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some texas redneck posted:So.. bitched about the 9am store meeting. Came home, was about to fall back asleep. That menu looks delicious. My mouth is watering looking at the Fat Freds and....the Liberty Bell....I don't think I'd ever try it but I'd be lying if I wasn't at least curious.
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blk posted:You can change the search box in IE to Google but it doesn't change Cortana or provide predictive results, which I've come to realize i lean on a lot more than I realized. It's really just giving you the desktop search results page for google.com and you can't load a map or anything if you need to. Ah that's too bad.
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Oct 27, 2014 06:29
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Rhyno, what did you do this time?
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Welp, almost lost the car (and/or my life today) to a bunch of drunk people. After this video ends, I confronted the three people in the car about it at a gas station (two hispanic women, one very very fat hispanic guy). They were apologetic at first, but the moment I said "are you drunk? I smell alcohol." all three of them nearly dove into the Explorer and loving bolted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiFToEn4IZs For the record, I was going 35-39 in a 40 zone, and they were stopped in a left-turn-only lane on the other side of the light rail.
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Today is my normal day off. I'm thinking about calling my former GM and asking if he has any hours to spare. I'm still $100 short on my car payment (which was due a couple of days ago) and $60 short on my phone bill (it gets shut off Tuesday, but I'm switching to MetroPCS from T-Mobile, and the SIM card should be here Tuesday) but Metro is basically T-Mobile with lower rates these days). I made $40 at his store in 3.5 hours last night, I'm hoping I can make a bit more if he can spare the labor hours. Geirskogul posted:Welp, almost lost the car (and/or my life today) to a bunch of drunk people. After this video ends, I confronted the three people in the car about it at a gas station (two hispanic women, one very very fat hispanic guy). They were apologetic at first, but the moment I said "are you drunk? I smell alcohol." all three of them nearly dove into the Explorer and loving bolted. I would have called the cops and followed at a (safe) distance until they showed up. Goddamn, you just barely missed them too. I confronted someone day before yesterday - black SUV, dark road, no lights. I started to pull out, then saw the reflection against their license plate. When she parked (in front of my store, no less) I asked her how she could see without headlights. She gave a  look until I told her "I'm the guy who started to pull out in front of you and laid on the horn as you went by - you're in a black car, driving with no lights whatsoever, on a road with few street lights". The "oh poo poo" on her face made it worth it. How the gently caress do you manage to drive what I assume to be several miles on poorly lit roads without realizing you don't have a single light on?I finally got off my rear end and put my dash cam back in the car - I pulled it out a few days ago to pull video off when a Time Warner Cable van ran me off the road (paved median, but I kissed the jersey barrier with my tires) (I was laying on the horn the whole time, and watched him flip me off in the mirror). Then cussed me out when I pulled up next to him and asked "don't you ever check your loving mirrors?". I had a good long chat with the contractor he works for, and sent them a copy of the video. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 11:43 on Oct 27, 2014 |
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some texas redneck posted:
I called the cops, gave complete descriptions of all three, the vehicle, what happened, and their direction of travel. I know the dispatcher (working in EMS has its perks, on occasion) and she got everything down. Nothing'll probably come of it, but I tried.
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Oct 27, 2014 11:50
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While my own car is in for a supplemental anti-rust treatment, I'm driving one of these babies: A Peugeot 107 powered by 1.0L 3-cylinder sewing machine with a massive 68HP. It's obviously slow as hell, and you can definitely tell that it's a super-cheap little car, but man that engine is fun. It revs nicely and it has this really pleasing rasp to it. It's been described as sounding like half of a Porsche flat-6, and I tend to agree. It's also a lot smoother than I would have expected. Plus, since it's so slow, you can rev it out in 1st and 2nd and still only be doing ~70kph. 3-cylinder small cars are flippin' awesome.
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Oct 27, 2014 12:26
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I think this is the last 3 cylinder car we got in the US. And it could still be optioned with a 4 cylinder. You were part of the crumple zones on them, but they got over 50 mpg... in the early 90s. 
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Oct 27, 2014 12:37
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I just had a dream where the fuel pump broke in my GTI and i had to call around pricing replacements. What does this mean AI?
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Oct 27, 2014 12:59
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It wasn't a dream.
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Oct 27, 2014 13:03
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I have officially had it with Facebook. I'm 31 and I don't need to deal with electronic retards starting poo poo. Its snap chat and text for now!
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Oct 27, 2014 13:36
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I am getting trolled by a lumber company. 84 Lumber has been jerking me around about getting poplar plywood sheets for a week now. One of their service guys straight up lied to me and another one referred me to their "Mechanicsville location", which is just a street called Lumber of which 84 is an address.
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Oct 27, 2014 14:00
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Man everything in the ceiling of this factory is coated in about a half inch of this black oily dust. I am covered in so much grime I look like Al Jolson.
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some texas redneck posted:I think this is the last 3 cylinder car we got in the US. And it could still be optioned with a 4 cylinder.   
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Oct 27, 2014 14:14
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The last one has 3-lug wheels, too! :P
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KozmoNaut posted:While my own car is in for a supplemental anti-rust treatment, I'm driving one of these babies: I drive a slightly older one of those with the really creepy grin. The 0-30mph is pretty good but then the push to 60+ takes forever. (That said there is someone else on my work route that has one and is able to burn me up and I don't know how) e: 
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Residency Evil posted:I just had a dream where the fuel pump broke in my GTI and i had to call around pricing replacements. What does this mean AI? The struggle is real.
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Oct 27, 2014 15:02
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Speaking of slow cars, I saw a nicely restored ACVW get on I495 in Dracut yesterday, going up a tight uphill ramp. Into 75-80mph traffic. I'm not sure how the driver managed to fit his balls in that car.
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Adiabatic posted:I am getting trolled by a lumber company. 84 Lumber has been jerking me around about getting poplar plywood sheets for a week now. One of their service guys straight up lied to me and another one referred me to their "Mechanicsville location", which is just a street called Lumber of which 84 is an address. Please don't come to Saratoga and crash my cars.
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Oct 27, 2014 15:12
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Mechanicsville, VA.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:The American consumer has quite a few choices for 3-cylinder engines now: Except we didn't get the GOOD engine for the Smart: The three cylinder Turbodiesel
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Oct 27, 2014 15:18
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I shaved off all my facial hair for my Halloween costume and it feels so weird
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Oct 27, 2014 15:24
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Adiabatic posted:Mechanicsville, VA. I think that's in the middle of loving nowhere right next to Rustburg, right? I only know it because it's on the way to Wintergreen. 
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CommieGIR posted:Except we didn't get the GOOD engine for the Smart: The three cylinder Turbodiesel I live in Canada, where we got that engine (and the Brabus Smart turbo gas engine as well). There is no good engine for the Smart Fortwo.
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Phone posted:I think that's in the middle of loving nowhere right next to Rustburg, right? I only know it because it's on the way to Wintergreen. Nah it's a suburb of Richmond. In other news I now know there's a place called Rustburg, VA. Maybe Sockington needs a winter retreat?
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Phone posted:I think that's in the middle of loving nowhere right next to Rustburg, right? I only know it because it's on the way to Wintergreen. If you come up to Wintergreen this winter let me know, we can grab some beers at one of the awesome breweries at the base of the mountain. Hell depending on which way you take up you'll almost drive right past my house.
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Oct 27, 2014 15:42
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I would say it's not fair you live so close to Devils Backbone, but we have Hardywood and Legends so 
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The guy accepted our offer! The house is as good as ours.  Now to be poor for the next 30 years.
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Congrats dude! Don't let BFC get to you. Owning a house is awesome.
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As part of my physical rehab, it was suggested that I get a recumbent bike. Managed to snag one at an auction over the weekend- almost literally for pennies. The Exslower is starting to earn itself a place in the drive. Those seats aren't SAAB-worthy, but they are comfy.  Also, got a couple 'so cheap might as well' toys. Stupid Nexus doesn't like how dark it is in here. AM/FM/8 track console. Speakers are/were mine. Came with a VCR, a DVD/VCR combo, two CRT TVs that I didn't have to take (thankfully), and a ton of pointless and worthless electronics like a 900Mhz wireless headphone set, and that phonemate answering machine in the lower left. Two bucks for the lot. Be thankful I've decided not to share the ablation photos. CommieGIR posted:The guy accepted our offer! The house is as good as ours. Congratulations on making the biggest mistake of your life (since that tranny in Thailand). :iamafag:  :iamafag: Home owners unite!
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CommieGIR posted:The guy accepted our offer! The house is as good as ours. Congratulations! Now get that fucker inspected if you haven't already, and you better have your own real estate attorney to go over the paperwork, not the one your bank and/or the seller use.
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Oct 27, 2014 16:03
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The oneplus one site is already down. Why did I even bother?
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kastein posted:Congratulations! Now get that fucker inspected if you haven't already, and you better have your own real estate attorney to go over the paperwork, not the one your bank and/or the seller use. It already passed a private inspector, who was actually at a loss of anything major to find, outside of some outlets not having covers or the wrong cover.
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Oct 27, 2014 16:09
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The 1+1 idiots provide more entertainment that they do phones I'm eating Mac and cheese with Sriracha and god drat is it good 😎
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Adiabatic posted:I would say it's not fair you live so close to Devils Backbone, but we have Hardywood and Legends so There's also the Wild Wolf Brewing Co. (my personal favorite), Blue Mountain, and Bold Rock Cider, and there's also a vodka distillery being built. All of these (including DB) are located on the same road, Rt. 151 through Nelson, 15 minutes from my house. poo poo owns. Congratulations on the house purchase, CommieGIR!
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CommieGIR posted:It already passed a private inspector, who was actually at a loss of anything major to find, outside of some outlets not having covers or the wrong cover. Thats the best god drat feeling. When I did mine, hes like well, there's a couple of minor things like this outlet isnt a GCFI (which was easy to repair) and the furnace filters are dirty. Yes, he said that was the only 2 issues he really found with the house. And I hired him myself, and I looked up reviews on him. Contractors hated him because he found every little fault possible. Viggen posted:As part of my physical rehab, it was suggested that I get a recumbent bike. Managed to snag one at an auction over the weekend- almost literally for pennies. The Exslower is starting to earn itself a place in the drive. Those seats aren't SAAB-worthy, but they are comfy. A: Exploders do have pretty comfortable seats. Plus you'll find that American SUVs can take some abuse and neglect and truck along like nothings wrong. B: 2 bucks for that console? Score. I have some CCR and Rolling Stones 8 tracks in a box some where. If I find them I'll ship them to you.
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CommieGIR posted:It already passed a private inspector, who was actually at a loss of anything major to find, outside of some outlets not having covers or the wrong cover. Wow. That's sorta impressive. Still, I can't harp on the attorney thing enough. I would have paid $38k for a worthless piece of paper if I hadn't had one - he found a glaringly obvious issue with the deed that no one else was going to tell me about that would have made it basically impossible to ever get a mortgage on, ever, and would have left me open to the previous owners trying to get the foreclosure overturned and their house back. It's absolutely critical that you have your own GOOD real estate attorney, especially after the subprime mortgage disaster and MERS (Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems.)
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kastein posted:Wow. That's sorta impressive. I will certainly do that, thanks Kastein. I also had an electrical contractor come through and check the wiring as I am adding another 230v outlet in the garage and the basement, and seeing about the possibility of getting 3 phase 208 (we're right down the road from a substation, so we're hopeful).
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Would anyone be interested in a Chump build out thread/general "this is what's going on in Phone's life" thread? The Miata is on the back burner because I don't particularly want to blow like another 10k on it (whenever the current motor gives up the ghost, I'm K swapping it, but that's a bit far out). Terrible Robot posted:If you come up to Wintergreen this winter let me know, we can grab some beers at one of the awesome breweries at the base of the mountain. Hell depending on which way you take up you'll almost drive right past my house. I don't think I went last year, but I think I go up 501 through South Boston, Rustburg (stop for Hardee's), and up 29. I'm down.
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