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PHP Developer normally, but I'm currently doing project management for a big systems upgrade. I loving hate computers, I'm just too drat good at them. I'd be a blacksmith if it paid.
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I'M A PEOPLE PERSON
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Jan 31, 2014 11:30
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I am part of the military industrial complex and I oppress brown people.
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Jan 31, 2014 12:09
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ReelBigLizard posted:I loving hate computers, I'm just too drat good at them. I'd be a blacksmith if it paid.  You and me buddy. I'd love to do something more physical, but I don't know anything else that would pay nearly as well as being a sysadmin does.
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Jan 31, 2014 12:21
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HPC Field Support Engineer...so pretty much IT but on a more industrial scale. Rant: If you're selling a bike on Craigslist you should have all the title 'issues' figured out before you list it. WTF, how complicated is it to make sure the title is in your hands ready to sign over to the new owner? I guess I should be thankful he mentioned it before I drove 3 hours to look at it. NitroSpazzz fucked around with this message at 14:01 on Jan 31, 2014 |
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Jan 31, 2014 13:47
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So a friend of a friend asked me to fix up a 1978 cb750 for him. Not the best shape but bone stock it's all there, I'm not a big honda guy but the condition this bike is in makes me want to restore one something awful. But looking up tech info on all these forums and all I see are people tearing completely stock bikes apart, saw one with 2800 original miles! What the gently caress is wrong with people? Why not buy someone else's unfinished project? poo poo I bought a roller xs650 cause it was dirt cheap and I figured I'd tuck it away for a project.
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Jan 31, 2014 14:27
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TheCoconutman posted:So a friend of a friend asked me to fix up a 1978 cb750 for him. Not the best shape but bone stock it's all there, I'm not a big honda guy but the condition this bike is in makes me want to restore one something awful. But looking up tech info on all these forums and all I see are people tearing completely stock bikes apart, saw one with 2800 original miles! What the gently caress is wrong with people? Why not buy someone else's unfinished project? poo poo I bought a roller xs650 cause it was dirt cheap and I figured I'd tuck it away for a project. http://hipsterbikevideos.tumblr.com/
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Jan 31, 2014 15:10
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Haha I am familiar with the blog but it's bad for my blood pressure. I just don't get the obsession with cafe racers and they all use ujm's. Guess they don't have the aptitude for British bikes.
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Jan 31, 2014 16:07
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The worst part for me is that they use good I4 bikes. For chrissakes, can't these douches start with a KZ400 or some other paratwin commuter? It's truer to the cafe ethos, isn't it?
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Jan 31, 2014 16:27
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TheCoconutman posted:Guess they don't have the
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Jan 31, 2014 16:27
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The_Raven posted:The worst part for me is that they use good I4 bikes. For chrissakes, can't these douches start with a KZ400 or some other paratwin commuter? It's truer to the cafe ethos, isn't it? They mangle plenty of those too, don't worry. Also CX500s.
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Jan 31, 2014 16:29
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It's pretty satisfying to get an old triumph started. Mine starts within 3 kicks, well as long as I'm the only one there.
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Jan 31, 2014 17:37
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HNasty posted:Everyone got jokes, write something about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT75kh0W7Nw I know Bellstaff is prob hurting for bidness and selling waxed cotton to hipsters is super easy but, c'mon man. This is ridic. It says "Belfast presents" and then left us hanging. Why are they ruining some poor farmer's field? How did they heat their hot chocolate? They're super brave, going 10mph on the grass like that. I'd need to stick my foot down too. I'm not very good at this.
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Jan 31, 2014 18:42
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The_Raven posted:The worst part for me is that they use good I4 bikes. For chrissakes, can't these douches start with a KZ400 or some other paratwin commuter? It's truer to the cafe ethos, isn't it?
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Jan 31, 2014 19:53
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Tenchrono posted:I make pizza for a living pizza engineer.
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Jan 31, 2014 20:01
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HNasty posted:Everyone got jokes, write something about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT75kh0W7Nw I know Bellstaff is prob hurting for bidness and selling waxed cotton to hipsters is super easy but, c'mon man. This is ridic. Something about David Beckham going around a field aimlessly at a jogging pace
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Jan 31, 2014 20:12
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Linedance posted:pizza engineer. It is probably a thing. My employer calls me an "engineer" to our clients but I do IT stuff and am not a "software engineer" or anything like that. Also have a completely unrelated engineering degree, so they are possibly correct in some technicality laden world, and now my brain is gonna explode from thinking about it. Hipsters are dumb put down your ironic mustache and step away from the 70s jap bike. There are poor people that want to get into motorcycles that would love to have it if you didn't cut the frame loop and do everything possible to make the bike uncomfortable to ride for any duration.
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Jan 31, 2014 21:38
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I'm a manager  Or more accurately, I'm a process manager for a bunch of IT applications. It's all monitoring, incident/problem management and improvement planning. No people skills needed. So yeah, another IT goon, but one that lets other IT goons do all the dirty work when poo poo goes wrong or needs to be improved. In the last 6 years or so, I've been an IT specialist, a process control manager, an application manager and a process monitoring engineer before my current title. The company loves to give people fancy new titles without the hassle of actually giving them a pay raise. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Jan 31, 2014 |
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Jan 31, 2014 22:03
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quote:If I use a real straight-razor and make my own lather with a badger brush then that makes me manly and attractive, even though I have scraggly unkempt hair and I'm 50 pounds overweight. I want to drag this dead horse back to say that wet shaving is loving awesome, then again most of my equipment is modern and I'm don't have unkempt nor am I fat. 
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Jan 31, 2014 22:28
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KozmoNaut posted:The company loves to give people fancy new titles without the hassle of actually giving them a pay raise. I'm both a market research analyst and a senior data engineer and I make minimum wage 
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Jan 31, 2014 23:58
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KozmoNaut posted:The company loves to give people fancy new titles without the hassle of actually giving them a pay raise. This is every company post-economy-crash
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Feb 1, 2014 00:07
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SeamusMcPhisticuffs posted:You work at a casino too? Wrong kind of indian.
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Feb 1, 2014 00:22
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ElMaligno posted:I want to drag this dead horse back to say that wet shaving is loving awesome, then again most of my equipment is modern and I'm don't have unkempt nor am I fat.
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Feb 1, 2014 00:51
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I use a DE safety razor-- same with my girlfriend. It's really the only way to prevent razor burn for both of us. I love my Merkur  Even with a pure badger brush and Trumper's coconut cream, I've broken even on my shaving bill about a year ago compared to prices of disposables since Astra Super Plats are only like $0.05 for three shaves 
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Feb 1, 2014 01:01
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Engineer/IT riders really piss me off.
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Feb 1, 2014 01:12
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nsaP posted:Engineer/IT riders really piss me off. Sorry about that impotent rage, bro.
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Feb 1, 2014 01:28
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Sorry, I shouldn't have interrupted work chat with my rant.
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Feb 1, 2014 01:30
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nsaP posted:Engineer/IT riders really piss me off. One of them self hatin' motorcyclists, eh?
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Feb 1, 2014 01:31
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One of my Persian buddies tipped me off to shaving in the shower. It really is the way to go.
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Feb 1, 2014 01:34
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Oh for sure. Do it enough and you don't even need shaving creme. I only use a bit of conditioner if I let it go for a couple weeks.
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Feb 1, 2014 02:04
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I have not shaved in like 10 years. I trim my enormous beard when it's hot enough to warrant it and shave my neck only when the beard is too short to hide a neckbeard. loving hate shaving and loving love being a dirty biologist with no dress code or appearance standards.
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Feb 1, 2014 03:28
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Are you this guy? Cause if you are, and someone invites you to go to a dinosaur island, AVOID THE TYRANNOSAURUS.
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Feb 1, 2014 03:45
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Xovaan posted:I use a DE safety razor-- same with my girlfriend. It's really the only way to prevent razor burn for both of us. I love my Merkur I've been wetshaving a few years too. I'm faster with a disposable or electric, but it just feels awful. I keep it cheap with Proraso stuff though. I still need to find a local barber that can do a real shave.
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Feb 1, 2014 03:58
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2-3mm clippers, entire head. Best thing about being bald.
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Feb 1, 2014 12:11
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Linedance posted:2-3mm clippers, entire head. Best thing about being bald. And no helmet hair.
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Feb 1, 2014 17:26
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Covert Ops Wizard posted:And no helmet hair. And it's less than $35 for a decent trimmer if you don't need a battery (you don't).
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Feb 1, 2014 18:41
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gently caress me. Finally cajoled girly into coming for a ride with me. I followed her all the way; she's an amazingly good rider for someone with next to no experience. It was also the most law-abiding ride I've ever had on the ninja. Then when we near her folks' place, I ended up going in front for the last kilometer. Inevitably, I went through a roundabout and the absolutely senile geriatric woman waiting to go just pulled out straight into girly. To her credit, she managed to bring the bike to a full stop before she got hit so the damage was extremely minor. Slight dent in the tank, broken indicator, snapped off mirror. Despite her having complete and absolute right of way, and there being three witnesses to say so, the woman just flat-out denied being at fault and insisted that she had right of way and girly 'came out of nowhere'. I felt terrible because it was her first major (ie longer than 20km) ride, and her first ride with me, but her confidence seems completely unaffected. She said she was glad it wasn't me who got hit because the damage would've been a lot more expensive than a $20 mirror and indicator 
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Feb 2, 2014 06:51
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That's awful. No injuries I hope. Did the police come to check it out?
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Feb 2, 2014 07:21
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poo poo man, glad she's ok. Don't know how I'd handle that with a little old woman. Probably go kick the poo poo out of something nearby so I didn't hit a little old lady.
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Feb 2, 2014 07:24
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Nah the cops didn't get involved. Dealing with insurance over $50 worth of damage isn't worth it because it'd bollock the no-claims bonus over basically nothing. The woman had no insurance, so gently caress her. No sympathy; when I'm ancient I certainly won't be driving if I'm that inept. Girly's wrist is sore so she'll go get it checked out tomorrow on the government's dollar.
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