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Olympic Mathlete posted:Hi May chat thread. I've been on a canal boat for a bunch of time and had absolutely minimal access to any forms of communication. I kinda liked being insulated to the nonsense going on in my country for a change. Canal boating sounds pretty cool. I'd like to do a Californian interpretation in the next few years and spend a week or so sailing around the Sacramento-San Jaoquin Delta. A little less green than the European countryside, but more meth and dive bars.
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Just finished grinding a garbage welded-on surge brake coupler off my trailer. When they made the thing they butted the coupler right up to where the frame rails join the tongue, so the tongue was pretty short. After cleaning it up, I'm left with 4" of tongue. Hopefully I can bolt a new coupler on to that. gimpsuitjones posted:Thoughts ? What kind of project do you have in mind? Lemons car? Do you have friends with a lot of farmland? I'd happily drive something like that gloriously into the ground but would not put money into it. Full disclosure, a few 80s Nissan Sentras touched me in the bad place so I may be biased against the make/era.
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gimpsuitjones posted:Cheap RWD 1980s Japanese car (my white whale is a good, mostly stock AE86 Levin or Nissan S12 hatch) to eventually repaint, find missing trim and chuck an SR20DET into for daily driving and straight up enjoying. I like poo poo old cars way more than anything modern. 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. Olympic Mathlete posted:If anything it made me realise I don't have to join in with the general rush that we call life. Tootling through the countryside at 3mph in the sunshine means you have to adjust your expectations for travel. I think we went 70 miles in 10 days, we weren't travelling for hours and hours per day but just enough to get places. Locks take forever too and there were a couple of places that had runs of 20 or so in a row... On a boat you just chill the gently caress out and say hello to everyone you see. It did snow though which was weird, log fires on boats are also a cool thing to have. I also read a book for the first time in forever. Recommend it. Awesome. I'm working on getting a sailboat ready for summer. I'm really excited to have the end result of my project be a place to drink beer, BBQ, read books and nap on the lake. And if I feel like going fast (5kts, baby!), there's racing around.
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Goober Peas posted:Goons make the worst doctors. Lol at the quacks itt. Nobody's recommended homeopathy so maybe second worst?
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Kazinsal posted:I drive a 99 Accord V6 coupe and it is the closest thing I will ever own to an NSX As I get older and my income increases all the cars I wanted when I was younger are either gone or the prices have gone up enough to keep them out of reach. My advice to my 18yo self would be to blow your college savings and take out as much credit as you can and buy that FD/NSX cause yolo.
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InitialDave posted:By MRA you mean Men's Rights Activist? Nothing about him comes across as one, he's just a bit of a melon who has some rather idiotic ideas about women and what they want, presumably because he's not actually encountered that many of them, never mind seen their bathrooms. Haha, that's the truest part. If you're really designing a bathroom for (stereotyped) women I wouldn't build a crazy hard to clean tub, I would build a 12' long vanity with shelving on either side and a soundproof toilet cube.
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May 3, 2017 19:39
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Adiabatic posted:Just got a personal property city tax of $1100. Maybe I should go back to old, beat-up cars. Sailboat? I might owe the princely sum of $17 next year on mine.
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General_Failure posted:Holy poo poo. Any organic chemists around? I don't know anything about chemistry, but I like it when my sweet potato casserole has orange juice in it.
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I just scheduled my student loan payoff payment. Feels good, time to finance a truck! J/k, half is going to my wife's student loans and half to an IRA.
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One of today's projects was to replace the keel hanger bolts on my 44 year-old sailboat. Three were in good shape, one was a rough pentagon of rust. I wasn't worried, I had my lucky set of bolt extracting sockets, an impact driver and a heavy hammer.   Once again the universe punishes me for my hubris.
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May 8, 2017 02:00
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Safety Dance posted:When the time comes for me to be a homeowner, I'm really tempted to install davits alongside an upper story window for this reason. One step ahead of ya mate I live in a hole in the ground. E: doublequote Safety Dance posted:British aerospace company. They make my favorite adorable airplane, the BAE 146 I live in the flight path of a fire fighting airfield and the tanker companies started operating those about two years ago. So drat loud I thought they must have been russian. monsterzero fucked around with this message at 21:21 on May 8, 2017 |
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mariooncrack posted:Wedding chat: So if you send invites without a plus one or guest option, do you send separate invites for couples that you want to be there? I think you address the invite to both members of the couple.
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LloydDobler posted:Of course. Had to happen sometime. After 18 years in Denver, dodging hailstorms the whole time... Until I buy my dream car. 2nd nicest car I've ever owned, 2nd most expensive, waited years to find the right one, and within the first month I get hit. Oh and special rare color so replacement panels are impossible to find without paintwork. Goondolences. I have cars with poo poo paint and parking lot scars and still freak when we get anything bigger than pea-sized. Hope the gods of PDR smile upon you.
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I'm about to put my Camry up for sale on Craigslist. It's an 03 V6 that's mechanically good, the paint is okay aside from one dent/crease at the top of the drivers door panel where a 1:2" square of paint flaked off. There are some minor scratches on the driver side (parking lot scratches, not rubbed up against a bollard) that would probably buff out. I'm hesitant to buff that though, because I doubt the car has ever been waxed and I don't want one conspicuously shiny spot. The rest of the paint isn't bad, clear is good. It just needs a good a good polish and wax. Do you guys think there's any ROI to be had from polishing/waxing a 14-year-old, $4k Toyota before listing it?
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May 10, 2017 19:55
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slidebite posted:Yeah when you are within 2lbs or so, that's daily fluctuation for me. I call 178lbs my get-hurt weight. 
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Solar is such a meh* thing. Between getting harassed by installers every time I go to Home Depot or Costco, and having to be tactful when friends bring up installing it, I can't wait for the market to reach saturation and the bubble to burst. It's much ado about very little, propped up by eco-status-signaling, subsidies and financing schemes. *molten salt and off grid excluded. That shits coo.
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May 10, 2017 23:08
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Seminal Flu posted:I want solar to be a thing. but it's still just a bit too far in the future. Absolutely. It just a lot of bullshit to save 20% on your electricity bill. If it were my money, I'd put it towards insulation / airflow management and HVAC efficiency instead. That would benefit you year around instead of 4-6 months a year.
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May 10, 2017 23:20
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ExplodingSims posted:Yeah, having a properly built house that's properly sealed and insulated will help more than anything in the long run. Can't wait to build my own place. Amen. I'm starting with a whole-house fan and working out from there.
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May 10, 2017 23:29
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funny Star Wars parody posted:He and his ilk can suck a fat cock and will be first against the wall I agree but am simultaneously grateful at least one person is working on Jack Black's tube technology so maybe I'll give him a pass.
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everdave posted:Real talk on solar, at least it has trickled down enough that I have a few friends living the sailboat life that have managed to turn a few hundred bucks of Chinese solar junk into viable off shore power sources. And they seem to like it from their blog and social media posts. Totally, but the secret to making that work is watching every last milliamp and carefully balancing usage, generation and storage. Meanwhile ashore, I go to the fridge every twenty minutes and to bathe in the cold air and wonder why the selection hasn't changed, and my wife runs every light we own from 30 minutes before dusk until we go to bed. LloydDobler posted:I've been burned enough by that fucker over the years to want to burn it back. 
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Heyyyy, lets see what's going on in the chat thread! Every time I see or hear the name Elon Musk I mentally picutre Mads Mikkelsen.
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Cop Porn Popper posted:I'm paid to be the rear end in a top hat that won't let you return something because its been in the bed of your truck for 2 months and looks like a pack of dogs tore the packaging apart. I want to speak to your manager.
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scuz posted:I'm paid to computer janitor. Same, but I just obsess over personal projects instead of treating my sadbrain. Also, today is my the fifteenth anniversary of registering my account. All that time and still not a single worthwhile post. 
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Mom finally got her car into the shop to fix the oil leaks (a good shop, owned by a friend). Did they replace the valve cover bolts/integral washers? I guess the washers compress over time (they're a layered metal and rubber) and when you re-use then they bottom out on the threads without loading the valve cover fully. I've heard that as the reason that so many 1mzs leak from the valve cover.
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Rhyno posted:Will do! I'm just using a velcro lock brace for now but it's thick and my wrist gets sweaty quickly. I'll grab some tape when I run my errands later. You could also try boxing hand wraps. They helped my wrists when doing push-ups back when I actually worked out. They're also reusable , adjustable and don't pull out arm hair.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Thinking on either naming her 'Trash' or 'Queen'.  Sweet trailer though!
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BraveUlysses posted:how do you make it spin in your butt ...Goatse-man had spent his whole life training for this very moment.
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The Door Frame posted:I've been working my way through my bar's stock of cans and bottles of beer because I'm bored of drinking Mickeys' and Jameson. So far I've found out that I love Gose beers, and that Maui Bikini Blonde is a genuine godsend Goses are awesome, Anderson Valley's Blood Orange is my favorite, followed by Sierra Nevada's Otra Vez. Maui Brewing's Hanalei IPA is really tasty too and it's got POG in it.
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The Door Frame posted:Anderson Valley's Briney Melon and Pipeworks' Dos Ghost are my favorites, why was I so afraid of sours? Passion Fruit-Orange-Guava, usually a juice. It's like Hawaii's Sunny Delight. I'll have to keep an eye out for Dos Ghost. Sours are the new IPA, even little mountain town breweries are rocking saisons now. monsterzero fucked around with this message at 06:53 on May 18, 2017 |
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fridge corn posted:also rip chris cornell Ugh, and Nicky Hayden is in a coma? gently caress you 2017. The Door Frame posted:Good, I'm tired of ultra-hoppy beers. Revolution and 3 Floyds already won that fight for me, and companies like Lagunitas can back the gently caress up with their all hops, all the time styles I was talking to a brewer last year and he said the demand for hops was getting crazy. I bet some of the impetus behind the sours/lager renaissance is a result of everyone in their mom brewing triple IPAs and using all the hops. A few months ago I would have said to watch yer mouth about Lagunitas, but now I'm too worried that they're going to start shipping pre-skunked in green glass.
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funny Star Wars parody posted:i guess he wasn't happy about playing casino shows Casino shows are awesome. Comfortable seating and occasionally reasonably priced food and drinks... god I'm getting old. beep-beep car is go posted:I really hope the lager thing takes off, I really really like a good lager. I used to be an IPA guy back in the early 2000s, but now it's just nuts. I want to enjoy a beer, not be punished by it. Yeah, I hear you. If I drink more than one dark beer in the evening I feel like crap the next day. If I want to have any more than that or keep a bevvie in my hand all afternoon I need to switch to something too shameful to print here.
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funny Star Wars parody posted:my last name is irish for "son of a deceitful lad" because my ancestors were horsethieves and criminals. They were not a good bunch (and still arent) Nice. Mine is something like 'foreign helper'. Don't know where my people came from before they went to Ireland and took'erjerbs.
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Geeze guys I'm sorry an India pale kicked your dog. Maybe you got some really bad brews, try a nice fresh hop like Stone's Enjoy By series or something. I honestly don't know the last time I had an awful beer (that wasn't from Europe) and I compulsively order beer by pointing at tap handles I don't recognize. I also unironically enjoy Bud Light Lime so don't listen to me.
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nm posted:Good, dry ciders are amazing. There's been a guy making decent cider in sacramento for a decade and it has kind of spoiled me. Which one is this? Best cider still comes in a 2L plastic bottle tho. Strongbow needs to lay off the Cap'n Picard and start selling the big bottles over here.
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mariooncrack posted:Besides being ugly, why does the pt cruiser get so much hate? Well, it is a Chrysler product... that was a basically Neon with 700lbs of ugly bodywork bolted on and classified as a light truck for fleet fuel economy reasons. It was supposed to be cool for young adults, but the only people who really liked them were dads who wear knock-off Tommy Bahama shirts from JC Penney. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Edit: The DOHC Neons were kind a cool for their day. They got fat, soft and boring quick though and the early ones all fell apart. monsterzero fucked around with this message at 16:58 on May 19, 2017 |
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Rhyno posted:I've thought about it but if I were to net a serious profit I'd feel bad about taking it for nothing. Then you pay it forward and treat the person who hooked you up. If the Camry I fixed up sells for a 'profit' I'll give the PO (my boss) a gift certificate for a mobile detailer, or a restaurant is that's too passive aggressive.
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Rhyno posted:I spent way too much time hard wiring the place we intended to live in for a long time. Then someone down the block tried to burn a house down and things went to poo poo fast. Cleaning the garage today I found my box of cable, I bet I have 3000 feet of cat5. Hey, that's my garage too! Boxes and boxes full or Ethernet patch and cable tv cables that I don't need. ETA: I just made up my first batch of epoxy to fix my boat. My boat fixing friend said to mix the resin a little hot because it is better than never curing. I took that to heart, and also overshot a little and mixed at about 5:2 instead of 5:1 on a small batch. It started smoking after about 5 minutes and melted the mixing cup. Oops. Probably didn't help that it was 95 degrees. Hopefully the resin and the stuff I bonded will be okay. monsterzero fucked around with this message at 01:02 on May 21, 2017 |
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Interesting. It was West System 105/206 with silica. It was hot, but not thick so fingers crossed.
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Just imagine, that's 3GB of  you could be serving up on your BBS.
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