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Geirskogul posted:Or, a real stone. Or, set of stones, for like $25. It's what I use, mainly the "fine" block. Add some 3-in-1 oil and you're good to go. My cheapass walmart knives from a decade ago live on! Sure. If you are comfortable with a real stone, do that. I just recommend (and like, and use) the Sharpmaker because I don't have to try very hard to get the angle right. A lot easier to hold the knife vertical than it is to hold it at 30 degrees. Plus, nice ceramic rods, which are probably a lot finer than most stones. Don't remove much material. I use a stone for coarse work on a blade that needs its profile fixed. Cakefool posted:My parents swear by these things. They had a set of really good 50 year old knives I could have inherited then they started using a pull through every single time they take one out of the block. There's nothing left of most of them. Aaaaaaaa. That's terrifying. I'm sorry for your loss. My parents pretty much just lived with super dull knives, occasionally tearing them up on the pull-through, until I started sharpening them correctly every year when I visit for Christmas. So much nicer now, and their middlin'-tier knives will last a lot longer now.
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Raluek posted:And, for the love of whatever you find holy, do not use a pull-through knife sharpener.  that is terrifying! When I moved out of my parents house I bought a set of Henckels Twin Four Star II knives (as my father before me had) and they have been one of the best investments. They are only hand washed and only used on wood or Epicurean cutting boards. My wife was amazed when she first used them and she shows the same respect. She then had to moderate when my mother in law first tried to use them - and still does whenever she is over. In one way I really love the knife set, but on the other hand I kind of wish I had a good enough excuse to get that set of Shun knives I have lusted after since learning they existed.
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Somewhat Heroic posted:
Good knives best knives. But we have people over a lot, people who don't respect our knives. So the good stuff is tucked away, and we have a set of lovely $100 for the set knives that we use. And I pull-sharpen them all the time, because fuckit, they're cheap, and I'm lazy with them. My babies get a stone, though.
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Whats wrong with putting knives in the dishwasher? I have some decent Henkles and I do that 
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Fart Pipe posted:Whats wrong with putting knives in the dishwasher? I have some decent Henkles and I do that It's way too harsh of an environment in dishwashers for quality knives. They typically rattle around and bump up against things that they ought not be bumping. The knives can also score and cut the protective coating on the dishwasher racks and lead to rust problems down the line. A list of things that should ever touch a knife's blade: 1.) Food 2.) Warm tap water 3.) Dish soap 4.) A soft sponge 5.) A sharpening stone in the hands of an experienced knife sharpener 6.) A non-ceramic cutting board That's it. edit: forgot the sponge scuz fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Feb 4, 2016 |
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They can't get our loving renewal documents and proposals to display rates in any color other than blue when generated from our lovely program so now we have to use an excel macro to convert the font color to black on every loving document we produce. edit: Also if you have wooden handles for your knifes running them through the dishwasher is a great way to delaminate them.
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Ok thats what I was thinking but I make sure the sharp parts arent able to touch anything while in there. Especially other silverware.
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Fart Pipe posted:Ok thats what I was thinking but I make sure the sharp parts arent able to touch anything while in there. Especially other silverware.
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Fart Pipe posted:Whats wrong with putting knives in the dishwasher? I have some decent Henkles and I do that You are dead to me.  Might as well ask why we don't give bolts a protective salt bath.
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Darchangel posted:That's what I do. The trailer I use (a friend's) has the lever-type ball latch with a hole for a lock, so there's one there. Then you need the locking pin in the ball mount. Would have been nice if Haul had used that time of hitch - with that quick-link that kastein pointed out, locking the chain is more a keep honest people honest thing. Way behind on this thread, so this might have already been answered better, but I used to secure my trailer to the truck (and my race-car to the trailer) using various combinations of cable locks and padlocks depending on what worked for each location. http://www.amazon.com/Master-Lock-72DPF-Braided-Diameter/dp/B000BD8IQ4/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1454607712&sr=8-6&keywords=cable+lock
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So I am trying to sign up for health insurance and got a call from (866) 569-4230 from who they claim is Insurance Specialist Group. They already had my name, birthdate and address so i figured it was legit. I pick out a plan and start to go through the process. All of a sudden he asked me for either my bank account or my debit card number so I can get charged once a month. I asked him if I would get a bill in the mail to pay ibstead and he said no. I made up an excuse and said I'd call him back. I Googled the number but came up with nothing. Is this a scam or legit?
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Thats the scammiest scam that ever scammed people out of money. He also sells bridge insurance. http://do-not-call.site/1-866-569-4230/8665694230 http://whatupag.com/phone-number/8665694230 Cage fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Feb 4, 2016 |
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Good thing my instincts kicked in and I hung up. I Googled the other number I got transferred to; (866) 611-0519 and found their Facebook page -- https://m.facebook.com/Insurance-Specialists-135350153170725/
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IOwnCalculus posted:This is probably far more accurate than I want to admit. I'm 50, have no kids or prospects, so as long as it takes 40 years or a bit more (hopefully), I'm good. 
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IOwnCalculus posted:This is probably far more accurate than I want to admit. Every time I see Idiocracy on TV, I think, well you don't have to shove it in front of my face.
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Phone posted:Knock knock This was great.
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88h88 posted:This was great. I have a decent knowledge of Japanese history (the first Total War game kickstarted that interest back in 2000) but these videos are good for tying all the scattered information in my head into a nice, neat, time-lined bundle.
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SlimManFat posted:I'm very okay with learning history this way Me, too. Are there other things like this? My son is in love with some weird youtube videos that are kinda like Civilization what-ifs that are terrible both in content and production value... I'd love to have him watch things like this instead.
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Phone posted:Knock knock
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Visiting my grandma in the ER. Her face is so swollen and bruised holy gently caress.
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meatpimp posted:Me, too. Are there other things like this? My son is in love with some weird youtube videos that are kinda like Civilization what-ifs that are terrible both in content and production value... I'd love to have him watch things like this instead. Crash Course. Lots and lots of Crash Course.
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Visiting my grandma in the ER. Her face is so swollen and bruised holy gently caress. Sorry about your grandma, it's really hard for the whole family when she's going through that kind of stuff. does she live on her own?
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scuz posted:The gently caress happened? She got dizzy and fell. Hit her face against the wall and split the inside of her mouth open. Her entire face from the nose down is totally purple and swollen. Luckily my uncle lives with her and was there to call 911. Sitting in her ER room with her and my aunt awaiting some test results. She's been in the ER room for 20+ hours now and hasn't gotten a loving room yet. My dad is coming here after work. You guys think I have a bad temper and a short fuse? God help the nurses when he arrives. Super Aggro Crag fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Feb 4, 2016 |
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Super Aggro Crag posted:She got dizzy and fell. Hit her face against the wall and split the inside of her mouth open. Her entire face from the nose down is totally purple and swollen. Luckily my uncle lives with her and was there to call 911. Sitting in her ER room with her and my aunt awaiting some test results. I hope she gets better, man. Grandmas are important.
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scuz posted:This was fun! CPGGrey does similar things but without all the colors and fun sounds. MrChips posted:Crash Course. Lots and lots of Crash Course. Awesome. Thank you.
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Slavvy posted:I think it's a deeper level of fuckedness. From the outside it seems like decades of gutting your education system and politicising minor issues has resulted in a tailspin you aren't likely to recover from as each successive generation is more ignorant, unhealthy and politically extreme than the last. Everything I've read of history makes it seem like the USA is an empire firmly in decline and on the precipice of disaster. It really seemed like it took off around 2007 when the rest of the world joined Facebook. Its just easier to identify the morons and racists. Its very troubling. Phone posted:Knock knock This is amazing.
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literally a fish posted:I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE. Burn Life's house down! With the lemons! (Get the lab boys working on incendiary lemons.) Tide posted:Ahem... Exactly. People ask me why I didn't become a mechanic (because it's pretty obvious that I love cars, and am pretty good with them - just sayin'), and I respond with something similar to the above. I used to jack around with computers all the time. Now I just groan when my wife tells me her PC is doing something weird, and I hate having to upgrade or fiddle with mine. It's part of the reason I got an Xbox instead of trying to keep up with state of the art for gaming on a PC (the other part being cost). SlimManFat posted:I'm very okay with learning history this way Ditto. Informative AND entertaining. Super Aggro Crag posted:She got dizzy and fell. Hit her face against the wall and split the inside of her mouth open. Her entire face from the nose down is totally purple and swollen. Luckily my uncle lives with her and was there to call 911. Sitting in her ER room with her and my aunt awaiting some test results. Geeze, that sucks. Sorry, man.
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Cakefool posted:My parents swear by these things. They had a set of really good 50 year old knives I could have inherited then they started using a pull through every single time they take one out of the block. There's nothing left of most of them. I'm the guy that's run knives through a dishwasher. Not anymore, mind you.I have an low end set of Wusthof knives.... mom has the same knives, about the same age. Mine are far, far, far sharper than hers; hers has literal chunks taken out of the blades. I don't know how the hell she managed that. Cutting anything with hers is downright scary.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:It really seemed like it took off around 2007 when the rest of the world joined Facebook. Its just easier to identify the morons and racists. Its very troubling. Tumblr and Twitter really enabled the takeoff tho - the sheer amount of stupidty both those sites distribute is stunning are more troubling. Twitter for the easy spread of sound bites that idiots latch onto as well as I'M OFFENDED BY THAT, Tumblr for enabling a whole bunch of special lil flowers that should be treated in a hospital for brain issues. The collective IQ of the world would leap if you carpet bombed both of those services. The breakdown of the education system and the outright poo poo the media spew have put us in a downward spiral that makes social media pumped primed for any amount of stupidity to seriously take off and generate a feedback loop of idiots. That feedback loop makes social media one of the worst things to happen frankly - it's literally making SA's slogan of "The Internet makes you stupid" true in a huge hurry. quote:I'm the guy that's run knives through a dishwasher. And I still do because I don't give a gently caress. It's a knife.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Tumblr and Twitter really enabled the takeoff tho - the sheer amount of stupidty both those sites distribute is stunning are more troubling. Twitter for the easy spread of sound bites that idiots latch onto as well as I'M OFFENDED BY THAT, Tumblr for enabling a whole bunch of special lil flowers that should be treated in a hospital for brain issues. The collective IQ of the world would leap if you carpet bombed both of those services. Its ok to have opinions and thoughts. But do some loving critical thinking for Christs sake. My wife has an idiot cousin that posts the dumbest poo poo - to just set up a quick back story - shes still on moms insurance at 23 years old, didn't earn her associates degree because she failed one class and didn't retake it because "why bother with that", and is shacked up with her baby's daddy (who doesn't have insurance even though he is a "master race car maker"- he welds dirt track car frames) and has children that are on title 9 insurance. She complains about these HIGH TAXES, OBAMA IS RUINING US, or PEOPLE ON WELFARE ARE EVIL. I just restrain myself from every time she posts stuff like that from saying "well, I am glad your child is enjoying free health care, courtesy of social services" Sorry needed to rant, I just can't take the hypocrisy some days. Edit: I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I have yet to see how the government intrudes on my day to day life. I have yet to have a government agent stop at my door and tell me how to live life other than basic living, IE: not killing other people, pouring oil down the sewer, or keeping quiet at a reasonable hour. Unless your Rhyno, because Indiana. BrokenKnucklez fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Feb 4, 2016 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMDLaQD8yAU Colin Furze continues to be a British national treasure
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Thanks for all the support guys. On the bright side her nurse is a smoke show. Uhhhh.... smoke show? She's doing a burnout in the carpark?
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