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builds character posted:Just make sure she doesn't get into your riding gear. Funnily enough I opened my closet where I store my gear and it smells worse than the rest of the house, probably from a lack of airflow. Somehow the area outside where everything went down is WAY better than my house, but I have crawlspace vents under my back porch and I think a lot of the spray went under the house and is now just sitting there, smelling like death. And of course my pit learned nothing and is now on a mission to hunt down the skunk, despite her eyes looking like she got pepper sprayed. Jim Silly-Balls posted:Either way I was telling my wife it would hopefully be gone in a few days when she reminded me what happened ~15 years ago. I needed a place to stay for a few months between college apartments and ended up staying at my then boss' ridiculously huge mansion for a few months (which kicked rear end). I was living the dream until a skunk went nuts near his AC compressors and made the house smell like SKUNK. I must have blocked it from my memory but my wife remembered and told me it took a month to dissipate, which I'm really hoping doesn't hold true for my current place as the smell is so bad at the end of the first day that I don't think people can even visit me right now. Yuns posted:Nothing to do with motorcycles per se but Sabine Schmitz just died of cancer. A lap around the ring with her was on my bucket list, I can't believe she died so young. I don't know if she was still even doing the ring taxi thing, once I got more into bikes a few years ago my sports car interests dropped off, but I don't think it would be possible to have a bad time with her scaring the poo poo out of you in an M5.
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MomJeans420 posted:Funnily enough I opened my closet where I store my gear and it smells worse than the rest of the house, probably from a lack of airflow. Somehow the area outside where everything went down is WAY better than my house, but I have crawlspace vents under my back porch and I think a lot of the spray went under the house and is now just sitting there, smelling like death. And of course my pit learned nothing and is now on a mission to hunt down the skunk, despite her eyes looking like she got pepper sprayed. Mythbusters did a segment on getting rid of skunk smell, I think there was some commercial cleaners they used for washing the walls down. Otherwise you might need to hire a specialist (if there is one) to clean the walls where the skunk sprayed.
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At least today it's just the traditional skunk smell, I can live with that. Yesterday it was less dank weed and more rotting garlic and it was so bad.
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The cool ones do.
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Skunks can deffo smell pretty weedy, but, like, in a bad way. To my nose there's a strong sausage/sweat undertone. Like, imagine a roofer working out in the hot sun all day with a joint stashed in his armpit, his lunch is like three big grilled bratwursts, and then at the end of the day he lights the armpit joint.
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Skunks only smell like weed from a distance. A gentle whiff of skunk isn't so bad and sometimes you think, "I don't see what all the fuss is about." Then your pet or house gets nuked and the intense acrid air burns your eyes and throat and assaults all of your senses.
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Yeah the musky/rear end undertone is rough, and my poor pit's eyes looked like she got pepper sprayed. I rinsed them out with cool water right when it happened, but they were still red all day. And of course she learned nothing and was out there looking for the skunk later on.
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LodeRunner posted:Skunks only smell like weed from a distance. A gentle whiff of skunk isn't so bad and sometimes you think, "I don't see what all the fuss is about." I got lucky last week actually, it's late evening and my wife and I hear this weird grumbling coming from somewhere close to the house. I go stand out on my front porch, and it quickly becomes obvious it's coming from underneath. The grumbling stops when I stomp on the porch. I have one of those cheap precast concrete set of steps, and I notice there's open spots along the side where something could climb underneath. I go back inside, and I've got a hunch so I check out "what do skunks sound like" and it was exactly this sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb5mcha2Qts&t=8s I tossed some mothball packets under the porch the next morning, I haven't heard the little devil since. I wish it no harm, but I also don't want to meet it. Or have it turn my steps into a nest.
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Post ur fav vlogger I’ll go first https://twitter.com/shitty_future/status/1372638917086822404?s=21
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Post ur fav vlogger I’ll go first 
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This guy looks unkempt like TJ Miller and ever since someone first posted his pic I've been reading all the chat screencaps in his boisterous, self-important tone.
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Mister Speaker posted:This guy looks unkempt like TJ Miller and ever since someone first posted his pic I've been reading all the chat screencaps in his boisterous, self-important tone.  edit- 
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Mar 19, 2021 04:27
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Being dressed up like that he must have received a massive inheritance.
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What's the bet he caused the accident, exacerbated the injuries and argued with the medics? I'm just trying to reverse-filter reality based on his earlier stuff.
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Why is he writing in prose? Misspelled, grammatically incorrect prose? Was this guy born broke-brained, or did he earn it?
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he is mentally ill
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what about his pet
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you’re our only lead
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I was pleased Uli was getting out more and getting on with his life, this is a nasty turn.
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I mean. He even looks like uli
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I was pleased Uli was getting out more and getting on with his life, this is a nasty turn. lol
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Today's customer wisdom, that I've translated into haiku form: Riding a street bike, Is like taking a big poo poo, Push hard, bloody mess Slavvy fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Mar 23, 2021 |
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Some twat caned it and then broke it?
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Late for skunkchat, but I have many skunk stories and this is my favorite: A couple years ago, I was leading my field crew to a site down a steep cut bank on a river, and it smelled pretty strongly of skunk. They're common around rivers, nothing new, so I told everyone to just keep an eye out because rabies is common in them plus the hassle of being sprayed. I stepped off on this steep muddy otter slide of a trail into the river and took a look into this burrow that was right about at eye level a couple feet away, and a fuckin badger popped his head out and hissed at me. I yelled a lot about that and he just turned around and dove back into the burrow. We kept on going past the burrow down to the river and kept an eye up the bank on the burrow, where these little puffs of sand were flying out every few seconds. The skunk smell got worse. Eventually we left, then came back a couple hours later. Skunk smell was almost unbearable. This time though, the vegetation was all beaten down and there were pieces of skunk all scattered about around this ripped open burrow. So the moral is if you smell skunk, keep an eye out for badgers.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Late for skunkchat, but I have many skunk stories and this is my favorite: Yeah, if I said it once I said it a thousand times, we don't need no stinkin' badgers 
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Been having a poo poo time commuting the last few months, feeling unsteady in corners and having a constant feeling of losing traction. Second guessing myself about the condition of my tyres or whether there's something up with the wheel bearings or some other mechanical issue. Was it any of that? Of course it loving wasn't, the bike is perfectly fine, I've just been stiff arming the bars like a stupid newbie  Turns out straight bars are way more comfortable than clip-ons and make it real easy to put weight on your wrists without realising, who knew
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Rant time: Now that it's warm out here in New Hampshire, there are lots of bikes going by my apartment. Damnit: Down shift your bike. I swear most of the Harleys going by are at like 1500 RPM. Your dumb exhaust even sounds "better" at a higher RPM!
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Renaissance Robot posted:Been having a poo poo time commuting the last few months, feeling unsteady in corners and having a constant feeling of losing traction. Second guessing myself about the condition of my tyres or whether there's something up with the wheel bearings or some other mechanical issue. It's amazing how bad habits can sneak up on you like that - I went through a similar burst of paranoia a while ago before realising I just wasn't putting any weight on the footpegs at all.
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Deeters posted:Rant time: Now that it's warm out here in New Hampshire, there are lots of bikes going by my apartment. Damnit: Down shift your bike. I swear most of the Harleys going by are at like 1500 RPM. Your dumb exhaust even sounds "better" at a higher RPM! Huh. I keep it in a higher gear than I like in town as I don't want to be too loud. Maybe I should keep it in 1st or 2nd in town, always, if people want it to at higher revs.
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He's back! And he's hiring!
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Oh yep it's about time for another manic phase. I see that now he's starting a hospital and will be hiring elon musk and his drone cameras will be operated by The FAA.
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He also messaged me out of the blue about how he's learning to play League of Legends against bots. I told him I was a DotA purist then went back to secretly playing the trash that is HotS.
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Lol The General
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Love 2 get my medical from someone who couldn't get through the pace lap in a training course.
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Surgon
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Every week, I ride 10 miles to north Queens in New York to buy fruit from my favorite market, and to usually visit my Mom. Last week, my EX250's 6+ year-old battery decided to manifest an internal short as I went to leave the parking lot of a bank, and the bike was dead. OK. That isn't what this rant is about. It's about how when I pushed the bike to my mother's house to park it as I waited for a new battery, I did not expect it to be marked for towing due to being parked "too long". They got white spray paint overspray on my kickstand where they sprayed a circle on the ground around it, to see if I were actually using it or not. If I hadn't made the trip to retrieve it today, it might've been taken.
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Does your mother have a Karen neighbour? That story reeks of a Karen lurking just out of frame.
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I forgot to mention that the "they" used in that paragraph refers to the police, but you're right, in that they're usually called on to do that by someone in the neighborhood. No idea who (it is NYC, after all. Might as well be sharing a flat with someone who lives across the country). Parking is at a premium... usually. What pissed me off about this is that that block has good parking availability (even if it's full in front of your house, you can easily find parking if you're willing to walk, like, 50 feet), and that I even took pains to make sure that I wasn't parked offensively. I'm glad the new battery solved the problem. Like it's been said in the other thread, weird electrical problems = malfunctioning battery, 90% of the time.
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