Comments on: Contractor

By: Deep Thought

Deep Thought — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:17:01 +0000

♫ California… super cool for the homeless… ♫

By: iseedumbpeople

iseedumbpeople — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:12:28 +0000

ya.. just poof.. dissapeared homeless.. cuz that’s what happens when you get rid of the place they stay.. they just dissapear.. good thing you’re here or I would have assumed those homeless became homeless elsewhere..

and what exactly is ironic about it? I get the sad part, but ironic?

By: Captain Obvious

Captain Obvious — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:46:12 +0000

How much are you willing to bet that guy paid full price for flood-insurance and didn’t see so much as mildew after the waters receded?

By: Demise

Demise — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:14:00 +0000

This looks a lot like the house Mike Holmes and his crew built in the Holmes in New Orleans series. I think it’s a different house, but that design must have been pretty awesome after all.

By: bmuras

bmuras — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:14:56 +0000

Because it’s really funny when people die or lose everything they own. Even I think this is in poor taste.

By: bunnybully

bunnybully — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:25:41 +0000

Only like 30% of the Island is back up and running and so much is just abandoned. Kinda sad and ironic, it got rid of a ton of homeless people.

By: bunnybully

bunnybully — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:24:38 +0000

No, it’s still there. They just had to replace some siding and straighten some beams.

By: bunnybully

bunnybully — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:24:10 +0000

Bolivar Island. Only reachable by ferry.

By: bunnybully

bunnybully — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:23:34 +0000

My dad’s company built that house on Boliver Is. I can’t remember the name of the contractor but the materials in the house are hella’ expensive.

By: furbiesmustdie

furbiesmustdie — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:28:24 +0000

thats what you get for sleeping with paris hilton! budm- bish!

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:03:49 +0000

No one wants to mess with Texas, other than build a big wall around the state to keep the buggers in there…

By: Texas

Texas — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:58:54 +0000

I work for the Texas Com. on Env. Quality. You know we are still cleaning up from this. Crazy huh.. I went out to Bolivar the other day, looks just like this all up and down it. Some places are going to take years.

By: yasoup

yasoup — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:14:25 +0000

Gilchrist, to be exact. It is real; please don’t mess with Texans. *eyeballs everyone*

By: sueb262

sueb262 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:22:10 +0000

you do realize, don’t you, that we, the readers and commenters are the supply for the captions. how’s your hilarity contributions these days?

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:20:11 +0000

A long night of punching old people. Big difference. Takes stamina and the ability to time your punches in between laughing at their pain. It is a subtle set of skills not for those lacking a moral callous.

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:19:26 +0000

Mike Holmes passed through Galveston?

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:18:34 +0000

Hazarding a guess, if they were any where near people, the smell would have attracted their attention. If it’s like most ‘no-go’ areas, the surviving dog packs or pigs will have sorted that ‘problem’, so they’re gone, in all likelihood…

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:16:03 +0000

I blame my lack of caffeine but I totally saw a reference to Umbrella in there…

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:15:36 +0000

Punching old people? where’s the skill in that?

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:14:02 +0000

That’s a ‘bad day’ in a landlocked state… but God Bless LEXCORP! Condos for all!

By: The Steve

The Steve — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:47:07 +0000

And the ocean has moved in next door!

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:18:34 +0000

Or use it as a tourist trap for yuppie fools.

By: sally

sally — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:27:40 +0000

Is this Crystal Beach?
If so, there is no way to the house without your own boat, I believe…
There used to be a ferry.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:21:28 +0000

Curse you physical distance!!!

By: Magnoire

Magnoire — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:54:40 +0000

I hear the house stood but was so badly damaged, it had to be demolished.

By: Zephr

Zephr — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:40:49 +0000

Umm… the caption is “Contractor WIN”. How is that Bush bashing?
Maybe the problem is that every time you see a picture of flood damage you think of Bush. Whose fault is that though?

By: pbean

pbean — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:18:46 +0000

Well the people who live there are actually really gutted: everything around them is gone, including neighbours but also shops and whatever else they had there. And because their house is still standing, they can’t make a big insurance claim or whatever and are either forced to live there and make a HUGE trip to any civilized area, or try to sell the house (lol, who would buy that!?) and try to live somewhere else.

They would have been better off if their house was destroyed as well.

By: beingwyrd

beingwyrd — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:43:20 +0000

any idea what company built it? i want them to build my house!

By: keshet

keshet — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:25:01 +0000

Sounds like a great new show for Animal Planet.

By: xP

xP — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:34:23 +0000

This house actually exists. .-. Its in Galveston, Texas. I’ve seen it with my own two eyes. :v

By: gmc360

gmc360 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:00:35 +0000

Photoshop win?

By: NotThatAnyoneCares...

NotThatAnyoneCares... — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:55:40 +0000

…but there are still nine people missing. And no one is actively looking for them. Because the state can’t afford to pay the cost of sorting through all the debris.

By: ubr

ubr — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:44:21 +0000

you haven’t noticed that people have been talking smack on bush for years? it’s going to keep going for quite a while so you just better get used to it…
and for someone who’s here for the ‘first time’ your generalizations are quite all encompassing which leads me to believe that you’re just another sock who fits a right wing mold…
would you be angry if i called you annie instead of x? it fits so much better…

By: minerva146

minerva146 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:26:21 +0000

too bad, my hubby and I would show up.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:58:02 +0000

I hate when that happens. We need a good animal invasion to occur.

By: Rattus

Rattus — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:53:23 +0000

I was actually pretty excited and already planning a summer’s eve in the yard with a bottle of gin and a flashlight, awaiting the epic snail v. slug battle. Too bad.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:49:05 +0000

I’m just yanking your chain. Though I would think that if there was a real combative mollusk with minions and was called a slime mage, it would at least hit CNN once.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:47:49 +0000

That it would be. :/

I need a couple more serious gamers. Lynn and our other player are pretty dedicated so they show up regularly. So far, any others have been a flop for a variety of reasons and that just wastes my time. :/

By: Rattus

Rattus — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:47:12 +0000

It’s not a world so fascinating that I actually know anything about it.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:45:08 +0000

A combative mollusk with minions and Slime Orb spells? :0

By: minerva146

minerva146 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:43:17 +0000

Hard to play from upstate NY

By: Rattus

Rattus — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:41:43 +0000

See, now that’s how I know I’m not a gamer. I assumed that post 2 described the battle habits of some sort of combative mollusk. Aaaah, the world of slugs and snails is a fascinating one.

By: yasoup

yasoup — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:13:56 +0000

Hey, Gilchrist! I can see Gilchrist from my house. I live in Houston. I just visited Bolivar and saw some interesting stuff, including an upside-down house and a bar spray-painted “PARADISE HAS MOVED”–sad but ‘rotfl’.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:02:27 +0000

One of my players and I were reading through it and that was the conclusion. It is basically making a pigeon hole video game into table top. You don’t get much character diversity, just a set of skill trees to go through.

Damn, now I want a Cherry Coke.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:55:50 +0000

Well if you were in IA, I could accomodate ya. My main is an evil gestalt Spawn of Tiamat campaign but we plan to run good aligned next run, whenever that is. Right now they are having a blast being bad. Then again we mostly run evil campaigns.

I personally haven’t gotten to play in buttfu(k forever but I also want to play a level of power that I personally would run and that takes things up a few notches so I probably will resign myself to running games til I die.

By: minerva146

minerva146 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:50:39 +0000

heehee, good analogy on the new coke and WoW

By: minerva146

minerva146 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:49:47 +0000

I like to play clerics too. I played about every build possible in Neverwinter nights. 4E has its good parts, but all you get to build are power types, noo variations in skill usage, etc. IMO it doesn’t allow for much personality. I need a new campaign. I’d run one, but not sure when I’d do it and need more players.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:49:08 +0000

So far that is exactly how it seems. Though I prefer to just call it WoW tabletop.

By: Maenad

Maenad — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:46:22 +0000

“4.0 = New Coke”
– Jim Butcher

By: crxmanpat

crxmanpat — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:29:06 +0000

Contractor win.

Property value FAIL!