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photomikey posted:My toilet has hard water stains in the bottom of the bowl. I suctioned all the water out of the bowl and dumped in straight vinegar about 8 hours ago. I swish it around with the toilet brush every time I walk past. Most of the hard water stuff has come off of the sides (with some scrubbing), but the way bottom still had hard water stuff in it. I'm about to go to bed, and I'll let it soak another 8 hours. Get the Lysol Hard water stain toilet cleaner (the black bottle).When I moved into my place, I had some pretty hardcore stains in my toilet that nothing would get rid of for months and they were almost instantly gone after using it. It works amazingly well.
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stubblyhead posted:How common is the first base/second base/etc. metaphor for sex in England where they don't really play baseball? Are there similar expressions referring to soccer or croquet or whatever? Wait, people in the USA actually seriously use first base/second base/etc like that? I thought it was just used jokingly or ironically or something in real life. I talk a lot to people from the US and I've never seen anyone use those phrases seriously.
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Feb 16, 2016 07:55
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Did I imply it was ever used without tongue firmly planted in cheek?
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Feb 16, 2016 08:01
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Tongue in cheek... that's first base, yes?
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Tongue in cheek, PG-13 comedies, and grade school playgrounds mostly.
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Feb 16, 2016 08:18
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We have a Vicks humidifier that I have to clean fairly frequently. However, I can't get most of the buildup off the heating element anymore, neither through physical means nor soaking in apple cider vinegar. Is there some other liquid I should try? Maybe dilute (or not) some CLR?
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Feb 16, 2016 13:23
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photomikey posted:My toilet has hard water stains in the bottom of the bowl. I suctioned all the water out of the bowl and dumped in straight vinegar about 8 hours ago. I swish it around with the toilet brush every time I walk past. Most of the hard water stuff has come off of the sides (with some scrubbing), but the way bottom still had hard water stuff in it. I'm about to go to bed, and I'll let it soak another 8 hours. I have that problem and I found that The Works did the best job. CLR sucked and literally did not scratch the surface. Also, it's cheap, like $3 a bottle.
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CzarChasm posted:You (Brits) also tend to use the word "oval office" in casual conversation, so perhaps decorum and subtlety are not your strong suits. Oh my, no need to be so aggressive, I wasn't saying Americans were stupid for using baseball metaphors. More to the point, plenty of people in the UK would consider the word 'oval office' a monocle popping thing to hear, it depends wholly on where you are and who you're hanging out with. Hell, for some people it's considered a term of endearment while for others using it would get your face punched in. Anyhow, we just don't use euphemisms for specific acts since if you're going to shy away from being blunt you'd shy away from saying more than 'were intimate' or 'spent the night together' or 'went all the way.' Of course on the other side of things plenty of people are rather crudely blunt about it, but 'made out' 'fingered' 'sucked off' and 'tongued' are the usual suspects for the earlier 'bases.'
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Feb 16, 2016 14:40
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First Base: Kiss Second Base: Bare Boobies Third Base: Bare Bottom Home Plate: Bare bottom inertion
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EVERYTHING I SAY ABOUT JAPAN OR LIVING IN JAPAN IS COMPLETELY WRONG, BUT YOU BETTER BELIEVE I'LL 
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Feb 16, 2016 16:08
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No, the cricket terms for (from getting nowhere up through the bases): nowhere: a maiden first: a maiden over second: glancing the stumps third: hitting the stumps home: regaining the ashes
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Feb 16, 2016 16:17
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"Yeah bro, last night I was over at Cindy's house and at first we were just glancing the stumps, but by the end of the evening I had totally regained her ashes." "Whoa dude, sick!"
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Tesseraction posted:No, the cricket terms for (from getting nowhere up through the bases): Then what do you call a "sticky wicket"?
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Mak0rz posted:Then what do you call a "sticky wicket"? Orgy.
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wMak0rz posted:Then what do you call a "sticky wicket"?
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Is there any way to make iTunes for OSX sort album view by album title, rather than album artist?
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I remember reading an article somewhere, detailing a man murdering his father; the younger man had suffered abuse for years because his father wanted him to become a pro American football player, and at his trial there was a mob clamouring for his release. Ring any bells?
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AlphaKretin posted:Is there any way to make iTunes for OSX sort album view by album title, rather than album artist? Is it significantly different from on Windows? 
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CommissarMega posted:I remember reading an article somewhere, detailing a man murdering his father; the younger man had suffered abuse for years because his father wanted him to become a pro American football player, and at his trial there was a mob clamouring for his release. Ring any bells? I remember the article really well but also inexplicably can't find it on google.
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Feb 16, 2016 22:41
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If it was only on a few sites, maybe they had to remove it for legal reasons until the trial is over? That's pretty specific for 2 people to remember and not be able to find quickly. What city or reason did it happen in?
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Found it: http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/honor-thy-father/
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How do you embed webm's? Didn't these forums get that functionality lately. I tried using the [img] tags but no go.
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Im_Special posted:How do you embed webm's? Didn't these forums get that functionality lately. I tried using the [img] tags but no go. You just put the link there, no tags (or I guess maybe url if you've disabled autolinking) Tesseraction posted:Is it significantly different from on Windows? I haven't seen that but I could very well be blind and I certainly have that box in general, I'll have to check when that laptop charges.
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AlphaKretin posted:You just put the link there, no tags (or I guess maybe url if you've disabled autolinking) Weird, does it need to be from a certain host, like from imgur? Also what hosting site do people recommend uploading webm's to?
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Tesseraction posted:Is it significantly different from on Windows? I'm a dope, that dropdown is there and no different.  Thanks though.Im_Special posted:Weird, does it need to be from a certain host, like from imgur? Also what hosting site do people recommend uploading webm's to? I'm not sure, sorry.
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Im_Special posted:Weird, does it need to be from a certain host, like from imgur? Also what hosting site do people recommend uploading webm's to? Try it like this: http://i.imgur.com/lD4mLt6.webm imgur seems to be the most convenient thing right now, and I believe it automatically makes webms of any video type uploads.
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Weird mine just don't work.
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Organza Quiz posted:Wait, people in the USA actually seriously use first base/second base/etc like that? I thought it was just used jokingly or ironically or something in real life. I talk a lot to people from the US and I've never seen anyone use those phrases seriously. I'm from the U.S. I have never heard heard anybody use the base system unironically. The Base system was just a kind of a way to get crap past the radar. Since phrases like like "I felt her tits", or "She totally sucked my dick," were things I heard in locker rooms. Once I hit college I really stopped wanting to hear about other peoples sex life. I assumed that any couples I meet had worked out what worked for them, I really don't want to know about any of my friend's sex life. I once introduced a friend to one of my coworker's. They hit it off It turned out my co-worker really wanted someone to piss on her, that was her thing that turned her on. My friend was freaked out by that. And then he told me that the reason that things didn't work out with Sara from accounting was because Sara likes to get pissed on. And I don't quite know how to react to that, I know a coworker's weird rear end fetish.
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I propose we use ground rule double as a euphemism for pissing on someone.
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thrakkorzog posted:And I don't quite know how to react to that, I know a coworker's weird rear end fetish. I think you found a person you cannot trust though, for free. There are two possibilities at play here. Imagine how loose someone's mouth is if they talk about what happened in a bedroom (or in this case a bathroom) with a lover. I think it also says something to you about yourself, that you tend to believe it. I kind of feel like someone who lets information like this out is either childish and untrustworthy, or equally likely, the kind of liar who uses people's natural tendency to believe things they are told "in confidence" to spread lies about other people to get ahead in some weird way. (and I hope to god "Sara from Accounting" was a joke phrase, rather than an actual description.)
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kapalama posted:I think you found a person you cannot trust though, for free. There are two possibilities at play here. This is not "Jenny barks when shes banging" this is "This freak wants me to piss on her in the really early stages of dating" and why would he not believe his friend? over someone he doesn't know from work?
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Thanks, man! For some reason, it was bugging me that I didn't remember this case.
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Im_Special posted:Weird mine just don't work. Have you actually posted one? Last I heard they don't show up properly when you preview your post.
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HMS Boromir posted:Have you actually posted one? Last I heard they don't show up properly when you preview your post. In that case I have not, I always just did the "preview reply" to make sure it looks right before hitting submit, they never did, so I just linked to it instead. This is probably my problem.
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I know for diesel there's Red Diesel, which is meant for agricultural/industrial use rather than use in road vehicles, and is thus cheaper for lack of tax, is there an equivalent for gasoline powered equipment like lawnmowers and generators? I'm in the UK if that makes a difference.
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Crankit posted:I know for diesel there's Red Diesel, which is meant for agricultural/industrial use rather than use in road vehicles, and is thus cheaper for lack of tax, is there an equivalent for gasoline powered equipment like lawnmowers and generators? I'm in the UK if that makes a difference. I can't say for the UK, but in the US if you use gasoline on a farm, you file a report to the government every year and get a full rebate for the gas taxes you paid for it. Sometimes you can even arrange to not pay the tax from the start if you use enough often enough, like on a large farm.
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Trying to hunt down a video I saw a couple years ago. It's about empathy/putting yourself in other people's shoes. I think it's a white guy narrating/in the video. There's a scene where he's in a supermarket? I think he's a pretty famous speaker but I can't dig up the video for the life of me. Any help is appreciated! It is NOT this one: https://youtu.be/cDDWvj_q-o8 but similar with someone narrating I think tminz fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Feb 17, 2016 |
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tminz posted:Trying to hunt down a video I saw a couple years ago. It's about empathy/putting yourself in other people's shoes. I think it's a white guy narrating/in the video. There's a scene where he's in a supermarket? I think he's a pretty famous speaker but I can't dig up the video for the life of me. Any help is appreciated! this maybe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfw2Qf1VfJo
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stubblyhead posted:I propose we use ground rule double as a euphemism for pissing on someone. An interesting baseball oddity is that "ground rule double" is almost always incorrectly used. A fair ball that bounces out of play being a double is the same everywhere. It's not a ground rule. A ground rule is specific to each stadium, like with the ivy at Wrigley Field or the different roof catwalks in Tampa Bay.
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