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Nothing to round off an evening out with your workmates for beers and curry like being asked if you're looking for business on your walk home...
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Dunkirk was a very good movie, but Christ it was unreasonably loud, like the sub woofers were distorting loud. Oh, I thought that was just our projectionist loving up.
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Jul 22, 2017 02:46
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It sounded like no one there knew how to set up audio correctly. Like how to you let horrible distortion continue without making adjustments, is there not a loving sub level knob somewhere? Or just turn down the volume geez.
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Jul 22, 2017 03:27
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Welp. Time for a Friday night scotch. It's been a looooooong week.
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Ephphatha posted:Alright, so you've probably already left but just in case Katoomba>Bathurst via Sodwalls Rd and Tarana Rd is a more interesting drive than bombing down the great western. Narrow and twisty so in a car you'll probably take about 15 minutes longer for that stretch if that's an issue. Thanks for the advice, I'll have a look tonight when I'm camping in Temora. We did steaks directly on the fire last night and it was awesome. https://i.imgur.com/gbbA30M.jpg https://i.imgur.com/KF4q8XA.jpg
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Jul 22, 2017 05:35
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Saw Dunkirk tonight, in a surprisingly empty theater with properly configured sound. Excellent movie.
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Jul 22, 2017 06:12
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hi guys. More pics.        I leave today to return to SF in a few hours. Ain' looking forward to it.
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Jul 22, 2017 06:26
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InitialDave posted:Nothing to round off an evening out with your workmates for beers and curry like being asked if you're looking for business on your walk home... Did they find your prices reasonable?
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Jul 22, 2017 09:58
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InitialDave posted:Nothing to round off an evening out with your workmates for beers and curry like being asked if you're looking for business on your walk home... 
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I saw a wierd little Daihatsu on the road yesterday. Couldn't work out what its badge said. Then I realised that there was a new MCM out so I watched that thisafternoon and found myself conveniently educated about Daihatsu's - including the information that it was a Copen that I saw. Today I have also been educated about Fiat wiring. They don't run an ignition switched ACC feed to the standard looking ISO plugs behind the head unit, only a permanent live. Then they sneak 2 CAN cables into the ISO connector inplace of some of the less useful wires and the Fiat head unit switches on and off with the ignition using those. So if you want to fit a different head unit you have to dig out an ACC feed from somewhere else to make it turn on and off properly.
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Jul 22, 2017 18:12
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Tomarse posted:Today I have also been educated about Fiat wiring. They don't run an ignition switched ACC feed to the standard looking ISO plugs behind the head unit, only a permanent live. Then they sneak 2 CAN cables into the ISO connector inplace of some of the less useful wires and the Fiat head unit switches on and off with the ignition using those. So if you want to fit a different head unit you have to dig out an ACC feed from somewhere else to make it turn on and off properly. Ah, standards.
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Jul 22, 2017 18:15
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I think I had a similar issue with my Vivaro - is the cigarette lighter a switched live you can pull from? I just popped my face plate off when I parked up because I'm lazy.
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Jul 22, 2017 18:16
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Tomarse posted:I saw a wierd little Daihatsu on the road yesterday. Couldn't work out what its badge said. Copens are cool as gently caress, a massive hard folding roof on a kei car? Immense. I found one for sale in decent nick for about £1200 and I regret not buying it. I'd look so cool in one.
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Jul 22, 2017 18:55
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meltie posted:Ah, standards. Who needs standards  Going by ISO10487 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectors_for_car_audio) Connector B is as per standard Connector A has CAN-H on pin 1 (speed sensor according to the spec) and CAN-L on Pin 3 (the optional connector) and Pin 4 is empty rather than having ACC +12V. I guess this doesn't mess anything up dangerously and almost makes sense since the speed signal comes off the CAN bus anyway. They are just being clever bastards using the CAN rather than a standard ACC feed. stump posted:I think I had a similar issue with my Vivaro - is the cigarette lighter a switched live you can pull from? I'm about to pull the dash apart and play with my multi-meter! The cig lighter is quite far away. I think the dash lights are on all the time so I might just use them and a relay. I am also lazy which also means that the chances of me accidentally leaving the radio on and flattening the battery are quite high. Olympic Mathlete posted:Copens are cool as gently caress, a massive hard folding roof on a kei car? Immense. I found one for sale in decent nick for about £1200 and I regret not buying it. I'd look so cool in one. You should buy one!  Don't get a silver first gen one though as the one I saw looked poo poo compared to all the other colours and the later gen model that I have looked at on google/Wikipedia today. Tiny cars should also have less than 4 cylinders Tomarse fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Jul 22, 2017 |
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Jul 22, 2017 19:04
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Copens are cool as gently caress, a massive hard folding roof on a kei car? Immense. I found one for sale in decent nick for about £1200 and I regret not buying it. I'd look so cool in one. Related, but I saw a Nissan Figaro for sale yesterday  They look they'd be a cute toy, but they go for silly money: that was was nearly £7k
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Jul 22, 2017 19:39
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spog posted:Related, but I saw a Nissan Figaro for sale yesterday Helaciously expensive, it seems to be one of those cars that people are slightly familiar with and since they are super unique looking the demand far outpaces supply. Especially since they are now legal in the USA. Lots of people here to drive prices skyward. I always liked the Pao more anyway, it's a 90s VW Thing made by Nissan. Canvas top available, 5 speed manual and available A/C.  or the Be-1  Or the S-Cargo but that seems way more gimmicky than any of these cars. Made at the same time by the same studio as the Figaro.  KakerMix fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Jul 22, 2017 |
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Jul 22, 2017 19:44
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cakesmith handyman posted:Did they find your prices reasonable?  Lol, I'm not messing with that. Any offers of a cheap escort had better be RWD.
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Jul 22, 2017 19:55
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InitialDave posted:Lol, I'm not messing with that. Any offers of a cheap escort had better be RWD. You prefer them loose at the rear?  I'll see myself out. I put the towbar on the multipla today, if it stops pissing it down I'll get the wiring done tomorrow, currently I'm ahead of the game because last time I did it I gave myself a black eye, no serious injuries this time.
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Jul 22, 2017 20:49
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Tomarse posted:Today I have also been educated about Fiat wiring. They don't run an ignition switched ACC feed to the standard looking ISO plugs behind the head unit, only a permanent live. Then they sneak 2 CAN cables into the ISO connector inplace of some of the less useful wires and the Fiat head unit switches on and off with the ignition using those. So if you want to fit a different head unit you have to dig out an ACC feed from somewhere else to make it turn on and off properly. GM has been a fan of this party trick for awhile, as well as running chimes, dings, dongs, basically any noise the car makes, through the stereo. There's plenty of adapters that take care of this for you, but they add another $50-150 (depending on if you want to retain OnStar).
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Jul 22, 2017 20:58
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cakesmith handyman posted:You prefer them loose at the rear? Everyone can see you're out with comments like that. cakesmith handyman posted:I put the towbar on the multipla today, if it stops pissing it down I'll get the wiring done tomorrow, currently I'm ahead of the game because last time I did it I gave myself a black eye, no serious injuries this time. And yes, they weather was lovely at lunchtime, then went completely to poo poo.
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Jul 22, 2017 21:00
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:GM has been a fan of this party trick for awhile, as well as running chimes, dings, dongs, basically any noise the car makes, through the stereo. Can confirm. My brother in law's Cobalt used the CAN bus to turn on the radio. Fortunately, his was the base model, and the didn't do all the chimes and driver info center through the radio on that one. Just had to dig out an ACC from the fuse panel conveniently located in the center console just below the radio.
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If you're feeling down today or maybe like you made some poor decisions in the past, I am here to cheer you up. At least you're not the young kid in dentistry school at a prestigious university, who decided today would be a great day to take LSD/whatever was sold to him as LSD, and come to my workplace to trip. I work at a nice, quiet, arts/museum sort of place. You might say that sounds kind of a nice way to spend a day, and it would have been if he could handle his poo poo - instead, he stripped off his pants/underwear and rushed at a family of seven while grabbing himself. I almost, almost felt bad for him as he sat there on the ground repeatedly asking the arresting officer what was happening, why he had to be cuffed, and if it would affect his career as a dentist He had no recollection of getting naked, dude was blitzed out of his mind. Thankfully, the kids hadn't really seen anything and didn't understand what all the fuss was about, much like the dude.Don't do internet darknet drugs kids, even if you snuck a few huffs of nitrous in dental school and thought it was fun.
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My dentist, have you tried LSD?
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:If you're feeling down today or maybe like you made some poor decisions in the past, I am here to cheer you up. At least you're not the young kid in dentistry school at a prestigious university, who decided today would be a great day to take LSD/whatever was sold to him as LSD, and come to my workplace to trip. I work at a nice, quiet, arts/museum sort of place. You might say that sounds kind of a nice way to spend a day, and it would have been if he could handle his poo poo - instead, he stripped off his pants/underwear and rushed at a family of seven while grabbing himself. If he's white then the police chief will chortle about kids these days and then daddy will give a generous donation to the police man's fraternal order
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:If he's white then the police chief will chortle about kids these days and then daddy will give a generous donation to the police man's fraternal order Unfortunately he's still going to be the 'dentist student that got naked and ran at a family while at a museum'.
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:and if it would affect his career as a dentist Based on dentists I've known: no.
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:If he's white then the police chief will chortle about kids these days and then daddy will give a generous donation to the police man's fraternal order Ehhhhh, I doubt it although he was white as gently caress. Kept whining that his cuffs were too tight every three or four minutes. The family he flashed was definitely pressing charges so bro is likely screwed. If you want to talk about prejudices and getting away with stuff, a month or so ago a (white) girl about his age also took too many hallucinogens and also stripped her clothes off. She was completely uncooperative and sprinted around nude for quite some time until we/the police corralled her... no one came up to press charges, and helpful bystanders offered their jackets and spare clothing to her. She spent a night in the hospital and called the next day asking if we found her backpack.   Previa_fun posted:Based on dentists I've known: no. No doubt, but they probably held their poo poo together and didn't get nailed with indecent exposure to minors hahah. I'm going to call this the Summer of Love.
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Darchangel posted:Can confirm. My brother in law's Cobalt used the CAN bus to turn on the radio. Fortunately, his was the base model, and the didn't do all the chimes and driver info center through the radio on that one. Just had to dig out an ACC from the fuse panel conveniently located in the center console just below the radio. 06+ went to the corporate GM stereo that did all that. Older Cobalts only ran the DIC (if equipped) through the stereo; 06+ had the DIC in the cluster and moved the chimes to the stereo. Funny that Cobalts had the fuse panel there too; I thought that was just a Saturn thing. Oddly, my 06 Ion also came with the corporate stereo (just different color lighting; it can be flashed via Tech2 to work in a Cobalt, Tahoe, Suburban, etc), but was only tied into CAN (well, GM-LAN) for OnStar in the Ion's case. Chimes come from a speaker in the cluster, the only thing you lose by ripping out the corporate stereo and not using a GM-LAN adapter is OnStar (you also get a persistent B2aaa code on OBD2 readers if you rip out the factory stereo on an Onstar equipped Ion). I guess GM knew by then that they'd be killing the Ion off after the 07 model year and opted not to change any wiring when they moved to the newer radio. The wiring is identical to the 03-05, but 03-05 had a 1.5 DIN Saturn-branded stereo. Ions never got a DIC either.
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:The family he flashed was definitely pressing charges so bro is likely screwed. The swimming kid from Stanford raped an unconscious girl and went to jail for three months on three felony charges. You'd be surprised what being white and wealthy does for you in court.
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Geoj posted:The swimming kid from Stanford raped an unconscious girl and went to jail for three months on three felony charges. You'd be surprised what being white and wealthy does for you in court. gently caress that guy. Eventually somebody will murder him and not a single person will shed a tear.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:My dentist, have you tried LSD? August thread title right here
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God drat it. Local Pride fest is tonight. Reports of shots fired nearby. Edit: thank Christ, discovered to be fireworks. Rhyno fucked around with this message at 05:30 on Jul 23, 2017 |
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Geoj posted:The swimming kid from Stanford raped an unconscious girl and went to jail for three months on three felony charges. You'd be surprised what being white and wealthy does for you in court. Kids will be kids. I mean, who hasn't tripped balls at the aquarium. The Royal Nonesuch posted:Don't do internet darknet drugs kids, even if you snuck a few huffs of nitrous in dental school and thought it was fun. Or at least keep that poo poo to weekday mornings.
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:Ehhhhh, I doubt it although he was white as gently caress. Kept whining that his cuffs were too tight every three or four minutes. The family he flashed was definitely pressing charges so bro is likely screwed. If you want to talk about prejudices and getting away with stuff, a month or so ago a (white) girl about his age also took too many hallucinogens and also stripped her clothes off. She was completely uncooperative and sprinted around nude for quite some time until we/the police corralled her... no one came up to press charges, and helpful bystanders offered their jackets and spare clothing to her. She spent a night in the hospital and called the next day asking if we found her backpack. The good news for him is that indecent exposure is a specific intent crime (generally) and voluntary intoxication can counter specific intent. Generally indecent exposure requires a sexual intent, which is really hard to prove when witness like you agree the reason he did it was because he was high, not a perv. He should get convicted of taking a controlled substance, which would generally be diverted here. This is extra likely if he is white and rich. Also, there is a massive sexist double standard for indecent exposure for men v. women. A woman can be running around naked, visibly exposing inner parts to kids, and she'll get a disturbing the peace charge with me barely having to work. Dude slightly exposes himself? Welcome to lifetime sex offender registry, population: you. The patriarchy hurts us all. I've had to fight for no registration on obvious joke streaking cases (which isn't even a crime here, but who wants to go to trial on something if lifetime sex registration is in the cards?) edit: Socal? LA County? He ain't getting poo poo. OC? Might get hosed with. Unless his daddy gives a lot of money in the DA election. IE? they have museums? Ventura? gently caress if i know. nm fucked around with this message at 07:38 on Jul 23, 2017 |
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BraveUlysses posted:August thread title right here Someone volunteered for August thread duty. Make the OP a good one 
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drat fuel pump has died in my dad's Hilux. At least it is easy to get to, but still need to drop the tank
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nm posted:The good news for him is that indecent exposure is a specific intent crime (generally) and voluntary intoxication can counter specific intent. Super interesting... yeah, LA County but a very stay-out-of-my-beach-community, Lebowski sort of place. This may work in his favor, I dunno. Asking for a friend: what is your business phone number/retainer fee
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nm posted:The patriarchy hurts us all. You Am I posted:drat fuel pump has died in my dad's Hilux. At least it is easy to get to, but still need to drop the tank
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