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champagne

champagne

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:cussing: WTH... they didn't even send me a letter stating it was going to go up my $5.... I asked if they had something cheaper than the one I have and they said yes, but it's 10x slower than what I have now...

ummm, how is that possible? :scratch: I know it's only $5 but........
 
They go to the Utilities company and ask for a rate hike. Once they get it, all they have to do is post it in a newspaper.

Try being in California. I'm in shock with what prices are out here. :pottytrain: :fired:
 
gorgor said:
They go to the Utilities company and ask for a rate hike. Once they get it, all they have to do is post it in a newspaper.

Try being in California. I'm in shock with what prices are out here. :pottytrain: :fired:
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I am in Cali.... $25 for my internet.... :cussing: Northern Cali in the houseeeeeeee
 
champagne said:
I am in Cali.... $25 for my internet.... :cussing: Northern Cali in the houseeeeeeee
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We just moved to an area outside Santa Barbara.. have no idea if I'm going to ahve a house with these fires. :nono:

I'm totally blown away about the costs here. that alone could be a 500 page gripe thread :laughing:
 
I get dsl provided through my telephone company (windstream, formally alltel). It cost me $29.99/month when I first signed up. Last week, I happened to be browsing their website when I noticed that windstream was offering a higher-speed dsl (a step up from what I currently had) for only $19.99/month. :cussing: So, I had to play the phone game of being placed on hold and transferred around the building in order to speak to the proper people who could upgrade me with this faster dsl. And of course, the phone company won't inform the consumer of any price DECREASES...only increases. I did end up getting the $19.99/month dsl, with a two-year contract to keep my landline.
 
inthesticks said:
$79 a month? Do you have satellite dsl? That sounds like what my DirectTV does when it rains..... :crazytongue:
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Yeppers! :) Absolutely nothing else is available in this area. The side yard looks like a sattellite farm, and we had to fence it to keep people from stealing the metal. Our cell phone service recently went out for days because someone stole the (copper) bus bars off the cell phone towers.
 
tharedhead said:
inthesticks said:
$79 a month? Do you have satellite dsl? That sounds like what my DirectTV does when it rains..... :crazytongue:
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Yeppers! :) Absolutely nothing else is available in this area. The side yard looks like a sattellite farm, and we had to fence it to keep people from stealing the metal. Our cell phone service recently went out for days because someone stole the (copper) bus bars off the cell phone towers.
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I'm telling ya...this theft stuff is on the rise everywhere! The local and state papers are full of Police Beat articles about cars being broken into and stuff stolen from them. Entire neighborhoods are being subjected to this sort of theft. Luckily, I live in a rather rural area. And, I have my guns...so I would really like for someone to attempt to steal my truck. It's hard to see in the dark, and I can just aim my shotgun at the perps and mow them down...and not feel guilty about it. Unless they are cute. :laughing:
 
I have U-Verse which is through AT&T. That's cable and internet for about $100 a month. The internet by itself is $39.99 why don't they just say $40. I have high speed and the modem is wireless so that's nice because I can use my laptop.
 
inthesticks said:
I'm telling ya...this theft stuff is on the rise everywhere! The local and state papers are full of Police Beat articles about cars being broken into and stuff stolen from them. Entire neighborhoods are being subjected to this sort of theft. Luckily, I live in a rather rural area. And, I have my guns...so I would really like for someone to attempt to steal my truck. It's hard to see in the dark, and I can just aim my shotgun at the perps and mow them down...and not feel guilty about it. Unless they are cute. :laughing:
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Copper price is so high, folks are stealing from air conditioners in brand new homes in CA and Florida that are not moved in yet.

Red, didn't someone steal from a hot water heater when a woman was in a shower in your neck?

I had someone on my land a few weeks ago. My brother and sister in law are living there now. My BIL came out, started screaming in Thai and shot a few shots in the air. Greeeeeeeeeeat. now they think I'm crazy as well as Asian. :laughing:
 
gorgor said:
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Red, didn't someone steal from a hot water heater when a woman was in a shower in your neck?
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Yes, and the pipes out of the wall at the beauticians! :crazytongue: I'm waiting, the roof to the Chamber of Commerce is copper. It will happen...
 
tharedhead said:
Yes, and the pipes out of the wall at the beauticians! :crazytongue: I'm waiting, the roof to the Chamber of Commerce is copper. It will happen...
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I wouldn't bet with you on that. If someoen takes from a shower, they will take from a roof.. and get caught and we'll all see it in 'odd news of the day'

and Sticks, no matter HOW cute they are, I'd shoot..

unless they are very good.. then we can talk first :whistle: :crazytongue:
 
gorgor said:
and Sticks, no matter HOW cute they are, I'd shoot..

unless they are very good.. then we can talk first :whistle: :crazytongue:
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Reminds me of the time me and three other gay friends decided to move into this dilipidated old house in a black neighborhood of Little Rock. We were the only white folk for blocks and blocks and blocks. So...everyone slept on the floor in that house, except for the guy who's parents owned it...he slept in a bed he moved into the house. Our goal? To renovate the old house and move into it. Well...we were all afraid of living there (there wasn't even a phone, and this was in the early 80s, so no cell phones either). But we were safe in the neighborhood, because everyone who lived there thought we were crazy and stayed away from us... :laughing: . One of the guys was an Indian (we called him the Crazy Indian). He would bring home a whole fryer chicken, and then commence to cook it over an outdoor fire in the front yard (we didn't have a stove, but really! A campfire in the front yard?). Then there was the guy who was a right-wing faggot, who denounced all things gay but would haunt the parks and the glory holes at the adult video stores. The Indian called him a "pussified twit". He worked by day at a restaurant as a waiter, had no car, and hoofed it wherever he went. I got mad at him one day in the front yard and threw a half-full five-gallon container of gasoline at him. Oh, I was referred to as "fat bitch". Then there was Conrad, the "owner" of the house. He would get a wild hair just before bedtime, grab his .22 rifle and fire shots into the night sky from his porch. Sometimes he would play Taps on his bugle, which he had there at the old house. Why? I haven't the foggiest idea. :scratch: :laughing: Oh, those were the days!
 
inthesticks said:
Reminds me of the time me and three other gay friends decided to move into this dilipidated old house in a black neighborhood of Little Rock. We were the only white folk for blocks and blocks and blocks.
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Ah, the good old days.....I used to live in this famous condemned building in Portland called the Fairmont (its now torn down). Its entry way was voted "Best Place to Drop Acid" by Willamette Week. We had a "snake lady" who wandered around in the halls naked except for her pets, and had covered the floor of her apartment with dirt to make them more comfortable. The guy next door made crack in his kitchen. Twenty-one people moved into one studio, then shot the windows out of a cop car in the parking lot, resulting in the Swat team nearly killing us all. Fires were common. Three apartments shared one circuit, so if you wanted to use a toaster you had to stick your head out in the hall and yell "toast" so nobody else would use their toaster and blow a fuse. The hole in the bathroom floor allowed conversation with the apartment below...I miss that place too! Plenty of friendly Drag Queens and dancers from The Silverado, art students, strippers...
 
LMAO@ suburban housewife! :booty" I used to be an inner-city working mom/wife until we moved into the country shortly after having our oldest. I developed mad mom paranoia for the city hubby and I grew up in was becoming a cesspool of crime and violence. Now I'm a housewife who cleans houses 3 nights a week, and my own of course.

I don't have much of a crazy past believe it or not. I married young, had 2 kids, took in my brother and my niece, and worked along with hubby to buy our first home. I once ran away with hubby when I was 17. We got as far as Tennessee before turning back. The second time we ran away I was almost 18 and we made it all the way to Vermont.

So, nope. No exciting, crazy stories to tell. Although hubby taught me to box before I became pregnant with our youngest and I use to box at a club before it got raided and shut down. Got my a$$ kicked more than I kicked a$$ :laughing: I could never land very well with my left.
 
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