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Not to mom brag on main but

@GPT_Neanderthal Sure sure sure

Reaching into the archives for an Alabama W 32 years ago yesterday...

When someone said she looked like the leader of a Central American country

@BowTiedBroke This shit pisses me off we had the most amazing local owned pest control company and they got bought out by another subscription pushing corporate slop monolith

You guys know I worked for Orkin for 20 yrs in various executive roles. I got my little brother a job there too after he got his MBA. He ran a branch about 6 yrs, learned the biz, left & started his own pest company from scratch 3 yrs ago. He literally started knocking on doors in newly built neighborhoods offering pest control. He’ll do $1 million this yr in revenue at 35% margin. He just hired his 4th full time employee. His goal next year is to hit $2 million. His goal by 2035 is to be at $5 million via organic growth alone…then “maybe” sell the company. Large companies like $ROL and $RTO will often pay $2-$4 dollars per dollar of REVENUE (not per dollar of profit, but revenue) to acquire small mom and pop pest control companies (generally $10 million and under are considered small). The amount of millionaires that the pest control industry has created would blow your mind. As the Chairman of our company, Mr. Rollins, would often say “We may not be recession proof, but we damn sure are recession resistant” The main thing the big boys look at when acquiring a smaller pest control company is the recurring monthly, bi monthly and quarterly pest control customers. It’s massive cash flow right off the bat and the big boys know they can take those basic pest customers that have that single service and sell a ton of other services (the trust is there as an existing customer) like termite work, crawl space encapsulation, attic insulation removal and replacement, etc. The bug biz is a VERY lucrative business.

Women are not enjoying the male quirk chungus

@HeadOfTVDept In the 2000s every high school theatre club had 10 of these at least

@cardamomkiss Gods willing this will happen to me one day

I went to pick up a tapestry from marketplace and when I got there the guy asked if I wanted to come in and look at more things and take whatever I wanted before the estate sale and the house felt like looking 50 years into my future I spent two hours there and got so many things

@Hestia_Esq Fr this is why I’m more of a Texas Roadhouse type gal

Food at a 3 Michelin Star restaurant be like

@tanyaelisabethh I’m sitting with this. Considering it even.

When I was a child we had neighbors whose daughter was a good few years older than me. Old enough to be dating. And her boyfriend would come by and they would spend entire afternoons talking, her at the window, him standing outside it, for hours, just talking, laughing, knowing. I could see them from my bedroom window, and I remember it vividly, it stuck with me for some reason, but my parents thought this was hilarious, “how old fashioned, how unnecessary, what a strange thing to make the poor boy stand there like that”, they would exclaim. But my parents were wrong, and the neighbors, turns out, were right. That girl married that boy. They are still together. Living right next door to that house where they spend hours knowing each other. I, on the other hand, was raised with considerably more modern sensibilities and considerably less supervision, went on to collect a long list of broken hearts. There is something almost unbearably sad about that when I sit with it. The wisdom was right there. Literally next door, an arms reach away, and my parents were too busy laughing at it to ever try and understand it. The neighbors weren’t punishing that boy, they instead were protecting the most important thing in that house — their daughter.

@nienna121 Second clue is I am a pagan she is a *questioning* Christian. Girl, run!

@rrcjaf Omg i didn't even do the math to see how far apart they were. That's...substantial, lol. I bet this all was his idea too

Facebook actually has amazing entertainment. Where else can I see a middle aged man trying to recruit a woman to join their poly antivax pagan Republican homesteading compound with children?

@w0rm_face I’m at a $50 Chick-fil-A order for the whole family atp that’s only 2 teens so far. Heartbreaking.

When my kids were little they’d split an $8 burrito. Now they each require their own $15 burritos.

@rubinacci_anth Gonna put in my order now

@rrcjaf That looks so good. Make a fresh Italian panini

Before and after sourdough focaccia my mom just made. We love our boomer moms don’t we folks

@CartoonsHateHer She’s giving

I think about her quite literally every day. Mrs. Vagina Jones.

@McFranchisee Demographic do be changing

I don’t eat at Steak ‘n Shake very often (their transparency and ownership have always been a little weird to me), but a new controversy I just read about is pretty silly. During remodels, they may add a QR code scanner for soft drink refills. Basically, you scan proof of purchase so people can’t just order water and then help themselves to unlimited soda. Some folks are now boycotting because they have to scan their receipt each time. I think it’s a smart move that helps keep people honest. The entitlement is wild, people are genuinely mad about scanning a code for a free refill? Go to almost any other country where free refills barely exist (if at all) and they’d be begging for this system. 😂🥤

@TwinkTheory I’m sure they’re both very happy with the arrangement

People making fun of this like they won’t be horny at 79 only difference is you’ll be poor and horny instead of rich and horny with a hot young person to mess around with

@AppyOrtho He was approaching peak Paul Newman levels of cool and handsome white boy and then he just disappeared 😓

Every time his Southern accent twanged.

@magdalenacals 😪

marketplace said here’s an aga that you can’t have

@mtngrl4rome Ok good to know, I have a good rating on marketplace bit I’ve only used it for local pickup so I just set it up to shipping

@rrcjaf Honestly, I hear really mixed things from buyers and sellers, marketplace has a lot less drama it feels like

Should I sell on depop? I haven’t sold stuff online since pre 2020 and it was kids clothes in fb groups. Sometimes I find the cutest vintage items when I thrift that won’t fit me but it kills me to leave them behind,

@nienna121 Wish shame was a normal thing for people to feel

Tho tbf there are a couple of people on Twitter who are trying to do something like this but make it a Christian version. BARF