banjomin

banjomin t1_j8x5kxk wrote

Last time I moved I checked Craigslist for moving boxes. Picked up a bunch for free from someone who’d just finished moving.

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banjomin t1_j8jr09k wrote

Reply to HVD! by Nuclear_Waste

I dream of the day when this town collectively gets over this asshole

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banjomin t1_j7mw1px wrote

“417’s most tired and boring menus of ‘23”

Wait wait,

“417’s most safe-feeling restaurants for non-springfield residents venturing into the big scary city”

Last one,

“417’s restaurants that paid to be on this list, ranked by their donation amount”

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banjomin t1_j7dr3c0 wrote

>Trying to excuse yourself from that responsibility makes me question how much what you say should be trusted.

EDIT: strong replies from people who think that deciding to bring home an animal you can't keep is somehow an involuntary choice. I get that the situation sucks for OP, and that it's hard to walk by suffering, but we all gotta try and make good decisions. Ignoring the issues with taking home an animal you can't keep isn't going to be good for the pets that end up in this situation.

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banjomin t1_j7doyha wrote

Never a fan of this type of situation.

If the cats are great why are you moving without worrying about whether you can take them?

Also, picking up animals with the intention of only "fostering them for a short while" seems, to me, like it's always kind of dishonest. If you pick up and home an animal you should be accepting that you are now responsible for that animal, and not just until you're tired of them. Trying to excuse yourself from that responsibility makes me question how much what you say should be trusted.

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banjomin t1_j5p89zi wrote

Ah, marionville, where I got cornered in the parking lot of a girls basketball game by 5 football players who were informing me about how "people think they can just come to marionville, but we'll kick your ass we don't even care" before some friends noticed my predicament and escorted me to my car.

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banjomin t1_ivou2yv wrote

They didn’t build a big concrete development that funneled storm drainage into the park, keeping it from becoming a swamp. So that was accomplished.

If a developer wants to develop that area, they can. If the city hadn’t conspired with this guy to let him bypass all the regulations that would keep him from ruining the park, this wouldn’t have been on the ballot.

I think it’s a bullshit false choice to say that our only choices were this deal or nothing. Now that guy can sell the land to someone else who can submit a plan that doesn’t fuck up the park.

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