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Grocery shopping mini-haul. Left my wife to wander the store while the boys and I picked through the Hot Wheels display. We found another City Turbo II afterwards as well and snagged it. 
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Imperador do Brasil posted:Grocery shopping mini-haul. Left my wife to wander the store while the boys and I picked through the Hot Wheels display. We found another City Turbo II afterwards as well and snagged it. I picked up that city turbo as well, in blue. If i had less self control i would have so loving many hot wheels.
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Dec 15, 2019 20:36
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I have the City in 3 or 4 colors now. It's adorable.
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Imperador do Brasil posted:Grocery shopping mini-haul. Left my wife to wander the store while the boys and I picked through the Hot Wheels display. We found another City Turbo II afterwards as well and snagged it. My workplace is currently giving employees 20% off of all toys, until Christmas. I'm gonna have to go look at the Hot Wheels tonight... We have a small collection of hot wheels and related stuff. Or as the overnight general merch lead says, "oh, the boy toys". I don't think he realized quite how that sounded, despite him being burn your eyebrows off gay, until I cocked an eyebrow and just stared at him for a minute.  trouser chili posted:I think this thing is the capacitor. That's a transformer. Rhyno, just leave the fan switch on your thermostat set to "on" for now, and get the fan going - it'll be kinda chilly when the heat kicks off, but the fan will run until the motor fully dies. Some cheap thermostats, for some reason, will also force the heat on when you do this, no loving idea why (the thermostat my old apt came with did that, same with the one my current apt came with, same with the one my parents house used to have.. but only when set to heat  ). If it does that, turn off the furnace breaker, install a jumper between Rh (or R) and G at either end, turn the breaker back on, and get the fan spinning however you have to. Maybe spin the motor as fast as you can immediately before kicking on the breaker?(I have no idea how the ECM motors work, so YMMV) The Door Frame posted:It's been 12 hours since my last smoke. I hate this already. I hate this so much. I quit cold turkey in 2005. Quitting an 8 ball a day cocaine habit was easier. But if I can do it without murdering anybody, anybody can do it. Admittedly I only smoked half a pack a day at the most... ... I started craving them badly again this summer.  I haven't bought a pack or even taken a drag off of someone else's cigarette, but I may cave and get something like a Juul.Goober Peas posted:Points and laughs at air filter At least it's a common size. Mine uses a 10x30. I can't find them ANYWHERE except for the leasing office, and they only have the super basic fiberglass ones. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Dec 15, 2019 |
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Dec 15, 2019 21:49
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Rhyno posted:Yeah, I almost wish she hadn't made a public post about it so this idiot would keep wasting his money. Bummer, that seems like something that could have been weaponized. Buy toys to anger a weirdo, donate them to charity, and get titles to support the forums.
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Dec 15, 2019 22:09
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So did Pep Boys close all of their parts stores? The two I know of near me both converted to service and tires only, closing the retail store entirely. Their website makes it sound like they sell parts online, but doesn't give me an option to pick up in store or anything. I need a Kraco radio and tacky chrome, damnit.
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Dec 15, 2019 22:12
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The Door Frame posted:It's been 12 hours since my last smoke. I hate this already. I hate this so much. You’ve got this. I’m about six months in. It gets better, especially when you notice you can walk up stairs without gasping. Don’t waver; cigarettes are like an abusive partner. Always gonna end bad no matter how good that make-up sex is.
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Dec 15, 2019 22:51
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Rhyno posted:I have the City in 3 or 4 colors now. It's adorable. On the Honda City Turbo topic:  https://www.tamiya.com/english/products/58611/index.htm
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Any of you US goons make it to playoffs in fantasy football this year? I'm in the final matchup in my money league barring a miracle tomorrow night, and I'm sweating like a mofo because it's close to a $500 payout for first place 
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Dec 16, 2019 02:07
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The Door Frame posted:It's been 12 hours since my last smoke. I hate this already. I hate this so much. Dude, I managed to do it, and here I am 15 months later. If I can do it, you can do it.
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Dec 16, 2019 02:34
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5W0Tn-X73I This showed up in my youtube recommendations. I know there's a few Initial D fans so I thought I'd share.
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Dec 16, 2019 02:37
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:Any of you US goons make it to playoffs in fantasy football this year? I'm in the final matchup in my money league barring a miracle tomorrow night, and I'm sweating like a mofo because it's close to a $500 payout for first place Same here. I'm ahead so far and if I win I'm in the final but.....The guy I'm playing now has Drew Brees tomorrow night 
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Dec 16, 2019 04:25
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slidebite posted:That will likely be the case. I suppose for the typical person owning $40 worth of Walmart "homeowner" tools, yes. It just took a wee bit of prying from the right spot.
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Dec 16, 2019 04:57
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Thanks for the encouragement guys! I've had a couple jazz cigarettes, but no tobacco yet. And don't get a JUUL if you want to quit, get it for harm reduction. You're lying to yourself if you think you'll go down in nicotine levels
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Dec 16, 2019 05:30
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Same here. I'm ahead so far and if I win I'm in the final but.....The guy I'm playing now has Drew Brees tomorrow night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzNvdAOg2LY Good luck. Brees scored a ton of points last weekend, and I always like to fade QBs after a big game so hopefully you'll be ok.
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Dec 16, 2019 05:53
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Send rain pls. These fires are just.... holy gently caress scary. The glow over the ridge last night was spine chilling as 400000 hectarces tuening to ash would be
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Dec 16, 2019 07:35
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Send rain pls. These fires are just.... holy gently caress scary. The glow over the ridge last night was spine chilling as 400000 hectarces tuening to ash would be Yeh, the rain gods wasted it on Brisbane  I had a small grass fire start on my footpath from a ciggie butt yesterday. Lucky I was actually out in the heat loving around in the garden.
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Dec 16, 2019 09:05
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Humphreys posted:Yeh, the rain gods wasted it on Brisbane Fuuuuuuck I'm dreading the summer where the Pacific Northwest gets that hot. Last couple summers it's been illegal to water your lawn, so I'm expecting Australia level wildfires a couple years from now.
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Dec 16, 2019 09:44
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Send rain pls. These fires are just.... holy gently caress scary. The glow over the ridge last night was spine chilling as 400000 hectarces tuening to ash would be You mean the prime ministers thoughts and prayers aren’t working???
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Dec 16, 2019 10:30
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Okay so which countries aren't racist or on fire? Hands up anyone?
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HandlingByJebus posted:You’ve got this. I’m about six months in. It gets better, especially when you notice you can walk up stairs without gasping. Don’t waver; cigarettes are like an abusive partner. Always gonna end bad no matter how good that make-up sex is. Fermented Tinal posted:Dude, I managed to do it, and here I am 15 months later. The Door Frame posted:Thanks for the encouragement guys! I've had a couple jazz cigarettes, but no tobacco yet. And don't get a JUUL if you want to quit, get it for harm reduction. You're lying to yourself if you think you'll go down in nicotine levels All three of you are doing really, really good jobs, period. I've never been a smoker, or had many vices, really, but I firmly believe that if I had started, or had gotten really fat early on (which I think is definitely a very probable outcome, had I lived in the US, no offense.) I'm not sure I could've mustered the resolve to change things.
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Great work quitting! I'm only 10 months in but have ZERO cravings, and the big test was going to the pub with my mates who are heavy smokers. The money I'm saving (a pack of 40 is pretty much $40AUD or more) is going to great things (car parts, weekends away and concerts) Speaking of which, pending time off I finally have a chance to see Tool live for the first time.
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There are many good reasons to not smoke, allow me to tell you about yet another one: When I did my thesis I cooperated with the Dept. of Vascular Surgery at the largest hospital in Denmark. The head of that Dept. did some research on the side, sorta your down-to-earth, practical research, based on internal data from the department. In short, he took a bunch of smokers undergoing surgery. Minor to medium, amputations, things like that, nothing a healthy young person shouldn't be able to recover from no problem. He then told the smokers to not smoke from six weeks prior to surgery to six weeks after. Some complied, others didn't. The difference in complications between the two groups was significant, which tells you two things: 1) not just is smoking bad for you, it's continuously bad for you and 2) it's never too late to benefit from not smoking.
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bolind posted:There are many good reasons to not smoke, allow me to tell you about yet another one: drat straight. Your body is constantly trying and fight off poo poo. Also Episode 1 of Seamen is out
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I am super proud of all of you that quit smoking. My baby sister finally kicked it a year ago and it's so nice to go visit her and it doesn't reek of smoke.
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Suburban Dad posted:Any Brits care to weigh in on the UK elections? As an ignorant American, I'm curious how you're feeling about it. Considering I'm not cool with people having been forced to suffer under the current government, I'm not exactly happy knowing there's quite this amount of cretins in the country. I mean secretly I knew it, I just never thought they'd emerge in such numbers and prove it to me.
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Mark that down as the FOURTH Monday morning in a row with an accident slowing the freeway down to a crawl. Single car smashed into the barrier, one would assume that he was following someone too close and lost control when they had to stop suddenly. And I am 100% not making this up, the car was smashed into the concrete freeway barrier directly underneath the overhead freeway sign that said "Don't wreck the holidays, don't tailgate"  Tremek posted:I broke the DM’s undead dragon this afternoon with hypnotic pattern. It got close to the ground, apparently it wasn’t immune to charm, and you miss all the shots you don’t take. I do feel a little bad though. Man, I miss playing D&D. Picked it up a couple of years ago when my friend's old co-worker wanted to teach a group to play. We had a ton of fun with it, but then he insisted we ONLY play at his house, trapped in the basement with his annoying undisciplined puppy that would steal your poo poo to chew on or nip at your ankles under the table, and he'd never do anything about it. Then he started getting all weird and rapey with his DMing so we all peaced out. If we want to play again I'd have to DM because I have all of the basic books and such, but I don't think I'd be all that good at it. The Royal Nonesuch posted:Any of you US goons make it to playoffs in fantasy football this year? I'm in the final matchup in my money league barring a miracle tomorrow night, and I'm sweating like a mofo because it's close to a $500 payout for first place I just got eliminated from our first round last night after being projected dead last from draft day until like week four and sitting in second since about week 8 or 9 Ours has two-week first round playoffs, and I assume the "superbowl" is a two-week round too. I jumped ahead by like 40 points at the end of last week, and figured I'd have it in the bag with Lamar Jackson, Aaron Jones, Nick Chubb, and a favorable Chris Godwin because Evans was out. Nope, my opponent snagged one of their lower WR's (Perriman) off of waivers right before and Winston clearly favored him over Godwin, and then Godwin went out. Sucks sitting next to your opponent all day watching your lead slowly diminish and then all of his people just gently caress off into the distance. Also the Rams suck rear end and couldn't stop Zeke 
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Considering I'm not cool with people having been forced to suffer under the current government, I'm not exactly happy knowing there's quite this amount of cretins in the country. I mean secretly I knew it, I just never thought they'd emerge in such numbers and prove it to me. I'm trying not to politics post too much because I just want to scream until I pass out, but yeah. The general public are either stupid or uncaring enough to swallow all the poisoned media, or secretly racist enough to be happy regardless. And they'll suffer, but they'll be happy because others are suffering more.
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The Door Frame posted:Thanks for the encouragement guys! I've had a couple jazz cigarettes, but no tobacco yet. And don't get a JUUL if you want to quit, get it for harm reduction. You're lying to yourself if you think you'll go down in nicotine levels I absolutely know this. I've just been craving nicotine lately for some reason. Probably stress, but I don't want to smell like cigarettes. My regular bar actually allows smoking inside - I always wind up leaving with my eyes burning, but they particularly cater to the third shift crowd (lots of grocery store workers, warehouse workers, doctors, nurses, etc in there at 7am). Very rare for bars in Texas now, at least in major metro areas, to allow smoking - most cities have banned all forms of indoor smoking aside from at home. A lot of apartment complexes and rental properties have banned smoking inside, some go so far as to ban it anywhere on the property. In the cities that do still allow smoking in a business, it's almost always ONLY in bars (not a bar+grill; they have to make the majority of their money from alcohol sales). The city I live in is like that - they allow smoking in a bar, but not anywhere else. Growing up, I remember my parents lighting up in grocery stores. I think my dad was the last holdout for smoking inside - his office building banned smoking inside, but since he worked weekends, when the building was technically "closed" (they even shut down the HVAC on weekends), he'd still smoke in the elevators and in his actual office (only his office, not the rest of the floor). Eventually got bitched at enough by building management over smoking in the elevators that he took his smoking to the stairwells. T-Square posted:Mark that down as the FOURTH Monday morning in a row with an accident slowing the freeway down to a crawl. Single car smashed into the barrier, one would assume that he was following someone too close and lost control when they had to stop suddenly. Only one accident, during rush hour on a business day?  Oh you sweet summer child.  I ran into my neighbor yesterday. His Cobalt got THRASHED a couple of months ago; it's been parked on the far edge of the property since then (bent rear suspension, rear end smashed hard, back window broken out, rear lights gone, trunk pried open to get the spare tire out). Asked him what happened. He said the guy in front of him slammed on their brakes on the highway; he slammed on his, but couldn't avoid him, so he swerved.. with the brakes firmly locked up (no ABS on his car). Spun across the highway into the concrete barrier, but at least he didn't hit anybody else, and wasn't hurt aside from whiplash. He blames it all on the guy in front of him. And not him following too close.  Frankly I'm amazed the apartment management hasn't slapped a tow sticker on it yet, but awhile back I talked with the head maintenance guy about parking the Saturn until I could sell it and told them it wasn't driveable, asked where I could park it to keep from getting towed. Told them I wouldn't put it in the garage because of the gas leak. They told me to park it on the far edge of the lot, exactly where this guy is parked. I know when I moved in, there was a Civic that was obviously long abandoned (it had a license plate style that hasn't been issued in well over a decade, our plates have to be replaced every 7 years, registration was 6 or 7 years out of date, and the paint had completely flaked off of the plate), parked where he's parked now. My GF said that Civic had been there at least 6-7 years; it finally disappeared about a year ago.
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OK, now here's some automotive insanity. My hometown, 1971: First, for those that nerd, yes, it had a standard and the hemi, which was not a official option. The man who bought it from the dealer made part of this purchase a transmission swap. This man was the dad of a friend I had in high school. He only had it a year or two, then selling it to build his house. He regretted this decision extremely later - not exactly sure if it was because he loved the lunitic thing, or because the great muscle car investment bubble started when I was in high school in the mid-late 90s. I'll let y'all tell me how much such a car is worth now, but: $7800  = $50,258 today, or $6500 = $41,882 The car not only still exists, but I've seen it. I'm 90% sure this is the Dodge Daytona Hemi at Vernon's Car Museum in Swift Current. The current owner in his restoration put the automatic transmission back in. (TL;DR one of the richest guys in Atlantic Canada is a car nut who operates, often with himself at the door, a mind-blowing car museum in rural Newfoundland. Let me put it this way: one of the cars he has is a original hemi 'cuda convertible with a 1 of 1 option package with aprox. 8000 km on it.)
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funny how things stay the same - you can buy a SRT challenger for roughly that money these days that hits roughly the same performance benchmarks.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:funny how things stay the same - you can buy a SRT challenger for roughly that money these days that hits roughly the same performance benchmarks. Also manuel transmissions have been around longer than I thought.
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opengl128 posted:Also manuel transmissions have been around longer than I thought.  Re: quitting smoking. I can't really speak to the quitting aspect so much because I quit for like a year before I started vaping but the harm reduction is very real. I just picked up a Uwell Caliburn for convenience. It's pocket sized, only slightly larger than a juul and oh my god it is like a million timed better than the Smok Fit I had. It's considerably better than the Sourin Drop too. Here's hoping this one doesn't go tits up after a few weeks. At least the refillable pods are WAYYYY better constructed than anything I've used so far.
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STR posted:Only one accident, during rush hour on a business day? Maybe you all just suck more at driving  GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Re: quitting smoking. I can't really speak to the quitting aspect so much because I quit for like a year before I started vaping but the harm reduction is very real. I also quit for a while before I started vaping, first it was a Juul, and then it was one of those NJoy pod thingies, both because Kwik Trip and Walgreens had both of them for like 85% off respectively at one point. I stopped for the most part because I'm still scared of them causing health issues, but gently caress if I can't resist stealing my friend's every time I get a few drinks in me. And then immediately regret it the morning after when my throats all gunked up.
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STR you are totally right, that is a transformer. I was being dumb. That dude probably provides the 24VAC for the thermostat and humidistat (if equipped).
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Quick question: Are these yellow things the transport blocks that should have been taken out 6800km ago when I got the car and that are going into the "reasons I'm not paying for the repair if the suspension breaks" box?
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I don't know Volkswagens but hard nylon doesn't seem like a good bump stop material so I'd say yeah. Bottoming those out is not gonna be fun, I'd head back to the dealer and ask when they're gonna finish your PDI.
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BlackTie posted:Quick question: If they can't be removed quickly and easily, then no, they're part of the suspension. I've never had a new car but I can't imagine any part of delivery would ever involve "disassemble suspension to remove travel limiters and re-align vehicle". Unless it's a mistake and they should have been removed before initial assembly, I suppose. STR posted:... I started craving them badly again this summer. Noooooo, don't do it. Question for the smokers - Is the actual buzz from nicotine all that great? How is it compared to other drugs? Is it really worth getting addicted or is the addiction more related to relief from withdrawal? Like if it's a mini-cocaine or meth buzz I could understand, but if all it does is make you crave it when you stop, then what loving good is it anyway? I know this sounds naive coming from a 48 year old, and I do understand that it's a nightmarishly hard addiction to break, which is why I can't imagine anyone voluntarily starting it unless it's truly great. And I do know smokers who absolutely love smoking, I've just never asked this specific question. LloydDobler fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Dec 16, 2019 |
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