July Chat Thread: At least it's not June anymore.

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Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

cakesmith handyman posted:

T-top M3SCORT would be the best ever. It's been a long time since AI had a Photoshop thread.

I actually didnt notice what was shopped on that 'thats a nice Escort'

# ¿ Jul 1, 2019 08:58

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 10:24

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Good luck with the insurance Tremak! I would be really interested in the report on fire source, but take your time and remember that everything with a heartbeat survived.

Onto fun poo poo at work!
The day the office grumpy cat bitch was goning to be let go, she passed over paperwork for workers compensation for 'workplace bullying'. This also coincided with her using exactally all of her sick leave (in Australia - you don't get paid that out when you quit). Funnily enough her new boyfriend is also on workers compo so is most likely taught how to manipulate the system.

The office discussion is 'who is the bully?' I instantly say it's me because I don't take her lovely attitude and ignore her. Next thing everyone else in the office is saying they also thought they might me. Proper case of "When you think everyone around you is an rear end in a top hat, you are the rear end in a top hat" which is true considering how much more joyful work has been the last few days.

# ¿ Jul 2, 2019 12:47

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meatpimp posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQgh450XIgw

I love it! Knew it was gonna happen

# ¿ Jul 2, 2019 13:40

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Yay! So maybe a month or so with few gf and instant dad, spending time teaching the kids stuff never learnt and I'm kicked to the curb. Feel like I shoulda camped out in Tremeks garage the other night.

Edit: For some reason I feel more devastated than the divorce. Sad music, on the beers again, fat old bloke crying. To the point I'm chatting to the ex-wife about it (we are amicable)

Humphreys fucked around with this message at 14:22 on Jul 5, 2019

# ¿ Jul 5, 2019 14:11

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Powershift posted:

Ask her if she has any single friends

I actually did, in a smart rear end kinda way. "Got any hot friends I can also disappoint :P"

# ¿ Jul 5, 2019 15:01

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

To the aussies, out there - a question.

Do you know of any Laserdisks that were made to be adverts instore for Holden in the 80-90s? My neighbour was drunkenly talking last night about it and says he will take them and give to me.

EDIT: He is a manager of a dealership just to clarify.

Humphreys fucked around with this message at 06:16 on Jul 7, 2019

# ¿ Jul 7, 2019 05:50

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Liquid Communism posted:

Yup.

What should be scaring anyone with a sense of economics is how many Boomers there are trying to live like billionares on a five digit income, and blithely expecting to be able to keep doing it in retirement despite their only real asset being real estate.

Im 3rd in line to the family fortune (a real legit castle in NI included). And I'm an only child. They aren't giving anything away without a fight.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2019 11:50

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Rhyno posted:

I'm on a boat with a lot of rich old white people.

Friday at 5PM my boss threw me a lanyard and said "You like cars and have family up north, here go to this thing". Within an hour I had organised a flight and accomodation and arrived well before start time Saturday while taking the $53 cab ride out of town to the bush. So I been getting trashed on free beers with rich old white people too.

quote:

The Central Queensland Motor Sporting Club Inc. is proud to present the CQ Crane Hire Gold Rush Hill Sprint.

This is a two day Tarmac Motorsport event with over 100 invited experienced competitors from Queensland and Interstate driving some very unique and very fast cars.

The course is a one of a kind in Australia, starting at the bottom of the Mt Morgan Range (Burnett Highway) and featuring over 2.2 kilometres of 10 metre wide tarmac with 24 corners and a 160 metre change of elevation.

The inaugural one day event in 2018 attracted 75 competitors and over 1,600 spectators.

Parking for spectators is at the Bouldercombe Showgrounds with bus transport to the great viewing area. Food and drinks will be available for purchase throughout both days. Spectator tickets can be pre-purchased.

Come and visit a beautiful part of Central Queensland and watch some fast and exciting Motorsport action.

Please note that no alcohol is allowed to be brought to this event.

gently caress the police:

Gallery of a bunch of random drunken photos I took (the Skelta isn't my photo though, it's Allan Reinikka Photography's)

https://imgur.com/a/qz3ApvG

EDIT: Notice the dudes shirt behind me 'The Bottlo Racing' I think that might be the reason for the extra 8 cartons of beer half an hour before end of day one being delivered (which we drank/stole)

Humphreys fucked around with this message at 10:44 on Jul 14, 2019

# ¿ Jul 14, 2019 04:36

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You Am I posted:

Cool photos, love the old XP Falcon sedan done up for racing. Rarely see those first gen Falcons getting love like that, outside of the coupes.

It was a really fun day, made some new contacts and an invitation to check out one of the richers Ferrari collection and go for a cruise. All because I was at the Staging and the dude next to me was bitching about it being cold. Told him I have a beanie so we went and got it from my car, made his morning.

On car stuff, I FINALLY fixed the failed switch membrane for the tailgate on my wagon. Holden really dropped the ball not having a remote/manual override on it at all (other than popping a grommet and a stupidly huge flat head screwdriver while someone else pushes down from outside).

$5 switch from Jaycar instead of the $185 for new proper part from Holden. If/when I sell the car I'll get the proper assembly.

Humphreys fucked around with this message at 09:52 on Jul 15, 2019

# ¿ Jul 15, 2019 09:38

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You Am I posted:

There might be the outside chance the Jaycar part is made in the same factory as the Holden part

It isn't at all teh same type of part. The factory switch is a stupid rubber pad with two strips of metal inside that flex together to act as a switch. This is waterproofed with the same attention to detail you expect from Holden these days.

I literally drilled a hole and removed the strips, then placed a waterproof push button in the hole, waterproofed everything properly and huzzah! Now I can actually use my wagon to haul ~~poo poo I buy on facebook or bunnings~~ important stuff.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2019 10:00

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

DJ Commie posted:

Somehow I was able to get my 1987 Mazda 323 Wagon with a B6T swap through the California Referee program, so now its street legal. Only close to double the power from stock, and I have just about the entire 1988 HKS performance catalog in parts to throw at it. Now its off to show at the Concours d'Lemons in Monterey next month.

And I turn 36 tomorrow.

Hello!

It's an 89 TX3 but same same

# ¿ Jul 17, 2019 08:56

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

DJ Commie posted:

Holy poo poo, I bet that goes alright.

Oh boy yes. It wasn't known as the Skyline hunter for no reason.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2019 09:25

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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

Well at least until you got on boost and either of the following happened -

1) It was FWD and the torque steer drove it into a power pole

2) It was AWD and the gearbox exploded

OK You know your TX3s!

You are weirdly close because there were two. The FWD which really did some target fixation like no other and ramped a roundabout. And the AWD build that made a few old magazines which detonated the gearbox when the new buyer floored it in the airport carpark. Poor bastard flew up and wanted to drive home. Nope.

# ¿ Jul 19, 2019 14:29

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FAT32 SHAMER posted:

Reading is fer yellerbellies

IKR

# ¿ Jul 20, 2019 08:56

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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

https://www.facebook.com/hartmandrifting/photos/a.1929482167334352/2409778482638049/?type=3&theater

Someone did a valid weight comparison (ie fully dressed WITH turbos and all ancillaries required for operation even down to oil filters, so no OnlyTheNudeLongBlock bullshit) between the Barra and the 2JZ and RB26. Which one is lighter?

The Barra by 17 kgs - full ready to run motor with turbo is 229kgs. Honestly I would never have picked that

So Ford fanatics are correct for once

# ¿ Jul 21, 2019 09:53

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Yay! I'm officially a dumbass! Drunk on eBay wanting to come up with a cheapupgrade for my N36L Microserver for PLEX etc. I ended up buying a HP DL380 Gen5 without reading up on it at all. Oh yes it has dual Xeons and 28GB RAM but I neglected to realise it uses 2.5in SFF Hard Drives. ALL my drives are 3.5in. DAMMIT!

# ¿ Jul 23, 2019 10:33

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bolind posted:

No need to panic, just get a D2600 HD enclosure!

No! I'm just going to part this server out and profit with all the extras I got. Then actually do research!

EDIT: I found a D2600 for very cheap, now to find drive caddys!

Humphreys fucked around with this message at 12:25 on Jul 23, 2019

# ¿ Jul 23, 2019 12:16

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bolind posted:

Don't forget you need a cable and a PCIe card for the server as well. Can't remember the specs, I'm not that much of a data center jockey.

Yeah, reading up on it. Got a mate who runs a Defence DC just laughing at me right now and offering all sorts of help.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2019 13:42

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Liquid Communism posted:

I saw a lifted Silverado today with a 6" stack coming out of the bed and terminating below the bed line to hide it from the cops.

Of course it was smoke tuned so the entire passenger side of the back of the cab was black with soot.

DL380 Gen5's should have a 256mb or 512mb p400 Smart Array Controller already installed depending on the model, but it's usually just cabled to the front drive bay in the ones I've worked on.

This one does have a P400, as for routing I'm not sure. The deal was pretty good though with a total of 3 PSUs and the sliding rack kit (which I have no way of using). I'm kinda thinking of parting it out and upgrading to a newer HJP Microserver or just ghetto build a server from an old gaming PC. I REALLY don't like the noise this DL380 makes.

# ¿ Jul 24, 2019 08:36

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Beach Bum posted:

Yup, I've already booted up my USAA credit monitoring and filed a claim. Most decent CUs offer some sort of free credit monitoring, so jump on it y'all.

Not always. I vividly remember most of one Friday night when I was at the bar, got a call from Publix:
Manager: "Hey, the wax crew lead that was supposed to come in to do the upper offices called in tonight. Can you come in?"
Me: "Uh, I'm down at Birds about three pitchers in, I don't think that's going to work."
Ma: "Well, uh, we really need someone, Corporate will be here next week..."
Me: "Let me get this straight, you want me to come in and work a floor wax crew, drunk?"
Ma: "...Yes."
Me: "Okay. I want double time, and no malarkey about being drunk on the clock. And I want it in writing, signed by both you and another closing manager. It it's not printed by the time the cab drops me off, I'm taking the cab home. And I want my cab paid for."
Ma: "..."
Me: "No time to chat, pitcher is empty..."
Ma: "Okay-fine-just-get-here-as-soon-as-you-can"

To her credit, it was all in writing and I made double time for the night. And that loving floor was sparkling Monday morning. That manager was loving awesome, she's the one who'd made me full time a few months earlier. Too bad they rotated her out and made my store a manager training store for the next two years, and I got to watch all the skiving shitheads get promoted ahead of me. To be fair, I was a hell of an arrogant prick at the time, and I got better work after I left.

Yada yada anecdotes but I suppose there's a hell of a difference between a well-established years-old working relationship with your manager and being within 90 days of your hire.

Many many years ago my boss was driving me home cos my car was in the shop. I was being annoying by asking for a drop off to bottleshop, takeaway, bank etc. We ended up back in office drinking all the booze and eating all the food. WAking up just before saturday shift and pretending we werent drunk still.

# ¿ Jul 26, 2019 17:32

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NumbersMatching320 posted:

...who?

...I like this game.
https://www.drive2.ru/l/536455847434259048/

I was aimless in life until now. Do want.

Related I should find the photo of my ex's rear end print embedded into the hood of my Sera.

# ¿ Jul 28, 2019 09:03

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 10:24

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Olympic Mathlete posted:

If live could stop kicking my AI doodz I'd really appreciate it, July has been a loving terrible month for you lot :/

I got diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes?

# ¿ Jul 31, 2019 13:51

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