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Huntn said:
The key is that you can see, and because you can see, you can negotiate possible a good deal, if you don’t mind sweat equity. If you talk to the average realtor, they want your house perfect when it is on the market because there are so many out there who can’t see or don’t want to bother having to fix anything. Wallpaper is a great example. At least in Minnesota, if the realtor gets their way, all of the wallpaper must go! :)
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As our chain is not complete, no chance of negotiating a deal. I offered asking price as I think that’s the only chance we have of getting it.
I still think a developer will pick it up and we will miss out (again!).
 
Zenithal said:
I have a few POTS lines into the house. Only one is above ground. Service gets knocked out for a few hours every other year it seems and a tech fixes it within a few hours or the next day if it's too late to roll a truck out. The logistics of redoing everything underground is very expensive. It's easier in a planned out city. Most communities made or developed after the 1950s here have buried setups.
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LOL I must not have commiserated fully enough with your situation yesterday to satisfy the gods who dish out karma.

So mea maxima culpa, and may the gods gimme a break already: I was completely happy here last night after the power restore (we had lost elec for 4-5 hours) and knowing that all utilities were go... at least they were functional until I headed upstairs last night.

Right, so I wake up this morning to electricity but no phone service, so no DSL... and I was too lazy to drive up on a hill to try to report the outage on a cellphone. .

That was 6am. A little while ago this afternoon a friend phoned my landline --so I knew the service was back up-- to say that when he was driving back from another township earlier today, there were all manner of guys from two utility companies standing around in hard hats pointing at maps and at a bunch of holes in the ground. Whatever "somebody" did last night in restoring the electrical power broke some connections related to how old and new phone systems around here talk to the internet. Nothing is ever anyone's fault...

Well at least I didn't put myself through the hoops of trying to get customer service to take a report of internet outage via a cellphone call up on a mountaintop. They always want to know if your modem-router is plugged in. I always end up putting money in my swear jar.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
Was that the image whereby some saw a certain colour, others another, and yet others a third combination of colours?
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No. It's the one of a womanly figure, a ballerina I believe, on one tippy toe rotating on the mid portion of a pirouette turn. It would seem to go one way and then turn another. Though I believe this has to do with how the brain processes information.

Different than those optical illusions due to camera trickery and how fast they pickup frames, per say, compared to the human eye. Such as a helicopter with non-moving rotors whizzing away.
 
Yep.


It goes without saying I fully expect to a see a particular forum member on the nightly news one of these days given their penchant for being so... bizarre that it leaves me revising previously bizarre people I've encountered in life, both in person and online, as completely sane.

Off to invest in some global positioning cow tag companies.
 
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Zenithal said:
Yep.


It goes without saying I fully expect to a see a particular forum member on the nightly news one of these days given their penchant for being so... bizarre that it leaves me revising previously bizarre people I've encountered in life, both in person and online, as completely sane.
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No.

I won't even ask.

Zenithal said:
Off to invest in some global positioning cow tag companies.
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Around ten years ago, (if true), that subject matter would have been of considerable interest to me.
 
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Zenithal said:
It doesn't take much imagination to figure out whom I'm referring to. Trying to avoid another journey to Coventry, you see.
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Ah, yes, that is what I had assumed.

But, there are others sporting equally bizarre theories and ideas.

A perfectly innocuous thread on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing was started in the "Current Affairs" section (which is not PRSI) a few weeks ago (to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the aforementioned Moon Landing).

Anyway, it attracted - shall we say, the adamant and fervent - attention of some who prefer to believe that the Moon landing(s) never occurred and that the whole thing is an elaborate hoax. Sigh.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
Ah, yes, that is what I had assumed.

But, there are others sporting equally bizarre theories and ideas.

A perfectly innocuous thread on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing was started in the "Current Affairs" section (which is not PRSI) a few weeks ago (to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the aforementioned Moon Landing).

Anyway, it attracted the attention of some who prefer to believe that the Moon landing never occurred and that the whole thing is an elaborate hoax. Sigh.
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Oddballs then. Though one does wonder whether they expose such ideas to others' children by ways and means of children's cartoons that perpetuate such lies. Oh deary me.
 
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Zenithal said:
Oddballs then. Though one does wonder whether they expose such ideas to others' children by ways and means of children's cartoons than perpetuate such lies. Oh deary me.
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But what concerns me (I was about to say, bothers me) about such individuals is the adamant and fervent nature of their belief in the delusion they hold with such passionate and perfervid intensity and how utterly impervious they are to any reasoned (or even possible alternative) argument posited.

One thread a few months back held to the belief of water (or ice) on the surface of the moon with commendable and adhesive tenacity in the face of all reasoned (and rational) scientific argument to the contrary presented to him.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
But what concerns me (I was about to say, bothers me) about such individuals is the adamant and fervent nature of their belief in the delusion they hold with such passionate and perfervid intensity and how utterly impervious they are to any reasoned (or even possible alternative) argument posited.

One thread a few months back held to the belief of water (or ice) on the surface of the moon with commendable and adhesive tenacity in the face of all reasoned (and rational) scientific argument to the contrary presented to him.
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Seems to be an issue with a variety of people really. Not that particular subject but anything you could imagine. In the days of usenets, it was common to accidentally find yourself reading the mindless rants of total strangers who were... lost shall we say? I usually give it a quick roll of the eyes and move along. Shakespeare's words ring true in this regard. At some point, you must realize you're merely wasting your lines on someone who believes everything is a certain, incredibly rigid way and nothing could assuage their thoughts.
 
Zenithal said:
Seems to be an issue with a variety of people really. Not that particular subject but anything you could imagine. In the days of usenets, it was common to accidentally find yourself reading the mindless rants of total strangers who were... lost shall we say? I usually give it a quick roll of the eyes and move along. Shakespeare's words ring true in this regard. At some point, you must realize you're merely wasting your lines on someone who believes everything is a certain, incredibly rigid way and nothing could assuage their thoughts.
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Oh, I agree completely wth you.

But, while a strange thread that has been started by someone clinging to - or passionately advocating - a delusional theory can be ignored, passed over, and skipped, it is more disconcerting to find that a perfectly normal thread, discussing, for example, the Moon Landing, can be derailed by someone who prefers to believe that it didn't happen, and insists on their version being accorded the respect due to more rational - and credible - accounts.
 
Scepticalscribe said:
Ah, yes, that is what I had assumed.

But, there are others sporting equally bizarre theories and ideas.

A perfectly innocuous thread on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing was started in the "Current Affairs" section (which is not PRSI) a few weeks ago (to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the aforementioned Moon Landing).

Anyway, it attracted (shall we say, the adamant and fervent) attention of some who prefer to believe that the Moon landing(s) never occurred and that the whole thing is an elaborate hoax. Sigh.
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Hmm missed that I think, so just posted an article from RT (of all places) that adds another voice against the moon hoax theory - from the first man to walk in space no less!!
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
Oh, I agree completely wth you.

But, while a strange thread that has been started by someone clinging to - or passionately advocating - a delusional theory can be ignored, passed over, and skipped, it is more disconcerting to find that a perfectly normal thread, discussing, for example, the Moon Landing, can be derailed by someone who prefers to believe that it didn't happen, and insists on their version being accorded the respect due to more rational - and credible - accounts.
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Back in the day we'd just put those kinds of people into involuntary psychiatric hospitals.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
Well, ignoring them - and their silly theories - seems a kinder option in the circumstances.
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there are proven methods to stop a certain type of person from both talking and typing...

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yaxomoxay said:
there are proven methods to stop a certain type of person from both talking and typing...

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Well, rather than strapping Dr Lecter down, and placing a horrid mask over his face, I'd give him crayons and paints and suggest that he busy himself attempting to replicate the ceiling of the Sistine chapel (stored in his eidetic memory) - or something else of his choosing - on his cell walls which might be a sort of therapy for him, while affording a glimpse of civilisation to others, inmates and jailers alike.
 
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Apple fanboy said:
Not true. I own a straight jacket and can get out of it!
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Why? Is that some kind of sex roleplay thing?
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Scepticalscribe said:
Well, ignoring them - and their silly theories - seems a kinder option in the circumstances.
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Possibly, but I've long held myself to the belief such wrong 'uns who pilfer society and spread their gobbledygook would be better off being fed to wildlife.
 
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