ChickenLadyLovesLife

I thought Muscadine was the actor in Kung Fu.

Since horse racing is all about betting: Zinfanduel.

The bus is not my main residence. I live in a place (Philly area) where residence in a motorhome is not really a legal option. I embarked on the skoolie journey without a realistic plan for actually living in it and so far it's been nothing but a gigantic time and money sink. But it has been fun and I've developed a lot of skills (mainly metalworking like welding and riveting) that I didn't have before. You may enjoy my build thread.

I do hope to someday be able to live in it for a few years at least. We'll see if that's possible.

My sister-in-law had a victorian-era sofa in their house for a few years. Incredibly well-built piece of furniture and quite beautiful, but truly uncomfortable. Also heavy as fuck -- I'd rather move a piano.

I own a skoolie (a used school bus converted to a motorhome). I acquired two sections of one of those giant sectional sofas from a woman on Craigslist who was giving them away for free. She paid $4000 for the entire thing and when I deconstructed my sections to build them into the bus I was astonished at what incredibly poor quality the things were. The framing (such as it was) was unbelievably cheap wood that looked like it was cut by a beaver, and the ends were made from OSB scraps - not even cheap plywood. The backs underneath the cushions were entirely made from nylon lawn chair straps haphazardly stapled down.

The cushions and fabric were decent enough, but the thought of paying $4000 for furniture that shitty underneath is pretty hard to imagine.

“I don’t want to bring a child into this fucked up world”

I hear this most often from people who do have kids.

I never had kids, but being a school bus driver has made me regret not having kids. Being a school bus driver has also made me thrilled to the fucking core that I never had kids.

DON'T DOXX ME

I like electric space heaters, but: I bought a cheap Chinese one a few years ago that somehow rewired itself. Like, the "off" setting became "low heat", "high heat" became "fan" etc. I took it apart to see how the fuck that could possibly happen. The dial switch included a little roller contact that moved over a printed circuit board sort of thing to determine the setting; if the heater got too hot (imagine that!) the switch solder would melt and then re-flow into a different pattern, causing the switch to work completely differently. Just unimaginably hazardous.

I don't think they even have to invalidate anything. Just report different totals to get the results they want.

I had a friend in the 8th grade who had two kids. Granted, it was his fifth year in 8th grade -- he kept flunking and it had not yet occurred to schools in that era to pass kids to get rid of them.

You could take artificial diamonds back to the time before there were such things as artificial diamonds.