Red Mosquito

Posted: **Wed January 03, 2024 9:54 pm**

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Posted: **Wed January 03, 2024 11:13 pm**

E.H. Ruddock wrote:which one are you spike

Ryobi, but I hate them after they couldn’t fix my under warranty riding mower for four months.

Posted: **Wed January 03, 2024 11:24 pm**

I also have Ryobi gardening equipment. My tools are a combination of B&D and Makita.

Posted: **Wed January 03, 2024 11:41 pm**

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Posted: **Wed January 03, 2024 11:42 pm**

the rental house we're in is probably 80% ryobi and a mixture of others...I only use the weed whacker to be honest

Posted: **Fri April 26, 2024 9:24 pm**

Just pulled the trigger on new windows for the house. Thank God for four years of interest free financing. JFC.

Posted: **Fri April 26, 2024 10:29 pm**

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Just pulled the trigger on new windows for the house. Thank God for four years of interest free financing. JFC.

$27k?

Posted: **Sat April 27, 2024 2:33 am**

USD lost 25% in the last 4 years so zero % financing def a plus

Posted: **Sat April 27, 2024 2:36 am**

There is nothing I can DIY

Posted: **Sat April 27, 2024 12:23 pm**

you can SMD tho

Posted: **Sat April 27, 2024 5:56 pm**

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Just pulled the trigger on new windows for the house. Thank God for four years of interest free financing. JFC.
$27k?

Ballpark

Posted: **Sat April 27, 2024 6:20 pm**

E.H. Ruddock wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Just pulled the trigger on new windows for the house. Thank God for four years of interest free financing. JFC.
$27k?
Ballpark

How many windows are they nice do you still have a pool or was that another house what's your equity

Posted: **Sat April 27, 2024 10:40 pm**

20+ windows. They aren’t nice that’s why we’re replacing them. Yes we still have a pool

Posted: **Sat April 27, 2024 10:50 pm**

‘but the energy savings you will achieve year over year from better insulation in summer and winter makes it worth it’

Posted: **Sat April 27, 2024 10:51 pm**

fr tho 0% financing you just do it free money

Posted: **Sat April 27, 2024 10:52 pm**

E.H. Ruddock wrote:20+ windows. They aren’t nice that’s why we’re replacing them. Yes we still have a pool

Sweet can't wait to see

Posted: **Sat April 27, 2024 10:55 pm**

same

can’t wait to peer in through them from your bushes at night

Posted: **Sat April 27, 2024 11:29 pm**

96583UP wrote:‘but the energy savings you will achieve year over year from better insulation in summer and winter makes it worth it’

Of course that was the main sales pitch but we definitely have some drafty windows so I’m excited to see the difference

Posted: **Sun April 28, 2024 12:26 am**

E.H. Ruddock wrote:
96583UP wrote:‘but the energy savings you will achieve year over year from better insulation in summer and winter makes it worth it’
Of course that was the main sales pitch but we definitely have some drafty windows so I’m excited to see the difference

yeah i do too and def need to replace

Posted: **Tue April 30, 2024 1:03 pm**

First a major plumbing issue and now the pump goes out on my washing machine.

Aaaaaagggggghhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

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