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[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Or the opposite. “Howdy! Need directions? i just cleaned the grill and that clicking sound is the boot on your passenger-side CV joint.”

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I'm the guy in the neighborhood where the conversations go like this:

Them: "Hey jubilationtcornpone, do you have a tool for doing [obscure DIY job] and if so, can I borrow it?"

Me: "Oh yeah, I have one of those. Sure, you can borrow it."

Them: "Ha! That's awesome. I just knew you'd have one. How do you even figure out how to use all those tools?"

Me: "You start by being too poor or too cheap to pay someone else to do it correctly."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

And you keep the once in a lifetime tools because you're too poor to risk having to buy it again some day.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

If you don't start off poor then you start by being too cheap to trust someone else to do it correctly. When you get older you graduate to not TRUSTING someone else to do it correctly. That leads to you being poor because you start spending a zillion dollars on tools.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

“Yay! Visitors!”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I've met this guy. He was awesome. He made great food. And the clicking sound from my car was, indeed, exactly what he said.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

That sounds expensive.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago (3 children)

How I feel when people needlessly use a preposition to end a sentence with

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That rule doesn't actually exist in English. It's a Latin rule that some British asshole in the 1800s wanted to impose on English because he believed that Latin was a perfect language and anything that works differently from Latin is a flaw to be corrected.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You mean, hard mode is what you play on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Hard is the mode on which I play.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I play with hard mode on.

Edit: Dammit, someone beat me to the joke.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

The point is that "in" doesn't need to be in the text at all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"How dads feel when a stranger uses their driveway in which to turn around" makes you sound like a bit of a wanker though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
  1. You can just drop the "in" altogether

  2. Why just "sound like" when I can be?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago

I’m lucky enough to have a driveway and can confirm it is sovereign land awarded to me by God.

However, I have not yet reached the age where I conduct active patrols of the border, like the even older dads across the street have done.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I FART IN YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

My father when turning around in a driveway would always say: "Don't bake a cake because we can't stay long."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Pretty much the same thing when you live along a highway and someone starts slowing down near your house

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How did you get such a clear picture of me?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

I got up close by using your driveway. You were right to glare.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Gate it if you dont want it used by the public

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

*insecure dads

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

These are what they assume the occupants are like:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Car stops on the street in front of the house .... Garrison at attention!!!

Car starts backing up towards the driveway .... All forces on high alert! Man your stations!!!

Car starts moving onto the driveway .... Cease all operations!! Men at your stations!!! We're dispatching a warning party!!!

Car drives away ..... Cancel all alerts!!! Go back to your patrols!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why would you back up into a driveway to turn around? Going in forward seems easier.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Then you'd have to back up into traffic, and you're blasting your headlights into someone's living room.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Knock… Draw… Hold… Hold… Hold…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm guilty of this.

To make matters worse, I'm not a dad; and I live in an apartment...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Same here, I even live very urban, essentially right in the heart of the city. I still catch myself disapprovingly eyeing people walking by my windows on occasion. Am I getting old?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you're quick about it, no problemo friendo If you stop, for any length of time, for any reason short of medical emergency, we've got a problem

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Murdering people who pull onto your property in their car is surprisingly common (in America at least).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I’m having trouble teasing that specific statistic out of the FBI’s data. Can you tell me what query you used?

https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

My grandfather lived on a corner lot. The man hung barbed wire (with a clear sign) across his driveway. Every time we visited, without fail, we heard the sound of someone needing a paint job.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

“Are we blind?! Deploy the garrison!”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This must be in Europe. In the USA, our old dads shoot people for pulling into the driveway.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Ah yes an entire country of 340,000,000 people is definitely defined by the actions of a couple of homicidal morons.

This is why I stay out of Britain, it's pretty obvious that they are all maniacs just waiting to kill you with a sword.

Gotta avoid France too, those baguette munching asshats are just waiting to kill anyone who enters a park.

Gotta stay out of Germany too, they'll shank ya' for riding the train.

I stay out of Spain as well 'cuz they'll just gun you down in the street.

In fact its probably best just to stay home if possible, there's entire continents full people out there just waiting to murder you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Was gonna say, I still remember that USA guy being shot .

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