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Powershift posted:£25? you probably can't even order groceries on that piece of poo poo. True, but we do write obscenities on it in magnetic letters, so while it does not technically have internet connectivity you could easily mistake it for the YouTube comments section.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:A wizard did it Your sad devotion to that ancient religion isn't helping
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stump posted:True, but we do write obscenities on it in magnetic letters, so while it does not technically have internet connectivity you could easily mistake it for the YouTube comments section.
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stump posted:Three grand for a bloody fridge With the way things are looking it'll be well deep into $5k+ on refrigerators in just 3 1/2 years.  We finished our basement and also have a space in the cabinets down there for a nice sized fridge we were going to get this coming year but now that is probably a nope. BraveUlysses posted:Now is the time of year to get a new fridge btw The best deals I think are past. The LG that I think I want to get is $2699 right now, but at Black Friday (shortly before figuring out my fridge wasn't gonna get better) they were $1999. If it was that price right now I would have already made the purchase.
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1500quidporsche posted:Pay the deductible. At that point it's your insurance company's job to pay you out for your damages and do all the legwork recovering the claim from the other company. You're not going to have a easy time chasing down somebody else's insurance company for a claim on your own, the process becomes alot easier when it's suddenly another company's team of lawyers knocking on the door. I want to give the other party's insurer a chance at least before paying my deductible. I haven't even spoken with the adjuster assigned to my claim...but she is certainly going to get an earful on Monday. I'm going to be touching base with my insurer tomorrow (since they're open on the weekends) and see if there's anything they can do now that the other person's insurance is showing signs of being difficult.
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Somewhat Heroic posted:With the way things are looking it'll be well deep into $5k+ on refrigerators in just 3 1/2 years. I've got a big gently caress off LG and it has similar problems to the samsung washer, after ~3 years, a lot of the plastics are turning brittle and chalky. the secondary door latches both snapped off, and you can crumble them to dust in your hands.
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Any fridge more expensive than $800 is full of unnecessary bourgeoisie decadence.
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Got married today. Tax deductions ahoy!
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God, I'm actually going to miss comprehensive coverage. As much as I bitch about Allstate, they did put almost $5k into a decade old civic with more than 100,000 miles on it and my insurance rate didn't even go up because it was an "Act of God". I got the car back after ~2 weeks, but it did take almost a week to get my car to the body shop Of course, it was only fixed because legally both the totalled car and the money it's valued at are both mine, so not fixing it would cost ~$500 more than fixing it. And if they kept me in that car, I would be more likely keep my comprehensive coverage on that vehicle for longer and pay more money over time than if I bought a used car and insured it for less, but $5k in repairs is still $5k in repairs.  Ahhhh, I still remember pulling out an itemized list of everything that needed to be replaced and explaining to the insurance agent that his estimate of $3k wouldn't be close to covering the damage. And then trying to explain to a grown man whose job is to value cars how a generation works, and how, no matter where they look, there won't ever be "model year newer" used body parts that can fit onto my car and lower the cost... it was satisfying for the final invoice to be within a few hundred dollars of what I told the insurance agent it would be. It took 2 and a half weeks, but I was vindicated and had a shiny hood without rust spotsE: wallaka posted:Got married today. Tax deductions ahoy! I'll drink to that, Congratulations on your free tax dollars! The Door Frame fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Dec 17, 2016 |
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Have a Fiesta rental car, wish it was a Mazda 2.  Getting married sounds fun.
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Holy poo poo, our new store is loving up. We argued against it being put in originally because it would do nothing but leech sales from us and a 3rd store in the area on retail and burn through commercial sales guys because it has next to no commercial accounts and they count on comission to make paychecks worth it. We could have serviced the few new accounts they signed up between us and the 3rd store in the area. We had a commercial customer of theirs in tonight where we had to load 4 different accounts for him because those chucklefucks keep using the account for a shop with the same name in loving ADDISON TEXAS. And while we're trying to sort out this clusterfuck, they call us, asking where poo poo is kept in their store. Because they apparently don't know, despite the person calling me having worked at that store for almost a year. One of their employees they hired a month or two after opening still can't figure out how to order poo poo on his own. With 2 exceptions, every one of the people we trained for that store have jumped to a different store or quit in disgust. The 2 remaining people are literally the only people at that loving store who can do their jobs properly it seems. One of them desperately wants to come back here, but our fulltime positions are staffed with people who aren't giving them up anytime soon. Its like a store full of monkeys loving footballs...
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Cop Porn Popper posted:Holy poo poo, our new store is loving up. We argued against it being put in originally because it would do nothing but leech sales from us and a 3rd store in the area on retail and burn through commercial sales guys because it has next to no commercial accounts and they count on comission to make paychecks worth it. We could have serviced the few new accounts they signed up between us and the 3rd store in the area. We had a commercial customer of theirs in tonight where we had to load 4 different accounts for him because those chucklefucks keep using the account for a shop with the same name in loving ADDISON TEXAS. And while we're trying to sort out this clusterfuck, they call us, asking where poo poo is kept in their store. Because they apparently don't know, despite the person calling me having worked at that store for almost a year. One of their employees they hired a month or two after opening still can't figure out how to order poo poo on his own. With 2 exceptions, every one of the people we trained for that store have jumped to a different store or quit in disgust. The 2 remaining people are literally the only people at that loving store who can do their jobs properly it seems. One of them desperately wants to come back here, but our fulltime positions are staffed with people who aren't giving them up anytime soon. Its like a store full of monkeys loving footballs... Wait, Addison actually has parts stores and mechanics?  Addison is pretty much nothing but restaurants and high end apartments, with a few hotels and a private airport thrown in. I'm picking my brain trying to figure out where the gently caress a shop would be; there's about a quarter square mile of (very) light commercial area next to the airport that I can think of, but that's it. And when I'm out there, that commercial area looks pretty much abandoned. From the city's own website: City of Addison posted:Within an area of less than five square miles, Addison boasts more than 150 restaurants. In fact, with a total population of only sixteen thousand people, Addison contains more restaurants per capita than any other city west of the Mississippi. No wonder Addison is known as the Restaurant Capital of Texas! They used to claim more restaurants per capita than NYC. Also, of those 150 restaurants, almost all of them are crammed into a ~1 mile stretch of one road. (I drive through Addison pretty regularly, and worked in Addison for a couple of years - I'm very familiar with it) Geoj posted:Erie is the other party's insurer. My insurer (Progressive) told me verbatim they will open a claim but only if I agree to pay my collision deductible first and they might be able to reimburse me later "if the other party is determined to be at fault." They'll fight the other insurance company, if the other insurance company won't play ball, they sue them. Going through this right now. The $250 was worth it in my case, it got me back on the road a lot sooner (my car drove, but was ugly as poo poo and had a bent control arm). My accident was in July, I'm still waiting on the whole shitshow to be resolved. My insurance supposedly passed it off to a lawyer a couple of months ago. My claims adjuster was ready to rip someone's throat out last time I talked to her, since she couldn't even get the other party's insurance to return phone calls (before it got passed off to a lawyer). Last I heard, even the lawyer can't get them to respond at all, and the other party's insurance never talked to me except to tell me "oh you talked to our answering service, we don't have the claim yet" (1, 2, and 3 weeks after filing the claim). Their "answering service" didn't ask me any questions beyond when and where, and my phone number. Progressive is either awesome or horrible to deal with, there's no in-between with them in my own experience. I had 2 claims go painlessly with them, and 1 where the claims adjuster was actually verifying where I worked, if I drove for work, if my work would ever send me out to where the accident happened, demanding time clock records, then yanked the rental out from under me a week before my car was fixed (and threatened to report the rental as stolen if I didn't turn it in). I was nowhere near the maximum on the rental.  I've sworn off Progressive ever since dealing with that fuckstain.
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Powershift posted:I've got a big gently caress off LG and it has similar problems to the samsung washer, after ~3 years, a lot of the plastics are turning brittle and chalky. the secondary door latches both snapped off, and you can crumble them to dust in your hands. This is what worries me. We had a moderate sized LG French door fridge I our old place that stayed when we sold it. It worked so well and we loved it. My parents have a ~29? Cubic foot LG that's going on 6+ years and works/looks as good as day one. Metal Geir Skogul posted:Any fridge more expensive than $800 is full of unnecessary bourgeoisie decadence. Maybe. Filtered water is the jam though and a bigger fridge is nice to have with a growing family. When we have extended family gatherings it's nice to have acres of space too.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:They'll fight the other insurance company, if the other insurance company won't play ball, they sue them. Yeah, I'm already considering doing a consult with a lawyer early next week if I get blown off again by their insurance or Progressive just gives me the "your policy is worth the paper its printed on only if you pay your deductible" run-around again. Serious question to the auto insurance professionals here: can their insured just blow them off indefinitely or is there a point where they'll say "OK, this person is obviously avoiding talking to us for a reason"? I asked the (unassigned to my claim and therefore unable to really answer my questions) adjuster I spoke with this afternoon if their insured stonewalled them long enough if the claim would just be closed and me left holding the bag and I got a bunch of redirection - "oh, she already opened a claim for her damages so I'm sure she'll call us" and "we're very persistent about getting their side of the story" - without my question being answered.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Wait, Addison actually has parts stores and mechanics? We also deliver to dealerships and addison has a fair few. Though the nearest oreillys seems to be farmers branch. Judging by the store number, it was one of the original stores taken over by oreillys when they bought out a chain of parts stores in texas. Also, I kinda had the same reaction upon hearing addison texas as the location. Of course followed by my co-worker asking if I knew where it was, then laughing when I did. Every time we get a customer thats lived in texas, I seem to know their podunk little town. 
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Man, St. Louis traffic was just hosed tonight. DOT tried to pretreat, but short rains came and hosed that. Then a wet cold front came and sat on the area about 4:00pm and misted down a light fog that froze upon everything it touched. Every road was black ice. Never got above 2nd gear whole way home. Breathing on the pedals produced instant skids. Even now at midnight all the major roads are hosed.
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QuarkMartial posted:I want to know more about this, particularly the machine you're using. It's an Anova sous vide circulator. Nothing but good things to say about it. Cook awesome steaks and burgs and the occasional meat centerpiece. For pickling I used the Chefsteps method.. I tried the pickles out on a few people today and got great feedback, a lot of people offering to buy them which makes me think it's genuine. Decent pickles are hard to come by in Oz so that may be something to pursue.
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Cop Porn Popper posted:We also deliver to dealerships and addison has a fair few. Though the nearest oreillys seems to be farmers branch. Judging by the store number, it was one of the original stores taken over by oreillys when they bought out a chain of parts stores in texas. Also, I kinda had the same reaction upon hearing addison texas as the location. Of course followed by my co-worker asking if I knew where it was, then laughing when I did. Every time we get a customer thats lived in texas, I seem to know their podunk little town. Farmers Branch is next to Addison.  And as for "podunk"... uh.. both of those cities are swallowed up by the DFW metromess. Over 7 million people here, and well over 100 decently sized cities are part of it. Hundreds more if you count podunks.  Addison is definitely one of the smaller ones (at least in the middle of everything), Farmer's Branch isn't that big either. But they're landlocked and have no way of expanding land area. Dallas actually surrounds Addison on 3 sides (S, E, N), and Farmer's Branch on 1 or 2 sides (S for sure, maybe a small portion to the north). I used to live a bit north of Addison (inside of Dallas), and also lived in Carrollton (next city north of Farmer's Branch).When I moved here, DFW metro was pretty much considered to be 4 counties. Wikipedia claims it's now 20 counties, including part of a county in Oklahoma.  I'm gonna guess that was a Checker Auto Parts originally, or at least part of the CSK family? And I had no idea any dealers existed in Addison at all. Mind blown. I just looked up that O'Reilly's, it's in the oldest part of Farmer's Branch... just up the street from a restaurant I worked at briefly. real edit: I don't think Addison or Farmer's Branch got swallowed up by Dallas until the 70s-80s. Not 100% on that since I moved here in the 90s. But much of Farmer's Branch is 60s and 70s houses + apartments, and the retail seems to be mostly 70s. Addison was mostly just a private airport and some cheap apartments until sometime in the 80s, I think? They tore down pretty much all of the cheap stuff to make way for one of those mixed used developments about a decade ago. I know my first apartment in DFW was a bit north of Addison, and it was built in 1990 - when it was built, it was in the middle of nowhere. I moved to DFW in the late 90s and it was very much on the edge of anything at that time, and that area was already kinda going ghetto. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 08:31 on Dec 17, 2016 |
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Geoj posted:Yeah, I'm already considering doing a consult with a lawyer early next week if I get blown off again by their insurance or Progressive just gives me the "your policy is worth the paper its printed on only if you pay your deductible" run-around again. They pay you damages minus deductible, then recover the money from the other party, then send you a check for the deductible if they recover that if you are not at fault (they will try). This is how insurance has always worked.
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The entire city is a goddamned ice rink, holy poo poo. Went to see Rogue One (Protip, go see Rogue One) and had to de ice my car before I set off for home. By the time I got here my headlights has completely iced over again. Saw over 10 accidents and a half dozen cars off the road. Dad asked me what I want for Christmas today and I think maybe a nice dashcam? What's the decent go-to these days?
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Farmers Branch is next to Addison. I used to live in Arlington, so anthing smaller in the dfw area is podunk to me.  Granted, I also spent a bunch of time in Everman, and yeah, that poo poo is podunk as hell. Mostly it seems to be people from east texas and the southern areas of dfw who come into work though.
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Here's what our ambulance started doing today. And by that, I mean, it's been doing when cold for months, but the mechanics don't believe us because they are bad people. Finally remembered to take a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dC1sqYdqFw I know it's a loose wire or bad reverse switch, but notmyjob.
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fridge corn posted:I just found a bottle of mount gay i didn't know i even had Nice, I need to get more into rum, other than Bacardi and Captain Morgan. About the Islay thing, it's the most unique and polarizing region, taste-wise. Islay whiskys tend to have a lot of depth and flavor that stays in your mouth for a while. That lends itself to whiskys that you sit down and really get into and discuss with like-minded people. Hence its popularity among whisky nerds. Highland is like Iron Maiden. Nice harmonies, depth, a bit of an edge, but very accessible. Highly enjoyable. Islay is like Anaal Nathrakh. It's still got plenty harmony and melody, but the immediate assault on your senses takes some getting used to, before you notice the subtleties. And of course you get the edgelords who drink it even though they don't really like it, only because it's the "most xtreme" whisky. These are the people who go on and on about it tasting like "licking the back of a fireplace" or such things and act all superior when "normal people" recoil the first time they taste it. Like the people who only drink crazy high ABV spirits because they think it makes them manly and tough. I'm sure Ron Swanson's love for Lagavulin also has an effect of pulling in basement dwellers who want to feel manly. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 10:26 on Dec 17, 2016 |
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I bought some cognac this weekend. It's pretty tasty even though I drink it on the rocks instead of neat. It's Hennessy which is tasty to me but not sure if it's overrated or not, I imagine it's probably the cognac version of Crown Royal or Jameson. Recommend me a good brandy and I'd love to try it when I have a bit of spending money.
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This: Best cognac I've ever had. Smooth, deep, just perfect. It's not expensive at all for how good it is. Youngest in the line-up, but oh so good. I've seen it for ~$55. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 10:47 on Dec 17, 2016 |
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KozmoNaut posted:This: Thanks, definitely will be on the lookout for this.
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KozmoNaut posted:Nice, I need to get more into rum, other than Bacardi and Captain Morgan. I rate high ABV whiskies when they're done right. The extra viscosity or mouth feel is so worth it. It's a case of aging the spirit right though, if it's "hot" it's unpleasant. I've had 72% Heartwood that was far more drinkable than 46% garbage.
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slothrop posted:I rate high ABV whiskies when they're done right. The extra viscosity or mouth feel is so worth it. It's a case of aging the spirit right though, if it's "hot" it's unpleasant. I've had 72% Heartwood that was far more drinkable than 46% garbage. Yeah, I like cask strength whisky* and other high ABV alcohols, if they're done right. I don't mind them being hot, as long as they're not just an outright burn. For instance, I have a bottle of homemade 87% ABV absinthe that I got from a friend. It's ridiculously smooth for how much of kick it has, but holy hell when it does kick, it kicks like an angry mule. I was thinking more along the lines of Everclear 190 and Bacardi 151 drunk neat, that sort of thing. There's a large segment of people who see ABV as directly proportional to quality. *Everything SMWS bottles is cask strength, non-chill filtered and free from caramel coloring. Maybe it's a bit elitist, but that's how I prefer my whiskys, which is why I became a member. All of my single malts are SMWS bottlings right now. Their 9yo Bunnahabhains are absolutely godlike.
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KozmoNaut posted:Yeah, I like cask strength whisky* and other high ABV alcohols, if they're done right. I don't mind them being hot, as long as they're not just an outright burn. For instance, I have a bottle of homemade 87% ABV absinthe that I got from a friend. It's ridiculously smooth for how much of kick it has, but holy hell when it does kick, it kicks like an angry mule. 100% agree with the SMWS ethos. That's all of the things I look for in a whisky. Unfortunately they're very expensive here in Oz. The store I work in runs a tasting with them every so often and the whiskies are invariably great.
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The fact that 14 was the guy that convinced me to go see Mad Max: Fury Road giving such a glowing review of Rogue One has me super stoked for my Sunday matinee showing with my wife. 
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slothrop posted:100% agree with the SMWS ethos. That's all of the things I look for in a whisky. Unfortunately they're very expensive here in Oz. The store I work in runs a tasting with them every so often and the whiskies are invariably great. I know it's a long shot, but oh man if you ever get a chance to taste or buy a bottle of 10.100, DO IT!
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KozmoNaut posted:I know it's a long shot, but oh man if you ever get a chance to taste or buy a bottle of 10.100, DO IT! I had an Adelphi Bunnahabhain at our last club meeting. It was outstanding. I'm usually more of a peat head but this was so good, independant bottlings are so often fantastic.
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nm posted:(they will try) This is why I'm hesitant to use my own insurance - I have little faith in them actually trying. Why would they put forth any effort when it makes no difference to them if I pay it or the other party's insurance pays it, and arguably it will cost them more to recover it vs doing nothing?
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slothrop posted:It's an Anova sous vide circulator. Nothing but good things to say about it. Cook awesome steaks and burgs and the occasional meat centerpiece. Thanks. It looks like a lot less hassle than traditional canning.
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BloodBag posted:The fact that 14 was the guy that convinced me to go see Mad Max: Fury Road giving such a glowing review of Rogue One has me super stoked for my Sunday matinee showing with my wife. It's a good film, it's not a great film. It's entertaining and you'll enjoy it, I appreciated all the little touches and nods to the old films it has and that's the best bit IMO K-2SO also steals the entire movie and is far cooler that BB-8 could ever hope to be.
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InitialDave posted:If he hit the M54, would you actually notice? Most likely, I would have to repaint whatever was hit to make it invisible again. Driving an invisible truck has its downsides. (If it wasn't broken.)
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Somewhat Heroic posted:This is what worries me. We had a moderate sized LG French door fridge I our old place that stayed when we sold it. It worked so well and we loved it. My parents have a ~29? Cubic foot LG that's going on 6+ years and works/looks as good as day one. After a couple of lovely refrigerators for us as well, (GE, Kenmore) we are seriously considering going all out and buying a Sub Zero. Yeah they are expensive as hell, but consider that they will most likely outlive you and these new garbage disposable units you would have bought in that span would end up costing more anyway.
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