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OSU_Matthew posted:For content, just bought a brake line bending/flaring kit to replace the rusted out lines on my truck. When you're done throwing the flaring tools away (and you will if you use that variety more than once) buy one of these. Puts a factory-quality flare even on steel lines every time.
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Josh Lyman posted:Pretty sure a motorcycle would be very uncomfortable for a road trip. You'd be really wrong
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After many years of faithful service, my old craigslist miter saw ate itself in spectacular fashion last year, and I've been limping along ever since then with one I borrowed from my brother and a circular saw/90° angle guide. However, my brother needed his miter saw back, and I've been pining for one ever since because I use it on goddamn everything. Home Depot was clearancing out the last of their black friday stuff, so in a moment of weakness I snagged the Dewalt 12" dual bevel sliding compound miter saw for about half the regular price:  Can't wait to use it to finish trimming out these cabinets and shelves I recently built: 
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PCOS Bill posted:You'd be really wrong Goddamn dude, are you purposely thick? I've done a 1000 mile day on a cruiser bike and my body was more sore than after running my first marathon. Motorcycle trips are amazing and a lot of fun, but they are hell on your body between the wind fatigue, numb rear end, sound fatigue, and vibration. And yes, I had a full fairing, windshield, earbuds, leather jacket, gloves, and helmet to help all of those issues.
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Aramek posted:I'm sorry to hear that, I'm glad you're okay. Menstrual Show posted:That was really nice of you and I echo the sentiment Some real wholesome posts from some real wholesome boys 
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Bottom Liner posted:Goddamn dude, are you purposely thick? I've done a 1000 mile day on a cruiser bike and my body was more sore than after running my first marathon. Motorcycle trips are amazing and a lot of fun, but they are hell on your body between the wind fatigue, numb rear end, sound fatigue, and vibration. And yes, I had a full fairing, windshield, earbuds, leather jacket, gloves, and helmet to help all of those issues. You picked the wrong bike for you then.
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PCOS Bill posted:You picked the wrong bike for you then. I hate to agree with Bill, but here we are. Also, 1000 miles a day on the bike is crazy, that's iron butt challenge territory... 300-400 is a much more comfortable number. Not the same kinda mileage you can do on a car, but the trip is infinitely more enjoyable and you get to experience everything in a different way
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Oh I agree with that. I've ridden sports tourers in the 250-300 range and didn't find them much better either though. I love bikes and motocamping but I would never say they're a better choice for long road trips for 99% of people. You have to plan the trip around the fact that you're on a bike to make it work, vs planning a trip around the destinations you want to hit. Speaking of road trips and recent purchases, I just booked an Air BNB in DC next week, we're heading up from Florida (I 95 ugh) for a few days. On the plus we're going to eat at Cosmic Ping Pong because the only good thing to come out of Pizzagate is that I learned they have an amazing looking clam pizza.
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Bottom Liner posted:Oh I agree with that. I've ridden sports tourers in the 250-300 range and didn't find them much better either though. I love bikes and motocamping but I would never say they're a better choice for long road trips for 99% of people. You have to plan the trip around the fact that you're on a bike to make it work, vs planning a trip around the destinations you want to hit. Move the goalposts much?
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Dec 9, 2016 20:49
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Finally bought some dumb games for my dumb console
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Tight Booty Shorts posted:You spend more on fast food than I make in two months from my disability. What a strange post.
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:Finally bought some dumb games for my dumb console I have no idea how there haven't been more Chu Chu Rocket games.
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I got my wisdom teeth pulled. Yay pain killers
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Haha I was just debating whether or not to post that I bought the service of having one of my wisdom teeth yanked. The gave me one 600mg ibuprofen tablet and sent me on my way, what'd you get?
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Echoing ibuprofen for wisdom teeth, but I got 5 800mgs. Instead i took a vicodin left over from gallstone attacks when I got home, much more effective.
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Bottom Liner posted:Oh I agree with that. I've ridden sports tourers in the 250-300 range and didn't find them much better either though. I love bikes and motocamping but I would never say they're a better choice for long road trips for 99% of people. You have to plan the trip around the fact that you're on a bike to make it work, vs planning a trip around the destinations you want to hit. If you want some advice on museums in the area PM me. I have spent about 6 weekends since August in DC doing the tourist/museum thing.
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The 600mg plus the freezing was pretty good for the first half of the day, just took another 400mg like 40 minutes ago and feeling not bad. I only had one tooth out though and it was erupted so they just kinda busted it up and yanked it out.
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Dropping to -13F(-25C) tonight/this weekend (not counting wind chill), so bought all the stuff to make a huge, bomb-rear end pot of Gumbo this weekend. 
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Aramek posted:Dropping to -13F(-25C) tonight/this weekend (not counting wind chill), so bought all the stuff to make a huge, bomb-rear end pot of Gumbo this weekend.  Can we be fwiends?
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1000 miles is like an 18 hour ride minimum. Nothing's gonna protect your rear end from that
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1redflag posted:Didn't you post in this thread six months ago about some lovely used fleet crown Vic you bought? If so, maybe don't do that again. ftr i bought a lovely used fleet crown vic a year ago and it's been great so far if you can get over the utilitarianness of it; it has 7,000 sq ft of trunk space and is built like a tank.Transmission is a lot better than my Honda too, also was like eight dollars. Put a huge subwoofer in the trunk and be that white trash hoodrat guy
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Fayez Butts posted:1000 miles is like an 18 hour ride minimum. Nothing's gonna protect your rear end from that Maybe he's a big fatty.
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Wowporn posted:ftr i bought a lovely used fleet crown vic a year ago and it's been great so far if you can get over the utilitarianness of it; it has 7,000 sq ft of trunk space and is built like a tank.Transmission is a lot better than my Honda too, also was like eight dollars. Put a huge subwoofer in the trunk and be that white trash hoodrat guy Awesome! My first car was an old Buick Century with 12" subs in the back. Those old cars also had the air conditioning that is really bad for the environment but drat does it keep the car frosty on a hot day.
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mine isnt even that old, a 2009, had less than 100k miles on it. Found out the hard way it only takes high performance tires though
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Re: car chat, anyone have any experience with Mitsubishis? I've got my eye on an 03 Galant.
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Coffee And Pie posted:Re: car chat, anyone have any experience with Mitsubishis? I've got my eye on an 03 Galant. Do you hate having money? Mitsubishi is the car for you, then!
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PCOS Bill posted:Do you hate having money? Any car is the car for you, then!
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Nephzinho posted:I have no idea how there haven't been more Chu Chu Rocket games. The world is not ready; it was too good for us.
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Coffee And Pie posted:Re: car chat, anyone have any experience with Mitsubishis? I've got my eye on an 03 Galant. I had an '03 Galant for ten years. Over the course of a decade I had to replace the starter, the idle air control valve, and a window motor. Pretty reliable overall, and it was still running fine when I sold it earlier this year.
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Toast Museum posted:I had an '03 Galant for ten years. Over the course of a decade I had to replace the starter, the idle air control valve, and a window motor. Pretty reliable overall, and it was still running fine when I sold it earlier this year. This tracks with that other people are saying, thanks!
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FirstPlayer posted:The world is not ready; it was too good for us. Chu chu rocket has been ported to iOS. It is still glorious.
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PCOS Bill posted:Do you hate having money? Mitsubishi is the car for you, then! Very true. Edit: I've heard people say the same about GM, but my '89 Park Avenue and '03 Silverado didn't need much work at all and they were high miles. I miss those cars. I also had an '03 Alero that didn't need much work and a '83 camaro with a 305 that would leak oil and burn oil and still bring my sorry rear end to work every day. Our only car now is an '06 XTerra with over 120,000 miles that is still hanging on pretty well. There's a rear seatbelt that needs to be replaced because of this dog right here.  It's her fault... she broke it and she's why we can't have nice things. I heart bacon has a new favorite as of 19:29 on Dec 10, 2016 |
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LingcodKilla posted:If you want some advice on museums in the area PM me. I have spent about 6 weekends since August in DC doing the tourist/museum thing. Here's our loose itinerary, let me know if any big things stick out or are missing, since it's been a while since I was in DC. Definitely looking for any food recommendations as well, since we'll be looking for somewhere nice for our anniversary dinner. The upside of DC is that most of the touristy stuff is free, more money for food and drinks! Smithsonian Natural History Smithsonian Air and Space National Art Gallery Dupont Circle Market National Arboretum National Gallery of Art National Mall White House Library of Congress Kennedy Center for the Arts National Zoo Eastern Market Holocaust Memorial Museum Arlington
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Go to the National Building Museum. It's right by a metro station and even if looking at architecture exhibits isn't your thing, just walking in and experiencing the great hall is worth the time to get there.
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Bottom Liner posted:Smithsonian Air and Space I hit the air & space museum up last fall and was kind of underwhelmed. They had some high-value static displays (like the X-1 and Apollo 11 CM) but overall it was more exhibits than actual aircraft. If you have time I'd suggest the satellite Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles airport - it's packed full of static displays that don't justify space at the museum on the mall.
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Best of the past few months: Lamy 2000, the nicest pen I've ever written with. Beautifully designed, and writes so smoothly. Amazing ink capacity too.  Pilot Iroshizuku Ajisai fountain pen ink. Really beautiful color. Plus a nice-ish notebook for bullet journaling so I can force myself to be organized while using my fancy new pen and ink, and a cheap Staples notebook and a mechanical pencil for writing down new words I learn while reading this, which I got on Tuesday:  Chinese edition of The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, a science fiction novel that has won China's Galaxy Award (their version of the Hugo Award, which it also won when it came out in English). I finally made it to page 4 and I've already added 60+ words to my little notebook, because most Chinese classes don't teach you words like nanomaterials or NATO liaison. 
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Geoj posted:I hit the air & space museum up last fall and was kind of underwhelmed. They had some high-value static displays (like the X-1 and Apollo 11 CM) but overall it was more exhibits than actual aircraft. I'm going mostly for the Apollo module. I live in Orlando and have done some work behind the scenes at KSC so this is another cool checklist item for me. We're probably not going to deal with the hassle of Dulles though.
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