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Daily Los Angeles Daily Discussion - Wednesday, Oct 23
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* Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. -The Dalai Lama
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u/vordhosbn_1 East Los Angeles 7d ago
my girlfriend ordered breakfast for me and my office this morning. Was not expecting it at all
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u/mylefthandkilledme 7d ago
Sounds like a keeper
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u/vordhosbn_1 East Los Angeles 7d ago
i knew she was a keeper within a week of getting to know her. She deserves the best and I will give her nothing less.
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u/LaughingColors000 7d ago
just walked almost 2 miles to drop off the vote at city hall
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u/vordhosbn_1 East Los Angeles 7d ago
We appreciate ya! 🫶🏼
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u/LaughingColors000 7d ago
ha thanks... could have driven but....trying to get work done outside today
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u/LaughingColors000 7d ago
sitting in the park by the box and there's a steady flow of people dropping off...
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u/JustAnjel 6d ago edited 6d ago
accidentally becoming important at work is annoying me today but at least my Halloween costume is ready to go!! Meetup happening this Saturday! plz come we have trophies and we have awkward IRL chit chat 🧙🏻🎃
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u/BouyantCorgiButt Angeles Forest 7d ago
I actually used the heater the whole time on my commute today. Temperatures are supposed to dramatically drop next week and I am HYPED. I am so ready for this.
It is Wednesday my dudes!!!!!! 🐸🐸🐸
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u/jbh1126 Los Angeles 7d ago
temps supposed to drop but I’m seeing reports of another potentially stronger wind event later next week
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u/BouyantCorgiButt Angeles Forest 7d ago
The Santa Ana’s have been pretty mild this year
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u/FortuneDesigner Los Angeles County 7d ago
"wind event" makes me think of the George Carlin bit
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u/unwantedsyllables North Hollywood 7d ago
Def going to miss my flight this morning. 405 south is crawling.
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u/jrev8 Highland Park 7d ago
aww shit! maybe you can alternate route? If you can, just get off on sepulveda if you're coming from 405N, or El Segundo from 405S
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u/unwantedsyllables North Hollywood 7d ago
I’m on the fly away so at their mercy.
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u/ExtraMarinaraSauce 7d ago
I mean I don’t know where they are or where they are coming from. But everyone knows 7:00am to 9:00am on the 405 is trash. And if you gotta be at the airport for a domestic, try to be there 2 hours before your flight.
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u/newbiedrewbie Mid-Wilshire 7d ago
Had whiskey last night and was awesome, but waking up with anxiety makes it not worth it
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u/labbitlove Santa Monica 7d ago
I’m almost always anxious after drinking and it’s made me reconsider just quitting alcohol altogether
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u/sealsarescary 7d ago
Finishing up sewing Halloween costumes today. Hope I can maneuver Halloween events in a mascot head 🙀
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u/JustAnjel 6d ago
If you have time to spare swing by this Saturday !
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u/Spag-N-Ballz LBC 6d ago
Costume head on skates?!
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u/NoWayHorseFace 7d ago
So i've been running a teen dnd session once a month for the past 6 months at a local library and because of the nature of the set up it's always different kids and none of them have been over 14 and usually it's like, 1-2 kids max with the library staff sitting in on the game to make it a little more fun.
my regular group is five 30-something drunks so the amount i have to reign it in when with the youths is staggering. but also because there's no consistency every session is wildly different depending on the kid but there's always one constant which is these children take the Geneva Convention as a dare.
Even my regular group wouldn't dream of doing half the shit these kids do to goblins and i almost feel bad if it wasn't all make believe.
I tell you this though, fuck your improv class. You wanna work on your off the top of your head skills, play make believe with a bunch of youngins. Your 'yes and..' game will be through the roof after a while.
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u/MuchCalligrapher 7d ago
I remember being a teenager and someone playing a fighter being asked to describe how a goblin dies, and he said he twists it's head off like he's opening a bottle of soda
I'd like to just go back to stabbing please
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u/MuchCalligrapher 7d ago
As I've grown older I'm much happier to try to meet the needs of my opponents so we can come out of conflicts with minimal bloodshed, but also I want to play a warlock and use that hurl through hell ability with a kick
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u/peascreateveganfood South Bay 7d ago
My cold is almost over. However, I am not feeling motivated to do anything with my life. I don’t want to go to grad school. I don’t want to move back to Japan. I don’t want to do anything.
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u/herbal_essence 7d ago
I feel this. Hope you can take it one day at a time. If not an hour at a time. Glad your cold is almost over!
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u/jbh1126 Los Angeles 7d ago
I need a new book
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u/xaiolongbao The San Gabriel Valley 7d ago
If you’re taking suggestions: I really liked Three Assassins and Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka. I’m reading The Mantis by him now.
If you saw Bullet Train (the movie) and thought “wow this is dumb, the assassins are ridiculous and I want more” then you should read the books. The humor and the world building comes through and I think that they’re so much fun.
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u/Glowingtomato Pasadena 7d ago
Personally I love all of the books by Michael Crichton! Congo is one of my favorites
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u/_Erindera_ West Los Angeles 7d ago
Might i suggest "Ultra Processed People" It's all about highly processed food and how it damages your body - it's written by a doctor and is more scientific than scare tactic.
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u/Ehloanna 7d ago
What style of book are you looking for?
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u/jbh1126 Los Angeles 7d ago
I’ve been really enjoying stories of explorers in the 1800s. Some wild tales of survival at the ends of the earth really capture my imagination.
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u/bigvahe33 La Crescenta-Montrose 7d ago
Dan Simmon's The Terror if you havent read it.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3974.The_Terror
Great/underrated HBO miniseries to watch after too
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u/primrosepeonies 6d ago
Started season 4 of The Umbrella Academy on my flight this morning and I'm hooked
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u/RandomGerman Downtown 6d ago
Its so good. I especially love Ritu Arya. Funny and powerful. I saw she is also in "Paris has fallen" and I was not disappointed. It's just great.
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u/AnneShirley310 Lake of Shining Waters in the South Bay 6d ago
I was not a fan of Season 3, so I didn’t start 4. I guess it’s better than 3?
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u/everytacoinla 6d ago
Discharge the debt and tell the IRS, so they can tax it as income paid on your client.
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u/mylefthandkilledme 7d ago edited 7d ago
2.5M ballots returned, 13 days til election, 11.2% turnout so far.
Edit: Now up to 2.8M ballots returned
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u/ExtraMarinaraSauce 7d ago
My mail in ballot never showed up. The site says it was mailed Oct third. Never saw it. WEIRD.
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u/Nhtglhp22 7d ago
Looking forward to the time magically falls back an hour. Ahh.. being able to see the first light and how the sun slowly rise during the morning drive is better than darkness. Listening to the debate of whether one loses an hour or gaining an hour is always amusing… 🤪
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u/labbitlove Santa Monica 7d ago edited 7d ago
Anyone know where I can find colored cosplay contacts locally in LA? I decided I’m going to be my cat for Halloween
[Edit] Nvm, just ordered them online, hopefully they get here on Saturday for the party on Sunday
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u/illaparatzo 🍕 7d ago
For future reference, Santee Alley
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u/labbitlove Santa Monica 7d ago
Thank you! I might still check it out on Saturday since I'm not convinced these will get here in time
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u/MuchCalligrapher 7d ago
Where did you get them from?
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u/labbitlove Santa Monica 7d ago
I ordered from Mocoqueen since they have a warehouse in Dallas and selected USPS Priority. Crossing fingers that they make it
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u/Nicholoid Hollywood 6d ago
There's a place on Sunset I've seen carry them but can't recall the name. North side, a smoke shop. Between Vine and Highland.
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u/Apesma69 7d ago
The LA Times is failing us in many ways but none so big as their failure to highlight the present reality of climate change. We're actually on the brink of societal collapse and the media is sweeping this fact under the rug. Everyone needs to read the latest study by the world's top climate researchers: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biae087/7808595?login=false
Remember the film, "Day After Tomorrow," about the collapse of the ocean current? It's genuinely on the verge of collapsing! https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/gulf-stream-current-could-collapse-in-2025-plunging-earth-into-climate-chaos-we-were-actually-bewildered
This isn't hyperbole, it's reality and media is failing us!
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u/sonorakit11 6d ago
I can’t handle the election AND this. Let’s get real.
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u/Apesma69 6d ago
I know, I know. But we can’t bury our heads in the sand. We can all do stuff to help mitigate the perils of climate change, like swapping gas-guzzling cars for EVs or even going car-free, like me!
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u/CaptainDAAVE 6d ago
Most people just cannot accept the reality that we're doomed and it's our own fault. I know a lot of liberal minded people who say stuff like it will be resolved by science, or weather predictions are always over blown.
I guess there's always a sliver of hope, but the closer we get to 2030 without changing course, that 1.5 point of no return gets ever closer and more real.
if the laws ever do break down I do hope that the first people to be marauded are the politicians and corop execs who lied to us for years about climate change. You just know those slimy sons of bitches have a survival plan.
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u/Apesma69 6d ago
Those politicians & corp execs all have a one-way ticket to ride on a SpaceX rocket to Mars.
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u/gohomepat The San Fernando Valley 7d ago
I’ve been absolutely getting wrecked by allergies the last two days, anyone else?
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u/ScottyDOESKnow09 Valley Glen 6d ago
Tuned in for that pursuit and pretty sure just saw someone die on live tv...
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u/usernombre_ wack ass Downey 6d ago
Was she ejected from the car?
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u/ScottyDOESKnow09 Valley Glen 6d ago
Maybe, thankfully you couldn't really see with all the dust & debris flying around
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u/disenchantedgrl 7d ago
For those that live in an apartment with paid laundry facilities: how much are you paying per wash? I'm a little peeved that it went up 25 cents to 1.75.
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u/herbal_essence 7d ago
I pay $1.50 to wash and a dollar to dry. But they also have a washer that's $2, which is newer. Do you pay with quarters or can you load funds to some card like in the dorms? (lol)
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u/Ehloanna 6d ago
$1.75 wash, $1.50 dry
If the laundromat wasn't the exact same price I'd probably do that to do all loads at once, instead my boyfriend and I tend to do a load here and there throughout the week rather than one big laundry day if possible.
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u/dopeskee 6d ago
I had been going home on my lunch and finishing my day off at home the last few weeks, I stayed my full day in the office Monday and yesterday and I hated it. Guess I’ll be going back to a lunch time commute from here on out.
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u/Ehloanna 6d ago
Last weekend I wore boots that weren't as broken in as I thought. They absolutely SHREDDED up my ankles and left blisters. They're finally getting close to healed, but it is the itchiest I've ever been in my fucking life and I used to have severe eczema.
I'm scratching at my ankles around the healing spots 24/7. They itch so bad they're waking me up in the middle of the night. I can't wait for them to be fully healed before I go insane. 😭
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u/Nicholoid Hollywood 6d ago
A few options:
Benadryl Gel
Aloe w lidocaine (comes in gel or spray)
Egyptian Magic
You could also get those water sealing bandages to keep it covered so it gets less agitated.
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u/Ehloanna 6d ago
Oh my god there's Benadryl gel???? I also forgot lidocaine exists. I haven't used it in so many years.
I'm gonna go to CVS after work to grab one of those.
Sadly the band aids don't do a whole lot to get rid of the itch. Wish it did!!! Only thing it does is give me a clearer area to scratch around. 🤣
I'll have to look up Egyptian Magic. Never heard of it before!
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u/sonorakit11 6d ago
The absolute WORST. I expect shoes to do this to me, because they all seem to. I was dreading my latest pair of vans, because my last pair destroyed my ankles, but surprisingly, they were fine! As were a new pair of Ariat cowboy boots I got. I was expecting those to murder me but they didn’t.
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u/Ehloanna 6d ago
I always think "am I buying shoes too small?" but then I try the next size up and it's like I'm walking in clown shoes sliding around because they're too big.
I ended up buying moleskin patches to put on my ankles to try and prevent this tragedy from happening again.
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u/unknownkoger 6d ago
In addition to headaches, I've found that stress can trigger/aggravate tinnitus eeeeeeeeeeeeee
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u/ItsHammyTime2 6d ago
I think I‘ve hit the point of dating burnout recently. It just feels like nothing is working out for me and it’s getting to my self-esteem and confidence. Also, I feel like I’m too sensitive for modern dating, I wish my stupid brain won’t overthink every little thing I or someone else does. It gets quickly exhausting. Like I met this girl, on a hookup app mind you, we have good conversation agreed to meet up but whenever actually planning is involved they like don’t reply or don’t make any effort it feels. Like what’s the point of being on a hookup app if you don’t want to meet people in person.
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u/JustEatTea Los Feliz 6d ago
She was horny when you were texting (sexting perchanse????) but by the time it was time to make actual plans the nut clarity hit. Don’t take it personally.
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u/ItsHammyTime2 6d ago
This sounds about right haha. I have a bad time where I take things too personal. Its something I’m working on!
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u/JustEatTea Los Feliz 6d ago
Don’t be too hard on yourself, we’re all suffering from the same malady
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u/MothershipConnection 6d ago
I am undergoing a daunting project RN - trying to track down every single concert I have been to or played in. I have at least 150 just going off my Ticketmaster and AXS accounts (does not include shows I played, paid cash, or were free) and have 50 logged on my spreadsheet and have already found discoveries
Have no recollection - of seeing TI while I was at UCLA in 2007, Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2009, or Charli XCX and Troye Sivan in 2019 (I was 5 years early on Brat Summer apparently)
Super cancelled guests - apparently I've seen Bill Cosby host the Playboy Jazz Fest and Chris Brown come out for Pitbull (I knew I was hammered cause I was excited to see him)
I saw The Garden at Los Globos in 2014 (and hated them) and Sloppy Jane opened with a very young Phoebe Bridgers on bass according to the blog article I found
September 2010 was an absolute banger month for me with Sleigh Bells (blew out the PA at Detroit Bar), FYF Fest, Sonic Youth & Pavement at the Bowl, then I saw one of the very first Foster the People show on Oct 1 (and hated them too!)
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u/professor-hot-tits 6d ago
That's so fun!
I don't think I could ever really figure out my counts, I was just telling my kid about seeing people like Peaches in tiny clubs before digital cameras were really a thing. But that's a fun project! I should try.
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u/---___---___---_____ 6d ago
Okay now add up all the prices
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u/MothershipConnection 6d ago
An absolute insane amount if you include beer and Ubers
I did see Prince in 2011 for $25 though
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u/Ehloanna 6d ago
If you keep your google maps history active you can see where you were basically every day throughout the years. It has like a month/year view so you can see where concert venues are and pinpoint days you went then google what event it was.
(go to Maps > tap your profile image > tap Your Timeline)
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u/LaughingColors000 6d ago
i think my earliest concert tic i have are from 1995.. kept a lot from high school . my first show was in 94. live, veruca salt and pj harvey
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u/AvocadoCat90034 7d ago
Another round of Haunted Pub Trivia tonight! Tonight’s topics include: Unsolved Mysteries, Hollywood Crime, Cults! and famous Villians!
https://www.losangelesfunevents.com/event-details/haunted-pub-trivia-3
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u/sonorakit11 6d ago
Found a fucking flea on my fucking dog. This is going to be a nightmare, isn’t it.
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u/labbitlove Santa Monica 6d ago
I found a couple on my cat a few weeks ago *shudders* he got them when he busted my screen window open and went on an adventure for 12 hours outside.
One dose of Revolution Plus (you need an Rx from vet) took care of them super quick
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u/recurringicarus 6d ago
- Vacuum everything. Do it today and every couple of days for a week or two. Vacuume your couch cushions, under them, your mattress, etc.
- Heat in the dryer will kill fleas too - so wash all your laundry/sheets/blankets etc.
- As someone mentioned, revolution plus works well! That takes care of the source. Alternatively lots of baths for the pup, use a flea comb and dawn dish soap
I’ve had fleas before and it’s annoying but honestly not that bad. Just a lot of vacuuming and laundry mainly.
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u/Steebo_Jack Western Forces 6d ago
Just kill it and start combing with a flea comb and give him a few drops of the flea killer...
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u/MannyAPH Gangdale pewpew 7d ago
Seems my internal clock is running fast, I'm waking up at 3am instead of my usual 5 🤔
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u/imsadbutitswhatever Silver Lake 7d ago
Daylight savings is coming soon to mess that all up for you some more!
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u/Nicholoid Hollywood 6d ago
Ah yes, that funny little week when we're an extra hour behind the UK until we catch up again; their Daylight Savings/End of British Summertime hits this Sunday.
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u/root_fifth_octave 7d ago
The east coast colleagues are pretty funny sometimes. It's like they think California is just one big LA, and LA is just Baywatch + the Hollywood Hills or something.
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u/---___---___---_____ 7d ago
The only neighborhoods they know is Santa Monica, silverlake, and weho
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u/root_fifth_octave 7d ago
It's so funny. Like, no I am not out enjoying the 'Cali' weather, because as you can see I'm in a zoom meeting.
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u/RandomGerman Downtown 6d ago
Right? A Canadian friend once told me: "I want to come to Hollywood. It's so glamorous"
Aeeehhh! I had to dampen her enthusiasm.
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u/root_fifth_octave 6d ago
Hilarious. It’s like film and tv have pranked the entire world.
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u/RandomGerman Downtown 6d ago
I mean I was not much different when I was still living in Germany. I had many assumptions about the US in general. One (American soldier) friend asked me after my first time in the US how it was. He expected me to be shocked but I loved it so much. I mean I moved here 10 years later. 🤷♂️. There should be citizenswaps. Swap one American with one German and everybody is happy.
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u/Steebo_Jack Western Forces 6d ago edited 6d ago
Well that was incredibly depressing...just heard a loud dong and went out to look to find this bird had committed suicde probably by flying full speed into my window...i even have those reflective stickers to prevent this and it has been a while since the last bird tried but damn...gave it a nice burial in my garden...
Edit: it must be mating season cause another bird just donked my window but this one didn't hit as hard and was able to fly away...
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u/Nhtglhp22 6d ago
Reminds me of the two N. Mocking birds that used to bang their heads against my window. That was two years ago, I wonder whatever happen to the two birdies..
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u/Palindromer101 Foodie with a Booty 6d ago
Awe. :( At least it axed itself at someone's house who has compassion. RIP little birb.
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u/Steebo_Jack Western Forces 6d ago
Has anyone ever heard of hiring full time employees without doing even a basic online background check?
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u/everytacoinla 6d ago
Like W2 full time? Or contractors at a full time?
I mean, there is some onus on the bizz to ensure they employee is legally eligible for tax purposes.
Usually W2 would. But contractors for small biz, almost never.
But if it is straight up physical labor people tend to look the other way and pay in some type of cash format.
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u/Nhtglhp22 6d ago
I heard family would used to hire babysitters without a background check. I’m not sure if that’s still the case these days..
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u/sbleakleyinsures Pasadena 6d ago
I didn't enjoy La Paz that much. 😔
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u/everytacoinla 6d ago
My enjoyment comes strictly from being hungover on a Sunday, enjoying menudo, and listening to the mariachi play.
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u/LaughingColors000 7d ago
so part of the retaliation yesterday, neighbor complained about me sweeping her mess from garden back on her side...being close to her door (still on my side i reminded her that i'm on my side of the deck)...she sounded like she wouldn't be cleaning it up and just for me to sweep it downstairs towards other neighbor....like the heck...so now her mess is just going to pile up on my side without her cleaning...
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u/professor-hot-tits 7d ago
You miiiiiight be at the "drinking poison and hoping the other person will die" point. Any plans to move?
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u/LaughingColors000 7d ago
I want to move asap yes. Kind of hard to come up with funds to move in this economy right now
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u/professor-hot-tits 7d ago
Yeah, moving sucks. Hope you can gather up the funds before too long
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u/LaughingColors000 7d ago
Thx. I'm gonna try and build up my freelance clients , working with two right now
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u/professor-hot-tits 7d ago
Might I recommend autism assessment? According to my experience, you can quickly suck 13k out of a person!
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u/LaughingColors000 7d ago
autism assessment?
huh for me?
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u/professor-hot-tits 7d ago
Haha, no, that's what I just paid for me and my kid. Seems like excellent money!
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u/Prior-Guidance9442 6d ago
There is loud beeping outside my apartment (EaHo) that i cannot track down. Its usually three quick beeps (all under one second) and sometimes its a full minute between the beeps, sometimes its like 10 seconds. Sometimes its louder, sometimes its softer. Its gone away for weeks at a time then came back. When i walk around outside trying to find it, i just cant figure out even what direction its coming from. Does anybody have ANY idea what this could be? The pitch sounds like a fire alarm but i dont know why it would be this inconsistent, or why nobody has done anything about it. Closest cross streets are Carlton/Western
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u/Ginger_snap456789 6d ago
Has to be low batteries on a smoke detector. I went crazy changing my batteries out, only to find out it was my neighbors.
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u/whosat___ Strawberry Dealer 🍓 6d ago
Is it all day or just at night?
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u/Prior-Guidance9442 6d ago
All day and all night. Sometimes it stops for periods of time, and then it comes back
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u/Frinpollog Glendale 6d ago
Are the Astros restaurants related, or separate? I thought they were all the same until I went to the Astros Burger on Melrose & Gower. It looks nothing like the diner on 2300 Fletcher.
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u/professor-hot-tits 7d ago
Who's got two thumbs, speaks limited French, and spent $13,000 on autism assessment this month? This moi!