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So my wife and I saw a dude out in public carrying a ventriloquist dummy. Dude had a mask on, dummy had a fedora but I got the feeling the dude wished it were the reverse.
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Darchangel posted:Thanks.  I am happy for you, the new kid, and your daughter!
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Jul 1, 2020 18:45
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Rhyno posted:So my wife and I saw a dude out in public carrying a ventriloquist dummy. Dude had a mask on, dummy had a fedora but I got the feeling the dude wished it were the reverse. That's the beauty of normalizing masks. Anyone can be a ventriloquist!
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Jul 1, 2020 18:45
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Safety Dance posted:That's the beauty of normalizing masks. Anyone can be a ventriloquist! I got irrationally angry when I thought about it, dude had a dummy but was wearing a mask, that's cheating!
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Jul 1, 2020 18:46
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Darchangel posted:Normally wouldn't have been too much of an issue, but that particular day, it was grating. I don't blame you, since covid started my son has been mostly just playing Fortnite and has learned how to troll and annoy other players very well by being obnoxiously animated and loud which also annoys the gently caress out of me. My wife and I have both had to warn him we were going to confiscate the mic on his headset if he didn't STFU. As I type this all I'm hearing is OH MY GOD YOU ARE SO BAD STOP SPAMMING ME which I have no idea what that means in fortnite context 
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Jul 1, 2020 19:14
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Applebees Appetizer posted:I don't blame you, since covid started my son has been mostly just playing Fortnite and has learned how to troll and annoy other players very well by being obnoxiously animated and loud which also annoys the gently caress out of me. My wife and I have both had to warn him we were going to confiscate the mic on his headset if he didn't STFU. I think it means someone was shooting him (which is, of course, how you play the game...) but missing. Dunno, haven't played Fortnite in quite some time. Never could get the hang of the building mechanic. I like what it added to the game, but I sucked at it. If I'm being honest, I'm not stellar at the shooting people aspect of it, or any FPS, really, but I'm not the worst, most games. The guys I play with keep me around, I think, simply because I am a bullet magnet. I accel at attracting enemy fire. I'm like a bird dog, or a coal-mine canary. I step out of cover (or not) and they now know exactly where the enemy is. edit: I, uh, also tend to yell a lot while playing. I am seriously trying to temper that a lot, since I tend to play late at night Friday and Saturday nights, while everyone else is trying to sleep. Plus, I don't like getting so angry that I yell. It doesn't help my game at all. If they would just legalize weed here in TX, I'm sure I could reduce the issue... edit 2: Amusingly, I have played PUBG Mobile 3 times, last time just a bit back while waiting for my car to be inspected, and all three times I have Chicken Dinnered (for those that don't play, that means I won - was the last man standing in Battle Royale,) despite being at best mediocre in the full game on console. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Jul 1, 2020 |
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Jul 1, 2020 19:26
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Safety Dance posted:Where are you planning to go? We booked a good campsite a couple of hours drive away in Wales, near Bala lake. I wanted to take the kids canoeing on the canal and aquaduct, there's a huge hydroelectric thing nearby they both want to go see and a bunch of other things. At the moment it looks like campsites will be open but the shower blocks and toilets won't be. That's a deal breaker, we don't have facilities in our camping gear and won't go 10 days without showers.
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Jul 1, 2020 19:55
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Rhyno posted:So my wife and I saw a dude out in public carrying a ventriloquist dummy. Dude had a mask on, dummy had a fedora but I got the feeling the dude wished it were the reverse. Someone blasted through my store the other night just before close wearing a crop top Minnie Mouse shirt, short short shorts, a Minnie Mouse backpack, Mouse ears, and skates. Not rollerblades. Proper skates. Blasting through the store with a cart. This was a guy with a decent build, obviously ate well and exercised. Not BUILT, but had a 6 pack. I have no idea if he actually bought anything or not, we didn't hear anything about him after everyone in my department collectively went "dafuq was that about?!". I wish I'd been a bit faster with the camera, but he was seriously flying. At Walmart a few weeks ago, I saw one of the automated floor cleaners with a teddy bear riding it, with a mask.. and of course the machine got stuck. 
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Jul 1, 2020 19:59
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STR posted:Someone blasted through my store the other night just before close wearing a crop top Minnie Mouse shirt, short short shorts, a Minnie Mouse backpack, Mouse ears, and skates. Not rollerblades. Proper skates. Blasting through the store with a cart. Weird Austin is weird. quote:At Walmart a few weeks ago, I saw one of the automated floor cleaners with a teddy bear riding it, with a mask.. and of course the machine got stuck. Teddy is not adequately trained on the equipment, obviously.
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Jul 1, 2020 20:09
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STR posted:Someone blasted through my store the other night just before close wearing a crop top Minnie Mouse shirt, short short shorts, a Minnie Mouse backpack, Mouse ears, and skates. Not rollerblades. Proper skates. Blasting through the store with a cart. Everybody wants to be a TEDDY BEAR FLOOR CLEANER OPERATOR until the real TEDDY BEAR FLOOR CLEANER OPERATOR shows up.
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Jul 1, 2020 20:54
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Everybody wants to be a meatpimp likes this post.
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Jul 1, 2020 20:55
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Darchangel posted:"Mah freedoms!" - idiots who don't understand science or medicine. So, you know, Trump supporters. It's funny (funny weird, not funny like you're a clown) how they are harming *themselves (as well as others) by being *selfish*. Around here it is not even that. Plenty of "conservatives" are complying without issue. It is the ones that are weird about it that I am just not getting.
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Jul 1, 2020 20:57
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cakesmith handyman posted:We booked a good campsite a couple of hours drive away in Wales, near Bala lake. I wanted to take the kids canoeing on the canal and aquaduct, there's a huge hydroelectric thing nearby they both want to go see and a bunch of other things. At the moment it looks like campsites will be open but the shower blocks and toilets won't be. That's a deal breaker, we don't have facilities in our camping gear and won't go 10 days without showers. Are Wales even allowing English in? I was under the impression that like Scotland they were very much trying not to get re-covidededededed by our fellow morons.
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Jul 1, 2020 21:33
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I've been having an ant problem lately and was having a hell of a time trying to get control of them, they were ignoring the terro I was putting out and swarming the cat food or anything else left out that was slightly edible it was all fair game. Then yesterday I found their (huge) nest outside and Nuked It From Orbit, no more ants now 
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Jul 1, 2020 21:57
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Cat Interceptor failing to properly transfer title. Tsk tsk.
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Jul 1, 2020 21:59
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cakesmith handyman posted:Whoa we're half way there. I highly doubt my trip to Japan in September is happening, but I loving hope it happens so I can get out of this covid infested cesspit for a month.
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Jul 1, 2020 22:28
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cakesmith handyman posted:We booked a good campsite a couple of hours drive away in Wales, near Bala lake. I wanted to take the kids canoeing on the canal and aquaduct, there's a huge hydroelectric thing nearby they both want to go see and a bunch of other things. At the moment it looks like campsites will be open but the shower blocks and toilets won't be. That's a deal breaker, we don't have facilities in our camping gear and won't go 10 days without showers. Can you bathe in the waters you'll be canoeing on? That's what I always did on my canoe trips. One time I went on a canoe trip that turned into 24 days without a shower. Towards the end of the trip it got too cold to go in the water anymore, and swimming the Hudson bay itself is suicidal. We had an easy time crossing the border on the way back though!  I'm wearing a red bandanna on my head. I don't think my pants had much time left, but they did better than Tim's.
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Jul 1, 2020 22:29
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Applebees Appetizer posted:I've been having an ant problem lately and was having a hell of a time trying to get control of them, they were ignoring the terro I was putting out and swarming the cat food or anything else left out that was slightly edible it was all fair game. We had ants entering from the loving attic last month. Finally found a single tree branch that was touching the roof and it was cover in ants. Whole tree is gone now. I ain't fuckin around.
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Jul 1, 2020 23:02
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slidebite posted:That's a good neighbor. They are really nice, our holdholds pretty much live in each others yards and pondering putting a gate in the fence. I'll come home and the father is chilling in my backyard with a rum waiting for me to come home to borrow a tool or get a lift with something and vice versa. The kids are mental but think I'm an uncle and always yell over the fence to have me come over for dinner when they get a KFC bucket "We can't eat until Uncle Humphreys is here mum!" The father got grounded by his wife for coming over at my house and getting drunk too often at one stage :P
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Jul 2, 2020 03:24
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I got approved for a  card today. gently caress yeah blaze it etc.Honestly I just hope it helps me sleep
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Jul 2, 2020 04:26
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Applebees Appetizer posted:I've been having an ant problem lately and was having a hell of a time trying to get control of them, they were ignoring the terro I was putting out and swarming the cat food or anything else left out that was slightly edible it was all fair game. Sounds like you’ve got it fixed, but when I had a sugar ant problem I found that Advion gel worked a million times better than terro, which they didn’t seem to care about at all. They went nuts for the Advion and would go after it before anything else.
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Jul 2, 2020 05:14
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Previa_fun posted:I got approved for a It definitely helps me. I don't use it for that all that often but when I do I'm asleep pretty quick and I seem to stay asleep most of the night
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Jul 2, 2020 06:51
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Presented without comment: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/bmw-vehicle-as-a-platform/
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Jul 2, 2020 11:37
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We knew cars as a subscription model was coming, we just didn't know it was going to start with features the car sells with... That's honestly incredible but not in a good way.
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Jul 2, 2020 11:59
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meatpimp posted:Presented without comment: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/bmw-vehicle-as-a-platform/ I'm sure that won't be hacked to gently caress in the used market. At all. Subscription heated seats. WTF BMW.
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Jul 2, 2020 12:00
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bolind posted:I'm sure that won't be hacked to gently caress in the used market. At all. There's part of me that wants that to happen so that I can run +12v to the element with a switch and have heated seats out of spite.
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Jul 2, 2020 12:52
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powderific posted:Sounds like you’ve got it fixed, but when I had a sugar ant problem I found that Advion gel worked a million times better than terro, which they didn’t seem to care about at all. They went nuts for the Advion and would go after it before anything else. This sounded great until I went on Amazon to buy it and the reviews are saying a different company makes it now and it's nowhere near as good as it used to be  Probably going to try it anyway since Terro is worthless at this point so anything different is worth a shot
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Jul 2, 2020 13:03
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meatpimp posted:Presented without comment: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/bmw-vehicle-as-a-platform/ BMW has been dead to me for years... This is just another example of how the world I thought I knew is gone! Remember when you could go into a BMW dealership and look at cars you might actually want to acquire?
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Jul 2, 2020 13:36
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The Brexiteers will love it. Buy a car and things stop working after three months? It'll be like the glory days of the British motor industry.
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Jul 2, 2020 14:04
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Is the grille going to be subscription as well?
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Jul 2, 2020 14:07
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Applebees Appetizer posted:This sounded great until I went on Amazon to buy it and the reviews are saying a different company makes it now and it's nowhere near as good as it used to be The stuff I used is syngenta, so that’s post company change and it worked great for me. One thing that can happen is you’re supposed to use protein granules and sweet bait (which is what advion is) at the same time cause ants aren’t always just looking for one type of food. The ants I had only wanted the advion and never touched the max force granules. You can also add in a non-repelling insecticide like spectre on their trails and it’ll get on them and affect the whole nest. edit: also with Amazon wonder if maybe some old or counterfeit stuff made it out. I think I ordered mine from do it yourself pest control powderific fucked around with this message at 16:00 on Jul 2, 2020 |
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Jul 2, 2020 14:09
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meatpimp posted:Presented without comment: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/bmw-vehicle-as-a-platform/ BMW keeps doing things that increase the value of older BMWs like mine. So keep on keeping on.
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Jul 2, 2020 14:28
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InitialDave posted:The Brexiteers will love it. Buy a car and things stop working after three months? It'll be like the glory days of the British motor industry. But with less smoke and fire.
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Jul 2, 2020 15:11
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Applebees Appetizer posted:This sounded great until I went on Amazon to buy it and the reviews are saying a different company makes it now and it's nowhere near as good as it used to be That sucks. I used Advion Ant before and it was amazing. Year over year I had a problem with carpenter ants getting into the house. I kept them at bay with Home Depot level stuff, and it was a continual fight. I used Advion Ant 2 loving times over a couple week period and I haven't had the carpenter ants back in at least 3 years. I'm out and need more, if it's not the same, I'm sad. In other news, I'm happy. I just got a set of 30 syringes: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RSTQ6RV I've been needing something like this to micro-apply some caulk in very tiny gaps. Looks like these will work great. But the first thing I tried was to inject wood glue under our hardwood floor. We had it installed last December and there were a couple creaky boards, on in particular in the main part of the kitchen. I drilled a 1/16" hole in the board and injected wood glue underneath it. Boom, no more squeak. And as it dries, it'll be filled and supported, so hopefully the squeak doesn't return.
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Jul 2, 2020 15:56
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STR posted:But with less smoke and fire. Don’t be so sure. Dads X3 is going in shortly for this fix: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15339030/bmw-recalls-1-million-cars-for-electrical-fires/
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Jul 2, 2020 15:57
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So if anyone isn't up on banana history before the 50s the kind of bananas imported were Gros Michel or "Big Mike". Then what's known as Panama Disease wiped them out, it's a fungal disease that rotted the plants from the inside out. Since bananas are all genetically identical they were almost entirely wiped out. The ones we get now are known as Cavendish and are immune to the disease so far. The Gros Michel ones are supposed to taste like candy, literally. It's the artificial flavor in taffy, runts, etc if you ever wondered why those taste nothing like the Cavendish that we are used to. I eat a lot of bananas, they are my favorite. Once I found out about the Gros Michel I had to try them. I found a place in Florida that grows them last year but they were out of season. Now they are so I ordered some and just got them today. They are still green and I'm dying for them to ripen. I got 10lbs of them and I'll share some of them to friends and family but I'll probably end up eating most of the 10lbs. I'm so excited.   Also started leash training the squeaker yesterday and she does pretty good! Getting the harness on was not as smooth but otherwise she took right to it. When the tail is up and s-shaped that's coati body language for being happy, she loves exploring outside so I try to walk her almost every day. https://streamable.com/5gx1w1
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Jul 2, 2020 16:28
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meatpimp posted:Presented without comment: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/bmw-vehicle-as-a-platform/ gently caress that with a flaming razor-dick. I wonder how they think that will fly in the secondary market? People that buy BMWs do tend to be concerned about resale value. In cool news, while picking up a prescription for my sick wife, I found these at Walgreens:  1967 Toyota 2000GT, and a pair of 1974 Mazda RX-3s with their race pants on, all from Jada Toys. Nicely detailed, with opening doors, about 1/43 scale. All are RHD, BTW. Walgreens also had the 2000GT in white with orange striping, and all black with plain tires. They also had modified NA Miatas in 2 colors, as well. Nice! Most of the other cars were common eye candy: exotics, Viper, Shelby Cobra, etc. Nothing else I felt like I needed to buy. $5 each! Also, I think it may be time for a haircut:  I like the way long hair looks, but this poo poo is starting to get in my way. I can pull most of it back in a ponytail, but the sides are still a little short and fall in my face. On the plus side, my Big Lebowski cosplay is coming together. Need to trim the beard for that, though.
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bolind posted:I'm sure that won't be hacked to gently caress in the used market. At all. Tesla has already done this. Ultimately it doesn't hurt the only customers BMW truly cares about - the ones who buy or lease a new one every few years. It's awful and they'll probably get away with it.
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Jul 2, 2020 16:57
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I dunno even the new BMW customers bitched like hell about the CarPlay stuff. I think it'll only happen on a full service subscription model like Care by Volvo.
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At least locally, BMW and MB do a lot of second leases. I'm guessing that keeps residuals up, and their new model lets them charge for features twice.
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