills come out at different times and I had a shared account with my wife that also was being transitioned, and some transactions take a few days to go through so making sure I had enough in account a and account…

Defensive much? The OP wasn’t suggesting you have anything to apologize for, but rather that people who aren’t in as comfortable a position are being manipulated into treating people in your position as the enemy (and subsequently you’re being manipulated into defending your position, further separating you from…

Looks like around fifty a year, give or take, depending on the year. So once a week?

It’s always fucking amazing to me how even the tiniest drop of water will just ruin your day trying to sweat a pipe. I do it just rarely enough that I always forget to triple check that everything is bone dry before starting and nine times out of ten that’s my issue.

If it had a trickle of water coming out, that’s likely why it took forever. The tiniest drop of water fucks up soldering like you wouldn’t believe.

Ugh I get scared every time I have to bust out the torch, only because plumbing is always in the basement, and my basement is filled with spider webs and wood beams. I always have this vision of it immediately going up in flames to a point where I can’t stop it, like when the dude lights the petroleum on fire in…

For sure, I’m sure the last thing you need while watching your huge investment get built is a bunch of doofuses on the Internet reminding you of everything that can go wrong.

Yeah that’s the other thing about old houses, not only do you occasionally find stuff falling apart from age, you find all the hacky bullshit that the owners before you did.... :)

There’s a trade-off with new construction unfortunately. You don’t get all the broken-down stuff under the surface that could break at any minute, but you do get to find all the mistakes the lowest bidder made.

Older homes (before the 50's maybe?) used clay (aka terra cotta) pipes pretty much exclusively for buried sewage. Any time you hear about folks having ‘roots in their pipes’ it’s likely an older house and the fucking dinnerware pipes have cracked and let in roots which of course means raw human sewage is just seeping…

Yeah I tried it once and found it difficult to handle as well, and not all that effective. But personal experience is kind of irrelevant, it’s an FDA approved medication, it must work for at least a majority of people for the symptom, whether you or I enjoy it or not.

I’m confused by this for a few reasons.

Just know that, depending on where you live, you might go to jail.

I guess being an American I just don’t get how to use one. My wife and I just got back from Europe, and saw two types over there: the kind wiht a spray nozzle, which makes sense though I still don’t understand how you dry off and don’t get water everywhere; and the type WITHOUT a nozzle, which I don’t understand at…