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Tedsville posted:Had to spend a full 10 minutes defrosting the car this morning. I'd like to introduce you to the wonders of a block heater.... combined with a cabin heater, such luxury!
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Dec 1, 2023 10:13
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We also have a plastic tree, made from recycled materials. I go into the woods with a small axe and cut off some branches, keep them in vases for the smell.
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Dec 1, 2023 10:32
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It's not good for cars to be started cold, also bad for fuel economy and the environment to leave them running while cold. A block heater is an electric heater, perhaps with a pump, that heats the engines coolant. I'm always surprised at how rare they seem to be outside Norway-Sweden-Finland where it's standard equipment unless the car has it's own webasto.
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Dec 1, 2023 11:51
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah but the same is true but worse for most other forms too. It's going to be soo many chernobyls.
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Dec 5, 2023 19:09
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BalloonFish posted:E: The article seems to mostly focus on his vintage car, and more power to him for that. As someone who owns one car that's 63 years old and one that's 35 years old I absolutely get the fun in having an old car. But I don't dress like Anthony Eden or fill my house with 1988-era merch as a result. Never too late to start fellow old car owner (33 year old car).
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Dec 9, 2023 07:40
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Pistol_Pete posted:It's odd that people'll get all squeamish about eating crickets or whatever but show them e.g. a southern Italian seafood dish with absolutely enormous shrimp that are all legs and wriggly antennae and they'll be delighted. Nah I get really grossed out by shrimp
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Dec 15, 2023 16:27
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Runcible Cat posted:I prefer -ize anyway; z should get more use. There's a particular kind of moth that was hell to get rid of. We had to seal away all food items like flour, crisp bread and such or they would lay eggs in there. Took a year of consistent killing to get rid of them. They got into the house via some birdseed. So we don't bring that in anymore.
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Dec 15, 2023 16:40
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sebzilla posted:Crisp chat, motherfuckers (courtesy of my friend Andy) I've never had these (don't think they are sold in Finland) but if we take flamin hot cheetos as a benchmark, how do these rank in comparison?
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Dec 17, 2023 08:59
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Convex posted:starmer's labour are tories though Keir Starmer is the 16th incarnation of Tchernobog? Makes sense.
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Dec 19, 2023 11:26
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Rise of the Triad I believe, one of my favorite games. might have the original box left. Also Terra Nova. That game ruled. e: yes I do have the box 
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Dec 19, 2023 15:22
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Tigey posted:I had all of these and wish I'd kept the boxes. Ah well. What really sucks is that its just the boxes. Not the manuals or the CDs (or diskettes in some cases) 
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Dec 20, 2023 05:41
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The Warcraft II manual was cool as hell, had lots of interesting stories about characters and the world in it. I liked reading it.
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Dec 20, 2023 09:10
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Sanford posted:I had 8 bottles of olive oil left over from the Brexit stash, all gone now and we’re back on the sunflower. Should have hodl’d it, I’d be a millionaire by now. I’ve become one of those people who angrily mutters “well I’m not paying that” and deliberately puts stuff back on the shelf wrong to prove a point of some kind. Been on this path a long while...
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Dec 20, 2023 11:44
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Best chili nuts around my parts are these: I like them because they aren't sweet.
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Dec 21, 2023 13:50
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ALL COPS GO HOME
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Dec 22, 2023 11:29
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Gotta say I really dislike battery powered stuff and except for a drill and impact driver all I got are corded or pneumatic tools and I prefer to deal with a cord than batteries. Makes me feel weird. In the house we got a central vac, which I really like, no bags and no filters (the air is blown outside).
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Dec 24, 2023 22:32
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Belated happy new years, back at work after the christmas weekend and shitposting on SA. Have -28C here today and it's gonna drop to -33 they say.
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Jan 2, 2024 07:41
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Failed Imagineer posted:Insane that the crew never mutinies at her repeated attempts to get them all killed or sabotage their journey home. I've internalized Sfdebris portrayal of Janeway as canon.
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Jan 2, 2024 17:27
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fuctifino posted:We can all agree that Rebel Moon is totally poo poo, right? I cannot agree for I have never seen it and I never will. e: Well I guess that's a bit like claiming I will never be in a traffic accident.
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Jan 3, 2024 10:18
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Marmaduke! posted:Watching teevee is so passé, I much prefer watching people watch TV. A hyper emotional pair that have been watching red dwarf have now started with BSG, good viewing. Sometimes I even try and watch the shows myself Sorta the same, I watch the RLM guys talk about movies and shows I will never watch.
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Jan 3, 2024 13:19
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Threshold review https://sfdebris.com/videos/startrek/v832.php e: Ohh I this is ooold, some aughts era internet slurs. His Divine Shadow fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Jan 3, 2024 |
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Jan 3, 2024 18:07
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What, the Idirans?
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Jan 3, 2024 20:30
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I don't think I take that great care of my teeth (floss, lol) but I never have tooth issues (except a tendency for calculus). Just got a checkup and after some cleaning it was fine. I do have the one habit that I tend to brush my teeth for like 10-20 minutes in the mornings, well I don't actively brush my teeth for that long. But mostly I just get to brushing then due to ADHD or something I walk around the house doing other stuff with the toothbrush in my mouth. Just getting ready for work, packing my lunch, might even sit down and read SA, so every morning my teeth get a good long soak in fluoride. Maybe it helps, my dentist claims it does.
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Jan 4, 2024 16:23
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Great timing Yes it absolutely has to
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Jan 4, 2024 17:47
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The 200,000 pound teenager
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Jan 5, 2024 11:19
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smellmycheese posted:Certainly something to ponder… Just wait till the other one drops
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Jan 6, 2024 22:25
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kecske posted:hell yeah just dump more poo poo onto teachers, I'm sure they'll love the transition into care staff This reminds that when I was in school they'd have people come to class and teach us how to brush our teeth, think it happened multiples times somewhere around grades 1-4. I remember we all got our own toothbrushes and a lady would stand with a pair of huge dentures and a huge brush and show us how to go about brush our teeth, even how to hold the brush.
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Jan 11, 2024 11:37
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Tesseraction posted:Yeah, there were quite a few suicides and otherwise deaths of despair caused by this scandal. Heads really should roll for this but even that won't bring back the dead. This is like the plot of Brazil
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Jan 18, 2024 12:12
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Opposite experience re: older cars for me. Older car is way cheaper to own. Insurance is way cheaper, most old cars I've driven have tended to be reliable and can be taken to the local shop instead of expensive brand maintenance. Tax is more or less the same unless getting an electric car. Not having to make loan payments for a car is great too, and no real value deprecation to take into consideration. Granted I am more comfortable than most in working on my car(s) and I have worked a long time to get more handy and get the space and equipment to do more and more myself all the time. Been a decades long bootstrapping process honestly.
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Jan 19, 2024 09:00
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My favorite car is the oldest one. Note the berry harvesters on spoiler, from last years berry harvest (bilberries), this was taken somewhere deep on a forest road meant for tractors
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Jan 19, 2024 09:45
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His father was truly a toolmaker.
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Jan 19, 2024 09:55
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Guavanaut posted:Move back to the old British System for that imo. Ship them to australia?
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Jan 19, 2024 15:11
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fuctifino posted:Three days. When you think about it, he really announced his intention to drop it when he announced the policy in the first place. There's no policy made by man that keir can not, will not, drop.
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Jan 19, 2024 20:45
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I hear you're an idiot now father! Should we all be idiots now? What's the Church's position? I'm so busy down on the farm I won't have much time for the ol' idiocy. (sorry it was bad)
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Jan 22, 2024 12:29
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Over here in foreignland they basically refer to everyone on the british isles as english.
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Jan 23, 2024 08:01
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Microplastics posted:Not me. I'm angry about that post Guess one could say you're... salty???
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Jan 24, 2024 14:32
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:I've used one of these for my whole adult life: I got one of these 14" butchers knives, it's like a machete. But it's real nice when cutting slabs of meat. 
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Jan 25, 2024 11:51
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When I was a kid my dad who was a metalworker by trade, welded me a sword. Looked like a huge gladius and heavy as hell. Just mild steel though, still in a barn somewhere at my parents. Not very sharp but a dangerous blunt instrument, man the 80s. My mom told me recently she had a dream where she used it to decapitate 30+ russians invading.
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Jan 26, 2024 10:53
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I have over a hundred donald duck pocket books at my parents place, including the first pocketbook released in 1968.  Must be worth something by now. I also have two B5 trilogies, including the psi-cop trilogy which is apparently worth money nowadays. I've tried to get my kids interested in reading but all they want is watch obnoxious people on youtube who scream and act like the worst idiot scum of humankind. Makes me wish for an EMP sometimes. At my place it seems I mostly got technical books and a set of natural encyclopedias and some fantasy/scifi novels.
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Jan 26, 2024 12:25
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frytechnician posted:Good god, did I ever love Marlboro reds in my 20s. Absolutely brutal cigarette and the thought of having them now makes my stomach turn but for that window of time where I gunned it, they were just the best with a pint. Hindsight makes this all look mental now. Replace Marlboros with Nortti for me. I quit cold turkey in 2008 and still think about them now and then.  Why do you have to be so bad for me?
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Jan 29, 2024 11:59
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