As the other commenter said, water travels far and the route is rarely linear. If you can somehow be certain it’s rain water entering the basement, then at least you know the source. But if it’s a leaky pipe then it may have eroded a path underground which is now impacting your foundation.

I’m no expert. But it seems to me that adding any sort of soil or rock would only be a band-aid fix without patching the crack where water is entering. Maybe I’m wrong about that, but it seems logical.

Dungeon Crawler Carl vibes

I went to high school with a psychopath. He was a friend of an idiot friend. He beat up a quiet kid on the bus once and later tried to steal my car. He disappeared for awhile, and I later learned he’d been locked up. I searched him on the internet a few months ago because I had a feeling he’d be in prison.

Yep. He raped a girl, beat up her boyfriend, and was being hunted down for burglary when the cops cornered him (I think on the rooftop of a 2-story house). Then he said some stupid line and backflipped off the roof.

After awhile in prison he managed to get hold of the tool the prison guards use to slide the food trays while the new guard was in the cell with him. He beat the guard to death with it, then acted casual about it. There’s a video of the aftermath.

So he’s on death row now, trying to play the Jesus card.

There’s a shitty Amazon doc about him, name is Billy Tracy.

EDIT: When you mentioned knowing a truly evil person, that’s what Billy is. I could see it in his eyes from the moment I met him, just a void. When I searched him up his parents weren’t mentioned much, but what was there seemed to indicate they were as baffled as anyone about how he turned out. Maybe, who knows.

Did they even have signage up?

In practice your experience may vary. I went to pay at a Boots with a £20 Scottish note in England once, and the cashier was initially hesitant to accept it. Ultimately she did. That was the only time I tried it.

My very first conspiracy theory: Space fuckery. I’ll lay out the dots and you can connect them.

On the morning of March 19 or 20, I observed what I was certain at the time was my first meteor sighting. This was in the greater Dallas area.

Skip to Sunday I found a story about meteor sightings reported in Houston and other areas. The sightings were from the previous day, March 21.

Since last weekend there have been further meteor reports across the US.

On Thursday March 26 there was a visible missile launch from the Cape Canaveral Space Force station.

This is all in good fun for me. But with this administration and the blunders in Iran, it won’t surprise me to learn later that they had something to do with it.

I put my leg through the ceiling of a General’s office. He wasn’t the commander of the base mind you, he was the commander over several bases.

Someone had asked my team to repair one of his lights, and his office was in a WWII era building that had had a facelift. So most everything you could see was newer looking, but that did not apply to the base structure of the building, which included the area above the ceiling. Took a bad step and CRASH, huge mess.

Lucky on two points: He wasn’t in his office, and I was able to grab support so as to not fall all the way through.

His secretary heard the commotion and yelled, “oh gosh, are you ok?” Bless her, she was concerned for me. Friends/coworkers laughing their asses off in the ceiling with me.

“Not sure. I think I probably need CPR!” Couldn’t resist saying this. Friends still howling.

“Oh jeez, I’ll call the Fire Department”.

“No, not necessary. I’m fine now, thank you.”

I never did see the General, and they didn’t want me in his office to clean the mess.

So this was my biggest mess in a figurative sense due the circumstances. Which would have been orders of magnitude worse had the General been at his desk.

For good or ill I still use it for mail, hell with 'em! I just don’t want to go through the hassle of brainstorming all those who have it and then changing it where necessary.

Hotmail from 1998.

I’m an American who lived in England for a couple years. It doesn’t take long to wrap your head around sticking to the left side of the road.

I drove both left- and right-hand drive vehicles there, mostly manual shift. That all came pretty easy.

The biggest challenge I faced was the narrow roads. The American mind struggles with driving so close to other cars, particularly on undivided roads. It always feels like a sideswipe is coming (particularly when you’re a passenger) until you get used to it.

So now, years later and back in the US, I’m still comfortable driving in close quarters with other vehicles. I get criticized by passengers sometimes. I don’t ride close intentionally, but I have to be mindful of it for others’ sake.

Or she came up with a goal–and an annoyance to help drive it.

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Brent had taken my place at the round activity table in kindergarten when I went to get something. So I turned around and butt-butted his butt. I got a stern talking to for that one.

That month I left active duty military after 11 years, moved my family, and got licensed in my home state to do my job. I had prepared quite a bit and had family help, but it was still a rough life transition for all of us.

By that spring when everything started to settle down and go a bit smoother, the housing crisis set in. Everything got more expensive quickly. I remember worrying I wouldn’t be able to afford fuel for my long commute. I was terrified I wouldn’t be able to support my family.

Somehow we held it all together, but it was a stressful fucking year. Despite all I never regretted leaving the military…it was either that or go back (again) to secure Halliburton’s oil interests in Iraq.

Fully agree about the attention span stuff. I kind of think TV drove it initially, especially animation.

After a season or two The Simpsons started to pick up pace, and for its time it was kind of frenetic. South Park picked up that ball and ran with it. Then when Family Guy came along I thought this is nuts, and I wondered if there wasn’t an active effort to erode attention spans on a large scale.

There are plenty of other examples outside animation, but I picked those because they’re still well known.

I consider myself fortunate to have seen the progression first hand. And to have had an older boss way back who had an infectious love for well made art, particularly in films.

My grandparents’ beautiful wood console TV also had the more rare horizontal hold. I have many fond memories of watching Gunsmoke, Star Search, and Wheel of Fortune on the thing with my grandad.

I fully agree, but somehow he’s a charismatic asshole

No matter how many records James sets, Jordan will always be considered the greatest. Maybe it makes him sullen, but he should have worked on being more charismatic instead.

With a little meth, probably.

Speed limits are set below actual safe speeds for roads to drive local government revenue through speeding tickets.