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Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
I'm googling water polo and I'm still convinced this is a huge charade you're somehow orchestrating.

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nm
Jan 28, 2008

"I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

Rhyno posted:

I'm googling water polo and I'm still convinced this is a huge charade you're somehow orchestrating.

Water polo exists and is both white and violent as gently caress.

randomidiot
May 12, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 11 years!)

Geoj posted:

If you want to try an OTC solution first try downing 4-5 grams of l-arginine about 20-30 minutes before getting busy. Most drug stores carry it in the supplements section, and if it works you can get it from Amazon for about $0.08/gram in tablets and about half of that powdered.

That's cool, had no idea about that (I've seen it, but had no idea what it was for). I'll check it out.

Suburban Dad
Jan 10, 2007


Well what's attached to a leash that it made itself?
The punchline is the way that you've been fuckin' yourself




KakerMix posted:

So I'm sitting here day dreaming about the new-to-me AZ-1 that's on its way to me and I've spotted some things in its engine bay that isn't present in other pictures (or videos) of other AZ-1s. Since I don't actually have it physically to inspect myself I'm hoping you guys can maybe help me figure stuff out from a single picture. I've circled the two things in red on mine.



vs a stock-looking one someone else has



Any ideas? The thing to the right by the air intake looks familiar to me, like it's a thing that gets put in cars for a reason. The one on the left though is ???

Agreed with above posters. I'd be more concerned at the lack of a cap for the radiator/overflow bottle.

NitroSpazzz
Dec 9, 2006

You don't need style when you've got strength!


Larrymer posted:

Gen 1 volts are so goddamn overbuilt. GM lost their rear end on each one they sold. Still, the Gen 2 is so much better in every aspect. I'd buy a gen 1 if I had charging at work, otherwise the range wouldn't be enough. Even despite hating the center stack. And I mean stack. Look at all those goddamn buttons. The worst is the power lock button on the dash.



Still, they're a really nice car, but you definitely feel the weight of it. The Gen 2 is much lighter and has a lot more balls.
That center stack bullshit is one of the big things that turned me off of the Gen 1 Volt. It just so big and stupid. I took my uncles Gen 2 for a drive when we were up in WI around Easter and found it better in pretty much every way.

Puppy class in a half hour. I'll be surprised if there's another puppy his size there. He turned 10 weeks old today, he's 20.5 pounds...not bad for the runt of the litter.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:


Tomarse posted:

I’m on a last minute solo vacation to a large city In a foreign country.

This Is the second time I have done this and I am now at 100% success rate of meeting some locals, making friends and having an awesome night out.

I’ve also been on vacation with groups of existing friends/SO’s a few times over the last few years. Going solo and making new friends beats it every time!

I went to Paris alone years ago to see a gig. I'd scored a few tickets so put up that I had spares on the artist's facebook page, met up with a few people and ended up having a really cool night out with strangers which ended up with saving an American lady who'd managed to get herself locked in the subway system somehow... :v:

builds character
Jan 16, 2008

Keep at it.

nm posted:

Water polo exists and is both white and violent as gently caress.

Like rugby, but with drowning.

Applebees Appetizer
Jan 23, 2006

builds character posted:

Like rugby, but with drowning.

I've watched before and wondered how many people have drowned playing water polo.

KakerMix
Apr 8, 2004

8.2 M.P.G.
:byetankie:

Larrymer posted:

Agreed with above posters. I'd be more concerned at the lack of a cap for the radiator/overflow bottle.

Yeah, that's a thing I'm making sure is taken care of before it leaves port.

CornHolio
May 20, 2001

Toilet Rascal

Larrymer posted:

Gen 1 volts are so goddamn overbuilt. GM lost their rear end on each one they sold. Still, the Gen 2 is so much better in every aspect. I'd buy a gen 1 if I had charging at work, otherwise the range wouldn't be enough. Even despite hating the center stack. And I mean stack. Look at all those goddamn buttons. The worst is the power lock button on the dash.



Still, they're a really nice car, but you definitely feel the weight of it. The Gen 2 is much lighter and has a lot more balls.

I like the general design of the interior (I'm a button-loving kind of guy), but I understand those are capacitive touch buttons which would drive me insane.

Previa_fun posted:

Was late for work this morning because my phone decided to brick itself in the middle of the night and my alarm obviously didn't go off. :thumbsup:

This was The Last Straw so today my wife and I exchanged a big pile of money for a couple Samsung S9s. They seem pretty neat. Good camera. God I hope I don't drop this thing.

I got an S9 to replace my S4 (they gave me $200 for my S4 lol) and I'm overall liking it. The wifi calling seems like it doesn't usually function, though. Where I fit at work I get no signal and have to piggyback off of the company wifi - my old phone would usually not have a problem but this one seems to.

The Door Frame
Dec 5, 2011

I don't know man everytime I go to the gym here there are like two huge dudes with raging high and tights snorting Nitro-tech off of each other's rock hard abs.

CornHolio posted:

I got an S9 to replace my S4 (they gave me $200 for my S4 lol) and I'm overall liking it. The wifi calling seems like it doesn't usually function, though. Where I fit at work I get no signal and have to piggyback off of the company wifi - my old phone would usually not have a problem but this one seems to.

Do you have network smart switch on? Depending on how you have it set up, it can make wifi calling almost useless if you have even a little network connection

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.

Olympic Mathlete posted:

I went to Paris alone years ago to see a gig. I'd scored a few tickets so put up that I had spares on the artist's facebook page, met up with a few people and ended up having a really cool night out with strangers which ended up with saving an American lady who'd managed to get herself locked in the subway system somehow... :v:

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

🤗YOU'RE WELCOME🤗
Ahhh, got (almost) all our poo poo into the new place, unpacking begins tonight. Just got a little bit more to load into our cars to take over.

gently caress loading/unloading a 26' truck, by the way.

SeaGoatSupreme
Dec 26, 2009
Ask me about fixed-gear bikes (aka "fixies")
I did that in Philadelphia. The streets are not made for someone in a big rear end moving truck who's used to subcompact cars.

The kill count was 3 bumpers and a hubcap obliterated getting to where I needed to be.

I still feel guilty about that. At the time I was too loving tired to care.

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

🤗YOU'RE WELCOME🤗
Only casualty I had was a tree limb that was way too low over the road, and an old sat dish that was screwed on the side of the roof that I didn't see before I started backing in.

Driving big trucks doesn't bother me, but uhaul trucks are just a special kind of lovely. Steering was so loose that bumps would send you shooting off in a random direction which took drat near a full wheel rotation to bring back to straight, and over concrete on the highway it bucked so hard that it lifted me out of the seat and I had to slow down to 45 for that whole stretch.

Also the brakes didn't always hold. Be coming to a stop, slowing, hear a PSHHHH and lose all brakes till I pumped them. Was fun.

Boaz MacPhereson
Jul 11, 2006

Day 12045 Ht10hands 180lbs
No Name
No lumps No Bumps Full life Clean
Two good eyes No Busted Limbs
Piss OK Genitals intact
Multiple scars Heals fast
O NEGATIVE HI OCTANE
UNIVERSAL DONOR
Lone Road Warrior Rundown
on the Powder Lakes V8
No guzzoline No supplies
ISOLATE PSYCHOTIC
Keep muzzled...
Indycar is on during the Cubs rain delay. GP track at Indy. Hell yeah.

Dagen H
Mar 19, 2009

Hogertrafikomlaggningen
Thanks for that, didn't know it was on.

Boaz MacPhereson
Jul 11, 2006

Day 12045 Ht10hands 180lbs
No Name
No lumps No Bumps Full life Clean
Two good eyes No Busted Limbs
Piss OK Genitals intact
Multiple scars Heals fast
O NEGATIVE HI OCTANE
UNIVERSAL DONOR
Lone Road Warrior Rundown
on the Powder Lakes V8
No guzzoline No supplies
ISOLATE PSYCHOTIC
Keep muzzled...
I think it's on espn so they're just broadcasting on ABC during the delay.

Edit: gently caress IT STOPPED RAINING. Stupid baseball.

Boaz MacPhereson fucked around with this message at 21:31 on May 12, 2018

Tomarse
Mar 7, 2001

Grr



Olympic Mathlete posted:

I went to Paris alone years ago to see a gig. I'd scored a few tickets so put up that I had spares on the artist's facebook page, met up with a few people and ended up having a really cool night out with strangers which ended up with saving an American lady who'd managed to get herself locked in the subway system somehow... :v:

There’s a poster on the wall here for the Rock en Seine festival saying Justice, Die Antword and Carpenter Brut in that order.

Unfortunately it appears that they are all on different days rather than being on the same days bill, and the rest of the bands don’t look that good :(

Dagen H
Mar 19, 2009

Hogertrafikomlaggningen

Boaz MacPhereson posted:

I think it's on espn so they're just broadcasting on ABC during the delay.

Edit: gently caress IT STOPPED RAINING. Stupid baseball.

It's on ABC for me?

Checked ESPN and saw Terrell Owens bowling.

LloydDobler
Oct 15, 2005

You shared it with a dick.

nm posted:

Water polo exists and is both white and violent as gently caress.

It's weird, I grew up in white as poo poo suburban Oregon and for some reason we had a world class water polo coach and my high school teams dominated the state competition for like a decade.

Oh my god I just went to do research and in under a minute found out that they still do. I love the internet.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:


Tomarse posted:

There’s a poster on the wall here for the Rock en Seine festival saying Justice, Die Antword and Carpenter Brut in that order.

Unfortunately it appears that they are all on different days rather than being on the same days bill, and the rest of the bands don’t look that good :(

Man Justice and Brut would be amazing to see. Speaking of, I was in Paris to see a guy called Danger whose stuff you may dig if you like Brut. He started off really electro synth, arpeggio galore (which was boss) and slowly moved into more moody, synthy soundtrack stuff with his recent (last year) album Taiko being a glittery neon-soaked bit of greatness.

This is off the album (which I waited nigh on 10 years for) and is a bit Ghost in the Shell...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrLxoVHBF9o

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.

Tomarse posted:

There’s a poster on the wall here for the Rock en Seine festival saying Justice, Die Antword and Carpenter Brut in that order.

Unfortunately it appears that they are all on different days rather than being on the same days bill, and the rest of the bands don’t look that good :(
After seeing Chappie, anything that keeps Die Antwoord 400 miles away would definitely be a good thing.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:


InitialDave posted:

After seeing Chappie, anything that keeps Die Antwoord 400 miles away would definitely be a good thing.

Is this the point where I say that Ninja got super upset with me commenting that a CGI robot was a better actor than him on instagram to the point where he scrolled back through my photos to find the single shot of me to try and make fun of me? He seemed really upset by the comment, what was funnier was that he said he was really busy and didn't have time to deal with worms and then spent like 10 minutes scrolling through gently caress knows how many photos...

Dickbag. Still my favourite celebrity interaction on social media.

cakesmith handyman
Jul 22, 2007

Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Brilliant. He looks the type to get uppity at any slight.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.

Olympic Mathlete posted:

Is this the point where I say that Ninja got super upset with me commenting that a CGI robot was a better actor than him on instagram to the point where he scrolled back through my photos to find the single shot of me to try and make fun of me?
Sounds about right. TBH, I've met a few celebrities of varying stature over the years, and I've found most of the "cool" ones are those that are happy for you to walk up and treat them as an equal, it's the ones who think they're above everyone else who are knobs.

Now if you don't mind, discussing Die Antwoord has required a palate cleanser, so I'm currently listening to Exit Planet Dust. Again.

ExplodingSims
Aug 17, 2010

RAGDOLL
FLIPPIN IN A MOVIE
HOT DAMN
THINK I MADE A POOPIE


So got a nice reminder of why I never help friends or family with AC stuff.

Last weekend my friends uncle wanted me to move his condenser to a new location so he could put a shed in. I said i.would, should be an easy job.

Well I went to close off the service valve to close it off and found the stem seal was no good, and it was leaking. Sealed it up as best I could and told home I'd replace the valve and get it resolved

So the next day I get a call from my friend to call him because the AC isn't working. He called another company and they said it was out of gas. I tell him we can get the part he needs and a tank of 407c for like ~$200. He says he'll call me back. He never does.

He gets another company to fix it. They charged him like $500. Now he wants me to pay for it.

Uh, no. I told you how I could fix it for you for the cost of parts. If you decline that anything after that is not my loving problem.

meatpimp
May 15, 2004

Psst -- Wanna buy

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some high-quality thread's DESTROYED!

:kheldragar:


Yeah, that's just proper hosed up.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





You touched it last when I asked for your help, so now you owe me? Yeah, the proper response to that is "go gently caress your hat".

angryrobots
Mar 31, 2005

ExplodingSims posted:

He gets another company to fix it. They charged him like $500. Now he wants me to pay for it.

If you didn't charge for moving the condenser, send a bill for that, with the $500 taken out of it. Moving a condenser is at least $7-800 here, depending on material.

ExplodingSims
Aug 17, 2010

RAGDOLL
FLIPPIN IN A MOVIE
HOT DAMN
THINK I MADE A POOPIE


Yeah, I was doing it for free, since he's a retired contractor who helped my friend remodel his house, and he said he'd be happy to help out if I traded some favors.

All I had him buy was a new drier. Only needed to be moved a few feet. No new copper need, no electrical. Easy job.

But now? gently caress you dude. I would have done the repairs for cost of materials, but you can get hosed now.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.
"Hey, this guy doesn't have a pulse, what the gently caress did you do?"
"You touched him last! You have to hide the body!"

Applebees Appetizer
Jan 23, 2006

Anyone know anything about HID headlights? My '03 LS430 is having issues, driver's side bulb went out so I replaced both since they were originals (with good Phillips bulbs) and two months later the drivers side went out again and then came back on a few days later. I'm assuming it's proably the ballast then? Apparently they only last so many hours as well as the bulbs, but I don't know if there's anything else i'm missing.

Geoj
May 28, 2008

BITTER POOR PERSON
There's usually an igniter somewhere between the ballast and the bulb. Sometimes it's a module that sits inline with the bulb harness, others it's a small box that attaches over the bulb.

e: in your case looks like it's part of the ballast.

Geoj fucked around with this message at 04:02 on May 13, 2018

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

Yeah, gently caress that guy.


So my wife burned some sage tonight and Rhyno discovered that he is violently allergic to burning sage. I had to open all the windows, turn on the fans and go lay in my car for like an hour because of the smell. I've been violently sneezing (little blood now) and fully stuffed up for hours. It's a bit soon for her to try to kill me right?

Bajaha
Apr 1, 2011

BajaHAHAHA.



Depends, did the life insurance policy just kick in or something?

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

Bajaha posted:

Depends, did the life insurance policy just kick in or something?

Not til August!

Devyl
Mar 27, 2005

It slices!

It dices!

It makes Julienne fries!
So my G35 is still in the body shop. Been almost a month now and it's all for a rear bumper. I keep getting emails from Allstate (the insurance of the person who hit me) for repair costs that keep going up almost every day. It started at $750, and we're at almost $2,500 now. I just want my car back ☹️

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Rhyno posted:

Not til August!

Take the death. If you're getting murdered, make sure it's before what they benefit kicks in!

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Ether Frenzy
Dec 22, 2006




Nap Ghost

Rhyno posted:

Yeah, gently caress that guy.


So my wife burned some sage tonight and Rhyno discovered that he is violently allergic to burning sage. I had to open all the windows, turn on the fans and go lay in my car for like an hour because of the smell. I've been violently sneezing (little blood now) and fully stuffed up for hours. It's a bit soon for her to try to kill me right?

In the HBO series 'Crashing', Pete Holmes' wife was smoking a guy named Lief which propelled Pete into a standup career after her infidelity, so perhaps you'll have the same luck? Alternately, bootstrap yourself soldier, buy a RWD BMW and quit living in fear all the time.

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