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I dont read half the shit the blowhard writes. I assumed he owned or the government gave him a fridge with the hope he would fill it with V8 and get it under 500. That way he wouldn't have to be lifted out with a crane when he croaks.
the last group complained, quite tellingly They said, "Why don't you have a spoon that just says 'Earth?' It would save time

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Every apartment I've ever encountered, the tenant always has to provide their own appliances, outside of the stove.

Plus it is not unusual for plus sized adults to own multiple refrigerators, I figured Knuckles could have been referring to one of those.

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Has anybody ever seen that video where someone set two iPhones next to each other, launched Siri on both, and watched them talk back and forth forever?
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Billy Mays wrote:Every apartment I've ever encountered, the tenant always has to provide their own appliances, outside of the stove.
I or my family have rented many places which were unfurnished, over the past 42 years, in Aurora Colorado; Long Beach California (3); San Diego; Miami; Milwaukee (5); Sacramento; Silver Spring, Maryland; Midland, Texas; Prince George's County, Maryland (2); and Washington, DC, and the one thing they all have had in common is they ALL included stove AND refrigerator.

Right now I rent a partially-furnished room in a licensed rooming house in University Park, in Prince George's County, MD. The kitchen is furnished with both items and the room came with a bed.
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The only place I've ever seen rentals that didn't include a fridge was California.
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pinback wrote:The only place I've ever seen rentals that didn't include a fridge was California.
Well, it's funny because our family has rented (unfurnished) apartments in both Northern and Southern California from 1967 to 1987 and every single place had both.

Maybe in the last 20 years they've changed, but all the time I've been anywhere, whether it was furnished or unfurnished it always had both a stove and a refrigerator. Maybe you rent expensive places where they figure the person is bringing a fridge with them, but it does seem strange.
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It has really been the whole gamut of apartments, from low end to luxury, and even condos, the pattern I have personally recognized with myself, my family, my coworkers, and my friends: not one of them came with a fridge, and the amount of fridges that person owned is directly proportional to their weight: about 1 fridge per 150 pounds of largest occupant.

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Billy Mays wrote:It has really been the whole gamut of apartments, from low end to luxury, and even condos, the pattern I have personally recognized with myself, my family, my coworkers, and my friends: not one of them came with a fridge, and the amount of fridges that person owned is directly proportional to their weight: about 1 fridge per 150 pounds of largest occupant.
This is the strangest thing i've read all day, I literally don't know if you're in another country or an alternate reality.

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BYOF is surprisingly common in modern renting practices.

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That's the best statistic I've ever heard! the Bodyweight fridge index! That'll be on page 2 of USA Today.

Man, I'm up to 2 fridgeweights of space.



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Flack wrote:Has anybody ever seen that video where someone set two iPhones next to each other, launched Siri on both, and watched them talk back and forth forever?
Don't play that game, that guy babbles on forever Im succinct and to the point, nobody will ever top my run as a fake poster. You were off fucking a pinball machine or something during my reign of power.
the last group complained, quite tellingly They said, "Why don't you have a spoon that just says 'Earth?' It would save time

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Tdarcos wrote:
pinback wrote:The only place I've ever seen rentals that didn't include a fridge was California.
Well, it's funny because our family has rented (unfurnished) apartments in both Northern and Southern California from 1967 to 1987 and every single place had both.

Maybe in the last 20 years they've changed, but all the time I've been anywhere, whether it was furnished or unfurnished it always had both a stove and a refrigerator. Maybe you rent expensive places where they figure the person is bringing a fridge with them, but it does seem strange.
Do you think that's why you've grown to enormous proportions? The "lost" childhood of your parents not being able to hold down jobs and moving from apartment to apartment to skip out and bills and such. Trying to fill that void with gallons of Mellow Yellow and Ding Dongs?
the last group complained, quite tellingly They said, "Why don't you have a spoon that just says 'Earth?' It would save time

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Knuckles the CLown wrote: The "lost" childhood of your parents not being able to hold down jobs and moving from apartment to apartment
You should be careful when jumping to conclusions. My parents broke up when I was fairly young, probably before I was 7. I was raised by my mother for the whole time.

I was a child of the '60s, and back then, the relative cost of living was low and a woman working as a waitress in a busy city could make a decent living on tips. And back then it was fairly common for people to move to other parts of the country.
Knuckles the CLown wrote: to skip out and bills and such.
My mother had excellent credit all of her life; she financed at least one car when I was around 10 or so, and to the best of my knowledge she never skipped out on bills. I remember, because we had moved around a few times but every month she mailed in the payment coupon. We gave notice whenever we moved, and we did pay our last month's rent when we moved from California in 1987. I know, because I was the one to buy a money order and give it to the rental agent. He was sorry to see us go, because we'd been there for about eight years.

Knuckles the CLown wrote:Trying to fill that void with gallons of Mellow Yellow and Ding Dongs?
Where did I say I drank gallons of Mello Yello (you spelled the name wrong). I said I had consumed that product, but I'm talking about maybe one bottle every couple of months, mostly when a place didn't sell a similar drink.

And where the hell did Ding Dongs come from? Where exactly did I ever say I ate those? Exactly where did I ever even mention them? What makes you think I ate those?

See, this is what happens when your only form of exercise is jumping to conclusions. Proclaiming facts not in evidence, and which are complete bullshit on your part, is a quick way to get laughed at.
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Has anybody ever seen that video where someone set two iPhones next to each other, launched Siri on both, and watched Paul roll over both of them with his wheelchair?
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Tdarcos wrote:
gallons of Mellow Yellow and Ding Dongs?

See, this is what happens when your only form of exercise is jumping to conclusions.
In Knuckles' defense, you don't sound like the type of guy who frequents his local GNC often.

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Though he did write a fairly on point ode to the closing of his favorite Hostess Stores.

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Wait. Where's the video of the 2 iPhones talking to each other?

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