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The Royal Nonesuch posted:Anyone who gets hammered on tequila and pretends it's any different from any other 40proof liquor is a noob. This is bullshit dude. Different types of booze effect different people in various ways. I can put whiskey and vodka down all night long but tequila makes into a crazy rear end in a top hat.
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Tequila is fine, I've just had too many bad nights with it. Tequila and ranch dressing don't mix, for example, as I found out the next morning to a very angry wife and highly amused friends. And drinking vodka will make me straight up vomit. Not "oh, I'm gonna drink a ton and vomit" but "if I have vodka, even if I can't taste it, I will vomit in the next five minutes".
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Oct 2, 2015 06:28
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Rhyno posted:This is bullshit dude. Different types of booze effect different people in various ways. I can put whiskey and vodka down all night long but tequila makes into a crazy rear end in a top hat. AI - is Rhyno a noob Yes/No?
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Oct 2, 2015 06:35
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:AI - is Rhyno a noob Yes/No? I worked in a bar for just shy of a decade and drank 4-5 nights per week of that tenure.
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Oct 2, 2015 06:37
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Rhyno posted:I worked in a bar for just shy of a decade and drank 4-5 nights per week of that tenure. Yeah but you're a comic nerd
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Oct 2, 2015 06:39
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iwentdoodie posted:Yeah but you're a comic nerd It's not like I was drinking Mountain Dew!
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Rhyno posted:It's not like I was drinking Mountain Dew! Code red is still mountain dew Edit: I hate that drunk where I'm too drunk to play any video game that requires skill or to work on a vehicle, but still too belligerent to fall asleep iwentdoodie fucked around with this message at 07:16 on Oct 2, 2015 |
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Rhyno posted:This is bullshit dude. Different types of booze effect different people in various ways. I can put whiskey and vodka down all night long but tequila makes into a crazy rear end in a top hat. It's not the booze, but locale that works against you. 
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Oct 2, 2015 07:45
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Rhyno posted:It's not like I was drinking Mountain Dew! Mt. Dew and tequila? You’re a monster.
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So I figured I'd try to go back to Whole Foods. I'm sick of pizza, sick of racist managers, sick of everything about where I work. Went in the other day, bumped into one of my old coworkers, who is now the department manager for frontend (which is where I'd like to work - I'm a drat good cashier, drawer always balanced to the penny, knew PLUs like the back of my hand, etc). He always told me he'd hire me back in a second if he got promoted. Welp, he's been promoted! .... he told me they'd just announced 1200 layoffs. A decent number of them were in my old store too. gently caress. He told me to stay in touch with him, and he'll have no problem hiring me back once the hiring freeze is lifted. He mentioned he'd never seen the career website with zero jobs listed - sure enough, I checked, and not a single job opening anywhere in the US at that moment. Oh yeah. Made a whole $12 in tips AND mileage today at work. I got tipped on only 2 orders. The rest was all stiffs... coupled with a slow day.  I basically made enough to buy dinner.Tusen Takk posted:My brother found out that i run 6 minute miles and wants me to run a night time 5k at the end of october I'm running this one at the end of October. Also at night. I REALLY want to take my DSLR, but I know that's a terrible idea. So phone and selfie stick it is. I need to get my rear end in shape ASAP. The Locator posted:Still overly warm this coming Saturday, with a high of 95, but the forecast is for breezy, yay! 79 is our high on Saturday. And you better believe I'm gonna spend all day outside enjoying it. Probably hit up some of the nature preserves and get a little walking in, I've barely explored a tiny portion of Oak Point. Root Bear posted:I can still remember the whole You know where I was when Y2k hit? A motherfucking rave 650 miles from home, hosed up out of my mind on some pretty good drugs, with some friends I grew up with. I called my mom at 12:01 and said "Told you so" and hung up (she was hunkered down in a closet with food, water, flashlights, etc). No regrets on that one.
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iwentdoodie posted:Dude I can't even get out of Ikea in 30m if I'm trying to, teach me your secrets. I feel like I'm in the god drat triwizard maze. My personal record, set with the help of my brother, is 12 minutes from engine off to engine on. Checked availability online before we went, printed out shopping list with shelf numbers, and I've been going to that particular IKEA for like 15 years so I've finally found some of the shortcuts. Twelve minutes. Didn't even have to pass by the damned scented candles. the spyder posted:I want snow. We need a winter with 8-12" of good snow on the ground. I doubt it will happen this year. Yes we do. Below freezing and blue skies with sunshine too, please.
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some texas redneck posted:You know where I was when Y2k hit? A motherfucking trans-pacific flight.
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bolind posted:My personal record, set with the help of my brother, is 12 minutes from engine off to engine on. Checked availability online before we went, printed out shopping list with shelf numbers, and I've been going to that particular IKEA for like 15 years so I've finally found some of the shortcuts. Twelve minutes. Didn't even have to pass by the damned scented candles. The no#1 secret Ikea top no-one wants you to know, the in-store map shows you all the shortcuts. There's usually one from the entrance to the warehouse too, signposted.
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Oct 2, 2015 08:50
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iwentdoodie posted:Tequila is fine, I've just had too many bad nights with it. Tequila and ranch dressing don't mix, for example, as I found out the next morning to a very angry wife and highly amused friends. What, as a mixed drink?
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I don't do cheap tequila because of my college years. The smell still gets to me. Speaking of school, I am trying to get into an online program from one of the local state universities. Even though I've taken 12 classes at the CC since dropping out and averaging mostly a's and b's, my GPA is still poo poo. I too would like to have a time machine to kick young me's rear end, but I made my choices and now I'm dealing with the consequences. I should have dropped out a semester earlier, the last 2 semesters made my GPA go from low 3.x to less than a 2.0. What's driving this? The amount of people I've seen get sick and die in my shop. I guess breathing metal and coolant for years really fucks up your insides. Also, I need 401k help. Where do I even start? Should I just talk to whoever handles it for my company? I think it's Fidelity.
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Oct 2, 2015 09:37
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University preparing you chat -- I got an AS in Manufacturing Engineering and stopped school because I was tired of it. I was in Akron and quickly got hired as a project engineer at a processing plant that supplied the rubber and automotive industry. Jesus gently caress. School did absolutely nothing to prepare me for what an actual job was. I had a couple broken machines, a McMaster catalog, and a 6 person maintenance crew. With that, I was told to "fix them." You quickly learn to swim on your own. And yeah, a degree just shows that you have the will and capability to stick through something you engage in. In my case, I made it through the engineering job and it was fun, but drat that was some dirty, nasty poo poo on the floor. 20 years later and my sense of smell has never fully recovered. IKEA chat -- They are making one within 2 miles of my house. I have never been to IKEA, but I've heard a lot from all over. I'm a little bit excited and a little bit scared.
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I used to live <10 minutes walk from the IKEA in Coventry. Once a friend and I went hungover after a night out and just spent hours zoning out, sitting and laying on everything and playing with the lamps and stuff. I'm impressed we weren't asked to leave.
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Just going to say I'm quite happy it's Friday, and Oktoberfest is tomorrow at the weird local German heritage colony.
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meatpimp posted:I have never been to IKEA, but I've heard a lot from all over. I'm a little bit excited and a little bit scared. It's basically your standard slave labor manufactured poo poo only with nice aesthetics. Their quality stuff ain't cheap and their cheap stuff ain't quality. But if you're a bit smart about it, they have some pretty good deals. Also, they will nickle and dime you to death on accessories. jammyozzy posted:I used to live <10 minutes walk from the IKEA in Coventry. Once a friend and I went hungover after a night out and just spent hours zoning out, sitting and laying on everything and playing with the lamps and stuff. I'm impressed we weren't asked to leave. In China they've turned this into an art. It's nice and clean and air conditioned, so it's a place you go to hang out, take a nap, go on dates etc. IKEA, being IKEA, were very reluctant to kick people out. bolind fucked around with this message at 12:42 on Oct 2, 2015 |
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jammyozzy posted:I used to live <10 minutes walk from the IKEA in Coventry. Once a friend and I went hungover after a night out and just spent hours zoning out, sitting and laying on everything and playing with the lamps and stuff. I'm impressed we weren't asked to leave. Fun fact, Ikea like people spending ages sitting and playing, everyone else who sees them subconsciously associates those items and sets with their own home if they see people doing things they would do.
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October chat: Just organising a pizza party at mine. Also just ordered a power rack and some weights for the garage. The weights may be to counteract the effects of pizza...
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Great Beer posted:I live in east Tennessee and the weather's great here. The only downside to the weather is that in spring the air is about 50% pollen. But I can get away with not owning a set of snow tires since we have maybe two or three snow days a year. Plus, no emissions testing in many counties. I'm okay with that, Michigan is pretty much the same way except it's currently like 45º outside and it's only the beginning of October. I'm about to break out my winter coat but I'm afraid if I do that then I won't have a coat warm enough for when it turns into loving Jötunheimr here. meatpimp posted:IKEA chat -- It's fuckin awesome, be prepared to spend a lot of money on furniture that may or may not fall apart in a few years, depending on how much wood glue you apply edit: yesssssss
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I have two Ikea end tables that I grabbed from my grandparents' house when they moved out. I thought they felt kinda light, even for the cheap particle board they use. One day the plastic trim piece fell off and I discovered that the inside was actually a honeycomb of cardboard.
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Their LACK series is thin, thin fiberboard and a thin cardboard honeycomb construction. I made a little platform/stool out of one, and took it apart in the process. It's a rather ingenious construction: http://www.ikeahackers.net/2013/07/reinforced-red-lack-platformstooltable.html
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mafoose posted:Also, I need 401k help. Where do I even start? Should I just talk to whoever handles it for my company? I think it's Fidelity. If you don't have one set up, talk to your HR rep. Whomever hired you. They'll lay out the plan for you and give you forms to get started. You can deduct pre-tax money from a paycheck and put it into your 401k automatically, as a percentage of what you earn or as a flat rate. There will hopefully be a lot of options for which index funds are in your company's 401k plan. Pick the 4 or 5 with the lowest annual fees to start out with (if the fees are even listed...). Like I said before, Vanguard will always have the lowest fees, so grab them if you aren't able to see the fee structure from the forms. If you want to pick other funds or see how your nest egg's doing, ask that same HR rep for your username and password for the fund's website. They will know it, and you can manage to your hearts content from there. Your game plan here is to sock money away and forget about it, and let it earn the average 8-11% compounded yearly that it has always done. There will be fluctuations and all that poo poo, and you may not earn that in a single year, but the market has always steadily done that. If it doesn't, your 401k is the least of your worries. Lowest fees, because index funds are index funds and earning 8% but paying 1.5% when you could have been paying 0.17% is dumb. Compounded over 30 years it's super dumb. Hope this helps. Check out this super helpful thread in BFC to hear exactly what I just told you in clearer words probably.
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Deeters posted:I have two Ikea end tables that I grabbed from my grandparents' house when they moved out. I thought they felt kinda light, even for the cheap particle board they use. One day the plastic trim piece fell off and I discovered that the inside was actually a honeycomb of cardboard. Torsion boxes 
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Bulk Vanderhuge posted:Torsion boxes Neat. Now to go back to the "college doesn't prepare you" chat, I have a BS in Mechanical Engineering from a pretty good school and I've never heard it called that before.
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angryhampster posted:Just going to say I'm quite happy it's Friday, and Oktoberfest is tomorrow at the weird local German heritage colony. If you've never been, its my favorite thing about living at the lake, in between Atlanta and the mountains...used to be a great german car show called Southern Worthersee there up until next year because a bunch of asshats got drunk and trashed hotels and did burnouts on the bridge over the Chattahoochee (it was awesome) Its this cool little replica Bavarian town and Oktoberfest is tits. http://cityofhelen.org/
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Oh for fucks sake. I just saw carthrottle calling the vw diesel scandal dieselgate Everything has to be something-gate nowadays. gently caress.
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Bajaha posted:Oh for fucks sake. I just saw carthrottle calling the vw diesel scandal dieselgate iirc the iPhone 6 bending issue was called Bendghazi but yeah
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Bajaha posted:Oh for fucks sake. I just saw carthrottle calling the vw diesel scandal dieselgate I saw a website responding to the scandal by going: "Ban all diesels, even semis. Replace them all with gas motors." 
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bolind posted:Their LACK series is thin, thin fiberboard and a thin cardboard honeycomb construction. I made a little platform/stool out of one, and took it apart in the process. It's a rather ingenious construction: http://www.ikeahackers.net/2013/07/reinforced-red-lack-platformstooltable.html They're also literally  . Really not bad in the grand scheme of things.
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Rhyno posted:Oh yeah I have been looking for Foresters for you and also you should not move to Tennessee because it's a massive shithole. Great Beer posted:I live in east Tennessee and the weather's great here. The only downside to the weather is that in spring the air is about 50% pollen. But I can get away with not owning a set of snow tires since we have maybe two or three snow days a year. Plus, no emissions testing in many counties. mafoose posted:Also, I need 401k help. Where do I even start? Should I just talk to whoever handles it for my company? I think it's Fidelity. meatpimp posted:University preparing you chat -- School did absolutely nothing to prepare me for what an actual job was. 88h88 posted:October chat: Just organising a pizza party at mine. Also just ordered a power rack and some weights for the garage. The weights may be to counteract the effects of pizza... Bajaha posted:Oh for fucks sake. I just saw carthrottle calling the vw diesel scandal dieselgate
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Bajaha posted:Oh for fucks sake. I just saw carthrottle calling the vw diesel scandal dieselgate Goon-gate. You're welcome. 
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IOwnCalculus posted:They're also literally Seriously I've got like 4 of those stupid tables because I just went crazy when I bought my condo. I loving love IKEA just because you can get a lot of stuff that is minimalist with relatively inoffensive styling that is impossible to find anywhere else. The price is just icing on the cake at that point.
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1500quidporsche posted:Seriously I've got like 4 of those stupid tables because I just went crazy when I bought my condo. Plus $0.75 hot dogs.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Garage gym is great to have. Been stuck with a hotel gym the last two weeks and I'm going nuts, if I do another trip out here I might just sign up for Golds or something. Hotel gyms rarely have any actual weights worth a drat. Though the last place I stayed at had a bunch of cable machines that I bodged with various other bits of gym to give myself a workout that wasn't too bad.
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iwentdoodie posted:
 Our house has the Kitty Rule, whereby if your ability to rise from your seated and/or prone position would disturb a cat of any kind, you may ask an individual whose ability to rise from a seated and/or prone position would not disturb any cats to fulfill a reasonable request ("more beer, please" for instance).
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