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No pictures, but my fiancé and I have just paid the bond and other costs on our first ever flat. Thanks to the incredible generosity of our family and friends, they've given us an old fridge, washing machine, dryer, microwave, vacuum cleaner, and a bunch of other things. But this week we're going to be buying a bed, a sofa, a table, etc. and moving all our poo poo. We are so loving poor right now, but it's all worth it.
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Jun 16, 2016 23:08
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Aristophanes posted:No pictures, but my fiancé and I have just paid the bond and other costs on our first ever flat. That sounds great, congrats to you both!
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Jun 17, 2016 02:11
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I don't have a photo handy, but here's how I felt today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-0utDrWa5w Thirteen months since I first walked in the door to see the place. Feels good man. 
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Jun 17, 2016 02:26
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LooksLikeABabyRat posted:Which table is that? Murcia from BoConcept - bought it through Skeidar in Norway - no idea on availability in the US, but seems like they are all over the world: http://www.boconcept.com/en-us/furniture/living/coffee-tables/14662/murcia-coffee-table They have other colors as well - see the link. The salesperson told me they were strictly one height, but that is not true, so I'm waiting for the longer set of legs for it now.
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Jun 17, 2016 05:14
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Shanghaied posted:Bought 30 grams worth of shorts for $30. Hope they don't look ridiculous. Thru-hiking is so far through the looking glass now.
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Jun 17, 2016 05:56
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Shanghaied posted:Bought 30 grams worth of shorts for $30. Hope they don't look ridiculous. This is fetish clothing, right?
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Jun 17, 2016 06:33
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Seems like you could save another 10 grams if you cut them into short-shorts.
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Jun 17, 2016 06:36
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I want to know how silnylon turning you balls and rear end into a fetid swamp five steps in is worth it
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Jun 17, 2016 07:06
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Shanghaied posted:Bought 30 grams worth of shorts for $30. Hope they don't look ridiculous. Where can you buy a BIC lighter that is so big??
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Jun 17, 2016 07:09
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Shanghaied posted:Bought 30 grams worth of shorts for $30. Hope they don't look ridiculous. They look ridiculous.
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Jun 17, 2016 09:58
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Please, don't shop-sh.. Who am I kidding, they do look like trash bag shorts and likely feel the same 
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Jun 17, 2016 10:08
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Ordered this last weekend but it just came in today: Acer G257HU 25" 1440p IPS Monitor Upgraded from my ~2012 1920x1200 Dell IPS to this thing because I planned on getting a GTX1070 but the reviews I read said you can't take full advantage of it unless you run games at 1440p, so I wanted to be prepared for when I do eventually get a 1070. I never knew I needed more screen real estate than I had until I got it, and holy hell is 1400p nice to have. Also this thing has practically no bezel which is crazy. It's also a fuckton lighter and slimmer than my previous Dell was.
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Jun 17, 2016 10:15
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:Please, don't shop-sh..
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Jun 17, 2016 10:22
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Josh Lyman posted:I don't understand. Why not just wear running shorts? They're thin and light. They aren't as tactical
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Jun 17, 2016 10:23
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EXTREME BAKA posted:I want to know how silnylon turning you balls and rear end into a fetid swamp five steps in is worth it This time of the year out on the trail, my balls and rear end are always a foetid swamp anyway, so I can't lose. Where were you arseholes when I was buying this stuff yesterday t  ? I'm not planning to walk in them a whole lot though, just to air out my legs at the end of the day, and maybe go swimming in them. They are lighter and packs down much smaller than my Nike running shorts. We'll see, it's only $30.Also bought these:  Hope they are modest enough for you lot.
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Jun 17, 2016 14:06
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Jun 17, 2016 15:01
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This is cool and good 
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Jun 17, 2016 15:24
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Jun 17, 2016 15:27
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After using up a trial subscription over the past 48 hours here at the house, I bit the bullet and purchased a subscription to the Loeb Classical Library online.  Our university library trialed it for a semester, and a colleague and I slammed the poo poo out of it; not a single student made use of it. t tIt was a bit pricey (and I'm not going to stop using the printed volumes that I already own), but considering how much I made use of it in just the past two days, it should pay for itself fairly quickly (especially for a book project I've been noodling with the past few months).
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Jun 17, 2016 15:30
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Shanghaied posted:
Enh, I'm just busting your balls. The two-tone coloring is pretty hideous, but whatev, they're hiking pants.
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Jun 17, 2016 15:31
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 Alpha Industries MA-1 bomber jacket, retails at $140 and I got a brand new one at Goodwill for $8.99 
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Jun 17, 2016 15:52
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That tags should read "remove before wearing"
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Jun 17, 2016 16:46
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It didn't come with one anyway 
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Jun 17, 2016 16:50
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Ms Boods posted:After using up a trial subscription over the past 48 hours here at the house, I bit the bullet and purchased a subscription to the Loeb Classical Library online. Wish I had this in college. What are you researching?
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Jun 17, 2016 17:01
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Coffee And Pie posted:
Post trip report from the eighties.
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Jun 17, 2016 18:02
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queserasera posted:Wish I had this in college. What are you researching? I know! I like living in THE FUTURE.  For one project I need to pull a lot of vocab references from a couple of Ovid's poems; for the longer book, which is a commissioned kind-of a general life in Rome thing, the Loeb is madly helpful if I need to find, for example, ancedotes about animals as pets or whatever, or locating quick-smart one of Cicero's snarky comments about the theatre, and that. Loads of stuff I used at university and in graduate school is now being turned into databases online, and it's fab. (Still, you can't rely on them 100% but holy heck does it save a lot of time). It saves searches, bookmarks pages, and lets you highlight and annotate text so that you can collect a boatload of references and then come back and plug them in as you need them. I've wasted about two hours this afternoon with the sheer novelty of looking references to turnips and donkeys and other random keywords in Latin, Greek, and English...plus also testing to see how well it takes me to references I already know, to see what sort of keywords and stuff work best.
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Jun 17, 2016 18:28
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LooksLikeABabyRat posted:Which table is that? http://www.boconcept.com/en-us/furniture/living/coffee-tables/14662/murcia-coffee-table
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Jun 17, 2016 20:42
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Coffee And Pie posted:
Looks good. I wish thrift shop here had anything other than junk!
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Jun 17, 2016 21:46
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Coffee And Pie posted:It didn't come with one anyway That's good. It's a nice jacket aside from that tag
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Jun 17, 2016 22:13
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Ordered this last weekend but it just came in today: I love mine - can't get the XBox to take up the last 1/8tg inch of screen though, but other than that, no complaints.
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Jun 18, 2016 00:50
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Origin had a sale so I bit the bullet and bought Sims 4! Now to wait for the expansions/stuff packs to go on sale.
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Combining my interests in retrogaming and old luxury electronics, I picked up a 28" Bang & Olufsen MX7000. It was their absolute top model at the time, costing around $3000, and has active speakers and a motorized stand to make it turn to face wherever your position is.
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Jun 19, 2016 15:25
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I got the AE Warwick they make for Brooks Brothers in chili: Seconds, yes, but for $149... hell yeah I'll take them. I'll also probably do more damage to them in a week than they could possibly have already. Also, branching out beyond aviators with Ames from Warby Parker: 
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Trabant posted:I got the AE Warwick they make for Brooks Brothers in chili:
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Jun 19, 2016 18:39
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This book, signed by John Doe at a recent reading. Also tickets to see him next week.
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Jun 19, 2016 18:54
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Totally TWISTED posted:Is there a recommended site for getting "Damaged" shoes like this? I could do with another pair or two for work. The only site I can think of off the top of my head is AE's shoebank.com, i.e. how I got the pair I posted. It gives you a list of their stores that have the shoes you're looking for, but you can't buy through the site itself. Instead, you call the store and order over the phone, then get an email confirmation and tracking number. The shipping is free, but you're on the hook for returns + $10 restocking fee. I know, it really is very 1997, but we are dealing with seconds so I'm guessing they're hard to properly inventory and keep track of nationwide. All that said, I'm sure the dress shoe thread in YLLS knows of other brands that do the same, either through outlets or eBay. I'd post the link to the thread, but I'm phonepostin' 
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Jun 19, 2016 19:55
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evobatman posted:motorized stand to make it turn to face wherever your position is. Holy poo poo
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Jun 19, 2016 23:45
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colas posted:Holy poo poo If you think that's cool, B&O TVs came with a set of material curtains behind the outer screen at one point, the same as you'd get going to the cinema. These were replaced with electronic ones later, not sure if the MX7000 was the first screen to get electronic ones. There's been lots of cool little features on B&O screens over the years, as I was leaving the company in 2009 they'd just brought in a little screen camera on their penultimate plasma range, it'd pop out every 250 hours or so onto the screen and recalibrate the white balance so your whites were always white as possible. The real material curtains are a feature I miss though, it's such a cool thing to have the screen warm up and then have them open up to a picture behind. Weirdly there's very little in terms of video or pictures about this feature.
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evobatman posted:Combining my interests in retrogaming and old luxury electronics, I picked up a 28" Bang & Olufsen MX7000. It was their absolute top model at the time, costing around $3000, and has active speakers and a motorized stand to make it turn to face wherever your position is. I need this in my life. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!
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