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Sorry about your bike slidebite, but good on you taking it easy on the old lady. I hope things work out to where you are made whole again.
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Shame, was a nice bike. Enjoy bike shopping! Nice on you for staying cool during it all.
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I'm not giving up in it yet, still might be able to save it. The shop can't get it in until the 22nd for even the estimate, so I guess 2 more weeks until I have an idea.Applebees Appetizer posted:A naked Concourse would sure be something Yeah, it's pretty much 
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slidebite posted:FWIW, spoke to my insurance company today and it sounds like the old lady was good to her word and her insurance has accepted 100% liability. I basically just now have to get it to the dealer for an estimate. I am happy you're happy with the insurance company's telling of the story but in 100.01% of cases where someone operates their vehicle into a parked vehicle they don't even bother asking "I understand you were 46 when 9/11 happened. Much has changed since then. Did the stationary object... surprise you?"
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Ether Frenzy posted:I am happy you're happy with the insurance company's telling of the story but in 100.01% of cases where someone operates their vehicle into a parked vehicle they don't even bother asking "I understand you were 46 when 9/11 happened. Much has changed since then. Did the stationary object... surprise you?"  I'm genuinely surprised insurance companies don't blacklist people more often for not looking where they're going. Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 12:25 on May 8, 2024 |
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Ether Frenzy posted:I am happy you're happy with the insurance company's telling of the story but in 100.01% of cases where someone operates their vehicle into a parked vehicle they don't even bother asking "I understand you were 46 when 9/11 happened. Much has changed since then. Did the stationary object... surprise you?" It was a funny angle.
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Ether Frenzy posted:I am happy you're happy with the insurance company's telling of the story but in 100.01% of cases where someone operates their vehicle into a parked vehicle they don't even bother asking "I understand you were 46 when 9/11 happened. Much has changed since then. Did the stationary object... surprise you?" Seriously though, I don't really care what her insurance company does to them. All I cared about is I'm not having to fight her/them on the liability front. Her insurance company is one of those companies that cater to seniors so they probably get this poo poo all the time. FWIW, The bike was perpendicular, so parked at a 90 to the curb. There is zero chance it wouldn't be visible in the rear view mirror. It's obviously a pretty big bike, probably more visible than my 996 would have been parked behind her. So yeah, she just didn't look, or even notice it when walking up so there is definitely a  when stuff like this happens.e: INTERESTING. I just googled her insurance company, Bel-Air direct. It's owned by Intact insurance. Which is *my* insurance company. slidebite fucked around with this message at 14:06 on May 8, 2024 |
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A few years ago I literally had someone just back up out of their driveway across the street directly into the corner of my parked, running truck that I was actively shoveling gravel out of to fix the craters in our dirt road. They literally just didn't even look. I just watched them do it because I wasn't expecting or ready for that degree of stupidity at that moment in time. It was broad loving daylight and they had every opportunity to miss it, I just didn't expect them to back up straight into it. They kept apologizing and I'm just like look, IDGAF, the sun already popped the dent out. LOOK WHERE THE gently caress YOU'RE GOING. It could be the neighbors kid or your kid next time. I don't care if you're sorry or not, I'm not claiming poo poo on my insurance, LOOK WHERE THE gently caress YOU'RE GOING. flat schoolchildren don't care how sorry you are.
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Wasn’t able to get a picture but saw a purple Civic Ute at Canadian Tire (where else). Love to see how rigid that thing is.
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Elviscat posted:By that logic, I'm already dead. cursedshitbox posted:Hahahahahahahahaha how the gently caress am I even alive. Imperador do Brasil posted:Yeah I think I died in 2010. I’m baseline angry, never mind the levels of ire induced by a stuck bolt or dropping a tiny screw inside the dashboard. Or, god forbid, a socket falling in the engine bay and not hitting the ground below. Are you me? This is honestly one of the reasons I wish they would legalize weed. I figure I could use the chill. Powershift posted:Fortunately for me, I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed. I am making progress towards that, and just acceptance. I think I'm just getting too tired to stay angry all the time. The Door Frame posted:I've been on rifaximin (gut antibiotics) to try to help my IBS for about a week now. I thought I was tolerating it really well until last night when I pooped so bad that I almost passed out, but had to keep on pooping. I was in an awful cycle of laying on the bathroom floor to avoid blacking out and jumping back on the toilet for half an hour  ....well, I shall discontinue complaining about anything for a minute. Stay well, goon.
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Yeah I just connected my fan to my phone today v0v
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im not sure i would say no if my IOT toothbrush asked permission to do a DDOS. it should be a feature imo
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Fortunately, that didn't actually happen. It came about from an article in Aargauer Zeitung with someone from Fortinet who was talking about a hypothetical scenario and either the interviewer or interviewee didn't make the hypothetical part clear. A bunch of English sites ran with the story without any attempt to verify it. Kinda hard for toothbrushes to participate in a ddos when they aren't internet connected.
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I'm having the most stupid problem right now. In Oct 2023 I got a vanity plate. Its just "NO U". It makes me laugh. So far I've been pulled over 3 times because when the automatic license plate scanners pull up my plate info it still brings up the previous owner, a jeep compass which I definitely do not drive. After the 2nd time it happened I called the DMV to check their records, and their records state I am the current owner, and mr. jeep was a previous owner. They suggested I pay $10 for a registration abstract record, so I did and I drive around with a little sheet that says the plate is mine. I just got pulled over again May 15. I don't know what to do. I haven't received a ticket yet, but my windows don't roll down so its a huge hassle every time. The DMV says their system is correct, the cops say the info provided by the DMV isn't correct. 
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Cage posted:I'm having the most stupid problem right now. The only thing you can control is the plate. Keep it and keep getting hassled, or get a different one and be left alone.
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I know how to fix it. I just shouldn't have to, and its stupid.
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Yeah, that's annoying. My '92 Miata got towed by the cops one morning in 2019 because despite me owning it for 3 years at that point (and it being fully registered/licensed etc and it having a new license plate number altogether from when I bought it), the previous owner was apparently delinquent in paying registration in 2015 due to dying and the idiot meter maid didn't scroll down 1 line to see the 3 registration listings I'd done since owning it. The car was legally parked too! So why was this rear end in a top hat even looking up the VIN? Always fun when you have to make that "Is it stolen, or just stolen by morons" phone call to the city. I had to go to the police station, have the car's record reversed/the fees waived, then uber 30 minutes north of there to their impound lot to get the car and when I get there the impound company was very upset I wasn't going to be paying them anything and made me wait for an hour before they bothered to go get it out of the lot. Then it won't start (no idea what the hell they did to it) and I didn't bring my jumper pack because it was running the day before, the tow yard refused to help start it so I had to call AAA to flatbed the car back to where it was parked that morning. Absolute waste of an entire day and it cost me $50 for the uber ride. 
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Cage posted:my windows don't roll down Armored car?
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bird with big dick posted:Armored car? Worst part is the window died 98% of the way up so I've been driving with a whistling in my ear for months.
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When I drove Uber Eats to make ends meet I was once told to park in a specific spot to make an in-person delivery at a condo (btw gently caress you if you do this and you’re not, like, taking care of kids or nursing an injury or handicapped or whatever. Like go down to the loving lobby and receive your food, don’t make somebody park and hunt around the building for an entrance and figure out the layout of your housing development and take a five floor elevator ride and walk around for 20 minutes so that you can make them leave it outside your unit door and tip them the bare minimum). Anyway when I came out a tow truck operator was putting the clamps on my car to take it away. I ask him to stop, that I’m literally about to get in the car and leave (I have other deliveries in there too) and without missing a beat this guy goes “there’s an ATM in the lobby over there. You go get me $50 right now and I won’t impound it”. And I loving did it. This happened in Revere, MA. The car was parked for like literally four minutes, not illegally but in a “non-tenants will be towed” spot. This was a somewhat off-the-beaten path housing development, there simply couldn’t have been enough time for a call and for a truck to make it down. Dude must’ve lived there, been on his way out, and seen an opportunity to extract revenue.
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Pollyanna posted:
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Ketchup and Mustard? Though my wife and daughter would call them Rage and Cowardice. Since they’re Souls, they’ve been naming them the sin associated with the color. Black = Wrath, green = Envy, etc. Works for me. wesleywillis posted:Both ugly? Nah. The later generations suffer a bit in appearance from the first generation, but they’re still fine. Wife wants one, which is also fine. It’s not a CUV, exactly, but it’s tall enough to ease her back issues getting in or out. But, since we can’t afford a new used car, I’ll probably drop $1K on a lifted suspension for the Outback. Because, why not. The only things I don’t like on the Outback is it’s a 2003 with the lazy-but-wants-to-be-in-high-gear 4-speed auto, which just kills acceleration unless you came it into delaying shifts, and the drivers seating position is too high in the car for me. Fine for her, though. I like the H6. Pity the transmission sucks. Wouldn’t mind an ‘05-‘07 with the much better 5-speed auto and slightly better looks.
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One of my friends works at a birds of prey rehab and sanctuary. She sent me a pic of this gang of miscreants that are keeping her busy
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slidebite posted:One of my friends works at a birds of prey rehab and sanctuary. She sent me a pic of this gang of miscreants that are keeping her busy Oh my god, that is too sweet. Maybe Great Horned? Are they destined for re-release or will the handling make them sanctuary birds forever? Since I started trail running I started appreciating weird things like trees and flowers and birds. I think I got old.
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slidebite posted:One of my friends works at a birds of prey rehab and sanctuary. She sent me a pic of this gang of miscreants that are keeping her busy Muppets! Owls are the best, we have two that love hooting back and forth at each other in our yard all night.
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slidebite posted:One of my friends works at a birds of prey rehab and sanctuary. She sent me a pic of this gang of miscreants that are keeping her busy Are they s(h)hitting on a book about owls
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meltie posted:Oh my god, that is too sweet. Maybe Great Horned? Are they destined for re-release or will the handling make them sanctuary birds forever? They always try to release them if they can, especially if they're brought in as injured/rehab but I think these might have been an accidental breeding from a captive pair so they might keep them for educational purposes. I'll ask her. Wistful of Dollars posted:Are they s(h)hitting on a book about owls
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slidebite posted:One of my friends works at a birds of prey rehab and sanctuary. She sent me a pic of this gang of miscreants that are keeping her busy Nice hooters.
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redgubbinz posted:
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Got some pics of last weekend’s autocross event The boy:     Me:    I ended up besting the STR class but it wasn’t exactly a big class. I’ll take it!
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slidebite posted:One of my friends works at a birds of prey rehab and sanctuary. She sent me a pic of this gang of miscreants that are keeping her busy The one in back looks pissed, give it a mouse to eat.
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There was a mini car show on Santa Monica Pier today. I didn't take any pictures cuz it was just a bunch of old bel airs and impalas and stuff. There were a couple of donk monte carlos which were probably the most interesting things there but whatever
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fridge corn posted:There was a mini car show on Santa Monica Pier today. I didn't take any pictures cuz it was just a bunch of old bel airs and impalas and stuff. There were a couple of donk monte carlos which were probably the most interesting things there but whatever I’ve been saying to the missus the past few years that I’m pretty tired of the same old 50’s/60’s/70’s Americana at the car shows, so I tend not to go to as many. Cars and coffee events definitely bring out more interesting stuff. It’s not that I dislike classic American cars, but my brain can’t be interested in yet another ‘70 Nova or tri-five Chevy.
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