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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Who the gently caress is Tom Waits? Just when I was thinking there may be some hope for you... smh.
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May 1, 2017 11:49
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I live in the arse end of the world - how can you not concieve that I've never heard of this person before... or that I would have zero interest outside being incredulous that anyone would think it's possible I've never heard of them before? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fju9o8BVJ8
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May 1, 2017 13:19
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Goober Peas posted:(i'm ribbing these guys and op a little. Dude needs to go to a trusted doctor for medical advice and not forums.somethingawful.com where everyone's credentials are dubious at best) I assure you, sir, that my credentials are vouchsafed by heaven. No less.
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May 2, 2017 22:23
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KozmoNaut posted:You're a good person. I don't know how else to express my appreciation for the fact that people like you exist in the world. Exactly my thoughts. That's some tough poo poo to deal with for no money... Hell, that's some tough poo poo to deal with regardless.
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May 3, 2017 10:58
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Sadly, it looks like the bathroom thread has run its course. Driven into the ground by the OP's stereotypical goony and unrecognized sexism, and another goon being a goon. It was fun while it lasted. 
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May 3, 2017 12:51
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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. How much did the Gorester or MR2 cost you?
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May 3, 2017 22:58
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Rhyno's trying to drop a couple dress sizes, he's gettin' married, y'know. I'm not the best drywall worker. I learned about the magic of hot mud, but I either mix way too much and it sets up before I can use it, or not enough and I'm stuck having to clean everything up before I can mix more. 
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May 5, 2017 17:08
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Conversely, I'm just over here all like... We just got a Duck Donuts near us. Are they remarkable in any way?
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May 5, 2017 22:05
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Beverly Cleavage posted:Kid chat. Move along. Woot! Congratulations. Man, AI is getting old.
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May 6, 2017 02:31
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That dog is obscenely attractive.
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May 6, 2017 14:54
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cakesmith handyman posted:https://www.strava.com/activities/973975493/shareable_images/map_based?hl=en-US&v=1494099768 Metrics don't matter, you got out there and did it. Kudos given. Go do it again!
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May 7, 2017 00:13
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angryrobots posted:He's always been very difficult on the ground, aggressive. Not natural horse behaviour. We've sent him to training more than once but he's gotten steadily worse over the years. Wife has had him for 11 years and he was 18 (off the track thoroughbred). Tough day. Was that what happened with the fence incident?
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May 7, 2017 01:17
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:edit: holy poo poo, next week makes 12 years on SA. One of us is bad at math. I think it's you.
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May 7, 2017 11:01
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Well gently caress. Lol. 
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May 7, 2017 12:17
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financially racist posted:hell no the svx fuckin rocks, i'd hope that's not a controversial opinion You're either trolling, or haven't looked at them enough to see that their transmissions are fragile as hell and haven't been available for 15 years.
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May 7, 2017 18:34
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financially racist posted:lmao @ the thought of having one and not dropping a standard in it Yep. Cheap is eliminated, so is "luxury." So I guess you're left with... "car." Yep, that's an SVX.
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May 7, 2017 20:17
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I'm more concerned about the airbag light. It really is a salvage title, his "trolling" claim was just backpedaling.
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May 8, 2017 23:08
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funny Star Wars parody posted:No there's a sensor under the passenger seat that I haven't bothered to reconnect funny Star Wars parody posted:I should mention that I did do a vin search and my car is IN FACT an orange title and I'm okay with that because I look forward to the sweet embrace of death (also because I'm getting a new car this summer) So much backpedaling.
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May 9, 2017 00:11
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Holy gently caress, Tesla is on crack. They just announced pricing for their solar roof shingles... $21 per square FOOT for a 35% solar panel house, they say that homes could go to 70% solar panel, so the price could nearly double. The cost for regular, "decent" shingles? Menards has Owens Corning dimensional shingles for $75 per SQUARE. A square is 100 square feet... That Tesla price is staggeringly expensive and not a viable product. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-tesla-solar-roof-costs-2017-5
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May 10, 2017 22:16
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:At my wedding, I cracked 400 glowsticks and stuffed them up my sleeves when Bohemian Rhapsody started playing. (There's a LOT more roof on many houses than there is flooring.) funny Star Wars parody posted:Elon Musk is a giant turd and I hope his business fails From this chart, it already is (except for the one quarter where they cooked the gently caress out of the books). Wall Street just has a giant chub for Tesla. It's going to bring us all down.
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May 10, 2017 23:02
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monsterzero posted: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. I want solar to be a thing. but it's still just a bit too far in the future.
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May 10, 2017 23:12
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IOwnCalculus posted:Also, SpaceX is cool as gently caress. No argument there.
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May 10, 2017 23:44
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Take a lesson in P/L becuase you sound like one of those idiots Take that righteous attitude and gently caress right off. And just wait until their "$35k car" hits the market that you can't touch for under $60k, and their production hits a solid 1/3 of what they've promised.
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May 10, 2017 23:48
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:No, I drat well wont. You are the one who is posting complete crap and you got called out for it. So again I will put it bluntly - learn how to read a real P/L before sprouting the same poo poo short sellers have been trying to pedal. You've said a lot of really stupid things over the years, and I've never taken it to a personal name-calling level. I thought you were better than that. I guess I was wrong. 
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May 10, 2017 23:57
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ExplodingSims posted:Hyperloops are dumb and bad. But high speed rail is awesome and we are losing to the Chinese so bad with our infrastructure. China has more than 10,000 miles of high speed rail. I had a buddy over there a couple months back and he sent me pictures from a train he was on... with the train's in-car display showing almost 300kph. 
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May 11, 2017 00:15
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spog posted:
That was 6 years ago... It's not like a high speed demolition derby over there... And that's kinda the point... We're sitting back and mocking and they are putting high speed rail and renewables on the menu.
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May 11, 2017 01:58
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Rhyno posted:gently caress SPACE On the floor.
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May 11, 2017 04:30
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:Right, but if a highspeed train crashes in China and your Uncle is killed you will probably get drunk and smoke a cigarette and go to work the next morning (at the highspeed-train railswitch factory). If a highspeed train crashes in the US and your Uncle is killed, you will immediately retain a lawyer(s), create a class-action lawsuit and sue any corporate entity who ever touched that train into oblivion. China is blowing many other Western countries away with their technological and infrastructure advancements. That is going to put them in a much better position in the future. They have enough high speed rail to cross the US with almost 4 separate routes. They are abandoning coal to pursue renewables. Yes, their workplace protection is absolutely lacking. But you cannot point to that as a moral outrage unless you do not buy anything imported from China made with those same near-slaves. We are all culpable -- with stupid-cheap tools, electronics, toys, things, etc. -- because we willingly engage in buying those things that we KNOW are made by people that are unfairly toiling. We are living a good life on the backs of millions of Chinese workers. At least their country is using some of that labor to advance their civilization, too.
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May 11, 2017 11:26
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Seat Safety Switch posted:You rang? 
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May 11, 2017 23:42
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Tide posted:Divorce finalized. I may have a date tonight. Weird feeling, man... Liminal space is the best. Good luck with the date!
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May 12, 2017 15:52
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angryrobots posted:Ah, so this is a mechanical link on a spring loaded door? I was thinking of the electrical part of the same name. Yep. Heat-activated mechanical link in fire protection talk, as opposed to the lovely fuse substitute in electrical talk.
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May 12, 2017 20:37
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monsterzero posted: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. Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:
The valve cover bolts are the problem. Just adding a washer to each bolt sealed mine up. I got a new gasket set, but when I got the front cover off, the gasket was newer and good. The integral washer that monsterzero pointed out were the issue.
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May 13, 2017 06:58
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Enourmo posted:Against all odds I got some sleep and I'm feeling a little better. I know I can pull it out, was kinda just having a panic attack tbh. A lot of people go through bad semesters. My first semester I pulled a solid 1.8 GPA. After that, I realized that it was time to put on my big boy pants and I hardened the gently caress up. From that point on, I pulled almost straight As and ended up cum laude in undergrad. So basically, your loving around time is spent. Time to shake it off, harden the gently caress up and do the work!
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May 14, 2017 17:43
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angryrobots posted:Got my "loan paid in full" notice from the bank yesterday, on my wife's cr-v. Woop woop. In Ohio, I've received the title in the mail, with the lien signed off by the bank.
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May 14, 2017 21:16
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cakesmith handyman posted:Buck the trend, get full moon discs. The only somewhat-modern car moons work on is the Roadmaster wagon.
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May 14, 2017 21:57
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Mash the left button. All the time.
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May 16, 2017 15:04
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LloydDobler posted:That or I truly try my hand at PDR. I want to but I'm scared! Get a door from a scrap yard and try first. PDR is tough to DIY learn. I have a nice and full set of PDR tools (about 70 pounds in a full gun case). I've read about theory, I've watched PDR people do the job. I've watched PDR people on youtube. I am fairly comfortable with the theory. But in practice... it takes a super-fine-tuned feel that is tough to pick up. I've taken dings from noticeable to barely noticeable, and I've also made some more noticeable because I ended up with a bunch of high spots making the area a bit hilly. From what I've read, this is normal in the learning process, but certainly discouraging. That's not to say "don't try it," but try it on something you don't care about. I'm slowly working on my Avalon which I give no shits about... so it's an ideal candidate.
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May 16, 2017 17:08
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Yep, budget and purpose is important. A $100 fix-up of your bike (chain tires, rear cassette) would make it ride-able and as good as it was before, but... Newer bikes will have significant improvements, if your budget is $700-1200+. You have to know some things about the different generations of (primarily) Shimano hardware and know what you're looking at. 9 speed is old. 10 speed is old, but still viable. 11 speed is new within the past 3 years. 10 speed bikes are the sweet spot for price/performance on the used market. Easy to find a sub-$1000 bike that will give you 85% of the performance of a brand new bike. Basically -- what's your budget, and what's your comfort level with tinkering? There are a surprising number of tools to fully tear down/rebuild a bike, but $40 will get you to the "can do almost anything" threshold. Rough roads / gravel speak to a cyclocross bike. They are amazingly capable, and very comfortable. My cross bike is within 1mph of my full-on road bike over 20 mile trips, but it's like riding a couch.
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Siochain posted:
Cross bikes are rad. Similar to road frame geometry, but clearance between the stays for wider / fatter / knobbier tires and commensurate gearing. No real downside, other than a slightly lower speed per effort and a slower top speed compared to a road bike. Fat bikes are largely gimmicks. They have their place for snow riding and showboating, but that's not what you seem to be looking for. They are extremely heavy and slow. It takes a lot of work to build momentum in something that heavy.
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