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1500quidporsche posted:Gave the pack to a coworker. Waste of $15 but I want to quit. Hopefully that wasn't too much of a setback.  Consider it a $15 reminder. At first I thought your meant a 6-pack of beer or something, that's some stupid expensive tobacco. QuarkMartial posted:Posting from a renaissance fair.... Wrar posted:When I was in Europe last year I was surprised at the number of people who smoke, especially younger people. InitialDave posted:I don't even have a TV now. Haven't for a while, and didn't really watch much when I did. some texas redneck posted:So if anyone needs any rain... come get it. Seriously. This is getting old. Tusen Takk posted:is that what the kids are calling it nowadays?  Had ice cream, went and met her horse and had a really nice afternoon. Planning a repeat but I'll be in Texas this weekend and North Carolina next weekend.Then raced to the other side of town to jump on a coworkers boat and go cruise around on the lake for a couple hours. Get back to the dock as it starts sprinkling, back in car and start it as it starts pouring. Didn't end up getting to see Mad Max again but other than that great weekend but holy poo poo am I tired. Might see if I can find a theater in College Station and take Dad to see Mad Max Thursday night.
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May 26, 2015 13:25
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No wonder I couldn't break 188 on the scale. That would be my nightly take, minimum. gently caress, so I was breaking the budget and breaking the diet. Good job, idiot.
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I just read in the gbs thread the bluray will have different versions of the film, like an orchestral version and a black and white version so I thought cool! I'll need a bluray player then. They're higher res right? I'll need a bigger tv, and speakers. Damnit.
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May 26, 2015 13:28
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CharlesM posted:What was the point of that movie. Uhhhhh what are you guys smoking? Inhaling chrome?  Fast cars, huge and superb action, a masterclass on "show, dont tell", screaming superchargers. You actually need more than that?
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May 26, 2015 13:34
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A few contrarian nerds on my Facebook were whining about how it lacks plot and dialogue and they all got dunked on by the normal non-fedora people pointing out that it seems disjointed and lacking plot because Max is relatively insane and because of that not everything from the previous movies matches up, etc. There's nothing not to like about the movie, whatsoever One guy then stated and I quote "oh, see I didn't go into the movie looking for all the subtleties because it's a summer blockbuster and I don't normally watch those like I would future Oscar nominee movies" and then I deleted that shitlord
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May 26, 2015 13:59
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InitialDave posted:I don't even have a TV now. Haven't for a while, and didn't really watch much when I did. I want a project cars, but i'm broke as poo poo and don't have space. I have a car i don't even use, so don't really need another. I'm going to buy a static caravan and go full pikey. gently caress paying hundreds a month/hundreds of thousands for some small place here. I need to move to France. kastein posted:Europe is much more progressive and logical about this Obviously we can have lower emissions standards because so many Europeans smoke and voluntarily inhale toxic poo poo! The Locator posted:This is purely speculation, as each charge has it's own "acceptable" billing rate and it probably varies between insurance companies, but I got a hospital bill that came to $23k. The insurance dropped it to about $4500 and then pays 80% after my deductible. I believe I had a $500 deductible at the time, some of which had already been met that year, so the insurance paid about $3k and I paid my max out of pocket for the year which was $1500. Wait, what? You have insurance, you pay your deductible, and they still hold you liable for some percentage of the bill? Well how does that work, that totally defeats the entire point of having insurance. Your healthcare system is hosed up. If i do ever move to the US like i want to, i'll be very glad to retain British citizenship so good ol' Blightly can pay for that poo poo. 14 INCH SLIT posted:So a good buddy of mine thought he could try to make an offensive joke about my ex getting plowed by a literal train of guys at rehab yesterday, and was unable to believe that someone who laughs off everything ad jokes about everything like me actually had a line to cross. Friends like these.. I've had the same with some (former) friends. I can say my ex is a crazy bitch, i know the whole story. They don't, not their place to talk poo poo. Also, like you said, clossing lines. Not cool. Enourmo posted:gently caress toxic friends, they're not really there for you, just for what you can give for them, and as soon as you dig your heels in and demand some equity they throw you under the loving bus or flat out turn violent because you're no longer kowtowing to their whims. 100% this. In my experience no-one fucks you over like close friends.
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May 26, 2015 14:13
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NitroSpazzz posted:the general body odor took a while to get used to. It's still better than perfuming and deodorizing the hell out of everything. Goddamn it's bad with American consultants sometimes.
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May 26, 2015 14:18
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88h88 posted:Upthread dude says he pays $70 on insurance, I pay something like $200 in national insurance contributions out of my wages every month but it disappears before I actually have it paid to me. I'm assuming Oz has similar if not the same? You know how 1% of the population controls 90%+ of the wealth? America never had the guillotine, but nows a good time as any to get started.
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May 26, 2015 14:31
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Saw Fury Road last night. So loving good. The theater wasn't loud enough. They could have easily doubled the volume and it would have been great.
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May 26, 2015 14:36
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Phone posted:You know how 1% of the population controls 90%+ of the wealth? America never had the guillotine, but nows a good time as any to get started. As long as morons believe fox news and the tea party, this hosed up system will continue.
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May 26, 2015 15:00
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God drat tim hortons. I need to figure out their cream/sugar system better. I order a large coffee yesterday with 1 cream and its tan as hell. I order the same thing today but with "half the amount of one cream" and it looks the same. Youre messing up my diet timmy hos! 
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May 26, 2015 15:04
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Cage posted:God drat tim hortons. I need to figure out their cream/sugar system better. I order a large coffee yesterday with 1 cream and its tan as hell. I order the same thing today but with "half the amount of one cream" and it looks the same. Youre messing up my diet timmy hos! I wonder how long it will be before the Canadian flag is changed from a maple leaf to the Tim Hortons logo? They do a loving excellent chicken pannini. Last time i was in Canada i ate many of them.
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May 26, 2015 15:15
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Am I the only Canadian that hates Tim Horton's? Their coffee has always tasted burnt to me.
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May 26, 2015 16:19
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CharlesM posted:What was the point of that movie. Uhhhhh what are you guys smoking? Inhaling chrome? One part of that movie is George miller saying "gently caress you Hollywood, thus is how you make an action movie" One part of it is a masterclass in "show don't tell" plot development. The third part is a loving double decker Cadillac on 60" duallys with two twin turbo engines. Tim Horton's coffee has nicotine in it. MustardFacial fucked around with this message at 16:31 on May 26, 2015 |
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May 26, 2015 16:28
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Cage posted:God drat tim hortons. I need to figure out their cream/sugar system better. I order a large coffee yesterday with 1 cream and its tan as hell. I order the same thing today but with "half the amount of one cream" and it looks the same. Youre messing up my diet timmy hos! It depends on who's working, poo poo is never consistent. It's the same with McDonald's and their coffee, once after I got an iced coffee that was stark white with about 60% cream I just loving gave up and started buying the Starbucks bottled iced coffee.
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May 26, 2015 16:31
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Mooseykins posted:I want a project cars, but i'm broke as poo poo and don't have space. Snap. Currently trying to rectify both of these by moving somewhere cheaper and with a large drive/garage. Damnit I have speakers to build and cars to play with. Phone posted:You know how 1% of the population controls 90%+ of the wealth? America never had the guillotine, but nows a good time as any to get started. It just makes me sad to read all this poo poo, a friend I've known forever since the early days of the internet had a kid and they've gotten a bill for something dumb like $40k that insurance refuses to pay and it's just hanging over their heads. It's so loving dumb.
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May 26, 2015 16:33
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88h88 posted:Upthread dude says he pays $70 on insurance, I pay something like $200 in national insurance contributions out of my wages every month but it disappears before I actually have it paid to me. I'm assuming Oz has similar if not the same? We are what happens when you grant corporations the right to have political views and contribute freely to politicians. A government bought and paid for by big business, from the campaign fund to the lobbyist to the post-service cushy executive position in exchange for porkbarrel spending. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 16:53 on May 26, 2015 |
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May 26, 2015 16:40
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Liquid Communism posted:We are what happens when you grant corporations the right to have political views and contribute freely to politicians. A government bought and paid for by big business, from the campaign fund to the lobbyist to the post-service cushy executive position in exchange for porkbarrel spending. BUT THE DEBT! THE NATIONAL DEBT! RAR!
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May 26, 2015 16:42
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Just saw a work truck with a little chalkboard taped up in the back window that said "Single Parenthood: the liberal disease that destroyed America" Glad to know my mom helped to destroy this country by working 3 jobs and making sure I got a good education  Can we just launch the nukes already? I'm getting tired of praying for a rogue meteor.
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May 26, 2015 16:44
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BrokenKnucklez posted:BUT THE DEBT! THE NATIONAL DEBT! RAR! Seriously, it's both sides of the aisle too. John McCain, former Republican presidential hopeful recently slipped in a rider on a must-pass National Defense Authorization Act to grant 2400 acres of Tonto National Forest's Apache sacred ancestral lands including Apache Leap to Rio Tinto for 'block cave' pit mining. Which will, as an aside, lead to massive subsidiences and destroy the water table supporting the forest. Mind you, Rio Tinto is also engaged elsewhere in the world in a uranium mining venture in Namibia that is 15% owned by the Iranian government, so quite the questionable company to be getting perks from Congress. This bill's been shot down on it's own for over a decade, and sticking it in as a footnote on a must pass bill is the only way it could have gotten passed at all. So yeah, welcome to the US. If you don't mind, I'll be over here wishing that building monsterous vehicles and engaging in ultraviolence was effective political discourse.
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May 26, 2015 16:53
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Liquid Communism posted:Mind you, Rio Tinto is also engaged elsewhere in the world in a uranium mining venture in Namibia that is 15% owned by the Iranian government, so quite the questionable company to be getting perks from Congress. This bill's been shot down on it's own for over a decade, and sticking it in as a footnote on a must pass bill is the only way it could have gotten passed at all. If only someone had the nuts to pass line item veto into law.
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May 26, 2015 17:00
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I think the grand standing and show boating really came about with the social media. I followed politics for a while, and I remember the Clinton debacle, but its been nothing like this for the past 5 years. Edit: enough of D&D, i have been looking at bicycles, how do Trek bikes stand up?
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May 26, 2015 17:15
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1500quidporsche posted:Am I the only Canadian that hates Tim Horton's? Nope. It used to be good, until like...6? 7? Years ago. Scuttlebutt has it that they switched suppliers for their beans and/or roasting. At the same time, McDonald's coffee got way better. Same Scuttlebutt says that McD's took over Tim's old supplier/roaster. I don't know if its true, but it sure tastes like it. Either way, Tim's coffee is poo poo, and I only drink it on road trips when Tim's is just 100% easier than anything else.
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May 26, 2015 17:24
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1500quidporsche posted:Am I the only Canadian that hates Tim Horton's? I am not Canadian but Timmies are everywhere in michigan and I hate their burnt poo poo rear end coffee
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May 26, 2015 17:37
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Tims still tastes good in america, and mcdonalds still tastes bad. I dont know why they started selling bags of it in grocery stores.
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May 26, 2015 17:37
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Guys, why does this tempt me? This seems like a terrible idea, but a tempting terrible idea.
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May 26, 2015 17:38
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My mom liked fury road, so everyone should. I do have one question though: this clearly takes place in Australia, so what the gently caress was with all the steering wheels being on the left side of the car? Did the war end with a drop of classic american cars from America?
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May 26, 2015 17:58
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A friend saw this over the weekend, which is apparently somewhat local. All I can say is 
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May 26, 2015 18:04
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Edit: enough of D&D, i have been looking at bicycles, how do Trek bikes stand up? Mass-produced but well built and decent spec for the cash... You can't actually go spectacularly wrong with any major manufacturer these days. Some bikes are better than others but none are baaaaaad.
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May 26, 2015 18:14
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Streetlight Manifesto is coming to town this Saturday. I kinda want to go but I also kind of don't.
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May 26, 2015 18:31
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Get out to my car after work, flat tyre boo  All the kit I need is nearly laid out in the boot yay  Spare is low boo There's a screw right in the middle of the tread, easily fixed yay No, the inner sidewall is ruined and literally as stiff as a moist rag, it must have been going flat as I got into work. Boo But they did have a matching one in stock, only £66 yay 
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May 26, 2015 18:40
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Mooseykins posted:I want a project cars, but i'm broke as poo poo and don't have space. I have a car i don't even use, so don't really need another.
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May 26, 2015 18:49
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nm posted:My mom liked fury road, so everyone should. When they are driving through the valley there is a burned out station wagon pictured at the very edge of the frame. The brake booster on the firewall is on the right (passenger) side.
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May 26, 2015 18:51
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Didn't he get into the right hand side of the interceptor? Seems there's a mix.
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May 26, 2015 18:53
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Max Max was fuuuuuuuuuucking aweeeeeeeeeeeeeeesome. Definitely gonna see it again at some point before it's out of the theater. I kept thinking "He looks so familiar" watching any scene with Nux, and then I looked him up and poo poo, it's the dude who played Beast in the last two X-Men movies. He's cool and (Mad Max spoilers ahead) stayed alive WAY longer than I thought he would, from when he first started using Max as his blood bag. Oddly enough, the only thing I wished for was some more gore. It was pretty tame from that perspective. Then again, maybe I'm just a weirdo.
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May 26, 2015 18:58
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Cakefool posted:Get out to my car after work, flat tyre boo I hope when you had to pay you whipped out your cash and made it rain. Tusen Takk posted:Honestly if you want the best of both worlds, move to Oz or NZ. Oz especially is a nice even blend of the U.S. and British cultures with some unique flavours I've looked into France, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. If i spoke French i would've move to France years ago, it's about a million times better than Grim Britain in every way except using kilometres and driving on the wrong side of the road. (crazy fools!) Canada i looked into the most, and am still toying with the idea of moving there. I can get a working holiday visa, or get a visa as an eligible skilled worker (qaulified mechanic), orrrr i could marry my crazy ex and get in pretty easily. (Obviously not the best idea.) Apparently i can't take my car or van with me to Australia, so that's a definite no for me. New Zealand, i dunno, don't know a great deal about it but it does look kinda awesome. Ahh, who am i kidding? I'm too broke to move anywhere.
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Mooseykins posted:
My wife moved with me back to Canada (lived in Leicester before), and now about 3 years later she says she loves Canada way more than lovely England.
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May 26, 2015 19:53
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MustardFacial posted:My wife moved with me back to Canada (lived in Leicester before), and now about 3 years later she says she loves Canada way more than lovely England. I bet she does, it's loving grim here, with no prospects for a lot of people. I'm just (still) in a position where i can't afford to change much, but hoping that my current business/job pays off enough in the next year or two that i can relocate to green pastures.
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May 26, 2015 20:00
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Looks like i'm probably gonna see Mad Max again this week, this time in 2D rather than 3D. Girl I know was asking me how it was and said she's been wanting to go see it so I offered to take her one night this week since it got held over  I'm pretty sure I could rewatch Fury Road forever and never get bored of it.
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May 26, 2015 20:05
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Mooseykins posted:I bet she does, it's loving grim here, with no prospects for a lot of people. Legit offer - I can't promise a job, but I can get you names to throw resumes at if you want to work as a mechanic in the mining industry. This applies for anyone wanting to relocate to bumfuck nowhere (albeit beautiful) country in Ontario. Companies are always looking for qualified mechanics.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Edit: enough of D&D, i have been looking at bicycles, how do Trek bikes stand up? Mine is now 15 years old, I've put maybe $500 into fixing it, and it has hauled my fat rear end from 400 lbs to 200 lbs, back up to 300lb, and coming back down. Its not the lightest, or the sexiest, but jesus christ I have treated that thing like Kastein treats his jeeps and it has never quit on me. I have no clue if they are still as good, but damnit if I'm not happy with mine.
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