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How much of that is the one-way charge? Could it be cheaper to fly/drive to the end destination, drive the truck back for loading and delivery, then return it to the same branch?
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West SAAB Story posted:Yeah, it's gonna be awkward now.
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May 2, 2014 22:14
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meatpimp posted:If you make a word so powerful that some people cannot utter it, it becomes oppressively powerful. Instead, devalue it. Change the collective consciousness' view of the word. Face it, slavery was over more than 150 years ago. MANY generations before people living now ever faced it directly, regardless of race. If we devalue the word, instead of giving it tremendous power, THAT is the best way to foster equality. Even if you are from the colonies.
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May 3, 2014 21:35
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Bucephalus posted:Where's Geirskogul? I thought he was coming back.
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May 3, 2014 23:35
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Cover it in vaseline at the contact points. Obligatory "That's what she said".
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May 4, 2014 21:31
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goatse guy posted:I'm sensing a pattern in some of my bad dates.
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May 4, 2014 22:40
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Is it just a case of the US market stuff being poo poo? Because we finished the engine swap in my mate's A3 this weekend, and by and large it was a very easy car to work on.
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May 5, 2014 22:17
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If you have limited space, the cost of getting it shifted across town could be lower than the cost of having it take up space that could be an actual, paying job's slot.
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May 6, 2014 22:24
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They get a lot of stick, but they really aren't a bad design, they just have the worst combination of a poo poo headgasket design and hilariously bad access to replace it. Supposedly the "final" head gasket version is a lot better. The hydragas suspension always struck me as being an excessively complicated way of doing things, too, but the later TF ones are on coils. I think of them as being a bit like TR7s. Not particularly bad, but I just don't really see the appeal.
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May 7, 2014 20:25
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They were all built in the UK until Rover copped it, the TF is the later model from the last few years before it happened. They moved production to restart in China a couple of years after that following the company sale, and then about a year or so later they started sending the cars as CKD kits to be assembled in the UK, only for them to stop again due to lack of demand.
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May 7, 2014 20:32
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Terrible Robot posted:Girlfriend and I just had a fight about something that I had no control over and have tried to explain this to her repeatedly. meatpimp posted:Tell her you're sorry. Terrible Robot posted:If I thought saying sorry would help at all I would have called her back immediately to do so. Have a sleep on it. Go see a good friend and talk to them about it. Don't drink too much.
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May 7, 2014 23:28
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Cage posted:You missed this part: Cage posted:I think meatpimp was saying he should apologize for the insult, not because they had a fight.
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May 8, 2014 00:54
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Cat Terrist posted:The MG-F is the rear engine one, isnt it? Well it might have been regarded as okay if it wasnt for a certain other Birtish rear engined small sports car that flayed it. Just like the Lotus Elan (the FWD one) got flayed by the MX-5 - it wasnt a bad car TBF it was supposed to be a hell of a good handling FWD but the MX-5 blew it out of the water in comparision.
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May 8, 2014 07:01
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blk posted:Counselor: OK, for our next session I want you to think of a totem that symbolizes who you are - some object, icon or picture.
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May 8, 2014 19:44
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Is Corky Bell's book still considered to be the go-to?
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May 10, 2014 18:02
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He has a supercharger-specific book as well.
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May 10, 2014 18:21
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Geirskogul posted:Too bad I have to do all work on the side of the road at my townhouse, or else that would be a tasty proposition. My dad owned a succession of really manky Beetles back in the late sixties when he lived in Glasgow. He was halfway through an engine swap at the side of the road outside his tenement block, when a member of the local constabulary advised him that he would be well-served to no longer be involved in said activity when the officer concerned passed back that way in another half an hour. Being a Beetle, he did it.
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May 12, 2014 19:32
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Cakefool posted:A couple of weeks ago a lovely deep red beetle almost perfectly stock turned up in the car park at work, today a workmate sent me this:
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May 12, 2014 23:06
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In the UK, it's pretty simple: Unsolicited goods, it's yours now, they can't demand you pay for it. If you're feeling nice, tell them the hours you are available for them to come and collect it themselves.
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May 19, 2014 18:04
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kastein posted:on a completely different note... 
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May 21, 2014 17:29
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Extra posted:On the upside people having to throw a lot of money at the initial investment means they don't end up as total beaters. Not that I ever really saw the draw or attractiveness of that era Corolla anyway beyond it being featured in some insanely unrealistic juvenile anime (same goes for Wangan) that encourages people to do some really dumb poo poo on public roads. Every time I see the local jackass with the adventure time drift charmed 240sx that clearly wouldn't pass state inspection hooning around parking lots and the other guy with the RedSuns sticker I'm reminded of just how impressionable and dumb people can be. I do quite fancy importing a Trueno at some point in the near future, and I will indeed more than likely want it as a Fujiwara replica. But in doing so, it would actually be saved from the kind of numpties who actually trash the cars through either neglect or abuse. Similarly, if I could have an early Mustang fastback, it'd be a Gunsmith Cats lookalike, not a Gone In Sixty Seconds Eleanor replica. (GISS replicas should, of course, be early seventies and yellow).
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May 22, 2014 23:39
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I suffer from the same issue a lot of the time - I'm very lucky to get early finishes on Fridays to let me sort out stuff like that, and work is cool with me having all my poo poo delivered there. It amazes me that there aren't services which do things like deliveries only outside normal working hours. Paying people for a shift that runs, say, 5pm-10pm has no reason to cost a great deal more than paying them to work 7am-noon if you don't have it as an additional shift on top of a "normal" day one. I'm sure if someone did a deal with, say, Amazon and/or other big mail-order entities, people would be more than happy to pay a fraction more for a courier delivery to be guaranteed to be between when they get home from work and when they go to bed.
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May 27, 2014 22:09
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some texas redneck posted:Pretty much that, except replace bedroom door with vet and vet tech. Useless owners are the biggest hazard to vets. "Yeah, don't worry about Tinkles, he's well behaved and I've got hold of his lead" *Looks dotingly at 150lb mastiff/Cerberus crossbreed with a facial expression of ill intent and possible history of PCP use, currently loosely attached to a bit of string* Also, slight downside of the image of veterinary work veering toward cute and fluffy animals over the past twenty years is that you can end up with a staff almost entirely consisting of young women. Ever seen a 98lb girl barely out of college try to lift an unconcious 200lb St Bernard off an operating table? Doesn't work.
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I had a message from a friend of mine today: "Had to go in to work slightly early today, to ensure I got a spot in the internal car park. Gypsies have taken over the external car park."Then an hour later: "Police have been contacted, but not sure if there will be much done any time soon. Nothing we can do but watch them squatting" "Hang on, isn't it technically just trespassing if it's only land, not a building?" "No, literally squatting. Just seen one take a poo poo in the car park."
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May 30, 2014 22:09
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goatse guy posted:I can't believe I quit my job. Jesus Christ. I loved this job, but there's just nothing else going for me in Grand Forks.
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I had a couple of young guys stop outside my house today while I was outside working on the Disco. Throttle cable had snapped. I didn't have any way to fix it with properly, but I was able to use a tiny blob of weld to reattach the broken pieces, so the driver had at least some throttle control, and could go pick his girlfriend up from the shops and get to work tomorrow. 
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