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Darchangel posted:I have no idea why people who can barely change batteries in a remote seem to desperately need the most complex machine they can get their hands on. Because even those mouth breathers know about the cult of Apple and bah gawd they know that the Apple version is better because it costs more. Clearly you're just being cheap to punish them. I have three monitors at work, but one is an ancient screen I brought from home. It has bad color banding on a whole vertical section, and when it hasn't warmed up it won't show a dark screen without having a full on freakout. White or otherwise bright screens are fine. IDK, I'll keep using it until it pops.
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 Hm. So that's where my boost went.
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CommieGIR posted:
How good is duct tape at holding boost? :P
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West SAAB Story posted:It's literally gone. LITERALLY loving GONE. I'm sorry, I misread. E: though going back and rereading, you said it was smashed, not gone, so I feel my mistake was understandable.
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Feb 21, 2017 09:34
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He is literally brain damaged which is too bad but it's not easy to communicate with someone like that. He auto-banned earlier anyway.
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Feb 21, 2017 09:46
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CharlesM posted:How good is duct tape at holding boost? :P Not very good
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Buying a house is a major pain in the arse
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If there's a chain it's horrible. We had coin for ours, ready to move immediately and the x amount of homeowners moving up the chain and associated solicitors were dragging the process along. Least fun purchase ever.
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Feb 21, 2017 11:21
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There's no chain whatsoever so at least we've got that going for us. But every day it's something with organising surveys or estimates and the mortgage broker ringing me up for this one little thing they forgot and the solicitor taking an unexpected holiday wtf
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Feb 21, 2017 11:29
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It's a long list of poo poo you need doing and you learn that the people that can do these things for you don't really give much of a poo poo. You have my sympathy. When do you reckon you'll get moved in?
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Olympic Mathlete posted:If there's a chain it's horrible. We had coin for ours, ready to move immediately and the x amount of homeowners moving up the chain and associated solicitors were dragging the process along. Least fun purchase ever. Two day before exchange, somebody three links further up the chain decided that they wanted an additional £30k for their property, so my agent - with a straight face - suggested that everyone lower down the chain increased their purchase price by £10k.
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Feb 21, 2017 11:41
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Where in the chain did he get buried?
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fridge corn posted:the solicitor taking an unexpected holiday wtf When we bought our current place the lawyer literally disappeared for three weeks right in the middle of the process. When she finally resurfaced I had some words. I think it's just a thing lawyers/solicitors do.
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spog posted:Two day before exchange, somebody three links further up the chain decided that they wanted an additional £30k for their property, so my agent - with a straight face - suggested that everyone lower down the chain increased their purchase price by £10k. I hope you found out who these people were and threw bricks through their windows. And then punched your agent.
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Looking to buy a place next year and not looking forward to all the BS. I have approval for X amount I want to give you money now get out and let me fix the unending number of messes you leave behind that the inspector doesn't find since he really doesn't give a poo poo. At least I am buying the US so even in a more expensive part of the country I can get shock horror a house with a garden like the landed gentry for half the price I would get a box with no off street parking back home. Edit: Solicitor Chat: When friends have been buying the UK it always seems to be the Solicitor that makes everything harder. Look I know you decided to be a law wrangling person for a career and it is likely high on the brain numbing scale since not everyone can be like the lawyers off Boston Law but stop loving around. BigPaddy fucked around with this message at 12:44 on Feb 21, 2017 |
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cakesmith handyman posted:Where in the chain did he get buried? I told my agent to pass on a message to my seller to tell him 'to go gently caress himself' if we didn't exchange on the agreed date at the agreed price. I may have been watching Goodfellas the night before. beep-beep car is go posted:When we bought our current place the lawyer literally disappeared for three weeks right in the middle of the process. When she finally resurfaced I had some words. I think it's just a thing lawyers/solicitors do. On this sale, my solicitor forgot to do all the searches and I ended up doing them myself. His secretary said 'yeah he does that' On another sale, my 'solicitor' left the company mid sale. Then his replacement also left.
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I've been quite lucky in that the first place I bought was an unoccupied, out of chain house where somebody had died or gone into a home, and when I bought my second place I had already sold the first a 6 months prior, and I was buying the a flat we were already renting - we didn't even have to move or exchange keys. Even then it's a stressful process.
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My wife used to work for a place that did searches etc. Knowing there's literally £45 and an hours work in something that typically runs from hundreds to thousands and regularly takes up to a month to complete just makes that part of the process murderous enraging. I'm never moving again.
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Feb 21, 2017 13:05
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Luckily the place I'm buying is big enough that I should never have to move again unless of course I live long enough that enough of the ice caps will have melted in which case my home may be underwater
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I bought my current house off my parents. We both used one company as solicitors. Both our solicitors worked in the same building for the same company. I think their offices were in the same corridor. It still took them almost 3 loving months to get through the process and weekly phone calls to chase them. They did however do their searches and work properly. My house backs onto a formerly council owned garage plot and they went through the effort of proving easement of vehicle & pedestrian access via this land into my garden which has come in very handy in stopping them building on it and now means I have a large private drive and garage 
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I haven't heard of chains before. What is that, when person A buy's person B's house, person B buys person C's house, and so forth? That sounds like a nightmare. The pizzas that I brought with me to Philly, I'm cooking them in my hotel room since my office doesn't have an oven. I'm a little nervous using my home oven, so using this one is a nightmare. My hotel room coffee maker started making a noise, and I was about ready to grab the nearest fire extinguisher.
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Safety Dance posted:That sounds like a nightmare. Got it in one.
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CharlesM posted:How good is duct tape at holding boost? :P .....That's not duct tape.
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Safety Dance posted:I haven't heard of chains before. What is that, when person A buy's person B's house, person B buys person C's house, and so forth? That sounds like a nightmare. Over here we're not in the habit of selling/renting/buying so it's an unpleasant necessity. I moved from rented to literally-just finished-building and it was still a nightmare. Fun high point, we had to tell the builder we were about to become homeless to get him to finish up before he went on holiday, then had to sort the snagging after moving in, as waiting for things to be refinished would have meant 2 months delay. Luckily there were no major snagging issues.
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had a damp proof specialist get me an estimate for damp works but didn't bother checking the accessible areas of the kitchen where the surveyor had found damp but whatever I was going to get another quote anyway 😪
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Feb 21, 2017 15:35
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BigPaddy posted:
9/10, everything goes smoothly and the lawyer looks like an rear end. That other time though, and you're glad you had that lawyer for the most complex and expensive transaction of your life.
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Feb 21, 2017 15:36
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HOLY poo poo MB owners must be gullible as gently caress 
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Adiabatic posted:HOLY poo poo lololol holy gently caress. I bet plenty pay it without batting an eye too.
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Is that in dollars? Complete comprehensive service and brakes all around, yeah expensive but not unreasonable
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Adiabatic posted:HOLY poo poo Well dropped off the race car at my friends shop for fab work yesterday. Now I don't know what to do with myself not having it sitting there for me to tinker with. I'll probably sort through some of the stuff that came with it again and start actually planning out my wiring harness so it isn't a complete cluster gently caress. Quick dig through the wiring box that came with the car revealed a few deutsch and some mil-spec looking connectors.
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Adiabatic posted:HOLY poo poo Hahah god drat. I don't even pay $2778 for an entire car anymore.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Hahah god drat. I don't even pay $2778 for an entire car anymore. I like how it took me a double-take to realise that $2,778 was for the front discs only. Not even all round!
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loving lol. spog posted:I like how it took me a double-take to realise that $2,778 was for the front discs only. Not even all round! Or just add 25% more and do a full Brembo caliper upgrade with 2-piece rotors: http://performance.importrp.com/i-388388.aspx loving insanity.
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Can you even get rotors for an AMG on rockauto or similar? I bet they're slightly more expensive (wherever you can get them) but goddamn.
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At that price I would expect they are ceramic ones or something.
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BigPaddy posted:At that price I would expect they are ceramic ones or something. That is what I thought at first and then realized at the dealer that'd be a 5 figure service.
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Larrymer posted:Can you even get rotors for an AMG on rockauto or similar? I bet they're slightly more expensive (wherever you can get them) but goddamn. I can get OEM everything for all four corners, aside from the front rotors, for ~$300. Front rotors are $450 each, cheapest I've found that actually have them in stock. Normally they're somewhere around $800 per. No SBC on these, so this is literally a regular brake job. Same with the spark plugs, air filter, cabin air filter, and wiper blades. Those are all regular services with no added complexity. The transmission service procedure is ridiculous and requires flow/temp measurements and pumping the new fluid through the drain hole, else I'd be doing that myself too.
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West SAAB Story posted:Sure! Dude, calm down. You said it was broken, but not how badly. Folks were just asking if there was some way you could retrieve the device's memory or repair it. If not, that sucks, and I'm sorry random assholes made your day shittier. IOwnCalculus posted:Because even those mouth breathers know about the cult of Apple and bah gawd they know that the Apple version is better because it costs more. Clearly you're just being cheap to punish them. Yes, but you are not an AR-TEEST, clearly. What really killed me was how much she emphasized the aesthetics not matching. Really? How long have you worked for actual corporations? No one gives a gently caress if your poo poo matches. How the gently caress did this person get hired as a Director (just below a VP)? Never mind, I know how that happens (confident personality, pure luck, taking credit...) fridge corn posted:Is that in dollars? Complete comprehensive service and brakes all around, yeah expensive but not unreasonable The gently caress? Yes it is. unless we're talking about racing-spec ceramic poo poo here, almost $3000 for pads and rotors FOR ONE AXLE is unreasonable as gently caress. $1150 for the rear pads and rotors is still outrageous. $500 for spark plugs is just stupid. How can you be this bad with money, and still be able to afford a Mercedes?
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Darchangel posted:How can you be this bad with money, and still be able to afford a Mercedes? Buying an AMG is BWM, and apparently attracts people that are BWM.
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Adiabatic posted:I can get OEM everything for all four corners, aside from the front rotors, for ~$300. That's stupid. Nothing that size, made out of cast iron, should be worth $450. I would sell the car before I'd pay $450 for a gawd-damned rotor, much less $800. (I'm obviously not in their target ownership group...) edit: Adiabatic posted:Buying an AMG is BWM, and apparently attracts people that are BWM. So, like the Apple of cars? (Disclaimer: I like Macs, but I fully acknowledge Apple's mentality and that of their customer base. I buy used, usually.) Darchangel fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Feb 21, 2017 |
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