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And I will NOT be lending mine out, either....But...That doesn't mean they won't disappear:rolleyes:
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Nope! Used to, don't any more. Would rather buy you one than lend you mine; rising gas prices have something to do with this. Nowadays it costs me more to drive across town to retrieve what you borrowed than it would cost to buy you that movie or book or whatever. For the past few years, it has actually been cheaper just to buy the person one. For that matter, I would rather GIVE a person the thing than LEND it, because then I don't have to worry about getting the damn thing back! Does that make any sense?
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Never lost anything, but Im very careful and very rarely lend anything. Lent the original Amityville Horror to one of my best friends, and was bugging him every day to make sure he didnt forget/lose it. Lent K-PAX and The Fugitive to my Grandmother...was right paranoid the whole time she had them. No reason for me to worry of course...but I'll be damned if I wasnt!
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(clutches his NOTLD Milennium Edition DVD case)
mine! eep!
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But, if you do, be sure the borrower will take care of the movie, book etc... like you would. With DVD's, place the movie disk in another case with your name all over it. Place a post-it note inside the original case, that you hold on to, with the borrowers name and the date borrowed then set it seperate from your other movies. I haven't "lost" a movie since I started doing it this way.;)
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Back in the VHS age, I lent a mate my copy of Starship Troopers. When I came to take it back one day, I found that it had been shot several times with an air pistol. How fucked is that!?!
One of his house mates got stoned and wanted to shoot things with his new air pistol. The idiot used my video case to prob up the targets he was shooting - Mental.
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Hey, Rayne, aren't you glad you didn't loan Mudisliptones shit, because he dutched out on us?:D I remember that he had a cool av. Can't remember what it was, but that I always liked it.
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His avatar was a really cool zombie As for the rest of these replies....Yeah...NO ONE takes care of your stuff like you do...Which really pisses me off, because if I EVER use something that belongs to someone else (which is extremely rare) I put it right back where I got it from, and in the same condition...Actually, in some cases, I give it back in BETTER condition, cuz if something is dirty, I clean it, or broken, I fix it (if possible) 2 Thanksgivings ago, I borrowed a table from Stupid Shane's mom because we needed more table space...That thing was filthy....I scrubbed it till it looked like brand new before I used it, and returned it the very next day... It didn't kill me...It wasn't even that difficult....Why can't everyone else have the same consideration?
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This is a REALLY interesting topic to me, because it addresses the problem of THINGS WE HATE THAT WE ALLOW OTHER PEOPLE TO DO TO US. It's your stuff, you choose to lend it out and then you fret when it doesn't come back or when it comes back smashed, etc.
Now in the wondrous spectrum of human relationships, no relationship is really tonally pure. Well, okay, maybe some are. But in most, there's a bit of anger or resentment mixed in with the friendship. Or jealousy mixed in with the love. In one instance I know of, there's this fellow who has an anger problem, lashes out in little ways or big ways, makes verbal stabs, tries to get away with little annoying actions and then enjoys the suffering he causes. This is the media-sucking vampire whore who has tried for years to borrow my DVDs, though he knows damn well I don't like to lend them out. BASICALLY, this is a decent person here; but some weird stuff happened to him when he was a kid, and he kinda has an anger problem. A few months ago I started putting my foot down, gently but firmly. If he wants to borrow something, I immediately say "No, no, no, you should watch it here," and into the machine it goes. We fast-forward scan through the disc, see the good parts of the movie, and then he's "watched" it. The disc never needs to leave the house! I know he doesn't like it when I assert control over my own shit. But I feel better knowing he didn't abuse the friendship for purposes of causing emotional distress so he could get off on the power/control of it.
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