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Fermented Tinal posted:Sims is storing it until he gets established and has a place he can move it to. Roadtrip roadtrip roadtrip
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Holy poo poo that rust hole in the roof of the Camaro.
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bolind posted:Holy poo poo that rust hole in the roof of the Camaro. "Florida car, kept in heated storage year-round."
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Lol that Camaro. The funniest part is someone is actually paying storage for that and has probably paid it's value fifty times over The damage on the fender means the mullet man was probably drunk, hit someone and then tossed the car in to storage until he thinks its ok and the cops are no longer looking for him.
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ExplodingSims posted:
It is like the Camaro is staring forlornly at that cinderblock, begging you to pick it up and finish it off. Just put me out of my misery already.
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tomapot posted:It is like the Camaro is staring forlornly at that cinderblock, begging you to pick it up and finish it off. Just put me out of my misery already. No way, that camaro is wishing that block had three brother blocks......
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Feb 3, 2018 00:31
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Because the wheels are the only thing worth saving 
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Feb 3, 2018 00:32
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Feb 4, 2018 05:31
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That's some glorious fuckin' hair. I'm even more self conscious of mine thinning.
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Feb 4, 2018 05:40
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Do what my mom did... get a hair transplant. I'm amazed I still have most of my hair. On my mom's side, every male loses their hair by 30, and females in their 50s, avd everyone goes gray early. Dad's side starts thinning in their 50s - dad's 71 and has the typical old man cueball bald spot on the back of his head, but the rest is salt and pepper instead of white. Guessing I got dad's genes when it comes to hair loss, and mom's for the gray (I have a decent amount of gray, helpfully hidden by dye, but you can see it on my temples a little in that pic). Mine's thinned a bit, but no more than most ~40 year olds.
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Feb 4, 2018 08:42
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My hair is going nearly all white and I CBF with dyes. Worst at the front and sides, plus my beard has turned white and I give no fucks. Being around 40 with long hair and beard turning white stops people begging or talking to me on the street and that's great. Instead of being a target for money I'm a target for sympathy.
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Feb 4, 2018 11:12
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Fo3 posted:My hair is going nearly all white and I CBF with dyes. Worst at the front and sides, plus my beard has turned white and I give no fucks. Being around 40 with long hair and beard turning white stops people begging or talking to me on the street and that's great. Instead of being a target for money I'm a target for sympathy. Yeah, mine's started to spring white streaks on me in the last year. Can't say it bothers me much, I still have hair. If I was meant to be pretty they'd have used a different design doc.
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Feb 4, 2018 11:28
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The grays started showing up when I was.... 28? 30? I turn 40 this year. The worst is when you find a gray pube.  You yank it out, and a few weeks later, you find another one.  I gave up on the beard aspect though... I hate shaving, I just buzz the facial hair off when it gets itchy, but I have a bit of gray on my chin. If I had a job where I needed to shave, I'd probably give a poo poo, but right now it's a "take the clippers to the face once a week or when it gets too itchy" gig.I don't dye it my natural color anyway (brown), I dye it the darkest black I can find. Not trying to hide my age (my teeth make that impossible anyway, they're worse than Dave's), I just like black.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:The grays started showing up when I was.... 28? 30? I turn 40 this year.  I'm really really grey nowYu-Gi-Ho! posted:The worst is when you find a gray pube.  no, that has never happened to me thankfully. I'm only grey/white on head and faceYu-Gi-Ho! posted:I gave up on the beard aspect though... I hate shaving, I just buzz the facial hair off when it gets itchy, but I have a bit of gray on my chin. If I had a job where I needed to shave, I'd probably give a poo poo, but right now it's a "take the clippers to the face once a week or when it gets too itchy" gig. I thought about dye, but like you I started turning 10 years ago and everyone that knows me would LOL if I did it now, ten years after the fact.
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I've had longish hair since I was old enough to (legally) make my own decisions (with the occasional random "I'm drunk and gonna buzz it all off" moment), and the dye is my final act of rebellion against helicopter parents. My hair has been most colors you can imagine, so my hair changing colors isn't really a shock to anyone. Really, the issue I had in the past was it was so thick that when I would try to bleach it, it would either go orange (and not really take color the way it should), or fall out, so I stick with dark colors. I've yet to find anyone that could bleach my hair without seriously loving it - though my hair is a bit thinner now (as in the strands themselves are thinner), so it'd probably bleach easier these days. I've been dying my hair various random colors since I was 18 or 19.. i can't do the beard. I've tried. It itches too loving much. But I can't do clean shaven either, so I just stick with clippers with no guard once a week. The GOON MEET pic is about how I usually look, except I keep my hair tied back if I'm at work. With my genes and age, I know this is probably the last time in my life I'll be able to have long hair, so I'm going to hang on to it as long as I can. 
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Feb 4, 2018 12:31
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Shave your head.
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I hung onto long hair as long as I could and then I hit puberty and was noticably balding by 16.
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I'm gonna do the noble thing when my hair thins too much. I'm gonna grow a skullet (and buy that camaro).
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Feb 4, 2018 15:35
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Seminal Flu posted:Shave your head. That's what I do.
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Feb 4, 2018 16:44
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Mr. Nice! posted:That's what I do. Me, too. The ease of maintenance, not having to take 45 minutes every couple weeks to go to a barber, the badass look, it's all positive results. Plus, when you've done it for years (I've had a shaved head since the late '90s), you end up laughing at the time, effort and expense people put into stupid hair maintenance.
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Feb 4, 2018 16:47
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Yep, started balding, shaved my head and never looked back. Don't have to waste time with haircuts, hairdryers, don't give a gently caress if it's windy, just need some decent hats for when it's very cold or very hot.
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Feb 4, 2018 16:48
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Sad old bitches itt
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My wife (who is a stylist) tried to do everything to save my hair when it started rapidly thinning. She left for a week and I shaved it off. That was almost 2 years ago, and I regret nothing. Now I'm lazier with it, and usually just do it every Sunday vs every day, but still. And having a job where I don't have to shave now means I finally have a beard. If your beard is itchy, and you really want to keep it, use beard oil and a good moisturizing shampoo. It relaxes the hair and keeps your skin moist, which takes away all the itch.
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verbal enema posted:Sad old bitches itt Lol, coming from the :2009:
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iwentdoodie posted:My wife (who is a stylist) tried to do everything to save my hair when it started rapidly thinning. I find anti-dandruff shampoo helps a lot with beard itch.
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Seminal Flu posted:Me, too. The ease of maintenance, not having to take 45 minutes every couple weeks to go to a barber, the badass look, it's all positive results. Lol if you're a women yeah. I still have my hair (thank god) and all I do is wash it and comb it, done. Super difficult maintenance Haircut every four or five months, not a big deal, I'll take the trade off 
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Lol if you're a women yeah. I still have my hair (thank god) and all I do is wash it and comb it, done. Super difficult maintenance Glad I'm not the only one thinking that. I've had a Mohawk since the sixth grade. Still do. Just keep it short for a more "professional". Look . Being a skilled mechanic means my looks dont matter. Short hair is the best. Wash it maybe comb it and ready to go.
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I am incensed that you turkeys were HERE, in Dallas, and I was unable to experience Dave. I'm sure you're fine too, Larry. Hairchat: I won the genetic lottery, there. Still full, no sign of thinning, just salt and pepper, which I am fine with. Grew it out several years in the early 2000s - got about a foot or 18" long, then decided that maintenance was a pain in the rear end, and my hair was really too fine to be that long - it just got... fuzzy and irritating. Whacked it off, and go to my stylist (yeah, one of my few vanities) every 4-6 weeks to keep it pretty short. Letting my beard grow for winter, though. Usually just do a goatee. If I shave that off, it's: 
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ROIGHT. So, as much as I love hairchat, I have an actual update, now that I'm back at a proper computer and can upload the billion or so photos from driving. So first, starting in Texas:  Which was the only picture I took because the rest of Texas was flatlands, Dallas traffics, and more empty wastes. But even that paled in comparison the the utter drudgery that was Kansas. There is absolutely nothing in Kansas. Just miles of empty fields, wind turbines, and the occasion gas station. Like, here's the high point of Kansas, a mildly amusing sign:  Otherwise, just imagine this for 1000 miles:  And so we made it to Denver, and Dave was dropped off, and began his journey northward. I continued west, and my GPS decided to take me down a rather fun route.   And so, after a bit of twistyness, I made it back to I70, where the real fun began.     Then the real fun began. Not a whole lot of pictures, since I was trying not to wreck myself. So, the thing is, I've never driven in snow. Or Ice. And up in the mountains, there was both of those. I'm sure someone's already rushing to their keyboard to laugh here, and I'll take it. But trying to navigate a 16' Box truck with an SUV being towed behind it down slippery 7% grade was not fun time. Other than one sort of close call, I made it through though. The fact that these Chevy vans come with engine braking built in really helped. So at this point, it was icy, snowy, and I hadn't slept properly in about 50 hours or so, so I decided to call it a day, and pulled into a town called Silverthorne for the the night. The universe is not without a sense of humor it seems, as I got the only room overlooking a bunch of AC units.  After getting in my room, finally grabbing a shower, which felt so great, I collapsed for a few hours. All the lack of sleep really caught up quick. By that time it was night. The town is very nice at night.  But more importantly, I was able to get a very good dinner.   And after a proper night's rest, I set off again. More snow, more grades, but I had a better idea of what I was doing at this point at least. Got past the mountains, and things flattened out for a bit, but then they got incredible again:       Made a stop at the rest stop in the canyon, and found that the Colorado roads had dirtied up both vehicles quite nicely:  And then pressed on some more:       Stopped off in Palisade to get some gas, and food. It's a kinda sad looking town, but it has two things going for it: Good Food:  And some cool cars:    So I think for the next post I'll do all my Utah pics. I took so many while I was passing through there. At first I thought it was going to be another empty boring state, but that changed so fast. Utah was incredible, and I really, really want to visit some of the places I passed through again when I have a more appropriate vehicle.
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Snow isn't that bad to drive on IMO, so long as you have decent tires (.... and a vehicle with not-hosed alignment, unlike your box truck ). Ice loving sucks, moreso on mountains. Please tell me you gave Penske hell for sending that thing out with belts showing and hosed alignment (if you already turned in the truck, anyway). Holy mother of gently caress I'm hating TIMG images right about now. Tethering at basically dialup speeds again, it's been 15 minutes since I clicked on the thread and less than half the photos are done loading.  e: I see one HVAC unit (possibly a second to the left) and an exhaust fan. 
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ExplodingSims posted:Utah was incredible, and I really, really want to visit some of the places I passed through again when I have a more appropriate vehicle. Vegas is actually in a really fantastic location to visit more gorgeous scenery than you can possibly imagine, not only in Utah, but in Nevada itself, as well as northern Arizona and even the mountains of California aren't very far away.
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How does it work with the steering on the SUV in this case? Is it locked in place? If so, how?
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Standard key-out steering lock?
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I've actually never thought about it, but does that traditionally lock in the "wheels-pointing-straight*" position? *straight enough.
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bolind posted:I've actually never thought about it, but does that traditionally lock in the "wheels-pointing-straight*" position? On cars I've driven there's a series of detents around the steering wheel, and it can lock into any one of them.
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I'd be more worried about the transfer case being destroyed than what the steering was doing
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I saw a wrecker driver tie both seat belts to the steering wheel to lock it in place when reverse towing a large truck that (probably) didn't have a steering lock. Seems like I remember hearing not to trust the steering lock when towing long distance, cause it will shear or go fubar being a silly thing not designed for the abuse.
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angryrobots posted:I saw a wrecker driver tie both seat belts to the steering wheel to lock it in place when reverse towing a large truck that (probably) didn't have a steering lock. I've seen them do that to cars that do have a steering lock. Probably a belt-and-suspenders type thing, just in case.
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