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Im cleaning out my shed to get the slab poured into it. Ive been VERY careful not to pile too much poo poo into it and its still taken me two days and 3 10x5 tandem trailer loads to move it all out!
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:You would be in for a huge surprsie, Wollongong has changed big time In a good way? I'm trying to convince my better half to leave the US
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funny Star Wars parody posted:I remember coming to the US and thinking that Little Caesars was godlike compared to the poo poo I had elsewhere
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Local pizza can be better but as far as chains go, Papa Johns ain't that bad. They have a lot of 40-50% off coupons which helps. Do Pizza Huts still have the lunch buffet? I remember being really excited as a kid during the summer because I would get to go there for lunch sometimes.
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Any recommendations for a good independent BMW shop in Portland? Found a e39 540it for sale and wanted to get it checked out before I drive down with cash.
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Yeah I got one I'll send you a message on fb
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CharlesM posted:The Chicago pizza place near me closed I was in Billings this past week and had some deep dish @ Chicago Pizza and Taphouse. It was surprisingly good and the b-side 90s video mix playing in the background in the lounge was awesome. Their Thai Chicken, while not as good as Boston Pizzas Thai Chicken original of circa 2002, was still drat good and had a better crust. 9/10 would go again.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:ALL Pizza Hut's suck. ALL chain pizza places suck This is the correct answer. The best pizza places are the mom and pop shops. The best pizza I've ever had though was from Chicago. I'd kill a hooker for a legit Chicago pizza right now, the last one I had was NYE 99/00 when I was hanging out in a server room because the client was a paranoid gently caress who thought the world was going to end or some such poo poo even though the server and the equipment for his ISP was only around 10-12 months old. gently caress it, I got paid double time, had free pizza, and played Unreal Tournament until the rear end in a top hat arrived in the morning, got paid, then headed back to CA. gently caress that part of the states.
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InitialDave posted:Ash, Cakefool, Tomarse? We have a job to do. Alchotron assemble! I haven't bought a pizza since I stopped living with my parents, I've eaten delivery pizza at parties etc but I don't know where it came from.
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Goober Peas posted:I dunno, after I saw how Pizza Hut makes their pizzas, I prefer PJ's to PH. *TRIGGERED* I've worked for both, can confirm PJ's is far better in almost every way. Especially with stuff like sanitation and cleaning.  The only thing PH did better was the DM/DO didn't micromanage nearly as bad with PH; PJ's wants to know EVERY-loving-THING, right down to doing a full store inventory (even counting how many pizza boxes are in the store) every night at close. My GM and I would usually do a "well how much does the computer think we should have? gently caress with that number slightly" on a lot of stuff during the week, then do a real count on Sunday, but god help you if the DM/DO caught you doing that. PH does a full inventory monthly, criticals weekly, though to be fair, they do carry a hell of a lot more poo poo than the other 2 big chains, and their supply chain is a lot more complex. PJ's handles all of their own supply chain (from warehouse to trucks), not sure on Dominos, PH outsources everything to multiple companies.I will never, ever eat Pizza Hut again, unless I'm homeless and someone gives it to me. And even then only if I can heat it up hot enough to get rid of the poo poo from the pizza cutter that hasn't been washed in 2-3 days (and hit the floor several times), or the week and a half old pizza sauce. I saw corporate suit types come in for store visits (since Pizza Hut world HQ was in the next city), and they'd say "yeah, this is good!" when the inside of the place is >100 degrees, dishes are piled 6 feet high on the floor, rodents are running around the freezer, and the oil in the fryers is black and pouring smoke from being used for 2 months. They cared more about people having their nametags on over cleanliness; the last store I worked at got nailed on a corporate inspection because several of us had brought in box fans to help keep us from dying of dehydration in the heat; it was over 100 inside with nearly 100% humidity, 2 ACs sort-of working out of 3, when the place really needed 4 RTUs instead of 3. Dominos stores seem to be pretty clean, but micromanaged just as bad as PJ's. I've never cared for the taste of their pizza. The Locator posted:I like Pizza Hut but the local store is complete poo poo with terrible service and they can never get an order right to save their lives, and they somehow manage to make Pizza Hut pizza terrible compared to where I used to live. PH service quality really depends on the franchise. Corporate doesn't give two shits about complaints, they just forward them to the franchisee and leave it up to them to handle it. PJ's comes down on you like a ton of bricks over complaints, though the stores I worked in were all corporate. Also keep in mind PH used to make their own dough in-store every day, and actually cared about quality. Everything (seriously, everything except the soft drinks) comes in frozen these days. I can understand cheese coming in frozen. I can understand meats coming in frozen. But dough and veggies are something you shouldn't be freezing, damnit. Funny thing about them loving up... the make table display is the best out of the big 3, it shows EVERYTHING you wanted on the pizza. Even the older versions of their POS showed a lot of info, in full color, highlighted, etc. The last store I worked in only had a printer instead of displays, but it would spit out tickets showing everything you needed to know. PJ's by far had the worst store management software for a long time, and it wasn't helped when they told the company that actually wrote the software to go gently caress themselves, and brought it in-house without any source code. Last I heard they finally ditched the ancient dumb terminals a few years ago, but I'd put money on it being more because it cost more to get actual RS232 dumb terminals vs real POS-oriented computers. I mean FFS, they were running 16 port serial cards on the one PC in the entire store as late as 2013. When I started working for them in 2000, the store I started at (a corporate owned store) was running on a single 486 running BSD, with a small office-grade Panasonic dot matrix printer. End of day reports would take 15+ minutes to even think about starting to print. Goober Peas posted:Did they still do the 8oz ladle of grease in the bottom of pan pizzas? When I saw that I never wanted PH again. They did as of 2015, though it was a big plastic jar full of oil with a ~4 oz squirter (which you'd whack 2-3 times for a large pan). I never once saw the pumps or jars cleaned in ~2 years. I saw them use fryer oil a few times when they ran out of the regular oil. Also, loving OUCH if you were working the oven and dropped one of those pans too quickly while wearing shorts (all hot pans went on the lower shelf of the cut table). If they had used the correct amount of oil, it wasn't a big deal. But nobody ever did, and you'd have a quarter inch of boiling hot oil in the bottom of the pan when you tossed it into the stack. mariooncrack posted:Do Pizza Huts still have the lunch buffet? I remember being really excited as a kid during the summer because I would get to go there for lunch sometimes. If you can find a dine-in location, a handful still do a buffet, but only for lunch. The first one I worked at was dine-in, buffet, full bar, delivery, carryout, game room, AND drive-thru (and the owner lost millions on it - it's been vacant for 3 years, property records show he sold it to another LLC he owns last year) - they did a lunch buffet, but not a dinner buffet. Also the sale listings say all equipment is still there - nothing is there except for the 3 compartment sink, vent hoods, and walk in coolers. They even took the DVR with them (but left the cameras, and left a few TVs in the bar). They had a 1.5 star average on Yelp.  The server consistently mentioned as good was the only FOH person there that wasn't running out back to smoke a bowl every 10 minutes (most of the BOH did that too). That location also had a call center for all of the local stores within the franchise; I have no idea what they would do with that space, since it's basically a large office within the back of the kitchen, with poo poo HVAC (it shared the kitchen HVAC vents, but no return...)The Door Frame posted:All of the buproprion is out of my system and now I can once again drink a half bottle of gin before feeling legitimately drunk again. It's a very weird change and going out may have gotten much more expensive, but at least I shouldn't have to worry about seizures anymore The OBDI ECUs are easier to modify - a long time ago the P28 ECU was the one to have (92-95 Civic EX - D16Z6) for any 4 cylinder Honda; Hondata still makes a daughterboard for it that lets you hook up a laptop and do real-time datalogging and tuning. It's cheaper than a 3rd party ECU. The early Honda OBD2 ECUs get only slightly more data than the Honda OBD1 ECUs (all they added was an intake air temp sensor and knock sensor on the D series, for example, and even then only the VTEC version got the knock sensor), you just can't pull it over a standardized port on the OBD1 ECUs. I prefer OBD2 myself due to how easy it is to pull data with a  Bluetooth adapter and an Android phone, but Honda started going to immobilizers shortly after.switching to OBD2, and at one point they were difficult to get around if you had moved the engine/ECU to a different car that didn't have the supporting hardware. Though I would think a F22 VTEC ECU could run a (stock) F23A1 just fine, you'd probably just need to figure out the wiring and maybe use a couple of different sensors.I never looked at the F18 or F20, since they weren't available in USDM vehicles (I assume you're not talking about the F20 in the S2k). I think the H has a shorter final drive than the F trans (not 100% on that anymore) and is built a little tougher (also not 100% on that anymore). Since you're already talking about more than bolt-ons, an OBD1 ECU + Hondata S300 is probably still a good option today. It's still a relatively simple system as far as multiport EFI goes, and pretty drat reliable - and adds relatively easy tuning via laptop. But again, been ages since I played Honda Legos, so I may be way the hell off. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 09:21 on Jan 22, 2017 |
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The Door Frame posted:You poor soul... it needs to have a bizarre Italian name and be run by a tiny, creepily thin Italian man for me to go. The only exception I make is for Paisan's, because they have the sweetest sauces slidebite posted:I was in Billings this past week and had some deep dish @ Chicago Pizza and Taphouse. It was surprisingly good and the b-side 90s video mix playing in the background in the lounge was awesome. Their Thai Chicken, while not as good as Boston Pizzas Thai Chicken original of circa 2002, was still drat good and had a better crust. It was authentic which is nice for a place in Seattle (my dad is from Chicago so is allowed to say what is authentic... :P ) but besides that it was really good. Sad. California Pizza Kitchen used to have a good Thai Chicken that I liked, not sure if they still do. Boston's only has a few places in the U.S. so I've only ever been once in B.C. so I can't really compare.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:ALL Pizza Hut's suck. ALL chain pizza places suck Dude seriously quit trolling
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Amy's No Cheese pizza is my jam. But why is it more expensive than cheese pizza??
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Adiabatic posted:Dude seriously quit trolling What? Chain store pizza is poo poo, whats the troll here?
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Adiabatic posted:Dude seriously quit trolling It's possible he's not. I'm going to Wollongong in a couple of weeks so I'll check it out
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slothrop posted:It's possible he's not. I'm going to Wollongong in a couple of weeks so I'll check it out And that is also true. It's not the shithole it used to be.
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CharlesM posted:Amy's No Cheese pizza is my jam. But why is it more expensive than cheese pizza?? They've got to take all the cheese off. Labour isn't free.
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Homemade pizza is best pizza It's super easy so if you haven't tried it give it a go
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poo poo I just found someone selling a morris traveler in pieces near where I live and it's affordable. I don't have any money though. Serves me right for looking.
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Galler posted:That fried crust dripping with grease on a Pizza Hut pan pizza is a guilty pleasure of mine. I only have one a couple times a year and the rest of the pizza is pretty bleh but that crust is magical. Firehouse Pizza is my least favorite chain pizza. It's pretty standard chain pizza but with candy sweet There's a proper Chicago-style pizza place here that does pan pizza right. Two inches deep, crispy crust without being super greasy. Gotta call in advance before I go over there, though, as it's a ~45 minute wait for the oven. 
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freelop posted:Homemade pizza is best pizza This. It's about a quarter of the price and tenfold the quality of takeaway, and it's piss easy. Least fancy/most lazy option:
 Seriously, by the time you've done this a handful of times, you'll surpass chain store pizza. Easily. From here, the sky's the limit. Home made sauce, sourdough, different cheeses...
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bolind posted:Knead until you can't feel your arms Greatest purchase ever, if you like baking:   My favorite dough is: 375ml water mixed with ~8g of dry yeast and 1/2 tbsp sugar, let sit for a couple of minutes. Mix 500g flour with 2/3rds tbsp salt. Add half of that to the water/yeast mixture and mix together gently into a lumpy paste, don't overwork it. Add a splash of olive oil. Let that mixture sit for half an hour with a cloth over it. Take the resulting yucky-looking stringy mousse and mix in the rest of the flour. Once it's decently combined, start kneading like a madman (or turn on your fancy electric mixer) and knead the gently caress out of it. Seriously, like 15 minutes if kneading by hand. Lightly add flour as needed. The dough should end up smooth and elastic and not too sticky. Coat the dough with olive oil, cover it and let it sit for at least an hour. Remove cover, punch down dough, knead it, reshape into a ball, then coat with olive oil, cover and let rest again for at least 30 minutes. Done, and it's the best pizza dough I've ever been able to make at home.
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Yeah, I have a KitchenAid Artisan (which I have mixed opinions about) but I figured the pizza virgin wouldn't have, so... Dream machine is a Bjørn Teddy, but I haven't yet found a spare grand to throw at it. Thanks for the recipe. Just normal flour? No whole grain? It's on the dry side compared to what I usually do, but I'll try to remember to give it a spin.
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The recipe calls for 400g ordinary flour (preferably bread flour, high in protein) and 100g tipo 00 flour, if you have it. It's an old-fashioned recipe, from before whole grains became A Thing, but I'm sure you could replace 100g or so. I bake on an ~8kg, 8mm thick slab of steel, preheated for an additional ~30 minutes after the oven reaches 250°C. I broke 3 or 4 pizza stones before I got this massive beauty, and I highly recommend getting one.
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Sun's coming up. Perfect time for a Sunday drive.
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KozmoNaut posted:Greatest purchase ever, if you like baking: Do they not sell the Bosch mixers in your area? That's a shame.
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cakesmith handyman posted:poo poo I just found someone selling a morris traveler in pieces near where I live and it's affordable. I don't have any money though. Serves me right for looking. If it is any consolation, you have not missed out on a car in CKD condition that you can put together into a working vehicle: you've missed out on some boxes of spare parts that happened to come from the same car.
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spog posted:If it is any consolation, you have not missed out on a car in CKD condition that you can put together into a working vehicle: you've missed out on some boxes of spare parts that happened to come from the same car. If you've seen the average morris traveller the only difference is the order the parts turn up on your drive. It's also like 5 miles from my house so if I had the cash I could probably deliver it piecemeal 
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Holy poo poo, I just saw this one in the wild: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZABRrctkPcg Almost couldn't believe it was real.
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Bajaha posted:Holy poo poo, I just saw this one in the wild: Yeah, RockAuto is great but they have some weird choices in advertisements
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cakesmith handyman posted:If you've seen the average morris traveller the only difference is the order the parts turn up on your drive.
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CommieGIR posted:Yeah, RockAuto is great but they have some weird choices in advertisements I'm still sad that they passed on my spec work, To Swap A Timing Belt. It's not like it was cheap to hire all those Romanian prostitutes and train them to be court spectators.
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KozmoNaut posted:My favorite dough is: Making pizzas while reading this thread  I'll try that recipe next time. I don't normally bother proofing yeast, does it make much difference?Protips:
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Wolfsbane posted:I don't normally bother proofing yeast, does it make much difference? I don't think it's strictly necessary any more, with modern dry yeast. I still do it however, and it doesn't seem to hurt it any.
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Seminal Flu posted:Sloppy execution. I did one way more betterer. 
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Waiting for the obligatory CRVEX Also a Probe rammed into a Volvo
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