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Somewhat Heroic posted:
Sounds delish. Pork that's been smoking for hours upon hours is heaven. What are the New Years traditions people here do? Ours is pretty much  now, and has been for about the past 10 years. Instead of going to a house party and getting pie-eyed, we've been getting together with the same friends. Evening starts out with a great dinner, typically steak or prime rib at the Keg, and then go over to either of our places (they live in Winnipeg but have family to visit here) and play cards or something similar. The best part is catching up on stories from the past year as they are both teachers (well one is a school principal) and the true train wreck tales of humanity are fascinating.OT: Without wading into the games sub forum, anyone here have firsthand experience with Vive? I am thinking of picking one up for Elite and a couple other sims but I am a little concerned about the resolution not good enough. Running 6700K and 980ti. slidebite fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Dec 31, 2016 |
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rdb posted:On the subject of tools and tires, does anyone do tires at home? I keep going back and forth on the idea. A new Chinese machine and balancer combo with motorcycle adapters would set me back about $2500 from Greg smith equipment, or I could piece together a setup of CL for slightly less. eBay has a balancer and machine combo for about $1200 shipped but I would need to get MC adapters and service would not be available locally.
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Jan 3, 2017 06:36
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I'm genuinely  that's the name they went with.
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Jan 3, 2017 19:50
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Jesus christ I should know never to go shopping when hungry. Went to the store at lunch to pick up a couple small things, and indeed, I picked up said small things, but a 1kg (2.5lb) bag of jumbo sour soothers made its way into my shopping basket as well 
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Seat Safety Switch posted:On Thursday night my older cat Smokie passed away. She was only 9, and my heart is broken  It's tough. You're always going to see her out of the corner of your eye too. Darchangel posted:WalMart: driving the race to the bottom. I actually had a run-in with a factory technical sales rep just today on $75,000 worth of  US-MADE heavy 6" pitch industrial chain. After the end user received it here locally, I was looking at it with them and saw a tag that said "MADE IN CHINA BY (US COMPANY) TO (US COMPANY) SPECIFICATIONS." Keep in mind this company has absolutely PRIDED itself on being MADE IN THE USA, #1, RAH-RAH MAKE SURE YOU DON'T BUY ANY lovely JAPANESE OR CHINESE PRODUCT!!!!So when I called him on it he said "Yeah, I know, but it's THE EXACT SAME AS OUR STUFF HERE SO DON'T WORRY" so when I asked if I can expect a refund of around 30% because it sure as hell cost them a poo poo-ton less to make and my client and I pay a premium for their product, he had an uncomfortable chuckle. I told him congratulations on basically losing the only reason many people still like dealing with them (being made in the USA) and you made your life a whole lot more difficult going forward because you're now glomped in with everyone else and it's going to be a straight pricing game. We had another run in with a very well known large North American Aluminum manufacturer a couple years ago where they literally locked key contract suppliers in a room at their head office and said "You are not leaving until you can lower our prices by 20%." Keep in mind these contracts are fixed margins, typically anywhere from single digits to low teens if you are lucky and they usually don't pay their bills worth a poo poo. Our guys thought about it for 5 minutes, said "No." there was no possible way we can do a reduction like that across the board. Maybe there was other ways to save money a little outside the box...? The company refused and said they needed an outright price reduction, so we said we couldn't. The aluminum company then said our relationship would end. As much as I dislike the agreements some of these corporate account fucks get us into, I'll give them a pat on the back for saying no and waking out on those dinks. The ironic thing, even though we almost immediately lost the corporate contract the local factory still insist on doing business with us (and I understand it is similar elsewhere) but since we are now out of the contract we can actually profit with them 
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Oh my god. Without going into political chat too far, Trump just asked Robert Kennedy Jr to chair a task force into "Vaccination Safety" An anti-vaccer talking about "debating the science" under a presidential mandate should horrify everybody, not just Americans. http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/trump-asks-skeptic-to-probe-vaccine-safety-alarming-doctors-1.3235732
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Jan 11, 2017 02:18
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BraveUlysses posted:Looks like a Mazda 6
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Jan 21, 2017 05:34
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PJ Pizza is hardly gourmet, but in the world of fast food pizza it's far from the worst.
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Jan 21, 2017 23:08
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CharlesM posted:The Chicago pizza place near me closed I was in Billings this past week and had some deep dish @ Chicago Pizza and Taphouse. It was surprisingly good and the b-side 90s video mix playing in the background in the lounge was awesome. Their Thai Chicken, while not as good as Boston Pizzas Thai Chicken original of circa 2002, was still drat good and had a better crust. 9/10 would go again.
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Well, poo poo. John Hurt is dead.
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