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Massachusetts has had 3? 4? tornados since I bought my house. The first one passed right by me (literally missed me by half a mile, the day I moved in, with no home insurance and all my belongings in the living room in boxes.) I'm not really a fan and they were super weak tornados. You guys in the south are welcome to take your missing tornados back anytime.
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Ya'll need to leave your toilet states and move to a nice calm safe state... Actually, no don't. We don't want your bullshit here.
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Oct 3, 2014 15:10
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Slow is Fast posted:Ya'll need to leave your toilet states and move to a nice calm safe state... Maine has natural disasters, but they are of the human variety.
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Oct 3, 2014 15:17
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goatse guy posted:Maine has natural disasters, but they are of the human variety. Kind of like the pot calling the kettle black isn't it? Also poisonous spiders by state: http://www.venombyte.com/venom/spiders/venomous_spiders_by_state.asp Maine No dangerously venomous spiders are known to exist in Maine.
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Oct 3, 2014 15:20
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this is going to be my costume this year
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Oct 3, 2014 15:26
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The one good thing about working 4 10's is that I get Fridays off now. So loving tired.
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Oct 3, 2014 15:30
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Super Aggro Crag posted:The one good thing about working 4 10's is that I get Fridays off now. So loving tired. Today, I finished at noon, and am not due back in until Monday. I actually have to figure out what the hell I'm doing with myself for the next couple of days.
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Oct 3, 2014 15:34
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Super Aggro Crag posted:The one good thing about working 4 10's is that I get Fridays off now. So loving tired. We were offered that option in the summer. I didn't do it. I'd still have to pay full-time for daycare (the price only changes if they go three days or fewer), and then I'd have to get stuff down around the house. Nah, I think I'll just keep on working five eights.
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Slow is Fast posted:Kind of like the pot calling the kettle black isn't it? A few months ago, I drove across the northern portion of Minnesota. Before my trip, I closed my eyes and imagined that the scenery was much like Maine, but less lovely -- pine forests blanketing the landscape, dotted with pristine picturesque lakes. But nope, it was just as lovely as NEAI had made Maine out to be, with houses covered in Tyvek wrapping and yards filled with junked vehicles and appliances.
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Oct 3, 2014 15:50
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I just finished getting caught up on a couple of threads (work has been busy), and I also just closed the craigslist tab I had open. I want a 500SL from the early 90's sooooooooo bad. I need to sell some other cars (and finish the All-Trac) before I can even look at them. But I want one.
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Oct 3, 2014 16:05
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Well the job site I'm at right now is a 2hr round trip commute so it's more like 4 12's. The extra day off saves me $25 in gas too so it's well worth it. poo poo, we worked an extra hour on Wednesday just so we could GTFO an hour early yesterday. Also -- Doing telephone pole line work in the rain loving SUCKS. The customers' nasty rear end dirt floor basements I have to crawl through also SUCK. First house I did yesterday had a 3ft tall basement I had to crawl under and a big spider landed on my head. I screamed like a little bitch. And my project manager wants me to get my DOT card so I can drive the bucket truck so I had to quit smoking weed again for the next month. Ughghghghghgh.
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Oct 3, 2014 17:00
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Super Aggro Crag posted:The one good thing about working 4 10's is that I get Fridays off now. So loving tired. Same schedule I'm on, only I'm on grave. That Friday never works out, I almost always end up spending it asleep after 4 12's.
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Oct 3, 2014 17:43
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So I've been fighting off a cold for the last two weeks and yesterday I finally started feeling better ...until 2pm when I broke out into a sweat and my joints started aching. By the time I got home from work at 5pm I had a temperature of 103F. Slept from 5:30pm till 4am when I woke up from a panic attack and apparently the fever breaking and it was down to 99.9F, so I go into work today and end up having to leave two hours into the shift because it went back up to 101F and I didn't want to get anybody sick. 
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Oct 3, 2014 18:08
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Half-day Friday every Friday. Aerospace mostly sucks but it has a few perks. 
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Tusen Takk posted:So I've been fighting off a cold for the last two weeks and yesterday I finally started feeling better You shouldn't have gone to work in the first place. 
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I went for what I thought would be a 2 mile run through a local park this morning. I got lost in the woods and it turned into 4.5 miles. My shorts and underarmour shirt are covered in those little prickly loving seeds that stick to everything on the planet. I don't want to go to work tonight.
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Oct 3, 2014 18:19
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Geirskogul posted:You shouldn't have gone to work in the first place. If you don't go to work, you get 1 point. If you go to work but leave early, you get half a point. Once you get three points, you get a write-up. Plus I really need the money so I was hoping I'd be able to finish the 8 hour shift, especially since the fever broke and that usually means it's over and done with. I didn't anticipate getting another fever :/
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Oct 3, 2014 18:23
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some texas redneck posted:We have a movie theater here that has full table service in the theater. They call their white russians "The Dude's White Russian". There's a Big Lebowski themed bar in Reykjavik Iceland called Lebowski Bar. First time I ever had a white Russian then I switched to their Chocolate Russians (same thing with chocolate milk) and it was fantastic. They were around $12 and $14 a piece because alcohol is really expensive in Iceland (a fifth of Jack is $70) but gently caress it. Plus my friends and I almost got into a fight with an absolutely plastered Greenlander and another American we met there bought us shots and beer. Easily my favorite bar, too bad it's a six hour plane ride away.
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Oct 3, 2014 18:29
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Tusen Takk posted:If you don't go to work, you get 1 point. If you go to work but leave early, you get half a point. Once you get three points, you get a write-up.
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Oct 3, 2014 18:31
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gently caress jobs that punish you for getting sick (unless you call in an excessive amount), like that's something you really have control over. And yeah if you are sick don't go to work, nobody wants to be around a plague-carrier. Every time I've called in my boss was just like "ok man, hope you feel better, later"
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Oct 3, 2014 18:36
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Geirskogul posted:As a healthcare worker, I kind of want to strangle you.
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jammyozzy posted:Half-day Friday every Friday. Aerospace mostly sucks but it has a few perks. We get that in the automotive sector too Poet's day Piss Off Early Tomorrow's Saturday
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Terrible Robot posted:gently caress jobs that punish you for getting sick (unless you call in an excessive amount), like that's something you really have control over. gently caress jobs that don't necessarily punish you but don't make it easy either. If I call in sick, all my work is still there with the same due dates, and now I have to work twice as hard to get the work done. As such, I'm only calling in sick if I'm on my death bed. Vacations are the same way. Taking a week off sucks because coming back in and having to work twice as hard for two weeks just sucks.
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Goddamn, I'm starting to really enjoy driving this stickshift dump truck at work. I finally get why you guys rave about stuff with manual transmissions, they're a blast when you nail your gear changes. I don't think I've ever thought of using "Dually Silverado dump truck" and "fun" in the same sentence until this week.
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Cage posted:As a healthcare worker, that's kind of a weird thing to do! As a healthcare worker, you'd want to, too.
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Terrible Robot posted:gently caress jobs that punish you for getting sick (unless you call in an excessive amount), like that's something you really have control over. My work's starting to lean this way too, because a few of our techs are up to a week and a half overspent on their PTO for the year already. We get three bloody weeks. I want to strangle them, because it means I get an inquisition every time I want a day off.
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some texas redneck posted:One tree doesn't know how to tree anymore Germany's unification day was a success I think. I drank a poo poo load of beer and ate a bunch of curryywurst. Got over my anxiety of Berlin's mass transit and traveled everywhere tipsy and/or drunk. Managed to keep a buzz and/or drink from 11am to now (8:30pm) and I'm now headed out for dinner with drinks. I'd say this was a good bank holiday. Not sure wtf I'm going to do for the rest of the weekend. Have a 3 day unlimited travel pass for u/s bahn and busses. May just sit my rear end on a train/bus and see the city tomorrow. Oh yeah, currywurst is awesome. NitroSpazzz fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Oct 4, 2014 |
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Oct 3, 2014 19:16
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Tire guys where i used to work don't get sick days unless it's not busy. And even then you still come in every morning, and just hope you get sent home after your first fleet check. But when it's just you, your service truck and some trailers the risk of getting someone else sick is pretty low. Either way I'm glad to be out of there and In a place where I can just call in for whatever reason.
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Oct 3, 2014 19:28
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Reminder that the United States is the only developed country in the world that does not have legislation giving workers sick time or vacation time are country :usa:
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I can't find the drat thread I stole this avatar from, now. It was about that stupid Canadian haunted house that has been the same for nearly a decade but still people are afraid of it.  Which reminds me, I need a gas chainsaw. Best "haunted house" I remember as a little kid had someone dressed up as Generic Killer #905, and used a gas chainsaw as a prop (chain removed). Always wanted to do that. Bet that I'd spend less on candy NEXT year. 
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Terrible Robot posted:Every time I've called in my boss was just like "ok man, hope you feel better, later" I emailed my boss at 5:30 am once. "not coming in, i have the death" And he was like lol ok
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Talked to a friend of family who manages a dealership, and he is going to give me a heads up if anyone trades in a manual car in my price range. Hopefully I don't end up with a piece of junk.  (it's probably gonna be junk)
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Viggen posted:I can't find the drat thread I stole this avatar from, now. It was about that stupid Canadian haunted house that has been the same for nearly a decade but still people are afraid of it. It fits you to a 'V' 
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Oct 3, 2014 21:47
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Viggen posted:I can't find the drat thread I stole this avatar from, now. It was about that stupid Canadian haunted house that has been the same for nearly a decade but still people are afraid of it. It's been Goldmined.
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From September thread:meatpimp posted:something something post pictures Any excuse to whore myself out     I've been racing with my old man for several years now, and it's (mostly) always been fun. However this year, rider #255 in the last picture, a guy started his first year racing after doing trackdays since the late '90s. Both of us have been trading positions all summer, and the fact that the racing has been consistently SO CLOSE between the two of us turned this year into  levels of fun.tl;dr: We're both getting bumped up to Expert next season, and are going to get stomped hard. Also, this is totally a CA post, but you guys are cooler, and CA seems pretty dead lately.
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You are a ballsy, brave man 
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Bucephalus posted:It's been Goldmined. Already? drat. So, I put Bosch Platinum +4s in the '96 Ford 4.0 V6. I noticed a plug wire was pretty loose when attached- feels like it broke in the boot somewhere, so I replaced it with another one I had. Once it warms up, it starts misfiring. I let it run a couple minutes, and it kept running on the new plugs (finally - it wouldn't stay running on the NGKs), but continued to misfire. Kicked up to about 3K RPM to warm it up a little faster and to enjoy that luxurious backfire when it kicked down to about 800 RPM. It won't set a code, and doesn't seem to even identify that it IS misfiring. The exhaust smells pretty rich. All I can think of doing next is testing the injectors, but for fucks' sake, it was running just fine on the lovely old plugs. Do I put them back? 
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Anecdotally, according to a lot of different forum users, some cars tend to run bad on those fancy types of plugs.
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CharlesM posted:Anecdotally, according to a lot of different forum users, some cars tend to run bad on those fancy types of plugs. Wait until I show you what it did to the NGKs that were in it for a whole day. It had at least a decade old Bosch Platinum P2s in it. They were pretty worn out. West SAAB Story fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Oct 3, 2014 |
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CharlesM posted:Anecdotally, according to a lot of different forum users, some cars tend to run bad on those fancy types of plugs. Yep, my Volvo hated the fancy Bosch no-gap million prong techno plugs but loves lovely NGKs. 
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