ChickenLadyLovesLife

I think that comes from pro wrestling.

The only non-functioning payphones I ever saw were the ones where the handset had been sawn off.

We had a smoking room, but it was only for seniors.

Oldhead here: we slammed the living shit of those phones.

I thought you were going to say something about naked kickboxing and I was preparing my hardiest "duh".

Your story has reminded me of why I'm lollygagging so badly on renovating my house (it's been almost two years now and really should have just taken a few months). I don't really need the rental money and I'm terrified of having to deal with shitty tenants.

I was less impressed when I learned that all the actors in that scene were on bicycle seats. But then I was more impressed when I learned they only had one ladder to let them down to take a pee.

Another fun Life of Brian fact: the production re-used the Tunisian sets built for Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth television series. Zeffirelli was furious that the Tunisian authorities allowed this; he apparently did not know how money works.

The whole "high school is the best years of your life" thing was always total bullshit. The drugs are much better in college.

I bought a house two years ago and I intend to rent it out while I'm living with my elderly parents until they move into a nursing home or pass away, at which point I will move into it. I met with a lawyer during the purchase process and he showed a copy of his standard rental contract, which included an annual auto-renewal of the lease at a mandatory 5% increase over the previous year's rental price. In my case, there would be absolutely no justification of any increase at all - I paid cash for the house, my insurance does not increase from year to year and neither do my property taxes, except after very infrequent reassessments - let alone a 5% increase. Even somebody who took out a mortgage to buy the house would have been paying a fixed monthly amount from year to year, so they would have had no justification for an increase in rent either.

Yes I know I'm a scumlord, but I'm charging $300 a month less than is typical in my neighborhood and I don't do that first-and-last-months rent bullshit. A security deposit is a reasonable ask, but why should a tenant have to pay the last month's rent up front? I've put a lot of work into renovating this house, and I just want a tenant who isn't going to fuck everything up before I move into it myself.

Yeah, M Roadster != M3 lol. The cheapest M Roadster I can find on Autotrader is $16K. Looks really nice, too. God damn it.

I don't know about the swapping thing, but power meter cranks are like a grand. I'd rather buy the regular kind and pay my local mechanic $50 to swap them. Although I've biked about 5000 miles a year for the last 20 years and I've never had to swap cranks.

I bought my second one a few years ago for $8500 with 70K miles on it, with the 2.5L and near-mint condition. You can get the older ones with the 1.8L engines even cheaper, maybe around $5K or so. I've driven most of the roadsters at least once and I think the Z3 is at the top of the list in terms of bang for the buck. Miatas are not bad but they cost around the same (or more) and they don't really have the power and handling of the Z3, although they're generally cheaper to maintain (especially in terms of tires - the back wheels of a Z3 have a severe toe camber so tires barely last 10K miles even with regular rotation). I think a Z3 is easy to find as long as you're willing to buy on eBay or Autotrader (I've bought one on each) and fly somewhere to pick it up. If you're only buying local it would probably be very hard to find one.

My holy grail car is an M Roadster, which looks almost identical to a Z3 but is apparently an entirely different car from the ground up.