November Chat Thread: Damn kids, get off my lawn!

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Goober Peas: Jun 30, 2007; Check out my 'Vette, bro

eyebeem posted:

I'll worked with a guy named Torger Torgerson. There were some wonky little lines here and there as well.

Torgo Torgoson

# ? Nov 24, 2017 22:35

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# ? May 28, 2024 11:31

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCLynwl0kvk&t=30s

# ? Nov 24, 2017 23:03

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

Can I get a 'gently caress yeah, it's not cancer' ?

# ? Nov 24, 2017 23:41

Hansolio: Nov 4, 2009; I W A N T M Y M T V

spog posted:

Can I get a 'gently caress yeah, it's not cancer' ?

gently caress YEAH! It's not cancer!

# ? Nov 24, 2017 23:52

The Locator: Sep 12, 2004; Out here, everything hurts.

spog posted:

Can I get a 'gently caress yeah, it's not cancer' ?

Hell yea! Great news!

# ? Nov 24, 2017 23:59

ilkhan: Oct 7, 2004; I LOVE Musk and his pro-first-amendment ways. X is the future.

Hansolio posted:

gently caress YEAH! It's not cancer!

# ? Nov 25, 2017 00:14

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

spog posted:

Can I get a 'gently caress yeah, it's not cancer' ?

# ? Nov 25, 2017 00:53

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

Thanks.

Odds were always very much in my favour, but not being able to tell anyone you were waiting for results, means that you don't get to celebrate when they turn out good.

:havlat:

# ? Nov 25, 2017 01:03

Beverly Cleavage: Jun 22, 2004; I am a pretty pretty princess, watch me do my pretty princess dance....

paging Rhyno... I need more of your manly sauce. How can I make this happen?

# ? Nov 25, 2017 01:24

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

Beverly Cleavage posted:

paging Rhyno... I need more of your manly sauce. How can I make this happen?

I made a very small batch last week, i can probably part woth some. Pm me.

# ? Nov 25, 2017 01:28

ExplodingSims: Aug 17, 2010; RAGDOLL
FLIPPIN IN A MOVIE
HOT DAMN
THINK I MADE A POOPIE

Rhyno posted:

I made a very small batch last week, i can probably part woth some. Pm me.

WHAT!?

GIMMIE. NOW!

# ? Nov 25, 2017 01:44

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

Oh god, not prepared for this!

# ? Nov 25, 2017 01:44

ExplodingSims: Aug 17, 2010; RAGDOLL
FLIPPIN IN A MOVIE
HOT DAMN
THINK I MADE A POOPIE

Well maybe you shouldn't make such delicious hot sauce then! :v:

# ? Nov 25, 2017 02:06

Beverly Cleavage: Jun 22, 2004; I am a pretty pretty princess, watch me do my pretty princess dance....

Rhyno posted:

I made a very small batch last week, i can probably part woth some. Pm me.

Sent. RIP your inbox, I'm sure. Even just humoring me is appreciated. Seriously, that was some good stuff!

# ? Nov 25, 2017 03:18

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

I've been trying to get the equipment together to make and bottle it in larger quantities but the wedding has eaten up all my extra cash.

# ? Nov 25, 2017 03:25

Geoj: May 28, 2008; BITTER POOR PERSON

Goober Peas posted:

Torgo Torgoson

26th best episode of MST3K.

# ? Nov 25, 2017 03:38

OBAMNA PHONE: Aug 7, 2002

finally after like 18 months+ aCar on android has finally integrated into fuelly

# ? Nov 25, 2017 04:48

slothrop: Dec 7, 2006; Santa Alpha, Fox One... Gifts Incoming ~~~>===|>; Soiled Meat

Sitting in the waiting room while my girlfriend has a lumbar puncture to see if she has meningitis. Jesus gently caress I do not like knowing what's going on.

# ? Nov 25, 2017 05:35

Queen_Combat: Jan 15, 2011

BraveUlysses posted:

finally after like 18 months+ aCar on android has finally integrated into fuelly

WHAT THE gently caress

This is my only limitation to acar. I use fuelly religiously.

# ? Nov 25, 2017 05:36

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

Yeah it took them for loving ever. I should probably set my wife up with fuelly now so she can enter poo poo from her iPhone.

# ? Nov 25, 2017 06:40

OBAMNA PHONE: Aug 7, 2002

Yup I'm glad that I can finally complete the divorce from Android. I've kept my old phone for a year just to keep my mpg/service logs.

# ? Nov 25, 2017 08:05

Powershift: Nov 23, 2009

On the latest wheeler dealers, they did a mitsubishi 3000GT VR4

He did the lifters/rockers, and they skipped over all the work done on the rear bank. Now we know why Edd left.

# ? Nov 25, 2017 09:11

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
(and can't post for 11 years!)

Yeah... been watching them a bit since I got Philo. Haven't been impressed at all. All the tech details Edd went into were the best part, IMO.

So a couple of months ago, a friend of mine (used to live in the US, lives in Sweden now) sent me some money to get a bunch of American snacks that he misses. Specifically some limited edition Oreos, but a few other things too.

So uh, turns out once you break 4 pounds, the only remotely affordable shipping option is priority mail international. Holy mother of god, I did not expect to be dropping ~$80 on shipping for ~$30 of snack foods. He had previously sent $100, we both thought that would be more than enough (he figured shipping would be $30, giving me a little bit to pocket for my time), but :cripes:

that was some severe sticker shock. I know UPS doesn't handle customs poo poo, so they're out the window (priced them anyway, they want $150 for the cheapest option with no guaranteed delivery window).. Fedex wants over $250. It's a 7 pound box of diabetic-coma inducing sugary crap. As it is, once I found out how much it was going to cost, I removed a couple of things to bring the weight down by a pound.

Tried playing with numbers a bit on USPS's website to see if it would be cheaper to break it up into 2 shipments via Priority International Flat Rate box, or First Class International, but nope, comes out to be more. I don't have an accurate postage scale (all I could do was weigh myself with and without the box), but I think this box is about 7-8 pounds. At least it's a standard sized box, and USPS let me print all the customs forms ahead of time.

# ? Nov 25, 2017 10:04

MrOnBicycle: Jan 18, 2008; Wait wat?

double wrong

# ? Nov 25, 2017 10:15

MrOnBicycle: Jan 18, 2008; Wait wat?

wrong

# ? Nov 25, 2017 10:16

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

nm posted:

You know all those fake rumors of having to replace prius batteries really early? Honda hybrids are actually like that from what I gather.

IOwnCalculus posted:

Yeah, Honda flubbed that generation of hybrid Civic pretty poorly. Though at that price I'm not sure how much it matters.

nm posted:

He's in england IIRC, so the lights that come on will likely fail MOT even if the car still goes.

Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:

Seemed true on the Insight, at least. Coworker of mine had to replace his at 60k, and again around 130k. Someone put that car out of its misery when they t-boned him.

Same coworker bought his Prius around 120k, and the PO had the battery replaced at the dealer shortly before selling it (it's very rare for them to die that early though). It was still on the 2nd battery when he sold it at 300k.

The upside is most Honda hybrids could be had with 3 pedals, so you could at least have a little bit of fun with them.

Sounds like I need to stretch to a gen2 Prius.

Auto was also a bonus, my wife mainly does start/stop and has a bad back.

# ? Nov 25, 2017 12:48

rdb: Jul 8, 2002; chicken mctesticles?

slothrop posted:

Sitting in the waiting room while my girlfriend has a lumbar puncture to see if she has meningitis. Jesus gently caress I do not like knowing what's going on.

Thats scary stuff, but if it is meningitis it sounds like they are going to catch it pretty early, and that is a very good thing.

Lost my son to bacterial meningitis earlier this year. By the time we got him to an ER that suspected it his brain was too swollen to do a puncture and figure out what was causing it.

# ? Nov 25, 2017 14:12

Wrar: Sep 9, 2002; Soiled Meat

Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:

Yeah... been watching them a bit since I got Philo. Haven't been impressed at all. All the tech details Edd went into were the best part, IMO.

So a couple of months ago, a friend of mine (used to live in the US, lives in Sweden now) sent me some money to get a bunch of American snacks that he misses. Specifically some limited edition Oreos, but a few other things too.

So uh, turns out once you break 4 pounds, the only remotely affordable shipping option is priority mail international. Holy mother of god, I did not expect to be dropping ~$80 on shipping for ~$30 of snack foods. He had previously sent $100, we both thought that would be more than enough (he figured shipping would be $30, giving me a little bit to pocket for my time), but that was some severe sticker shock. I know UPS doesn't handle customs poo poo, so they're out the window (priced them anyway, they want $150 for the cheapest option with no guaranteed delivery window).. Fedex wants over $250. It's a 7 pound box of diabetic-coma inducing sugary crap. As it is, once I found out how much it was going to cost, I removed a couple of things to bring the weight down by a pound.

Tried playing with numbers a bit on USPS's website to see if it would be cheaper to break it up into 2 shipments via Priority International Flat Rate box, or First Class International, but nope, comes out to be more. I don't have an accurate postage scale (all I could do was weigh myself with and without the box), but I think this box is about 7-8 pounds. At least it's a standard sized box, and USPS let me print all the customs forms ahead of time.

That sucks. The only cheap international shipping is via ocean freight

# ? Nov 25, 2017 14:25

Dagen H: Mar 19, 2009; Hogertrafikomlaggningen

rdb posted:

Lost my son to bacterial meningitis earlier this year. By the time we got him to an ER that suspected it his brain was too swollen to do a puncture and figure out what was causing it.

Jesus Christ dude

# ? Nov 25, 2017 16:35

MrOnBicycle: Jan 18, 2008; Wait wat?

rdb posted:

Thats scary stuff, but if it is meningitis it sounds like they are going to catch it pretty early, and that is a very good thing.

Lost my son to bacterial meningitis earlier this year. By the time we got him to an ER that suspected it his brain was too swollen to do a puncture and figure out what was causing it.

Sorry to hear that.

# ? Nov 25, 2017 16:43

FAT32 SHAMER: Aug 16, 2012

rdb posted:

Thats scary stuff, but if it is meningitis it sounds like they are going to catch it pretty early, and that is a very good thing.

Lost my son to bacterial meningitis earlier this year. By the time we got him to an ER that suspected it his brain was too swollen to do a puncture and figure out what was causing it.

I�m sorry you had to go through that ☹️

# ? Nov 25, 2017 17:04

Applebees Appetizer: Jan 23, 2006

rdb posted:

Thats scary stuff, but if it is meningitis it sounds like they are going to catch it pretty early, and that is a very good thing.

Lost my son to bacterial meningitis earlier this year. By the time we got him to an ER that suspected it his brain was too swollen to do a puncture and figure out what was causing it.

Oh my god I'm so sorry for your loss man.

# ? Nov 25, 2017 17:05

The Locator: Sep 12, 2004; Out here, everything hurts.

rdb posted:

Thats scary stuff, but if it is meningitis it sounds like they are going to catch it pretty early, and that is a very good thing.

Lost my son to bacterial meningitis earlier this year. By the time we got him to an ER that suspected it his brain was too swollen to do a puncture and figure out what was causing it.

Holy poo poo, I'm so sorry. My sincerest condolences.

# ? Nov 25, 2017 17:19

rdb: Jul 8, 2002; chicken mctesticles?

Its ok and thank you. I posted about it earlier this year, and legally, I can�t go into details yet. His birthday and thanksgiving were quite rough.

My wife and I decided to try again, and shes 13 weeks today, a healthy boy so far. So its not all doom and gloom.

# ? Nov 25, 2017 17:29

angryrobots: Mar 31, 2005

Congrats on a baby!

Remember PWAWA. Pregnant women always win arguments.

# ? Nov 25, 2017 17:43

Dagen H: Mar 19, 2009; Hogertrafikomlaggningen

angryrobots posted:

~~Pregnant~~ women always win arguments.

# ? Nov 25, 2017 17:49

Previa_fun: Nov 10, 2004

Rhyno posted:

I've been trying to get the equipment together to make and bottle it in larger quantities but the wedding has eaten up all my extra cash.

I'd throw another 10bux or so at you if you did another kickstarted and I'm sure others would do the same.

# ? Nov 25, 2017 17:55

Cage: Jul 17, 2003; www.revivethedrive.org

Yeah I never got my hat sass. Would pay slightly more for bigger bowls.

# ? Nov 25, 2017 18:05

mekilljoydammit: Jan 28, 2016; Me have motors that scream to 10,000rpm. Me have more cars than Pick and Pull

rdb posted:

Its ok and thank you. I posted about it earlier this year, and legally, I can�t go into details yet. His birthday and thanksgiving were quite rough.

My wife and I decided to try again, and shes 13 weeks today, a healthy boy so far. So its not all doom and gloom.

Holy poo poo I'm sorry, and glad you tried again. It's just slightly weird because my wife's 12 weeks on with our first.

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# ? May 28, 2024 11:31

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

Meningitis is no joke, and I think people sometimes think it's something only younger kids can get, but it isn't. A friend's sister in secondary school died from it, and she was 15/16, and while it's less common in adults, it's still a risk.

It's also contagious, so it's very much one for the list of why anti-vaccine people can get hosed.

Powershift posted:

On the latest wheeler dealers, they did a mitsubishi 3000GT VR4

He did the lifters/rockers, and they skipped over all the work done on the rear bank. Now we know why Edd left.

I don't watch the show, but it's Ant Anstead now, isn't it? The guy knows his stuff, and he's done other car TV before, so I'd imagine anything you see that seems dumbed down is very much a "management" decision.

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