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Powershift posted:I don't drive rental cars any harder than i drive my own vehicles, because i'm respectful This is why I don't think I beat on rentals.
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I remembered last night I have a new rear-exhaust section bought for my 107 sitting in the shed I'd been egged on by co-workers telling me I could change it myself, before common sense kicked in reminding me I only have a half scissor jack and a sloped driveway. If anyone wants it (I seem to remember someone on here having an Aigo) then I'd swap it for a beer
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freelop posted:I remembered last night I have a new rear-exhaust section bought for my 107 sitting in the shed I did the backbox on my aygo over christmas. You could probably replace it without even using the jack if you parked up a big curb - though the bolts that hold it on are behind the rear wheel so it is easier to reach with that off.
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Jul 23, 2014 08:14
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Terrible Robot posted:High blood pressure runs in my family, and as I've gotten older I've noticed that mine isn't as great as it once was. Gonna have to start giving up late night burgers Back in May when I had my wreck I ended up checking into the ER the next day with my BP at 220/139. Since then I've given up all red meat and most carbs. I've lost 9 pounds and I'm on a myriad of drugs. Earlier in the year I was 135/90, which is where I've been for a long time. Why suddenly the jump isn't known. Watch that poo poo careful if you have any signs of essential hypertension. I felt nothing wrong, walked into the ER under my own power with that BP. Buy a BP monitor on Amazon, check that poo poo once a day. Good ones can be found around $50.
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Jul 23, 2014 13:23
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trouser chili posted:Why suddenly the jump isn't known. Scout II.
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Glad you're okay STR. I never tried Ativan but I love loading up on Xanax and drinking a beer or 6, blacking out and waking up in my backyard under the picnic table.
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trouser chili posted:Buy a BP monitor on Amazon, check that poo poo once a day. Good ones can be found around $50. My old man has one and thanks to checking every day, he found out about a failing heart valve before he even had any symptoms. So now he's part pig.
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Jul 23, 2014 14:52
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Jul 23, 2014 14:58
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Cat Terrist posted:No, people who abuse properly just because it's DA MAN's or some other utter inexcusable rubbish are fuckwits. That kind of attitude is exactly the same attitude vandals use
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Jul 23, 2014 15:07
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Glad you're okay STR. I never tried Ativan but I love loading up on Xanax and drinking a beer or 6, blacking out and waking up in my backyard under the picnic table. you need rehab more than him
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IOwnCalculus posted:My old man has one and thanks to checking every day, he found out about a failing heart valve before he even had any symptoms. So now he's part pig. You have to port pig valves a lot or they shroud on the upper chamber. A lot of surgeons just want to replace parts and don't bother increasing the VE or compression ratio of the heart when they've got it open, but you can get maybe another 20, 30 bpm of seriously good grunt out of the top end if you do. The OEM left a lot of performance on the table, probably so they could make some headroom for emissions on their luxury models.
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Magic Underwear posted:you need rehab more than him Buncha judgmental fucks up in here today. Cage posted:Ok dad. Nice.
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Jul 23, 2014 16:11
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IOwnCalculus posted:So now he's part pig. So thats what happened with the old engine from the truck.  I lucked out. my heart is the only part I have that isn't terribly loving broken or actively trying to ruin my life. (except earlier this year when I blacked out bashing my head on cement)
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Magic Underwear posted:you need rehab more than him Nah. I've been working for the past 3 months so I can smoke again. I've cut my drinking down to only Friday and Saturday. And I ran out of my monthly Xanax script two months ago and haven't renewed it because I don't care that much.
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Geirskogul posted:Heh, if you were in Phoenix, you'd be one of my transports tonight. Ambulance IF (interfacility) all night every night. Nope. They walked me over; they're on the same property. Saved about $500 right there at least. I already have a decent Omron machine at home; I've been using it twice a day, plus monitoring my blood sugar twice a day, in addition to  diet changes and medications.Anyway, they couldn't confirm my insurance would even pay for a penny (... probably because Dexter McDyslexic typed up all my info, the only thing they got right was my DOB and street name... wrong city entirely, wrong zip code, wrong SSN, wrong phone #, wrong middle initial, wrong county), so I got discharged after a couple of banana bags, a couple of shots of Ativan, and a rather impressively sized script for Librium + Zofran + Phynergan. Plus an appointment at an IOP clinic today, except... don't know how they expect me to drive on the amount of Librium I'm rX'd for the next few days.
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I just got done pulling 40 CAT5e cables for a remodel and the office next door just lost all their phones. Thought maybe I sliced through a trunk with the pull string and started freaking out. Luckily we found out the in-house phone guy here was dicking around with the phone cross connects and went to lunch in the middle of it.
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Jul 23, 2014 17:23
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Boss vehicle update. He traded in his BMW X5 for a Trailblazer... Which loving had the CEL come on pulling out of the dealer now and the vehicle stalled. They apparently replaced the fuel pump and sensor yesterday.
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Slow is Fast posted:He traded in his BMW X5 for a Trailblazer... Another example of a dealer taking advantage of a customer.
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Somehow I've avoided high blood pressure despite it running in the family, I'm usually sitting around 90-100/60-70. Last time I very stupidly drove myself to the hospital and checked into the ER I was around 70/40. I just assumed I was horribly dehydrated which I was but also had other poo poo going on as usual. Always a bad sign when they bring in another machine or more people to re-check, also bad when they immediately hook up a heart monitor. Then they didn't want to discharge me until I hit their 'normal' range of 120/80 or something which I am never at. Took talking to 3 of my old doctors to convince them I ran a little low. rscott posted:gently caress privatized healthcare in general
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Slow is Fast posted:Boss vehicle update. At least they are both strait 6's. So... you know... theres that.
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Mining update: Down in the first layer of wash about 4 1/2 feet and starting to get 2-5 mm chunks of gold in the sluice. gently caress yeah!. found a little creek over the back too, got about 8 foot of bank with a couple of pickers in every pan. Not sure it counts as a job yet, but if this keeps up I'll have a car again by the end of next month easy.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:At least they are both strait 6's. So... you know... theres that. They threw a coilpack on it and it's fine. We got a leakdown and compression test out of the dealer for wasting his time. At least with the trailblazer all the loving accessories arent water cooled and there are like 4 moving parts and its a big dumb GM product so whatever.
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bend posted:Mining update: This is awesome, keep at it!
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Slow is Fast posted:They threw a coilpack on it and it's fine. We got a leakdown and compression test out of the dealer for wasting his time. I don't know what the gently caress is wrong with BMW, they put the water in the alternator and the electrons in the water pump. loving idiots, it's supposed to be the other way around. STR, hope you feel better soon. Seems like you got the short end of the stick 
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bend posted:Mining update: I can't believe I'm reading about someone who is literally panning for gold to get by in TYOOL 2014. It is surreal and amazing.
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bend posted:Mining update: The Midniter posted:I can't believe I'm reading about someone who is literally panning for gold to get by in TYOOL 2014. It is surreal and amazing. Good luck to you, frankly. If you can make money directly from your own physical effort on your own land, have at it.
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The Midniter posted:I can't believe I'm reading about someone who is literally panning for gold to get by in TYOOL 2014. It is surreal and amazing. Sluicing and detecting mostly, the pans for sampling to find a good spot mate. I'm not exactly getting by off it quite yet, but it certainly helps. I'm erratically employed in casual work, usually about 1-6 months a year depending on what I can pick up and never really seem to get onto fulltime. The dole helps but we live paycheck to paycheck a lot of the time so this is one of my little hustles to try and change that situation.
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I'm waiting for the posts to start talking about moving in next to Mr Drysdale and trying to find a suitable fella for Elly May.
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InitialDave posted:I'm waiting for the posts to start talking about moving in next to Mr Drysdale and trying to find a suitable fella for Elly May. "Good night Jim Bob."
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InitialDave posted:I'm waiting for the posts to start talking about moving in next to Mr Drysdale and trying to find a suitable fella for Elly May. Wrong country. You can keep your hillbillies to yourself, we have enough trouble with bogan infestations.
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bend posted:Wrong country. You can keep your hillbillies to yourself, we have enough trouble with bogan infestations. I watched a few episodes of "bogan hunters". If that show ever gets aired in another country, australia is hosed, like, you're never going to get treated like a first world country ever again.
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America kind of does despite the myriad of media that demonstrates how hosed up we are
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bend posted:Wrong country. You can keep your hillbillies to yourself, we have enough trouble with bogan infestations. 
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That explains why the windex was sizzling when I was trying to clean the windows inside the beetle today, in the shade.
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rscott posted:but it's a dry he- I will still take this any day over 90 degrees and humid. Humidity is hell.
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IOwnCalculus posted:I will still take this any day over 90 degrees and humid. Humidity is hell. yeah it was 101 with ~45% RH yesterday here in Wichita and I sweated through my shirt just driving home in less than 20 minutes, mostly highway miles.
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