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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Extreme home clusterfuck 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 6/23/2009 05:36:00 PM

so, if you haven't heard yet, Extreme Makerover: Home Edition has come to CT. specifically its in suffield this week, about 200 yards from where i work. They are using the street i work on as a staging ground to park people and generally use as a homebase for the mess. its nice they do these great things for people by building them a house and such but i tend to think this whole thing is really just a total clusterfuck. it may be a positive for the people who get a house but thats debatable as well.

the house they chose is on the road i drive on every day. its been shut down all week with 3 retard rentacops at either end. yesterday went like this:

"whats going on, sir"

"you can't get through here"

"why, what happened?"

"you can't get through here"

"why, what happened? (again)

"you have to turn around"

"no i don't, i don't see anything up ahead and i'm going to be late for work, why can't i get through?" (i was in no mood for his bullshit and with out a real badge or police car he doesn't have a leg to stand on.)

"the road is closed for the show"

"what show?"

"what?"

"what show?"

"home makeover is here."

"who?"

"just turn around and go up this road here"

"fine"

so, upon getting to work it was like the whole fucking world knew about this and had decended upon suffield for the mirical that is extreme home makeover. this town has tripeled in size for this fucking show. our street has a constant stream of cars and busses going up and down and a million fucking retards all over these back roads with no clue where to go. everyone wants a piece of this show. they have the famous show bus parked out infront of where i work and our HR guy has spent the last two days trying to keep people off our property, its an insurence liability for us. everyone wants a fucking picture of this stupid bus. it doesn't even have a logo on it or anything. i found out today we told them a few weeks ago they couldn't use any of our property for anything since we don't own the building and aren't covered for this kind of thing.

basically this thing is nothing but a giant inconvience for me for the week. sure its kind of cool, but i in no way benfit from this. the house they chose is inhabited by a bunch of people who are constantly playing baseketball out in the street so maybe this will move them inside.

the show is supposely building them a 5500 sqft house, on thier 0.25 acre lot. in suffield, a town with high taxes. there is no way they could aford this after the show leaves. plus, one of hte reasons they picked this family is because they take care of so many people, all of whom are capable of getting jobs. somewhere i saw that they have 10 people living there full time and can't afford to fix the house up after a small fire from a few years ago. the sob story here sounds like BS. yeah yeah yeah i'm an asshole. they aren't doing this if it's not making the show money so the we love everyone and its so great to give bs can get shoved somewhere else.

PS: there is a blood drive going on for all the volunteers trying to help out with show. not only are they asking for free help with thier money making machine, but they litterally want your blood too.

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FOLLOW UP: i went over to the site today to see what all the hubbub was about. fucking crazy. it feels like a festival type of atmosphere. theres a million people running around in every direction with differnt objects and a ton of people just meandering around without really knowing what they;re doing. its quite a site to see.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Thursday, June 25, 2009 7:31:00 PM  

you're not an asshole for saying that because you can't stop shows like this. if it wasn't this family, it would be another somewhere else. there would always be someone as long as people are fascinated with this crap.

and you're exactly right about the family. they wont be able to afford the taxes at all. dominique said they made over a house in MA for a family and afterwards the family had to have a fundraiser to pay the taxes. it cant be all good.

By  josh, at Thursday, June 25, 2009 8:45:00 PM  

The show was in my town a couple months back. It's all you heard on the radio and everyone wanted to go and volunteer. Crazy. For the record, I hereby state that Tye Pennington is a giant douche.

By  Brancibeer, at Friday, June 26, 2009 12:05:00 AM  

Who's Ty Pendington? An ex or something?

By  NoBrainRequired, at Friday, June 26, 2009 6:49:00 AM  

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