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I wore Dickies pants and shorts exclusively throughout all four years of high school, to the extent that some of my friends that are still around from then make sure to remind me "Hey remember when you only wore Dickies for like four years?" Never had breaking in issues with them, also reiterating the pockets sucked. Have been wearing random rear end jeans the last several years, but a few months ago I decided I wanted actual nice everyday pants and I went to a Levi's outlet while out of town. Got me a pair of 511 and 512. I think they're both technically slim fit, but one of them is way slimmer than the other which was fine when I got them but the holidays already made me too fat for them  The other still fit fine, but the waist is a little TOO big for me, even though both pairs are the same waist size. 
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Of the five, Tomato and Hollandaise are the only ones that don't start with a roux Besides those, if you can master a good roux you're like 75% of the way to making whatever the gently caress you want. Hollandaise is my favorite of them all because it involves eggs. I love eggs. My instagram is like 50% eggs and hotdogs. the other 50% is beer.
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LOL at $100+ jeans. I get at least a year, usually more, out of Target $20 Wranglers, *unless* they're the stretchy ones. Then the dang Spandex content makes them wear very quickly, particularly the back pocket, thanks to my massive dad-wallet. That pair is actually in good shape except for the worn hole in the pocket. My problem lately has been actually finding 40x32 in stores. Wrangler.com has the regular-fit straight-leg jeans for the same price as Target, but plus shipping. Target.com doesn't even have 40x32 in several styles/colors, which just blows my mind. I get that the stores may be out of not carry less-popular sizes, but not even on the website? I know Wrangler makes the damned things. 42x32 was even harder to find - thankfully, I've lost weight. I've ended up with 30" inseam pants a couple times, but they're just a little high-water-ish on me. I need to see if 38x32 is any easier to find - I'm hoping to hit that size in a few more months! I did notice that the "Classic Slim" fit version of those Express Tough Stretch+ (not the Hyper Stretch) jeans was on clearance for $20, and were available in 42x32, so I bought a pair to try. Hard to resist $90 pants for $20. I figure going one size larger than I need now will account for the "slim" fit, as I'm... not. At least I don't need the "relaxed" fit any more. Edit: I don't like the fit of Levi's, but to be fair, I have not tried all 5 bajillion styles.
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Dec 30, 2019 17:07
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Hollandaise and mayo and probably every emulsification based sauce is a totally solved problem now though. Use the stick blender method and you’re set. I trialed it to make Toum for our Xmas dinner without a real recipe, just using the Immersion blender concept. BAM! Perfect fluffy garlic sauce in 2 minutes. https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2013/04/foolproof-2-minute-hollandaise-recipe.html
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Years ago I became a bit of a whore and started getting designer denim. I still wear them to this day. No regrets. Well one regret which was when I decided to take the dive into raw selvedge denim which took frigging YEARS to break in. Like 6 straight months of wearing them before they were passably comfortable. What the hell? All in the name of fashion? I am truly an idiot.
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Family craft time, the kids are doing unicorns and Celtic animals on bags, I went in a slightly different direction...
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cakesmith handyman posted:Family craft time, the kids are doing unicorns and Celtic animals on bags, I went in a slightly different direction... That's awesome.
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This is fascinating and worth an hour of your holiday time: Dubai Road Express "In 1976, Scania commissioned a film to document the maiden trucking journey between Norway and Dubai on a route called the Dubai Road Express. More than four decades later, this film has become a piece of history. [...] It was the next year, when the tanker Serpens Constellation had an unexpected breakdown in the middle of the Atlantic, that Jan was given the mission of a lifetime. A necessary spare part, made in Norway, needed to be delivered to Dubai, where the ship could pick it up while en route into the Persian Gulf. " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apx36O6tqN4 It's obviously before consumer GPS... but it's also before the road round the Gulf to Dubai was completed, so he has to venture off into the desert with neither a clear picture of where he's going, nor with any experience driving a 70s truck in sand. meltie fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Dec 30, 2019 |
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Dec 30, 2019 21:30
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God DAMNIT a door latch just caught my rain jacket and ripped a hole in it and I am salty as gently caress about it. It was basically brand new.
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People in Alabama are pretty goddamn nice but they smoke too goddamned much.
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As someone who used to, the smell of cigarettes makes me want to vomit, and we still have one friend that smokes and I hate it when he comes back in from a smoke. And one of my coworkers. Our payroll service is "rolling into the new year" which apparently means just completely shutting the whole loving service down for multiple hours. Not that we have to have payroll done and submitted by the end of the day today due to the holiday instead of our normal 10:00AM Wednesday deadline. The gently caress.
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Dec 30, 2019 22:42
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Gulf Shores Alabama is not a 3rd shift friendly town. Even pushing my sleep ahead as far as my body will tolerate is leaving me with 4 hours before anyone is awake. But I did find a doughnut shop with a great selection and good coffee. It's so peaceful on the beach here. The in laws are pondering buying a property down here so I may be able to return.
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So how bad are the fires in Australia at the moment? We owe New Zealand an apology for the smoke smell...
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Have ya'll ever considered not lighting half a continent on fire?
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Australians should start committing crimes so they can get exiled to England. But then they'd have to deal with Boris Johnson, so I'm not sure if it would actually be better.
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Dec 31, 2019 00:54
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Rhyno posted:People in Alabama are pretty goddamn nice but they smoke too goddamned much. Change your skin color, sexual orientation, or take up a different religion and report back.
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Fermented Tinal posted:Have ya'll ever considered not lighting half a continent on fire? It’s been discussed, but when we’ve had unprecedented droughts so everything is tinder dry and climate change is bringing more and more dry lightning storms across that can start 100+ fires in an hr it’s kinda tricky to pull off. The only reason the middle bit of Australia isn’t on fire too is because it’s all nothing but sand, rock and spinfex clumps
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cakesmith handyman posted:Family craft time, the kids are doing unicorns and Celtic animals on bags, I went in a slightly different direction... Nice. Where do the apex seals exit? Is that what the arrow is for?
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Darchangel posted:Where do the apex seals exit? Out of the tape deck, of course.
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Rhyno posted:Gulf Shores Alabama is not a 3rd shift friendly town. Even pushing my sleep ahead as far as my body will tolerate is leaving me with 4 hours before anyone is awake. But I did find a doughnut shop with a great selection and good coffee. There's always Waffle House!
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Dec 31, 2019 02:11
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Was doing some year end budget assessment, and I think I will be able to max my 401k next year for the first time. Will be a little tight but I can give it a shot for a few pay periods and see how it goes and adjust it down if necessary.. My wife getting a real job (well, with a national company and not a local small biz) and being able to pick up the kids health insurance was a HUGE benefit for us this year. I paid more for them in 4 months than her premiums in total including herself for the remainder of 2019. I know
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angryrobots posted:Was doing some year end budget assessment, and I think I will be able to max my 401k next year for the first time. Will be a little tight but I can give it a shot for a few pay periods and see how it goes and adjust it down if necessary.. My wife getting a real job (well, with a national company and not a local small biz) and being able to pick up the kids health insurance was a HUGE benefit for us this year. I paid more for them in 4 months than her premiums in total including herself for the remainder of 2019. Good for you. I'm just lucky my raises have just barely kept up with my expenditures. Mostly because my wife isn't working half as much as she used to and we have a kid now, but also because I'm trying to pay down recently incurred debt on top of maintaining my standard of living.
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Ferremit posted:So how bad are the fires in Australia at the moment? The entire South Coast of NSW just.... gently caress me it's all on goddamn fire in ways I have never seen.Cobargo is just ... gone. Batemans Bay is under a fire seige. If I get an emergency alert with Gospers Mountain going angry I'm loving off as fast as I can grab cats
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Dec 31, 2019 04:07
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Lol some dickhead on an FB group for Japanese tourism tried to call me out for saying a picture was shopped to include Mt Fuji. Mate, it's 40 miles south of Mt Fuji, and the photographer is facing south to take the picture...
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Dec 31, 2019 04:30
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Ferremit posted:We owe New Zealand an apology for the smoke smell... The worst we’re getting is some glaciers turning pink and brown from the dust, other than that just some haze and spectacular sunsets. It was worse a few weeks ago when the winds were carrying across more of the country. Nothing like the awful scenes you guys are dealing with, kia kaha.
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Ferremit posted:So how bad are the fires in Australia at the moment? As a western Canadian where it seems half of it is on fire every year, that is a lot of smoke especially when you can see it on a continental scale like that. Read on the news a lot of Canadians are heading south to help you all out. Hope it helps. I feel bad for the people losing everything but also the animals 
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Dec 31, 2019 04:59
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Firefighter died because a literal fire tornado picked up his 10 ton firetruck and dumped it upside down I'm at a complete loss to comphend half this poo poo and for reference my backyard nearly burnt 6 years ago due to what I thought was a savage fore. It's deeply unsettling to realise that monster was barely a blip compared to the poo poo going down now
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Dec 31, 2019 06:03
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Stay safe if you can. Those fires are not in any way loving around.
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Liquid Communism posted:Stay safe if you can. Those fires are not in any way loving around. I'm literally going outside every fifteen minutes scanning for anything, watching the Fire Near Me wepage etc etc. A flareup kicked off about 40kms west so that's not a problem. I see somethig, cats are in the car by any means required and I'm goooooooe
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I'm literally going outside every fifteen minutes scanning for anything, watching the Fire Near Me wepage etc etc. A flareup kicked off about 40kms west so that's not a problem. We had the aircrane go thumping over my house about 150m up earlier today going to a fire down the coast. That’s a noise that will get you scrambling for your phone to work out wtf is going on!
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Ferremit posted:We had the aircrane go thumping over my house about 150m up earlier today going to a fire down the coast. That’s a noise that will get you scrambling for your phone to work out wtf is going on! Oh god yes. Phone's been close to me for alerts all day.
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Yeah, there's apparently people down on the SE tip of Aus driven to hiding on beaches with warning to get in the water if the sirens go off.  https://twitter.com/danbakes/status/1211850190132367360 
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Get them cats in the car CT. (Posting from Wafflehouse)
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Rhyno posted:Get them cats in the car CT. Not to downplay the absolute hell on the South Coast but for the first time in 2 months fires are NOT circling - we got real goddamn lucky day and that big monster up north is simply running out of poo poo to burn. Half the area that the RFS says isn't burnt was in fact hazard reduced earlier this year so there's in reality a sizable gap before the remaining 10,000ha I back onto. My area ran out of luck big time in 2013 so I guess that's why they have put in some large burns which certainly as it turns out with a touch of rain and a lot of wind luck ran the fire down low of anything to burn. The monster to the south has a lot to jump before it's a threat it too is starting to run out of poo poo to burn. It's going west at the moment which again puts a lot of burnt area between the active fire and danger. Breathing easier? Yeah tonight I am. But GG send rain. Whats left is still explosively dry.
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We got lucky this year with a cold damp spring- we're down on rainfall, but not massively, probably around 300mm total. Tho that luck is rapidly running out- we've had gently caress all rain and everything is starting to dry out fast.  That was where the Air crane went today, and that was caused by a discarded ciggy butt near the cave. Its not anywhere near as bad as the south coast, but as the fire the other day up at Cuddlee Creek showed, its not going to take much for there to be a massive incident in the Adelaide Hills thats going to destroy 100's of homes and kill people. Its actually at the stage now where im considering whether I need to put protection sprinklers on my house and im in the centre of town!
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Happy new year you bunch of wierdos! Hopefully 2020 sucks a lot less dong than last year!
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I can’t fathom that half of Oz is on fire and fuckwits are still tossing cigarette bits on the ground. Stay unburnt, you guys.
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That's unreal to me that half of your country is burning to the ground and some gently caress thinks tossing a cigarette butt is fine.
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