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*reads back through chat thread* LOL I guess this is a bad time to mention that I adopted a pit-bull last week, and he's literally the sweetest, most well behaved dog I've ever had. My cats only took a day or two before they were chilling next to him like they had been friends since small times. gently caress you people t 
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Thanks for the responses everyone. I've got some poo poo to think about.
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MustardFacial posted:Thanks for the responses everyone. I've got some poo poo to think about. IMHO try getting adopting an adult dog and keeping it for a year before you decide if you want to have kids. Make sure you take it to the vets at all the recommended intervals. Also, you're not allowed to crate it, and you have to take it on walks for all restroom times. That'll give you a 1/10th view of what it's like to have a kid.
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I've just discovered there's an English-speaking courier company in Spain, just about 10 minutes from where my mum and dad have a flat. I think i'll be making a phonecall tomorrow..
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Sep 8, 2015 21:16
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Cakefool posted:A workmate has just offered me a second free gas mower, apparently not propelled so fingers crossed it's 2 stoke, "best" one will be for the lawn, other one might be gutted for a go kart...
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i'm always torn between thinking it would be great to raise a kid and teach them to be independent and stuff, and fearing whether I'd be cut out for it or screw them up or have a bad day at work that affects the rest of their lives or whatever but it's all academic really because it would involve touching a woman first and well look at me 
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Terrible Robot posted:*reads back through chat thread* Post pics please 
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Sigma X posted:IMHO try getting adopting an adult dog and keeping it for a year before you decide if you want to have kids. Make sure you take it to the vets at all the recommended intervals. Also, you're not allowed to crate it, and you have to take it on walks for all restroom times. That'll give you a 1/10th view of what it's like to have a kid. I have 2 dogs and figured the dogs were easy, the kid would be too. Haha. But like everyone else has said, the first year of kid sucks and then they are no longer a lump that eats and poops, and then its fun when they can learn and do things. Plus you get to (have to) go to science world/aquariums/zoos. We are thinking of a second, so they must be like cats where they have a parasite in your brain and you want more of them.
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Terrible Robot posted:LOL I guess this is a bad time to mention that I adopted a pit-bull last week, and he's literally the sweetest, most well behaved dog I've ever had. Let me guess - they didn't tell you that you have to feed it at least three newborn babies a week, right? No rescue will ever tell you that all pit bulls will put up a good front but are literal baby-eating monsters.
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Sep 8, 2015 21:24
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So if you have kids and then don't want them, can you then rescue a pitbull and it will eat them? Might be a solution.
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Mooseykins posted:So if you have kids and then don't want them, can you then rescue a pitbull and it will eat them? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK2miS0CBJs
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Mooseykins posted:I've just discovered there's an English-speaking courier company in Spain, just about 10 minutes from where my mum and dad have a flat. What part of Spain? You might even get away without learning Spanish!
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If the kids had a gun this wouldn't have happened
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Kid chat! Haven't had that in a while so why not.. If you're not ready for kids or aren't 100 percent you want them, don't have them. Having them won't make you want them (in fact, may do the opposite). If you get conned into trying to have them with the rationale that you'll come around, nope NOPE nope. You'll know when you're ready. For me, it hit me about midnight one night, kind of out of the blue. Woke the wife up, said "You know, I'm ready to have kids when you are". At that point, she got off the birth control, and with the exception of a last minute trip to Europe to kind of blow it out for our last hurrah for a while, went into pay down debt mode. Also started putting back cash to pay our part of the delivery and to have some cash stocked away after the kid was born. We decided early that she would be a stay at home mom for a few years. We never upsized our house, never refi'd for more out prior to the housing bubble. So we had relatively little debt at that point. Our house was our starter house so our mortgage was nothing, and other than utilities, we had little debt and we could live pretty comfortably on my salary. Anyway, alot of having kids is timing. Alot of its, for lack of a better word, maturity. And not that not wanting or not having kids is immature; far from it. That's a pretty mature decision to make or want. But you kind of have to be at a place in your life where you're completely willing to put a couple other people (wife and kid) first. You've got to be willing to kind of put your life and wants on hold for a while. We, without planning, did it the right way, I think. Before we decided to "settle down", we traveled, we partied, we blew an insane amount of money having fun. We did what we wanted to do. We talked about starting a family here and there...and I knew she wanted kid(s), and I did too, it was just a question of when. And you both need a support structure around you, because man, it's hard being a dad. It's hard being a new mom. We were fortunate that our closest friends were trying to have a kid and she was pregnant within a couple weeks of my wife getting pregnant. I struggle every day with being a dad. I want to be a great father. Am I being too hard, or too easy? Am I too hands on or too stand off? Am I too impatient? Do I expect too much out of him? But ultimately, I simplified down to three things I want for my kid: I want him to be healthy, I want him to be happy, and I want him to be loved. Everything else is kind of secondary. So I work to provide a good life for him and give him the best opportunity to get an education (roof over his head, private school, good healthy food in his belly), i.e. healthy. I want him to be happy (making sure he feels safe, letting him succeed (and fail) on his own but offering direction when HE wants it, understand that things take work, instilling discipline to do whats right, etc), and finally, LOVED. I tell that kid 20 times a day if I tell him I love him once. He gets more hugs and high fives and knuckles than any kid I know. But I am tough on him, I think, in the right ways. And for now? It's working out. He's a confident, but not cocky, kid. He works hard, he does his chores without asking, he's respectful, he eats like a champ, and has never been a difficult kid or baby. He was and still is remarkably healthy. We didn't go overboard on keeping a sterile environment. He got dirty. He played with the dog. He scrapped knees and elbows and played in the mud. Sorry for the  but when it comes to kids, and particularly my kid, I get going and can't stop. I feel like we have done alot of things right that has been powered by an intense desire to do right and an unnatural fear of doing it wrong.PM me if you want to talk. Hell, that goes for anyone, really Tide fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Sep 8, 2015 |
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mariooncrack posted:What part of Spain? You might even get away without learning Spanish! Costa Del I'm happy to learn Spainish. I just want a change of scenery and to get away from everything here. Also, if this is the same kinda deal as what i have now i could legit move there imminently, as it's EU and i have everything in place already. Just chuck my poo poo in the van, hook up the car and leave.
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You can buy an entire village in Spain, if you want to: http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/08/23/433228503/in-spain-entire-villages-are-up-for-sale-and-theyre-going-cheap
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Tide posted:You can buy an entire village in Spain, if you want to: http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/08/23/433228503/in-spain-entire-villages-are-up-for-sale-and-theyre-going-cheap Excellent. Then i can fill it with English people and ruin it. Not really, i'll settle for a top-floor flat 50' from the Alboran sea with gently caress-all parking and no heating or air conditioning, and a goddamn marble floor. (When it's cold it's cold.)
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CommieGIR posted:Meh. They all look the same.
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DrakeriderCa posted:Uh man tbqh I don't watch a lot of movies anymore but a quick list of my favorites with some action: As Mooseykins noted, Heat and Ronin are top notch. I keep meaning to see Collateral but have somehow never managed it. I'll add the others to my list. Cheers.
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88h88 posted:As Mooseykins noted, Heat and Ronin are top notch. I keep meaning to see Collateral but have somehow never managed it. I'll add the others to my list. Cheers. Go watch Collateral immediately, one of the only Tom Cruise movies I really like. I think his best work was in Tropic Thunder
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Mooseykins posted:Costa Del I forgot to add a  to that. Spanish is a wonderful language. Just remember Spain has four official languages and it gets a bit hairy. I think they speak Castilian (Spanish) there though.
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InitialDave posted:For you or the kids? Well I'll have to make sure it's safe, and build it so they can grow into it.
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Terrible Robot posted:Go watch Collateral immediately, one of the only Tom Cruise movies I really like. Cruise is one of those actors I don't really like but on occasion think is pretty good, him going apeshit in Tropic Thunder was a particular highlight. I actually enjoyed Live, Die, Repeat/Edge of Tomorrow it was like some dark comedy and pretty cool in concept. Collateral that good then?
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I like Collateral, I've seen it four or five times now including twice in the theater when it first came out. It absolutely has its moments, but its greatest strength is that it's not too ambitious for its characters.
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Collateral is a pretty great movie. Tom Cruise, while being a bit whacko, puts out great movies and you hate 'Mericah if you disagree. Dude does his own stunts, rides motorcycles, flies a freaking P51 Mustang.
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Did some hard negotiating with my contractor and got him to refund/walk away. Wish I could get him to pay for the extra rent and time I've wasted but that would be much more complex and not worth chasing small claims for months.
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So, we're doing a Disaster Recovery exercise here at work, or rather, at a Business Continuancy Center. Started at 8 AM local. It's now 5:30 PM. Nothing has been restored, and there's no domain for my workstations to connect to (I'm the desktop workstation guy on hand.) I've just got paid to pretty much surf the web all day. I did remote back to the office and work a few tickets, but that's about it. I'll be back tomorrow to see if I have anything to connect to, and then I have Thursday and Friday off for my birthday, after being off Labor Day. I like how this week is shaping up. Already got a bunch of freebie coupons from the various restaurant rewards clubs, so Th-F are going to be low-cost eat out days. On the down side (not really, I don't mind), I'm going to be 46. I don't really feel 46. Wasn't I in high school just a few years ago? I keep wondering when I will feel like a responsible adult. This despite the fact that I'm a homeowner of 14 years, have a 13-almost-14 year-old daughter, and have managed to be the only child in my family not to move back home after leaving (they had good reason, and it was brief for both of them, but I can lord that detail over them). I guess I'm not doing too badly.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I like Collateral, I've seen it four or five times now including twice in the theater when it first came out. It absolutely has its moments, but its greatest strength is that it's not too ambitious for its characters. Yeah, probably what makes Collateral such a good film is how believable the characters are. They aren't superhuman or hyper evil or anything, just normal well, in Cruise's character's case normal for a sociopath people.
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CommieGIR posted:http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/download-home-edition.html Cathode is awesome in regards to emulating old WYSE Terminal screens http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode
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This is the greatest terminal emulator ever for SSH. Ever.
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88h88 posted:As Mooseykins noted, Heat and Ronin are top notch. I keep meaning to see Collateral but have somehow never managed it. I'll add the others to my list. Cheers. As others have said, Collateral is excellent. If you like Heat, you'll like Collateral. Both directed by Michael Mann, and with a similar feel. Stripped down but stylish. Other great movies based on above comments: Layer Cake Lock, Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels True Romance Zero Dark Thirty (did I say that already?) Oldboy (Korean version only. For the love of god don't watch the remake)
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Bucket head the cat is mewing frantically at a door thats about half an inch too much closed for his bucket to get through. Shits hilarious!
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I'm sad to say I'm not much of a car guy. I just want my poo poo to work. But my poo poo don't wanna work so I'ma have to loving make it work goddammit. Suburban picked a fight with a tree and won, the only damage was a bit off the top broke off and hit the hood, so the hood latch popped open. I closed it, the end. But then it got cocky and tried to go after a bigger one, and lost. Little dent by the passenger side taillight, lens got cracked bad so I just ditched the taillights and ordered a new set of decent, conservative LED taillights (I already wanted LEDs for better brake light power since red lights don't work well on a red truck) and they oughta be here in the next few days. But I am not gonna deal with hyperflash, so that requires a new turn signal flasher. The reason for this is because I'm too lazy to deal with resistors and so instead of splicing wires I'll just blow my dashboard apart going after this fucker that's just on the opposite side of a fuse block that's got little latches that make it easy to So once that's done the car will be safe to drive... but of course I won't be done with it. First off is to put a set of guard-bar things over the taillights so that doesn't happen again. But more importantly, it's got a bit of mild electrical fuckery cause the PO was a fire department that didn't take out all the blinky-light poo poo when they got rid of it. I've got a pair of strobe tubes sitting in the passenger seat that I yanked out of the taillights when I took them out, and there's another pair in the front turn signals. Properly installed, though, so they don't let moisture in. Most of the strobe wiring is still there, but I'm pretty sure the power supplies are gone. I'm gonna replace the headlight housings because they're a little bubbly and melted just a tiny bit, probably because of the headlight flasher which oh by the way is still there, just with wires cut so they don't flash but the high beams still work, with enough spare wire left that the flasher can be re-used. I might gradually hack away at the wiring and pull out what I know isn't needed, might not since it's not getting in the way of anything. As if that's not enough, the front bumper is beat up and the air dam fell off so I just tossed it in back. The metal was so easy to dent that I'm just gonna get a new one and see if I can't get a bullbar that'll actually protect it without looking too outrageous. That, a roof rack and a sound system that isn't blown to hell and it'll be about done. and maybe by that time I can sit back and quit loving with it and let it just w ...oh who am I kidding, this is AI. I'll come up with something, or else the car will come up with something all on its own.
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