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FAT32 SHAMER posted:I thought you lived in Canada now?? Whut? I dont live in Canada. She LIKES real heat. Altho granted its actually hot enough to be painful to be outside with humidity you can carve (thence hey guess what? This is actual lethal hot)... still better than snow.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:42C and its humid. t...train? what is that, some sort of large Uber?
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:42C and its humid. It's loving feral outside in Melbourne today. I had a pallet of whisky delivered at work and needed to unpack it. The warehouse defintely does not have air con.
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Same in Adelaide. I spent the entire day building fencing brackets from 1” galv tube in a fan-less shed with roller doors at one end only. I am sweat. We are now one being.
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Jan 31, 2020 08:27
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I don't know how you cope with that poo poo to be honest. Even 30 degrees has me sweaty as hell.
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Normally in Adelaide you don’t have too- we apparently have a Mediterranean climate so it’s MEANT to be 40 and 10% humidity. This 38deg 60% bullshit can gently caress back off to Darwin. Only consolation is I’m having to put the sides back on my trailer and at least the rain is warm
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slothrop posted:It's loving feral outside in Melbourne today. I had a pallet of whisky delivered at work and needed to unpack it. The warehouse defintely does not have air con. Saturday has actual "STAY THE gently caress INSIDE IN AIRCON" warnings here. 45C AND high humidity. The wife didnt mind 48C and almost dead zero humid (apart from the loving fires) but she does now understand just how unrelentingly hosed up anything with a 4 in front and humid is. Sydney becoming decidedly tropical at times in summer while keeping the "hottest place on earth heat ferocity" is very distinct downside to climate change. Ferremit posted:Same in Adelaide. I spent the entire day building fencing brackets from 1” galv tube in a fan-less shed with roller doors at one end only. I'm supposed to be pulling an Outback motor tomorrow. I am def not looking forward to being in the garage.
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STR posted:So perhaps... a flooded road? Just got off the phone after an hour long story. In short, the tow truck driver dropped her home, couldn't get truck up the drive so took to his depot. Mum was initially dumb and didn't get any information on the guy so he could have just hosed off with a car scott free. He was honest and called her and asked for an email address to forward an invoice billing insurance company just for proof he has the car. It's been towed from his place to a panel beater to do body inspection, and now at a mechanics to provide an engine report. So far initially Suncorp said 'we don't cover engines' but backed off after half an hour of escalations. So far the mechanic has estimated $20k for repairs. But so far Suncorp are playing ball. Mums more pissed off that she has to find her favourite car all over again. Love the sign in the background above the fuel door that looks like an angry spongebob: 
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Humphreys posted:Just got off the phone after an hour long story. In short, the tow truck driver dropped her home, couldn't get truck up the drive so took to his depot. Mum was initially dumb and didn't get any information on the guy so he could have just hosed off with a car scott free. He was honest and called her and asked for an email address to forward an invoice billing insurance company just for proof he has the car. Edit: even though she started the car again and thrice, apparently the good news is that council workers were literally waving people through the area. Can't blame her for not being a 'car person' and thinking it conked out and having another few goes.
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Was it like, a literal river? Pretty sure modern cars have pretty efficient ways of dealing with even like a foot of water?
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Saturday has actual "STAY THE gently caress INSIDE IN AIRCON" warnings here. 45C AND high humidity. The wife didnt mind 48C and almost dead zero humid (apart from the loving fires) but she does now understand just how unrelentingly hosed up anything with a 4 in front and humid is. It is hot and humid down here in the Greatest City with the Bestest Premier in Australia and it loving sucks as I only have an evap cooler in this place
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Grakkus posted:Was it like, a literal river? Pretty sure modern cars have pretty efficient ways of dealing with even like a foot of water?
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InitialDave posted:"Ingest it and cease operation" Yeah, a foot of water is a hell of a lot to drive through, and most cars have their intake somewhere in the vicinity of the front wheels where it's getting churned up and creating a giant bow wave. This was probably about a foot. Edit: rewatching this and seeing that the curbs are still visible, it wasn't even a foot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=847vU8HkpHc
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Humphreys posted:Edit: even though she started the car again and thrice, apparently the good news is that council workers were literally waving people through the area. Can't blame her for not being a 'car person' and thinking it conked out and having another few goes. Back when I worked at the local Mazda dealership whenever we had heavy rains with flooding we'd get a bunch of cars coming in with windows in the blocks. Most people just don't understand how a car engine works and that they aren't able to ingest and compress water. Of course they would flip out when you tell them their motor is toast like it's the car's fault, ignorance is bliss. Trying to have a general understanding how cars work would save lots of people lots of money.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Trying to have a general understanding how Basic mechanics, electricity, cars, transit systems, money/finance, elections, plumbing... the list goes on and on and on
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sharkytm posted:Basic mechanics, electricity, cars, transit systems, money/finance, elections, plumbing... the list goes on and on and on
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Nightmare at work has ended. My boss got transferred. He was trying to play it up like it was a promotion, saying it's a larger store (I know what store it is.. it's larger, but sales aren't nearly what they are at mine, since it's 45 minutes away in Nowhere, TX). I flat out asked "so is there a raise coming with that for you? Especially since that store is so far?". Uh.. uh... stutter... "a little bit". I politely wished him well and shook his hand. From what I heard from others, I was probably the most polite to him.
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Jan 31, 2020 16:27
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UK goons, 3 hours left on the BX GTi 4x4, £661, you know you want to
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STR posted:Nightmare at work has ended. Nice. The last lovely thing in our department is being dealt with and things are slowly aligning for me to make the jump to first shift. Good work poo poo for everyone!
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Jan 31, 2020 17:00
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The Door Frame posted:Is that "prepay" to be refunded once the other stuff is processed, or is it a "gently caress you for having insurance our network doesn't like" tax? Either way it's scummy as to order more tests before treatment can start and then immediately ask you to front some of the payment The Door Frame posted:A routine epidermoid cyst removal that was so simple and easy, it took around 20 minutes from me to get from my car and back, cost $750 out of pocket. Call me salty, but I feel like 2 wisdom teeth with general anesthesia (pre-insurance adjustment) shouldn't be comparable in price with a procedure so basic and simple that people post DIY instructions for it She would see the refund, but if the way they've been dragging out her appointments is indicative of anything, she probably wouldn't see it for several months. And yeah, I burned the gently caress out of my hand grabbing a fresh out of the oven pan several months ago (  ) and I initially was just gonna tough it out, but it quickly turned into debilitating pain and the fiance convinced me to let her take me to Urgent Care. Doctor rubbed some cream you can get for $5 at Walgreens, wrapped it in gauze, gave me a Vicodin prescription and sent me on my way. I got a bill in the mail for $350. I threw $20-$50 at them for a few months and then forgot about it, I don't think I ever actually finished paying it 
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nm posted:My mom works (well retired, but benefits continue) for a large public university, pays for the most expensive plan, etc. It is basically designed for the large university medical school is free. She got cancer, my dad had multiple heart things. She loves it. My parents own their own business and my Mom is a staunch advocate of socialized medicine. They pay a mortgage worth of not great medical insurance every month.
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Grakkus posted:UK goons, 3 hours left on the BX GTi 4x4, £661, you know you want to 
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Grakkus posted:UK goons, 3 hours left on the BX GTi 4x4, £661, you know you want to I really want to, but i'm leaving it to you or Dave!
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Mom's been fighting tooth and nail for 2 years to keep Windows 7. She got tired of all the popups about EOL, me warning her that her PC will never get another update, and was grumbling about having to buy a new PC. I keep offering to remote in and upgrade it, and insisting her hardware was fine to run it (her CPU and RAM are from my old build that got hit by lightning - I lost my motherboard, everything else survived). Note: her PC is old, but it's made up of a lot of my old hardware, and not a bad machine for what she does - i5-2500k with a mild overclock, 8GB RAM, 1TB spinning HDD. I remote in. Windows 10 updater does its thing (and it's still free if you download the installer directly from MS), I tell her to call me back when it gets to a login screen. An hour later, she's back on the phone. Tell her how to login. Remote back in, show her a few basics in Win10. First thing: "holy poo poo this thing is a lot faster!" (no poo poo, you were on a 5+ year old install of Windows that somehow didn't fall over when I gave you my old CPU and RAM). Everything is there. Everything. Just. Works. Even her copy of Office 2010 still works (I have a 5 PC license of 365, but she doesn't want to use that either). She wants it to be as fast as stepdad's PC. He's on an Ivy Bridge i7 with 16GB, she's on a Sandy Bridge i5 with 8GB. We order a 500GB Samsung SSD on Amazon to make it go faster. I'm driving up to Dallas sometime next week to swap that in. With luck, this thing will last another 8 years. Stepdad's PC has the same SSD in it, so her PC won't be quite as fast, but it'll be close enough that she won't notice the difference. It'll be like a new PC to her, and Sandy Bridge is still a very capable platform, just dated. sidenote: what are some free or very low cost backup solutions? We were using Crashplan to back up to a second internal HDD (I know, off-site is best, but she doesn't want to spend the money). Crashplan Free is long dead. Ideally I'd prefer she backup to ~the cloud~, but worst case I'm fine with slapping an old HDD into an external housing that she can grab on the way out if there's an emergency, and throwing super critical stuff into OneDrive or Dropbox.
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Man, someone really wanted that BX. Went for £1170 in the end, and I wasn't willing to go that high unseen.
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STR posted:Mom's been fighting tooth and nail for 2 years to keep Windows 7. Windows 10 comes with Backup - you can use your drive with it.
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Jan 31, 2020 20:18
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Best Buy frequently puts 8TB WD Easystore usb drives up for $150 or so, tell Windows to back up onto one of those.
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InitialDave posted:Man, someone really wanted that BX. Went for £1170 in the end, and I wasn't willing to go that high unseen. Yeah, that's well past safe deal territory on that car. Bad luck 
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Grakkus posted:Yeah, that's well past safe deal territory on that car. Bad luck
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InitialDave posted:Sounds like you could well land on your feet, then. Redundancy package AND immediate new employment is a very nice thing. Regrettably, I'm not being set free with full pay, which, honestly, has me a bit miffed. It's not my right by law, but it's been customary in all the cases I've seen so far. Buuuut, we're a subsidiary of a Swedish company, and in Sweden they work to the bitter end, so... Had an interview today though and another on Wednesday, so should be OK. Also, old job can suck a cock, today I had outplacement stuff and then the interview so I didn't even go in.
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sharkytm posted:Basic mechanics, electricity, cars, transit systems, money/finance, elections, plumbing... the list goes on and on and on Magnets - how do they work? InitialDave posted:Reproduction would be a hell of a big one. See, now that one is pretty simple. Enough so that anyone who get accidentally preggers gets zero sympathy from me. You put that thing in the other thing, feels good, stuff comes out - boom! Pregnant. There's chemicals and devices that mitigate, but that's pretty much how it works. STR posted:Nightmare at work has ended. Sometimes it actually works out and people get what they deserve. Except for the people at the store he's going to, I guess.
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To celebrate gammon twat day today here in little Britain I got a last minute surgery spot in hospital and finally had my wisdom teeth chiselled out. I think the painkiller selection is helping me deal better with both events.
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Darchangel posted:Fuckin' Magnets - how do they work? Fixed.
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Tomarse posted:To celebrate gammon twat day today here in little Britain I got a last minute surgery spot in hospital and finally had my wisdom teeth chiselled out. Tomarse posted:I think the painkiller selection is helping me deal better with both events.
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I picked up a set of wheel bags/carriers for a trip I'm planning on Amtrak. Amtrak allows 2 free checked bags 50lbs or less, L+W+H > 72", and two more additional at $20/ea. The bags were $25 on Amazon, look really sturdy and have good reviews. A round-trip ticket is exactly the same amount UPS wants to ship them, plus I get to see a buddy of mine who lives in the same city I'm headed to. Gas and tolls to drive out there would be like +$150 more than the ticket, and then I'd also be on the road 20 hours in 2 days. At least on Amtrak, I can drink & attempt to sleep. There's checked baggage handling offered at both stations. Should be good to go, right? Except in Amtrak's list of disallowed items, they've got "furniture, appliances, machinery and car parts, powered tools, tires, tow bars, etc" listed. I called them up & asked if I could bring wheels along with me if they were packed up, but was told "Amtrak has the right to inspect all baggage, and we reserve the right to confiscate anything that's banned"  Now if it was a windshield or gas tank or loose wheels & tires that can roll around, I can see them getting annoyed and banning such stuff. And I can see how if you've got them shoved in a box or a trash bag, it doesn't make it any better. However if I've got them wrapped up in these purpose-made carrying bags, they'll be clean, have grab handles, less risk of damage... and you could treat them like any other odd-shaped piece of luggage. Aside from the fact any idiot could tell you what they are, what's keeping Amtrak from accepting these? I mean, if I tossed a steering knuckle and bearing in a suitcase and handed it off, I bet there would be no problems at all. I've gotten away with bringing a bike on board a train without paying the bike fee (on a train that didn't have bike racks) because it folded down to the size of a suitcase. What I'm asking - has anybody gotten away with taking wheels on a train before?
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Saturday has actual "STAY THE gently caress INSIDE IN AIRCON" warnings here. 45C AND high humidity. The wife didnt mind 48C and almost dead zero humid (apart from the loving fires) but she does now understand just how unrelentingly hosed up anything with a 4 in front and humid is. It's amazing how much difference it makes. I've been standing in the desert at 110 degrees and it feels vastly cooler than the 95 degrees and 95% humidity we get in August in the land of corn, corn, and more corn.
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NoWake posted:I picked up a set of wheel bags/carriers for a trip I'm planning on Amtrak. Amtrak allows 2 free checked bags 50lbs or less, L+W+H > 72", and two more additional at $20/ea. The bags were $25 on Amazon, look really sturdy and have good reviews. A round-trip ticket is exactly the same amount UPS wants to ship them, plus I get to see a buddy of mine who lives in the same city I'm headed to. Gas and tolls to drive out there would be like +$150 more than the ticket, and then I'd also be on the road 20 hours in 2 days. At least on Amtrak, I can drink & attempt to sleep.
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InitialDave posted:Can't help you with inane rules on trains, but a set of spare wheels I bought came with bags like those (velcro overflap for the outer diameter and clip buckles for the straps) and they seemed fairly sturdy. Thanks, these are gonna be useful in the garage I feel like. My trip isn't for another couple weeks, so I'm planning to go ask an agent in person. Worst case is I get to take a trip I've wanted to take anyway, just won't be selling the wheels.
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Some way, some how my work bought a unicorn Ram. 4WD 1500 Ecodiesel, short cab long bed, fleet bumper, OE trailer brake controller, and hand crank windows. $11k too, not bad. I'm looking for tow mirrors, Punisher skulls, and a smoke tune, bro.
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DJ Commie posted:Some way, some how my work bought a unicorn Ram. 4WD 1500 Ecodiesel, short cab long bed, fleet bumper, OE trailer brake controller, and hand crank windows. $11k too, not bad. I'm looking for tow mirrors, Punisher skulls, and a smoke tune, bro. Oh my God that's like my dream work truck, I didn't think anything like that existed anymore
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