WTF-Beta

I'm very confused about what surgery you had. Cataract removal was a 10-20 minute painless process for me. I left with an eye taped shut for a day or so. Then they removed the patch and voila, perfect vision. Retinal detachment surgery, by contrast, was a painful two-weeks of lying on my stomach so as not to disturb the internal air bubble patching the retina.

Ouch. Bad memories of my own retinal surgeries 12 years ago. Hoping for the best.

Never made beef stock, just lots of yummy chicken stock.

What beef is that? It looks like there is real meat there. Does that get eaten separately in some form of stew, or is it too bony?

@Jodi said in WTF turns 20 this year:

Geezer babbling. Lol.

Ahahhhaahhaaa!

Arrrrhh, arrrrrrh, arrrrrrh.

In the case of this pirates' nest, yep!

Just an additional comment on the term: our real estate agent introduced me to the word when she used it after telling us about the fire sale price of the interior accoutrements. "You can have it turnkey ..."

I had not seen th\is "turnkey" stuff either. When we expressed interest in the house and started negotiating I think we asked something like, "is this house staged" and found out that, no, this was the owners' stuff that they would be happy to sell along with the house. They had prepared an itemized list based on consignment guesses and we just made an offer for the whole thing, which they quickly took.

Our "turnkey" place had recently been remodeled by a couple for their daughter's use. She was injured in an accident and never lived in the house. As part of the remodel, they used a designer to completely furnish the place with high end Spanish Colonial stuff. It all coordinates. This wasn't someone's beat up leftovers!

We were thrilled not to have to furnish a house quickly, which would have forced us to do a fairly slapdash job on the cheap. And we don't have any particular attachment to the furniture, so we're comfortable renting the place out. I can only imagine what the original cost would have been.

SK, when I use the term "turnkey" I mean the house includes everything. Ours included furniture, linens, cookware, bedding, everything. After closing, we walked into a fully useable house. We had it on the rental market the following month.

Over the next few years we discovered all the stuff that needed repair ... roofs, stucco, irrigation, landscaping, pillars, foundation (!), but it was still turnkey in the sense of walking into a fully furnished house ready to live in.

We bought our house in Santa Fe "turnkey." That was a great decision for us.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/501-Sam-Jonas-Dr-Las-Vegas-NV-89145/6973547_zpid/?

Nouvelle Pirate!

No, no, a thousand times no ...

Anne Telnaes quits the WaPo over content censorship.

https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post?r=smpq9&triedRedirect=true

If I wanted a house with that kind of awesome late 19th century decorative interior, I would not burden it with that completely inappropriate, .... jarringly inappropriate, furniture. Some mixed styles work. In my view, that one does not.

Another firework this morning in front of the Trump Hotel in Vegas this morning.

https://bsky.app/profile/bnonews.com/post/3lepd62jvhk2f

Happy New Year from Las Vegas.

https://bsky.app/profile/dhfeldman.bsky.social/post/3leo5iwjklk2m

Women are unhealthy temptresses whose urges lead good men astray. They need to be controlled by righteous men. Sharia FTW.

Misogynist religion makes me ill.

The government of the Netherlands seemingly has relished its role as purveyors of Russian-killing equipment to Ukraine in partial repayment for Russia's cavalier denial of its role in the Malaysian Airlines shoot down and protection of the Russian "rebels" who did it. One wonders how Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan will react. They live closer to the bear.

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I can't imagine a "nation" like that would actually vote for the morons who are proposing it.

That asshole just likes to hear himself talk.

You wanna take lots of risk, just buy Bitcoin.