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Call from my wife: Her -- my car's not starting. Me -- are the lights on? Her -- yes, but they turn off automatically. Me -- well, that shows the battery is fine. Her -- Maybe I'll have Steve jump me, oh he doesn't have cables Me -- Is it doing anything? Her -- Yeah, it's turning over, but not starting. Me -- Then it's not the battery, something else is going on. Her -- Let me see if I can get someone to at least try to jump me. Me --  Awesome follow-up: Her -- hey, I got it started, somebody jumped me. Me -- okay, bye. meatpimp fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Aug 14, 2017 |
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Seminal Flu posted:Call from my wife: I'd jump her but my cable is still limp from jumping her last night.
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Aug 14, 2017 21:19
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ehhh i've seen a few cars have enough juice to turn the headlights on but not start
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BraveUlysses posted:ehhh i've seen a few cars have enough juice to turn the headlights on but not start But she was saying that it was turning over...
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Aug 14, 2017 21:21
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I suppose you know whether or not your wife understands what 'turning over' means, but that isn't really a given even with a smart woman who's a non-car person. I have been unable to explain it to my wife after 15 years, partly because each of our various terrible broken cars do different things when they won't start from a dead battery, the oldest one will at least chug a little bit in a slow fashion but won't start, the newer old one won't do anything but click when it has a dead battery. It's also possible that while Steve is over having an affair with your wife, he didn't get the ground cable properly hooked to any bare metal and that's why it's turning over but not starting. Also, some idiot left the lights on overnight on my mom's car this last week (it was me) (I got used to how my car's automatic lights worked and hers are different, so I'd turned them to manual at some point) and all the Toyota Avalon dash poo poo and interior electrics worked and she could move the seat around when she tried to use it in the morning, but it wouldn't even click when she hit the starter button, then once the neighbor came over with his battery charger and zipped it up for 10 minutes it was completely fine to go. e: Heh at how many other people got similar responses in there while I typed that. Ether Frenzy fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Aug 14, 2017 |
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Seminal Flu posted:Call from my wife: Makes a change from the plumber coming with his big tool to sort out her pipes.
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Ether Frenzy posted:I suppose you know whether or not your wife understands what 'turning over' means, I guess that's an option. I figure it's either that, or it needed a couple minutes to reset and when she tried it again, it was with jumper cables and now has a false correlation between a no-start and jumping it. loving cars. And man, I'm glad all of you pointed out that so many people are hammering my wife. That's eye-opening. 
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Seminal Flu posted:I guess that's an option. I figure it's either that, or it needed a couple minutes to reset and when she tried it again, it was with jumper cables and now has a false correlation between a no-start and jumping it. To find out, you are going to have to ask your wife if the starter went 'yeyeyeyeyeye' or 'yunyunyun'
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I have had that same phone call so I know the 'Well what do you mean 'turning over', is it cranking? is the engine doing anything?? Can you please just call AAA since you're sitting in a parking lot that's a block from our house." discussion.
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 Resolution A) The parking lot sensor puck that is suction-cupped to the windshield fell and hit her hazard button. B) She found that out when the hazards came on once the jumper cables were connected. C) She said it was turning over, but slower and slower every time. I told here that for future reference, "turning over" is a completely different explanation than "turning over, but slower and slower every time."
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Aug 14, 2017 21:53
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My neighbor called one night asking if I could jump off her crappy expedition. I go over there, it's turning over, not firing. I get her son to cycle the key while I lean under the gas tank...nothing, no hum. Can't find a Schrader valve hookup for the fuel system to verify no pressure. Check fuel pump fuse is good and is hot. I tell her that the battery is fine, and I think the fuel pump is bad or isn't getting power. She INSISTS on "jumping it off". I try to talk her out of it for being useless, but finally give in and hook up the cables to my little matrix. drat if it didn't crank on the second try. loving Ford. a month later she texted me asking if I could change out the fuel pump. not no but HELL no.
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Just to add the older family members drama in my family, I found out yesterday that my dad's favourite brother is going into hospital and it looks like he won't be leaving. Dad would be really upset if it wasn't for his dementia 
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You Am I posted:Just to add the older family members drama in my family, I found out yesterday that my dad's favourite brother is going into hospital and it looks like he won't be leaving. My dude, I do not envy your life. Hope you can get through all this with your sanity intact.
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Finally I get my one week break between summer and fall classes. My other classes I'm sure I can do well in, but I'm nervous as hell about Senior Design. I have no idea what sort of project I'll end up assigned to, since apparently "proposing a project relevant to your interests and field of study" is no longer a thing.
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Enourmo posted:Finally I get my one week break between summer and fall classes. My other classes I'm sure I can do well in, but I'm nervous as hell about Senior Design. I have no idea what sort of project I'll end up assigned to, since apparently "proposing a project relevant to your interests and field of study" is no longer a thing. I wish you luck. My school did a good job of taking students input on what projects they got assigned. I got lucky and I probably ended up on the projects with the lowest idiot count and also having advisers that weren't awful. Also family chat, I feel you dude. We just lost one of my uncles, my Grandmas last sibling, shes now 1 of what was 16. I have no idea how awful it must feel to watch 16 brothers and sisters die in your life time.
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Sadi posted:I wish you luck. My school did a good job of taking students input on what projects they got assigned. I got lucky and I probably ended up on the projects with the lowest idiot count and also having advisers that weren't awful. Hopefully it works out. Also I finally sat down and started planning out finances for the future and uh. A basic analysis shows that even with the low end of salaries in my field, I should be able to save up enough to pay off all my student loans by the time interest starts kicking in. I know it's never that simple, but... maybe this won't be so bad?
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Either you have a surprisingly low amount of student loans, or that is the most optimistic thing I've ever heard you post. Keep up the good attitude, it'll all work out in the end.
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Enourmo posted:Hopefully it works out. I thought something like this once. Turns out life is expensive as gently caress.
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If we're friends on FB let me just apologize for how loving retarded my idiot cousin is.
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Rhyno posted:If we're friends on FB let me just apologize for how loving retarded my idiot cousin is. He didn't post that mirror selfie.
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Any of the UK contingent happen to be heading near to Chester or Wirral this week? I have some wheels to pick up, but it's a bit of a trek from Leicester.
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nm posted:He didn't post that mirror selfie.  New house is almost move in ready after tearing it apart to redo way too much stuff. Stopping by tonight to hook up one of the bathroom vanities (last thing on the list). Moving truck Friday and Saturday, fiance goes out of town Sunday. I'm going to sleep and game all day Sunday. Can't wait for this moving poo poo to be done.
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nm posted:He didn't post that mirror selfie. RUDE But yeah, he's just become such a loving weird-0. He started launching into an anti-german rant in those comments so I had to delete the entire thing.
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I just bought a Nexgrill bbq on season end sale at my local Costco on a whim since my old one finally but the biscuit. Get home and then decided to do some reading on it (yeah, backwards I know). Guess what - it has pretty bad reviews, which surprises me since Costco usually carries good stuff in my experience so I'll probably just return it. Any recommendations for "good" grills that are either native natural gas or easily convertible and don't cost a fortune?
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nm posted:I thought something like this once. Turns out life is expensive as gently caress. same the only reason i was able to pay off my 80k in loans is because my mother died and i got her life insurance money
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See right now my loan debt is more on the order of like... 10k. I don't think it's news that I was 100% supported by my mom until I took my first aid 2 years ago, it helped massively and I still only have the subsidized federal loans so interest doesn't kick in til well after I graduate. E: I probably would have taken some before, but before I turned 25 her income basically disqualified me from getting anything, and after I had too many credit hours to get aid at the community college; I wasn't eligible til I transferred to the university with its higher (bachelor's) limit.
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Enourmo posted:See right now my loan debt is more on the order of like... 10k. I don't think it's news that I was 100% supported by my mom until I took my first aid 2 years ago, it helped massively and I still only have the subsidized federal loans so interest doesn't kick in til well after I graduate. oh yeah dude at an engineer's wage you should be able to pay that off in about 10 months
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Debt wise I have one credit card and the house. That's about it.
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My wife currently sits at around $120k in student loans for her Masters. Now she did all this before I met her as of course I would have advised against it but so is life. At first I thought this was a one off kind of thing and then I hear that a friend of hers is $200k in the hole from her Bachelors. I look into this as it seems like insane money to me so looked at Northeastern University to see how much it was a year and my jaw literally dropped. Currently $62k a year all in. Unless you have someone covering that how are you ever supposed to dig yourself out of that? Luckily my wife had a full ride to Northeastern (which then was negated by going to another private school at full price) but her friend did not. Being a terrible Euro Commie Pinko Socialist and thus paying 0% interest on loans of under $12k for my whole University stay these numbers are absurd to me. It has a lot of other impacts as well since we cannot file taxes together as my income means she has to pay the max amount monthly which is $2000, she make about $2500 after tax. I am getting pre approval for a home loan but she cannot be on it from a financial point of view as her loans mean we cannot get anything and when it all gets forgiven decades from now she will end up with a huge income tax bill that she will never be able to pay off either so for her education she will be indebted for life. I am sure this is the plan of the Lizard People or something.
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That is the most horrifying thing I have read on the internet all day.
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My muffler fell off and now my car sounds amazing gently caress why do I have to sell this dumbass thing
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BigPaddy posted:I am sure this is the plan of the Lizard People or something.  I'm fairly sure this is what faking your death was designed for.
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You Am I posted:Just to add the older family members drama in my family, I found out yesterday that my dad's favourite brother is going into hospital and it looks like he won't be leaving. drat 
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BigPaddy posted:My wife currently sits at around $120k in student loans for her Masters. Now she did all this before I met her as of course I would have advised against it but so is life. At first I thought this was a one off kind of thing and then I hear that a friend of hers is $200k in the hole from her Bachelors. I look into this as it seems like insane money to me so looked at Northeastern University to see how much it was a year and my jaw literally dropped. Currently $62k a year all in. Unless you have someone covering that how are you ever supposed to dig yourself out of that? Luckily my wife had a full ride to Northeastern (which then was negated by going to another private school at full price) but her friend did not. Being a terrible Euro Commie Pinko Socialist and thus paying 0% interest on loans of under $12k for my whole University stay these numbers are absurd to me. $120K education only rates a $2500/month job. Well, that's America! I have about $2K left of my $20K in loans - from 2000. It will be paid off this year and I can't wait... to start paying on my wife's $40K At least she has a degree - I just have a (nearly worthless) tech school diploma. FAT32 SHAMER posted:My muffler fell off and now my car sounds amazing I blew the muffler out once on my '68 El Camino I had back in high school. It had a 327 with two flat lobes on the cam, which made it idle like it had the most radical cam. Of course, it made it *run* like it had only 6 cylinders operating, which it did. But that open exhaust idle...
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:oh yeah dude at an engineer's wage you should be able to pay that off in about 10 months Atomic Blonde is loving awesome. Great 80s feel, action, and soundtrack. Go see it. Also, turns out they're doing a 1-day re-release of Terminator 2 on the 29th, which sounds fantastic... except it's 3D only. loving twats. Can this bullshit please die already?
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Darchangel posted:$120K education only rates a $2500/month job. Well, that's America! How is it possible to generate $20k debt on a tech school degree? Or is this one not an associate's, but a tech school like Nashville Auto Diesel? Fake edit: my wife has locked her keys in the car, 20 miles away from me.
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My wife is extremely keen on never being in debt again which means we've been putting $2k/month into the bank to buy one with cash when the baby comes I know she's right but drat would I rather buy a car now in he summer
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angryrobots posted:How is it possible to generate $20k debt on a tech school degree? Or is this one not an associate's, but a tech school like Nashville Auto Diesel? Tech school. ATI Technical, which no longer exists after allegations of something or other. They did actually teach me good stuff, oddly enough. Lucked into a decent instructor in a new program (Electronics Technology - basically electronics with A+ and Network+). Plus another $3-4K or so from a little bit of college.
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I went to a tech school because it was the only thing my GI bill would cover completely. Learned a lot and made a living for awhile after without any debt, so for me it was a huge win even tho I'm not doing what i went to school for anymore. My wife paid off hers years ago and it was a huge relief, being in debt sucks.
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