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John Lee Pettimore

Further south than you
May 18, 2021
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Last week I finally downloaded GTAV, since it was 75% off on the Steam Halloween sale. Damn, I'm really enjoying this game more than I thought I would. Just the sheer amount of work that went into it, is amazing. And I like both characters, haven't met Trevor yet though. For some reason I get a huge kick out of dressing both Michael and Franklin full retro 70s, with big hair, aviators and sideburns /beards. :smile:

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John Lee Pettimore

Further south than you
May 18, 2021
6,302
6,718
Good day today. Missus sat her restricted drivers test, and passed with a perfect score. 31 years old, no family financial support, decided a year ago (with my encouragement) to finally do it from a starting point of never having sat behind the wheel even a single time before. She's got $5k in savings for a car, she's on fire to look for one ASAP.

And soon instead of catching 2 buses and taking over an hour to get to work, she'll jump in her car and be there in 20 minutes. Stoked for her. She's been taking buses her whole life, she doesn't even know yet how massively her life changed for the better today.

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John Lee Pettimore

Further south than you
May 18, 2021
6,302
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See that metal thing welded to the bottom of the garage door? That's what I gouged the fuck out of my scalp (despite wearing a thick hoodie) and gave myself a slight concussion on a couple of days ago.

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Shinkicker

For what it's worth
Jan 30, 2016
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See that metal thing welded to the bottom of the garage door? That's what I gouged the fuck out of my scalp (despite wearing a thick hoodie) and gave myself a slight concussion on a couple of days ago.

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How are you allowed to have farm animals in a residential neighborhood? No regulations on that?

And how far do you live from that beautiful forest you just posted? Like driving time wise?
 

John Lee Pettimore

Further south than you
May 18, 2021
6,302
6,718
How are you allowed to have farm animals in a residential neighborhood? No regulations on that?
Not so far as I'm aware. There have always been sheep and a goat on this property, for decades.

And how far do you live from that beautiful forest you just posted? Like driving time wise?
I'm on a different island from that. I'm about an hour from the start of this:


A few months ago the missus and I went to the rainforest and hired a little house in the middle of nowhere for three nights. This area. Took about 3 hours drive.


I pretty much live within a day's drive of 80% of the Lord of the Rings filming locations, and a morning /afternoon drive for half of them. So I am lucky in that way.

We got Queenstown about six hours drive away and that is beautiful, but also very very touristy and stupidly expensive.




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Speaker to Animals

encephalopathetic
May 16, 2021
8,161
7,370
My neighbor across the street was trying to be nice this morning and started shoveling snow from the drive.

At 6 am. I leaned out my window, "Six am on a Saturday, huh?"

"Sorry."

Again, nice guy, good intentions.
But ffs use judgement
 

John Lee Pettimore

Further south than you
May 18, 2021
6,302
6,718
My neighbor across the street was trying to be nice this morning and started shoveling snow from the drive.

At 6 am. I leaned out my window, "Six am on a Saturday, huh?"

"Sorry."

Again, nice guy, good intentions.
But ffs use judgement
Day shift workers are so precious about their sleep. :smile:


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Oct 24, 2015
5,854
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Last week I finally downloaded GTAV, since it was 75% off on the Steam Halloween sale. Damn, I'm really enjoying this game more than I thought I would. Just the sheer amount of work that went into it, is amazing. And I like both characters, haven't met Trevor yet though. For some reason I get a huge kick out of dressing both Michael and Franklin full retro 70s, with big hair, aviators and sideburns /beards. :smile:

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Yeah it's a good game. Haven't played the story since the PS3 but do online with the kids from time to time. Have you tried Red Dead Redemption 2 yet? If you like GTA5 and Westerns you'll love RDR2. One of the best storytelling in video games. I believe it's the last great game Rockstar will make. Don't have much hope for GTA6.
 

BrunoMcGyver

Bruno no dey carry last
Dec 30, 2015
6,499
10,287
My neighbor across the street was trying to be nice this morning and started shoveling snow from the drive.

At 6 am. I leaned out my window, "Six am on a Saturday, huh?"

"Sorry."

Again, nice guy, good intentions.
But ffs use judgement
I just got a retaining wall built in my back courtyard. My colleague's 70-year-old Italian confidant was a bricklayer and he agreed to do it for me. Thing with old Italian men is they start early, no matter what.

He said he'd be at mine "7 to 7 terdy" saturday morning. 6.45am I hear his ute pull up and by 6.50 he's in my courtyard mixing cement.

Saw my neighbour an hour later and said "sorry if we woke ya up mate, when the Italians get here is when work starts". Lucky he understood exactly what I meant.
 

Filthy

Iowa Wrestling Champion
Jun 28, 2016
27,507
29,641
Chronologically, a Tyrannosaurus Rex is closer to an iPhone than it is to a Stegosaurus.
 

kaladin stormblessed

Nala fanboy
Apr 24, 2017
17,652
20,029
Can’t find anywhere else to put this
K @kaladin stormblessed you quit TikTok too soon.
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yeh its not for me. nowadays people keep sharijg videos where its got the same girls voice narrating stuff

i just dont get it. that voice and skit type humor and memes dont really do anything for me. its the same jokes that have been done a million times

and above all else, those apps are all just time vampires. they get you staring at a couple seconds of nonsense. then another coupoe seconds of some other nonsense. over and over (my krypotonite are instagram butts and boobs lol)
 

gangsterkathryn

저승사자
Oct 20, 2015
17,318
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yeh its not for me. nowadays people keep sharijg videos where its got the same girls voice narrating stuff

i just dont get it. that voice and skit type humor and memes dont really do anything for me. its the same jokes that have been done a million times

and above all else, those apps are all just time vampires. they get you staring at a couple seconds of nonsense. then another coupoe seconds of some other nonsense. over and over (my krypotonite are instagram butts and boobs lol)
It’s definitely addicting. It’s a lot of skits but I don’t really get them in my page. I have mostly animals, Japanese and Korean content, and food.
 

kaladin stormblessed

Nala fanboy
Apr 24, 2017
17,652
20,029
It’s definitely addicting. It’s a lot of skits but I don’t really get them in my page. I have mostly animals, Japanese and Korean content, and food.
my home sceeen on istagram sometimes has girl showing slowly the steps to a dance as this cool song plays. then they bust it out on real time to the song

but the song is good. and they do there 10 steps in like 5 seconds then the video is done

and there are tonnnnnns of people that do their own lil 10 second dance to a great song

i woudlve wanted to seen a full dance to that full song once or twice and id be good. but its annoying as hell that i clicked on one and now instagram flopds my homescreen with a million other people doing 10 secpnds of fuckin dancing. i dont want them in my lifeeeee!!