#2 2012-03-03 11:06:16

That is some nasty shit. Literally.

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#3 2012-03-03 11:41:28

Better than the Hoarders episode I watched a few years ago where the lady had a SHIT GOLEM on her toilet.  And some cat was living behind it.  The cat was apparently not used to fresh air, so when it ran out into the yard for the first time, it keeled over and died.  So sad...

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#4 2012-03-03 12:44:14

Hoarders is a fucked up show. It makes me feel like cleaning house every time I watch it.

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#5 2012-03-04 09:28:09

If that was my rental house I would be sure it burned down some rainy night while I was out of town...

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#6 2012-03-04 11:21:18

The clutter in the living room I can almost--almost--understand, if a person was suffering from depression.  I can even sort of see the kitchen getting a little out of hand if you hate housework, y'know...and cats sure do add to the mess of a messy house...I'm just saying that if you had nothing to live for and you had no reason to leave the house, eventually this sort of mega-clutter would accumulate...

...But that BATHROOM.  I want to run screaming from a universe in which it is possible for a bathroom like that to exist.

Those "Hoarder" programs are a double-edged sword for a casual housekeeper such as myself:  On the one hand, there's the schadenfreude of "Huh.  I may be a slob, but I'm far superior to these psychos!" balanced against the horrible urge to stay up until 4:00 am throwing away EVERYTHING YOU SEE THAT IS MORE THAN A WEEK OLD and scrubbing your baseboards with a toothbrush.

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#7 2012-03-04 17:29:57

I am just going to ignore all your "hoarding" shit and talk about assholes who can't keep it to themselves. 

I just go off the MegaBus from DC to Hampton.  Hampton is the Hampton in Hampton Roads, but its also the armpit of Hampton Roads.

Among the group, there were two people with crying babies on the three hour tour.  A black woman and a Hispanic woman.  Spanish gal annoyed everyone by playing those little V-tech electronic games with her spawn.  I'm up to here _ with, "Boing! Press the green square."  The Afro-American annoyed us by just letting her kid cry. 

So, excluding fnord, guess which one left a soiled diaper in their seat when they got off the bus.

Thanks for listening.  I now return you to your hoarding discussion. Please, carry on.

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#8 2012-03-04 18:37:16

Platymingo wrote:

I just go off the MegaBus from DC to Hampton.  Hampton is the Hampton in Hampton Roads, but its also the armpit of Hampton Roads.

Among the group, there were two people with crying babies on the three hour tour.

The SS Minnow it wasn't? Public transit and especially buses have all but devolved here to freighting non-voting poors. South Station, Boston's street transit hub, no longer boasts functioning pay phones and if I want to get there, an hour away, I have two options: 6:15am or walk. But only on week days. Providence moved its depot all the way to Pawtucket 15 years ago.

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#9 2012-03-05 09:53:39

Hoarders always makes me want to rip my house apart and throw away anything and everything not currently being used.

I did clean the baseboards the other day.  All hand wiped with a clorox wipe.  I had just watched a Hoarders episode.

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#10 2012-03-05 10:13:32

That dude is patient zero for the upcoming zombie apocalypse.  No fucking way I would enter that house without a level A HazMat suit.

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#11 2012-03-05 11:17:04

George Orr wrote:

Those "Hoarder" programs are a double-edged sword for a casual housekeeper such as myself:  On the one hand, there's the schadenfreude of "Huh.  I may be a slob, but I'm far superior to these psychos!" balanced against the horrible urge to stay up until 4:00 am throwing away EVERYTHING YOU SEE THAT IS MORE THAN A WEEK OLD and scrubbing your baseboards with a toothbrush.

I spent about an hour cleaning up my porch on Saturday while I was waiting for my grain to mash and my wort to boil and while I filled 4 large black trash bags with stuff that has been laying around most of the winter, I would be lying if images from that very video didn't go through my head at least a couple of times while I was picking stuff up. 

The kitchen cabinets and the pantry are next.

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#12 2012-03-05 12:13:06

I just had a new room mate move in.  After my last one moved out, I had all of the carpets steam cleaned, cleaned out all the pantry and drawers in the kitchen, all of the bathroom cabinets, medicine cabinet, linen closet, etc.  I had a huge bag of trash from the pantry (maybe 2) and 1 bag of old linens to donate to the animal shelter.  This didn't seem really bad compared to the Hoarders people.

A few years ago, I went through my basement and ended up filling my girlfriends minivan with stuff, clothes, old kitchen equipment, etc.  I couldn't believe how much stuff we hauled out.  At least now I don't have to worry about that.  My basement is so clean now.  I know I had hoarders flashbacks each time I did this...

The animal hoarder shows are the worst.  I can't watch those.

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#13 2012-03-05 18:50:25

Anal talks, retentive walks.

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#14 2012-03-05 19:27:53

Heh.

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