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Residency Evil posted:Is there a better place to buy tires than Walmart? I'm looking at the Continental DWS and it seems like buying them from Tirerack involves both shipping as well as getting reamed by an installer that didn't sell you the tires. I even remember Walmart had them on sale last year. Gonna second IOC and say find a DiscountTire. And as much as I hate to say it, Sears is not awful for tires and if you buy the tire plan (and follow the rotation schedule) they will cover you through a bunch of poo poo. (blow out a tire on a 4x4 within warranty? they will replace the other 3 for you.) If you wanna be super cheap, you can try finding places that sell discontinued tires. Perfectly good and new just no longer being sold to distributors. What I did at work today. Um, do a break inspection on a car that had no intention of doing any work with us cause free inspections! Then I bent back some dudes backing plate and fixed his grinding noise, then sat around ordered sushi, did some more sitting around. Got sent home at 2.... time to start looking for a new shop. Preoptopus fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Sep 10, 2015 |
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IOwnCalculus posted:Homeowner chat: how much does it typically cost to do a preventative termite treatment / is it worthwhile? We've never done one (bought about 8 years ago) and have been a lot of the little bastards in the area recently. We got the house inspected and while they didn't find any indication that they've actually infested our house, they quoted us $600-$800 depending on the treatment we go with. Reasonable or assrape? Woah. I don't know how big your place is, but I think I spent around $400 when we initially bought the house, and I think it's $75/year. I think it's through terminex too.
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Sep 10, 2015 21:02
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MustardFacial posted:TBF, a new high efficiency furnace will likely save you money in the long run. Our old furnace was a SuperHot from 1971, and I replaced it with a more efficient Weil McLain and just that change alone dropped our gas bill $200 in the winter. The Weil McLain isn't even a high efficiency one, but compared to technology from 1971, this thing might as well use no fuel at all. Same with LED lightbulbs, for the love of gently caress everyone should use LED light bulbs. Oh, definitely. I don't begrudge it, but its just another expense that's gone from the "in 3-5 years" to "now" category. Roof is nearly there to, and that ones going to suck. I twill be nice to hve a more efficient furnace, should save me a ton over time. Going with a 95% efficiency unit.
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Sep 10, 2015 21:07
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Geirskogul posted:And if they offer fundus photography for something like $50, then go for it. That's the moneymaker right there, along with the physical slit lamp examination by the doc (the part where you see the reflections of your own eye veins in your vision). I have an operculum at the edge of my vision from kickboxing, and pretty significant latticing (at 31) from myopia. But even so, my retina specialist said I don't have to do a big exam more than once every 2-3 years. When I first got that operculum, I I was asking if it was ok to go in every 6months.
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Sep 10, 2015 21:09
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IOwnCalculus posted:If you have a Discount Tire / America's Tire nearby, they're very difficult to beat on price or service. $289 later I have a new tire and 4 road hazard coverages to replace my new tire + nail that my passenger rear tire turned into at less than 125 miles in.
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Sep 10, 2015 21:49
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mafoose posted:Woah. I don't know how big your place is, but I think I spent around $400 when we initially bought the house, and I think it's $75/year. I think it's through terminex too. Not all that big (~1400 sq ft), treatment is through a company our regular pest-control (which doesn't do termites, I guess?) recommended. I guess the $6xx one would cover two years, $8xx would cover five. I'm thinking I might get a second opinion from Terminix or someone else just to have another reference point since I doubt your place is any smaller than mine.
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Sep 10, 2015 21:51
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Powershift posted:I'm gonna laugh when it turns out to be some bored 8 year old who got a rifle for his birthday and wasn't explained the consequences of shooting at stuff. I kinda thought that would be obvious enough for even a retarded 8 year old to understand without explaination
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Sep 10, 2015 22:04
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IOwnCalculus posted:Not all that big (~1400 sq ft), treatment is through a company our regular pest-control (which doesn't do termites, I guess?) recommended. I guess the $6xx one would cover two years, $8xx would cover five. I got some Termidor online and did it myself, you just dig a trench around your house and pour it in. I also injected it under the concrete slab of my porch. poo poo is nasty though so you have to be careful, I had some splash on to my face and it made my face numb for a few hours lol.
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Sep 10, 2015 22:29
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I kinda thought that would be obvious enough for even a retarded 8 year old to understand without explaination Yeah, but arizona though.
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Sep 10, 2015 22:37
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Powershift posted:Yeah, but arizona though. This, unironically.  leica posted:I got some Termidor online and did it myself, you just dig a trench around your house and pour it in. I also injected it under the concrete slab of my porch. poo poo is nasty though so you have to be careful, I had some splash on to my face and it made my face numb for a few hours lol. Tempting thought, but the ground here is rock loving hard so that's a hell of a lot of labor. Did you have to drill any concrete / what did you patch it up with after drilling if you did?
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Sep 10, 2015 22:44
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Oh lordy. 3/7 of our drivers and one of our cooks have quit since Tuesday and we haven't had but a single applicant for either position in 2 months. Gonna be a fun few days. 
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Sep 10, 2015 23:04
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IOwnCalculus posted:Tempting thought, but the ground here is rock loving hard so that's a hell of a lot of labor. Did you have to drill any concrete / what did you patch it up with after drilling if you did? Terminix did this when they did my house for the first time. They had some kind of pressure washer type wand that injected it into the, well, sand cause Florida and they drilled into my concrete porch and steps and sealed it up with something so you couldn't even tell where they drilled. It was kinda worth the initial price just for that stuff. After that they just kinda sprayed around the foundation every year without the drilling part.
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Sep 10, 2015 23:17
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meatpimp posted:I was going to warn you about Amazon Warehouse when I saw your post, but it was too late. I tried them a few times and their failure rate for me was over 50%. Mis-described, wrong-items, you name it. If you buy from Amazon Warehouse, make sure that it's something you don't really need, 'cause you're taking a chance. I've bought several things from them, and this has been the first issue (last purchase was a new light for my aquarium). I can see why their seller ratings have slid so bad though. The first person I talked to said I had to contact Amazon Warehouse Deals directly. Except, well, they're Amazon. Forwarded their response to Bezos. Woke up to an email apologizing profusely and a refund (refund reverses if they don't get this phone back in 30 days, obviously), and an offer to reimburse me for overnight shipping (I have prime, so meh, it's only $3.99). I ordered another phone from a different seller, and in their description they describe it as the XT1095 (which is generally the unbranded version, or the T-Mobile version - either way, fully unlocked, easy to root). Plan to just stick a rooted stock T-Mobile ROM on it and Ad-Away, and maybe eventually start playing with some of the 3rd party ROMs. Great Beer posted:Oh lordy. 3/7 of our drivers and one of our cooks have quit since Tuesday and we haven't had but a single applicant for either position in 2 months. Gonna be a fun few days. My boss scheduled one opening driver (me) and one insider (rookie manager) for labor day. It was not fun. Managed 23 deliveries in a little over 5 hours... made good money, but that was a killer for both me and the manager on duty.
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Sep 10, 2015 23:37
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Yeah I'm not paying $180 for frames when the $30 ones I bought online lasted me 2 years, I don't care who made them. If I wanted Gucci frames I'd buy them regardless of the price. This protein bar I ate 5 hours ago gave ne mad energy. If it wasn't for the severe chub rub I got going on I could go another few hours.
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Sep 10, 2015 23:57
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I also made some good Porta Potty poetry today. Hanging speaker like a rookie, Still looks better than my dookie.
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Sep 11, 2015 00:02
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Preoptopus posted:Gonna second IOC and say find a DiscountTire. And as much as I hate to say it, Sears is not awful for tires and if you buy the tire plan (and follow the rotation schedule) they will cover you through a bunch of poo poo. (blow out a tire on a 4x4 within warranty? they will replace the other 3 for you.) If you wanna be super cheap, you can try finding places that sell discontinued tires. Perfectly good and new just no longer being sold to distributors. You know, I just tried calling both DiscountTire and Sears and it looks like Sears has the newest model of the DWS in stock for $122/tire. I never really thought of them, but looks like that's a solid option.
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Sep 11, 2015 00:11
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MustardFacial posted:I have had this song stuck in my head since 7:00am. I get this song stuck in my head fairly often. This morning though it was this, and mostly the intro... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcjpags7JT8
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Sep 11, 2015 00:14
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I put some DWS on my Chodebalt right before I sold it. Pretty nice tires. I also got them through Sears and even tho I told them I specifically wanted SUMMER ONLY TIRES aftwr waiting 5 hours for them to mount them I was too pissed off and tires to even argue. Not going back.
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Sep 11, 2015 00:14
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IOwnCalculus posted:This, unironically. If the ground is rock hard then you can just spray around the foundation, as long as it will seep down into the ground really good. Otherwise you'd need a pick axe or something to dig a bit of a trench., in which case you just mix it in a 5 gallon bucket and pour the poo poo in the trench then cover it back up. It lasts quite awhile, ten years IIRC. For the slab I drilled holes and rigged up an injector setup for the sprayer with some plumbing parts I got at a hardware store. I could send you pics of the setup it's really easy to make. Then all you need is a hammer drill and a bit that's a bit bigger in diameter than the injector, drill the holes and inject the poo poo, then plug up the holes with grey silicone. That way the next time you need to do it all you have to do is pull the silicone out. Or if you're anal just fill the holes with cement. [edit] or what you could do if the ground if super hard, just drill a bunch of holes right into the loving ground next to the foundation and inject it in, would be a lot easier than digging trenches. Applebees Appetizer fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Sep 11, 2015 |
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Sep 11, 2015 00:21
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I love how my boss roped me into pulling a 300'+ CAT6A line for free at the hotel we stay at and then left the next day before finishing it. Now I got the owner knocking on my door asking when I am gonna finish it in the pitch dark after a 12hr shift. Yeah buddy call my boss. Not doing that poo poo.
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Sep 11, 2015 00:26
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some texas redneck posted:It was not fun. Managed 23 deliveries in a little over 5 hours... made good money, but that was a killer for both me and the manager on duty. My stress level has gone way down since I stopped giving a poo poo about the customer and if they get their food hot/on time. Staffing problems are none of my business. If they want poo poo done, they can hire more people or stop cutting us the second we hit 30 hours. Either way, not my problem. I don't get paid enough to bust my rear end for this company.
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So I took the first semi-real 'vacation' that I've taken in many years over the long holiday weekend (I took an extra day off on each end, so Thursday through Tuesday), so have a lot of reading to do before I'm caught up on this and other AI threads. In the mean time, I thought some people might find some pictures of boats interesting. I spent the holiday weekend in San Diego, where they were having their annual Festival of Sail. I took a huge number of photo's (I went full-on tourist mode for this trip). Of course the pictures here were taken when I was on other ships, but all are from this weekend. I *think* that the lengths listed for all of these ships are the sparred overall length, not length on deck or waterline. I started off on Friday participating in the Parade of Sail on the deck of American Pride, a large (129') three-masted schooner build in 1941. Because of her size, the crowded nature of the parade, and a light breeze, we spent very little time without the engine assisting, which made me sad, but it was a necessary evil as they had to use the engines hard on two separate occasions to prevent a collision with a small boat with a very dumb helmsman.  On Saturday, I spent a few hours on another 129' schooner, this time the Bill of Rights, for a mock cannon battle with the Irving Johnson. The engine was much less obtrusive on the Bill of Rights, but they never did shut it off, as we were doing a lot of tight maneuvering for the mock battle, and far too many people in small boats have no clue how to keep a safe distance from a pair of maneuvering tall ships, and like the day before on the American Pride, the engine had to be used to avoid a collision with one of them on more than one occasion.  Saturday afternoon was when it got really fun, as I boarded the 83' Topsail schooner - Amazing Grace. This boat was extremely light and maneuverable compared to the previous two ships, and her captain loved to show those characteristics off. The engine was shut completely down as soon as we got away from the dock and the sails were raised, and the crew had us landlubbers help with the sails, raising and trimming, as well as moving from side to side to help with heeling, etc. Great fun crew and I had a great time.  Sunday was the cruise that really made me want to get back into sailing. I went out on the Curlew, a 81' long, John Alden designed schooner that was launched in 1926. This boat was beautiful, and very fast. Like the Amazing Grace, the engine was killed as soon as we left the dock, and the rest of the day was just spent sailing around San Diego Bay, where the Curlew handily outran every other sailboat on the water (except the Stars & Stripes), even though she isn't allowed to fly a spinnaker with passengers aboard (coast guard rule for them I guess). Although the photo shows her only flying the inner jib, on the cruise I was on she was flying all three, the inner, mid, and flying jib. When everything was trimmed up, we were flying across the bay, and it was surprisingly dry, even in a heavy swell.  Now I just need to get a good, high paying job in San Diego, and volunteer to be on the crew of every sailboat I can find!
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Sep 11, 2015 00:34
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IOwnCalculus posted:This, unironically. How the hell are they able to breathe if they are that stupid?
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:How the hell are they able to breathe if they are that stupid? Nomally, it's through a cigarette.
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Powershift posted:Nomally, it's through a cigarette. 
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Turned on my car at work today, flipped the stereo power on and THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP just my speakers pulsing literally as loud as they can for no reason. Volume doesn't affect it, just powering it off makes the thumping go nuts. I posted a vid in the ask dumb questions thread...no idea what the gently caress
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Sep 11, 2015 00:53
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Just watched 8 underage college bros get kicked out for trying to order beers. Aww the good old days.
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Just watched 8 underage college bros get kicked out for trying to order beers. Aww the good old days. Bro, you should go boot for them. You'd be the coolest, then all you bro's and hang an bro out.
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Boot..? Buy alcohol for.
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gently caress that noise. They are gonna have to get it the old fashion way, like we did in HS. Pay a homeless dude or go to the Vietnamese liquor store.
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IOwnCalculus posted:I'm all for going to the optometrist regularly (hell, I've got two in my family) but I'm done buying glasses through optometrists. My vision insurance coverage is loving laughable at how little actual coverage it gets me; a set of glasses from Zenni are cheaper than my after-insurance rate through any major chain. I spend far more on premiums than I save in the optometry visit, too. So strange to see those signs. I drive that entire stretch of the 10 in the morning and afternoon both. Not really worried personally, what with the 'odds' thing, and I keep hoping it will make all the paranoid people take other routes or something so my commute would be faster. 
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The Locator posted:Now I just need to get a good, high paying job in San Diego, and volunteer to be on the crew of every sailboat I can find! I mean if you wanna race on multi million dollar classic square sails, yes. Putting around on a J-boat/any semi modern sport boat? Not necessarily!
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Sep 11, 2015 02:32
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god drat, the mad max game is janky as poo poo and slow as balls. it's like the creators have never played a video game or seen the movie.
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Powershift posted:god drat, the mad max game is janky as poo poo and slow as balls. it's like the creators have never played a video game or seen the movie. Counterpoint: Upgrade the engine + ramming grill + exhaust, leave off the armor, turn your car into a wasteland cruise missile sent to smash and punish any who dare get in the way      Seriously though, the cars do feel a shitload better once you get a few upgrades into them. Tires and suspension mean you can actually maintain speed in the really rough sections, and the engines make a fairly noticeable difference.
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Yeah but all the on foot stuff is slow as hell and it keeps forcing you to get out of the car, and climbing ladders only works half the time and there's more bullshit talking in the first 5 minutes of the game than there is in the entire movie. and there is no flow, it cuts to black to show you an animation of you getting water FFS. you have to hold the buttons to do any action instead of just pressing them for whatever reason. and all the upgrades are locked behind 3 different levels of bullshit. Powershift fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Sep 11, 2015 |
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Powershift posted:Yeah but all the on foot stuff is slow as hell and it keeps forcing you to get out of the car, and climbing ladders only works half the time and there's more bullshit talking in the first 5 minutes of the game than there is in the entire movie. Yeah  I'm finding this to. Still enjoying it, but not as much as I was hoping. The basic premise is cool, but the delivery is lacking.
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I feel like the Mad Max game was originally designed as a survival game and gradually transitioned to a vehicular combat game over what must have been a brutal series of publisher interventions.
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Great Beer posted:My stress level has gone way down since I stopped giving a poo poo about the customer and if they get their food hot/on time. Staffing problems are none of my business. If they want poo poo done, they can hire more people or stop cutting us the second we hit 30 hours. Either way, not my problem. I don't get paid enough to bust my rear end for this company. Eh, I do as much as I can to get the orders to the customer hot, but I don't stress. There's nothing I can do about staffing issues, so I just take a deep breath and roll with it. I'm good at dealing with upset customers face to face, and I have no problem offering a credit or comping their meal if it makes them happy (though I have a lot of leniency compared to most other drivers). They were going to cut us at 30 hours; instead they're offering insurance now; but it has something like a $6500 deductible, a low yearly limit, and you don't qualify until you've been there a year (basically they did the bare minimums they could to skirt by). I'll stick with my marketplace insurance, thanks.
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