Well, the ‘WorkSafe’ board is Aussie government stuff, and the phone number on the Rhino board has the (03) Melbourne (AU, not FL) area code.
Photoshop or not, I find it amusing.
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Oh, wow! I hadn’t zoomed in, but I looked again, and sure enough, the phone number is not a 3-3-4 pattern. But I swear, they’re using the same photo and layout as the one in Dallas (Texas). Apparently, it is not a unique of a name as I thought…
EDIT- Sure enough, they’re related, and the photo was not edited…
An unfortunate placement of two billboards in Melbourne had locals in stitches on Monday.
The first advertisement by Work Safe shows a mother and a her young daughter asking: ‘Where’s daddy?’
A second billboard, directly behind, broadcasting the services of Melbourne’s Spearmint Rhino, a notorious strip club.
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Spearmint Rhino’s is a world famous gentleman’s club and has 16 locations across the world including in Las Vegas, Dallas and Melbourne.
How does the underside of my toilet seat get so dirty and peed upon when I’m the only person using it? Methinks the boys sneak in my bathroom when I’m not home… 
I am now more sure than ever that the pricing of RVs & travel trailers is either complete BS, or a total scam. Just like jewelry.
We’re all used to new cars being sold for a couple thousand under MSRP, right? We went to an RV show today partly to kill time, partly to get out of the house, and partly because we’re very casually doing research into buying one (but not for another year).
They’re showing big posters with “Model XYZ, MSRP $25,195, Show Price $12,795, Save $12,400!”
Now…come on. You’re brazenly telling me that MSRP is at least twice as much as you’re willing to sell this unit for? There’s no way you’re taking a loss on these things just because people are signing papers at the RV show. So that must mean that the MSRP is more than 100% inflated over invoice price.
OK, fine, I won’t buy new, since that’s clearly a scam. How about used? That $25K unit, one year later, is selling as used for about $16K. That’s still a crazy markup from the new price!
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I think RVs may be a market with a lot of variability. You have some knowledgeable people who buy multiple over decades, and a lot who have no idea what they’re doing and probably buy one in a lifetime.
I’ve considered the utility of a small teardrop trailer just for doing camping-adjacent stuff, but even that’s more than my disposable funds by white a bit.
If you are handy then an older trailer and a rebuild are cool.
The thing with RVs and Travel Trailers is they should be about twice the price they are but they are built so cheaply they can sell them for less. The cheapest materials, internals, and building practices come together to makes something affordable that probably shouldn’t be.
Or just make a Schoolie.
Or buy a 2nd hand double decker bus and build a proper RV out of it?
Like what this guy did.
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I’d like to have a towable, but would only use it 3 or 4 times a year, and have to pay for a storage place all year. Nyet. If I had a couple acres and could store it for free (more or less), then I would think much more seriously about it. And it would have to have a toilet and shower. The worst part about camping is the trek to the bathroom in the middle of the night. (I ain’t getting any younger.)
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Morally equivalent: “ok boomer” and “sure thing kid.”
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We cram ours into our driveway. And we don’t use it enough, things are usually just busy enough to keep us from just jetting out and using it. Three day weekend, soccer tourney. Beautiful weekend weather, some social commitment.
It’s an annual promise that we’ll camp more, and has been since before we even got the camper.
That’s precisely our situation. Can’t store it in the driveway due to township regulations. Would we use it enough to warrant the storage yard fee? Plus insurance? Plus… you know the drill.
I would love to hit National Parks and stay in the park," which you can’t do with soft tents in some cases. And yes, my own private bathroom and a decent sleeping space.
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I don’t poop in the camper though.
And I suggest the others don’t, but I don’t enforce it. I’m the one who cleans out the black tank and I don’t need that in my life.
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The problem is that most of the time that I see “Ok boomer” being used, it isn’t being said to a baby boomer, but the next generation after, or whatever is between a baby boomer and gen x.
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But on the bright side, is isn’t ‘out of sight, out of mind’ like it would be if it was at a storage facility. But I totally hear you, life just tends to get busy.
That’s fair.
Same here, but because of neighborhood deed restrictions.
GenX comes after boomers. Our parents are usually late Silents or early Boomers. My parents are the latter. The GenX version of “OK boomer” was “whatever” followed by an eye roll. That used to piss my mom off so bad. 
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A always considered of my parents as on the later side of boomers, but actually thinking about it, they’re more towards the middle of the range. I was born when they were young, like 18-19. I think my mom was just a year out of high school. But I generally think of boomers as older than them, which is not quite accurate.
But I’ve seen ok boomer said to people my age, which makes me want to smack the shit outta the one saying it. They can get the hell off my lawn, too. 
I’m between boomer and gen X. It gets confusing sometimes.
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It does make a good sun shade and stereo when I’m woodworking.
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I’ve had people my age get flabbergasted when I informed them that yes, we ARE millenials, and yes, we ARE in our 30s. Millenials aren’t those highschool/early-college-age kids anymore.
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I’ve had similar conversations with my wife and such. Media often seems to to use ‘millennial’ for something like 30 and lower, but I think the oldest are eyeballing 40 these days. They’re the ones getting married, trying to ‘stabilize’ as far as jobs/housing/etc. and thinking about aging parents and such.
(And for the record, get off my lawn.)
If ‘millennials’ are killing anything, it’s because there’s different expectations and societal pressures than other generations. Which is, of course, the same as other generations.
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