literally a fish posted:

Your theme music for this morning's commute and this month's thread, TURBO KILLER;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er416Ad3R1g

meatpimp posted:

Rude or not, it's tiring to see someone race to, in effect, post "FIRST POST" month after month.

Adiabatic posted:

Anyone here churn, or do all of you have really lovely credit scores?

The wife and I are going on some trips later this year on Southwest's dime

ssjonizuka posted:

You got this. But let it be known, first babies are almost never on time.

Adiabatic posted:

Tide posted:

Hey. Hey, you...Sciatica. gently caress YOU, buddy.

Elmnt80 posted:

Sokay, I found out I spent 6 months importing info from a resume that had an incorrect phone number.

Also, this dumb rental 200 has an anti-burnout setting. It won't rev past 2500 with me holding the brakes.

88h88 posted:

London has a Muslim mayor. We are all hosed, nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.


...is basically what I've been reading on the internet so far this morning. I wonder what it's like going through life being so afraid of everyone else.

Seat Safety Switch posted:

We need a lot fewer English people in Canada. They bring their thug culture of soccer riots and daytime alcoholism here and don't even know what side of the road to drive on.

Tide posted:

This is seriously a thing in Canada?

some texas redneck posted:

How the gently caress do you think I feel as an openly gay dude in motherfucking Texas?

Austin gets a pass. The rest of the state, not so much.

Cage posted:

Why do I feel dumb for thinking you should just eat them? That sounds like the best problem ever. Ask someone you work with if they want to come pick them all.

We have concord grapes growing in our backyard. Holy cow do those make good jelly.

DesperateDan posted:

I do some woodland management and blackberry/bramble isn't too hard to deal with once you know your enemy- buy, beg, borrow or steal a brush cutter with a nice blade, armour yourself up a bit and blitz the fucker up. Afterwards, rake up as much of the cut stuff as you can and burn or compost it, as it can and will regrow from cut sticks. Then you examine the ground, bramble grows out from a central plant and spreads out from there- the central part is the strongest but if any of the runners have rooted well they will regrow from there too, so they need to die. The guy who owns the land didn't want me using any kind of weedkiller so I would just mattock out the worst of the central root bit, then make sure I came back to it each week or so with the brushcutter- the side runners of the plant just don't have the energy stored to keep coming back after long, but the central part will, so dig it, burn it (carefully) or poison it at the right time.

I cleared a lot of bramble last year using that method and so far this year there are no signs of it returning to the cleared areas. Strongly recommend keeping a plant or two in check though, because blackberries make incredible jam/booze.

meatpimp posted:

Congratulations! (or is it one of those for-profit schools that is trying to rope you in with "free" stuff at the beginning to try to keep you there so that they can feed off you for a few years?)

leica posted:

Haha your priorities will change willingly trust me. Wait until your kid is old enough to race karts and buy one then. That is a sweet cart tho.

Tusen Takk posted:

I spent that last three months doing that bro word that means getting fat but is okay because reasons and it's been great. 165-200 in four months or so and now it's time to hit the gym so I can get chiseled



ughhhhhhh I just wanna eat all day

Liquid Communism posted:

It doesn't even take eating badly, just consistently screwing up portion sizes. An extra bagel a day (~300 calories) takes about 3 miles walking to burn off.

Unless you're doing hard manual labor, or again, running marathons for fun, you'll never outrun a bad diet.

Pham Nuwen posted:

Ask her if she can cut down the amount of oil she uses.

some texas redneck posted:

The 7th gen Civic still has a timing belt to replace every ~90k. Cobalt and Corolla both use timing chains, though GM had timing chain issues on the Ecotec until ~2005 or so. Mostly due to the tensioner IIRC, which you can actually replace without pulling the timing cover (it screws into the firewall side of the block).

I have the Cobalt's cousin (06 Ion), and it's been pretty solid for me. Cobalt will be the cheapest to purchase. Cross shop the Cobalt with the Saturn Ion and Pontiac G5; they're all built in the same chassis (and in the case of the G5, all they really did was change the badging and lights vs the Cobalt). If you do look at Ions, avoid automatic coupes from 03-04 - they use a CVT that's lucky to hit 75k. 03-04 Ion sedans use a 5 speed automatic from Aisin, 05+ uses the same 4T45E you'd find in the Cobalt and G5. Most of the CVT ones were junked long ago.

Parts really aren't much more expensive for the Civic or Corolla vs the Cobalt. I know most a/c parts are cheaper for my mother's Toyota vs my Ion (and all, or close to all, of the a/c parts are the same as on the Cobalt).

They're all pretty reliable commuter cars. The Cobalt will have the worst interior quality, the Civic will probably have the best. If you care about resale value, the Civic will likely be the highest, but count on immediately having to drop $600ish into a timing belt job unless the previous owner can show proof that it was done.

The Cobalt isn't any easier to work on than a Corolla; if anything I'd say it's a little more difficult, due to the serpentine belt tensioner design, and the fact that the radiator has to come out from the bottom. Also, on the manual versions, you have to drop the subframe to replace the clutch. The upside is they use a cartridge oil filter that drops in from the top, so oil changes are pretty easy. The Cobalt/G5/Ion also don't get great city mileage; EPA rating on my 2006 w/manual transmission is 22 city, and I typically get right about that on an all-city tank.

Geirskogul posted:

Me too.

some texas redneck posted:

(.. along with 3 Accords, an Integra, an Altima, and a F-150 - the Altima and F-150 were the most unreliable by far)

blk posted:

I'm trying to switch industries right now (IT->design) and am really struggling. Im about to turn 33 and starting over makes me feel like a colossal loser. I'm competing with (and losing to) candidates 10 years younger than me who are fresh out of school and internships with a lot of inertia. It's completely unnerving. When I apply and do info interviews I get a lot of "why are you here?" vibe.

Oh and I've never driven a Cobalt but my wife's 7th gen Civic is pretty solid. 118k and no interior rattles or any other issues. The interior and trunk are also cavernous.

Adiabatic posted:

Would you rather be in that industry or 34 or not be that industry at 34? It's the only pertinent question you should be focusing on.

1500quidporsche posted:

Our productivity tracker was literally a simple excel spreadsheet where you entered the number of tasks you did a day in. Thank god that's dead and we're now in the future where it's as easy as everything requiring you to fill out some lovely form that takes 10 seconds to load and bits of work randomly goes missing for hours at a time.

Also if somebody tells me again that this is about having a "Clear Line of Sight" into what's going on I'm going to lose it. This has to be what it's like dating a Scientologist and she takes you to dinner with her Scientologist parents.

scuz posted:

You can check the "reliable" box for fewer than even $4,000 of your Canadian Dollary-doos, if that's all you're after. For how long will you need your cheap, reliable car until you can get a better one?

1500quidporsche posted:

So today's daily report show that I did "23 hours of work" and the department average removing myself is at "5 hours"....

What are the career options for a man with an accounting degree and 3 years of underwriting experience that won't make me want to blow my brains out?

Rhyno posted:

It's pretty hard to screw a kid up beyond repair, you'll do fine.

1500quidporsche posted:

Thank god you got it out of the way so now you can watch Monaco this weekend