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Cats: good Cars: bad Sniping two threads in a row: good Good luck STR! this is a chat thread for chatting feel free to discuss anything except for the banned topics banned topics are: ford maverick vs nissan patrol holden apollo vs toyota camry nissan ute vs ford falcon ute toyota lexcen vs holden commodore holden nova vs toyota corolla
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May 31, 2021 15:15
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Got a roomba, dog tried to eat it. Good start.
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May 31, 2021 15:22
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BigPaddy posted:Got a roomba, dog tried to eat it. Good start. just wait until your dog has a runny poo poo and the roomba tries to clean it
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May 31, 2021 15:50
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This suuuucks. Roombas should not be in the same home as older dogs
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May 31, 2021 15:58
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It is mostly on me as I had a radio controlled car that I had him run around the old place and how he thinks anything small that moves on its own is to be chased. I also had him jumping to try and catch a drone but that will be helpful for intercepting amazon drones in the future.
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May 31, 2021 17:07
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BigPaddy posted:Got a roomba, dog tried to eat it. Good start. Hope everyone had a good Memorial Day weekend. We haven't had insurance chat in a bit so anyone have agreed value on a daily driver? I'm thinking of bringing the E30 and E28 into the occasional daily driver rotation, looks like Grundy somewhat supports it but I need to talk to an agent and clarify.
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May 31, 2021 17:37
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The chip shortage is loving wild. 23 new Rav4’s within 100 miles of Houston! For comparison, there are new 590 CR-V’s, 315 new Equinox’s and 36 new Porsche Macan’s in the same market. Bouillon Rube fucked around with this message at 18:59 on May 31, 2021 |
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May 31, 2021 18:45
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Bouillon Rube posted:The chip shortage is loving wild. 23 new Rav4’s within 100 miles of Houston! Yeah but, how many good cars are for sale?
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May 31, 2021 19:09
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big dong wanter posted:Yeah but, how many good cars are for sale? Hey, the base model Macan's are legitimately good vehicles. Not worth MSRP but they are good.
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May 31, 2021 19:33
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big dong wanter posted:Yeah but, how many good cars are for sale? There are no good cars, never have been
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May 31, 2021 19:36
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big dong wanter posted:just wait until your dog has a runny poo poo and the roomba tries to clean it This sounds like it isn't a good time for anyone involved...
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May 31, 2021 19:46
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Olympic Mathlete posted:This sounds like it isn't a good time for anyone involved... Dog poo poo / cat puke, it's a joy either way
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May 31, 2021 19:49
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In on the ground floor Or in the case of the Roomba, ground in on the floor
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May 31, 2021 19:58
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Bouillon Rube posted:There are no good cars, never have been
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May 31, 2021 20:11
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I have Hagerty insurance with agreed value on the Alfa and the BMWs, haven’t had to make a claim with them but they are pleasant to deal with and the price is fine. They send a monthly magazine that is legitimately good, too.
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May 31, 2021 20:20
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Currently trying to get yard work done slowly being driven insane/deaf from cicadas.
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May 31, 2021 20:41
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Rode to/from the grocery store, since it's only 2 1/4 miles each way. Grabbed spray-on sunblock while there. Thought I grabbed SPF 50. Grabbed SPF 100 (next shelf up, but bottle looked identical aside from the number). Whoops. I DO want a tan, damnit. Oh well, I still bathed in it before I rode back home, so at least I only got about 20 minutes of actual sun exposure. And somehow my hairy as hell legs got sunburned.  That's a new one, I can't ever get even a tan on my legs most of the time.We have sunblock lotion at home, but not spray (I prefer the spray). And this week is 25% off all store brand items for employees, plus it had a $2 off coupon on top of that. $8 can turned into $4. 
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May 31, 2021 21:30
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Bouillon Rube posted:The chip shortage is loving wild. 23 new Rav4’s within 100 miles of Houston! I'm currently waiting for a Tacoma to come from San Antonio. Put a down payment on it at the beginning of April, found out that it will in fact get made "this time around" at the beginning of May. Still have to wait for it until the second or so week of July. But hey, its AHEAD of schedule  . It was supposed to come the third week......I looked at every dealer I could think of in Southern Ontario, and a bunch in Northern/ Northwest Ontario. Most dealers have none in stock and the one that actually had the one I want (cab/colour, transmission etc) was in Thunder Bay which is about 2 days drive from here. STR posted:Rode to/from the grocery store, since it's only 2 1/4 miles each way.
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May 31, 2021 21:49
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I'm Irish (so pasty white and a bit heavy); I'm also apparently related to both Casper and Chewbacca; my skin is drat near translucent under all the hair. Even if I wear any kind of sunblock, the first time I'm out in the sun for the season, I look like a boiled lobster. Usually my forearms get a good tan, my upper arms burn, my legs stay paper white, my knees tan/sometimes burn. Even my forearms are borderline 2nd degree sunburn right now. I'm very late to the sunburn party thanks to working nights, but I'm off work until late June to deal with rehab. At the moment, that mostly consists of 3 hours a day of Zoom meetings with a pretty expensive (if I didn't have drat good insurance) intensive outpatient provider, a 30-60 minute meeting with a counselor, plus a couple of AA meetings a day, and have to swing by work for drug/alcohol tests at least once a week. Usually once I get that first burn in (and this one was pretty bad), I wind up with a pretty solid tan that just gets darker through the season (you know, when I don't work nights). I definitely did not mean to get 100, I was hoping more for 35. 50 was the lowest they had in sweatproof*, and I thought I'd grabbed from that shelf.  I'm also very lacking in the other kind of Vitamin D this year.  
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May 31, 2021 22:08
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Went to the local drag strip for import tuner day. Of course there were still douchebags that showed up with a vette, two camaros, multiple mustangs and challengers, and a chrysler 300. Also teslas. But on the flip side it was a great day of racing, my friend's kid is super in to cars so he wanted to go for the dB drags and exhaust pop contest even more than the racing. What's really great about it is he's got severe ADHD but he will sit and watch drag racing for hours. It was a very good time. Even my buddy's wife got super in to it, we started joking about getting her out there in her ecoboost F150. Coolest car of the day was probably the 7 second 240z. Love being in the PNW again too. It was a nice mellow 80 degrees and even though I only put sunblock on my face I mildly burnt my forearms and neck after 5 hours in the sun. In Denver I'd get this burnt WITH sunblock on. Looked in to it and sadly there are no top fuel events around here. Best we get is alcohol funny cars and dragsters. Definitely gonna check that out.
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May 31, 2021 22:14
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LloydDobler posted:my friend's kid is super in to cars so he wanted to go for the dB drags and exhaust pop contest even more than the racing. What's really great about it is he's got severe ADHD but he will sit and watch drag racing for hours. Speaking from experience, you need to get your friends kid a rotary. That sounds awesome and our local Race Wars was also just put on the calendar for this year again, so like you I am pumped.
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May 31, 2021 22:18
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LloydDobler posted:Love being in the PNW again too. It was a nice mellow 80 degrees and even though I only put sunblock on my face I mildly burnt my forearms and neck after 5 hours in the sun. In Denver I'd get this burnt WITH sunblock on. I was in the sun for 2 hours the other day, and can't sleep comfortably in any position except on my stomach right now.   This was in the (upper) 80s; it was supposed to be overcast and drizzling all day. It... was the opposite. Sounds like an awesome event aside from the douchebags. And Ecoboost F-150s are shockingly quick for what they are; stepdad has one with the 2.7 and it really surprised me, it's a massive upgrade in the "slam you into the back window" department vs his old 5.4 F-150 (though the 5.4 could probably pull a house off its foundation without abusing the poo poo out of the torque converter). Those turbos spool so drat quick too, but it does run out of steam at the top end. I wouldn't want to own one long term (not past 100k anyway), but for a truck they scoot decent. Wouldn't mind trying one with the 3.5 Ecoboost. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 22:27 on May 31, 2021 |
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May 31, 2021 22:19
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My roomba does a very good job of finding every loose cable and cord in my household. Also a master at getting stuck under the recliner.
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May 31, 2021 22:39
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Clearly, you need a better Roomba: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFcsLRkFwsY
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May 31, 2021 23:16
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STR posted:I was in the sun for 2 hours the other day, and can't sleep comfortably in any position except on my stomach right now. Ooh, that looks like a spicy one. My upper arm burn from last week's sun is finally in the "tan but peely" phase, which is still a massive improvement over previous years where I was pale 365.25 days a year! 
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May 31, 2021 23:18
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Jesus, is it really June already? This year's got me all hosed up.
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Jun 1, 2021 00:40
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big dong wanter posted:
I'll allow this to stand. Beware discussing banned topics!
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Jun 1, 2021 00:43
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Safety Dance posted:Jesus, is it really June already? This year's got me all hosed up. Nope, still may. The drat aussies have done it to us again.
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Jun 1, 2021 00:47
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I’m posting from space. Kinda. Imgur won’t let me upload the pics, but we’re three days on Starlink so far and it works? It’s got issues, but going from nothing to something that works 95% of the time is spectacular.
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I may have smoked a bowl too many so I too am posting from space 
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Bought new bike helmet yesterday (been riding without one....) Tested it today. It works. Bike's fine aside from the front wheel needing to be trued up a little (dropped it after I stood it up with the front brake, wheel barely touched the car). Newish Explorer has a helmet-shaped and fist-shaped dent in its fender, and foot-shaped dent in the back door (the latter two showed up when they tried to take off into ~60 mph traffic, no idea how those dents got there  ). Driver learned a lot of new naughty words from someone.Need a new new helmet now. And some ibuprofin. Yes, I got the plates. Yes, there's a police report. EMS showed up. Rode the bike the rest of the way home on a slightly wobbly front wheel. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 02:15 on Jun 1, 2021 |
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Jun 1, 2021 02:11
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gotta say that the crackle and pop tunes on cars is now worse than all of the cheap fart pipe exhausts I remember hearing from the late 90s-2008 era
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STR posted:Bought new bike helmet yesterday (been riding without one....) I'mma wrap you and cat both in bubble wrap, jesus christ dude. 
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I'll allow this to stand. Beware discussing banned topics! Don't worry fellow posters, we can still talk about the most important battle in motoring Holden Astra vs Nissan pulsar
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Jun 1, 2021 02:42
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BraveUlysses posted:gotta say that the crackle and pop tunes on cars is now worse than all of the cheap fart pipe exhausts I remember hearing from the late 90s-2008 era I will take both of these over the straight-piped VQs I hear regularly
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big dong wanter posted:Don't worry fellow posters, we can still talk about the most important battle in motoring Is the Pulsar a GTiR?
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BraveUlysses posted:gotta say that the crackle and pop tunes on cars is now worse than all of the cheap fart pipe exhausts I remember hearing from the late 90s-2008 era There's some clown down the block from me with a newer GTI with a ridiculous tune. Sounds like pure rear end. To the guys talking about Polar water in the last thread - good lookin' out. Picked up a 12er of the black cherry on Saturday and it's gonna be gone before I know it.
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Jun 1, 2021 02:52
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BraveUlysses posted:gotta say that the crackle and pop tunes on cars is now worse than all of the cheap fart pipe exhausts I remember hearing from the late 90s-2008 era That is fair I do cringe a little at the crackle/pop that Lamborghini put into race mode (it's not there in strada). Wish I could disable it
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BraveUlysses posted:gotta say that the crackle and pop tunes on cars is now worse than all of the cheap fart pipe exhausts I remember hearing from the late 90s-2008 era It's true. I can't understand the number of luxury high end cars with turbo'd engines I hear go by that somebody paid to have the same exhaust tone and drone as a 2005 Camry with no muffler.
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