Oh and it should shock no one that Tarek is an enormous piece of shit.

In some places (especially here in San Francisco), the permits alone would take 4-6 months, if not longer for any major work. 4-6 weeks? HA HA HA HA HA!!! No chance. I’ll take an old functional home over a more modern home that you can’t live in.

I watched TOH when Norm Abram was a regular. Always a good show and Tom Silva is awesome.

YouTube how-to videos are worse.

Happened on a jobsite too. I’m good now and up to my neck in DIY projects.

There’s also the idea that a lot of homebuyers buy the house regardless of the kitchen and bathroom because they know they’re also going to dump (on top of the already inflated sticker price) a stupid amount of money to renovate the kitchen and bathrooms THAT WERE JUST F*$%ING RENOVATED because it just has to be…

or when you’re in the third month of what you expected to be a one-month renovation

Before I bought a house, I used to LOVE watching home improvement shows so I could see all the awesome things I was going to do when I owned a house.

Wait are you saying that the image of somebody doing a bunch of construction work literally without breaking a sweat and using a bunch of lumber that fits together like it was cut by a NASA grade CNC isn’t real?

I wish I had more stars to give.  

There are easier ways to watch TOH than breaking your leg, y’know.

But what else am I going to watch with my spouse so that we can judge people on their tacky choices, annoying complaints, and complete inability to see past a coat of paint to change things up?  

There are also some excellent DIY/building channels on YouTube. You can find anything from entire channels devoted to building houses to basic plumbing and electrical. 

Freevee has a smart TV app with a This Old House channel. I broke my leg before I moved into my house so I spend hours watching TOH. Great show.

I meant more like could provide a grant to say a struggling hospital, seminary, or some such. I am very much sure the Vatican has no intention in providing money for compensation to victims. Which isn’t surprising, as a sovereign nation they have a huge amount of protection from any kind of suit or liability.

the San Francisco Archdiocese announced on Friday that it’s “very likely” to file for bankruptcy, and is attributing its financial ruin to a recent onslaught of child sexual abuse lawsuits against its priests and other employees spanning decades..

Oh, they definitely have the money to prop up bankrupt diocese, but they won’t allocate that to struggling diocese and that’s intentional. It’s by design. This is the intended effect: to insulate the Vatican so that it can continue to sit upon its enormous hoard of wealth. The Vatican doesn’t give two shits about…

You are watching home renovation shows and daydreaming about renovating your own home.

With one giant caveat being This Old House/Ask This Old House, the best show on television, and the only one my fiance and I watch regularly. We may as well add Kevin, Tom, and Richard to the wedding guest list at this point.

It’s more just not surprising - this is what bankruptcy is for, restructuring debt so that it can be paid at least at a percentage of face value. Keep in mind that the alternative here is that the diocese just folds, leaving the creditors trying to pick through the scraps of property and such to get money back.