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May 7, 2014 02:27
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Advice needed -- 
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meatpimp posted:What say you, AI collective? Get it fixed at the dealer and send the check to the shop that hosed it up. If they refuse take them to court. That's the main reason I always change the oil myself, after having two oil pans stripped I said gently caress this it's not worth it. They're all in a hurry and give no fucks about your car, then deny deny deny when they gently caress it up.
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May 7, 2014 02:35
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I had a shop twist the head off a bolt that fastens the rear trailing arm to the body and didn't think it was important to tell me. These days I only take my stuff to a local guy when I can't do it. He does alignments with string and and camber gauges and they are better than any alignment I've had done at alignment specific shops. They can't even be bothered to centre the steering wheel.
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May 7, 2014 02:43
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rscott posted:
Are those stacks of unfolded pizza boxes?
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May 7, 2014 03:08
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Cape Cod chips are like god drat crack cocaine.
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May 7, 2014 03:35
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Great Beer posted:Are those stacks of unfolded pizza boxes? they had better be since it's a federal crime to misuse those free USPS boxes 
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May 7, 2014 03:41
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Super Aggro Crag posted:
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May 7, 2014 04:01
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mafoose posted:I take it the stock pan is aluminum? If so, I'd take a thread insert over threaded aluminum any day. That said, the proper way to do it would be removing the pan, and if you're going to go that far, a new pan might not be a bad idea. Most aluminum pans I've seen come with steel thread inserts already, so those are what got chewed up.
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May 7, 2014 04:11
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Great Beer posted:Are those stacks of unfolded pizza boxes? Looks like it says "XBOX".
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May 7, 2014 04:27
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Naw the stacks of boxes below the A/C.
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May 7, 2014 05:09
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e2: So verizon swapped out all of our cable boxes/DVRs for the whole house VMS + IP terminals. They're slow as 90 year old balls, BTW, but you can do pause/rewind/etc on every TV in the house. Just don't expect them to respond to anything in less than 5 seconds. The one box that I neglected to set up purchase restrictions on is in the master bedroom. About 30 minutes ago, a knock at the door, stepdad saying "I think I hit the wrong button". I look through the purchase history on that terminal ("cable box"). Nothing.  Then an email.. quote:THANK YOU FOR YOUR RECENT ORDER 20 minute phone call later, it's fixed. I think. Goddamnit I wish I could talk the entire house into just using the HDHomeRun Primes. I think once the price of Intel NUCs comes down a little more, that'll be a reality. Having the whole house rely on those + ethernet tuners would knock an easy $50/mo off of my bill, though DVR stuff would become a little more complicated. rscott posted:
I would do questionable things to get either a window unit that would work with my shutters (inside shutters) or a portable unit that could exhaust out the window. I like my living space cooler than most people, but cranking up the 5 1/2 ton whole-house unit to keep one room nice and cool is $$$$$$$$$. The cheapest portable I'm finding that's not an evaporative cooler is still close to $300 (but it's also 8000 BTU, which will keep this room downright frigid, with an energy sticker showing an average cost of $35-40/yr). Pretty sure I'm going to go ahead and order it once my paycheck clears. e: those look like flat rate Priority Mail boxes, not pizza boxes. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 07:28 on May 7, 2014 |
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May 7, 2014 06:11
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So I got hungry for a baked potato. Went in the kitchen, nuked a potato (since nukesteam is .... well, not baked, but about an hour quicker.. add another 30 minutes to heat up our lovely oven). Intending to put butter, cheese, and green onions on it. Maybe some crumbled bacon. I have no idea what the gently caress vortex I fell into, but I left the kitchen with pan fried potatoes, scrambled eggs, green onions, sauteed mushrooms, sauteed jalapenos, cheese, ham, bacon, and... I honestly have no loving idea what else went in it, but it was all mixed into one big greasy sloppy delicious plate. I hate mushrooms (never liked them). I'm not a big fan of eggs either (they're basically pure cholesterol, and I already have high blood pressure). It's also been about 18 hours since I hit the  - only real difference between today and any other time is I haven't had a drink in 2 days.I'm getting a blood draw Thursday morning for a cholesterol screening. Pretty sure I kicked it up a few (thousand) points with this meal. A very, very, very delicious meal. And I'm still hungry. 
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May 7, 2014 09:24
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leica posted:Get it fixed at the dealer and send the check to the shop that hosed it up. If they refuse take them to court. Yup, just about my thoughts. I'll update when there's news.
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May 7, 2014 10:21
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some texas redneck posted:So I got hungry for a baked potato. Went in the kitchen, nuked a potato (since nukesteam is .... well, not baked, but about an hour quicker.. add another 30 minutes to heat up our lovely oven). Intending to put butter, cheese, and green onions on it. Maybe some crumbled bacon. You bastard. I've been wondering what to make for breakfast, you're not helping.
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May 7, 2014 12:32
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T1g4h posted:You bastard. I've been wondering what to make for breakfast, you're not helping. Seems more like he made it easier for you
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May 7, 2014 12:33
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I know we have a few phone geeks in here so I thought I would throw this out: Picked up a Gear 2 watch and having a bitch of a time getting the software to finish syncing it with my ATT GS4 on rooted 4.2.2. The Gear 2 worked flawlessly with my tab pro 10.1 on stock 4.4.x. So I'm thinking I just need to upgrade my phone, but I'm not sure if I should keep root as all I really do with it is the occasional backup and freeze a few annoyances. I'm leaning towards the shostock build which would keep root (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2468860), or going full stock and losing root. The former is easy, just wipe and install using TWRP or CWM - but if I went the latter route, what's the best method - Just turn on the OTA update or do I need to revert to a recovery build and let it run from there?
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May 7, 2014 12:35
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freelop posted:Seems more like he made it easier for you You would think that, but despite working in a restaurant, I have zero cooking skill, so his crazy hodgepodge recipe is right out. Unless I want to set the entire kitchen on fire 
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May 7, 2014 12:37
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atomicthumbs posted:they had better be since it's a federal crime to misuse those free USPS boxes they aren't mine, they were provided by maintenance to help balance the window unit or something. Or maybe I'm supposed to burn them for heat the next time it gets cold idk
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May 7, 2014 12:59
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Cape Cod chips are like god drat crack cocaine. Utz Crab Chips. I will eat them until my mouth burns.
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May 7, 2014 15:24
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meatpimp posted:Yup, just about my thoughts. I'll update when there's news. Goodyear store brought in a mechanic from the VW dealer ~15 miles away. Replaced the bolt with another bolt and apparently all is well. I got this second-hand and he's selling the car anyway, so looks like this was much ado about nothing.
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May 7, 2014 16:24
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My dad had to replace the sun visor in my grandma's A4 for some reason and replaced it with the normal one, while her's originally had a bunch of stuff on it like a built in garage opener. Now none of her interior lights work. Guess what I get to fix on Friday?
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May 7, 2014 16:57
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Is a '99 MG F a nice/desirable car? I started a new job and it turns out one of my new co-workers is a gearhead. He has one, and he's completely restored it, complete disassembly, media blasting parts, the works. I had no idea what it was so I looked it up, and it basically seems like a British MR2.
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May 7, 2014 19:39
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They get a lot of stick, but they really aren't a bad design, they just have the worst combination of a poo poo headgasket design and hilariously bad access to replace it. Supposedly the "final" head gasket version is a lot better. The hydragas suspension always struck me as being an excessively complicated way of doing things, too, but the later TF ones are on coils. I think of them as being a bit like TR7s. Not particularly bad, but I just don't really see the appeal.
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May 7, 2014 20:25
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Is the MGF the one that they built in China or is that just the TF?
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May 7, 2014 20:27
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They were all built in the UK until Rover copped it, the TF is the later model from the last few years before it happened. They moved production to restart in China a couple of years after that following the company sale, and then about a year or so later they started sending the cars as CKD kits to be assembled in the UK, only for them to stop again due to lack of demand.
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May 7, 2014 20:32
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Super Aggro Crag posted:My dad had to replace the sun visor in my grandma's A4 for some reason and replaced it with the normal one, while her's originally had a bunch of stuff on it like a built in garage opener. Now none of her interior lights work. Guess what I get to fix on Friday? Would chuckle if he just twisted all the cable ends together and shoved them back into the headliner.
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May 7, 2014 20:32
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Knowing Audi my bet is that he unplugged it properly, but everything is controlled via CAN bus and for some reason, they put the logic to handle sending the message to turn the lights on into that particular module. This is 25% logic/experience, 50% laughing at Audi, and 25% assumptions, so it'll be funny if I'm right.
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May 7, 2014 20:37
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bandman posted:My wife found a 60s-vintage Sero Scotty camper for $700 that needs a good bit of work and fell in love with it. She's committed us to picking it up in Columbia, SC on Saturday. The pictures the seller sent look like they were taken with a 15 year old cell phone, but from what I can tell, it seems to not be complete disaster. One corner definitely needs to be rebuilt from the inside out, but the rest looks solid. A full redo of the inside is in order, mostly to remove the shitter/shower because gently caress having to deal with a black water tank. Ok, having looked at photo albums and message board threads where these campers have been redone, I feel better about this trailer as a starting point and my ability to turn it into something usable. It looks like most of the time the whole drat thing has to come apart anyway to fix water damage or replace floors, so people just build a new floor and use the original parts as templates to cut new walls from plywood. Where I think we will have some difficulty is in the interior design stuff. I'm a geologist, she's an engineer, neither of us have any clue about aesthetics or design elements. Structural and mechanical repairs are no problem, but making it look nice is not our bag. I see this as my wife basically telling me to buy more power tools, go to the garage, and build stuff. That's never a bad thing, right?
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May 7, 2014 20:39
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Well as long as no one else ever looks at it (or you don't care what other people think, that works too) just build it how you guys are happy with it and call it a day. If I end up doing my interior design and layout on my house (which is almost guaranteed), it's going to be pretty drat industrial/institutional. I'm OK with that, to hell with what anyone else thinks, stainless steel and plate glass everywhere!
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May 7, 2014 20:52
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kastein posted:Well as long as no one else ever looks at it (or you don't care what other people think, that works too) just build it how you guys are happy with it and call it a day. My wife and I both think industrial-looking stuff like poured concrete countertops and brushed stainless are loving awesome. If we re-do the kitchen in our next house, we are totally doing concrete counters. edit: Yeah, that's the idea really. Make it functional for the two of us and both kids to stay there for 3-4 nights in a campground with power, water, and showers. We were looking at doing a teardrop style travel trailer, but I'm 6' tall and my wife is 6'1", so a low-profile teardrop wouldn't have worked for us. She actually found this trailer through a Facebook group for women interested in travel trailers called Bitches with Hitches. We both had a laugh about that name. bandman fucked around with this message at 21:00 on May 7, 2014 |
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May 7, 2014 20:54
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I'm split between stainless steel, concrete, soapstone, and granite. Probably doing cheap lovely melamine/laminate for now but building the cabinetry to handle the load of a stone top just in case I get a bug up my rear end about it once I have the money to upgrade. Knowing my luck, I'll be about a minute from buying crappy laminate countertops and a random friend I haven't heard from in 3 years will call me up and ask if I want 200 linear feet of stainless countertop being torn out of a restaurant he's working on or something, just gotta pick it up tonight.
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May 7, 2014 20:56
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Please post a thread when you get it bandman. I read loads of forums on campers, campervans, teardrops etc, I'd love to see an ai resident redo one.
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May 7, 2014 21:03
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Cakefool posted:Please post a thread when you get it bandman. I read loads of forums on campers, campervans, teardrops etc, I'd love to see an ai resident redo one. Will do on the thread. Our goal is going to be to have it back on the road in liveable shape by the end of next May, so hopefully there will be a "Thread Delivers!" moment before the next Ice Age. I have already found something that will be an issue. The Scotty Hilander is about a foot too tall to fit through our garage door.
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May 7, 2014 21:17
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I realize I probably bitch about this every time I try to sell something but holy poo poo Craigslist is the reason I drink. I posted a bike for a pretty reasonable price and said it was negotiable, also specifically said "Do not text asking what bottom dollar is". 13 "what's ur bottom dollar/doller/$" since I posted, 4 since lunch today. Then some chuckle gently caress after texting back and forth and pretty much agreeing on a price expects me to deliver it to him three hours away for free. Can't wait until I try to sell the 928  kastein posted:I'm split between stainless steel, concrete, soapstone, and granite. Probably doing cheap lovely melamine/laminate for now but building the cabinetry to handle the load of a stone top just in case I get a bug up my rear end about it once I have the money to upgrade. Knowing my luck, I'll be about a minute from buying crappy laminate countertops and a random friend I haven't heard from in 3 years will call me up and ask if I want 200 linear feet of stainless countertop being torn out of a restaurant he's working on or something, just gotta pick it up tonight. bandman posted:My wife found a 60s-vintage Sero Scotty camper for $700 that needs a good bit of work and fell in love with it. bandman posted:I have already found something that will be an issue. The Scotty Hilander is about a foot too tall to fit through our garage door.
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May 7, 2014 21:21
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Girlfriend and I just had a fight about something that I had no control over and have tried to explain this to her repeatedly. Finally lost my temper and yelled "gently caress you!" into the phone before hanging up; just got a text saying she's done. Which wouldn't be so bad if, you know, we didn't have a kid together gently caress this week. Monday I nearly went to jail/got my car impounded for apparently driving on a suspended license. Found out that some fines I had paid over 5 months ago got lost in a bureaucracy shuffle and somebody decided I should lose my license anyway. Spent all day yesterday at the DMV getting that bullshit sorted out, and they still charged me $150 to get my license back even though it was their fault to begin with. gently caress the moon, gently caress squirrels, gently caress all this wood in here, gently caress me, gently caress you, gently caress everyone.
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May 7, 2014 22:59
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Terrible Robot posted:Girlfriend and I just had a fight about something that I had no control over and have tried to explain this to her repeatedly. Finally lost my temper and yelled "gently caress you!" into the phone before hanging up; just got a text saying she's done. Which wouldn't be so bad if, you know, we didn't have a kid together Holy poo poo AI has had a bad E/N week. Tell her you're sorry.
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May 7, 2014 23:05
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meatpimp posted:Holy poo poo AI has had a bad E/N week. Tell her you're sorry. If I thought saying sorry would help at all I would have called her back immediately to do so. Don't ever date women with bipolar/borderline personality, and definitely don't ever loving get them pregnant. You cannot reason with her if she gets into a certain mood, anything you say is just going to make it worse. I am apparently a horrible person for wanting to go to my friends going away party on Sunday before he moved to Colorado because it was the anniversary of one of her brothers deaths. Of course she didn't mention any of this to me in the week or so leading up to the party, because I'm supposed to remember the date or some poo poo. I'm lucky to remember my own goddamn birthday let alone the day somebody I met maybe twice back in middle school died. Then she texts me out of the blue today saying that she'll be getting a ride to Richmond this weekend to see two of our mutual friends graduate from college, which we have been planning on doing for months together. I'm so loving tired. Tired of the constant having to walk on eggshells because saying or doing the wrong thing or at the wrong time can mean a week or more of super passive-aggressive bullshit on her part while I just try and figure out what the hell I supposedly hosed up this time and how to fix it. Only to have months old stuff thrown in my face whenever she gets pissy. gently caress life. Terrible Robot fucked around with this message at 23:31 on May 7, 2014 |
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May 7, 2014 23:21
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Yeah, death anniversaries (and people that "celebrate" them) are weird things...
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May 7, 2014 23:27
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Terrible Robot posted:Girlfriend and I just had a fight about something that I had no control over and have tried to explain this to her repeatedly. meatpimp posted:Tell her you're sorry. Terrible Robot posted:If I thought saying sorry would help at all I would have called her back immediately to do so. Have a sleep on it. Go see a good friend and talk to them about it. Don't drink too much.
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May 7, 2014 23:28
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My girlfriend's mother died in August and I'll be damned if I could tell you the correct day.
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