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ShittyPostmakerPro posted:What is even happening in this video? Is it two half naked men fighting each other with a car and a gate? I believe the one on the outside of the car is a woman. I suspect we are seeing a lovers quarrel...
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nm posted:Californians moved to Bend? Oh yeah. Look at Bend's population growth over the last 20 years.
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:Easy test to determine if you are ready to drive through the winter in a state that regularly sees snow/ice on the road. Its actually mandatory to have winter tires on your car in quebec december through march or something like that. Which they had a law like that here in Alberta as it would instantly take all lovely cars running bald all seasons off the road.
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# ? Oct 23, 2014 16:09 |
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XK posted:I didn't even realize he managed to flip the car over
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# ? Oct 23, 2014 16:22 |
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1500quidporsche posted:Its actually mandatory to have winter tires on your car in quebec december through march or something like that. Which they had a law like that here in Alberta as it would instantly take all lovely cars running bald all seasons off the road. As soon as you talk about making it mandatory, people in Alberta suddenly start caring about minimum wage earners.
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# ? Oct 23, 2014 16:23 |
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CommieGIR posted:I believe the one on the outside of the car is a woman. I suspect we are seeing a lovers quarrel... I interpreted it as a couple drunk/tripping idiots trying to steal a car.
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# ? Oct 23, 2014 16:26 |
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SyHopeful posted:Oh yeah. Look at Bend's population growth over the last 20 years. Still nothing there anyway.
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# ? Oct 23, 2014 16:41 |
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freelop posted:
Meth is a hell of a drug. I say this as a former meth user.
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# ? Oct 23, 2014 17:05 |
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Shifty Nipples posted:Still nothing there anyway. Except world class sports climbing right up the road! Edit: Oh crap, thought I was in the GenChat thread. OK, there was a bit of a weird mechanical failure near my house last night. I woke up to three Smart cars, neatly parked in a row, all burned down. The FD report verified it. I've never seen them parked here before, there's a new Zipcar(?) like service in town. They'd been towed this afternoon when I got home. I would love to know who would have any interest torching three smart cars in the middle of Copenhagen... bolind fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Oct 23, 2014 |
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1500quidporsche posted:Its actually mandatory to have winter tires on your car in quebec december through march or something like that. Which they had a law like that here in Alberta as it would instantly take all lovely cars running bald all seasons off the road. So they could run bald winters instead?
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# ? Oct 23, 2014 17:11 |
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freelop posted:
If you're just going to repost poo poo from reddit, at least post the explanation: http://www.visir.is/flips-car-in-parking-garage/article/2014141029556
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# ? Oct 23, 2014 17:28 |
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In response to all the gently caress You pictures of Broken off extractors, an oldie, but goodie: HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate expensive parts not far from the object we are trying to hit. MECHANIC'S KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on boxes containing seats and motorcycle jackets. ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning steel Pop rivets in their holes until you die of old age, but it also works great for drilling mounting holes in fenders just above the brake line that goes to the rear wheel. PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads. HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle. It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes. VISE-GRIPS: Used to round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand. OXYACETELENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your garage on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside a hub you're trying to get the bearing race out of. WHITWORTH SOCKETS: Once used for working on older British cars and motorcycles, they are now used mainly for impersonating that 9/16 or 1/2 socket you've been searching for the last 15 minutes. DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, splattering it against that freshly painted part you were drying. WIRE WHEEL: Cleans rust off old bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprint whorls and hard-earned guitar calluses in about the time it takes you to say, "Ouc...." HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering your car to the ground after you have installed your new front disk brake setup, trapping the jack handle firmly under the front fender. EIGHT-FOOT LONG DOUGLAS FIR 2X4: Used for levering the fender upward off a hydraulic jack. TWEEZERS: A tool for removing wood splinters. PHONE: Tool for calling your neighbor to see if he has another hydraulic floor jack. SNAP-ON GASKET SCRAPER: Theoretically useful as a sandwich tool for spreading mayonnaise; used mainly for getting dog-**** off your boot. E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool that snaps off in bolt holes and is ten times harder than any known drill bit. TIMING LIGHT: A stroboscopic instrument for illuminating grease buildup. TWO-TON HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOIST: A handy tool for testing the tensile strength of ground straps and fuel lines you may have forgotten to disconnect. CRAFTSMAN 1/2 x 16-INCH SCREWDRIVER: A large motor mount prying tool that has an accurately machined screwdriver tip on the end without the handle. BATTERY ELECTROLYTE TESTER: A handy tool for transferring sulfuric acid from a car battery to the inside of your toolbox after determining that your battery is dead as a doornail, just as you thought. AVIATION METAL SNIPS: See hacksaw. TROUBLE LIGHT: The mechanic's own tanning booth. Sometimes called a drop light, it is a good source of vitamin D, "the sunshine vitamin," which is not otherwise found under race cars at night. Health benefits aside, it's main purpose is to consume 40-watt light bulbs at about the same rate as a 25mm chain gun. More often dark than light, its name is somewhat misleading. PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the lids of old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splash oil on your shirt; can also be used, as the name implies, to round off Phillips screw heads. AIR COMPRESSOR: A machine that takes energy produced in a coal-burning power plant 200 miles away and transforms it into compressed air that travels by hose to a Chicago Pneumatic impact wrench that grips rusty bolts last tightened 40 years ago by someone in Detriot and rounds them off. PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part. HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to cut hoses 1/2 inch too short. 12MM WRENCH: A tool that comes in handy when you need to weld a brace between the positive terminal on your alternator and the engine block, when you forget to disconnect the battery. SPIRO LOCK: A spring like, tightly wound, carbon steel retainer used primarily to gouge forged pistons. Alternatively, the tool of choice for administering multiple fingertip lacerations. Farking Bastage fucked around with this message at 17:34 on Oct 23, 2014 |
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Farking Bastage posted:In response to all the gently caress You pictures of Broken off extractors, an oldie, but goodie: Hmmmmmm... Yep, checks out.
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# ? Oct 23, 2014 18:33 |
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bull3964 posted:So they could run bald winters instead? My hope would be that being that they can barely afford to run their car to begin with they would just park them for the winter.
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# ? Oct 23, 2014 21:37 |
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1500quidporsche posted:My hope would be that being that they can barely afford to run their car to begin with they would just park them for the winter. And how would they go to work? Fetch groceries?
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# ? Oct 23, 2014 21:40 |
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Maybe Canada's amazing social welfare infrastructure would help them out.
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# ? Oct 23, 2014 21:44 |
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Cakefool posted:And how would they go to work? Fetch groceries? I live in "the hood". you'd be amazed how far you can get with a couple of stolen shopping carts in winter.
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# ? Oct 23, 2014 22:02 |
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I prefer: Air Compressor: A device that converts electricity into an infinite amount of noise and a very finite amount of air. Used for limiting conversations to small blurbs between air tool operations and compressor tank charging cycles.
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# ? Oct 23, 2014 22:18 |
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Slanderer posted:If you're just going to repost poo poo from reddit, at least post the explanation: And where's the explanation in that link?
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# ? Oct 23, 2014 23:45 |
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Some of the Sheep posted:And where's the explanation in that link? There isn't one. There is no explanation beyond "maybe vodka, maybe meth, maybe an argument, maybe just stupidity".
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Some of the Sheep posted:And where's the explanation in that link? Memento posted:There isn't one. There is no explanation beyond "maybe vodka, maybe meth, maybe an argument, maybe just stupidity". If you need an explanation beyond "Iceland" then I don't know what to tell you. The place is weird
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 01:00 |
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:Easy test to determine if you are ready to drive through the winter in a state that regularly sees snow/ice on the road. Some of us just run all terrains all year. I'm just putting new ones on tomorrow for the year, actually, because we can't run studded tires here until November, and the roads out where I work are terrible enough that the first solid freeze is going to make them very fun. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Oct 24, 2014 |
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I can't wait to put my brand new studded snows on my incredibly underpowered subaru, I doubt it'll even be able to break the tires loose in more than a quarter inch of... anything. (Yeah, I know braking and cornering will still be an issue)
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 16:45 |
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veedubfreak posted:It's kind of weird to be this far into October and still running my summer wheels. It is supposed to be near 80 for Halloween. I'm loving it. This summer was so f'n rainy that I barely got to drive my convertible. October has been perfect for making up that lost time.
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 16:52 |
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Farking Bastage posted:DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, splattering it against that freshly painted part you were drying. I laughed at these but goddammit don't drill things on a drill press while trying to hold them down with your hands!
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 23:07 |
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As in all projects, more clamps is better.
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 06:13 |
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I like it when people don't clamp down stuff they're milling, and a 6' long aluminium section gets spat out like a javelin.
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 12:06 |
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I don't, we have a long horizontal mill with the load end kinda pointed at my office horrible machine operator failures (no coolant)
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 15:29 |
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rscott posted:I don't, we have a long horizontal mill with the load end kinda pointed at my office
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 15:50 |
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rscott posted:I don't, we have a long horizontal mill with the load end kinda pointed at my office What the gently caress? How does one go about not noticing the lack of coolant, or the fact that the part looks like poo poo? As I recall the sound is very different, too... I hope that idiot was fired or at least demoted to running a bandsaw cutting blanks or something.
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 16:30 |
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 16:37 |
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That is hilarious. Was it supposed to be magic gravel that made it all go away?
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 16:40 |
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From.the article, "Turn Your Backyard Into a Superfund Candidate by the Time the EPA is Invented!"
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 16:45 |
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Out of sight, out of mind.
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 16:49 |
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Well it came out of the ground in the first place right? Right?
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 16:52 |
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It is somewhat clever if you don't give a poo poo about anything living. The oil will seep into the ground and stop bothering you. Might be hard to justify to the missus the 10 foot dead zone on the front lawn though.
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 16:53 |
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MrChips posted:From.the article, "Turn Your Backyard Into a Superfund Candidate by the Time the EPA is Invented!" I read Max Gergel's book about running an organic chemistry company and it's full of poo poo like this. Before the EPA started poking its nose into everyone's business they just dumped waste product into the yard out back and nothing grew there ever again
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 17:03 |
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MrChips posted:From.the article, "Turn Your Backyard Into a Superfund Candidate by the Time the EPA is Invented!" Here's a kid who tuned his backyard into a Superfund site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn#Creation_of_the_reactor A radioactive Superfund site.
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 17:25 |
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this is actually safe if they're old-fashioned carbon-zinc batteries, but I sure wouldn't try it with anything newer and more reactive
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 19:39 |
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I'll contribute with a quick photo of how the AA recommended you repair rust-holed sills, back in the days of pounds, shillings, and pence: Yes, that's chicken wire. Yes, that's a monocoque.
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