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angryrobots posted:Why can't Brits pronounce "room"? It's not a womb, there is a R at the beginning. Also, "chassis" is a "sha", not a hard "cha", whereas "neanderthal" is a hard "t".
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Rhyno posted:I'm planning a thread once we get going. We have a workspace and funds but nobody can agree on the car.
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monsterzero posted:Gotcha. I wanted an ae86 for a while and then they had their tofu renaissance so I feel your pain. I could have bought a Corolla SR5 but it would have needed literally every part upgraded to be happy with it. I would have been better off saving my money for a couple years and buying what I wanted in the first place (assuming values don't triple in 12 episodes.) I ended up buying an AW11 instead. The moral of the story is you want a Japanese 80s RWD car, buy an MR2. They rule.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:So some 10 year old - or a castrado twenty something - has my wife's former number.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Another medic I talked with later in the day (HIPAA-scrubbed, of course), who I respect a TON and has been a medic for like 35 years, said I probably should have quickened the transition and done what the nurse asked/implied ExplodingSims posted:Secret MRA was not what I was expecting out of that thread.
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funny Star Wars parody posted:It's not so much the quote that I posted as much as the wriest of the sillyness he posted after words
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scuz posted:True, it's mostly sexism, but the MRA streak is evident in phrases like Cage posted:I doubt he wouldn't have gotten too much poo poo (but still some) if he didn't use the word "unfair". Thats hosed up. And we thought LobsterboyX wanted to live in the 1950s...
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funny Star Wars parody posted:semantics aside the guy revealed himself to be a bigoted oval office so we can leave it at that
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May 3, 2017 19:36
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CornHolio posted:So a buddy of mine is looking at a 1999 Range Rover. Good that it's had the air suspension removed, as that's a common failure, but really? Leaf springs? Something tells me the owner doesn't know anything about the vehicle, and that's a big red flag.
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Unless you see a really good deal, you may be better off looking for a used set of weights kit. Olympic bars and plates can be pricey new, but there's not that much you can do to hurt lumps of cast iron, and the 1" bar stuff isn't that wonderful (and comes with bugger all weight most of the time).
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May 5, 2017 23:30
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Darchangel posted:Would I be stupid to buy an E320 Darchangel posted:for $1000?
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everdave posted:Oh I agree. I am just thinking of the kids. My wife is terrified of them "tracking us down" if I file a report. If it was just me I would welcome them doing that. Old man thinking blurs that thought. Rhyno posted:You're allowed to send out a wedding invite without a "plus one" line on it right? cakesmith handyman posted:You can do what the gently caress you want, but people feel they can ignore or reinterpret things like that as they feel. Hell you could literally write "don't bring your batshit crazy wife" and they'll laugh it off and bring her anyway.
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monsterzero posted:In the game of wedding the only winning move is not to play. angryrobots posted:Hah, if I got an invite without the option of bringing my wife, that was a waste of a stamp. funny Star Wars parody posted:wife is different from girlfriend/SO
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cakesmith handyman posted:That's pretty cool, never seen that over here in the UK.  .If discs, you can upgrade to Clark's hydraulics (M2 model) for £40 a set, which is  pricing, frankly.
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fridge corn posted:wow how weird there are multiple sufferers of this strange and exceedingly rare visual hallucination disorder in this very thread
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May 9, 2017 12:32
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:An old firehouse came up for sale near me some time ago, up a really neat old canyon area. It had two engine-length bays and the offices or whatever had already been converted to living space/kitchen/etc. Only a single floor, and a lot smaller than that one though.
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Boo, the iPhone 4 I've been using since 2011 may finally have ceased functioning. No longer recognises SIM cards. Ah well, switching to the Samsung a friend gave me last year.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:I'm trying to figure out how vacation pay costs the company more/less than actually working, and I'm failing. When I've taken vacation, taxes were still taken out of my paycheck, and the company had to pay for it directly out of their own coffers.
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That cost seems comparable to "normal" solar panels, if for example I covered the entire south-facing roof of my house with those instead of buying a panel system. Plus they don't look like rear end, and seem to have a lifetime warranty? If I were looking to get solar and/or needed to re-tile my roof, I'd certainly consider it.
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I think Japan is probably still the standard to aim for in terms of how rail travel should work.
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Gingerbread House Music posted:Route them through major cities and give the rest of the country regular trains?
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The thing is, if we (as a species or as a given country) really wanted to step up space tech stuff, it's not that expensive in big picture terms. I worked it out once and I think the entire Apollo programme, start to finish and adjusted for inflation, cost less than a year of the NHS. So if the US is going to continue to gently caress people on healthcare, you could at least spend the money on something cool like big loving rockets.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:So what you're saying is, if I got cancer and decided I wanted to just die they could put me in a rocket and fire me into space? Sounds cool.
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Tomarse posted:gently caress YOU HAYNES! See also: VAG Engineer 1: "We can make this engine a non-crossflow design, put the exhaust manifold and turbo immediately below the inlet manifold" VAG Engineer 2: "Cool, it makes the packaging more compact, and people can easily get at it all" VAG Engineer 1: "Nah, put it at the back side of the engine bay and get that poo poo rammed up against the firewall, then give a clear foot of space around the front of the engine just to rub it in"
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My manager has handed his notice in, and I think I'm going to apply for the position. It's a bit different to what I do normally, obviously, and would likely be a steep learning curve, but I feel like I shouldn't let the opportunity pass me by. The only other people in the engineering department who might be able to apply are significantly (25+ years) older than me and probably retiring in the near future, so internally I think I'd be the only one going for it, plus the instant the news came out I had two people (someone in engineering and someone in quality) say I should apply. I basically feel like I'd be a lot better positioned for it if it were a little more down the line and I could work with my manager to move toward that kind of role, with him being here for say another 5 years, but if he's going now, well, he's going now, and if I don't go for it and the role is taken by someone more my age, it kind of blocks that path for a longer time. If I didn't get it, I think I'd kind of get a second bite at progression by applying to be the senior engineer when he retires. Anyone else found themselves in this kind of scenario?
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spog posted:Take it. Though they've appointed people much less capable than I am in positions just as senior, so there's that.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Do it. beep-beep car is go posted:This but be prepared for Politics. I had a similar thing happen at my last job and even though I was the most qualified on the team (experience, certificates and my own opinion so get that grain of salt out) I was passed right over because I wasn't buddy buddy with the director. Politics may occur, and I may not get it, but it wouldn't be being "passed over" in the sense of it going to someone else here. The potential candidate pool is pretty small, and the people in it are firmly in "only X years till retirement" mode.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:That or a throat spray that numbs.
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cakesmith handyman posted:Glenlivet does a good one but it doesn't come with an applicator
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cakesmith handyman posted:poo poo dude I got a 2,2 degree and I've never had to actually tell anyone that when getting a job, it's literally never mattered. In some areas of my life, I'm both terminally lazy and quite rubbish. But people don't see that so much if the bit that directly affects them is going according to plan. And yes, you are not your mother, and the world she was dealing with is not the world as it is now. In other news, I spent the morning hanging out with the guys from Regular Car Reviews, they're good blokes. Cappo had loads of people wanting a poke around or sit in it.
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Just had a long chat session with an Ebay rep after they sent me a snotty message about not giving people contact info and complaining about "selling outside of ebay". They really don't seem to get that when you're selling poo poo like used engines, people want to come and look at them before buying, and if someone's driven 100+miles to look at something and wants to buy it, you can't really force them to use the buy-it-now option. Apparently you have to make people buy something before giving them an address or phone number, and hey, you can cancel the transaction if they don't want it, and they might remove any resulting bad feedback. Favourite bit is that they don't want to have any kind of option to allow people to say "yeah, I've sold this" and pay the fees. They literally refuse to let you pay them the money they're upset about not making from fees, while trying to force you to do things in a way that makes it harder to sell stuff and thus generate fees in the first place. Speaking of Ebay people, FFS, if you buy a set of four alloy wheels with tyres - which have clearly been descibed as being less than brilliant condition and not that great at holding air - for forty quid, don't turn up and act disappointed that they are, in fact, a bit manky, then ask what "best price" is.
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Yeah, other favourite trick/mistake is people putting the quantity as "4" or whatever, so when they intended it to be a set of wheels for £100, they've listed it as £100 each. It takes a certain amount of effort to explain to them that they need to either send or accept an offer of 4x£25 if they intend it to be that price. Best bit is I just looked up the car he said he was getting them for, and it looks like it's a different PCD, so good luck with that.
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spog posted:Forty quid???? Someone offered £25.  IOwnCalculus posted:Seriously, what's scrap value over there? At that price you've got to be near or below the scrap price to just recycle them.
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rdb posted:But that's not the only surprise. Apparently 275/55R20 have become so common that replacement tires are cheaper than the 275/65R18s that came on it. Wtf, I remember when 20's used to be a stupid expensive waste of money size that only came on luxury poo poo and only lasted 15k tops. *Pours out a
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Tomarse posted:Ive got a set of awesome 80s gold Saab TRX spec alloys that I need to go weigh in as nobody wants to buy them and the tyres are too expensive; but having to do this makes me sad
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Darchangel posted:Just always put in the eBay ad that the item is for sale locally, and may be ended due to local sale, and then pull it because "the item is no longer available" when you hand it to the buyer. eBay doesn't need to know that you sold it to someone who contacted you via eBay. They got your listing fee. If they won't make accommodations for the situation you described, gently caress them. They need to change to fit how people want to use the service, not the other way 'round. Unfortunately, you generally get a zero listing fee in the UK, so they are losing out on money, and they can see if you've has someone asking about addresses or phone numbers - I specifically asked about all the listing with contact details in the description, and apparently THAT is a breach of policy too. But your attitude is the one I took with them, and they're just not bloody interested. All they want to do us threaten people with account suspension for breaching a policy that really doesn't work for certain types of sale. It's a pretty typical computer-says-no scenario.
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cakesmith handyman posted:Currently keeping my eye out for any interesting looking alloys that crop up in 5.5x13 4x98 for cheap.
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You know you're getting  when you can insure 5 vehicles for under a grand without even going to a specialist company...funny Star Wars parody posted:Can we not argue about what voodoo is voodoo and what voodoo is actual for real voodoo? cakesmith handyman posted:That reminds me I should be buying hybrid tyres for my bike instead of alloys for my car. Boo. cakesmith handyman posted:The £400 mountain bike I bought 4 years ago has front suspension and 3x gearing. I wish I'd known this back then.
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