January Chat Thread: The year is dead, long live the year

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Powershift: Nov 23, 2009

Woke up at 3am with my body trying to cough out a lung.

gently caress 2017, i'm skipping it. Wake me up in a year.

# ¿ Jan 1, 2017 10:59

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 06:08

Powershift: Nov 23, 2009

Why would you go to sears? why not wait a month or two for the bankrupcy sales?

# ¿ Jan 2, 2017 18:08

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Three-Phase posted:

Sears stock in 2007: $200/share
Sears stock in 2017: $9/share

They are running on fumes, they just have so much momentum from doing things like selling property and not stocking anything that they're on a slow slide.

Last year their CEO gave them a $400m loan aaaaaand it's gone.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2017 19:43

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cursedshitbox posted:

my modis for gas engines: pull everything, reseal, new filters and fuel pump. should be fine!
diesel? hot batteries, fresh filters. rock on.

my pile was offroad only for 10+ years of its life, hence its falling apart condition.

Mine was a CN rail yard truck. it's probably got a million hours on it, but i DGAF. it still scoots and does 22mpg

# ¿ Jan 5, 2017 22:16

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New roadkill and it is amazing.

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

# ¿ Jan 6, 2017 15:18

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Cop Porn Popper posted:

My buddy bought a lancer/evo spoiler for his car. While normally I deride him for his ricey tendencies, this one I'm forgiving. Why? Because I get to loving drill holes in his car.

Start with the crank case and the fuel tank! :haw:

# ¿ Jan 7, 2017 21:43

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Ferremit posted:

Holy poo poo I thought I got hosed over hard being paid 25 Australian Pesos an hr to run into a bushfire and put it out, but $10 an hr to be a god drat paramedic? gently caress me!

For comparison, our state government owned Ambulance service pays its Basic ambulance officers AU$43K-53K a year (US$31,372-38,668) and a paramedic gets AU$61K-74K a year (US$44,505-53,990) and THEYRE considered god awfully underpaid over here!

Poor white people voting for the groups who try their hardest to gently caress em over is exactly like the outback and regional areas here in Australia ALWAYS voting Liberal/National, despite the fact that the Libs/Nats are relentlessly trying to cut services to the bush because they're so expensive and gently caress over the people out on the land. BUT THEY ALWAYS VOTE FOR THEM!

Really though, when you factor in purchasing power and living costs, $10 usd is pretty much $25 aussie pesos.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2017 23:57

Powershift: Nov 23, 2009

Yeah, but the house is in australia.

You can buy houses in the unihabitable parts of the states for 50 grand, too.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2017 00:19

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Ferremit posted:

Theres nothing wrong with Adelaide.

The fact its not Sydney or Melbourne just reinforces the point.

Nothing? how was the weather yesterday? :allears:

# ¿ Jan 8, 2017 00:31

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Ferremit posted:

Perfect. I told work to get hosed on sitting in a fire truck all day in case something happened and spent my entire day either in the AC or floating in the spa with beer.

40 degrees means all other work i should have been doing was on hold!

Yeah, well to regular human beings, it means "oh, it's a nice balmy OH MY GOD IS THE SUN GETTING CLOSER? IT FEELS LIKE IT'S GETTING CLOSER"

# ¿ Jan 8, 2017 01:33

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Wheeler dealers did a maserati biturbo :haw:

# ¿ Jan 10, 2017 01:16

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Seminal Flu posted:

Not really.

Awww.

still pretty neat.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2017 02:17

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It's even easier to just back up a touch and floor it.

Don't let off until you're out or it's on fire, either way, snow's gone.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2017 23:24

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I know i'm a genius, and have the phrenological measurements to prove it :smug:

# ¿ Jan 11, 2017 22:18

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Somewhat Heroic posted:

Just saw that video of president Obama giving Joe Biden that medal and that was pretty touching. I disagree on a lot of points of Obama's presidency but Joe Biden is a very likable dude and has been a bright light during these two terms. He is just a genuine person who really wants to make the world a better place.

If they let him drive his corvette around as vice president and president, he probably would have ran and won against trump saving us all from nuclear annihilation.

YOU SHOULD HAVE LET HIM DRIVE HIS CORVETTE, JERKS! :argh:

# ¿ Jan 13, 2017 03:20

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Rhyno posted:

I don't even know what those are. It's another Mazdaspeed6. It went zoom zoom BOOM and the guy is washing his hands of it. Body appears to be in far better shape than mine (parking lots suck) and it looks like all my issues could be solved by using this as a parts car. And I could most likely do a part out and scrap the rest and come up even in the end. I've never bought a car from Canada, I'm just concerned that we'd get to the border and customs would cut the car apart looking for drugs.

You can only import engines that have an EPA sticker on them or in the engine bay. not all CDM cars will. If it doesn't, you would need a letter from the manufacturer stating the emisssions equipment is identical to the US model. for the rest, you might have to cut the car in half in order to import it as parts.

Really, the border between 2 so similar countries is so needlessly complicated. Canada accepts the NHTSA stickers, but the US didn't accept the canadian one until the 2012 model year.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2017 03:36

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funny Star Wars parody posted:

I am allergic to chocolate

Are you actually 3 dogs in a trench coat?

# ¿ Jan 14, 2017 09:37

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cursedshitbox posted:

I'm into cars, and have owned 58. I just don't like payments or new poo poo.

Its way cooler to rebuild a junkyard heap and keep it going, than to blow my wad on some shiny new thing that some poor drunk gently caress assembled on third shift.

but generally no. Millenials do not care about cars. and tbh, I'm getting there myself. People ruined it for me. Plus bieks are awesomer.

Yeah, it's painful to see people here talk about their new expensive lemons.

At least when you buy trash and the duct tape gets it another 10,000kms, it's a triumph when it all blows up, not a tragedy.

# ¿ Jan 15, 2017 08:21

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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

Am I the only person who is getting more progressive(*) the older they get......?

(I know there's plenty but GG some days the mind loving boggles how yesterday's hippies have become today's conservative fucktards)

(*) And I dont mean Liberal. Liberal to me means Libertarian and that poo poo is no loving way to run a decent functional society

Access to information and access to other points of view will make a person more progressive.

Traditionally, as a person got older, their circle of friends and acquaintances got smaller and discussions turn into an echo chamber. willingness to seek out new information declines.

# ¿ Jan 15, 2017 23:36

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Anyone older than me is an ignorant greedy boomer. Anyone younger than me is a lazy feckless millennial.

Only people born within 10 minutes in either direction are normal, functional people.

# ¿ Jan 16, 2017 00:23

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Seminal Flu posted:

Probably just an ABS sensor on one corner. Hopefully.

I'm going the other way with it, maybe a couple of warning light bulbs burned out and the whole thing is FUUUUUUUUUCKED.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2017 00:45

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slothrop posted:

We're topping out around 35 today, which is plenty warm for me. Not looking forward to doing deliveries this arvo. No aircon in the Hiace and pushing trolleys full of beer around certainly works up a sweat.

Could be worse, could be down the hill. gently caress Penrith forever

Here's your pallet of 22 beers. What? no, they make them in 22 now. The empty space is for thermal expansion.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2017 04:13

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The Door Frame posted:

quote:
Just send them this link ~~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq7pxUgjLz0~~ ~~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV35YfgtoC8~~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLpeX4RRo28

# ¿ Jan 18, 2017 06:40

Powershift: Nov 23, 2009

I bought a cheapo gateway gaming laptop in 2009. It was flimsy then, and it's flimsy now, but it still runs like a beast. i can deflect the screen an inch or two either way, and deflect the body about an inch either way. I was sure within a few years the screen would fail and fall off or something like that, but it's still going.

They only release a driver for the video card about once a year, but it still keeps on trucking, paying most newer games.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2017 00:18

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Seat Safety Switch posted:

Hunter Harrison is out at CP Rail, who wants to take bets on whether he ends up at Amtrak?

But are the trains okay? how are the trains?

# ¿ Jan 19, 2017 00:50

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I usually just stick with 1900-1980.

If you include anything newer you get like 800 k-cars.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2017 03:53

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fridge corn posted:

How come people argue about what the best or worst pizza is but nobody has these arguments about sandwiches?

Where is the passion for the sandwich

Is a hot dog a sandwich?

What about pork buns, does the meat being able to get inside the meat bun without the bread which contains it needing to be separated disqualify it from sandwich status?

Would cutting a pork bun in half along it's horizontal axis turn it into a sandwich?

# ¿ Jan 19, 2017 11:06

Powershift: Nov 23, 2009

Maybe we can just police ourselves. I propose we start by forming a vigilante mob and going after Throatwarbler.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2017 22:34

Powershift: Nov 23, 2009

i guess this is it?

DoctorStrangelove posted:

Deer lord.

So a while ago a bunch of posters in DnD was mad about none of the DnD mods having sufficiently high melanin levels. So they complained about it on QCS, saying that the mods was racist for only ever probating black posters. FAU and ZDR say that they have no clue who the gently caress is what skin color. One of the mad people is a dude named negromancer. He opens up a thread in DnD following these events called negrotown. This thread is basically a self-imposed ghetto for the DnD posters who claim to be black, of course most of them are probably honky-rear end honkies pretending. Negromancer, in his infinite wisdom, does some sort of fuckery with the Somethingawful website or some poo poo, a guy with IT knowledge would know better, but basically he's talking like he could have stolen peoples' credit cards if he wanted to (edit: ZDR claimed that he was full of poo poo about the credit card part but did launch some sort of attack on the SA servers or some poo poo). This gets him banned. So people in negrotown say that he was banned for being a darkie. Which he wasn't. This attracts Lowtax, who at the time was in the crosshairs of the PC Police for "misgendering" shmorky. Lowtax has no time for this nonsense and tells them to gently caress off. They call him racist. Lady Ambien makes a post about how DnD is way too far to the left and anyone even vaguely right of center gets dog-piled and that's not good for the health of the forums. She gets called a racist. Taxman appoints Koala's March, who claims to be a black wymyn of colour to be DnD mod so that he doesn't have to deal with this bullshit.

I stopped following this drama at this point but my guess is that KM didn't quite work out as a DnD mod and that's why she's got her own containment subforum.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2017 01:32

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Previa_fun posted:

How unfulfilling does your life have to be to allow yourself to get so wrapped up in an internet forum.

I mean I get on here after work to look at people's cars and talk about cars and how Macs suck while I drink beer.

Then I go do other stuff and forget about the forums. It's worked out well for me so far.

There are people who spend money to put funny pictures besides people's posts on this internet forum.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2017 02:48

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ExplodingSims posted:

This is why AI is the best subforum. No drama, no crazies, just awesome cars and projects.

psssst. look up.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2017 03:01

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Three-Phase posted:

Just a question here - has anyone ever seen any digital tire tread depth gauges that can read down to 1/64th or 1/128th of an inch? I'm thinking I may want to look at some kind of digital gauge that's not necessarily sold for tire tread depth but could be used for that.

That's why the bar comes out of the back end of your digital caliper.

that little gubbins on the bottom. that's your depth gauge.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2017 07:07

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Three-Phase posted:

Oh.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh.

Also $249.00 is kinda' steep...

they're like 20 bucks at harbor freight, dude.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2017 07:09

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Oh, well, gently caress that poo poo with a shovel.

buy this little fucker and git goin.

http://www.harborfreight.com/4-inch-digital-caliper-47256.html

# ¿ Jan 20, 2017 07:11

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Cop Porn Popper posted:

It depends on what you are measuring. If someone can die, mitutoyos. If it just needs to be good enough, harbor freight all the way.

If someone *you like* can die

# ¿ Jan 20, 2017 07:16

Powershift: Nov 23, 2009

It's rubber. the cheapo caliper is going to be just as close as an expensive one on a squishy material.

It would be pretty drat hard to extrapolate the life of a tire after that little wear.

You seriously overthink poo poo.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2017 07:34

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Three-Phase posted:

Well and the OEM tires I think have a softer, less durable rubber material.

I just want some tank treads man. You know, caterpillars.

I'll check back on this after another 2500 miles.

Don't forget to measure them before and after driving, and keep track of the temperatures on them as well, so your measurements aren't thrown off by tire temperature.

You should also be measuring between each block of treads across the width of each tire so your results aren't skewed by shoulder or camber wear.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2017 07:44

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Cage posted:

Never heard of row52, is it similar to http://car-part.com ? Better?

e: when its supposedly working

car-part lists full service yard part inventory, row52 lists self service yard car inventory.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2017 23:26

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slothrop posted:

there are heaps of new GLTD's available.

.car
.racing
.sucks
.forum

things that are not available:

.valhalla
.shiny
.chrome
.mediocre

.car and .cars are $2700 because dealerships.

broken.cars would be a cool domain name

# ¿ Jan 21, 2017 04:32

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 06:08

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Rhyno posted:

gently caress that, I'm making a new Dec 2016 thread.

Make an october 2016 thread, we have to go back

back when the words "president of the united states donald trump" were the punchline of a funny joke.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2017 07:24

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