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[EuchreJack]

Eh, it's a living.

[MCreeper]

FTFY. How did I do?

Pretty nice, you joker. 

[brewer bob]

So, the landlord came to visit today.

He's managed to sell the house and the new owner will take the reigns in July. Our rent contracts will continue, but I've got no idea if the new owner will want to keep us or if they have other plans. In the worst-case they'll cancel the lease, but even then we'll have 6 months time to find a new place.

So, things should be safe at least until the end of the year, but I'll certainly be stressing about my housing situation until I know more from the new owner and their plans.

It'd suck big time to have to move. I've lived here for over ten years and like the house (the landlord was great too). Moving would be a huge hassle as I'd have to rely on friends and such to help in packing because of my disabilities. Also, it's not so easy for me to find any apartments as I've managed to fuck up my financial situation when I was young and stupid (ok, I'm still dumb, but not so much, I hope).

Let's hope things go well.

[martinuzz]

That's a stressful situation.
Do you not have laws protecting tenants?
Oevr here, if you have rented a place for 10 years, it is impossible (as in: forbidden by law) for a landlord, be it a new one or not, to terminate the lease.
Tenant rights > property owner rights

[brewer bob]

That's a stressful situation.

Yeah, and I have a tendency to stress out even of the simplest of things. And when I get stressed out it's really hard for me to collect the energy to do things that need to be done (which then stresses me even more, causing a nice little vicious circle).

Do you not have laws protecting tenants?

Unfortunately not as strong ones that many Western European countries have (I believe those laws were implemented after WWII, iirc).

Here, when the ownership changes, the contracts continue (in most cases anyway -- like should be the case in this one), but the new owner can end the contract if they want, though it'll take 6 months to take effect if the tenant has lived in the house over a year. If less than that, it's only 3 months (from the tenants side to end the contract, it's always 1 month).

At least the current landlord said the new owner is interested in keeping us, but I can't be certain about it before talking to them. I guess I'll know more within a couple of weeks after money changes hands.

[martinuzz]

I wish you a friendly new landlord, hope it all works out.

[pisskop]

One day people from SPAAACE will look at our pictures of celestial objects like the Milky Way's first Black Hole pic and think 'damn, its a shame somebody dropped some nacho cheese on that picture'.

[Eric Blank]

It's within the realm of possibility that the substance of a black hole, a singularity, is the most delicious thing possible in the universe, and a great shame that 3.5-dimensional beings such as ourselves cannot lick it.

[chaotic skies]

On the other hand, it's far more likely to just taste bad. At the very least, the sheer amount of stuff, and therefore flavor, in a singularity means some of the flavors are going to clash pretty intensely.

[martinuzz]

It probably tastes like spaghetti

[King Zultan]

This is technically old but I haven't been on the forum for eleven days so I'll say it anyway.

I hate lighting, since it ether hit my house or close enough to break shit, but it killed my TV, VCR, DVD player, WIFI rougher, Internet receiver thing, and the land line phone and the cables for it. So far the most of it has been replaced but I'm still holding out hope that a replacement fuse will save the VCR since those things are such a pain in the ass to get a hold of now days.


Also having to rebuild a huge run of barbwire fencing while a massive pain in the ass but add being swarmed by mosquitoes makes it a living hell. Fuck you mosquitoes.

[MaxTheFox]

I think part of the issue at least from the religious side is that the more preachy flavours seem to think it’s their job to “save” others according to their particular brand of Truth^tm, so they’ll go out of their way to make a nuisance (or worse!) of themselves in order to achieve that particular goal, as though there’s a tally waiting for them at the end with someone carrying a clipboard expecting them to have met some kind of savior quota.

And that "or worse!" is what I risk if I ever try to get a boyfriend. The attitude against the gay is off the charts here. I will be a moving target for pretty much anyone a bit religious.

Even the heteronormativity culture here as a whole is warped into a hyperpatriachal clusterfuck of disjointed, ancient tradition. It doesn't even resembles anything anymore.

I have two options. Live my own being incomplete and always keep a part of myself a secret, while suffering through societal expectations that are impossible to tackle for me. Or take a huge leap of trust in a place dominated by a dead conglomerate husk of a culture puppeteered by a 7th century personality cult gone rogue after its leaders death.

I keep my relationship with my GF a secret IRL, just to be safe.

The son of a former dictator is more or less winning by the preview of the results of the voter turnout today.

Tiruin, if she's still around I would argue would feel the same.

I am in contact with her over Discord. She's depressed because of that.

[McTraveller]

My daughter has a fever over 101F.  Yay. 

We're supposed to be traveling for vacation in 12 days.  Roll those incubation dice (for whatever it is)!

[voliol]

Eurovision never ends...

[TD1]

UK actually put on a strong showing this year.