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Everytime i travel internationally I get my hopes up that they’ll try to bump me and offer me $2000+a free hotel or something silly. I always have extra time before and after my trips, and I’m usually a flexible traveler, so I’m made for those types of offers and nothing feels better than knowing you’re traveling for free.
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Apr 24, 2024 22:22
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swickles posted:Does a canoe count as a boat? My wife and I are thinking of getting one. I hope not because my wife and I want to get kayaks...
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Apr 24, 2024 22:22
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There definitely are solar panels for boats, I just don't think it'd be anywhere near enough power for a large boat. I am seeing (very) small ones that are claiming to be fully solar powered. Here's one I'm seeing, checked the site, they want $135,000 for it: https://electrek.co/2023/10/31/this-solar-powered-10-seater-electric-boat-has-infinite-range/ quote:The Solar Sal 24 is an electric cuddy cabin boat built by Belmont Boatworks in Belmont, Maine. The boat scored the wave-making designation of “first 100% solar US Coast Guard-inspected passenger vessel.” 
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Apr 24, 2024 22:23
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One of my old companies' CEOs converted an old tugboat into a houseboat. Had 3 bedrooms for all his kids, shower, salt > freshwater converter, all the works. Granted, it cost about $80k each time he had to fill it up, but he threw cool parties on it!
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Apr 24, 2024 22:25
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Glad my hobby has become “Scratch around in the dirt” it’s cheap as hell. Then again yard is starting to get dry enough to get the R/C out…..
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Apr 24, 2024 22:30
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Boats that stay in salt water year-round are basically castles that are under continual siege by like five armies at once, all cooperating with each other. Boats that you take out of the water and let completely dry out are a totally different category.
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Apr 24, 2024 22:34
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kiimo posted:I'm imagining you as The Dude, buying milk in 7-11 in your bathrobe and flip flops the dude paid rent
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Apr 24, 2024 22:38
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swickles posted:Does a canoe count as a boat? My wife and I are thinking of getting one. if it doesn't have a motor you're fine, kayaks and canoes are pretty cheap. Based on on random poo poo you guys say a lot of you make more money than my parent's ever did and they own like five or six boats. none of them have motors. They are in possession of a kayak I built because I don't have space for it, which the class wasn't cheap, but it wasn't anymore than I spend on car insurance. I visited a friend who works as a special ed teacher and his wife does secretary stuff when she's not taking care of their 4 year old and they have a canoe. Spend money on recreation, it's the entire point of having money. Air Skwirl fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Apr 24, 2024 |
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Apr 24, 2024 22:38
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We converted a sea doo jet boat to an electric solar powered boat and the best it’d do was 8mph. And ran for 45 minutes.
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Apr 24, 2024 22:40
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Kalli posted:Once you hit dad age you're legally required to pick a hobby to revolve your life around and among those, boating is probably on that 2nd tier of ungodly expensive, but at least it's not a plane. Gotta put outdoor cooking in there too. You all know (or are) that guy who has a charcoal grill, propane grill, dedicated smoker, plus a 1000 degree pizza oven out back and wifi thermometers that produce graphs and poo poo. I used to be deeply, obnoxiously into homebrewing beer so that would have been my vice. But I sold all my poo poo when we had kids cause I didn't have time or space for it. Kinda want to get back into it now that they're getting older but it's definitely better for my health to not have dozens of gallons of good beer on tap in my garage at all times.
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Apr 24, 2024 22:40
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My biggest hobbies are tooling around in the woods and cooking/eating too much food. Oh, and playing strategy games and reading. Read in a park with my ex last week. Listened to a record on my portable record player. Only way it could have been better is if I was doing it with a partner instead. And it wasn’t so windy that we were frantically using our stuff to weigh down the blanket.
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Apr 24, 2024 22:42
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FizFashizzle posted:Oh my Adapting that book into a good movie seems like an impossible task. I would have hoped for a better director.
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Apr 24, 2024 22:43
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a neat cape posted:For the first time in my adult life, I am debt free. Congrats, dude. My middle age / dad hobby is pottery.
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Apr 24, 2024 22:43
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A while ago, my brother went to Sam's Club and came home with an extra pack of chicken thighs. It's time to use those extra 5lbs. I was thinking two different things (2.5lbs each). 1) chicken adobo for the first half 2) a beer braised chicken Any suggestions?
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Apr 24, 2024 22:46
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Ornery and Hornery posted:Adapting that book into a good movie seems like an impossible task. Adapting Lord of the Rings was supposed to be impossible and turned out amazing. But yeah, Blood Meridian will probably suck rear end because studio executives are joyless fucks that will aim for a PG-13 crowd because $$$$
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Apr 24, 2024 22:49
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Catching up on posts cause I spent the day playing RDR2Ornery and Hornery posted:I’ve been thinking about women’s asses all morning. Love my girlfriend, a smart sweetheart through and through. She got a fit peach to boot!!! Glorious username/av/post combo, an all-timer. I also spend much of the day thinking about butts but I’m single so womp womp a neat cape posted:For the first time in my adult life, I am debt free. Congrats! Now go buy some video games or something to waste money on! 
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Apr 24, 2024 22:53
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Thaddius the Large posted:I bought a boat* a few years back and it’s been amazing, take it out a few times a year just to cruise around on sunny days, especially when camping, no complaints.  These rule and are great if, like me, you don't have space for a rigid one. If I had the space for a rigid one I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
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Apr 24, 2024 22:53
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Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:I hope not because my wife and I want to get kayaks... I think self propelled doesn’t count. The cost and maintenance for canoes, kayaks, and row boats is minuscule.
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Apr 24, 2024 22:53
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Ornery and Hornery posted:Adapting that book into a good movie seems like an impossible task. There's tons of good movies based on books. For two extreme examples Maltese Falcon is amazing and follows the book almost exactly and Fight Club differs quite a bit from the book to the point of the writer of the book saying "the movie has a better ending." A lot of my favorite movies are based on books, sometimes I think the book is better, sometimes I think the movie is better and sometimes I think they're both great.
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Apr 24, 2024 22:57
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Where do you stand on The Mist?
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Apr 24, 2024 23:00
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Amy Pole Her posted:We converted a sea doo jet boat to an electric solar powered boat and the best it’d do was 8mph. And ran for 45 minutes. Have you checked out those SeaDoo pontoons? They look pretty fun.
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Apr 24, 2024 23:03
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The Mist movie ending is great imo because it has the balls to end that way. It's probably cheap but at least it's not bowing down to studio mandated happy endings.
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Apr 24, 2024 23:10
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3 DONG HORSE posted:A while ago, my brother went to Sam's Club and came home with an extra pack of chicken thighs. It's time to use those extra 5lbs. I was thinking two different things (2.5lbs each). One meal for my kids
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Apr 24, 2024 23:34
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a sexual elk posted:Where do you stand on The Mist? hysterical ending.
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Apr 24, 2024 23:44
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Black Sunshine posted:The Mist movie ending is great imo because it has the balls to end that way. It's probably cheap but at least it's not bowing down to studio mandated happy endings. Ive only seen it once and I don't even remember if it's good or not but yeah, it just comes out of nowhere so fast that you're not quite sure it really happened. and then I feel like the reveal was so quick that it kinda verged on parody a little. like yeah it's amazing they ended a film like that but I also don't think they did it well.
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Apr 24, 2024 23:46
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No Butt Stuff posted:One meal for my kids that's a lot of kids
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Black Sunshine posted:The Mist movie ending is great imo because it has the balls to end that way. It's probably cheap but at least it's not bowing down to studio mandated happy endings. Unlike most of Kings books the movie has an ending and that's enough for me. loving King and his inability to close a story. motherfucker wasting 5 months of my life with Dark tower.
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wandler20 posted:Have you checked out those SeaDoo pontoons? They look pretty fun. Never ridden one but had a few come through in trade ins. They seem family friendly but I’d just buy a normal pontoon for the 40k
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Apr 24, 2024 23:51
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3 DONG HORSE posted:that's a lot of kids Blended family. 6 kids. They can loving eat. E: gently caress I have thighs in my fridge I need to cook tonight or tomorrow.
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Apr 24, 2024 23:52
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BlindSite posted:Unlike most of Kings books the movie has an ending and that's enough for me. loving King and his inability to close a story. motherfucker wasting 5 months of my life with Dark tower. Dark Tower's ending was pretty bad but at least as the reader we had multiple books to get ready for it to poo poo the bed. The Stand, on the other hand....
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No Butt Stuff posted:Blended family. 6 kids. They can loving eat. make chicken adobo. it's a one pot meal.
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Black Sunshine posted:Adapting Lord of the Rings was supposed to be impossible and turned out amazing. But yeah, Blood Meridian will probably suck rear end because studio executives are joyless fucks that will aim for a PG-13 crowd because $$$$ Do you think movies are made for anything other than $$$$
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kiimo posted:Do you think movies are made for anything other than $$$$ You're in the industry so I'm not sure why you're pretending to not understand what I was trying to actually say with that.
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You son of a bitch
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Kalli posted:Once you hit dad age you're legally required to pick a hobby to revolve your life around and among those, boating is probably on that 2nd tier of ungodly expensive, but at least it's not a plane. Fantasy football and posting for me. Looks like $10 well spent.
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Apr 25, 2024 00:37
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Silly Burrito posted:Fantasy football and posting for me. Want to see how it could all go wrong? Scrub through this video a bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK9spxXUeV8 Why yes they do all drive around in that monstrosity and homeschool their 6 kids.
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Apr 25, 2024 00:39
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FizFashizzle posted:Oh my wow, my favourite book. It will be loving brutal if it's anywhere close to the book, and how the gently caress they manage the ending will be interesting.
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Apr 25, 2024 00:43
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Kalli posted:Want to see how it could all go wrong? Scrub through this video a bit. Noooooooooooooope
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Kalli posted:Want to see how it could all go wrong? Scrub through this video a bit. My wife occasionally fantasizes about this (the living on a bus and going wherever we want part, not adding 4 more kids). I think I would legitimately rather die. Covid lockdown destroyed my mental health and I had a full house and yard to move around if I needed a little personal space.
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