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Tomarse posted:its at 7pm near a cemetery "I push for maximum sentencing m'lord, there were bodies everywhere!" So how do people deal with depressive cycles round here when the weather gets too bad to get into the garden or on the bike?
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cakesmith handyman posted:"I push for maximum sentencing m'lord, there were bodies everywhere!" Eat chocolate digestives and get very tubby.
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cakesmith handyman posted:"I push for maximum sentencing m'lord, there were bodies everywhere!" Pick up heavy things and put them down again.
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Jun 8, 2017 09:31
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Staying in bed all day, and then excessive alcohol and risk taking behaviors at night
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spog posted:Eat chocolate digestives and get very tubby. Are you spying on me? Liquid Communism posted:Pick up heavy things and put them down again. Heavier than digestives? The Door Frame posted:Staying in bed all day, and then excessive alcohol and risk taking behaviors at night Work all day, don't want to slip into casual drinking again. No motivation to do anything after the kids are put to bed. E: if I cleared the garage a but I'd have space to put the bike on the trainer or lift, I'll aim for that
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stump posted:I'm assuming it was a camera van like this, so it would be more stable than a guy with a hairdryer but I mostly agree. From what I understand 1km is the maximum range they can be used, but seeing as they have to spot and target you first its less likely they would get you at that distance. As I said - they got me at 367 metres. Judging from the picture quality I would guess that on a long straight road they could get you from a lot further away. However - you cant see the driver or read the plate in the one that I was clocked at in the distance, they have used 2 later closeup photos for that - I could have turned off and been free - so if you see a van in the distance and think it got you then turn off immediately before they can see you!
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I may have gotten stung last night by the cameras on those 'smart' motorways. Hoping not because loving giving money away for driving safely on a motorway.
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Sadi posted:How do you like the roof top tent? I think they look cool bit I don't like the idea of having to break camp anytime I want to go somewhere, and I feel like being surrounded by air on all sides would make them super cold in the winter. The tents pretty awesome- you dont really feel that cold in it, but because its more like a standard bed than a camping bed (the floor itself is 1" thick insulating foam sandwiched between composite, then ive got a 100mm thick self inflating mattress, a woollen underlay and then a big down doona quite often you find yourself getting too hot and having to throw a limb out, even if its -4 or 5 outside) its quite comfortable. Theres only been one or two nights when we had to wear warm clothes to bed, but thats when it was cold enough to freeze a cup of coffee on a bullbar a meter off the ground solid and throw frost to the top of 10m high trees. The breaking camp thing can be a pain in the dick, but in reality it takes about 15 mins to pack up and you can go from driving to in bed in under 5 minutes if you dont want to put the little wings over the windows up. slothrop posted:What's the headspace like up there? I can't remember how tall you made the shed. Not too bad, you can comfortably move around at a crouch at its highest point and if your sitting down at the walls your heads still a fair way off the roof. The Mezzanine has a ceiling under it at 2300mm, its about 150mm thick and the walls on the shed are 3300 and the peak just over 4000mm, so you get a fair bit of room to move around without it being an enormous pain in the dick.
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cakesmith handyman posted:"I push for maximum sentencing m'lord, there were bodies everywhere!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQpgliX1pRE
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Tomarse posted:As I said - they got me at 367 metres. Judging from the picture quality I would guess that on a long straight road they could get you from a lot further away.
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I don't want to start a new thread for this yet so here will work for now. Two years ago I suggest an AI Rally around the country. But we needed a disposable car to do it in. Well now I have this PT Cruiser and should it survive until next spring, I want to give the rally a shot. We'll have to work on logistics (insurance and whatnot) but basically I drive 3-400 miles to the next Goon, hand off the car and then catch a ride home, documenting the entire experience with a dashcam and blog posts. The next goon does the same until the car burns up or it makes it through every state possible. Probably not Alaska though. Even if the pT doesn't last til then, I really want to do this.
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Im in, but that sounds like a nightmare to set up. Getting a ride home sounds tough too, is the next goon supposed to drive you back and so on? Maybe plot it by airports? That way you can just order a one way ticket and it shouldn't cost too much. 300-400 miles should be around $100 maybe? Cage fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Jun 8, 2017 |
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Cage posted:Im in, but that sounds like a nightmare to set up. Getting a ride home sounds tough too, is the next goon supposed to drive you back and so on? gently caress that, bus tickets man!
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Someone should carefully alter that to "REVENUE CAMERA". My buddy got his very orange 240Z into the shop. Helped him empty it, there was so much poo poo.  Also:
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Somewhat Heroic posted:I am getting the itch to buy a new lens for my camera to tinker with. It is a crop sensor Canon. I have a 50mm/f1.8 which gets a lot of action now. I am considering a pancake lens, the 24mm looks fun and cheap. I am wanting to mainly do portraiture and take pics of cars. Should I go that path? I am not ready to hurl $700+ on lenses until I master my crop sensor camera and equipment. I will one day like to go bonkers with L glass and a full frame camera. I just am not there yet. I love a super wide, personally I hardly ever use my 24mm. Its nice enough but its a meh focal length and meh aperture for crop in my opinion. Personally I'd look into one of the ~17-50 f/2.8 lenses. Most are reasonable sharpness and contrast at a reasonable price. Way more flexible too. For reference i'm shooting a 7D, and have a sigma 8-18, tamron 17-50 2.8, canon 24mm 2.8, canon 50mm 1.8, and canon 70-200L 2.8 IS.
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bolind posted:Someone should carefully alter that to "REVENUE CAMERA". Contraction of "safety camera", clearly...
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Somewhat Heroic posted:I am getting the itch to buy a new lens for my camera to tinker with. It is a crop sensor Canon. I have a 50mm/f1.8 which gets a lot of action now. I am considering a pancake lens, the 24mm looks fun and cheap. I am wanting to mainly do portraiture and take pics of cars. Should I go that path? I am not ready to hurl $700+ on lenses until I master my crop sensor camera and equipment. I will one day like to go bonkers with L glass and a full frame camera. I just am not there yet. For portraits, you will generally want to go with a longer lens. I hear low 100s of mm focal length tossed around. Also, buy a Pentax ME Super instead 
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Does anyone own project cars? I saw that it was on sale on steam so I thought about picking it up.
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Ugh, I'm having a poo poo time finding cheap truck to tow with. I live in a pretty rural area so I thought it would be easy. I was hoping I could find something that needed a little work for $3k, but it seems it's all $6k 2000-2002s, and $1500 pieces of crap with questionable registrations and not much in between. Don't know if I should break my current-registration-and-smogged-only rule, consider a SUV or break down and finance something.
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Looks like my Crown Vic will be needing pads and at least front rotors soon. What was the Goon collective preferred configuration for daily driver brakes? I seem to recall Centric rotors and ceramic pads of some sort. Is there really any difference, particularly with rotors? Even the plain-jane poo poo at O'reillys is almost $50 per rotor. Ditto for the "Brake Best" ceramic pads. I might as well get the Power Stop Daily Driver kit from Rock or Amazon (probably Amazon because $LOL shipping @ Rock Auto.) I'm not going to be racing the thing. I just need it to stop confidently, and preferably without making GBS threads up my fancy wheels.
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Its gonna be a long and sleepless night for a lot of us in the UK!
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Darchangel posted:Looks like my Crown Vic will be needing pads and at least front rotors soon. What was the Goon collective preferred configuration for daily driver brakes? I seem to recall Centric rotors and ceramic pads of some sort. Is there really any difference, particularly with rotors? Even the plain-jane poo poo at O'reillys is almost $50 per rotor. Ditto for the "Brake Best" ceramic pads. I might as well get the Power Stop Daily Driver kit from Rock or Amazon (probably Amazon because $LOL shipping @ Rock Auto.) I did DD-grade centric rotor/pad kits with ceramic pads (Posi-Quiet iirc) from RockAuto and it was cheaper than Amazon with Prime. I don't see the kits anymore though. So far so good. Haven't run into anything and they're quiet and not dusty.
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Tomarse posted:Its gonna be a long and sleepless night for a lot of us in the UK!
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Considering May called this election under the impression it was going to be a landslide, if it isn't then that bitch needs to gently caress off.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Considering May called this election under the impression it was going to be a landslide, if it isn't then that bitch needs to gently caress off. After that exit poll I'm opting for a beer over going to bed.
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Tomarse posted:After that exit poll I'm opting for a beer over going to bed. Last time I went to sleep at a political time, it was safe in the knowledge that Trump would lose by a huge margin. Before that, I was trying to guess just large a margin Brexit would be defeated. Not going to risk that again.
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InitialDave posted:That won't change the result, just how tired you are. For the sake of the British public, I am not prepared to risk it.
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Pham Nuwen posted:For portraits, you will generally want to go with a longer lens. I hear low 100s of mm focal length tossed around. I used to own a 135 2.8L, by far the best portrait lens I have ever used and I regret selling it.
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monsterzero posted:Ugh, I'm having a poo poo time finding cheap truck to tow with. I live in a pretty rural area so I thought it would be easy. I was hoping I could find something that needed a little work for $3k, but it seems it's all $6k 2000-2002s, and $1500 pieces of crap with questionable registrations and not much in between. I'm not sure where you are, but full size SUVs are usually cheaper. If you really want capacity and don't have a need for a gooseneck a 2500 series suburban is a good one. E: also those $6k ones probably need as much work as the $1500 one, the owners just won't admit it. This is one purchase where strong haggling skills are needed. I have had better luck getting deals at new car dealers on used trucks than through private party sales. This is because the dealer didn't pay poo poo for trade in on it and they need to make a sales goal for the month or whatever. Not that this applies as much on a $5k truck as it does a $25k truck, just saying. rdb fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Jun 9, 2017 |
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Chevy van is your cheapest tow vehicle. G30 or G3500 or G20 in a pinch. Fprd also has good towing vans of that age.
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rdb posted:SUVs... Good point on the dealers. Maybe I'll hit up some tomorrow, maybe they got something interesting on trade. Elephanthead posted:Chevy van is your cheapest tow vehicle. G30 or G3500 or G20 in a pinch. Fprd also has good towing vans of that age. I rocked an E150 for about a year. Not sure I want to go back to that. Even writing 'free puppies' on the side did nothing to reduce the suspicious looks I got while driving around.
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Darchangel posted:Looks like my Crown Vic will be needing pads and at least front rotors soon. What was the Goon collective preferred configuration for daily driver brakes? I seem to recall Centric rotors and ceramic pads of some sort. Is there really any difference, particularly with rotors? Even the plain-jane poo poo at O'reillys is almost $50 per rotor. Ditto for the "Brake Best" ceramic pads. I might as well get the Power Stop Daily Driver kit from Rock or Amazon (probably Amazon because $LOL shipping @ Rock Auto.) The brakebest rotors are one of the tiers of raybestos rotors, whichever ones mimic the OE rotor material exactly along with vane construction, etc. The pads I've gotten varying answers, but all responses were bosch, centrix or wagner and I have seen a few very old wagner boxes rebranded brakebest. Fwiw, outside of an insanely finicky customer or two, I don't get complaints about gold box ceramic pads we sell. Now what I'm disappointed to hear is that they didn't try to sell you the fancy carbon metallic PFC pads since its a cop car. They come in a hilariously overbuilt box lined with foam padding thats worth bringing out just for the reaction to it.
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My tweaker friend who went to the ER about the parasites we both share identical symptoms for just got his results in. Positive diagnosis for an incredibly rare flesh burrowing flat worm from Asia. Total number of cases in the USA per year: 3~5. His lawyer is talking multiple millions in settlements as there has been permanent, irreversible damage done to his body that will leave him in crippling pain the rest of his life, he my randomly go blind if one burrows through his optic nerve, and has a cat scan scheduled for tomorrow to assess brain surgery and treatment options. In short, each and every last one of you can eat a massive, worm loaded pile of dicks
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So you're getting a Bi-Turbo with the settlement money yes?
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DICK DICER posted:My tweaker friend who went to the ER about the parasites we both share identical symptoms for just got his results in. Positive diagnosis for an incredibly rare flesh burrowing flat worm from Asia. Total number of cases in the USA per year: 3~5. His lawyer is talking multiple millions in settlements as there has been permanent, irreversible damage done to his body that will leave him in crippling pain the rest of his life, he my randomly go blind if one burrows through his optic nerve, and has a cat scan scheduled for tomorrow to assess brain surgery and treatment options. Settlements from whom? Do you have a way to be tested for this? Do you have a lawyer? Man I am on your side and always have been but a bit premature to tell us all f u. Please update us or me on what you find out. FB or text whatever. Also man Dave a lot of us sent you funds f.u. each and every last one of you a bit harsh man. I understand you are in a bad place. Best wishes. everdave fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Jun 9, 2017 |
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DICK DICER posted:My tweaker friend who went to the ER about the parasites we both share identical symptoms for just got his results in. Positive diagnosis for an incredibly rare flesh burrowing flat worm from Asia. Total number of cases in the USA per year: 3~5. His lawyer is talking multiple millions in settlements as there has been permanent, irreversible damage done to his body that will leave him in crippling pain the rest of his life, he my randomly go blind if one burrows through his optic nerve, and has a cat scan scheduled for tomorrow to assess brain surgery and treatment options. So you should have no problem proving yourself A official court reference to the lawsuit will do.
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"everdave" posted:Also man Dave a lot of us sent you funds f.u. each and every last one of you a bit harsh man. I understand you are in a bad place. Best wishes. You have no loving idea what two years of excruciating pain coupled with loving flesh boring worms even inside your eyes, and being totally unable to convince even one person they exist and its not all in your head.
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