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Fender Anarchist: May 20, 2009; Fender Anarchist

Confession: I keep loving up and not bringing my tools to my apartment, so I get caught out by simple poo poo like "spark plug went for a quick flight". Just dropped my car off to get bore scoped, make sure the threads didn't rip out and/or fall and bounce around the cylinder.

Fucken' fords, man

# ? Sep 24, 2018 23:38

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# ? Jun 1, 2024 23:53

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.

Confessions: I found a grade 2, coarse threaded Imperial bolt and nut in my all metric, fine threaded suspension a week ago. I decided to put it back in because I was too lazy to walk to autozone.

I'm just now getting around to replacing it with an actual automotive grade bolt

# ? Sep 25, 2018 00:38

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

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

Why on earth do you want her to retire.....? If she is fine with working its not something you should get a say in and more to the point I would consider it rude as gently caress. In fact its more the case someone who says working has better long term health especially mentally.

She works with the developmentally disabled and keeps volunteering for OT at sites with semi dangerous individuals. I'd prefer to go see my mom and she not have fresh bruises.

And her parents left her a massive chunk of money and she's been very frugal with it so she doesn't even need to work at this point. She talks about retiring all the time but worries her clients will end up neglected of she does.

# ? Sep 25, 2018 02:26

Elephanthead: Sep 11, 2008; Toilet Rascal

That which is dead can never die.

Whoops wrong forum.

# ? Sep 25, 2018 02:38

Wrar: Sep 9, 2002; Soiled Meat

Rhyno posted:

She works with the developmentally disabled and keeps volunteering for OT at sites with semi dangerous individuals. I'd prefer to go see my mom and she not have fresh bruises.

And her parents left her a massive chunk of money and she's been very frugal with it so she doesn't even need to work at this point. She talks about retiring all the time but worries her clients will end up neglected of she does.

I realize you worry about your Mom's safety and that's great but she sounds like the exact sort of person that falls apart in retirement.

# ? Sep 25, 2018 04:07

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

That is very likely. We're hoping she'll retire and travel, I have a sister in Portland and a douchebag brother in Taiwan.

# ? Sep 25, 2018 04:48

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

Only slightly interesting delivery story.

Google Maps told me this was the fastest route to a customer in BFE today (Hutto, TX).

....... that's a big ol' bag of hell the gently caress nope. Looked at least a foot deep, and was moving pretty drat quick. I'll go across a road with water if it's not moving and there's traffic clearly going through it (so I can see that the road isn't collapsed or anything). This was a loving river. Had to backtrack a few miles to the highway and take another route.

Mentioned it to the customer when I finally delivered his order. He laughed and asked if the tree was still there. I asked which side, he said "this one" (the side he's on) and pulled out his phone to show me a picture of a bigass tree across a road. Said I wasn't sure, but I saw someone with a pickup on the other side doing something. I was bored, so I found the other side.

Pickup was gone, but the smell of fresh, uh, trees? was in the air. Guess someone living on that road chopped it up. Mighty neighborly of them. :clint:

# ? Sep 25, 2018 06:14

Liquid Communism: Mar 9, 2004; коммунизм хранится в яичках

Dagen H posted:

Well yes, but I still (naively) expected higher education to be a secular domain, with religious schools being the outlier. The mail we've received has been split roughly 60/40.

Consider for a moment that degrees have become necessary for middle class jobs, yet Deeply Conservative families don't want little Billy ~~and Susie~~ exposed to other viewpoints in the process of getting one, and you'll see why there are so many religiously endowed schools.

# ? Sep 25, 2018 09:19

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

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

Why on earth do you want her to retire.....? If she is fine with working its not something you should get a say in and more to the point I would consider it rude as gently caress. In fact its more the case someone who says working has better long term health especially mentally.

I personally can't fuckin' wait to retire. And I'm only 33. :v:

I'd rather be bored or just loving around than at work.

Come at me, dementia at 60. :corsair:

# ? Sep 25, 2018 13:40

Adiabatic: Nov 18, 2007; What have you assholes done now?

Hot take: working rules

# ? Sep 25, 2018 13:50

CerealKilla420: Jan 3, 2014; "I need a handle man..."

Goober Peas posted:

I drove the entire length of I-40 in TN yesterday in pouring rain the entire way.

We decided to play 'tally the cars without headlights on'

The top 4:

1) Toyota/Lexus - 107 cars
2) Hyundai - 41 cars
3) Nissan Altima - 32 cars
4) Honda - 27 cars

I mention the Altima because every Nissan without headlights was an Altima. Almost every Honda was a Civic, but there were a handful of Accord and CRVs in there too. Hyundai was mostly Sonata. And just about every friggin Toyota or Lexus had its headlights off. Almost all of the Lexus were ES models.

edit: We passed 12 accidents yesterday

Don't most late model Lexusi have automatic headlights?

Also in my city for whatever reason the Nissan Altima is a low car in the same way the PT Cruiser was a low car a few years ago. I don't know why it is but some of these cars aren't even 10 years old and they're falling apart on the street in front of me seemingly.

I always just assumed that they're either cheap or for whatever Nissan will take credit scores under 600.

# ? Sep 25, 2018 15:06

KakerMix: Apr 8, 2004; 8.2 M.P.G.

Working rules when it's on my own time toward my own goals.
Working sucks otherwise.

Water is also fukkin' WET

# ? Sep 25, 2018 15:17

Dagen H: Mar 19, 2009; Hogertrafikomlaggningen

KakerMix posted:

Working rules when it's on my own time toward my own goals.
Working sucks otherwise.

Agreed. Hell truly is other people, and working for/with other people blows.

# ? Sep 25, 2018 15:22

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

Work is great if you like what you do. Also never having to work with the public again is great.

# ? Sep 25, 2018 15:27

Bajaha: Apr 1, 2011; BajaHAHAHA.

KakerMix posted:

Working rules when it's on my own time toward my own goals.
Working sucks otherwise.

Water is also fukkin' WET

Tremendously wet, you could say.

# ? Sep 25, 2018 15:40

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Adiabatic posted:

Hot take: working rules

Hotter take: Working a worthwhile job rules, capitalistic slavery for the sake of survival loving sucks.

# ? Sep 25, 2018 15:49

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

I like what I do at my job mostly, I just like doing other things more. But it turns out I can't really make money doing my hobbies, so, I work. Retiring at 55 is a goal I'd like to shoot for, but TBD how feasible that will actually be. Maybe if healthcare gets changed in the next 20 years or so, maybe. (not to :can:

)

Eventually many jobs are going to automated that all people won't need to work just because of lack of jobs. That would be an interesting thing to see just how it would work.

# ? Sep 25, 2018 15:54

Applebees Appetizer: Jan 23, 2006

Larrymer posted:

I like what I do at my job mostly, I just like doing other things more. But it turns out I can't really make money doing my hobbies, so, I work. Retiring at 55 is a goal I'd like to shoot for, but TBD how feasible that will actually be. Maybe if healthcare gets changed in the next 20 years or so, maybe. (not to )

Turning your hobby into a career is a bad idea tho, it turns into just another job and ruins your hobby. Since I got out of the photography business, I rarely pick up a camera anymore and it's sad but I just don't really care about it anymore

# ? Sep 25, 2018 16:00

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

64bit_Dophins posted:

Don't most late model Lexusi have automatic headlights?

Also in my city for whatever reason the Nissan Altima is a low car in the same way the PT Cruiser was a low car a few years ago. I don't know why it is but some of these cars aren't even 10 years old and they're falling apart on the street in front of me seemingly.

I always just assumed that they're either cheap or for whatever Nissan will take credit scores under 600.

I think all of those cars have stalk mounted headlight controls with 'auto' as a middle position.

Altima's stalk for example:

Pair that design with DRLs and backlit gauges and most people never realize their lights are actually off.

# ? Sep 25, 2018 16:03

CerealKilla420: Jan 3, 2014; "I need a handle man..."