• EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
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      I remember something about a guy who had paid to put hardwood floors in his girl’s place and then after the breakup he tore them up and took the wood with him.

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      I bought a house that was a foreclosure. I think they took what they felt they owned. That included a sink, all the smoke detectors, all the door knobs, all the appliances. It was strange.

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        In 2009 I was trying to find my mom somewhere to live. There were a lot of houses for pretty cheap since the 2008 crash had just happened. That was good, since my mom doesn’t have any money. Since she doesn’t have any money I went looking at a lot of foreclosures. Most of them were missing all of the appliances, all of the light bulbs, pretty much everything not bolted down (plus a few things that were), and a lot of them had holes kicked in the walls, counters destroyed, and whatever else the former owners could do to vent their anger at the banks. We ended up renting her an apartment since neither of us had the money to repair all the damage and missing features from the foreclosure houses.

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              If you had money to buy a house ($$$) you have money to DIY (¢). What you listed is small fry.

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                Borrowing money from a bank is not the same as having cash to buy all new appliances, fix pissed on carpet, and repair walls and counters that somebody took a sledgehammer to. Do you think that all houses are purchased with cash?

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                  …you have money to pay that mortgage, right? If yes, then these things are minor in comparison. But you’re saying the minor things busted the whole purchase, instead of the major thing of a mortgage on a house.

                  Buy used appliances, yes they are around. DIY carpet (which you didn’t say before, so I think you’re doing the slow trickle of just adding more and more now), DIY holes in walls (see it was holes in walls before, now it’s walls). Put a piece of plywood on the counter until you can do something better. You can do this over time too. This stuff is cheap, cheap, cheap compared to a mortgage. Chow.

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        It’s probably safe to assume that a foreclosure sale involved at least some level of malicious compliance, especially one due to the 2008 housing crisis.

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      I remember this one, he was a plumber who had installed the toilet and decided to take it out of spite. Super mature.

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          And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
          And you may find yourself in another part of the world
          And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
          And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife. And you may ask yourself, “Well, how did I get here?”

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        At the very least, I can’t find this image without text referencing the toilet being stolen anywhere, so whoever originally posted it seems to have claimed that.

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    8 months ago

    If someone did that to my bidet I would be forced to terminate any international treaty I had with them.

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      I will genuinely never understand these comments, who cares? Is it supposed to be funny that you don’t believe it happened and care so much?

      Especially with something like this that doesn’t sound like something that’d never happen, way crazier things happen regularly. I just can’t wrap my head around it why these kinds of comments are on nearly every meme.

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          Smart enough to know when something is bullshit, but not smart enough to understand that nearly all of them are bullshit?

          It is like those wrestler critics saying it is all fake as if anybody cares enough when the main point is that it is entertaining.

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          These comments are not left by smart people.

          The smart people know its a fucking meme, so its veracity is about as important as its eligibility for a home loan.

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          It’s not like I need every meme I see to be based on reality, but there’s been this trend of faking stuff and passing it as real and that’s where it goes too far for me. I’m not sure this one qualifies though, I can read this as purely being humorous and not really trying to sell itself as real.