The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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Over here, the landlord would probably also be liable for the increased rent.
Even though the person moved, presumably to a property owned by someone else? For how long? Forever? I'd probably[1] set my house on fire, collect the insurance money, and move to Poland under a new name.
[1] hyperbole, for the humor-impaired, and also the Germans.
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Also--the tenants brought this themselves, but the landlord would have to pay for something done decades ago? Is there any kind of statute of limitations? What if the current owner of the house bought it 5 years ago, and the possibly-illegal subdivision had happened 10 years prior? Would he still be on the hook?
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I think you're over thinking it. It sounds like he's talking about some form of rent control.
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Also--the tenants brought this themselves, but the landlord would have to pay for something done decades ago? Is there any kind of statute of limitations? What if the current owner of the house bought it 5 years ago, and the possibly-illegal subdivision had happened 10 years prior? Would he still be on the hook?
The tenants brought nothing on themselves. You're victimblaming here.
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The tenants brought nothing on themselves. You're victimblaming here.
Who called the government? I'm not taking a position on whether they were right or wrong to do so--they may well have been right. But they most certainly brought Sauron's Eye upon themselves by complaining. Like I said, when you ask government to investigate, you have no control over the scope of their investigation. They would not have been evicted had they kept their mouths shut. This much seems to be clear because the article said the building's problem had not been previously discovered, although that might just mean, again, "nobody looked", and not "they looked but didn't spot this."
If the current owner didn't get permission to subdivide, then yes, he should compensate the now ex-tenants in some way, but paying the delta of their new rent forever seems excessive, which is why I asked what the limits are, and you didn't answer that.
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They would not have been evicted had they kept their mouths shut.
And how in the nine circles of hell were they supposed to know that, you idiot?
The actual culprit is the guy who did not get the permissions. And not the renters.
The limit is usually not forever but several years. Depends on the decision of the judge.
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And how in the nine circles of hell were they supposed to know that, you idiot?
I dunno, I guess in Germany everyone knows everything and nobody ever has unintended bad experiences with the government.
Oh, wait, that can't be true because you already have a requirement that the landlord make good the damage his actions have caused the tenants. Just like in the US!
I told you I'm not blaming the tenants. I'm just saying--no judgment attached to them--that had they not said anything, they'd still be living there. You're the one who's frothing at the mouth about it in a manner vaguely reminiscent of a speech by a high-ranking memoer of a late and mostly-unlamented local political party.
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Here in the US, we have these things called "sewage treatment laws". It helps keep the cholera down.
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Also I love your train mansplainin'. "I've never been on a train,
Another blakeyfail, where @blakeyrat saw--assuming he bothers to read what other people post, which he apparently doesn't--me write "it's been a long time since I was on a train with a toilet", and his Drax nature apparently kicked in and he failed to grasp the implicit statement that I have, in fact, been on a train with a toilet, since I didn't say "I've never been on a train", and then wrote that I said I'd never been on a train.
Listen, Mike, you really ought to read what other people wrote before criticizing what you assumed they wrote, especially when it makes you a liar. You liar.
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This struck my funny bone. All the neighbors, right?
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I can't quite put my finger on what is wrong.
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I assumed it meant that it pretty much couldn't break, since it's just a hole in the floor.
Here, they're often vandalized, lacking paper or water, or the new vacuum ones just plain don't work. Oh, and the toilet lids are invariably too close to the wall, so you piss all over it.
If you ask me, train toilets are not reliable at all.
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Funny?
President George W. Bush Press Secretary Ari Fleischer referring to "Operation Iraqi Liberation" (OIL)
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First ice skating for this winter (Dutch voiceover)
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http://www.babynamegenie.com/polls/13265/results :
My husband and I cannot decide on a middle name for our soon-to-be daughter, Ava. Gina was the name of my best friend who recently passed away from cancer, and Katherine is his sister’s name. Let us know which is best. Thanks!
The Top Baby Name is... Name Votes Ava Gina 16% (6 votes) Ava Katherine 84% (31 votes)
But Ava Gina is such a great name!
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But Ava Gina is such a great name!
More family-friendly version: my sister and her husband chose the given names "Amanda Lynn" for their daughter. I've got a niece (now a Doctor of Pharmacy) named after an eight-stringed musical instrument.
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In Spain the name Izan is used a lot for some unknown reason to me.
I'll help you out on why it's a bad name: IZAN
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Hmm, I'm not too sure about that one, Google.
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Is it hypochondria if one is obsessed with the idea of being a hypochondriac?
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I don't get it...
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I assumed you have to read it backwards.
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I assumed you have to read it backwards.
Well, sure, but... Why Spain?
Also:
That's even worse!
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ИASI ?
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Replace picture one with picture three, because they surround themselves with an echo chamber.
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Can anyone translate that for reals?
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Nope.
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Ok, then.
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I assume this is not at a pet octopus show.
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I would probably die laughing if this was the chocolate isle.
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T'was a tossup between FWP and here..
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How the bejezus did you manage to find all those squiggly chinese characters so quickly?
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I wonder if there's a Hong Kong IT forum where someone has posted a picture of "Please present your Oyster" and everyone had a good old kek.
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On the buses where I live there are notices that read "Senior Citizens: Please present both sides of your pass to the driver". One of life's great challenges is trying to erase the "p" from "pass" without the driver noticing.
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How the bejezus did you manage to find all those squiggly chinese characters so quickly?
http://www.i2ocr.com/free-online-chinese-traditional-ocr - while not entirely accurate it's close, probably better ones out there:
The irony of having to do a captcha to get some OCR was not entirely lost on me...
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I like how, even though that sign in the CAPTCHA clearly says 'BROADWAY', you got away with 'DADWAY'