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Marvember Chat Thread: Leaping Over The End of Febtober
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Mar 1, 2017 01:49
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InitialDave posted:Not strictly related, but one of my weird "things" is not having gravy with a roast dinner. I like the combination of different flavours and textures, and never understand why people want to mask that with sticking gravy over the whole affair. Gravy goes on the potatoes. The only things beef needs are salt and pepper.
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Mar 2, 2017 02:12
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The Locator posted:Sometimes the gravy is good enough that everything else on the plate just becomes a gravy delivery system. That's stew, and absolutely okay. I love stew, my recipe is basically "throw beef and veg in slow cooker, drown it in beer, wait 12 hours" anything goes.
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Mar 2, 2017 03:37
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Today at work I found out my job security p. much hinges upon a good person with heart problems not returning to work.  The bosses have finally admitted the writing is on the wall and offered my entire shift a voluntary buyout because they have to eliminate 52 jobs (13 out of 77 on each shift) in my already poor as gently caress and brokeass city.
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Mar 3, 2017 05:28
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You know it is bad when your boss' boss' boss is the one doing the talking, and he talks about future downsizing as if it is going to happen. We've already started getting rid of some of the bindery equipment and are potentially phasing out more.
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Mar 3, 2017 05:39
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Siochain posted:lovely man. What kind of work are you looking for? Move up north and there's some decent job opportunities still. Lumber mills, mines, etc. Good pay, to. Material handling preferably, I drive a forklift. By moving North do you mean I should be looking for jobs in Sudbury or North Bay? Or are we talking like, Northern Ontario kind of North and I should be looking more towards Thunder Bay?
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Mar 3, 2017 16:19
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InitialDave posted:Take glasses off to shower. Can't see poo poo. As do I. I shave in the shower, usually with my eyes closed.
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Mar 3, 2017 18:02
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Siochain posted:Sudbury/North Bay/Timmins/Kirkland Lake/Matheson, etc. If you speak any French, hit up the Val D'or/Rouyn Noranda areas. Lots of mining and forestry, and its picking up a bit, so if you got experience you might do alright. Most jobs are $25 or more an hour. Je ne parles pas ding dong. I can sorta read it though. Unfortunately the experience is what hits me. I can flip quarters onto the forks, but I have under one licensed year on a lift truck. I drive it for 6-8 hours a shift though.
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Mar 3, 2017 20:05
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Versa threw a CEL about an hour ago, will have to pull the code in the morning. And the little plastic cover for the exterior door lock on the driver's side door latch popped off when I shut the door. Little plastic tabs broke off inside the door and goddamnit... Didn't I just buy this thing 3 weeks ago?
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Mar 5, 2017 02:59
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Also, if you think it gets better when you fully own the house. It doesn't.
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Mar 5, 2017 03:07
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So you're building a mcmansion in a neighbourhood of unoriginality?
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Mar 5, 2017 03:17
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HOAs are why humanity needs to be exterminated.
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Mar 5, 2017 03:23
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Over the course of 30 years you could easily spend 30% of a house's value on maintaining it and upgrades. E: Example: My foundation is stone, and over 100 years old. At some point in time the entire exterior face of the foundation will need to be dug out and repointed, and waterproofed. We're talking up to $50k of work on a house I spent $185k on. I would never get that money back out of this house. Fermented Tinal fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Mar 5, 2017 |
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Mar 5, 2017 21:40
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I don't remember what came out in 1991 or what my mom had recorded on VHS off the air by then, anything pre 1993 is kinda fuzzy for me. But I did see Jurassic Park at a drive-in, might have been the last time I saw a movie at a drive-in too.
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Mar 7, 2017 14:06
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:New keyboard day! Tired? Son you need to convert to the truth and the light that is the buckling spring. Might I suggest: https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/product/f77-model-f-keyboard/ Some crazy person ordered a new production run of Model Fs and I am desperately trying to figure out how I can mismanage my finances so I can get one.
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Mar 8, 2017 05:42
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Wrar posted:Oh hell no. My wife is loud enough on a set of MX Blues. I have a CM QFR with all greens in it, still too soft. Right now I'm typing on a Model M born in May of 1986.
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Mar 8, 2017 06:00
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IOwnCalculus posted:That's awesome. You can get new dyesub pbt caps from Unicomp to replace the worn ones. I too banged away at over 90wpm in cubeville on the only model m in town. You could hear my typing over just about everything in the office and I steadfastly refused to switch to something else.
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Mar 8, 2017 12:28
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You want a truly loud typing experience? I used to have an Olivetti Linea 98, now that was loud.
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Mar 8, 2017 13:12
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Darchangel posted:What's so great about those? As compared to a Model M? Slightly softer keys. True NKRO vs 3KRO for a Unicomp M or 2KRO for an original IBM. Does not need to be bolt-modded for keyswitch disassembly. All you need is a screwdriver and pliers. Metal case. Reconfigurable. Mature modding base beyond what can be done with a M. E: Arguably longer lifetime switches because the M does use a membrane as opposed to the capacitive switches in the F. GnarlyCharlie4u posted:bruh... the Cherry MX clears are like 150% the force required to actuate a Model M switch. They actuate at 65cn and bottom out at 100. Actuation force is 68cn the whole way down. Fermented Tinal fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Mar 8, 2017 |
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Mar 8, 2017 23:38
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Nobody's linked deskauthority yet.
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Mar 8, 2017 23:50
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What about alfredo sauce instead of tomato sauce? Some place in the States does that, I can't remember where though.
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Mar 9, 2017 02:27
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Considering all of MGS's accomplishments, not limited to owning multiple ACVWs, and being brave enough to walk away from a toxic relationship. A 1UZ starter should be a walk in the valley for him.
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Mar 9, 2017 02:56
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ExplodingSims posted:Oh my god guys. How tall is your boxspring? They make thinner ones to go with taller mattresses.
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Mar 10, 2017 01:31
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My security system is a woman in her late 80s that lives next door to me and has a composition notebook for each house on the street with drat detailed records of our comings and goings. She's called the cops on theives a couple of times. She's that neighbour. E: Once a few months ago she called my boss to relay a message to me about a pile of ice at the end of the driveway and that I shouldn't just take a run at it like I normally do with plowbanks. I then came home to find out she'd spent two hours trying to remove the ice until other neighbours saw her and my entire driveway was shovelled and cleared. Fermented Tinal fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Mar 10, 2017 |
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Mar 10, 2017 16:24
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Well, North of the border it's a bit different. Some provinces have their own provincial forces, like here in Ontario our "state troopers" are the OPP and we call them OPP. In provinces without their own police force, the "state troopers" are the RCMP and they're well, Mounties.
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Mar 10, 2017 16:48
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beep-beep car is go posted:No fun nicknames? Also in Provinces with OPP, do you get OPP (yeah you know me) and Mounties? Well, only Ontario has the OPP (Ontario Provincial Police if it wasn't obvious), not sure what the other provincial forces are called. We do have RCMP, but basically they fill roles like border protection and federal-level policing here. In say, one of the territories, they will fill almost every role from municipal parking enforcment all the way up to fed.
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Mar 10, 2017 16:57
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beep-beep car is go posted:No local dudes? Interesting! Larger municipalities tend to have their own police too, so some places have local yokels. We have our own municipal force, while the other nearby large towns either rely on OPP or our cops depending on contract.
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Mar 10, 2017 17:02
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I've been using Mint and am finding the support for Canadian stuff to be really lacking.
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Mar 10, 2017 17:07
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I have four options for lumber, spending an hour at Home Depot, spending 15 minutes at Home Hardware, spending several hours at an Amish sawmill, or driving at least an hour out of the city to the next-nearest lumber yard (Home Hardware). At HD I can pick the boards and am that guy when it comes to spending an hour ripping through two piles just to get 6 2x8s, indoors. At HH I can (and try to) pick the boards out of HD-quality piles outside, but the yard crew will run off and gather everything else while I'm after those 2x6s and I'll end up with hockey sticks for all the rest of my lumber, I've literally been handed boards that came in multiple pieces and given poo poo for giving them poo poo about it. I know of several local Amish sawmills and they'll sell me anything they can get their hands on, including hardwood that would normally be expensive custom-order through a big box, but all dimensional lumber is rough cut which has its own pros and cons, no pressure-treated. They can also do a lot of custom work which is great for matching old trim and flooring. Everything else is way too long a drive or is ship-in, thusly, I have wasted countless hours of my life at Home Depot.
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Mar 11, 2017 22:07
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Duel is great, especially in how it characterizes the truck.
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Mar 12, 2017 22:39
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 Goodbye you rotten piece of trash, I hope you end up cubed.
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Mar 16, 2017 20:08
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It's so happy to be red.
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Mar 16, 2017 23:28
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Sealed beams for life.
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Mar 18, 2017 15:15
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RIP Chuck Berry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr-YF_dTTZM
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Mar 19, 2017 01:16
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InitialDave posted:What's the Bourbon Trail? Sounds like my cup of tea. Imagine Oregon Trail but with a lot more drinking.
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Mar 19, 2017 01:24
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InitialDave posted:So basically Deadwood, then? I honestly have no idea and pulled that out of my rear end. I want to believe that it involves both though. E: There's a retired cop car in one of the small towns I drive through on my way to my folks' place. White roof, there is no paint in a giant semi-circular spot starting across the entire top of the windshield to about a third of the way back. Every year another inch or two of paint flakes off around the circle so it kinda has this gradient of cancer to surface rust to bare metal thing going on. Fermented Tinal fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Mar 19, 2017 |
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Mar 19, 2017 01:55
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Back to weight chat, in September of 2016 I was about 265lbs, probably closer to 270lbs. I don't have a bathroom scale but the one I use for weighing bales at work says I now weigh 212lbs fully clothed (resolution of 2lbs and probably +/-8lbs accuracy). I'm 6'3" and am actually starting to get worried because under 200lbs is not really healthy for me. When I was down to 185lbs about five years ago I could see my ribs and shoulder blades. My eating habits have not really changed, I easily consume 3000+ calories a day (sometimes in just one sitting like a true goon) mostly in carbs. The only real change has been a promotion at work but I'll eat throughout the shift and my new job is probably about as physical as my old one though now I work full time instead of part time. Also, now all of my clothes are too big and half my shirts look like tents my pants are so folded in they chafe really bad and it is really frustrating because I don't want to have to rebuy literally my entire closet and dresser.
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Mar 21, 2017 20:41
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On my x230 you have to basically hook up a raspberry pi and dump/mod/reflash the bios with it running and pulled apart using a test clip that barely held onto the bios chip. It was a huge pain in the rear end just to save $50 over the lenovo-sold variant of the card.
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Mar 24, 2017 01:05
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Olympic Mathlete posted:A 12 hour shift is tough going man, don't know how you do it. Congrats though! Try 12 hour shifts on a continental rotation. I am not an EMT yet I know their pain.
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Mar 24, 2017 12:39
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When I was house shopping a few years ago I came across this really nice looking place, big lot for the dogs, heated shop, and perfect for my price range. The upstairs had 6' ceilings. I'm 6'3".
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Mar 25, 2017 20:04
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