Lisa loeb is dating

Relative Error

2021.12.03 20:18 Rubypet Relative Error

When someone mistakes a relative for the person's significant other or when blood related individuals have interactions that falsely insinuates a sexual relationship.
[link]

2024.05.14 00:00 ClaimSalt1697 A MASTER LIST of real world tie-ins to ACOTAR: Part 2—World Map, Items, Terms & Other ✨🌙

-----------------

⚠️ WARNING: Maasverse Spoilers—Proceed with Caution ⚠️

-----------------
Part 1: Characters and Courts (sorry for those who already saw this post and now it's gone. I realized after publishing that Reddit formatting deleted a solid CHUNK of detail after the fact. Gimme a few days and I'll get it back up and published)
Part 2: World Map, Items, Terms & Other - YOU ARE HERE
-----------------

If this is the first post you've landed on, see Part 1 above for an introductory explanation to this two part post.

​
https://preview.redd.it/tblspn7am90d1.png?width=832&format=png&auto=webp&s=0e1c5d11b53736e3ac49b29e6734dba821f44e4e

UK + IRELAND

PRYTHIAN
A combination of Prydain, the old Welsh name for Britain, and Brython, which translates to “Ancient Britons” from Welsh.
HYBERN
A riff of Hibernia, the Classical Latin name for Ireland.
​
Artist of Prythian map: P-dulcis on redbubble

ADDITIONAL EUROPEAN-PARALLEL LOCATIONS

ILLYRIA
The Ancient Greeks used the term Illyria to define a region in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula. The numerous peoples who populated those areas were known collectively as the Illyrians. The region itself is quite mountainous.
THE MIDDLE
May refer to the Midlands, the central part of England, though geographically the Prythian map places the Middle central to Prythian, not central to England; with the Prythian inclusion of Scotland, the Middle on Prythian maps is located further north than the actual Midlands of England.
UNDER THE MOUNTAIN
A potential nod to the Schiehallion, a cone-shaped mountain often referred to as the center of Scotland. It's name comes from the Gaelic Sìth Chailleann, meaning "fairy hill of the Caledonians." On the southwestern side of the mountain is said to lie the well-concealed Uamh Tom a' Mhòr-fhir, a cave serving as an entrance to the underworld.
As the Schiehallion lies in the middle of Scotland (the Night Court) and not the middle of mainland UK (Prythian), the Sciehallion could instead be representative of Ramiel.
THE WESTERN ISLES
May refer to the Outer Hebrides, also known as the Western Isles, which is an island chain off the west coast of mainland Scotland. They are also sometimes known as Innse Gall, a Gaelic term meaning "islands of the foreigners/strangers" which was originally used by mainland Highlanders when the islands were ruled by the Norse.
ACOTAR role: The Prison is located in the Western Isles.
THE PRISON
Though located in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland rather than the Outer, the Prison may be a nod to Beinn Shiantaidh, which is Scottish Gaelic for "holy mountain." It is located on the western side of the Island of Jura and is the second highest peak of the Paps of Jura.
Fun fact: Pap is of Old Norse origin and means breast.
VALLAHAN
Valhalla is the hall of slain warriors in Norse mythology, located in Asgard, where those who die in combat live in peace under the leadership of the god, Odin. They are said to dwell in Valhalla until the events of Ragnarök, where they will then march out to fight in aid of Odin against the jötnar, a type of being in Germanic mythology.
ACOTAR role: Vallahan is a faerie territory located in the northwest portion of the Continent.
ADRIATA
The Adriatic Sea is located in Southern Europe and separates the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan Peninsula. It contains more than 1,300 islands.
BOG OF OORID
The Oorid Lough is a freshwater lake in the west of Ireland.
CRETEA
Crete is the largest and southernmost island in Greece.
ACOTAR role: Cretea is where Miryam and Drakon's people lived following the War.
LAPPLUND
Lapland is a geographic region in Northern Fennoscandia which covers much of the Nordic countries. It is also a province of Sweden and the largest region of Finland.
ACOTAR role: Lapplund is where the Cauldron was hidden.
ITICA
Ithaca is an island featured in the Odyssey and was the island home of Odysseus. It is also a real island in Greece. The Kathara Monastery is located in Ithaca.
ACOTAR role: Itica is one of three temples where the feet of the Cauldron were hidden.
MONTESERE
Montserrat is a mountain range near Barcelona.
ACOTAR role: Montesere is a fae territory located in the Continent's NW and is considered generally wealthy. They allied with the loyalists in the War.
RAVENNIA
Ravenna is located in Northern Italy and was the capital of the Western Roman Empire.
ACOTAR role: Ravenna is a fae territory on the Continent and allied with the Loyalists during the War.
DUNMERE
Dunmere is a hamlet in Cornwall, England.
ACOTAR role: Dunmere is a town located within the Night Court, between Velaris and the sea.
NEVA
The Neva is the fourth-largest river in Europe and is located in northwestern Russia.
ACOTAR role: Neva is one of the largest human cities on the Continent and is where the Archeron sisters' father travels to trade.
SCYTHIA
The Scythians were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people who migrated from Central Asia to the steppes of modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia.
ACOTAR role: Scythia is one of the territories of the human lands on the Continent, ruled by Queen Vassa. They are said to be a horse loving people.
ROSEHALL
Rosehall is the name of a remote hamlet in the Scottish Highlands.
Fun fact: The 2nd Duke of Westminster acquired the Rosehall estate and his mistress at the time, Coco Chanel, redecorated the interior to her own liking. Winston Churchill, a close friend of the Duke, also visited the estate.
ACOTAR role: Rosehall is mentioned in ACOFAS and is theorized to be the place where Azriel's mother resides.

AFRICA-PARALLEL LOCATIONS

THE BLACK LAND
Black Land translates from Kemet, a popular ancient name for Egypt, which is derived from the color of the fertile black soil along the cultivated area of the Nile valley.
ACOTAR role: The Black Land is a region of the continent where human slaves were ruled over by a High Fae queen. Miryam and Drakon joined the mortals in the War and freed Miryam's people by crossing the desert and eventually the sea.
THE ERYTHRIAN SEA
The Erythraean Sea, originally an Ancient Greek geographical designation, has been used as a name for the Red Sea which lies between Africa and Asia.
ACOTAR role: Drakon used his magic to split the Erythian Sea.

ASIA-PARALLEL LOCATIONS

XIAN
Xi'an is the the most populous city in Northwest China snd the second most popular tourist destination in China.
ACOTAR role: Xian is a Fae territory on the Continent and allied with the Loyalists during the War. A large majority of the Dawn Court is made of Fae from Xian, including Thesan's mother. Feyre remarks that Amren may have molded her mortal body after their peoples.
BHARAT
Bhārat is one of the two principal official short names for the Republic of India.
ACOTAR role: The Archerons lost their fortune when their father's ships sank on the way to Bharat.
RASK
May refer to Rask, a city in Iran, that serves as both capital of its county and district.
ACOTAR role: Rask is a Fae territory on the Continent and allied with the Loyalists during the War.

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS

VELARIS
Possibly derived from the Latin vēlo*,* meaning "to veil, cover, wrap" along with "to hide, conceal" and "to clothe in." Could also derive from the Latin vēlum, meaning "to veil, curtain" and also indicates a tarpaulin acting as cover for outdoor spaces.
THE WALL
No singular reference, but the presence of a wall separating one race from another, often humans from mythical beings, is rife throughout history, mythology, and fantasy.
One from each category that has loose ties to ACOTAR: (1) Hadrian's Wall, ie the Roman Wall, a defensive fortification of the Roman province of Britannia. It spanned from coast to coast, cutting across the entire width of Northern England. (2) In Norse mythology, the Master Builder asking for the hand of the goddess Freyja as payment for constructing a wall around Asgard to defend the gods. (3) The English village of Wall in Neil Gaiman's Stardust, named after the wall separating the land of Faerie from the mortal realm, highly guarded and cautioned against for mortals seeking to pass through.
THE MOONSTONE PALACE
Romans linked moonstone to the moon goddess Diana (goddess of wild animals and the hunt) and Ancient Greeks linked it to their lunar deities Artemis, Hecate, and Selene.
SIDRA RIVER
Sidra is a name of Latin origin and means "Goddess of the stars" or "like a star."
RAMIEL
Ramiel is a fallen Watcher, a type of Biblical angel, one of the 20 Watchers that rebelled against God by mating with mortal women, therefore creating the Nephilim (Shadowhunters, anyone?). Ramiel means "God has thundered." Ramiel is sometimes conflated with Remiel, also known as Jeremiel, meaning "God shall have mercy," as is listed as one of the seven Holy Angels. He is the archangel of hope and is responsible for divine visions and guiding the souls of the faithful into Heaven.
POOL OF STARLIGHT
No plausible connection found, though there is a famous pool in Greek mythology—a pool Mnemosyne presided over in Hades, counterpart to the river Lethe. Dead souls would drink from Lethe to wipe their past lives from remembrance when reincarnated. Those who drank from Mnemosyne's pool remembered and halted their transmigration of the soul.
ATHELWOOD
Ethel (also aethel) is an Old English word meaning "noble." Athelwood can mean "noblewood."
ACOTAR role: Athelwood is Morrigan's estate located in the Night Court.
GOLLIAN MOUNTAINS
Göll is one of the named Valkyries from Norse mythology. Her name means "tumult," or "noise, battle."
ACOTAR role: The Gollian Mountains are where the Valkyries were slain during the War.
MYRMIDONS
In Ancient Greek mythology, the Myrmidons were an Ancient Greek tribe. In the Iliad, they are the soldiers commanded by Achilles. Myrmidon has also come to mean "a follower or subordinate of a powerful person, typically one who is unscrupulous or carries out orders unquestioningly."
ACOTAR role: The Myrmidons are a set of mountains serving as the border between the Day Court and the Night Court from which the Illyrians migrated.
CESERA
No direct reference found, but may allude to Caesarea, the name of numerous cities and locations throughout the Roman Empire.
ACOTAR role: Cesera is one of three temples where the feet of the Cauldron were hidden.
SANGRAVAH
No direct reference found (and I lost my mind searching for one). Closest I came to was the similarly sounding Angharad, a feminine Welsh name, long associated with Welsh royalty, history, and myth, including Arthurian legend.
ACOTAR role: Sangravah is one of three temples where the feet of the Cauldron were hidden.
GREENFIELD VILLAGE
No direct connection found, though Greenfield is the name of several villages of England.
ACOTAR role: Greenfield village is a neighboring village to where Feyre grew up and where Isaac Hale's wife is from.
WINDHAVEN CAMP
No connection found, though a separate Windhaven also appears in Tower of Dawn in the TOG series. Altun—Windhaven being the rough translation—is located in a three-peaked mountain range and is the home of Sartaq's hearth-mother and family.
Fun fact: Windhaven is the name of a science-fiction novel by George R. R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle following a group of humans who crash-landed on a foreign planet and learned to craft their own wings out of the spaceship wreckage.
THE WOLF'S DEN
No connection found, BUT fun fact: there is a named Wolf's Den castle in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series (aka Game of Thrones) that now serves as a prison. "All the days were much the same inside the Wolf's Den, and any change was usually for the worse." A Dance with Dragons, Ch 29
ACOTAR role: The Wolf's Den is the name of the worst tavern in Velaris that Nesta is known to frequent.
SILVERSPRING CREEK
No plausible connection found, BUT fun fact: "Silver Springs" is a song written by Stevie Nicks, performed by Fleetwood Mac, and is so strongly ACOTAR-coded even my non-loving playlist-to-book self can't deny it. If you want more bread crumbles that SJM is a Stevie Nicks fan, "Rhiannon" and it's lyric origins have potential ties to the Rhiannon of TOG.
You could be my silver springBlue-green colors flashin'I would be your only dreamYour shinin' autumn ocean crashin'
Time cas t a spell on you*, but you won't forget me*I know I could have loved youBut you would not let me
ACOTAR role: Silverspring Creek is a stream running through Feyre's human village, near where she hunted rabbits.
STRYGA'S CASTLE
No direct reference found, but due to Stryga/the Weaver resembling a female demon akin to a vampire in Slavic mythology (see the Monster section above), it is possible Stryga's former home, before she was confined to her cottage, is reminiscent of Bram Stoker's 1897 Dracula and the Transylvanian Castle complete with three vampiric sister brides who entice men with their beauty and charm before proceeding to feed upon them.

The Night Sky

ARKTOS
Arktos, also written Arctus, means "bear" in Ancient Greek. Arktos was a centaur who fought against the Lapith spearmen. The Arktos Megale (aka Ursa Major, the Great Bear) is one of the original 48 constellations listed by Ptolemy who drew on earlier works by Greek, Egyptian, Babylonian, and Assyrian astronomers.
ACOTAR role: Arktos is one of the three regarded holy stars (the furthest left star) of the Illyrians and serves as part of the symbol for the Night Court. The echelon of Arktosian is reserved for Illyrians who survive the Blood Right but fail to reach Ramiel.
CARYNTH
May refer to Corinth, an ancient city that was one of the largest and most important of Greece, or Carinthia, the southernmost Austrian state in the Eastern Alps, noted for its mountains and lakes.
ACOTAR role: Carynth is one of the three regarded holy stars (the middle star) of the Illyrians and serves as part of the symbol for the Night Court. The echelon of Carynthian is reserved for Illyrians who scale the summit of Ramiel during the Blood Rite and are considered elite warriors.
ORISTES
Orestes (also spelled Orestes) means "stands on a mountain" and he is the subject of several Ancient Greek plays and myths concerning his madness and purification.
ACOTAR role: Orestes is one of the three regarded holy stars (the furthest right star) of the Illyrians and serves as part of the symbol for the Night Court. The echelon of Oristian is reserved for Illyrians who make it to the Ramiel during the Blood Rite but don't reach the top.
Locations not listed: A slew of various more minor locations have not been listed, including the Four Market Squares of Velaris, certain cottages and houses, and even the Ironcrest Illyrian war-camp.
​
https://preview.redd.it/jxxgjkfim90d1.png?width=842&format=png&auto=webp&s=00944156c7edd485265a4cad7f66c5ac8e41b31d
THE CAULDRON
There are many magical cauldrons present in various mythologies, one being the Pair Dadeni in Welsh mythology, a magical cauldron able to resurrect the dead, and the coire ansic of Irish mythology, the cauldron of the chief god of the Tuatha Dé Danann, which never ran empty.
TRUTH-TELLER
Possibly inspired by Fragarach, an Irish mythological sword known as "The Whisperer" or "The Answerer." It was the sword of Nuada, the first high king; it was said that no one could tell a lie with Fragarach at their throat and that the sword inflicting wounds from which no one could recover.
THE HARP
May refer to the uaithne, the magical harp of the Dagda, the chief god of the Tuatha Dé Danann in Irish mythology. It could control men's emotions and change the seasons.
THE MASK
In Egyptian culture, death masks were designed to guide the spirits of those mummified into the next world.
THE UNKNOWN 4th TROVE ITEM
Seen in a vision by Nesta via Lathys, which we now know to be the Horn, and may refer to the Gjallarhorn of Norse mythology, the sound of which is said to herald the beginning of Ragnarok.
ATARAXIA
Ataraxia, in Ancient Greek philosophy, was a state of calmness untroubled by mental or emotional disquiet, ie tranquility of the mind. It was considered the ideal mental state for soldiers entering battle.
ACOTAR Role: Nesta's Made sword.
GWYDION
Gwydion is a name meaning "born of the trees" and is the given name of Gwydion fab Dôn, a magician, hero, and trickster of Welsh mythology. Caer Wydion, the castle of Gwydion, was the traditional Welsh name for the Milky Way.
ACOTAR role: The Starsword and twin to Truth-Teller.
NARBEN
No direct reference found, though narben in German means "scar."
ACOTAR role: Narben is a lost sword from the Dread Trove.
OUROBOROS MIRROR
The ouroboros is an ancient symbol of a serpent or a dragon eating its own tale, first present in ancient Egyptian iconography and the Greek magical tradition, the term itself deriving from Ancient Greek. It has been used frequently and extensively throughout fantasy literature. It often symbolizes the cycle of life, death, and rebirth.
BOOK OF BREATHINGS
The Books of Breathing are a set of ancient Egyptian funerary texts that are intended to enable those deceased to continue their existence in the afterlife. It is a simplified form of the Book of the Dead.
VERITAS ORB
Veritas is of Latin origin meaning "truth." It is the name for the Roman virtue of truthfulness and in Roman mythology, Veritas is the Goddess of Truth. Universities and colleges such as Harvard use the term veritas as their motto.
SYMPHONIA
Symphonia is Greek in origin and was used to denote a variety of musical instruments.
AMARANTHA'S NECKLACE AND RING (JURIAN'S FINGER AND EYE)
Jurian's finger bone and eye, kept by Amarantha, are reminiscent of relics and reliquaries, often religious in nature. Relics typically consist of the physical remains or personal affects of a saint and the reliquary is the container that holds them.
FAEBANE
Possibly inspired by wolfsbane (aka aconite or monkshood), a poisonous flower ancient Greeks would poison arrows and bait with to hunt wolves. It is lethal and often fatal and is an oft-used plant and poison within the fantasy genre.
Fun fact: In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Hamlet himself was killed with an aconite-laced blade.
​
https://preview.redd.it/pjo213ymm90d1.png?width=840&format=png&auto=webp&s=de57f0ba269bd4b48b2782eb380da90a8ba2d6eb
DAEMATI
Potentially a combination of the Greek word dae (to give) and the concept of mati, labeled as "the evil eye" in Greek classical antiquity. Daemati may effectively mean "to give the evil eye."
THE WEAVER'S SONG
The Weaver's song, sung when Feyre was stealing Rhysand's ring from her cottage, is similar to "The Twa Sisters," a traditional murder ballad dating back to mid 17th century England. It tells of two sisters who travel down to a body of water where the older one pushes the younger one in. A harp or a fiddle is then made out of the murdered sister's body, which plays itself and sings about her murder.
submitted by ClaimSalt1697 to acotar [link] [comments]

2024.05.13 21:32 cowzilla3 The Great Spice Off: Crowne & Crane The Spice

Hello and welcome to a very special installment of The Great Spice Off! What is The Great Spice Off?
I love the scent of Old Spice, so much so that it's the only aftershave I use as I don't really feel a need to splash anything else on. But, as we all know, Old Spice no longer makes shaving soap. They do still make a cream but that's hardly a great soap and it doesn't actually smell like Old Spice. As such my plan is to test out all the Old Spice options that are out there on as many bases as possible both to try out a variety of bases from different soapmakers and to report back to you on who really nails the scent.
I'll be shaving three times with each soap, using a variety of brushes and razors, and blades. Yes, I know that means it won't be exactly scientific but this is going to take a while and I want to use all my other shit too. Soaps will be rated on a few factors and given points from 1-5 for each.

Crowne & Crane The Spice

And so we enter (for now) into a strange little corner of Old Spice dupery that I honestly wouldn't have even entered if I had read the description of The Spice before ordering it long ago. Also, if Crowne & Crane hadn't named the soap something pretty inaccurate. Also, also, if I hadn't accidentally picked up a second dupe of the scent recently. Yes, The Spice is not an Old Spice dupe but an Old Spice Limited Edition (LE) dupe.
Record Scratch. Double Take. Wuuuuuuuh!???
So you're asking yourself what the heck is an Old Spice LE. Well, despite what most think, Old Spice has had many scents over the years and almost none of them are riffs or new twists on their original Old Spice scent. Old Spice, the company/brand, made a plethora of scents throughout the history of producing Old Spice that, while all fell in the kind of old fashioned scenting category, had nothing to do with what we think of as Old Spice. Old Spice LE was one of these scents. From the dating I can find online, it was released sometime in the early 90s and stuck around for a chunk of that decade and possibly into the 2000s. It's also possible it was a scent released every couple of years as I can see a few different bottle versions. I don't actually know that much about it, have never smelled the original myself, and the Internet is not actually full of Old Spice product history let alone a defunct aftershave from the early 90s.
Whatever the history, what appears to be consistent is that it came in a clear bottle and was called Limited Edition. It also featured a base of amber, cedar, and woods with supporting notes of cardamom, lavender, moss, and jasmine, and citrus top notes. As you can see, aside from the citrus, it doesn't have all the much in common with Old Spice but that hasn't stopped a fragrance seller from selling a dupe of the discontinued scent for those who may still be looking for it. And so, there are soapers out there who pick this scent up for whatever reason instead of actual Old Spice. Actually, there are only two and Crowne & Crane are the only ones I can find doing it intentionally (more on that in a future review). They're also naming it The Spice, which is a little misleading considering the only spice scent in it is cardamon and given the lavender, citrus, and moss present its clearly intended to be somewhat of a fougère. The Spice, I think we can all agree, is not the name anyone would give a fougère.
So why then am I even reviewing it? That is like asking why do people climb Everest? Why do athletes push their body to the extremes? Why does the woodchuck chuck wood? If these questions could be answered then perhaps I could answer why I am reviewing this. But they can't be.
Crowne & Crane was founded in 2016 by Karl and Liz, whose last names I can't find so we'll call them Karl Crowne and Liz Crane. Karl was an enthusiast it looks like before going into the ol' soapmaking business and, being founded pre-2020, is officially an ol' timer in the artisan soap industry. Despite that longevity they aren't really all that popular around these parts with u/PhilosphicalZombie and u/loudmusicboy literally being the only two folks who appear to use them regularly if at all. I'd say that's maybe because they're not just a shave soap company but Stirling isn't either so that logic kind of flies out the window. Then again, we're a bunch of grown men and women telling other people how we removed hair from our bodies on a daily basis. Logic means nothing here.
Crowne & Crane have two bases, vegan and tallow. Most of their soaps are in tallow only and that's what The Spice comes in so that's what we're working with here. Of note is a commitment to organic, humanely-raised cows for the beef tallow, which is always a plus in my book (and sustainably sourced palm oil). The soap itself is kind of dry and chalky, not in a bad way and it wasn't hard or falling apart. It's a soft, dry soap, which are not contradictory things. The base is made up of Potassium Tallowate, Sodium Tallowate, Potassium Stearate, Sodium Stearate, Aloe Vera Juice, Potassium Cocoate, Sodium Cocoate, Phthalate-Free Fragrance, Potassium Shea Butterate, Sodium Shea Butterate, Kokum Butter, Sodium Lactate, Glycerin, Lanolin, Tussah Silk. Nothing to much to comment on here except I can't stop saying the word tussah over and over in my head. It's a weird word and now it doesn't feel real I've said it so much. Tu... ssah. Tooo suuuhhh...
The labeling is a nice vintage boat symbol, which, again, is a bit misleading given the LE branding was very much a modern (for the 90s) Old Spice look, not the classic schooner branding of the OG Old Spice. If you weren't paying attention (*cough* me *cough*) you might just order this thinking you got an Old Spice dupe and open the lid to find you most assuredly did not. Well, open the lid is a bad description as I bought their 3 oz puck option instead of the 5 oz jar and it came wrapped in paper. 3 oz, by the way, is a great mid-price option that gives you more than a tiny sample but not a full plastic tub. I'd be perfectly happy to have other shaving companies offer this... please... please... there's so much soap under my sink. So... much... soap.
(Sidenote: if you are looking to get their soaps, do it quick as they're going on hiatus during a move in two days!)
Oldness: 0
As a scent not designed to smell like Old Spice this one knocks it out of the park. In fact, it does such a great job not smelling like Old Spice I'd put it up there with some of the greatest scents that don't smell like Old Spice ever made. Have a scent that doesnt's smell like Old Spice that you love? This one smells as much not like Old Spice as that one does! If you're looking for something that doesn't smell like Old Spice but has the word Spice featured in its name and the words "Old" and "Spice" in the description next to each other than this is the soap for you.
Spiciness: 3
This is actually a pretty solid scent even if its called The Spice but isn't really a spicy scent at all. It's definitely a vintage scent, though, and reminds me a bit of Seaforth! Spiced but not as good. Because of that I'm going to say that it still captures a bit of that classic feel that Old Spice gives you even if its a scent from the 90s, a decade that has yet to fall into the "classic" zone and thus still feels like everything from it was cringe (including teenage me).
Lather: 5
What an absolutely brilliant lather The Spice kicks up. From the moment water hits it turning it into a thick prot-lather to the gloriously shiny conclusion, it's just a pleasure to lather. The soap is super thirsty, which can often lead to some dialing issues but I never had those aside from having to add a lot of water to both my larger scoop shave and my medium scoop. You don't need a lot of soap to get this going big and it's really easy to get there and looks great the entire time. If you were going to make an ad about shave soap -- as we all dream to do -- and needed a pretty lather to build up this would be a great choice.
Shave: 3
The Spice offers an incredible cushion of soap that can tackle even the most aggressive razor, making it feel barely there on your skin. However, it is, at best, mid-tier on its slickness with limited residual slickness too. As I reduced the amount of soap I used on each shave I figured I'd eventually hit a lather that was both full of cushion and slickness, but even on my final shave with the least amount of lather I wasn't too impressed with the glide provided. There's slickness there, it's not like dragging some sort of pillowy sandpaper over your face or anything but despite the copious amounts of water I added it never truly peaked.
Post: 2
The Spice's Old Spice LE scent isn't exactly complimentary with either my Indian Old Spice for the vintage one. It's not an afront to the nostrils or anything (sometimes I picture what nostrils being afronted would look like and it weird me out) but it ain't great. It probably plays a bit better with the more floraly vintage spice if I was forced to choose one by some deranged wet shaving person forcing people to shave with stuff. The soap also left my skin feeling a little sticky for some reason, like there was a layer of it still on there. That dissipated quickly but it was an odd sensation.
Final Verdict: 13
Crowne & Crane might be one of my favorite soaps to lather as it's easy to do, looks fantastic, lathers big, and just drinks up the water. It's just kind of fun working it into a lather and for someone who appreciates the process of wetshaving that's a big deal. The shave doesn't quiet live up to the lather, though, despite some really great cushion. Where it really disappoints is the post shave where it not only still doesn't smell like Old Spice (even if it was never trying to) but also left my face feeling a little icky. No one likes an icky face, just ask .
Previous Great Spice Offs:
  1. 1940s Old Spice Shaving Soap in Vintage Mug (9)
  2. 1973-91 Old Spice Shaving Soap (7)
  3. Old Spice Shaving Cream (Original) (12)
  4. Master Soap Creations Vintage Spice (19)
  5. Black Ship Grooming Classic (17)
  6. OSP Old Gold (19)
  7. Chiseled Face Groomatorium Trade Winds (17)
  8. Wholly Kaw Twice as Spice (17)
  9. Barrister and Mann Barrister's Reserve Spice (21)
  10. Mama Bear Aged Spice (10)
  11. MERShaving Old Timer Spice (20)
  12. Soap Commander Endurance (20)
  13. Signature Soaps Novus Spice (17)
  14. Hoffman's Shave and Soap Company Burn the Ships (19)
  15. Phoenix Artisan Accoutrements Cold Spice (15)
  16. Hendrix Classics & Co Commodore (20)
  17. Ginger's Garden Old Spice Type (15)
  18. Lisa's Natural Herbal Creations Mariner (10)
  19. Stone Field Shaving Company Ltd. No. 37 (18)
  20. Cooper & French Old Goat (19)
  21. The Holy Black Artisan Line Shaving Soap (21)
  22. Stirling Soap Co. Stirling Spice (20)
  23. Van Yulay Spicy Man (10)
  24. Pinnacle Grooming The Good Ship OS (15)
  25. Mystic Water Soap Windjammer (14)
  26. The Village Soap Smith Old Spice (Type) (14)
  27. Cloud Shave "Unscented" (13)
  28. Wet the Face Spices From the Sea (17)
  29. Artifact Soapworks Old Spice (Type) (15)
  30. DentonMajik Ole Fife (21)
  31. Phoenix Artisan Accouterments Oud Spice (17)
  32. Lativ Natural Skin Revival Shaving Soap Old Spice (8)
Special Editions
I'm also looking for the below soaps if you've got any you're willing to sell/trade/donate:
  • Wild West Shaving Co. Snake Oil
  • Wickam Spice Trade
  • Occult Grooming Essentials Modern Spice
  • Fougare Salem
I already have these soaps that I have not reviewed yet:
  • Bundubeard Reijger
  • Bundubeard Drommedaris
  • Bundubeard De Goede hoop
  • Areffa Soap The Sea Son
submitted by cowzilla3 to Wetshaving [link] [comments]

2024.05.13 21:13 daisybear81 Every character's most out of character moment: the results!

this was fun to do! here are the results!
Leslie: Honestly I think the way she treats Garry throughout the show is weirdly out of character for her. I get the joke of him being the office punching bag, but she’s so kind and caring of everyone else’s feelings.
Ann: She dated Tom...more than once.
Ron: Telling Lucy that Tom wanted to marry her and then tried to fix it by telling her that he also wants kids
Tom: Okay hear me out…Dating Mona Lisa. Usually Tom has surprisingly square tastes when it comes to the women he dates. Most of them are shockingly normal, grounded, & well-educated (Wendy, Ann, Lucy, Nadia). And then there’s Mona Lisa, who’s none of those things.
April: When Ron pulls his tooth out at the meeting and she runs out looking disgusted like everybody else. It seems like something she would have stayed and watched with a perverse smile.
It's my nitpicky thing that bugs me on every rewatch.
Andy: I don't know why this bugs me, but in the last episode when he calls Chris "Chip". Yes, Andy can be an idiot at times, but this makes no sense based on the friendship they had. I feel like the writers were trying too hard to make a joke.
On the flip side, when Ann and Chris are leaving and Andy goes up to Ann and says something like "I just remembered we used to date". In Andy's world, that seems so believable.
Ben: Not writing a concession speech for Leslie. I understand it’s supposed to be a sweet moment but it’s so unlike him to be that unprepared. Not to mention she almost lost!
Chris: Honestly for me it's the way he also treats Gerry. This even more for him than Leslie. He is so kind and positive with everyone except Gerry.
Donna: talking shit about Leslie on her private twitter account, and then immediately doubling down on it when exposed. she can be private about a lot of things, but it did not seem like her to be so blatantly insulting like that, like, she’s arguably, consistently the nicest coworker to Garry so wtf was that
Jerry: This is random, but when they’re filming the voiceovers for Leslie’s campaign ad, Jerry sets up the mic or whatever equipment on the laptop and tells Ben when to start talking. I always found that unusual for Jerry to handle the tech part. Since when is Jerry so competent with computers? The man literally checks his email by going to Altavista and typing in “please go to yahoo.com”, yet somehow he knows how to set up the software for a voiceover? Hmm
submitted by daisybear81 to PandR [link] [comments]

2024.05.13 18:38 redlipstickandradio Lyle Lovett's voice, again

Saw Lyle Lovett (with Lisa Loeb) last night in Geneva, NY. I've seen him a dozen times or so over the last 20-ish years and he's never disappointed. That's why I was so startled that something seems to be wrong with his voice now. The power is still there, but he's got these very odd glottal stops now that make him sound like a record constantly cutting out. I was hoping that he was just under the weather, but from this archived post, it seems like the issue has been going on a while now and is even evident on his latest album. I'm so sad for him. Does anyone know what's up?
submitted by redlipstickandradio to altcountry [link] [comments]

2024.05.13 16:14 Leather_Focus_6535 The currently 124 offenders executed by the state of Oklahoma since the 1970s (warning, graphic content, please read at your own risk) [part 2, cases 63-124]

This is the second half of my list for Oklahoma's execution roster. As mentioned in the first part, I broke it in half to comply with reddit's character limitations. For the link to part 1, please click here.
The currently executed 124 offenders, cases 63-124:
63. Robert Knighton (~1960s-2003, lethal injection): In 1973, after being released from a 1968 armed robbery conviction, Knighton went on his first major crime spree. He stabbed and strangled several men and women during many robberies and home invasions. The only victim that was killed, 32 year old Coffier Day, was shot dead while Knighton was arguing with him in his home. Coffier's father, 53 year old Claude, was also injured in the shooting. Knighton's first crime spree ended when he kidnapped a married couple and their 6 year old daughter. They escaped when the wife and mother of the family attacked Knighton with a knife to protect her husband and daughter. The family then notified the police of their abduction. Knighton managed to secure a 30 year manslaughter conviction and a 10 year armed robbery conviction with a plea deal, and was released to a halfway house in 1989. There, he began dating a female addict and befriended a teenage boy. The trio embarked on a nationwide robbery spree together. In Missouri, they shot and killed 59 year old Frank Merrifield and his 40 year old stepson Roy Donahue while robbing their home, and stole guns and money from them. In Oklahoma, the trio fatally shot a couple, 64 year old Virginia and 62 year old Richard Denney, while carjacking them. Their rampage ended when a woman in Texas grow suspicious of them circling a neighborhood. Knighton had a long history of theft convictions dating back to his childhood, and joined the Aryan Brotherhood in prison. Behind bars, he frequently attacked black and Native American inmates out of racial hatred for them.
64. Kenneth Charm (1993-2003, lethal injection): Charm and his teenage cousin lured a family friend, 14 year old Brandy Hill, into their car. They raped Hill and tried strangling her with a towel. When that failed, the cousins bludgeoned her to death with a sledgehammer.
65. Lewis Gilbert II (1994-2003, lethal injection): Gilbert and his teenage accomplice committed at least 4 robbery murders in Missouri, Ohio, and Oklahoma, but he was executed for the killing of 37 year old Roxanne Ruddell. They ambushed and kidnapped Ruddell while she was fishing alone. She was robbed of $3 and her truck, tied to a tree, and shot to death. The pair also fatally shot Ruth Loader, a 79 year old Ohioan woman, while abducting her from her residence, and gunned down a Missouri couple, 86 year old William and 76 year old Flossie Brewer, in their home. Gilbert was also sentenced to death for the Brewer murders by the state of Missouri, but was incarcerated in Oklahoma State Penitentiary’s death row.
66. Robert Duckett (~1980s-2003, lethal injection): After breaking out of prison, Duckett was picked up hitchhiking by John Howard, a 53 year old store owner. Howard agreed to let Duckett stay with him until he could find a job. The pair soon had a failing out, and Duckett was evicted by his host. He retaliated by tying Howard up with wire and then beating him to death with a fireplace poker. Duckett made off with his car after he switched the license plates, and took several bank bags from his store. He had a long violent criminal history, which included several incidents of assault and robbery. One of the incidents involved the beating of an 83 year old man. Allegedly, Duckett was previously gang-raped by other inmates, and suffered from PTSD from the incident. His attorneys claimed that Howard’s sexual advances trigged those memories, and he was killed as a result of Duckett lashing out at them. However, the prosecution shot the argument down, citing that the murder happened after Duckett was evicted from the apartment.
67. Bryan Toles (1993-2003, lethal injection): Toles and his two accomplices forced themselves into the home of the Franceschi family, and shot and killed the family patriarch, 39 year old Juan, in a struggle. Juan's son, 15 year old Lonnie, was also murdered "execution style" out of fear that he could identify Toles and his accomplices. The only survivor of the attack was Norma, Juan's wife and Lonnie's mother, who escaped by hiding in her older daughter's bedroom.
68. Jackie Willingham (1994-2003, lethal injection): Willingham was a door to door salesman selling perfume in an office building. One women, 62 year old Jayne Van Wey, he tried to solicit rejected him despite his repeated offers. Angered by her "rude behavior", Willingham attacked Van Wey when they had a chance encounter near the building's restroom. He dragged Van Wey out of a stall after following her inside, slammed her head against the bathroom wall several times, and kicked her head. Reportedly, Van Wey choked to death on her own blood.
69. Harold McElmurry III (1999-2003, lethal injection): While under the influence of meth, McElmurry and his wife Vicki broke into a home that a WW2 veteran, 80 year old Robert Pendley, shared with his wife, 75 year old Rosa. Robert and Rosa were both quickly subdued and physically restrained by the couple. McElmurry clubbed Robert to death with a pipe in front of Rosa, who was forced to watch by Vicki. Vicki then held Rosa down as McElmurry stabbed her several times with scissors. After killing the Pendleys, the McElmurrys fled with $70 in cash, a pair of guns, and the victims' car. A few days after the murders, they were captured by border agents while trying to cross into Mexico.
70. Tyrone Darks (~1990s-2004, lethal injection): Darks rammed his ex wife, 26 year old Sherry Goodlow, off the road as she was driving with their 2 year old son. After Goodlow crashed, Darks pulled their son out of the wreckage, shot her to death, and then drove away with him. Just before she succumbed to her injuries, Goodlow managed to call and notify the police about her son’s abduction. The police confronted and arrested Darks at his home, and they found the boy unharmed in their search. Darks and Goodlow’s former marriage was marred with violence, and he was arrested on numerous occasions for assaulting her. On death row, Darks was involved in a scheme to defraud a foundation for 9/11 survivors.
71. Norman Cleary (~1980s-2004, lethal injection): While burglarizing an upper class home with an accomplice, Cleary shot and killed a housekeeper, 44 year old Wanda Neafus, and took her purse and a cane that her employers purchased from the Smithsonian Institution. Cleary had a long criminal history and was previously convicted of beating an 87 year old woman in her home.
72. David Brown (~1983-2004, lethal injection): For several years, Brown violently harassed his ex wife and her family. In one incident, Brown abducted his ex wife and 11 of her customers from a beauty saloon she owned, and held them hostage until he surrendered to police. He was able to leave custody on bond and went into hiding. A few years after the hostage crisis incident, Brown broke into his ex wife's family home and gunned down her father, 47 year old Eldon McGuire.
73. Hung Thanh Le (1992-2004, lethal injection): Le crept into the apartment of another Vietnamese refugee, 34 year old Hai Nguyen, and found him watching TV on the couch. He struck Nguyen from behind with a weightlifting bar, and continued stabbing him with a meat cleaver when he screamed his wife for help. Nguyen's wife phoned the police, and Le fled with the couple's safety deposit box that contained $36,000 and their wedding ring.
74. Robert Bryan (1993-2004, lethal injection): Bryan shot and killed his estranged aunt, 69 year old Mildred, dumped her body on his parents' property, and forged a $1,800 check to himself under her name.
75. Windel Workman (~1980s(?)-2004, lethal injection): Workman beat his girlfriend's daughter, 2 year old Amanda Holman, to death while babysitting her in their home. His ex wives reported that he had a history of child abuse and often violently spanked their children during their marriages.
76. Jimmie Slaughter (1991-2005, lethal injection): Fearing that she was going to tell his wife of their affair, Slaughter stabbed and shot his ex girlfriend, 29 year old Melody Wuertz, and their daughter, 1 year old Jessica. According to court documents, Slaughter mutilated both of their bodies, and he carved an "R" on Melody's stomach. He tried pinning the murders on a black man, but the investigators and the courts dismissed his allegations.
77. George Miller Jr. (1994-2005, lethal injection): During the robbery of a hotel, Miller attacked the auditor, 25 year old Kent Dodd, with a hedge shear and paint cans, and took $122 from the register. Dodd was severely beaten, had muriatic acid shoved down his throat, and was left to die. Just before he died of his injuries, Dodd gave a description of his attacker to the police that matched Miller. A massive amount of circumstantial evidence, such as wearing shoes that resembled the bloodstained footprints next to Dodd's body, a microscopic drop of blood found on his shoes that was tentatively linked to Dodd, his wife's testimony of his unaccounted absence from their home during the murder, and what appeared to be Dodd writing Miller's alias that he knew him by in his own blood, convicted him. Miller’s friends also reported that he was broke and begging them for money a day before the murder, and his wife mentioned him giving her the same amount of money that was stolen from the robbery a day after it happened.
78. Michael Pennington (1991-2005, lethal injection): Pennington shot and killed a clerk, 20 year old Bradley Grooms, while trying to rob a 7-eleven grocery store. He left empty handed when the register failed to open.
79. Kenneth Turrentine (1994-2005, lethal injection): Under the belief that they were stealing money from him for drugs, Turrentine shot and killed his sister, 48 year old Avon Stevenson, and his girlfriend, 39 year old Anita Richardson, during confrontations in their homes. He also gunned down Anita's two children, 22 year old Tina Pennington and 13 year old Martise.
80. Richard Thornburg Jr. (1996-2006, lethal injection): A month after he was shot by an unknown assailant, Thornburg and his accomplices sought revenge by abducting 5 men that he thought was responsible from a trailer. Three of the hostages, 51 year old James Poteet, 39 year old Tery Sheppard, and 24 year old Kieth Smith, were gunned down on the spot, and Thornberg forced the fourth to shoot the fifth with the threat of killing him if he didn’t comply. They then burned down the trailer with the wounded fifth victim still trapped inside, but he managed to escape with his life. Despite being forced to put all the blame on himself in exchange for being spared, the fourth hostage still went forward to the police.
81. John Boltz (1984-2006, lethal injection): To spite his estranged wife following an argument, Boltz attacked her son, 23 year old Doug Kirby, with a knife. Kirby was stabbed a total of 11 times, and he received several fatal wounds to his chest, stomach, and neck.
82. Eric Patton (1994-2006, lethal injection): Patton forced his way into the home of 56 year old Charlene Kauer after she refused his pleading for money. After dragging her around the house as he searched for valuables, Patton stabbed Kauer several times with many different blades objects at hand such as scissors, barbecue forks, and kitchen knifes. Although he confessed to the murder, Patton blamed it on alleged demonic possession and his cocaine addiction.
83. James Malicoat (1997-2006, lethal injection): Malicoat slammed Tessa Leadford, his 13 month old daughter, against a dresser. After she died from the beating, he tucked her into bed, and waited until his daughter's mother returned from work to take her to the hospital. The doctors found that Leadford had been dead for several hours at the time of her arrival, and discovered several injuries such as broken ribs, bite marks, abdominal bleeding, and facial bruising on her body. By his own account, he had abused Leadford on a daily basis. For her role in enabling her boyfriend's treatment of their daughter, Leadford's mother was convicted of first degree murder and given a life sentence.
84. Corey Hamilton (1992-2007, lethal injection): During the robbery of a restaurant, Hamilton shot and killed 4 employees, 26 year old Sandy Lara, 24 year old Stephen Williams, 19 year old Ted Kindley, and 17 year old Joseph Gooch, and made off with $2,000.
85. Jimmy Bland (~1975-2007, lethal injection): Bland shot his boss, 62 year old Doyle Rains, in the head over an argument regarding a borrowed car and dumped the body in a creek. He was previously convicted of killing a soldier, Raymond Prentice (age unknown), and abducting the man's wife and son at the age of 19. Bland served a 20 out of 60 year sentence, and murdered Rains a year after he was released.
86. Frank Welch (~1987-2008, lethal injection): In 1987, Welch attacked 28 year old Jo Cooper, who was 4 months pregnant with her second child, in her home. She was tied up with leather straps, raped and violated with plastic toys, and strangled to death. Cooper’s body was found laying near her infant son by her husband. Another woman, 32 year old Debra Stevens, was also bound, raped, and strangled to death in her home in a near identical fashion a few months later. Although both murders went unsolved for several years, Welch abducted and raped a woman in 1994, and he received a 45 year sentence for it. His DNA samples was collected and filed after his abduction conviction, and linked to both Cooper and Stevens’ murders in a 1997 test.
87. Terry Short (1995-2008, lethal injection): In an attempt to kill his ex girlfriend, Short blew up her apartment complex with a firebomb. She and her family managed to escape, but the blast killed Ken Yamamoto, a 22 year old Japanese exchange student. Yamamoto had no connections to the targeted ex girlfriend's family beyond him having the misfortune of residing in the same apartment.
88. Jessie Cummings Jr. (1991-2009, lethal injection): Cummings was a polygamist that had married and lived with two wives. Under his orders, Cummings’ wives shot and killed his estranged half sister, 46 year old Judy Mayo, and kidnapped her daughter, 11 year old Melissa. He bound his niece to his bed with handcuffs to be raped, and stabbed her to death.
89. Darwin Brown (1995-2009, lethal injection): While robbing a grocery store with three accomplices (including Billy Alverson and Michael Wilson), Brown tied up the clerk, 30 year old Richard Yost, with handcuffs, and then bludgeoned him death with a metal baseball bat. The killing was caught by security cameras, and the footage was used by the prosecution to secure the convictions of Brown and his accomplices.
90. Donald Gilson (1995-2009, lethal injection): Gilson routinely physically abused his live in girlfriend's 5 children (who were all between the ages of 8 and 12 years old). The youngest, 8 year old Shane Coffman, was beaten to death with a board for defecating on the living room carpet. He and his girlfriend then hid the body by stuffing it in a freezer. The body was kept inside it for 6 months until it was discovered by a sheriff's deputy investigating the family's abuse allegations. Gilson's girlfriend was spared the death penalty with a plea deal, and given a life sentence without the possibility of parole for her part in her son's abuse and murder.
91. Michael DeLozier (1995-2009, lethal injection): While camping with his friends, DeLozier ambushed another pair of campers, 60 year old Orville Bullard and 54 year old Paul Morgan, and shot them to death. They stole Morgan and Bullard's generator, pick up truck, and other camping gear. To cover up their tracks, DeLozier and his friends set their victims' campsite on fire, and severely burned the bodies.
92. Julius Young (1993-2010, lethal injection): For breaking off their relationship, Young beat his ex girlfriend, 20 year old Joyland Morgan and her 6 year old son Kewan, to death with a baseball bat in their apartment.
93. Donald Wackerly II (1996-2010, lethal injection): Wackerly and his wife ambushed and gunned down Pan Sayakhoummane, a 51 year old Laotian immigrant, while he was fishing in the Arkansas River. After he placed Sayakhoummane's body in the man’s own truck, he pushed into a river, and stole his fishing gear. A few months after the murder, Wackerly’s wife turned him in to the police.
94. John Duty (~1970s-2010, lethal injection): Duty was given a life sentence for abducting, raping, and non fatally shooting a female store clerk during a robbery. While incarcerated, he tricked a fellow inmate, 22 year old Curtis Wise Jr. into allowing himself to be tied up as a part of a hostage ruse, and then strangled him to death with shoelaces. At the time of his murder, Wise was serving a conviction for burglary and contributing to the delinquency of minors. Duty's execution caused some controversy for the use of pentobarbital, a drug more commonly utilized by veterinarians to euthanize pets.
95. Billy Alverson (1995-2011, lethal injection): Alverson assisted the above mentioned Darwin Brown and Micheal Wilson in the beating death of Richard Yost while robbing a convenience store.
96. Jeffrey Matthews (1994-2011, lethal injection): Matthews and his accomplice shot and killed his great uncle, 77 year old Otis Short, while robbing the man's home. In the robbery, they stole Short's truck, his .32 calibre pistol, and $500. The pair also slit the throat of Short's wife, but she survived her injuries.
97. Gary Welch (~1993-2011, lethal injection): During a fight over a drug shipment, Welch and his partner stabbed another dealer, 32 year old Robert Hardcastle, to death with broken glass bottles. He was previously convicted of battery with a deadly weapon, and was off on probation at the time of Hardcastle's murder.
98. Timothy Stemple (1996-2012, lethal injection): Stemple conspired with his girlfriend to murder his wife, 30 year old Trisha, for her life insurance policy. With the help of his girlfriend's 16 year old nephew or cousin [sources vary], Stemple beat Trisha with a baseball bat, and rammed her to death with his truck.
99. Michael Selsor (~1975-2012, lethal injection): Selsor and his accomplice went on a crime spree and robbed several convenience stores. During their robberies, the pair shot and killed two clerks, 55 year old Clayton Chandler and 20 year old Ina Morris, and injured two others in shooting and stabbing attacks.
100. Michael Hooper (~1992-2012, lethal injection): Hooper kidnapped his ex girlfriend, 23 year old Cynthia Jarman, and her children, 5 year old Timothy and 3 year old Tonya, from her boyfriend's residence. He shot all three of them dead, and buried the bodies in a rancher's field. According to court documents, Hooper was hyper-violent towards Cynthia in their year long relationship.
101. Garry Allen (1986-2012, lethal injection): Allen shot and killed his fiancee, 24 year old Lawanna Titsworth, during an argument at a day care she worked at. He fought with the responding officers trying to arrest him in an attempt to provoke a "suicide by cop" outcome. Despite the officers' best efforts to avoid harming him, Allen lost his eye from an accidental discharge. Due to claims of him having schizophrenia, Allen's execution was a source of controversy.
102. George Ochoa (~1993-2012, lethal injection): A Southside Locos gang member, Ochoa and another hoodlum shot and killed a couple, 38 year old Francisco Morales and 35 year old Maria Yanez, while burglarizing their home. The murders were witnessed by the couple's 14 year old and 10 year old children and stepchildren, who then phoned the police after the shooters' departure.
103. Steven Thacker (~1980s-2012, lethal injection): Thacker kidnapped 25 year old Laci Hill during a botched robbery of her home, and took her to a remote cabin to be raped. She was then strangled and stabbed to death. He fled to Missouri, fatally stabbed 24 year old Forrest Boyd while carjacking him, and used his car to hide out in Tennessee. After the stolen car broke down, Thacker called a tow truck to pick him up. When the driver, 52 year old Ray Patterson, found that he was using a stolen credit card, Thacker stabbed him to death as well. As a teenager, Thacker committed several acts of auto thefts and burglaries. He also engaged in inappropriate relationships with underaged girls, and was released from a Florida prison after serving time for a bad check conviction months before his murders.
104. James DeRosa (2000-2013, lethal injection): DeRosa and his accomplice tricked a couple, 73 year old Curtis and 70 year old Gloria Plummer, that he worked for on their ranch, into letting them inside their house. After they stabbed the Plummers and slit their throats, DeRosa and his accomplice stole $73 and drove away with their truck.
105. Brian Davis (2001-2013, lethal injection): Davis went searching for his girlfriend and their daughter when he found them missing from their home, and called his girlfriend's mother, 56 year old Josephine Sanford, about their whereabouts. Sanford dropped by the couple's residence after failing to find her daughter and granddaughter. At her arrival, she was raped, beaten, and stabbed to death by Davis. He then left the body in the house, drove off with Sanford’s van, and injured himself in a car accident. As Davis was high while driving, he was arrested for being under the influence. The detaining officers weren’t aware of the murder until Davis’ girlfriend returned to the home later that night, and called 911 after finding her mother’s corpse.
106. Anthony Banks (~1978-2013, lethal injection): In 1978, while robbing a grocery store, Banks shot and killed a clerk, 22 year old David Fremin. A year later, he abducted Sun Travis, a 24 year old South Korean immigrant, from a parking lot. He then sexually assaulted Travis in his car and shot her in the head. Although he was captured and convicted for Fremin's murder, Travis' killing went unsolved until a 1997 DNA test. Banks was originally sentenced to death for Fremin's murder, but it was lifted in favor of a life sentence. He was condemned for a second time after his conviction for Travis murder.
107. Ronald Lott (~1980s-2013, lethal injection): A sexual predator of elderly women, Lott broke into the homes of 93 year old Zelma Cutler and 83 year old Anna Fowler after cutting off their power. They were tied up with cloth, anally penetrated, beaten, and suffocated to death with pillowcases. The case attracted controversy when another man was erroneously condemned for the murders, and he spent 11 years on death row until a 1997 DNA test linked the murders to Lott. At the time of the discovery, Lott was serving time for two rape convictions.
108. Johnny Black (~1984-2013, lethal injection): Black, two of his brothers, and two other men went looking for a man they feuded with for a fight. While they were crusing on the road, the group encountered a rancher, 54 year old Bill Pogue, and mistook him for their target due to them driving similar vehicles. They forced Poque off the road, pulled him out of his car, and stabbed him a total of 10 times. Pogue's son in law was also dragged out and attacked, but he managed to escape with his life. Black was previously convicted of manslaughter for shooting 49 year old Cecil Martin dead in an argument.
109. Michael Wilson (1995-2014, lethal injection): Wilson was the third participant in the above mentioned beating death of Richard Yost to be executed.
110. Kenneth Hogan (1988-2014, lethal injection): Hogan stabbed 21 year old Lisa Stanley to death while she was babysitting his children. According to autopsy reports, she was stabbed at least 25 times. Stanley had previously accused him of sexual misconduct, and prosecutors believed that she was killed during an argument over the allegations.
111. Clayton Lockett (~1992-2014, lethal injection): Lockett, his cousin, and another accomplice kidnapped 23 year old Bobby Bornt, 18 year old Summer Hair, and Bornt's 9 month son after burglarizing a home. After tying them up with duct tape, they forced their captives to lure a friend, 19 year old Stephanie Neiman, with a phone call. Neiman was also bound and initially survived getting shot multiple times. Out of frustration, Lockett buried her alive, and she succumbed to a combination of suffocation and her injuries. Lockett and his accomplices also gang-raped Hair and beat Bornt, but spared them on the forced condition of their silence. His execution was controversial, as Lockett convulsed for 45 minutes after being injected, and then died from a heart attack. He also had a long criminal history, and was first arrested for burglary as a teenager.
112. Charles Warner (1997-2015, lethal injection): Warner raped his girlfriend's daughter, 11 month old Adriana Waller, and shook her to death. His execution sparked outcry, as the wrong fatal drug was administered by mistake, and Warner complained of "burning pain" as he was being injected. With the botched executions of Lockett and Warner back to back, the state of Oklahoma delayed further executions until 2021.
113. John Grant (~1970s-2021, lethal injection): While serving a 130 year sentence for armed robbery, Grant stabbed a prison cafeteria worker, 58 year old Gay Carter, to death. He had a long criminal history dating back to the ag e of 11, had several previous convictions of theft and armed robbery, and frequently fought with and assaulted other inmates behind bars. Due to reports of "adverse reactions" to the lethal drugs, Grant's execution was scrutinized by a number of national media outlets.
114. Bigler Stouffer II (1985-2021, lethal injection): Stouffer shot and killed his ex girlfriend, 35 year old Linda Reaves, in her boyfriend's home for breaking up with him. Reaves' boyfriend was also seriously injured in the shooting.
115. Donald Grant (2001-2022, lethal injection): During a robbery of a hotel, Grant fatally shot, stabbed, and bludgeoned two employees, 43 year old Felicia Smith and 29 year old Brenda McElyea, and ran off with $1,500. He spent $200 of the stolen on paying for his girlfriend's bail.
116. Gilbert Postelle (~1998-2022, lethal injection): Postelle’s father was badly injured in a motorcycle accident, and they suspected that 57 year old James Anderson, 56 year old Terry Smith, 49 year old Donnie Swindler, and 26 year old Amy Wright were deliberately involved. Out a desire for vengeance, he recruited Postelle, his other son, and another man to kill them. All four victims were fatally gunned down in what was described as a “blitz attack” on their trailer. He was an addict and had several arrests for drug possession and manufacturing dating back to the age of 12.
117. James Coddington (1997-2022, lethal injection): After robbing a grocery store, Coddington went to the home of a friend and co worker, 73 year old Albert Hale, to ask for money. When Hale turned him down, Coddington retaliated by beating him with a claw hammer. Coddington stole $525 and went on to rob 5 more grocery stores. Hale was left alone with his injures for nearly an entire day until he was discovered by his son, and died in the hospital a day later.
118. Benjamin Cole Sr. (2002-2022, lethal injection): Out of anger that her crying interrupted his Nintendo game, Cole beat his daughter from his second wife, 9 month old Brianna, to death. He was previously convicted of abusing his son from a different marriage in California.
119. Richard Fairchild (1996-2023, lethal injection): Fairchild got into a fight with his girlfriend’s 17 year old daughter after making drunken sexual passes at her, and was enraged that she left with a cab driver. He took his anger out on the girl’s younger brother, 3 year old Adam Broomhall, and scalded him with a wall heater. He then repeatedly hit the boy, threw him against a table, and fatally hemorrhaged his head. Bromhall received over 26 blows during the beating.
120. Scott Eizember (2003-2023, lethal injection): Eizember snuck into his ex girlfriend's house to lie in wait for her. However, her roommates, 76 year old A.J. Cantrell and his 70 year old wife Patsy, arrived home earlier then she did. He shot and beat them both to death and then fled the scene.
121. Jemaine Cannon (1995-2023, lethal injection): Cannon was put in prison for assaulting an unidentified woman. He managed to escape and stabbed his girlfriend, 20 year old Sharonda Clark, to death in her apartment.
122. Anthony Sanchez (1996-2023, lethal injection): Sanchez kidnapped 21 year old Jewell Busken from her apartment complex, and then raped and shot her to death. He amassed a following from the anti death penalty movement for claiming that his father was responsible, but such notions were debunked following a 2023 DNA test that concluded Sanchez’s guilt.
123. Phillip Hancock (~1982-2023, lethal injection): In 1982, Hancock shot a drug dealer, 27 year old Charles Warren, dead in a dispute over stolen jewelry and was given a manslaughter conviction for it. He was released after serving a 2 year term. About 17 years later, he shot and killed 58 year old James Lynch III and 37 year old Robert Jett Jr. in a drug house. Despite an eyewitness account describing Lynch and Jett begging for their lives, the case attracted scrutiny when Hancock's attorneys claimed that the shootings were done in self defense.
124. Michael Smith (~2002-2024, lethal injection): A member of the Oak Grove Posse gang, Smith was responsible for two separate fatal shootings on the same day. In one of his murders, he killed Sharath Pulluru, a 24 year old Indian immigrant that worked as a clerk, while robbing a gas station. The other murder occurred when he tried to confront a gang member that he thought was a police informant in his apartment, and gunned down the target’s mother, 40 year old Janet Miller-Moore, when she refused to give away her son’s location. Smith was also given a life sentence for delivering a gun to a shooter that carried out another gang killing.
submitted by Leather_Focus_6535 to TrueCrimeDiscussion [link] [comments]

2024.05.13 13:39 darksnakex [H] New and Old Bundle Leftovers [W] Steelrising

Steam Keys
Origin
I want:
https://www.reddit.com/IGSRep/comments/my8m70/darksnakexs_igs_rep_page_8/
submitted by darksnakex to indiegameswap [link] [comments]

2024.05.13 13:30 readingrachelx Housewife highlights/Daily shit talk - May 13th, 2024

BRAVO
NEW JERSEY
NEW YORK
BEVERLY HILLS
MIAMI
Links to this week's episode discussion posts:
submitted by readingrachelx to RHDiscussion [link] [comments]

2024.05.13 02:38 DivorceGoneRight Divorce Gone Right Finally

Hello,
I'm a huge fan and am happy that you finally have a reddit to post my crazy story to. I (31F) was dating now (38M)- when we first started dating, I was 17 and he was 23, let's call him Chad (not his real name). I was young and in love and didn't know any better. Man had I wished I know what I do now. We were together for 9 years before he finally proposed to me. It was the happiest moment of my life- or so I thought. We had plans to get married 2 years later but my father had unexpectedly passed away during covid (not because of covid)- but because of covid I was not able to visit when he got sick due to him being in a different country at the time.
Given the situation I thought why not get married sooner since I had come to the realization that life can be cut short sometimes. It was June of 2020 and I had never wanted a big wedding anyway, so I called the judge and my hairdresser and set the date for August 8th. It felt like everything was perfect, my hairdresser, who is normally booked out far in advance had a cancellation that day and I had picked out a beautiful wedding dress that fit me almost perfect for only $600 since it was the floor model. Everything in the universe seemed like it was coming together for us. We got married outside the local courthouse with spring flowers in bloom and they had an outdoor water fountain that was just beautiful. We just had a few close friends and family there and an after party in our backyard- we had just bought a house together the year before.
The neighbors had decorated the yard while we were gone, and a friend had made a beautiful wedding cake and my other friend (that worked at a liquor store) had brought the alcohol. Everything seemed perfect and we were both smiling the whole day. I admittedly had too much to drink and was in bed by 9:30 but it was a wonderful time and I never suspected that anything was wrong.
Cut to 4 months later with him saying that he didn't like the way I treated him and that he needed something to change. I would joke with him about things, but he didn't see them as jokes, and I admit that sometimes I could get a little carried away. I apologized to him and told him I would work on it since our relationship meant a lot to me. I started asking him more how he was feeling and being more considerate to him. He had been upset with me because I didn't notice that he was depressed, he hadn't told me he was depressed, and the signs were easily missed given that he liked to sleep a lot and he worked long hours at his job. It wasn't unusual to find him asleep on the couch. I again apologized but indicated that I couldn't have known that he was depressed given that he worked long hours and was often tired in general. I said I was trying but he never said he was depressed.
I had told him for years that he needed to talk to a therapist for a number of other reasons in his life and he admitted that he was seeing a therapist now- which he never told me about- and that he was trying to work through some things. I asked him what else he was working through and at this time mentioned that he had feelings for a co-worker (let's call her Lisa). Given that he is a nurse, and most nurses are typically female I knew he was friends with Lisa, and he would tell me he was going out to lunch and liked working with her. I wasn't upset about him going to lunch or being friends with her because obviously most of the people he worked with were women. There were a lot of rumors at work about them being in a relationship, but I never paid any attention to it because nobody could provide any evidence and by this time, we had been together for 12 years and I trusted him.
Until he admitted he had feelings for her. Lisa was engaged to a guy that she had been with for about 12 years- they had just got engaged- but Chad said she felt pressured to say yes because he proposed at a family vacation that both his and her family were on. IMO she still should've said no to her fiancé because she had told Chad that she only said yes because she felt pressured to, but that's not my monkey or circus. No, I don't know what happened to that relationship because I have my own problems to deal with and don't care what her problems are. I told Chad that he had a week to talk to Lisa and figure out what he wanted in life.
Fast forward to a week later- we had been sleeping separately and things were strained at home. I text Chad while I'm at work to ask if we were still going to the company picnic together that day. He said yes. In my head I'm thinking "oh he must have talked to her since we're going to the picnic together". I get home and I ask if Chad has talked to Lisa yet. Chad says "no, but we can talk about this later, let's go to the picnic." I said "No, absolutely not. I gave you a week to talk to Lisa and you still haven't talked to her? You work with her, and I know you've had shifts together in this last week." Chad said, "I haven't found the right time to talk to her about my feelings".
At this point I am livid, and I say "It doesn't even matter if you talked to her or not. It comes down to 2 choices; 1. You stop talking to her and we work on our marriage or 2. You continue to talk to her, and we get a divorce" Chad says "well I'm not going to stop talking to her" I said "I'm glad you made this easy then, we're getting a divorce". I storm out of the house and go to a friend's house- a co-worker that also wasn't going to the picnic. I call her and ask her if I can come over. She said to come right over because I told her the situation. While I'm trying to back out of my drive-way Chad is calling Lisa. How do I know this? His phone automatically connects to my car and the conversation was coming out of my speakers. I hang up. Chad tries to call her again. I hang up again. He's leaving the house too but going for a walk. I yell at him out the window "you might want to wait to call her until I'm out of range of your phone" and drive off.
I go to my friend's house and cry and drink some alcohol. I wait until I'm sober and feeling better and drive back to the house. Chad is there. He wants to talk about what each of us are getting and how to split the animals we have together. He wants shared custody of MY dog- we got together as a puppy- but I had paid for him with my money that I was working a second job to afford said puppy with and my name was the only one on the contract. I told Chad that the dog- now 3 years old- is MY dog and that he could try to get him from me but legally he was mine and Chad had NO right to MY dog.
Chad said, "I knew you were going to be petty about this, that's why I'M glad I initiated this divorce. Also, our relationship has been going downhill for the past 5 years. I never wanted to get married to you in the first place. I gave you so many hints that I never wanted to get married". What were the hints you might ask? I didn't have any idea lol. I asked him what were the hints? He said, "I was taking a purposefully long time to choose a wedding band, I don't think we'll be able to get a judge/married so soon (since I had told him in July that I wanted to get married in August), and I didn't have a tux". We had gone to Jared's together to pick out our wedding bands. He was being picky about it but at the same time it's a wedding band he's supposed to wear for "forever", so I understood him being picky. He had mentioned something about the short time span, but it made sense because it was a short time span, but things just kept working out, so I took that as a good sign. I told him how I was supposed to know he didn't want to get married since he had proposed the year before? I said, "I'm not a mind reader, if you didn't want to get married you should have just said that".
Funny he had said that he had "initiated the divorce" because when we went to the mediator to work everything out, they asked "who is going to be the divorcer and who is going to be the divorcee? Keep in mind the divorcer is the one that typically pays for things." I said "oh, well he told me he initiated this divorce so I guess that means he can pay for it". We do all the paperwork, sell the house, split the money, split the furniture, split the animals- he got the bunnies, I got the dog and ball python. The only thing that made me upset was he had NEVER filed the paperwork. I would ask him every few months "hey what's going on with the paperwork and he would either not answer or give an excuse. This went on for almost 3 YEARS! Finally, I called the courthouse and asked them, and they said, "there's no index number which means they never filed the paperwork". I called a lawyer and they had everything done in 3 MONTHS. I am now officially divorced.
I think I made out pretty well all things considered. He is still alone that I know of, and I was on tinder seeing a lot of hotteyounger dudes. Apparently, I'm pretty attractive, which I wouldn't have guessed the way he treated me over the years, and I had gained some weight which he would mention every now and then. During the divorce I lost a lot of the weight I had gained. My self-esteem had taken a big hit during the relationship but now I'm feeling a lot better about myself. I start thinking back and he had also been very rude and inconsiderate to me on several occasions. Now I'm dating a 26M that loves me and have been having a great relationship for the past 2 years.
Oh, the icing on the cake, after we separated, I was still talking to Chad's mom and dad- since we had known each other for so long and they were nice enough to me during the relationship. Turns out Chad's dad offered to sleep with me. I turned him down, since I don't hate myself nearly that much. His mom and dad are still married and together, but the marriage is over emotionally and physically for years. I never did tell Chad that his dad tried to sleep with me. I just feel I'm not that petty of a person, but I am petty enough to tell Charlotte Dobre :)
P.S. I love the channel and have wanted to share this story with you for a very long time. Thanks for reading :)
submitted by DivorceGoneRight to CharlotteDobreYouTube [link] [comments]

2024.05.13 01:23 Extension_Spinach_38 My BF and ALL his friends find my best friend incredibly annoying, what to do?

My (22f) boyfriend (23m) and all his roommates + friends find my best friend Lisa (24f) annoying. She has not done anything majorly wrong that I know, but I suspect she has a form of neurodivergence because she has difficulty reading the room. When Lisa got invited for the first time to my boyfriend’s houseparty, she was a bit clingy to certain people, and would drunkenly repeat herself a lot. That was about all that was needed for my bf and his friends to form an (imo) very negative opinion of her.
She also made this clumsy joke about my boyfriend taking both of us on a date, and him having to convince her he’s a good bf to me, which was taken as her being posessive of me.
My reaction was to just keep them seperate. This poses an issue because: 1. She does not know AT ALL they found her annoying (most of them act normal and overly nice to her, they still do). She even has a crush on one of his roommates. 2. His friendgroup and my friendgroup attend the same events quite often, go to the same parties, campus activities, festivals etc. So there are a lottt of run-ins. 3. After I indirectly told Lisa to tone it down on alcohol, she went to another party with them and it was FINE. Yet, they still hold this opinion. 4. While Lisa has issues reading the room, she is a really good friend, an honest person, and takes criticism really well. I don’t think she deserves to hear this.
Anyways, as you can see this situation is begging for a mess to happen. I don’t feel like lying or making up excuses to her, or tearing myself into two halves to make sure neither feel abandoned. She’s also inevitably going to ask why we aren’t joining up with him and his friends (because she is under the impression they like her).
Today my boyfriend invited me to pregame at his house for an upcoming festival, and I asked if Lisa could join because we had agreed to go together. He said he “does not feel like it”, indicating he reaaaally does not like this girl (keep in mind he has met her barely two times).
I have absolutely no idea what to do? Am I doing something wrong? Am I being an asshole? Why do I feel so left alone in figuring this out?
submitted by Extension_Spinach_38 to Advice [link] [comments]

2024.05.12 21:57 asdcatmama She might be beyond help….

She’s doubled down on the lies. So Grandma set her up to be disappointed? And her FAMILY COURT PD is going to go after those who are pointing out her lies?
No wonder her kids are disgusted. It’s not the Grandma alienating them. It’s Lisa and her constant chaos. That’s who killed their spirits.
She’s not returning a dime.
There’s no IOP tomorrow, unless it’s a quick meeting that will a) change her mind (lol) because she wants to do a different thing b) the program pushes back her start date.
She’s a sociopath.
submitted by asdcatmama to lisaangelgurlsnark [link] [comments]

2024.05.12 21:05 daisybear81 What's each character's most out of character moment? The last one: Jerry Gergich

What's each character's most out of character moment? The last one: Jerry Gergich
https://preview.redd.it/3lgiqw7an10d1.jpg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7248e601f1756720842905ca51b2add1240da5fd
previous winners:
Leslie: Honestly I think the way she treats Garry throughout the show is weirdly out of character for her. I get the joke of him being the office punching bag, but she’s so kind and caring of everyone else’s feelings.
Ann: She dated Tom...more than once.
Ron: Telling Lucy that Tom wanted to marry her and then tried to fix it by telling her that he also wants kids
Tom: Okay hear me out…Dating Mona Lisa. Usually Tom has surprisingly square tastes when it comes to the women he dates. Most of them are shockingly normal, grounded, & well-educated (Wendy, Ann, Lucy, Nadia). And then there’s Mona Lisa, who’s none of those things.
April: When Ron pulls his tooth out at the meeting and she runs out looking disgusted like everybody else. It seems like something she would have stayed and watched with a perverse smile.
It's my nitpicky thing that bugs me on every rewatch.
Andy: I don't know why this bugs me, but in the last episode when he calls Chris "Chip". Yes, Andy can be an idiot at times, but this makes no sense based on the friendship they had. I feel like the writers were trying too hard to make a joke.
On the flip side, when Ann and Chris are leaving and Andy goes up to Ann and says something like "I just remembered we used to date". In Andy's world, that seems so believable.
Ben: Not writing a concession speech for Leslie. I understand it’s supposed to be a sweet moment but it’s so unlike him to be that unprepared. Not to mention she almost lost!
Chris: Honestly for me it's the way he also treats Gerry. This even more for him than Leslie. He is so kind and positive with everyone except Gerry.
Donna: talking shit about Leslie on her private twitter account, and then immediately doubling down on it when exposed. she can be private about a lot of things, but it did not seem like her to be so blatantly insulting like that, like, she’s arguably, consistently the nicest coworker to Garry so wtf was that
submitted by daisybear81 to PandR [link] [comments]

2024.05.12 20:14 ChinbenNaBhai Seeking advise to be a better boyfriend for my girlfriend.

TL;DR;: I cheated on my girlfriend of seven years and we’re back together but i would like some advice to be a better boyfriend to her then i ever was
So I ’M22’ and my girlfriend ‘F18’ has been dating for almost seven years now. For context which will be important for the future is we both live in a country where living together with your partner out of wedlock is not really accepted. So here’s the story. From the beginning of our relationship giving each other time has been a problem. We rarely see each other. But when we do we both cherish those moments. Although not seeing her and not getting to talk to her takes a toll on my mental health and being cheated on before and being the joke in my previous relationship doesn’t help my trust issues. Altho i know my girlfriend isn’t the type to cheat but sometimes i get insecure and worried.
From the start of our relationship i have had this issue it was bothering me. The college i go to has a system that we have to spend an entire semester living on campus and it’s pretty far from our home. Although we are committed to be loyal to each other but both of us being from a strict and toxic family doesn’t help that. Our relationship even if you call it that is literally hanging on threads but ig we’re trying to make it work. She is someone who never asked me how my day was or anything this used to bother me a lot but i never let it get to me.
When i went away for my semester things changed a bit. Like I was a very indoor person. I had no social life at all. My whole day would be spent texting my girl and waiting for her reply. I have always tried to be a good boyfriend to her. But things changed. When i started living in my dorms our communication gap grew. Even my roommate couldn’t tell if i had a girlfriend or not. I didnt even say i did . I was ashamed to be honest . Dont get me wrong i love her more then anything but she isnt the girlfriend i wanted. Her cold behaviour when shes mad at me, Her not giving me time giving excuses etc. I stayed like that for a while and started to become numb at her. Then i met someone else lets call her Lisa. Lisa and i started to connect really well. Like she was everything i every wanted really. She could give me time. We would be together for 12/14 hours a day(We had all classes together) and we’d stay up all night on call and everything.I almost forgot i had a girlfriend. when lisa said she wanted us to be exclusive i was over the moon. I accepted it. But i forgot about my girlfriend. I ended up cheating on her. Things never really got physical with lisa. But still i did cheat on my girlfriend. After that some shit happend lisa found out about my girlfriend. Told her everything. broke up with me. But my girlfriend still took me back. Being away from lisa made realise things i never got from my girlfriend lisa gave them to me. She was attentive, understanding, supportive the whole deal. Then again my girlfriend is the opposite of those. But despite how much i regret cheating on my girlfriend i want to make it work with her. And ik i am the asshole for cheating here. The guilt is killing me everyday. And i am trying to be better for my girlfriend. But sometimes i feel like she’s nonchalant and takes me for granted. Maybe thats me and my overthinking. Im asking for advise how to be a better boyfriend for my girlfriend. I am doing the normal things . Trying to get her trust back, Showing that i genuinely love her, Giving her more time altho she cant.
So What are the advises would you give me ?
submitted by ChinbenNaBhai to relationships [link] [comments]

2024.05.12 17:43 ToysAndCardsNY [US-NY] [H] Sealed Simpsons, Looney Tunes, Disney, Harry Potter, DC CMF Collections 40710 - Pirate Splash Battle (2024 Legoland Exclusive) Used Delorean (BTTF2 Variant) [W] Paypal

New, Sealed Complete CMF Series

https://imgur.com/a/HyohVOH
All these are new, sealed and never opened. They are complete sets of characters, one of each in the series, no duplicates.
Simpsons Series 1 - 175 $170 shipped
Simpsons Series 2 - $105 Shipped
Looney Tunes - $105 shipped
DC - $130 shipped
Harry Potter Series 1 - $210 shipped.
Disney Series 1 - $180 shipped
Disney 100 Series - $100 shipped

New, Sealed Simpsons Series 1 Characters

Ned Flanders - $9 + Shipping
Marge - $8
Itchy or Scratchy - $11 + Shipping
Maggie, Lisa, Bart - $13 + Shipping
Nelson Muntz - $13 + Shipping
Homer - $16+ Shipping

New, Sealed Simpsons Series 2 Characters

Groundskeeper Willie - $4 + Shipping
Date Night Homer, Dr. Hibbert - $5 + Shipping
Smithers or Fall Out Boy Milhouse - $7 + Shipping
Maggie, Lisa, Marge and Bartman - $8 + Shipping

Other Sets

New Sealed Pirate Slash Battle - $30 + shipping
Used Delorean BTTF 2 Variation - $100 shipped
My Delorean set is probably 95% complete. It is 100% complete in the Back to the Future 2 future Delorean variation though. I don't have the pieces for the BTTF1 or BTTF3 variation. Includes all Minifigures, the hoverboard, and the plutonium. All the pieces minus the ones needed for the BTTF 1 and 3 conversions. No box or instructions. I built it once and put it in a display case until I took these pictures. I also will ship it to you built instead of breaking it down. The shipping price is the same either way.
submitted by ToysAndCardsNY to Legomarket [link] [comments]

2024.05.12 16:46 Formal_Barnacle304 Never take the bullet train to HeiAn

I'm from a relatively small town on the border of Myanmar and China. Lush green mountains surround us on all sides and most people have lived their whole life here. I always saw it as a peaceful farming town, one of thousands like it all over China.
Nothing really special about it looking from the outside in but those who lived here long enough hear whispers of a ghost town.
It doesn't exist on any map, and goes by many names, Hei Shi, Gui Dong, and of course Hei An. Legends say its a town full of cannibals that pick off anyone who gets too close, some say its just an endless field of graves that never lets you leave, and others say its home to the gates to Hell.
They could all be real or all could be fake. Very few people are willing to talk about it but I know one thing.
Hei An exists.
A few years ago I started a job working with the newly built railway station. We have one high speed rail that connects us to the rest of the country and it only has a few stops a day. My job is just making sure people don't wander off where they aren’t supposed to go but one day I was asked to work the night shift next week.
The person who worked the night shift before recently retired and they haven't found anyone to replace him yet. Probably due to not looking if i'm honest. We aren't a large city but people still need work, and this job is pretty cushy.
At the time, I had no reservations about taking up the night shift as it's basically playing your phone and making sure no one breaks in or so I thought.
I arrived for my normal shift around 8 in the morning. It was pretty empty minus a handful of people. A teller who sold the tickets, a younger female coworker who works the metal detector. Lets call her Sandy, and a few passengers waiting on the last train. Some of them seemed familiar but I can't say I know them.
"Hey Sandy, anyone give you any trouble?" I asked half joking
"Same old same old."
"How many chickens did they try to snuck aboard today?"
"Too many," she said, putting her hands to her temples.
For those who aren't familiar with the railway system, certain things aren't allowed to be carried on to the train. Some obvious stuff like knives, explosives, chemicals, and live animals. Though people tend to overlook the live animal part.
To be honest the chickens are probably less troublesome than most children..But rules are rules.
The first thirty minutes of my shift were uneventful till I saw this scruffy guy with a thin leather jacket and a small travel suitcase approach the security desk.
I didn't see him when I walked in and before I could see what he wanted, he swerved and went to the center of the station.
He stared up at the list of departures. A large electronic board over the entrance to the platform where people can see to check for updates. He stood there for several minutes, eyes never looking away from the board.
"Can I help you sir ?" I asked him.
no response.
I stood there a moment before waving my hand in front of his face.
He didn't react.
It was like he was in a trance. I wasn't sure what to do, if this was some kinda stroke or a mentally ill individual?
I put my hand on his shoulder.
Then he started screaming. His face beet red as I stepped back.
"Sir? Sir?! Calm down!".
He didn't even look at me as he tried to rip out one of the chairs bolted to the ground. His screams were incoherent and his movements frantic.
I looked over at Sandy who was on the phone with the police.
"Sir! Sir! Calm down so I can help you."
His blood red eyes looked at made, and he whispered one word
"Hei An"
before bolting and jumping the turnstile out onto the train platform.
"Sir?!" I went out to follow him but he vanished. He wasn't on the tracks, we only had two of them. No train had arrived, it's possible he ran off into the mountains that surrounded the station but he would have to run faster than the train for me not to see where he went.
"Is he gone?" Sandy asked me as I came in.
"I don't see him anywhere"
Sandy went back to talking to the police, and basically what they said was that due to the attack on the Kunming station a few years ago, they advised us to evacuate do to the possibility of a planted bomb and abandoned luggage.
We did just that.
For three days no trains stopped by our local station. They did a sweep of the building, the nearby tracks, woods, and found nothing. The luggage left behind, from what I heard, was just clothes and other normal things.
That kinda makes sense as it was able to get through the scanner but I also wouldn't be surprised if some details were left out. He was definitely mentally unsound, and I even told the state police that.
One weird thing that got me suspicious is when I mentioned he said HeiAn they turned to look at each other like they heard that before. I might be looking at things too deeply, one case in a billion and it just happened here. A not mentally sound individual spooked even more out of his mind by a local ghost story.
Nothing I needed to worry about. Nothing I get paid to worry about.
Things went on as normal and eventually I was scheduled for the night shift.
When I say no one was there, I mean no one. The front door wasn't locked and all the lights were on. The list of departures was empty so it was made since no one was waiting but at least someone who works here can stay so I can come and lock up. Hesh. The younger generation.
I locked up and made my rounds, patrolled around the platform and nothing. It all looked pretty normal lit only by flashlight on a cold windy night. Deep down I felt a sense of uncertainty, maybe even a hint of dread.
Toughing it out and quickly returning inside to see that it was just as empty as before.
A few hours passed and I started to feel at ease. I was just being silly, even if that guy came back. He Is just a man and I'm behind a locked door with a direct line to the police.
I chuckled at myself, I'm a grown man. I can handle myself.
As I told myself those very words the lights flickered. I was in near total darkness for just seconds but the ease I once felt washed away.
When the lights came back on I noticed an arrangement of flowers at the security desk. I walked a few steps forward and swore I heard for a brief moment the echoing laughter of children behind me.
No one was there.
The flowers were still sitting on the desk with a message attached. The message was in Mandarin for obvious reasons, but it was basically a love note addressed to someone I will call Lisa. I don't know any Lisa, and nobody who works here has that name.
The lights flickered three times before turning off completely. My flashlight refuses to turn on leaving me with only the dim moonlight coming through station windows.
Dead silence till a familiar click sounds. The bulletin board of departures and arrivals came back to life with only one city listed in bright red
HeiAn.
The board began to glitch and the words darted across the screen and broke apart. I just stared at it clutching the bouquet in my hands.
The sliding doors to the platform opened by themselves as a distorted voice came over the PA. I couldn't really understand what it said but I heard it. The sounds of the train pulling into the station.
I wasn't sure if I was just losing my mind or stuck in a nightmare I can't wake up from.
The front door slammed open and through the murky darkness I saw several shadowy figures by the door. They poured in one by one like they were waiting in line.
I stood frozen as I watched them shuffle by as if they were undisturbed by my presence. They looked like rotting corpses up close with tattered clothes and blank white eyes.
Almost didn't notice the hand on my shoulder.
I didn't look back. His grip tighten and a deep voice said
"Ticket?"
"huh?"
"Ticket, sir. Where's your ticket?"
I turned to face him. He looked almost normal, a young man in an old train station uniform. His skin was a pale white and his eyes unblinking as he waited for my response.
"I...I don't have a ticket"
His smile stared to waver as he asked "You don't have a ticket?"
"Yeah, I just work here..."
His eyes filled with rage as the skin around his eyes, once smooth, had dozens of crows feet and wrinkles.
"WHY ARE YOU EVER HERE?!" His voice boomed throughout the station.
"I..I work..."
He cut me off "Security!".
From over the door but one, giant jet black dogs with bloodshot eyes came out and snarled. A blood red liquid dripping from their mouths.
"We don't like dead weight here," the man said.
Before I could say anything he whistled and the hounds went loose trembling the walking corpses in their way.
I booked for the only exit. The train platform with the black as night bullet train. It has red stained windows and went on forever in both directions. The doors were open but I ran down the platform hoping to lose these hounds in the mountains.
One hound stood between me and the end of the platform staring me down as the rest ran closer and closer from behind me.
"Train now leaving for..." followed by a ding sound as the door to my right started to close.
I throw my hand in the door to hold it open just enough to squeeze my fat self through without being ripped to shreds. The door quickly slid on the hound's mouth.
The whispering sound it made almost made me feel sorry for it as it fell off from the train.
The train car was filled with empty seats and It was indistinguishable from a normal one. Except, the door leading to the car had a cartoonishly large lock and chain wrapped around it.
"Clearly not going that way" I murmured to myself.
Luckily, the.door to the previous car was wide open.
Peering my head through only to see nothing but another empty car but the door on the opposite side was open.
Slowly walking down the aisle like tip toeing over egg shells. I expected the worse but I found nothing.
one idea managed to creep into my mind.
"Is it endless?"
No... No. I couldn't panic if I start to panic, everything will get worse.
I took a seat as I clutched the bouquet in my hands.
One deep breath, two deep breaths, and three deep breaths as I listened to the shuffling of the train.
I pulled out my cell phone but it wouldn't turn on, neither would my radio. Panic creeped on the edges of my mind but I pushed it back.
Someone must be controlling the train. I couldn't decide if finding the person was suicide or not considering what happened at the station but waiting for whatever happens at HeiAn didn't sound much better.
I tried to get up from my seat but something was pulling at my arm.
the train was engulfed in darkness as a hand came over my mouth.
Struggling was no use as I felt like a fly trapped in a web. A whispering murmur played in my ear.
"sssshhhh".
I stopped and saw red glowing eyes from the window. one pair of eyes quickly became two, four, and then dozens in every window.
"Don't look at them" I heard in a whispering voice.
The windows started to flex with their high pitch shrieks and wails. Sounds that left a scar on my conscience. Sometimes when I close my eyes I still see their piercing red eyes and their shrieks echoing in my head.
When it finally stopped I didn't notice. I heard nothing but them and saw nothing but total darkness clamping around me. Felt like death, maybe even worse than that.
"When did the lights come on?" I asked over a mumbling murmur.
A hand grabbed mine, firmly squeezing. "They are gone now."
"Gone" I repeated as the world around me started to lose its haze.
Sitting in the sit right next to mine was a woman in her early 20s. Incredibly pale, and almost paper thin.
"What were those things?"
Her eyes drifted down from my face to my chest.
"Those are lovely flowers," she said.
"Thanks, but what the hell are those, The HellHounds?"
She looked back up at my face "HellHounds?"
"HellHounds, like demon dogs, dogs from Hell..."
she nodded but her eyes fell back down to the flowers. "Where did you get such lovely flowers?"
"They aren't mine."I said while giving her the bouquet with the card.
She started reading silently to herself. I got to stretch my legs and peer down the empty corridor. Nothing but seemingly endless trains cars.
Looking back at the woman from before I saw that she was crying.
"Are you all.." she sprung up out of her sit and ducked under my arm running down the corridor. She said something through the tears that I didn't hear.
"..Wait" I called out, chasing the only somewhat sane person who knew anything about this place. No matter how fast I ran, the distance between us only lengthened. a few feet away quickly became dozens till she was outta my view completely. Almost like she dropped under the horizon all at once. I ran and ran but never caught up exhausting myself till I sat on a new row of sits.
Panting, and completely out of breath. "the only person that seemed... to know anything about anything gone into the wind"
The train cars disappeared off into the horizon. It was pitch black outside and I couldn't see even a couple of inches in front of my face like I was swallowed into a void.
Those train cars are truly endless, my watch is stuck at 2：13 AM so, I don't know how many hours I walked. I might as well just stand in place. Dehydration would probably kill me in 2 or 3 days if this goes on. I would rather take my chances jumping from a 400 kph train than to die like that. Quick and painless, though my mom always said I was stubborn and that quality of ours kept me going.
All the train car lights started to flicker as the train slowed to complete halt. Taking my chances I tried to pull open the train door but it didn't budge. I was so focused on opening the door that I didn't realize the lights were.off till a pair of red glowing eyes peered back at me.
A loud frenzy of screeches followed as hundreds of red eyes peered through the window. I was too afraid to breathe, let alone move.
The sound of cracking glass echoed from behind me.
"Shit"
They burst through flooding into the room and I never ran faster.
I felt their breath on my neck and their claws at my heels. Never looked back a single time but saw thousands trying to break the windows I ran past. And then my worst fear. A dead end.
"What, how?" It's like the end of a train car just appeared in front of me.
They were at every window and quickly swarming down the passage.
No escape.
I turned around.
These things, I saw them but I can't really describe them. My eyes didn't understand what they were looking at.
Readying my fists as a blinding light lit up the entirety of the train car. I couldn't see anything but I heard them wrath in pain with the clattering of their feet scurrying off.
When my eyes readjusted it was as if they vanished into thin air. All the broken windows were good as new, and no broken glass. The only proof they were here at all was a nasty gnash on my arm. Must have gotten me when I wasn't looking, but at least it wasn't my throat.
I wandered.forward till a hand gripped my shoulder.
"Are you okay?"
When I saw the women.from before I had a mix of spiraling relief,and anger
"Your arm?" she asked
She banadged me up as we sat together in silence. I had a million questions but I couldn't ask them, I guess it was the shock.of what I just went through.
"All done"
I pulled my arm back examining the bandages.
"You're really good at this," I told her.
”I should be, I'm a nurse"
"A train nurse?"
"Certified and everything" she replied, not hearing my dumb question.
I looked at her, really looked at her. Flowers clutched in her hands and not a speck of dirt or wrinkle on her clothes. She looked like she had just left home and got on the train just a few moments ago.
"How long have you been on this train?"
She looked back at me as if she was lost in thought. A few seconds passed before she leaned back and sat forward.
"Do you have a working phone or anything?"
She didn't answer.
"Hey, I just realized I don't know your name. Mine is Tobey. You?"
Her face lit up as she looked at me. "My name is Lisa"
"Well, Lisa...Something about this train isn't right, Lisa. I think we better find a way off but I need your help to do that."
"Okay", she says as the scent of flowers hit my nose.
"Lisa? Like the name on the card?"
"Yeah my boyfriend sent this to me, I guess he really does care. Thank you for delivering them, I was so...Like lost before."
"umm..Yeah no problem. Now we need..."
A familiar ringing sound echoed throughout the room.
"Next stop: Hei An"
At this point I forgot this train ever had an original destination at all. Wasn't sure to stay on the train or risk getting off into what could possibly be Hell on Earth.
Lisa's face was one of muted dread. "Should we hide?"
Hide? I thought. The only place I could think to hide is under the seats and no way am I fitting in 6 inches of space in the most obvious spot ever.
"Where?"
"Anywhere."
I refrained myself from any sarcastic retort as the train speed indicator began to descend.
I ducked behind the row of seats in front of me and Lisa soon crouched beside me. I almost told her maybe she should hide.behind a different row but having another person next to me give me comfort. Probably a false comfort.
The speed of the train dropped and dropped till leveling off at 70 kmh. Everything was silent, even the rustling of the train was barely a whisper. My heart didn't dare beat too loudly.
The silence was soon broken by a slapping sound from the train cars ahead of ours. I couldn't quite place it till Lisa said "Is that footsteps?"
They became louder and louder.till they were almost deafening then it just stopped.
A voice boomed from the front of the car.
"Tobey, it's your stop."
"How did he know my name?" I thought I tried to peek between the seats.
"Tobey, Tobey, Tobey... It's your time to go." smacking the top of a seat with a baton. "You've been marked, and they're waiting."
What's he talking about? Whatever, it was. I bet I rather not find out and with him checking every aisle we did the only thing we could.
Run.
Lisa was the first to burst into a full sprint right behind me. I heard him grumble but I couldn't make any of it out.
We ran and I kept checking behind but he wasn't chasing. Distance just gave comfort. A false comfort.
Lisa screamed and my head snapped back to look ahead. He was standing in the doorway in front of us.
"You can't run away"
The slamming of the door behind us cemented that fact.
"Who are you?" I asked.
He took a few menacing steps forward "The conductor, and my job is too remove the vermin like you"
A few moments of silence "Then talk us home, no way we are going to HeiAn."
His covered his eyes before slamming his heavy baton into the seat several times
"You can't go back!"
He took a few steps forward and he swung at us just missing my head.
Before I knew it his hand gripped around my wrist dragging me closer to the open door. No matter how I struggled he didn't slow down.
Lisa sprung up and kicked him in the back of his knee causing him to let go of both himself and his baton while falling out of the train car.
Lisa extended a hand while another hand gripped around the door frame. Without a second to spare, I bashed the conductor’s head in with his own baton dropping him out of the quickly closing door. He ran alongside the train pounding on the door but it was futile and then he was gone.
Not knowing what to do next and exhausted I took a seat and looked over at Lisa. Her exhausted face lost quickly to my blurring vision.
Everything went dark.
The chirping of birds stirred me awake and my eyes opened to the blue cloud patchy skies.
“Where am I?” I said as I stood up. I was alone and a few dozen feet from the tracks surrounded by empty fields.
With the warmth of sunlight on my skin “I made it back.”
Editor’s note:
I did some research and found out that there was a body found on the tracks on the opposite side of the country. A woman clutching a bouquet of flowers, her name was Lisa Chen.
The article was dated 2021.
I don’t know what to make of this. I couldn’t find any other article and my head has been hurting all day since I got home.
If you can share anything you find about her, I appreciate it and thank you all for hearing me out. I've been feeling tired all day, it's probably nothing but I’m gonna go to the doctor’s tomorrow.
submitted by Formal_Barnacle304 to nosleep [link] [comments]

2024.05.12 05:07 holeyshirt18 DEBATE/EVENT SCHEDULE THIS WEEK: Hodge Twins in Vegas, Bridges: R.A. The Rugged Man

UPDATED May.11.2024 If you have any info/links, or suggestions, please post below. \*for new changes*
________________________________________________________
NEW YORK Canvassing Event June 22nd-23rd - More Information - Sign up
________________________________________________________

NEW!

​
​
​
​
​

________________________________________________________

UPCOMING DEBATES & EVENTS

DEBATE/EVENT DATE TIME/LOCATION LINKS/INFO
Bridges Podcast: Episode 09, R.A. the Rugged Man May 13 3pm EST/7pm UTC Bridges YT Channel
Hodge Twins May 15 Las Vegas Twins Pod YT
Bridges Podcast: Episode 10, Jordan Harbringer June 8 3pm EST/7pm UTC Bridges YT Channel
NEW YORK CANVASSING: Weekend of Action #2 June 22-23 Yonkers, New York Info/Sign up! (No prior experience necessary)
Bridges Podcast: Episode 11, Mr. Beat June 15 3pm EST/7pm UTC Bridges YT Channel
Bridges Podcast: Episode 12, David Pakman June 28 Bridges YT Channel
Bridges Podcast: Episode 13, Harley Morenstein June 29 Bridges YT Channel (Maybe on Anything Else)
Bridges Podcast: Episode 14, Drew Pavlou July 6 Bridges YT Channel
​
AVAILABLE SOON
Bridges Podcast: Episode 08, Task & Purpose (Chris Cappy) (Filmed May 11) Releases on Bridges YT Channel
Seb Gorka hosted by Triggernometry (filmed May 10) 2 hour conversation - Trump vs. Biden, releasing on Triggernometry
Vice Documentary: (Redpill: Will air on their cable documentary channel (Tubi), 60-75 minute documentary exploring masculinity, manosphere, & economy of the internet, hosted by Vegas Tenold. Releases summer, 2024. (Watch Destiny Video: filmed feb 21- Destiny talking to Vice while they film, 1hr)
CANCELLED
- David Beir: Immigration (TBR) - DJ Akademiks (To Be Rescheduled, TBR)
UNCONFIRMED (tentative time frames, 3rd parties scheduling, creators interested to chat)
Maybe: Decoding The Gurus - Dman may use his right to reply
Wants to Chat: Michael Knowles) (said on Iced Coffee Hour Podcast)
Maybe: Dave Rubin Valuetainment trying to set debate
Tentative: Shlomo Ben-Ami After March 30th
Maybe: Jynxzi podcast appearance
Maybe: Kevin McCarthy saw the debate w/Shapiro, in talks
Invite: Michael Sartain invites Destiny to Vegas
3rd Party Contact: President of Israel, Isaac Herzog
3rd Party Contact: Einat Wilf
NBC Interview
________________________________________________________

RECENT DEBATES & CONVERSATIONS

________________________________________________________

PODCASTS, BIG DEBATES, I/P, & MORE

CANVASSING
​
BRIDGES PODCAST
​
ANYTHING ELSE? PODCAST
​
BIG DEBATES & CONVERSATIONS
​
ISRAEL-PALESTINE DEBATES & CONVERSATIONS
​
MORE
________________________________________________________

DEBATE BREAKDOWNS

Cenk Uygur: Israel - Hamas War
Lisa Elizabeth: Systemic racism
Meghan Murphy: Is sex work immoral?
(2019) Hasan Piker: Kamala Harris (Bridge Burn)
(2019) Sargon of Akkad: What is a woman?
________________________________________________________
DESTINY'S OBSIDIAN NOTES Direct Link Israel-Palestine Reddit Post
DESTINY'S SUBSTACK Direct Link
DESTINY WIKI POSITIONS POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
________________________________________________________
Many thanks to:
If you have any suggestions, info/links or additions, please post so I can update.
submitted by holeyshirt18 to Destiny [link] [comments]

2024.05.12 04:16 GloomyCoffee6139 90’s Show!

90’s Show!
Big moves big moves! I can’t wait!
submitted by GloomyCoffee6139 to MattRifeGossip [link] [comments]

2024.05.11 23:40 cindyloowhovian Lisa Kleypas novel dates

I decided randomly to order my Lisa Kleypas novels chronologically... because I'm a dork.
But I'm struggling because some of them don't have dates, and the one I'm currently trying to find dates for - Lady Sophia's Lover - is being described online as "between late regency and early Victorian". Except that's closing in on 20 years. The Regency era ended by 1820, and the Victorian era didn't begin until 1837.
Can anyone help provide some further information on the years her novels take place in?
submitted by cindyloowhovian to HistoricalRomance [link] [comments]

2024.05.11 19:36 daisybear81 What's each character's most out of character moment? Part 9: Donna Meagle

What's each character's most out of character moment? Part 9: Donna Meagle
https://preview.redd.it/p4amjere2uzc1.jpg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b241b7910a5858252a5406e5f70f8e0e14bcb643
previous winners:
Leslie: Honestly I think the way she treats Garry throughout the show is weirdly out of character for her. I get the joke of him being the office punching bag, but she’s so kind and caring of everyone else’s feelings.
Ann: She dated Tom...more than once.
Ron: Telling Lucy that Tom wanted to marry her and then tried to fix it by telling her that he also wants kids
Tom: Okay hear me out…Dating Mona Lisa. Usually Tom has surprisingly square tastes when it comes to the women he dates. Most of them are shockingly normal, grounded, & well-educated (Wendy, Ann, Lucy, Nadia). And then there’s Mona Lisa, who’s none of those things.
April: When Ron pulls his tooth out at the meeting and she runs out looking disgusted like everybody else. It seems like something she would have stayed and watched with a perverse smile.
It's my nitpicky thing that bugs me on every rewatch.
Andy: I don't know why this bugs me, but in the last episode when he calls Chris "Chip". Yes, Andy can be an idiot at times, but this makes no sense based on the friendship they had. I feel like the writers were trying too hard to make a joke.
On the flip side, when Ann and Chris are leaving and Andy goes up to Ann and says something like "I just remembered we used to date". In Andy's world, that seems so believable.
Ben: Not writing a concession speech for Leslie. I understand it’s supposed to be a sweet moment but it’s so unlike him to be that unprepared. Not to mention she almost lost!
Chris: Honestly for me it's the way he also treats Gerry. This even more for him than Leslie. He is so kind and positive with everyone except Gerry.
submitted by daisybear81 to PandR [link] [comments]

2024.05.11 15:30 7aylod [H] Yakuza LAD, Nioh 2 Complete, bundle left overs [W] Orcs Must Die 3, Spyro Trilogy, Unpacking, Offers

IGSRep
Looking for trades with similar value on gg.deals (will verify current price before trades), but can be flexible. Will respond to every offer. Steam keys only.
Game Bundle Store
A Plague Tale: Innocence HUMBLE HEROINES: ACTION, ADVENTURE, & INTRIGUE Humble Bundle
Amanda the Adventurer May 2024 Choice Humble Bundle
Black Book IGN Fanfest Humble Bundle
Cook, Serve, Delicious! Down Under Bundle Humble Bundle
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! Fanatical January 2024 Scratch it Fanatical
Company of Heroes E3 2015 Digital Ticket Humble Bundle
Day of the Tentacle Remastered Gift Humble Bundle
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter March 2024 Choice Humble Bundle
Fallout Classic Collection (check on this) Fallout Bundle Fanatical
Five Dates January 2024 Choice Humble Bundle
From Space December 2023 Choice Humble Bundle
Human Fall Flat Build Your Own Relentless Bundle Fanatical
Hurtworld Down Under Bundle Humble Bundle
LISA: Complete Edition HUMBLE HEROINES: ACTION, ADVENTURE, & INTRIGUE Humble Bundle
Mediterranea Inferno May 2024 Choice Humble Bundle
Metal: Hellsinger HUMBLE HEROINES: ACTION, ADVENTURE, & INTRIGUE Humble Bundle
NIOH 2 - THE COMPLETE EDITION March 2024 Choice Humble Bundle
Pathologic Classic HD Build Your Shooter Bundle Fanatical
Rogue Book January 2024 Choice Humble Bundle
Satellite Reign Down Under Bundle Humble Bundle
Sonic Adventure 2 Awesome Games Done Quick 2024 Humble Bundle
Sonic Adventure 2 battle Awesome Games Done Quick 2024 Humble Bundle
Snowtopia: Ski Resort Builder February Choice 2024 Humble Bundle
Soulstice March 2024 Choice Humble Bundle
The Red Lantern January 2024 Choice Humble Bundle
There is No Light - Enhanced Edition February Choice 2024 Humble Bundle
WARHAMMER AGE OF SIGMAR: REALMS OF RUIN – ULTIMATE EDITION March 2024 Choice Humble Bundle
Yakuza: Like a Dragon May 2024 Choice Humble Bundle
submitted by 7aylod to indiegameswap [link] [comments]

2024.05.10 23:47 Intelligent_Loss6625 Developer not keen on delaying completion date.

Hey needed some advise and maybe a little reassurance.
Myself and wife are buying a new build property. Property has already been built and is basically ready to move in, completion was set for 31st of May with exchange on 7th May.
So basically the searches only came back on 7th May and myself and my wife can really only meet the solicitor on 30th May to go through all the relevant paperwork, and sign everything in readiness for exchange. After this the solicitor needs to do the following aswell: - Process the claim for two LISAs (one which is a S&S so might take time for LISA provider to sell and settle) - Assimilate my funds to their account for the deposit - Prepare to release the mortgage
Had a call from the developer today to book in a pre-completion check, which I was planning to do on 31st May (original completion date) and explained that completion might have to be delayed. Unfortunately we are busy for the next two weeks with postgraduate exams, essays, postgraduate uni on top of full time work. I did send the developer an email a month ago and called them regarding this matter and they said that as long as I have everything ready and I'm co-operative then if there are delays it should be okay.
The lady on the phone seemed quite disappointed about the delaying the completion date and somewhat seemed to imply that that can't change it and that I was told the completion had to be 31st May. After a bit of explaining and also stating that I had pretold them of this and basically my hands are tied in terms of the days I have availabile between now and 31st May and it's unlikely I can do anything sooner and the solicitor needs time to process everything in readiness for completion, she seemed a bit more accepting. She said the I would have to raise a change of completion date formally through my solicitor and that the sales director would have to approve - which I am fine with.
But I was just a bit taken back on how inflexible they seemed. I asked if this could cause the sale to fall through to which she said it's is the director who decides, but surely the developer cannot pull out can they? I read through the reservation form and memordium of sale - nothing stipulates that I have to definitely complete on 30th May and no terms that states that if I don't there will be consequences.
All just seems a bit strage, usually when buying a house people are quite understanding in regards to exchange and completion dates. Feel like they are trying to get the sale prior to June maybe for their sales target or whatever.
Anyway I've kept strong to the dates... I told them and they seemed somewhat appeashed by it.
Realistically can the developer withdraw if I don't complete by 30th May? -- usually it's the other way round with new builds with developer not meeting the deadline to complete the house
submitted by Intelligent_Loss6625 to HousingUK [link] [comments]

2024.05.10 19:39 daisybear81 What's each character's most out of character moment? Part 8: Chris Traeger

What's each character's most out of character moment? Part 8: Chris Traeger
https://preview.redd.it/wn1dwvn2ymzc1.jpg?width=540&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d83ccc16fb863680af542baa9bd98e2a5af02149
previous winners:
Leslie: Honestly I think the way she treats Garry throughout the show is weirdly out of character for her. I get the joke of him being the office punching bag, but she’s so kind and caring of everyone else’s feelings.
Ann: She dated Tom...more than once.
Ron: Telling Lucy that Tom wanted to marry her and then tried to fix it by telling her that he also wants kids
Tom: Okay hear me out…Dating Mona Lisa. Usually Tom has surprisingly square tastes when it comes to the women he dates. Most of them are shockingly normal, grounded, & well-educated (Wendy, Ann, Lucy, Nadia). And then there’s Mona Lisa, who’s none of those things.
April: When Ron pulls his tooth out at the meeting and she runs out looking disgusted like everybody else. It seems like something she would have stayed and watched with a perverse smile.
It's my nitpicky thing that bugs me on every rewatch.
Andy: I don't know why this bugs me, but in the last episode when he calls Chris "Chip". Yes, Andy can be an idiot at times, but this makes no sense based on the friendship they had. I feel like the writers were trying too hard to make a joke.
On the flip side, when Ann and Chris are leaving and Andy goes up to Ann and says something like "I just remembered we used to date". In Andy's world, that seems so believable.
Ben: Not writing a concession speech for Leslie. I understand it’s supposed to be a sweet moment but it’s so unlike him to be that unprepared. Not to mention she almost lost
submitted by daisybear81 to PandR [link] [comments]

2024.05.10 18:09 ImTheFriskyPlatypus How 2 girls ruined my life 20 years ago and every night I go to sleep hoping I don’t wake up.

How 2 girls ruined my life 20 years ago and every night I go to sleep hoping I don't wake up.
I (39M) want to die. I have wanted to die basically every day since I was 19 years old. I will give you a little back story since everyone loves backstories. Please bear with me as this will be very long.
Growing up over weight made me the blunt of jokes all thru middle and high school. I was around 325 pounds when I graduated. When I was 17, I met a girl, lets call her Sierra. I was still a junior at this time due to me skipping school 2nd semester sophomore year and failing all my classes sophomore year due to a very bad individual I hung out with during that time. I had met her thru a friend who had a huge crush on me. Lets call said friend Lisa. Both of these girls were 15 at the time and went to school in a little town about 10 miles north of me. When it came time for me to choose, I chose Sierra.
Fast forward a month later, I was head over heels. I had previous gfs, but something about her was different. She didn't seem to care that I was overweight and genuinely seemed to love me. The day I introduced Sierra to my father (who has since passed), and she came up to my room with me. As we started fooling around, she eventually took my virginity. About 2 weeks later she called me freaking out that she was sick and had missed her period. And I thought this was great as even though we had only been dating a month, we had already decided we wanted to have kids together and even had names picked out. This freaked her out and she eventually confessed to her dad and he threatened me that If I ever so much as called his daughter again, I would be arrested.
We spent the better half of the next 18 months or so sneaking around behind her parents back and talking on the phone at night after her father went to bed. Granted, this is 2002/03, so texting isn't a big thing. We would sit in her car when we would meet and cuddle, make out, I'd finger her, things like that. However, she completely refused to do anything sexual to me. At the time, I didn't think anything of it as I thought she just had different ways of showing her affection toward me.
(Changing the tune for a minute, but this all ties in. I swear). After about a year of dating Sierra, I was chatting on MSN with my buddy and his gf in a group chat. Now, me and my best friends gf had brother sister type bond that made her off limits in my eyes. I had introduced them and they hit it off right away. However, without my noticing, she has brought in a friend of hers that had the exact same name. Lets call them both Erica 1(buddy's girl) and Erica 2 (my future gf). After about 20 minutes of thinking I'm talking to Erica 1 and messing around with her like a brother would do to a sister, I realized she started to flirt with me. Just as I was about to tell her that s**t was inappropriate, I looked at the email address under that MSN name, and noticed this Erica had a different last name. It was then that I was realized I had been teasing Erica 2 the whole time and she indeed thought I was flirting with her.
Around this time, it was summer of 2003, I was 18, about to be heading into my senior year(finally). Sierra was 15 almost 16 and going into her junior year. Erica 2 was 16 and going into her junior year. Erica 2 went to school across the state border, so these girls didn't know each other. 1 day, I get a call from Sierra saying she wanted to take a break during the summer because the sneaking around was getting to her. I was absolutely devastated. Cried for days. During this time, Erica 2 was there was for me and we eventually struck up a relationship that lasted throughout the summer. We didn't have am extremely physical relationship, but there was quite a bit of making out and griding.
Come the end of summer, I get a call from Sierra balling her eyes out telling me it was the worst 2 1/2 months of her life without me in it and wanted to get back together. After much deliberation, I ended things with Erica 2 because I couldn't get over Sierra and was still madly in love with her. From what Erica 1 told me, this absolutely devastated her, as she spent the 1st week of her junior year crying every day.
So here I was, back to sneaking around with Sierra behind her parents back. Back me to showing her how I loved her physically and her still not touching me in a loving way. Fast forward about 5 months, and my world had came crashing down. One day on AIM (for you younger folk, that's AOL instant messenger), I got an IM from a guy, and to this day I still can't remember his AIM name. All it said was, "dude, I didn't know she has a b/f". That was it. I replied asking who this was, but never received another message.
A few weeks before I received this message, Lisa has regularly been calling me asking me how I was doing and always checking in on me. I found it odd, because for the last year she had basically cut me out of her life for choosing Sierra over her. About a month later, Lisa asked to meet her at her job before closing (she worked at a local fast food place). She gave a me a recording that completely ruined my life. On it, Sierra was talking to all her friends, Lisa included, as she had still thought at the time that Lisa had cut me off, explaining how she had just have the best sex of her life last night. Lisa, was furious, saying you knew how much I liked OP and that she didn't want to hear about her and our sex life. That's when Sierra dropped the bomb to everyone. It wasn't me. When Lisa asked Sierra when she had broken up with me, she told her she hadn't. Sierra said I was basically like her best friend who she allowed to make out with and finger her every once in a while, but I was nothing more. She then told them that after we had sex that first month of dating, she couldn't feel my small dick enter her and knew that we would have a no future together. She then started making jokes about how her baby brother, who she helped take care as her parents worked until late evening, was bigger than me and he was 6. Lisa, who sounded furious at this point, asked her why she didn't just break up with me, and Sierra stated she really thought she was in love with me and enjoyed spending time with me. She figured she could sleep with other guys and keep it on the DL, and then get all the emotional parts from me and since her dad had forbidden her from seeing me. It made it easier to get away with it. She said she had an emotional connection with me that the other guys didn't give her, but that sex between us would be non existent.
After hearing all this, I flipped. I threw the recorder thru glass door at the restaurant, (thankfully this was before cameras were everywhere) and Lisa said she would handle it saying some drunk asshole fell thru the door. She apologized to me and said for a month or so she has been having suspicions that Sierra was cheating on me, and that's why she took the recorder with her, because she has been told what happened that night. As I was walking out, Lisa said she had a few more things to tell me. At this point, I was already numb. Apparently, after Lisa had stop recording, Sierra let every know her body count, which before we hooked up, was 1, was now at a whooping 21. Man she was an overachiever. Also, she had faked the pregnancy thing to use it as an excuse to never have sex with me. Yeah, every time I brought up sex, she said she still wasn't over that scare and didn't want to risk it.
Her prom night was the next month, and she ended up going with her gay best friend, and yes, this guy was gay. Everyone knew. She wanted to come over to my house afterward, but I was at my buddies and and told her she could meet me there. At this point, she has no idea I know everything. She shows up about 1030ish and we head down to his basement. About 30 minutes later, we are going at it hot and heavy, and I once again, try to initiate sex knowing this is going to the be last time we are ever together. She is hesitant and I say I can use 2 condoms to make her feel safer. After a few minutes of debating, she says she can't do it, but wants to continue fooling around. By this time, I was already drunk as my buddy and I have been drinking SOCO and E&J all night while playing Triple Play on PS2. I told her no, that I was ready to go back up to my buddies room and get back on the PS2. She was furious. She left without saying anything.
The next few weeks I got back in touch with Erica 2 to see if there was any shot as rekindling what we had. She said she has just got out of a relationship and wasn't looking to get into another one. But if I felt like fooling around, she was game. So, Erica 2 and I started fooling around for about a month before I finally let Sierra know my endgame. One night at a bonfire across the state line, Erica 2 and I finally had sex. I was on cloud nine. I was thinking back to the 9 months prior realizing what a mistake I made picking Sierra over Erica 2. I was supposed to call Sierra at 1030 as that had been out nightly routine for 18 months, but I didn't that night. She called my cellphone around 50 times that night, and I just kept ignoring her. I called Sierra that night when I got home around 3 AM. She answered and let me have it. "Where the hell have you been? I have been worried sick about you. I thought you were dead and I was about to have a panic attack". I explained that I was at a bonfire with Erica 2(by this time, she has known about me and her the previous summer) and she started to flip out on me. By this time, I was exhausted with our relationship and let her know that Erica 2 and I have sex. Sierra had the f'n nerve to start crying. Asking how I could betray her like that. I told her that her facade was over. Lisa had recorded her entire convo the other day and that we were done. She cried for a bit, then hung up on me. The next morning, she called me on her way to school like she had done every day for the 18 months we were together, crying saying she didn't want us to end and she couldn't lose me in her life. I told her she lost me the first time she let another dick penetrate her, just neither one of us knew it until she got caught. Should would call from time to time, but I never answered. I was looking forward to seeing Erica 2 that night, as there was another bonfire.
Being it was spring time and towards the end of the school year, parties were starting to pick up. I showed up late to the party as me and some buddies went to a bar to pre game for a bit. Once we got to the bonfire, I searched for Erica 2. I saw her talking to some friends. I snuch up behind to surprise her, but as I was sneaking up, I heard the convo she was having. She was making fun the guy she had sex with the last night. She said and I quote "He pulled his pants down and it took every ounce of energy in my being not to laugh. When he entered me, it felt like I was using my pinkie to masturbate." I just stood there stunned. At the time, Erica 1 saw me standing behind Erica 2. She exclaimed "OP". She didn't know Erica 2 and I had started messing around again, so Erica 1 was just excited to see me(she wasn't at the previous night bonfire because her and her b/f were out of town for the night.) At this point Erica 2 turned around. Erica 1 saw my face go pale. I looked at Erica 1 and she had a confused look on her face. Then I turned my attention to Erica 2. I started at Erica 2 for what seemed like hours, but was actually about 30 seconds. I turned and just started walking way. As I was walking away, Erica 2 "oh there goes the baby boy now". I heard a smack. I turned around and saw that Erica 1 had coldcocked Erica 2, which was basically her best friend beside me and came over to console me. I left the party about 10 minutes later.
I spent all my 20's and early 30's drinking heavily. Never once looking for a the affection of another girl. I had always wanted to have 2 kids. A boy and a girl. But within 2 months, 2 girls had ruined me. I would never let another girl touch me again. My dad and my grandparents all died while I was in my 20s within a years of each and my weight ballooned out of control. At my heaviest, I was around 500 lbs. A few months ago, I started having tests down and found out I have low T. My glands are working fine, but my body isn't making testosterone. I'm assuming this has been going on since my teen years as I have never had acne and never really developed facial hair. My dad(had) and brothers all have full beards. So they want to put me on Astro gel claiming it will help me lose weight along with Ozempic, as I am currently at around 430 lbs. But right now, I just don't care. Every day since the day after Erica 2 did that to me, I wake up every morning and say "f**k". I say that because I wake up. I'm ready for my life to be over. I have suicidal thoughts every day, even though, apparently like my relationships, I'm too much of a pussy to do anything about them.
I just got done at the doctors where they are putting me on testosterone. I was told this will make me sterile. And its hitting me hard. The realization that I will never have kids is destroying me. My parents had always asked me if I wanted kids in my 20's and I always made excuses like "I don't want to being kids into this world" or "I don't want to put up me growing up". The real reason I didn't want kids was I knew every day I woke up, I wanted it to be my last. I didn't know if I would ever have the guts to finish the job I almost started about a month after what Erica 2 had done to me, but I didn't want to take a chance leaving a child without a father. For context, I got really drunk at the town hangout about a month after the Erica 2 situation and took a bunch of pills because I wanted to it all to end. I was sitting alone when I did it, or so I thought. One of my buddies at the time saw me take all the pills and ran over to me, calling about 5 or 6 friends over to help him. Keep in mind, at the time I'm 5'11, 325. I put up a fight. But enough of them held me down and induced me to vomit up everything, which I could tell included all of the pills that were now all over the ground. I just laid there crying for what seemed like hours with a couple buddies consoling me.
So here I am, sitting here writing this post wishing my life would just end. I haven't had any friends in years, my days consist of work and going home. I just don't know what to do. I haven't kissed a girl since I was 19. I would get drunk and hit on girls in my 20's, but the next day when I was sober, I would pretend it didn't happen when they brought it up to me to avoid what would be the obvious disappointment in sex.
So that's my story. I think I might try to stick it out for 5 years just to watch my niece graduate high school as I love that girl more than anything in the world, but no one ever knows what they day brings. Sometimes, as I'm driving to work, I fantasize about what it would be like to turn my car head on into an oncoming semi. But I couldn't risk hurting someone else or putting some poor human thru that. Outside of that, I'm just dead inside. I feel nothing for anyone outside my family.
Any advice would be welcome because each day gets harder and harder and I have no one to talk to.
TLDR: penis size was made fun of by girls I had strong feelings for and attempted to end it
submitted by ImTheFriskyPlatypus to cheating_stories [link] [comments]

http://activeproperty.pl/