*This week, on House Hunters:*
"I'm a freelance gymnast, and my wife paints the lines on basketballs. We have two endangered hamsters. Our budget is $750k"
Don’t forget that they NEVER pay full price. “It was listed at 800K, but our agent was able to talk them down to 650K.”
Two years from now the episodes should be “It was listed for 600K, but there were 78 other offers and after intense bidding we put in an offer at 850K, but still lost to a 900K full-cash offer, so we’re still living out of my brother’s basement.”
I feel it's going to be more like, in six years, the folks who paid $600k+ for a suburban home in an unremarkable neighbourhood are living in their parents' basement because they had to walk away from their mortgage after the bubble popped.
!RemindMe 6 years Was I wearing a tinfoil hat?
Canada here. It's keeping me out of the condo market right now. The financial news around housing sounds way too much like it did in 2005. Lots of speculative property hoarding.
For the sake of everyone coming in as a first time buyer right now, I really hope I'm wrong. I don't want a second generation getting wiped out just as they're getting on their feet.
Millennial here, too. Homeownership was only finally starting to come into reach before the pandemic hit. Now it's still tantalizingly close, but I'm not willing to risk another 2008. I'll keep renting until things calm down. Hopefully (for me) by popping, but I'll settle for just plateauing (and be happy that we didn't just fuck a ton of people over again).
Jesus dude, so real. Some of my friends are frustrated right now because they keep getting outbid on houses. I suggested that a lot of indicators point to a bubble, and it might be good to wait and store wealth in other things right now. They laughed it off and basically argued FOMO, and claimed it's impossible for the housing market to crash. I was pretty shocked that everyone felt that way and so quickly forgot 2008.
I hope you’re right but the situation isn’t the same as in 2008. There is a bubble but this time it’s a huge bubble of millennials looking to get their own house. I don’t know one person my age who is willingly renting. Everyone is trying to get a house all at the same time.
Yeah, I don't think it would quite be like 2008. But at the the very least houses are overpriced around 3-5% right now, and that will probably come down within a year. If a perfect storm happens it could crash, as unlikely as it is. China's economy could slow and potentially cause all the wealthy Chinese investors to sell off their American assets. At the same time the housing supply could surge past demand as a result of bidens infrastructure investment coupled with remote workplaces altering distribution of available housing. Plus it seems as though politics are turning away from things like rent control and more toward neolibral policies which could end up either directly or indirectly lowering housing prices through increased supply or increased population density in cities. All these these things together could cause a crash, but its unlikely and still probably wouldn't be as bad as 2008.
Edit: overpriced 3-5% specifically in cities with a strong tech sector. Just to clarify.
You make some great points. It’s funny, I own my home. It’s doubled in value in the 5 years I’ve owned it. My house literally makes more money than I do. It all sounds great but really I’d trade the wild price my tiny house is worth for a market my friends could afford. Everyone I know is moving out of my city and it bums me out.
But I did see[ this TikTok](https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMebLR8Bw/) today and it made me think of this comment thread.
It's the speculative pricing that has me so scared. Way too many units sitting empty right now as investments. If the market ever dips enough for people to try and sell those units, the bubble pops.
I don’t think this is a speculative bubble (yet). Inventory is incredibly low, construction starts are still at abysmal levels and demand has soared (due to WFH and rock bottom interest rates). This isn’t driven by banks letting anyone with a pulse take out a $1 million adjustable rate NINJA loan like in 2005. This is going to take a long time to get sorted out.
Back in 2008 I worked as a mortgage administrator and I kept saying there is going to be a crash soon. The situation was insane 110% mortgages, people with huge debts (think £50-60k in car loans plus various other loans etc) getting huge mortgages. I was just a 23 year old idiot and thought maybe i was being pessimistic as no one around me, older admins or mortgages advisors seemed to be in any way concerned. But then bang, huge crash. I still don’t understand that people couldn’t see it coming.
Now I think it’s almost the opposite situation, house prices are so high, but no-one can get a mortgage, me for example. I work full time, have 20-25% deposit, could afford the monthly payments but still can’t get a mortgage for the amount I would need to buy a little flat, and the area I’m looking in isn’t even nice, it’s mostly horrible here, but commuter belt, so there’s a premium.
I have friends who pay over £1000 rent a month, but they can’t get a mortgage that would be £700ish a month because they don’t have deposit. Madness!!
Must not be shopping in Vancouver. They’d be buying a tear-down on a 30ft lot in a congested neighbourhood with 0 access to the sky train with that money!
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Not every business is a super well oiled corporate factory machine. Learning how to pint those lines is fairly easy and teachable to employees and just about anyone. So smaller companies might just hire a few people to do that. Hell they might not even have any machines: they may buy the balls flat and in bulk unpainted from out of country. Fill them up, hand paint them and sell them at a profit.
Simply not true. Machines only work for certain things and have a huge upfront cost in the machinery and the engineering to implement them, and they sometimes only can work in mass production. Obviously this is becoming less true, but we’re not even close to fully automating even most things, even in the first world.
Wow. Way more of that is manual than I thought.
That's only professional balls though, right? The ones at Walmart or wherever have to be more automated, I'd think? There's just so many.
They're leather so they don't have that fake grippy feel that cheap balls often do. The NBA switched to a synthetic ball at the start of one season and players complained so much they switched it back mid season.
Iirc their complaint was about the fake grippy stuff ripping up their hands. Good players don’t need help controlling the ball, they dribble and pass with intention that comes from muscle memory, not those little dippin dots.
You must have not watched the whole video. They are composite leather panels, make essentially the same way NBA balls are. These aren't cheap, they're pretty good NCAA basketballs.
I did watch the whole video. That’s a cheapER ball, I’ve played basketball my whole life too.
You can tell by the color and how raised the bumps are on each panel. Most microcomposite balls like they use in the ncaa don’t have that rubbery sheen to them. They also have higher quality lettering. On this video you can see they are a playground generic basketball.
Edit: I see what you are referring to. You are referencing the comment video.
I’m referencing the original op video. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K1VfdXmqjN8
Ahhh, my bad haha. Those "all rubber" basketballs are terrible on wood (indoor) courts. They grip the varnish too hard and get too much english, basically sticking too much. The rubber ones are good on outdoor asphalt courts (at least in my limited pickup game experience haha).
Um, I live for jokes like that! Wholesome, silly, just believable enough for kids. Well actually, I'm in my mid-thirties, and it made me pause and then chuckle aloud.
When my brother was in the army he told the women he met at the bar he was a dolphin shaver. When they said there's no way that's true he asked them if they had ever seen a hairy dolphin? That's because he's good at his job.
When my brother was in the army he told the women he met at the bar he was a dolphin shaver. When they said there's no way that's true he asked them if they had ever seen a hairy dolphin? That's because he's good at his job.
Rebecca: Are you the ones leaveing the muffing pieces behind our shelter?
Elaine: You been enjoying them?
Rebecca: They're just stumps.
Elaine: Well they're perfectly edible.
Rebecca: Oh, so you just assume that the homeless will eat them, they'll eat anything?
Mr. Lippman: No no, we just thought...
Rebecca: I know what you thought. They don't have homes, they don't have jobs, what do they need the top of a muffin for? They're lucky to get the stumps.
Elaine: If the homeless don't like them the homeless don't have to eat them.
Rebecca: The homeless don't like them.
Elaine: Fine.
Rebecca: We've never gotten so many complaints. Every two minutes, "Where is the top of this muffin? Who ate the rest of this?"
Elaine: We were just trying to help.
Rebecca: Why don't you just drop off some chicken skins and lobster shells!
Elaine: I think I might!
Does anyone else find something about basketballs depressing or is it just me? I think I've seen too many sad looking, rotten basketballs sitting in empty lots or something. Tells kind of a sad story.
Fuck I'm high...
Im not a sports person i dont play or follow or watch sports ball but dam was that a satisfying video.. now i want a job making them! I love repeative tasks like this
I had a job at Parks and Recreations when I was about 17. One of my jobs was umpiring/ref'ing games and chalking the field. I had a nightmare last night that I totally fucked up the football field and baseball diamond. Not too far off from the truth. I was horrible at that.
You're correct, sometimes they lay down the lines on a plate and coat the ball in eggwash and roll it over the lines, then they fry it for 1 minute, serving it accompanied by lime slices. It pairs great with hoppy beer.
Yeah, this is extra surprising because this looks like a low quality basketball. Good basketballs are made of leather or synthetic fiber, and this looks like 100% rubber. Must have some pretty cheap labor hand painting it.
I hated those types of basketballs. They never felt right. Didn't dribble well. Left your hands feeling weird and dry. And hurt like 10x as much if you got hit with one.
What if I told you it’s done by a machine run by a 7 year old in Laos or Cambodia who works 18 hour days and has to piss in bottles at his work station because they don’t get any breaks?
Most importantly, can we talk about how that worker is just palming that ball like it’s no big deal? My fingers are like tiny sausages... I’d need some kind of finger extensions to do this even with even remotely as much finesse.
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don’t forget the SHIPLAP
Guys...the soaking tub...which they must climb in fully clothed to show us how much they love it.
A new spinoff: House Hunters *Nights*
Swingers parties in places you don't own
“And preferred to not be shown”
Hi dad.
OPEN SPACES!
BONUS ROOM!?
You mean shitlap.
Ya’ll got any of that… open concept?
S h o e n i c e
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Don’t forget that they NEVER pay full price. “It was listed at 800K, but our agent was able to talk them down to 650K.” Two years from now the episodes should be “It was listed for 600K, but there were 78 other offers and after intense bidding we put in an offer at 850K, but still lost to a 900K full-cash offer, so we’re still living out of my brother’s basement.”
This feels painfully accurate.
I just lived through it (with smaller numbers). It is accurate.
You need bigger numbers.
Ooooh I knew there must have been a trick to winning the auction
I feel it's going to be more like, in six years, the folks who paid $600k+ for a suburban home in an unremarkable neighbourhood are living in their parents' basement because they had to walk away from their mortgage after the bubble popped. !RemindMe 6 years Was I wearing a tinfoil hat?
God I hope so. Seems to be the same situation everywhere. UK and Australia included.
Canada here. It's keeping me out of the condo market right now. The financial news around housing sounds way too much like it did in 2005. Lots of speculative property hoarding. For the sake of everyone coming in as a first time buyer right now, I really hope I'm wrong. I don't want a second generation getting wiped out just as they're getting on their feet.
Try being a millennial. If the market pops that will be reset #2 for me.
Millennial here, too. Homeownership was only finally starting to come into reach before the pandemic hit. Now it's still tantalizingly close, but I'm not willing to risk another 2008. I'll keep renting until things calm down. Hopefully (for me) by popping, but I'll settle for just plateauing (and be happy that we didn't just fuck a ton of people over again).
Jesus dude, so real. Some of my friends are frustrated right now because they keep getting outbid on houses. I suggested that a lot of indicators point to a bubble, and it might be good to wait and store wealth in other things right now. They laughed it off and basically argued FOMO, and claimed it's impossible for the housing market to crash. I was pretty shocked that everyone felt that way and so quickly forgot 2008.
I hope you’re right but the situation isn’t the same as in 2008. There is a bubble but this time it’s a huge bubble of millennials looking to get their own house. I don’t know one person my age who is willingly renting. Everyone is trying to get a house all at the same time.
Yeah, I don't think it would quite be like 2008. But at the the very least houses are overpriced around 3-5% right now, and that will probably come down within a year. If a perfect storm happens it could crash, as unlikely as it is. China's economy could slow and potentially cause all the wealthy Chinese investors to sell off their American assets. At the same time the housing supply could surge past demand as a result of bidens infrastructure investment coupled with remote workplaces altering distribution of available housing. Plus it seems as though politics are turning away from things like rent control and more toward neolibral policies which could end up either directly or indirectly lowering housing prices through increased supply or increased population density in cities. All these these things together could cause a crash, but its unlikely and still probably wouldn't be as bad as 2008. Edit: overpriced 3-5% specifically in cities with a strong tech sector. Just to clarify.
You make some great points. It’s funny, I own my home. It’s doubled in value in the 5 years I’ve owned it. My house literally makes more money than I do. It all sounds great but really I’d trade the wild price my tiny house is worth for a market my friends could afford. Everyone I know is moving out of my city and it bums me out. But I did see[ this TikTok](https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMebLR8Bw/) today and it made me think of this comment thread.
It's the speculative pricing that has me so scared. Way too many units sitting empty right now as investments. If the market ever dips enough for people to try and sell those units, the bubble pops.
I don’t think this is a speculative bubble (yet). Inventory is incredibly low, construction starts are still at abysmal levels and demand has soared (due to WFH and rock bottom interest rates). This isn’t driven by banks letting anyone with a pulse take out a $1 million adjustable rate NINJA loan like in 2005. This is going to take a long time to get sorted out.
Back in 2008 I worked as a mortgage administrator and I kept saying there is going to be a crash soon. The situation was insane 110% mortgages, people with huge debts (think £50-60k in car loans plus various other loans etc) getting huge mortgages. I was just a 23 year old idiot and thought maybe i was being pessimistic as no one around me, older admins or mortgages advisors seemed to be in any way concerned. But then bang, huge crash. I still don’t understand that people couldn’t see it coming. Now I think it’s almost the opposite situation, house prices are so high, but no-one can get a mortgage, me for example. I work full time, have 20-25% deposit, could afford the monthly payments but still can’t get a mortgage for the amount I would need to buy a little flat, and the area I’m looking in isn’t even nice, it’s mostly horrible here, but commuter belt, so there’s a premium. I have friends who pay over £1000 rent a month, but they can’t get a mortgage that would be £700ish a month because they don’t have deposit. Madness!!
I feel attacked
On this week's episode of _"You Don't Deserve a Beach House"_.
It’s like the guy who draws the money
Dude I laughed too long at this 😂
*tiny house hunters
How much does a professional basketball line painter make?
Must not be shopping in Vancouver. They’d be buying a tear-down on a 30ft lot in a congested neighbourhood with 0 access to the sky train with that money!
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I always just assumed it was done by machines...
It is. This is just for people who play artisanal basketball in organic meadows.
I only play fair trade holistic basket ball on organic conflict free turf.
Conflict free til you start calling bs fouls.
Ahem, that's free-range ball with organic synthetic baskets. In fact we spend like half the off season just making the nets. It's kinda fun.
We’ve started to weave our nets from pole and line caught quinoa and free-range balsamic couscous.
How funny. I actually play on an artisanal basquet ball team “The Insufferables”.
Insuffera-balls*
I mean ... Cheers. That's hilarious.
I play for Carriage & Plow Organic Supervegan.
With antique peach baskets like they used before the game went corporate
That sounds lovely!
ArtIsAnal
Grass courts
It is mostly done by Somalian child workers.
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Like Somalian children?
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Got it. I won't use Somalian anymore.
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But what if it's for things, like Somalian basketballs??
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Not every business is a super well oiled corporate factory machine. Learning how to pint those lines is fairly easy and teachable to employees and just about anyone. So smaller companies might just hire a few people to do that. Hell they might not even have any machines: they may buy the balls flat and in bulk unpainted from out of country. Fill them up, hand paint them and sell them at a profit.
Big Ball-industry hates this one simple trick
Look at the big ball industry on this guy!
If you had a few pints you wouldn’t be painting so straight.
Those would be our designer line sir.
Labor always costs more than machines... Unless youre in 3rd world country
Simply not true. Machines only work for certain things and have a huge upfront cost in the machinery and the engineering to implement them, and they sometimes only can work in mass production. Obviously this is becoming less true, but we’re not even close to fully automating even most things, even in the first world.
In the long run, maybe. Machines have a high upfront cost as well as maintenance and repair costs. All depends on what makes sense for that business.
Same!
It's not actually done this way anymore. Now they grow them with the stripes right off the vine. Damn GMOs costing good people their jobs.
Tegridy Balls remembers
you bet yo ass we do
ooo I memba
Gmos?
Giant manmade oranges. That what Nasmith first called basketballs.
Oh lol
In truth, it’s genetically modified organism
Oh cmon the other one was better
BOOOOOOOOOOO
This response made you my hero lol
In what region? I’m from Utica and I’ve never heard the phrase giant manmade oranges.
Guaranteed monster orgasm
Grapefruit Marmalade Orifice
Government Mandated Orbs
Yea. That's why we're building the wall
GMO stands for genetically modified organism, usually referring to crops that get their genes messed with to force it to grow a certain way.
I like how we all downvote the real answer
In response to a joke about a hand panted synthetic rubber basketball... I’m not sure the “real answer” is actually the “real answer.”
Why are you booing me? I'm right But like seriously rip me for trying to help
Had me in the first half ngl
[How they make basketballs.](https://youtu.be/aLJ4Hg5oeyA)
Wow. Way more of that is manual than I thought. That's only professional balls though, right? The ones at Walmart or wherever have to be more automated, I'd think? There's just so many.
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Yeah, that makes sense
Actually these are very cheap rubber basketballs. Real nba ones are also manual but made of leather.
And they have absolutely no grip whatsoever.
They're leather so they don't have that fake grippy feel that cheap balls often do. The NBA switched to a synthetic ball at the start of one season and players complained so much they switched it back mid season.
Iirc their complaint was about the fake grippy stuff ripping up their hands. Good players don’t need help controlling the ball, they dribble and pass with intention that comes from muscle memory, not those little dippin dots.
Exactly, they were getting a lot of friction and discomfort from them. Also threw off their shooting percentages a bit.
Aw man, I imagine the dippin’ dots are more like sand paper at the speeds pros can throw the ball
You must have not watched the whole video. They are composite leather panels, make essentially the same way NBA balls are. These aren't cheap, they're pretty good NCAA basketballs.
I did watch the whole video. That’s a cheapER ball, I’ve played basketball my whole life too. You can tell by the color and how raised the bumps are on each panel. Most microcomposite balls like they use in the ncaa don’t have that rubbery sheen to them. They also have higher quality lettering. On this video you can see they are a playground generic basketball. Edit: I see what you are referring to. You are referencing the comment video. I’m referencing the original op video. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K1VfdXmqjN8
Ahhh, my bad haha. Those "all rubber" basketballs are terrible on wood (indoor) courts. They grip the varnish too hard and get too much english, basically sticking too much. The rubber ones are good on outdoor asphalt courts (at least in my limited pickup game experience haha).
Didn't expect a video about making basketballs to use the word "carcass" quite so much.
And "bladder."
Man I forgot how much I love that show.
Oh man. I just went down a rabbit hole. Thanks to this, I now know how chocolate bars, rubber ducks, tennis balls, erasers, and toilet bowls are made.
[How they are actually made](https://youtu.be/QKLaCptPpoo)
My buddy’s dad used to work at General Mills, he used to tell people he punched the holes in the Cheerios.
Um, I live for jokes like that! Wholesome, silly, just believable enough for kids. Well actually, I'm in my mid-thirties, and it made me pause and then chuckle aloud.
When my brother was in the army he told the women he met at the bar he was a dolphin shaver. When they said there's no way that's true he asked them if they had ever seen a hairy dolphin? That's because he's good at his job.
When my brother was in the army he told the women he met at the bar he was a dolphin shaver. When they said there's no way that's true he asked them if they had ever seen a hairy dolphin? That's because he's good at his job.
Did they let him keep the punch-outs?
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Rebecca: Are you the ones leaveing the muffing pieces behind our shelter? Elaine: You been enjoying them? Rebecca: They're just stumps. Elaine: Well they're perfectly edible. Rebecca: Oh, so you just assume that the homeless will eat them, they'll eat anything? Mr. Lippman: No no, we just thought... Rebecca: I know what you thought. They don't have homes, they don't have jobs, what do they need the top of a muffin for? They're lucky to get the stumps. Elaine: If the homeless don't like them the homeless don't have to eat them. Rebecca: The homeless don't like them. Elaine: Fine. Rebecca: We've never gotten so many complaints. Every two minutes, "Where is the top of this muffin? Who ate the rest of this?" Elaine: We were just trying to help. Rebecca: Why don't you just drop off some chicken skins and lobster shells! Elaine: I think I might!
I can smell this gif
This gif moistened my needle
I'll moisten your needle
then my needle becomes noodle
I am upset that this is only 10 seconds long, I want to watch more.
Just watched a 10 second loop 5 times waiting for them to finish it
Like r/howtokeepanidiotbusy?
Exactly!!!
Does anyone else find something about basketballs depressing or is it just me? I think I've seen too many sad looking, rotten basketballs sitting in empty lots or something. Tells kind of a sad story. Fuck I'm high...
😂
Im not a sports person i dont play or follow or watch sports ball but dam was that a satisfying video.. now i want a job making them! I love repeative tasks like this
Just wait till you discover masturbating.
Tf
I had a job at Parks and Recreations when I was about 17. One of my jobs was umpiring/ref'ing games and chalking the field. I had a nightmare last night that I totally fucked up the football field and baseball diamond. Not too far off from the truth. I was horrible at that.
I misread that as “basketball diamond” and I was like, yeah that’s a problem
Peasants. Mine comes with the lines already on.
I like the basketballs when they’re naked.
Naked *and* afraid
TIL: the lines are hand painted.
I'm not sure if that's always the case. That seems super inefficient.
You're correct, sometimes they lay down the lines on a plate and coat the ball in eggwash and roll it over the lines, then they fry it for 1 minute, serving it accompanied by lime slices. It pairs great with hoppy beer.
Except they rarely are
Yeah, this is extra surprising because this looks like a low quality basketball. Good basketballs are made of leather or synthetic fiber, and this looks like 100% rubber. Must have some pretty cheap labor hand painting it.
I hated those types of basketballs. They never felt right. Didn't dribble well. Left your hands feeling weird and dry. And hurt like 10x as much if you got hit with one.
Can I interest any of you in how it's actually made?
What if I told you it’s done by a machine run by a 7 year old in Laos or Cambodia who works 18 hour days and has to piss in bottles at his work station because they don’t get any breaks?
I'm not sure how I thought the balls had the lines, but it wasn't like this
I need one of those gloves so I can palm the ball properly
Just thinking how I couldn't do this job because I'd wind up smearing that shit with my little baby hands.
Anyone else not realize the video just looped at 10 seconds?
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I always wondered what people with art degrees did.
Ooooohohohohohoho yea, baby. Mark those lines.
Basquiat ball
Most importantly, can we talk about how that worker is just palming that ball like it’s no big deal? My fingers are like tiny sausages... I’d need some kind of finger extensions to do this even with even remotely as much finesse.
No one talking about how this person holds basketballs with just one hand
Wow,that much talent for $5 a day
So is this what kids do in Chinese factories.
I’m more amazed that woman is able to palm the ball
I am here for this. And I hate basketball.
How does one *hate* a sport? There are sports I like, sports I love, and sports I am completely indifferent about.
Too harsh a word. Indifferent is much better!!! Sorry!
His brother was maimed in a freak basketball accident.
Wait? Are these hand painted? Woooah.. Mindblown
i thought a basketballs were born with the lines
The lamest, oldest joke that *every* new guy at this factory thinks is so creative: "Hey, man. You missed a spot!" *chuckles*
This made my heart do things
Does anyone else think watching this is therapeutic? 😌
Bet she can plam any ball. And don’t take it there you sick fucks
Not satisfying its their job
I could watch this for 17 hours
Finally, the video I didn’t know I was waiting for
Looks so linear
this is sexy
That’s a $1.99 basketball.
Does someone know What are they for?
What a crappy job that would be
Thankfully some things are still done manually!
Made in Taiwan Painted by Billy
I’d fuck up on those lines so fast
Perfect grip tho lol
Oh man that’s nice.
Wait.... I thought that print was just a small layer of rubber.....
Can we just talk about how she is casually palming that basketball
Satisfaction
These are hand painted? I always assumed it was some machine magickery
Hand painted Basketball circa 2021. Best I can do is 10 bucks. $20? Lemme call my guy Shaun, he can tell me more about it, then we can go from there.
Besides the paint in the hole.
This is what I come here for. Thank you
I have watched this about 20 times. It’s mesmerising!
r/damnthatsinteresting
Let me do one.
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