Containment What will happen when Barb dies?

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I don't know, it should be worth over 200k, but thats before you factor in the property being in terrible shape, the greenhouse would need to be demo'd, all the carpet needs to be replaced, a full remodel of the bathroom.. Not to mention the ghosts of an autistic kid and his dog. Whoever holds the deed probably considers it to be 150,000.
 
Marvin said:
The renovations after the fire were reportedly very thorough. I don't know how they happened upon that $177k number, but I think the house is probably reasonably worth the value of the land, plus whatever a lightly lived-in house would add to it.
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I'm wondering what the damage of cat piss and dog poo would be. Cat pee smells and is so hard to get out. Also is the hoard trash or just stuff? Like does Chris take the trash out?
 
Holiday Special said:
I'm wondering what the damage of cat piss and dog poo would be. Cat pee smells and is so hard to get out. Also is the hoard trash or just stuff? Like does Chris take the trash out?
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The hoard was all boxed/bagged up after the fire. The main animal waste issue is the dogs. Outdoor cats go outside most of the time. Unless they're not fixed, then they'll spray. Intact cat piss is rank.

Otherwise, with outdoor cats, their litter boxes are mostly empty.

Chris takes the trash out, but probably not as often as he should.

Heh, back when Bob was alive, they used to burn their trash.

Redneck as fuck.
 
Marvin said:
I think nowadays he'd want to experience life. He's wanting Cole to take over, he's enjoying traveling to other places a little.

Too late though.
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Chris's basically acting like a teenager now.. Seeking independence, being constantly snippy to people, hell, you can see him blowing up on Kengle and get reminded of that time you saw a teenager get embarrassed of his own parents lol.
 
neural said:
Chris's basically acting like a teenager now.. Seeking independence, being constantly snippy to people, hell, you can see him blowing up on Kengle and get reminded of that time you saw a teenager get embarrassed of his own parents lol.
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Just wait until he finds out you can be transage or whatever, and tries to identify as a 14 year old and go back to Manchester High...
 
RoboticRichardSimmons said:
I'm fairly positive that's illegal in most cities, suburban areas and municipalities.
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Not in Virginia, at least if you don't have trash collection services. I don't know about Ruckersville but it's kind of hick land. They probably do have collection services there, but it could easily have been legal when Bob did it. There was also one time when Chris threw a fit and called the cops because a neighbor was burning trash, and they told him to buzz off.
 
AnOminous said:
Not in Virginia, at least if you don't have trash collection services. I don't know about Ruckersville but it's kind of hick land. They probably do have collection services there, but it could easily have been legal when Bob did it. There was also one time when Chris threw a fit and called the cops because a neighbor was burning trash, and they told him to buzz off.
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Can confirm this as true. As someone who used to live in a very rural redneck area, we had to burn some of our trash from time to time as regular trash collection services were tenuous at best (we grew up in a very poor rural county). The trash that we couldn't burn or have picked up by the county, we usually had to haul it ourselves down to throw away in a public dump.

Nearly all of the trash we burned was paper trash and old cardboard, stuff like that. Actual dangerous trash was to be hauled off to the dump or put at the end of the driveway for the county to pick up. I don't know if Bob did the same thing when he burned trash, though.

I don't know how remote Ruckersville is, but given that it's fairly close to a major town like Charlottesville, I'd imagine that the county or town would have regular trash pickup services, but I could be wrong.
 
Syaoran Li said:
Can confirm this as true. As someone who used to live in a very rural redneck area, we had to burn some of our trash from time to time as regular trash collection services were tenuous at best (we grew up in a very poor rural county). The trash that we couldn't burn or have picked up by the county, we usually had to haul it ourselves down to throw away in a public dump.

Nearly all of the trash we burned was paper trash and old cardboard, stuff like that. Actual dangerous trash was to be hauled off to the dump or put at the end of the driveway for the county to pick up. I don't know if Bob did the same thing when he burned trash, though.

I don't know how remote Ruckersville is, but given that it's fairly close to a major town like Charlottesville, I'd imagine that the county or town would have regular trash pickup services, but I could be wrong.
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Ruckersville is in a separate county (Greene) from the one Charlottesville is in (Albemarle). so it might be a different case for that town. It doesn't surprise me burning trash is still a thing in sparse parts of the country.
 
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I remember the first time I saw some redneck in Florida burning mattresses in his backyard. Smelled terrible but I guess it's easier than hauling them. They seemed to consider it entertainment.

And to not be totally :offtopic:, Chris is looking more fucked every month. I actually had some hope that maybe he was turning it around a little. But this month shows that no, he isn't, and he probably never will. His finances are in a permanent downward spiral. He's surrounded by plenty of actually valuable shit to sell and he doesn't. What more is there to say.
 
Professor Paradox said:
What will happen to Chris once his mother dies? How is he going to pay the bills and the house if he has no job?
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He's not keeping the house when she dies. Null says she apparently has so much debt that the banks will almost certainly repossess it to pay off creditors.

Honestly, I think the biggest threat to Chris' future is the emotional effect of losing Barb. As creepy as their relationship is, she is still the only remaining human Chris genuinely has an affection for and his :autism: mind probably doesn't have the coping mechanisms for stress that a regular person does. I believe Chris has the capacity to survive, if not function, but the effect of his last parent dying might deprive him of that capacity when he most needs to channel it.

Financially, Chris will be forced by necessity to budget his tugboat and donations which could probably cover a crappy apartment on the outskirts of a city which Null or one of Chris' remaining white knights will help him with. If things really go pear shaped and he becomes homeless or clearly incapable of supporting himself, then some Kiwi users would probably alert whatever community support is in Va and get him into supported housing.
 
When Barbara dies, it is likely that people like @Null and a bunch of people who knows Chris; might pitch in and help out Chris to try to stabilize his life.
 
Barb is already dead. Chris just wheels her out and uses an elaborate pulley system to make it look like her mouth is moving in begging videos
 
Cedric_Eff said:
When Barbara dies, it is likely that people like @Null and a bunch of people who knows Chris; might pitch in and help out Chris to try to stabilize his life.
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lol Poor Null offers to sift through a few emails, next thing you know people are volunteering him as foster-parent of an autistic 40 year old translesbian orphan.
 
Snuckening said:
lol Poor Null offers to sift through a few emails
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That's not all he's doing though. Pretty sure he's also helping to manage Chris' twitter and allowing Chris to use him for free shit if "The Talk" is any indication. I remember reading in the Operation Kingsnake thread that he's going to be helping him out with his estate when Barb dies as well, so I'm pretty sure this goes a lot deeper than helping him out with emails a few minutes a day.
 
Stanky said:
That's not all he's doing though. Pretty sure he's also helping to manage Chris' twitter and allowing Chris to use him for free shit if "The Talk" is any indication. I remember reading in the Operation Kingsnake thread that he's going to be helping him out with his estate when Barb dies as well, so I'm pretty sure this goes a lot deeper than helping him out with emails a few minutes a day.
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No, think about the twitter thing as a second instance of filtering emails. He's filtering Chris' twitter messages in the same way.

In regards to the estate, null used to think that 14BC could be saved somehow, but then he realized that Barb's debt is way too large for that to work. Chris is losing 14BC when Barb dies.

Chris talks to null sometimes. Anyone who's been an e-girlfriend in the past would know that Chris messages his friends very often.

Null's not the superhero swooping in to save Chris. He's just filtering some emails and tweets. Chris is going to need some real help getting over Barb's death and getting his new life setup. It probably won't come from the internet.
 
Cedric_Eff said:
When Barbara dies, it is likely that people like @Null and a bunch of people who knows Chris; might pitch in and help out Chris to try to stabilize his life.
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Exactly what are they going to do though? Chris is inheriting years of his mother's debt. No one can really do much about that unless there's some silent millionaire Kiwi willing to write Chris an enormous check.

Also, remember after the fire, KF users put together a care package for Chris? The response was basically "thanks for trying but next time send us better stuff".
 
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