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taterz posted:If all else fails, horse masks are like $20 on Amazon. Oh, believe me, I have a horse mask on stand-by somewhere in a box.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Saabs, not even once. I grew up in a small town in Iowa and remember a house a few blocks down that had a Saab of some boxy variety. It resided in the driveway, was some vintage that implied it was less than ten years old, yet it never moved. No rust on the body, looked beautiful, yet I never once saw it outside of the small square where it lived in the driveway. Never encountered on the road around a town of 2000 people. I still lust after non-running Saab. Like I lust after an opium addiction, good times with no productivity.
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T-Square posted:Guys I have a bunch of Halloween parties this month but I have no loving clue what I want to do for a costume. Serious problems here. 
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Im up at strange rear end hours with work, so any one is welcome to snapchat the poo poo out of me. Used to be Tier 1 support for those guys, and I can say gently caress MEDIACOM with feeling and venom. The poor bastard on the other end of the phone was flat lying to you, though, their TOS doesn't say poo poo about external routers, just that they won't offer support for them. You can use your own cable modem/gateway too, which is why I swapped the piece of poo poo they gave me for a Netgear C3700 NAS that I had lying around. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Oct 3, 2014 |
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T-Square posted:Also, gently caress you Netflix, I wasn't done watching Initial D, put it back up! Check Hulu? I imagine the subbed versions are also all on Youtube. EDIT: Everything that's dubbed is on Hulu. mariooncrack fucked around with this message at 03:39 on Oct 3, 2014 |
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T-Square posted:Guys I have a bunch of Halloween parties this month but I have no loving clue what I want to do for a costume. Serious problems here. Go as Bill Murray characters. Go to one party as Peter Venkman, another as Groundskeeper Carl, Steve Zissou, etc. None of them are hard to pull off and should be good for a laugh. Come to think of it, I just might do that myself.
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Oh man, I already have my costume for this year but Zissou will be the one for next year. I love that movie. I bet its easy to find the hat at least.
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If none of these is Hunter S. Thompson from Where The Buffalo Roam, you are a shameful man.
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Liquid Communism posted:If none of these is Hunter S. Thompson from Where The Buffalo Roam, you are a shameful man. The pro'est suggestion. Goddamn how did I forget about that one?
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T-Square posted:Guys I have a bunch of Halloween parties this month but I have no loving clue what I want to do for a costume. Serious problems here.
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T-Square posted:Also, gently caress you Netflix, I wasn't done watching Initial D, put it back up! God dammit I haven't finished either, that's just wrong.
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My best costume was Matt Foley, Motivational Speaker. I stayed in character the entire night and it got better the more I drank...or at least I think it got better. I even memorized the sketch where he speaks to a Mexican family and learned some additional Spanish vocab words so I could just switch into speaking Spanish, but as Matt Foley. I wanted to build a breakaway table to go with the costume and the act, but I didn't have the time.
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As much as I love that movie, way too young to pull that off. Fry just popped into my head, maybe Zoidberg if I feel like doing the work?
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T-Square posted:As much as I love that movie, way too young to pull that off. Fry just popped into my head, maybe Zoidberg if I feel like doing the work? I can't grow any facial hair but I just put on a robe over shorts or whatever and drunk people go "the dude!! awesome" goatse guy posted:Drinking White Russians in a bathrobe shouldn't be reserved for just Halloween. It's my drink of choice, but I don't have a robe right now.
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CharlesM posted:I can't grow any facial hair but I just put on a robe over shorts or whatever and drunk people go "the dude!! awesome" I can't grow any facial hair either but that's not going to stop me from being The Dude this year.
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goatse guy posted:I can't grow any facial hair either but that's not going to stop me from being The Dude this year. I'm officiating a friend's wedding later this month and the online group I went through to get "ordained" so I can legally marry them is the Church of the Latter Day Dude. They call themselves "dudeists" and I am officially a "dudeist priest". It's a real thing (sorta...) and totally legal for the purposes of officiating a wedding. I looked at several other "groups" like the Universal Life Church, but they seem to actually take themselves a little bit seriously, so dudeists it is. Tragically, I have been told that I can't do the wedding dressed as the Dude. I almost quit then and there, but she's one of my oldest friends so I just have to console myself by drinking all of their booze anyway.
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goatse guy posted:I can't grow any facial hair either but that's not going to stop me from being The Dude this year. 
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bandman posted:I'm officiating a friend's wedding later this month and the online group I went through to get "ordained" so I can legally marry them is the Church of the Latter Day Dude. They call themselves "dudeists" and I am officially a "dudeist priest". It's a real thing (sorta...) and totally legal for the purposes of officiating a wedding. I looked at several other "groups" like the Universal Life Church, but they seem to actually take themselves a little bit seriously, so dudeists it is. Just set a white russian on the podium before starting your ceremonial duties. Insist it is a religious requirement.
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Viggen posted:I hosed your mum. IoC held her down. We all came. OMFG that avatar
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Negromancer posted:I really need to stop leasing the POS cable modem from comcast and just buy my own and pick up one of those AP's. Any recommendations for cable modems? I have never looked into buying one before. Motorola Surfboard. Wal-Mart even carries them. Older models were pretty terrible when they started including built-in wifi, newer ones are solid. If you buy used, make sure it's new enough to support DOCSIS 3.0. IOwnCalculus posted:I got DD-WRT micro running on what I think was a v5 at one point. I never used it as anything more than a wireless client bridge but it worked alright when my network was all 802.11g. I still have one running micro as well. I think it's a v6? I haven't used it as more than a wireless bridge in 6 or 7 years though - it used to be used for a network-enabled bluray player (that said "wifi ready*" on the box *if you drop an extra $100 on a model-specific wifi dongle that's long discontinued, thanks sony). I did find that almost all of my issues with it could be fixed by just setting it to reboot itself once a week. I have a N300 Netgear router running Tomato now, I've had it about 5 years  it might have been a samknows whitebox at one timemariooncrack posted:I thought he wanted to try to get his life together and thought he was spending way too much time here on SA. Rhyno also left that bookface thing. It's made it hard for me to stalk him. Liquid Communism posted:Used to be Tier 1 support for those guys, and I can say gently caress MEDIACOM with feeling and venom. The poor bastard on the other end of the phone was flat lying to you, though, their TOS doesn't say poo poo about external routers, just that they won't offer support for them. You can use your own cable modem/gateway too, which is why I swapped the piece of poo poo they gave me for a Netgear C3700 NAS that I had lying around. I've been tier 1 for one ISP, "tier 2" for Roadrunner/TWC, and actual tier 2 for Frontier. Every ISP I've worked for, and used, had the same policy - use your own router if you want, just know we won't hold your hand if you break it. Unless it's Frontier, then they'll tell you that they'll support it if you pay an extra $20/month for premium tech support, then give a halfassed attempt while trying to upsell you on identity protection. Then try to upsell on antivirus. Then try to upsell on backup software. Then keep trying to upsell. Then somehow drop the call if you were in danger of ruining your average call time for the day. We have a movie theater here that has full table service in the theater. They call their white russians "The Dude's White Russian". I always manage to rack up something stupid like a $50 tab every time I go there, between food and drinks. Pham Nuwen posted:In this thread I'm never sure if "trashy assholes" refers to people or actual assholes. Hey man, don't judge me for going a few weeks without manscaping. I'll handle that before we go out again. Yeah uh, it may have been something worse. I woke up today to a bed completely soaked in sweat (at least I hope it was sweat), and I've had menopause-style hot flashes all day.  Which is also why nobody has been subjected to any of my posting today.OH poo poo IT'S EBOLA ISN'T IT You Am I posted:OMFG that avatar 
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mariooncrack posted:I thought he wanted to try to get his life together and thought he was spending way too much time here on SA. You're correct, the others are wrong. Rhyno specifically said both on Facebook and AI that he felt like he was spending too much time on both places and that he felt like it was keeping him from making positive changes in his attitude and life that he was trying to make. I miss his chatter in AI, but given how angry he always seemed about everything on FB it's hopefully been a good thing for him.
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Ebola chat. Was watching the local news earlier. They showed a shot of the sign in front of the apartment complex of the family that's been quarantined. Okay fine, there's still several hundred apartments there. Then zoomed in on the sign that has the building number. A lot of older apartments here have an individual street address for every building - that sign actually had the full street address on it along with the building #, so you no longer need to google the name of the property to get an address. Then they zoomed in on the front door, clearly showing the actual apartment number, and the anchors kept repeating the apartment number.  Then interviewed parents at a nearby school. One parent said she wanted to know "where these people live". If she caught that broadcast, she got her wish. Looks like they've edited the clips that are online to remove that parent's comments, but there's still a lot of video online showing their address. .... they also interviewed a lot of people who live in the same apartment complex. There was a lot of anger. I feel really bad for that family, they're likely going to be victims of a lot of poo poo once the quarantine is lifted/cops leave. I'm used to seeing a full address for criminal stuff in a small town, not so much giving out the address of a family dealing with diseases in one of the largest metro areas in the US.
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Goober Peas posted:I've had this music video stuck in my head all day. Whoa, that and all the linked videos take me back. drat what a simple time, I was 14, doing a terrible job at a cabinet shop where they paid me double minimum wage but I got fired after 2 weeks. Also contributing was that they had porn in the bathroom, so I spent waaay too much time in there. Made enough to buy a skateboard and that was enough to satisfy both me and my dad who was just trying to get me my first job experience.
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Viggen posted:I hosed your mum.
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some texas redneck posted:If you buy used, make sure it's new enough to support DOCSIS 3.0. Double check that it's worth the risk to buy used. Providers in my town will blacklist a modem if it is tied to a delinquent account. Because of this, none of the local retailers allow you to return a modem.
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Pretty sure what I have is the flu and not food poisoning at this point. 102 fevers are not fun, neither is hallucinating (when you haven't done something that you expect to cause hallucinations anyway). If you need me, I'll be in the darkest nearby corner shivering and drenched in sweat. Caught this on the weather channel a little while ago. Not sure if it's the fever that made me think it was hilarious, or the fact he walked up in front of a camera and spent a solid 10 seconds straightening his tie and giving a thumbs up, not realizing he was already live.  mafoose posted:Providers in my town will blacklist a modem if it is tied to a delinquent account. Because of this, none of the local retailers allow you to return a modem. That's.... usually if it was a modem issued by the ISP. I hope that's still the case anyway. But yeah, they're cheap enough brand new, I think a current Motorola Surfboard (which includes a 4 or 5 port switch and wifi) isn't much more than $60 at Wal-Mart. It's not cheap, but it's a hell of a lot less than what I once paid for a 2400 bps modem.  fake edit: just checked. $69.99. Shipped free, or pick up in-store for free. Likely can be found a bit cheaper if you have a Fry's or Micro Center in your area. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 10:29 on Oct 3, 2014 |
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InitialDave posted:She's always strongly believed in charity. Subtle, reserved, beautiful.
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T-Square posted:As much as I love that movie, way too young to pull that off. Fry just popped into my head, maybe Zoidberg if I feel like doing the work? 
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CharlesM posted:What's this? Shameful He's the drug dealer from Pulp Fiction.
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I just saw someone post on facebook about ordering pizza in the middle of yesterday's storm. And bitching about how long it took. ARE YOU loving KIDDING ME?!?!?  I had something a lot longer and bitchier typed up about what I've gone through trying to get orders out on time, but it boiled down to "ring doorbell just as tornado sirens go off, customer tells me I'm loving crazy and makes me shelter with his family for 15 minutes, walk out afterwards to find my car missing almost all of its glass and moved several hundred feet, customer got free pizza for a long time". randomidiot fucked around with this message at 12:19 on Oct 3, 2014 |
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some texas redneck posted:I just saw someone post on facebook about ordering pizza in the middle of yesterday's storm. That was really nice of those people to pull you inside instead of letting you back out there.
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I used to love storms. I bought my first house last October, and we had a massive storm here in July. A tornado touched down literally in my backyard and traveled about a mile before it lifted up. I lost eleven trees though had only gutter damage to the house itself. A huge spruce fell about a foot from the Volvo that was parked next to it. I'm still cleaning up after that storm. gently caress storms. gently caress them right in their twister hole.
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