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sLaCkEr408___RJ posted...

I assume everyone else think I'm talking with a southern drawl

Where are you from? That definitely doesn't match any part of the southerly Mason-Dixon.

Also, why do you do it? It's not sly enough to cover for profanity and it's weebly and unsatisfying as a swear.

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Glad to hear you're feeling better.

Splitting the money for short-term and long-term goals is a good idea.

brestugo posted...

Send her a thank you card.

Also this.

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Do you have a bank account? You should be putting some of that money away for the future. I know you've talked about moving out, etc.

Is your stomach feeling any better?

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Cocytus posted...

What's fart mode?

You can make a fart noise come out of a seat when someone sits on it, or set it to random. The fart has four or five different voices. It may also many farting noises when your turn signal is on.

I hate it. Santa Mode (the first twenty seconds of "Run, Run Rudolph" blares and won't turn off, turn down or permit interruptions) is better than that pile. At least it makes a cute jingle bell noise with the turn signal and gives your stopped car a Santa icon.

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Cocytus posted...

A boning mode? What's that?

You'll find out~

I have a 3, so maybe S is different, but underneath the 'toybox' feature, they have a little campfire icon. If you click it, the display screen turns into a fireplace with crackling logs and the heat vent turns on. If you touch the screen, porny jazz starts playing.

It wasn't part of it when I bought the car, but they're always uploading new BS features like that. I don't want my car to run out of memory, Elon.

I still want a partial refund for having fart mode foisted on me.

CableZL posted...

They're now saying they have to give my car the long range plus software upgrade before it's delivered, so it won't be delivered until after the 7th

Eff

That sucks. Also, it's stupid; the updates can beam at home, so they should just let you do it. You'll need to know how anyway. (It's as simple as pushing a button.)

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There's a boning mode in the extras section. It's unforgivable. Have fun, TC!

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Have you been vomiting or coughing a lot lately? Does it only hurt when you cough? It could be muscle strain around the area.

Drink water, eat vegetables and cut out soda for a few days. Then go to a doctor if it still hurts, because CE's only credentials are aspiring to own a windowless, white van.

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LadyVyxx posted...

People who buy sex.
I'm never gunna judge someone for what they gotta do to survive.

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I got married at 25 and may or may not adopt kids in my late thirties or early forties.

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LordFarquad1312 posted...

Reminds me of the time I named everyone in my FFVII playthrough "Sephirot"

Ha! I did this once in FFVI and named everyone EDGAR.

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DocileOrangeCup posted...

Yeah the roof was cool

When it rains or snows, the polarization on the roof makes it look yellow and red. Woooooo~

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UPDATE: AirBnB got me a refund for the first night and closed the ticket. I'll be staying here in the alternate unit until checkout. They'll get a savage review, but I am going to list earnest positives of the room.

(The bathroom is really nice. Like, it's weird how much nicer the bathroom is than the rest of the apartment. I probably won't be mentioning that in my review, but dang.)

twitterfriends posted...

If you dont leave a bad review youre just doing a disservice to the app and future customers who have to deal with these problems too, all because it makes you uncomfortable, youre incredibly selfish.

The Top Crusader posted...

I can't imagine not leaving a 1 star review after this. ...why wouldn't you? Do you want other people to see "well at least they got a 3 must not be too bad" and go through the same thing?

I'm not "uncomfortable," I'm inexperienced. The new room is actually fine, even if the first night was unforgivable. Unlike the places in the story article, the room isn't trashed or anything and if I hadn't been misled, gaslit and shuffled, I would have had no reason to complain.

This place only has five reviews, which indicates that the person with 68 other properties ("Andrew") is pulling the listings whenever they get bad reviews and just posting it up again as some other fake profile.

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StucklnMyPants posted...

You should demand, not ask, for a refund on the first night.

I'm within my rights to do so and already have, but they have the full power over whether it happens and, even then, there would be fees that AirBnB would have to waive. It's not like I can find the guy and intimidate him becaue the whole business model is hands-off; most people never see their hosts in person and the only reason I saw anyone was because this scam seems to involve everyone who works at the restaurant above the apartments.

lilORANG posted...

leave 1 star and complain to AirBNB corporate.

I did send their helpline a message yesterday.

stone posted...

How you are even considering not leaving a bad review is beyond me.. Seriously, as literally everyone else said, bad review and ask for full refund.

I'm plenty willing to leave a bad review, but if they come back with "Nuh-uh, we gave them a nicer room even and tried to make it better," that pings on my rating and will make renting from other places harder in the future. Since posting the OP, I've determined that this fake "Andrew" also has 68 other apartments listed on AirBnB, so it's not like he'll starve. I'm all-in on outrage now and won't mention how good the hookah bar smells or any of the friendly co-conspirators are.

Just got a message (the first one, after over nine messages and several phone calls, plus the complaint to corporate):

hi, thats fine you can stay in that apartment. best andrew sorry.

For fuck's sake, Drew.

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What's your favorite kind?

We usually do portobello because they're readily available but every Thanksgiving, we get every type we can find in the various boutiquey grocery stores and cook some types into our stuffing, with the others becoming a sauted side dish.

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dotsdfe posted...

I'm not gonna lie, the situation you described sounds remarkably similar to what I read in that article a while back. It might not be the same thing, but it came to mind right away.

Funny enough, this guy in London's profile name is Andrew, too. >:( I think I skimmed this article when it came out, but I've had such positive experiences in the past that it had only registered as a "oh, dang, that sucks." How little I knew.

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

They haven't tried to get us to pay anything more for the second room yet and I sure would hold my line if they tried.

--Zero- posted...

Don't give them a 1 star because your first night was terrible. See how the rest of your stay goes before determining that. They should have given you check in instructions prior to you arriving. You shouldn't needed to reach out to them for that. You do deserve to have your first day refunded.

I still feel like there should be an upper limit of stars I give due to their slow/absent responses and the weird shuffling. They are definitely supposed to send that info first. I've had other one or two hosts forget to do that in the past, but they've always responded immediately and with contrition when I message them the first day. Maybe not one-star yet, but dang. I also had to ask the guy who finally showed up and gave us the second room what the Internet password was, because they didn't have any information sheet inside the room.

pinky0926 posted...

Even worse, they did not communicate with you at any point. They didn't apologise or make amends or really do anything other than make you feel responsible for the most basic of their responsibilities.

The gaslighting is what really pissed me off, too. I could not have been clearer in my messages and they just seem to think I'm a weirdo who didn't 'want it' bad enough.

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Ricemills posted...

leave a bad review.

Like, yeah, but 1-star bad with my full condemnation, or like a waffley "Oh, but so and so was friendly and the Internet is fast, 3 stars~"

Do you think the odds of a refund are decent?

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Wall of text. tl;dr: AirBnB host never told us how to check in so that we were waiting on the street until 1:30 in the morning (2nd into 3rd) and has been making suspicious claims about the listing all day since (3rd). How bad of a review should I leave? Should I try to get a refund for more than just the first night?

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I booked a room in London back in September for a trip with my spouse now, set to arrive last night. On the day of arrival, I still hadn't gotten any information on how to check-in (key box? host meets? all that, no info), so I sent a message asking through AirBnB at 7:00 p.m. while waiting to board the plane. When we got out of the airport at 10:45 p.m., still no info, so I sent another message. When I arrived at the address of the apartment at midnight, I sent another message. I felt a little bad bothering him so late, but it had been several hours since my original, reasonable-hour message and hosts are supposed to send check-in info automatically two days before a trip starts.

Since we were outside the apartment, we tried calling the host on both Skype and the website. No response on either, though I left a message on each one as well as a few more inbox messages detailing our wait time and my urgency. It is February, it was after midnight and we had luggage. Even though it was a well-lit street and the restaurant that shares the address had kind people working there, it was starting to get a little freaky being left without a place to stay all night.

At 12:45, we sent a message to AirBnB directly complaining that this was unsafe behavior and that we wanted a refund for at least the night that we were supposed to have the room and couldn't get in. After 1:30 in the morning, we gave up and found another hotel for the night, still hoping we could get in in the morning. I sent one final message telling the host that we were going to request a refund for the first night and that, if we didn't hear back by the next afternoon, we would consider them to have canceled on us.

When I woke up, I called the host again and, fifteen minutes later, a different number called back, saying that the host "can't hear phones."

They kept taking this attitude that it was something we had done to not get into the room. "So why didn't you come?" "Was the main door unlocked?" Did you know that the address is _____?" This proves they didn't read any of the detailed messages we sent. Anyway, finally, they sent a text message saying to go to unit #5 inside of the apartments and the door would be unlocked with the keys onside. I sent a message confirming "Okay, #5 it is, thanks."

The unit was not unlocked and the only key we found by looking around was (I shit you not) inside a box with glass slides in it, several of them broken. So after reaching into a goddamn box of broken glass for a key that turned out to not even work, we just sat in the hallway and kept messaging and calling. A few other renters/neighbors said good morning and one offered to call the host for us, which I appreciated since I'm using a foreign SIM that doesn't always connect right (but had been calling the host and taking me to their voicemail). After about forty minutes, someone who was not shown in the AirBnB profile picture came down and offered us unit #4, which did have an unlocked door. It wasn't a typo, though, because this apartment does not match the images in the room we rented. He apologized for the "misunderstanding."

Everyone who has actually spoken to me in person has been very kind. I didn't like the person on the phone who kept blaming us but they weren't mean, just breezy and rude; nothing I would have taken a star off for under different circumstances. I think that the guy on the profile is not actually involved and that this is a front. We are inside unit #4 now, which had a twice as high rental rate compared to #5 according to the listings I just skimmed, even though both are just small studio apartments in the same basement of the same restaurant.

I don't usually give bad reviews on anything because I know that getting anything less than 100% is usually grounds for firing in star-rating systems, but this isn't okay.

How bad of a review should I leave? Should I try to get a refund for more than just the first night?

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Mine told me my whole life that my job was to live with them and 'change their diapers' in old age.

They're 70 now, I'm 30 and they are pushing hard for attention and play money.

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krazychao5 posted...

Wait, you're working in Germany and have to conform to the work schedule for EST?

I live in the US most of the time, but am traveling now and basically have to keep my regular hours for deadlines. I can work from home and I can work from not-home, so it's okay. But I just wanna boogie, not data analyze.

teepan95 posted...

Wo in Deutschland? :D

Tbingen bis morgen, dann Berlin danach.

I know it's weekdays, @Parappa09 , but if we get the chance, I'll get you blotto one day. <3

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Baaaah. We're on US-EST for work while in Germany, but I just want to stomp around, too. Die Deutsche lieben tanzen und ich auch.

At least we're drinking while we work.

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Do slow tai-chi or bouncing mock-cardio bending throughout. They will ask you to leave and you'll get a nice workout before they do.

I personally enjoyed it, but I found Katara and Aang pretty obnoxious (I don't like the 'nevr kill' ethic or the continual agonizing over whether being magic is cool/good), so I get why you wouldn't. The final season had an insulting amount of filler.

Favorite episode was the play in the Fire Nation with the overwrought caricatures. "It just fills me with so much hope! *wails*"

Edit: I couldn't get into Korra. I really wanted to, but after the end of the first season, I just noped out and couldn't anymore. Didn't like the massive jump in time (16th-ish century? to 1920s, vroom!) and they had too much romance as a main plot driver, as well as doing the strawman of a season 1 villain wrong by never addressing his totally legitimate concerns or the awesomeness of his family's powers.

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I never understood how people could say they hated the taste of water until I visited Georgia. That whole state has to be dehydrated; the water smelled and tasted like sulphur. It smelled like it should have been brown. I would have a totally different relationship with water-drinking if I lived there.
CharlesBronson posted...

fuck no i aint asking for a glass of tap water fucking nasty tastes like chlorine n shit ill stick with soda, thanks

Not all municipalities do that to their water. It's a shame yours does. :(


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Phantom_Nook posted...

Death penalty.

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Balrog0 posted...

I'm a different person

That's a statement I can get behind the truth of. My bad.

It also means that two people are stanning Ansari instead of discussing the actual point of the topic and deliberately missing the point of my post.

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Yeah, you were diminishing the notion of the assault being one at all through your scare quotes in the first post, but you didn't get haughty and semantic until later when I held firm. And, as I said, rape is a type of sexual assault. You picked one name on a list to not only stan for, but to derail the topic of whether rape is treated less seriously than fraud, going all-in on this panic that it mustn't have been that bad.

I maintain that shoving your fingers down someone's throat, even in a non-sexual context (not sure why sexual context should mitigate it tho, brah) is worse than plagiarism. And, frankly, I think it's worse than fraud. If you want me to hand down a sentence as a big, bad radfem judge, he'd get whatever the penalty in that state would be for shoving your fingers down the throat of someone. As an assault, that could be probably a month of local jail or less. If it were sexual assault, it would probably be a warning and maybe some community service, because of the desire of people to downplay stuff like that (case in point).

All of those men, from the innocent lamb Aziz to America's Poppa Cosby, have gotten off easier than Madoff. That was the point.

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It would be the 29th. The only way it could have ambiguity is if they say "next Wednesday" on, like, Sunday the 19th and you weren't sure if they meant the 22nd or 29th. "This coming" is a way to clarify that you mean the upcoming in cases like that, but it's not the standard, expected English for it, "next" is.

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Balrog0 posted...

To me it seems kind of pointless to try to litigate unless you're going to say what you think the punishment for this should have been iyo, whether or not any legal action was actually in the cards

comparing Aziz Ansari to child molesters seems obfuscate things by playing into the very thing you're saying contributes to rape being taken less seriously.

I mean, I'm kind of drawing an implication here that you do want to make a distinction (i.e., you're saying sexual assault instead of rape now) but your rhetoric is still defensive of your original point despite the concession

I am not 'litigating' anything and nor was the woman who talked about the assault. I was not 'comparing' him to other rapists, I was comparing all of them to the sentence Madoff got. Depending on the sexual assault laws in that state, it should have been tried under those normal statues if she chose to brought charges forward. It's really not as inscrutable as you insist. I would have respected your accusation of conflation sexual assault and rape (which is a type of sexual assault) more seriously if you weren't pulling it from the air desperately after having repeatedly diminished the woman's account through scare quotes, saying that you liked the self-same sex stuff and continually stating that it wasn't a big deal/couldn't possibly be worthy of punishment.

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She demurred, pushed him away, went limp and asked to slow things down repeatedly, including saying explicitly she didnt want to feel forced. No one ever said he was forcing her down or drugging her. It was still sexual assault and an obvious case of bowling over another person's comfort and the signals one ought to be keyed into during sex.

Your balls to the wall desperate attitude is exactly what TC's friend was talking about and me in my Utmost Bad example: you need so badly for this to be something other than violence of a sexual nature. And, again, he was never even threatened with jail time.

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CruelBuffalo posted...

you mean after he was eating her out and used her mouth to wet his fingers when they were finger fucking. That situation right?

You don't need to shove your fingers down someone's throat to make your fingers wet. I've been on both sides of hand-moistening deviancy and it's never come close to that.

How do you feel about fraud?

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CruelBuffalo posted...

Im sorry what prison type does Aziz Ansari deserve for pressuring a girl to have sex after getting a blowjob from her?

Don't be coy; you aren't sorry. He shoved his fingers down her throat in an attempt to be/continue sexiness. Shoving your fingers down someone's throat would be assault in any other situation and, since it was during and because of sex, that was sexual assault. There's no reason for it to have been treated as anything but. All the woman did was write a bloglet about it, without even calling for any legal repercussions, and people were calling on her to be imprisoned for "making false rape claims."

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Of course it is. The men in power who make the rules have more to lose financially if defrauded, and more risk to their position if rape were taken seriously.

Plagiarism gets you kicked out of college more reliably, instantaneously and permanently than rape.

Bernie Madoff is serving more prison time than Bill Cosby, Prince Andrew, Donald Trump, Aziz Ansari, Harvey Weinstein, Larry Nassar, basically any priest of any major-news faith sex ring and many others have ever even been threatened with.

The broad culture pays pretty decent lipservice to the concept of rape, but by putting it into the unique, cartoonish hell level of Utmost Bad, it ends up insulated and harder to actually conceptualize. I find people think of rape as so terrible that its commission has to be something else than rape because if it were rape, that'd be the worst thing there is, which is terrible, so we need to be sure it's not something else first, because rape is terrible. Fraud is an easy target of righteousness and tangible justice that is bad, but it's not the-worst-thing-that-is, so it's more readily understood and dealt with. And while anyone can be raped, women take the brunt of instances, while it remains an icky hypothetical at worst for most men. Women are taught their whole lives that their rape is right around the corner if they let their guard down and that's used as a strong justification to curtail their freedom of movement and association, even if nothing ever happens to them. (In many ways, rape is treated like a stage of life, the same way breast cancer 'awareness' campaigns treat it as just something that happens to women of a certain age.)

The helplessness of being a fraud victim is the type of hazy fear that people have about mugging or fire: fears you can plan for, but the likelihood of them happening can be mitigated and, if the worst happens, there are agencies that can and must help.

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