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Saturday morning, coffee, strawberry-rhubarb pie and a new Project Binky.
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Rhyno posted:Does anyone know what utility compliance is supposed to mean>? It's a factor listed on one of the houses we toured but nobody seems to be able to tell us what the heck it means and Google doesn't have anything on the subject related to home ownership. Turns out Utility Compliance means the house complies with all utility regulations. Who'd a thunk it. So even though it doesn't have natural gas the electric furnace meets code.
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Oct 6, 2018 16:39
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Here I was thinking I was Mr. diagnostic master with lifting out the gear shift lever and going  "heh just a battered alignment pin no sweat, wonder what this extra red-looking material is? heh probably something the idiot previous owners did" Only to get the replacement pin but the lever is still sloppy. Look into it more and there is a whole seat seal that's supposed to press the shifter into the alignment bolt to prevent flop, and the red-looking material was the old seal in disintegrated state. Not a big deal in amount of work I've done or anything but I could have saved about two weeks of time if I had put in even a little bit more effort and gotten both parts at the same time.
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Oct 6, 2018 18:17
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Random question, but I saw a lady getting in to her Bentley Continental GT the other day and it had some crazy looking custom wheels on it. Didn't get an up close view but they were multi-spoke with a wide center piece and an asymmetrical notch cut into them. Something like this :  Except the spokes were longer and it had more angles to the design. Any idea what they would be?
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Oct 6, 2018 21:21
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Oct 6, 2018 21:35
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Welp gently caress America I guess.
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Oct 6, 2018 22:14
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Rhyno posted:Welp gently caress America I guess. Your government stopped pretending to care a long time ago. Coffins have a lot of nails, this won't be the last one.
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Oct 6, 2018 22:18
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Our government has been doing dumb and scary poo poo for decades, nothing new to see here.
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Oct 6, 2018 22:31
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cakesmith handyman posted:Your government stopped pretending to care a long time ago. Coffins have a lot of nails, this won't be the last one. Going to have to start pulling up old ones to make room for more pretty soon though.
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Oct 6, 2018 22:32
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So for the two or three of y'all not in the Facebook group, the Corvette museum is installing electric charging stations. I'll grab some pics later and share. Just makes me wonder, new fully electric 'Vette or Camaro? Maybe a mass-produced fully electric car?
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Oct 6, 2018 23:02
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GM would need to masd produce more than the bolt and lol at that happening soon. Sales are in the shitter already.
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Oct 6, 2018 23:18
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Anyone know of some sprayable coating that would work for shift paddles?
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Woof Blitzer posted:Anyone know of some sprayable coating that would work for shift paddles?
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Oct 6, 2018 23:45
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Just use grippy tape instead? The Supreme Court stuff isn't a surprise, but that doesn't make it less sad.
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Oct 7, 2018 00:30
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Gotta maintain the supreme Court tradition going of having extremely bad legal decisions
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Oct 7, 2018 00:43
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incels interlinked posted:Random question, but I saw a lady getting in to her Bentley Continental GT the other day and it had some crazy looking custom wheels on it. Didn't get an up close view but they were multi-spoke with a wide center piece and an asymmetrical notch cut into them. I hate to be like the worst amazon reviews where they say “ I don’t know or I didn’t buy this” but even in my small town there are a few continental gts and they are just on factory alloys. I would imagine those wheels are some crazy expensive upsell from some dealer. They don’t look like anything out of the ordinary except maybe a deep offset. I had 15x10 progressive hammers back in the day that looked similar
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Oct 7, 2018 08:43
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Shotgun blasts echoing across the lake at 7 a.m. on a Sunday 
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They definitely were not factory wheels. I checked the usual blinged out wheel company websites with no luck, your comment led me to check ebay too but nothing there either.
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Dagen H posted:Shotgun blasts echoing across the lake at 7 a.m. on a Sunday ohiobeforehuntingseason.jpg
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Oct 7, 2018 12:38
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Came back from my holidays to about 300 emails waiting for me on my work outlook (which got dumped to my cell as soon as I turned it back on). Quick glimpse, saw an email from my fleet management company for our company vehicles that my new 2019 Silverado is on order and in production! Great news! And then I see the fine specifics, Silverado LD which is the carry-over gen instead of the new 2019  Oh well, at least if the new ones have a bunch of teething pains I should be spared them. Also, was in Monte Carlo for a little bit on my holiday, spent some time walking around the hotel in the AM and saw this bizarro watch in the display window of the hotel jewlery store. Took a pic because I have never seen a watch with a face like that. Didn't recognize the brand either.  Well, did some research https://www.ulysse-nardin.com/product/marine-grand-deck-6302-300-gd I guess it would work well with all the Bugattis I saw in the municipality while I was there.
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Oct 7, 2018 13:24
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neat watch. How nice it much be to be so rich that you can buy an expensive rear end watch that you can't read what loving time is displayed.  I'm too lowbrow for this, obviously.
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Oct 7, 2018 14:08
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Suburban Dad posted:neat watch. How nice it much be to be so rich that you can buy an expensive rear end watch that you can't read what loving time is displayed. What, it's clearly....9:60?
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Oct 7, 2018 14:35
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Fo3 posted:In short, Australia had universal health care but they don't want anyone to use it, and ambulance or dental has never been included. E: I just remembered, pensioners get free ambulance rides, so if in WA, ferremit's partners 90yo grandfather would have got the same treatment, but ferremit himself would have paid $1000 for the ambo if it happened to them. We pay NZ$98 for St Johns for a medical emergency (say a heart attack), or nothing if the trip is the result of an accident (car crash, fall down steps and break your ankle) and covered by ACC. Only leaps up to $800 if you're uneligible for subsidy eg tourist having a heart attack. Your treatment at the public hospital is of course completely free as well in either case. Oh and the accident coverage also extends to tourists here on holiday too. Crash your rental car driving drunk on the wrong side of the road while on your way to bungy jump in Hobbiton and your treatment will be covered until you're stable enough to be repatriated (on your own dime). And our UFB is way better than NBN.
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Suburban Dad posted:neat watch. How nice it much be to be so rich that you can buy an expensive rear end watch that you can't read what loving time is displayed.
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Oct 7, 2018 15:03
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Watch is lovely exercise in ridiculous just because you can. Did they emulate a sundial? Quite elegant! (quite useless for chronology purposes obviously) KInd of get the feeling TIME at this price comes with assistants, valets, handlers, retinues. Someone that wants to help me will really know what time it is. Like the lady carrying my diamond crusted Iphone. in other news: https://www.cnn.com/specials/sport/rally-team
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Oct 7, 2018 15:07
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Barcades are excellent. Got a bit drunk and played an original AFTERBURNER last night. I need to make it out there more often.
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BuckyDoneGun posted:We pay NZ$98 for St Johns for a medical emergency (say a heart attack), or nothing if the trip is the result of an accident (car crash, fall down steps and break your ankle) and covered by ACC. Only leaps up to $800 if you're uneligible for subsidy eg tourist having a heart attack. Your treatment at the public hospital is of course completely free as well in either case. Oh and the accident coverage also extends to tourists here on holiday too. Crash your rental car driving drunk on the wrong side of the road while on your way to bungy jump in Hobbiton and your treatment will be covered until you're stable enough to be repatriated (on your own dime). Yeah but you have no mines or real industry, so step off son. Seriously though, I recommend almost everything else better in NZ so maybe NA goons should go there. Want a car your country never sold? Move to NZ and import it. What to drink to the trumpocalyse? Move to NZ and start your own legal still. Hows your version of 'centrelink'? I keep getting forms to fill needing a witness statement to prove I'm single. Because once I wasn't you see. I was born single, am single, will die alone etc but every year I have to keep finding someone I don't know to fill the form as a 'witness' to my failing, because I years ago I told centrelink for a certain period that I was in a relationship. It's literally 'in the past you were in a relationship, get someone* to sign a declaration you no longer are'. It's embarrassing and stupid as I'm not applying for anything new, this request just comes to me every year. Makes me depressed as it's a good reminder I've lost everything and having to deal with those fuckers week to week is hard enough without these mail out forms to prove I suck. *a non family member Fo3 fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Oct 7, 2018 |
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Oct 7, 2018 15:29
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InitialDave posted:I very, very occasionally like a given watch design, but I loving hate pretty much everything surrounding watches. It's the equivalent of all the worst aspects of other form over function 'scene' nonsense like ricers, yet hides behind the idea that it's highbrow and classy. Loads of watches are simply hugely expensive and just loving ugly, I've yet to see a single Patek Phillipe I'd have over an Omega Speedmaster Professional. Or a Casio F-91, for that matter. I am the same way. I also can't stand how mechanical movement on even expensive watches drives drift. My wife inherited a $5$-figure Rolex and the god drat thing goes out something like 6 minutes every few weeks so now it is relegated to her jewelry box and never gets worn. Instead she wears the Citizen I bought her at Costco for Christmas a couple years ago. I am a watch wearer as an appliance and a few years ago finally needed a new one. I liked the idea of an atomic-synch watch and citizen eco-drive, so I looked for something that wasn't super expensive or terribly pretentious with more dials than an airplane cockpit. I ended up with this after looking for a long time. Still has a bit more on it than I would like, but in the flesh looks simple, not overly gawdy and never have to touch the god drat thing and is dead-nuts accurate.
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slidebite posted:Came back from my holidays to about 300 emails waiting for me on my work outlook (which got dumped to my cell as soon as I turned it back on). Quick glimpse, saw an email from my fleet management company for our company vehicles that my new 2019 Silverado is on order and in production! Great news! And then I see the fine specifics, Silverado LD which is the carry-over gen instead of the new 2019 That's actually pretty neat, ordered one thanks!  No but my much-loved and very beaten Citizen popped a wrist link a couple months ago. I hated every watch I ever had until that one, eco-drive is the poo poo.
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Jesus. We went to a wedding yesterday and were talking to a woman there who also recently had a child. She hired a full-time nanny and a pediatric nurse (two people, not one person with cray qualifications) to watch the kid for the first few months while she went back to work, and she is building a guest house on their property for the nanny. Guess that takes some of the stress and sleep deprivation out of child-rearing, huh?
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slidebite posted:I am the same way. I also can't stand how mechanical movement on even expensive watches drives drift. I would get myself the aforementioned Speedmaster if I had the spare money, largely because I think the whole Apollo thing is cool, but that's certainly the top end of what I'd ever spend on a watch. I don't normally wear one anyway, as I can't on the shop floor at work, so would constantly need to take it off, and I don't need one most of the time. I've been wearing one while on holiday as I found it more convenient, but I'll probably go back to doing without now I'm home.
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InitialDave posted:I very, very occasionally like a given watch design, but I loving hate pretty much everything surrounding watches. It's the equivalent of all the worst aspects of other form over function 'scene' nonsense like ricers, yet hides behind the idea that it's highbrow and classy. Loads of watches are simply hugely expensive and just loving ugly, I've yet to see a single Patek Phillipe I'd have over an Omega Speedmaster Professional. Or a Casio F-91, for that matter. One of the things I liked about having a cell phone for the first time was not having to wear a loving watch to tell the time because i can't stand wearing one. Watches are mostly jewelry at this point, there is no need for them anymore. tetrapyloctomy posted:Jesus. We went to a wedding yesterday and were talking to a woman there who also recently had a child. She hired a full-time nanny and a pediatric nurse (two people, not one person with cray qualifications) to watch the kid for the first few months while she went back to work, and she is building a guest house on their property for the nanny. Guess that takes some of the stress and sleep deprivation out of child-rearing, huh? No stress of building a bond with your child either I suppose. Why even bother having kids.
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Oct 7, 2018 17:36
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I don’t wear a watch but if I had $90,000 to blow on a watch...
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Oct 7, 2018 18:00
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I went off watches for years then got a cheap knock-off fitbit and apparently all I use it for is telling the time. May pick up a Casio F91, they do an orange one that matches the trim inside my panda 
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Applebees Appetizer posted:No stress of building a bond with your child either I suppose. Why even bother having kids.
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Oct 7, 2018 18:53
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Also an eco-drive wearer
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tetrapyloctomy posted:Yeah, tell me about it. Raising an insanely rich kid with little parental involvement -- what could go wrong?
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Oct 7, 2018 19:04
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InitialDave posted:Hopefully you get a Batman rather than an Iron Fist.
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ilkhan posted:GM would need to masd produce more than the bolt and lol at that happening soon. Sales are in the shitter already. That's mostly because GM dealers don't want or know how to sell them, according to the Electrothread folks. tetrapyloctomy posted:Jesus. We went to a wedding yesterday and were talking to a woman there who also recently had a child. She hired a full-time nanny and a pediatric nurse (two people, not one person with cray qualifications) to watch the kid for the first few months while she went back to work, and she is building a guest house on their property for the nanny. Guess that takes some of the stress and sleep deprivation out of child-rearing, huh? AND most of the "being a mom," too. Watch chat: I admire the work that goes into mechanical watches, as a machine, but a) I don't have $$ and wearing anything that cost more that a couple hundred on my wrist would make me paranoid, and b) I like all the functions a typical digital watch has, and used to actually use them (alarms, timers, etc.) before smart phones. Also, a cheap Casio will keep better time. Though, I always liked the Citizen Eco-Drive watches, and probably would have gotten one if I wasn't broke when I was still wearing them. I didn't wear a watch for years after I got a smartphone, but finally broke down and got an Apple Watch (already in the Apple ecosystem with an iPhone - still considered a Fitbit Versa) whe Walmart dropped the price on the Watch Series 1 to $150. No regrets. It's handy. I saw some Android Wear ones that were round and did a good job of emulating Chronographs, but limited functionality with Apple (because, Apple) kept me away. Way Apple is going, though, I may jump ship. On a different topic, saw this on someone's Twitter feed, and thought it awesome: https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1/status/1047481568388898816
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