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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Wow, today sucked. But it's cool, because it's a job I actually like doing (which is super rare, I've discovered) so even the tough days are sweet. I sincerely hope I never end up needing a ride in your bus, but if I do, I could do a lot worse. 
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Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2: Very good. Vaping jackass somewhere nearby in the theater who couldn't stop sucking robodong long enough to watch it: should be drawn and quartered.
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May 6, 2017 06:11
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Darchangel posted:It was just a target of opportunity. I know I can fix stuff that ordinary "users" can't or won't. If it were a decent car, I'd fix it and drive it for a bit and sell it on, unless it just caught my fancy. I like my Crown Vic, but MB, leather, wood, class, you know. Too bad it's one of the crap-rear end ones. When the car works, it is very good. Only real downside in that regard is the later W210 had a V6 so it doesn't make nearly as nice a noise as the early I6 cars. Buy it, boost it to the moon.
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May 7, 2017 16:35
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May 8, 2017 17:53
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InitialDave posted:That would just add to the pile of poo poo that should be headed their way for their behaviour. gently caress them. And on the flip side, if you tell someone to bring a plus one / get an RSVP for said plus one, make sure they actually have a seat at the table. 
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May 8, 2017 18:54
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beep-beep car is go posted:Ugh. My cousin called on the morning of the wedding to ask if she could bring her boyfriend instead of just herself like the invite said when we got it two months ago. I said flatly no and that I was insulted that she'd ask that of me on my wedding day. Then her dad called up (my uncle) and was like "can't you just squeeze him in?" and I again reiterated that I was insulted that they'd ask. I think I wound up saying something like "if you show up with $200 cash for us to pay the caterer and venue and LAVISH tips on all of the people you are putting out by not paying attention, we can probably find him a stool in the back to sit on." Yeah, we ended up with the same situation but in reverse. Invite was sent to myself / my wife, so we originally planned on not bringing the kid. I was lazy at RSVPing so I got a call from my aunt / mother of the bride making sure we were going, wherein she specifically invited my four-year-old daughter as well. About two weeks pre-wedding, said aunt calls my wife, asks if my daughter really needs her own $65 plate (hell yes, she's a tall / hungry kid who needs her own seat), clearly in an effort to try and cut costs somewhere. Wife clarifies that yes, she'll need one, and offers to just get a sitter instead. Cut to wedding day, after ceremony / before reception: "We had to put some other people at your table because we ran out of room, but some other guests didn't show up either, so just grab the kid her own plate." Walk into the reception hall, we have name tags for myself / my wife, but no seat for my daughter. We're crammed on the corner of a table pretty much dead center in the room surrounded by other tables, so even if there was an errant chair / plate anywhere (there wasn't), there was literally nowhere to put it. Tried to make it work for longer than we should've, then hosed right off out of there... Metal Geir Skogul posted:And I was convoy leader and the ENTIRE CONVOY refused to pass as I limped along at redline at 35 mph half on the shoulder. Right past where this may well have happened, 
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May 8, 2017 23:52
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Alarbus posted:See, we definitely didn't pay $200/plate, so we added the kids coming to the headcount AND hired two bonded babysitters from care.com if our friends felt like being adults for a few hours. Some friends kept the kids with them, some used the babysitters. Everyone was happy. That is a pro way to do it. Either make it great for the kids (this is what we did at our cheap-as-gently caress wedding), or just be up front and tell everyone to get sitters. I think it was a combination of said aunt hasn't seen my kid since she was a tiny little lapchild thing, and my aunt was trying to save $65 on a wedding that probably cost $car. There were a handful of smaller kids on people's laps, and a couple of older kids who actually had places set. My daughter figured out pretty quick when she read my name, and my wife's name on our place settings, but there wasn't one with her name. On the upside, excluding any possible divorces, there's only one other cousin on that side of the family to get married, and knowing what I know now, we'll probably just skip that one. On the other side of the family there's so many goddamn weddings that they've all started using a hashtag for it. Those ones are just a nice, relaxed, nobody cares how many people show up type of affair.
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May 9, 2017 01:37
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Yeah, if you're renting, a broken fan is the landlord's problem.
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May 9, 2017 22:20
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BraveUlysses posted:fat bottom girls on loop for 3 hours Tie Your Mother Down. Alternatively, I'm In Love With My Car.
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May 10, 2017 05:16
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ExplodingSims posted:That being said, I can't imagine those tiles would be a real powerhouse. Being able to at least power the lights/small appliances/computers would be pretty nice, but I'm assuming you're still have to pay the power company for things llike running the AC or a pool pump or something. You'd only be able to run those appliances without drawing off the grid if you have a powerwall or something like it. I have solar on my house and no matter how much power it's making, any time the A/C runs I'm pulling from the grid instead of pushing to it.
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May 10, 2017 23:18
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monsterzero posted: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. I never made that connection and yet I am so glad that you just did. funny Star Wars parody posted:when really he helped start a bunch of lovely businesses that would have failed if not propped up by VC I mean, is the world really a worse place for some VC jackasses losing their money? Also, SpaceX is cool as gently caress.
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May 10, 2017 23:38
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I'll still argue all day long the Bolt wouldn't have seen the light of day without the fear of the Model 3.
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May 10, 2017 23:53
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Somewhat Heroic posted:GOTG volume 2 is very good and you should all watch. I lost it at the cameo. I'm Mary Poppins, y'all! The more I think about it, the only thing missing from volume 2 is that "holy poo poo this is new and different" feeling from the first one. I went into the first one completely blind to everything about it, so everything was just one glorious surprise after another. Kinda hard to do with a sequel.
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May 13, 2017 07:02
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angryrobots posted:The current spiraling price of higher education, and the comparative reasonable cost when your mom went years ago, is real and demonstrable. The amount it has increased in the last 15 years alone is obscene, and 15 years ago it was already way too expensive to cover in-state tuition plus living expenses with a near minimum wage job.
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May 14, 2017 17:01
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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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May 15, 2017 22:24
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rdb posted:Speaking of tires and rims, I bought a set of 20" factory take offs from a 2017 tundra to go on my 2012. I contacted someone on CL and went to pick them up today, at the local toyota dealer of all places. Turns out they still had the nubs on them and had the TPMS sensors inside as well. Felt like a good deal, just surprised to see an employee selling them for cash out of the back door. I noticed this when I put the wheels / tires on my C10. I'd originally wanted to run 17s or 18s, but the tire selection in a truck-friendly height is poo poo. 20" tires were the same price and much more widely available. Amusingly, "truck friendly height" on a 20" wheel now includes the stock fitment for Challenger SRT8 (245/45R20, which I'm running on front) and Hellcat (275/40R20, which I'm running on rear).
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May 15, 2017 23:05
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CommieGIR posted:Now with OpenGL Rendition Verite or bust. Yes, I played a lot of Papyrus racing sims 
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May 16, 2017 19:07
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Uh... that's definitely an interesting failure. Can't say I've seen a compressor do this before. Literally two days before she traded it in, the compressor on my mom's Trailblazer locked up solid and was roasting its clutch even with the AC off. I think it might've thrown the belt before it got to the dealer.
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May 17, 2017 02:18
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BraveUlysses posted:how do you make it spin in your butt Get Five Guys in your mouth first.
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May 17, 2017 19:54
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poo poo like that is a big part of why I bought. Apartment complexes seem to be built around doing the same minimal repairs over and over again, rather than proper fixes.
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May 18, 2017 23:00
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Somewhat Heroic posted:
Sup motherfuckers. Thanks to a childhood spent attempting to be a Good Mormon I had very little exposure to "hot drinks" and no real temptation to try them. In my adult life I have never spent enough effort to actually acquire a taste for alcohol. Cheap beer or expensive, all I taste is the alcohol and all kinds of bitterness.
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May 20, 2017 00:35
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Cop Porn Popper posted:Probably, but the guy was the perfect blend of stupid and rear end in a top hat. He swapped between it being a 62, 65 and 67 impala, didn't know what the 350 was out of, didn't know what to call the part to get across what he needed and generally wouldn't stop whining about nobody being able to help him in the 20 minutes I was talking to him. Ah, one of those dickbags who doesn't get that "tree fiddy" and "small block Chevy" are not interchangeable.
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May 20, 2017 06:44
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rdb posted:Must be nice to have install privileges on your work laptop. Mine is locked down so hard it's not even funny. I couldn't even adjust the time when it got out of sync and my vpn tokens wouldn't work. My company doesn't even issue laptops, there's just a few shared ones that are giant, slow, hot, and locked down to be even more useless than our regular workstations. And yet literally everything my team does, along with the teams we work most closely with, are all either exposed externally or hosted on someone else's cloud anyway. So a completely unrestricted personal laptop is just as, or maybe even more effective than the company issued garbage.
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May 24, 2017 14:47
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$1300 will get you a full day at Bondurant in a Challenger SRT392.
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May 25, 2017 22:18
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:So happy for him. Probably took a little longer for redemption than he would have liked, but I bet it's still pretty drat sweet. The Japanese announcers calling the race is even better than when he went for it in 2012.
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May 28, 2017 23:58
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Got that audio anywhere? Phoneposting but there's a couple videos of it in the Indycar thread in SAS. It's great. Taku's own reaction in the car was just "AAAAAHHHHH AAAAAAAHHHH AAAAAHHHHH".
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May 29, 2017 20:38
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Flying home on Southwest. Window seat in an exit row with an empty middle seat. :iamafag:
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blk posted:I can't wait until my kid is out of daycare, it will be a 20k/year raise. Mine starts kindergarten in a couple months (which is a holy gently caress moment in itself). She's already doing the "after school" stuff anyway so the big drop in childcare costs will be very welcome.
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