Inactive Jake Rapp / Jacob Dean Johnson / KingOfCucks - Survivor of Feminism

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LOL if yall think Jake will ever buy and restore a bus to live in. He may buy one but there is no way he's gonna do all the work to make a bus a home. all the plumbing,electrical,woodwork,etc. not to mention it will take a shit load of starbucks tips just to afford a bus that he has no place to store.
 
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smackpops said:
LOL if yall think Jake will ever buy and restore a bus to live in. He may buy one but there is no way he's gonna do all the work to make a bus a home. all the plumbing,electrical,woodwork,etc. not to mention it will take a shit load of starbucks tips just to afford a bus that he has no place to store.
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This is like the hipsters who say they're going to "buy a farm and live off the land someday." Some of them even get so far as to buy some washed-up agricultural land that other farmers won't touch for whatever reason (erosion, water table issues, bad neighbors, etc.). Or the ones who want to "restore a house" in a depressed area like Detroit and so on.

They get really into the idea when it's words on a screen on the internet. When it turns out that implementing their plans in reality mean getting offline and buckling down to do 8-12 hours of solid work every day -- not office work where you can take a break and instagram your progress every half hour, but real work where when you take your lunch break, all you can think about is wolfing down some nutrients so that you can keep breaking your back in the afternoon.

Then, they end up half-assing it. They do the stuff they have some confidence in their ability to accomplish, usually doing it badly. Painting walls, installing some laminate, planting a garden. The plumbing, the electrical, running a farm like an actual business to make money ... the stuff that actually gets really tricky, especially for beginners? That stuff all gets left behind.

I knew a couple who bought a house for almost nothing. It was a cute house. 5 small bedrooms, 2 small bathrooms, needed some updates but nothing crazy, it was just cheap because it was in the middle of nowhere. At first, you could have been forgiven for thinking that they were actually going to finish their projects and have something really cool. They stripped down layers of wallpaper until the original paint colors were exposed, went to a paint store and bought the original paint colors the interiors had been painted with, took out an ugly shower surround and bought tile, took out ugly floor tile, took out ugly carpet and revealed an original wood floor badly in need of refinishing, took out an ugly backsplash in the kitchen.

And then ... nothing. This house sat in a state of total disrepair for literal years, while they did nothing. The idea of just picking a project or two and working on it until it was in a state where it could reasonably be described as "finished" seemed to never occur to the would-be "remodelers." So if you went in their house, you'd find an unfinished living room floor, a kitchen with no backsplash and nothing to replace it, just walls with marks where the old one had come off, a vegetable garden outside that had been untended since plants were first planted there and was teeming with insects and weeds.

If Jake decides to buy a bus, this is what will happen to it. He'll do the parts that are destructive. He'll take out the seats, gut the bus. And then when it comes time to actually create something of value, he'll choke. That's the hipster aesthetic. If he really wants to follow in that couple's footsteps, he should have a baby, homeschool the kid, and then develop an anxiety disorder that means he "has" to spend all his time playing vidya while the kid is homeschooled by running around a fucked-up no-longer-to-code house in lieu of actually learning anything.
 
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Abortions4All said:
This is like the hipsters who say they're going to "buy a farm and live off the land someday."
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Then, they end up half-assing it.
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What's even funnier are the rare ones who actually persevere. They go buy some old hunting cabin formerly used to store weasel pelts or whatever, try living there, and just keep remodeling and adding on amenities till they pretty much recreate their old hipster life in a more inconvenient location, at astronomical expense.

Anyway, at this point I'm genuinely wondering which Rapp is going to flunk out of adulthood and move back in with their parents first.
 
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But he totally helped his dad remodel some houses, guys! He can do this!

Jake won't even get to the point where he's gutting the bus. He'll try to buy the cheapest one he can and end up with either a bus that's cheap because it's wrung out pile of shit that immediately breaks, or a bus that's cheap because it's got an an undesireable drivetrain (my money's on an 80's Chevy with a Detroit) that immediately breaks. And then because Jake has no idea how to be a mechanic or enough money to get it fixed, the bus will sit until it gets scrapped.
 
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