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The Door Frame posted:I have legit face blindness, and I'm trying to get better about it, but it's not an easy thing. It's so hard to remember what faces I know, and even harder to remember the name that goes with the face. I meet people that I know all the time I've found that either seeing the name in writing (perhaps even writing it myself), especially their full name works really well. Alternatively, link up with people on linkedin and learn that way.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Have met some cool people buying/selling cars but for the most part once money exchanges hands I don't want to hear from you again. The guy who bought this flew 1600KM to only blew the transmission within eyesight of us and the airport. Insta-block: 
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Mar 5, 2020 13:08
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I'm glad the guy answered the phone when I called him up 10 minutes later to ask what kind of gas to put in. 
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I called a seller back once for selling me a 323 with a blown head gasket. I got stranded on alligator alley driving it home from Miami. I said something like "hey man guess where i am? Stranded on alligator alley, gently caress you" and hung up 
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I recently sold a 2000 V70R. Among its many issues was a fuel leak from a rusty line in an inaccessible (well, unless you consider dropping the entire rear suspension out of the car to get to it “accessible”) spot on top of the tank. The leak was bad enough that a lake of fuel would form under the car while it was running but the buyer was still considering driving it 100 miles to get it home. He eventually decided to have it towed but before he changed his mind I was steeling myself for a phone call from him telling me it had burned down on the way.  Volvo enthusiasts usually buy my running cars and junkyards have gotten the rest so I’ve never really had to deal with CL/FB weirdos.
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Mar 5, 2020 16:31
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I think I've told this here before, but one time my friend bought a Volvo 240 winter beater (that was actually really loving nice for the most part) and the engine seized completely solid on the way home. Called the guy, the guy felt bad, called a tow truck to get it and gave my friend 100% of his money back!
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Dude I'm chatting with wants the Speed6 for his newly 16 year old son. This could be amusing. Edit: Warren's out. So now it's a little easier for the DNC to gently caress Bernie over. Rhyno fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Mar 5, 2020 |
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Rhyno posted:Dude I'm chatting with wants the Speed6 for his newly 16 year old son. This could be amusing. I'm wagering that car's lifespan post-purchase will be measured in "weeks".
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Mar 5, 2020 17:41
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IOwnCalculus posted:I'm wagering that car's lifespan post-purchase will be measured in "weeks". At most! But he isn't low balling.
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Mar 5, 2020 17:53
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Anphear posted:Just want to chime in as a career Microbiologist, with a passing knowledge in Virology: I've been watching/reading news and plenty of things seem to mention the 3% mortality rate but never state if that is random or if it is gonna pick off the usual flu death candidates as this 3%. I am assuming the latter and therefore that as a 39 y.o person in good health I am likely to just get it as per a standard flu and feel like poo poo for 2 weeks? 3% less old people in the world taking up space and generally voting like cunts doesn't sound like a terrible thing
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Mar 5, 2020 18:30
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One of our staff has been in contact with someone who has it and is now self isolating. I hope they have enough TP. There's a couple of cases in Birmingham too so I'm probably going to die soon. But while I'm sat in my home before my death I'll make sure to annoy you all more than usual.
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Mar 5, 2020 18:50
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One of the pics going around of people freaking out has someone with a cart and like 50 boxes of kleenex. Why kleenex? Are they hoarding for resale? As if there will be a massive kleenex shortage? Seems loving stupid when if you run out of kleenex you use two old tee shirts and blow in one while washing the other. Canned goods I understand maybe, but Jesus. My 82 year old dad has a plane ticket to come visit me 5 weeks from now. He's thinking of cancelling, I'm thinking in 5 weeks it's going to be really spread, you guys think that's a good idea for him to turtle up at home? Really the only risk of exposure would be the airports at each end, we'd just hang out at my house otherwise. Also he'd be flying out of Portland, where there are already cases. Good news is he's generally healthy, hasn't been sick since getting full blown pneumonia 3 years ago. He is relatively active for his age, goes to the junkyard and everything. Odds are if he gets it he'd be one of the 85%.
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Mar 5, 2020 18:59
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Ferremit posted:So far this week we've had 5 bottles of hand sanitiser stolen from the public areas at work. One of my jobs tomorrow is to work out a system to fix them down to the benches so they cant get nicked. Come on mate, you know they just pinched them and probably went around back to drink them because they haven't got enough time/money to head down to the bottle shop and get a little wasted.
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Mar 5, 2020 19:14
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The statistic I saw the other day that ~3000 people have died of coronavirus while ~74,000 have died of regular flu this season and ~14,000 people die every day of hunger. Not sure if that's true or not, but either way the fearmongering shitbags in the news media can absolutely go gently caress themselves.
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Mar 5, 2020 20:27
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I saw somewhere that more people have been murdered in Mexico in 2020 that have died of Covid19 world wide...
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Mar 5, 2020 20:29
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Coronavirus is 15x as lethal as the flu, so a little apprehension is appropriate, especially in vulnerable populations. Maybe if it's still around in the fall, it's worth worrying about, but now it's a blip on a radar screen lit up like a Christmas tree
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Mar 5, 2020 20:40
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Guys, please be careful with parroting back numbers that you heard without context.Rhyno posted:At most! But he isn't low balling. Yet.
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Anphear posted:Just want to chime in as a career Microbiologist, with a passing knowledge in Virology: I keep trying to explain that the flu has like 3x that mortality rate but nobody comprehends that. Combine that with the fact that the only deaths we've seen are from the worst cases that have been reported and who the gently caress knows how many people have it that aren't even reporting it because, they're 'not that sick' or think 'it's just a cold' and I really don't understand how this is a pandemic.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:and I really don't understand how this is a pandemic. Perhaps you should look up the term "pandemic."
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Mar 5, 2020 21:09
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:because, they're 'not that sick' or think 'it's just a cold' and I really don't understand how this is a pandemic. Pandemics doesnt just mean Captain Tripps It also has 10x (or in some areas 20x the death rate of the average 'flu and it's going to hit your parents the hardest. WE"RE fine, the olds aint. quote:If you aren't over 75 or Immuo-supressed then you have literally nothing to worry about. Extremely low mortality rate (3.4% globally) 65 actually and that's not extremely low. FFS, yes fearmongering is dumb AF but also writing this thing off as a nothingburger is also loving stupid. It will not infect 70% of the population but there is sill cause for concern for health officials quote:While the impact of flu varies, it places a substantial burden on the health of people in the United States each year. CDC estimates that influenza has resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses, between 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths annually since 2010. 20x that is dumb AF to guess but you have Covid19 on top of the usual flu? Hospitals are going to be maxxed out. Again, not you but the olds have got poo poo to worry about. CAT INTERCEPTOR fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Mar 5, 2020 |
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Mar 5, 2020 21:46
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Ether Frenzy posted:Pearl Jam's latest tour has a situation in place where you cannot resell the tickets for more than either a 10% or a $10 markup and I think the most expensive ticket was $125. I got tickets just yesterday early through a "verified fan" thing, an attempt to get the tickets into the hands of fans at face price. It worked pretty well for me. LOL at any band being able to control a price in the secondary market. What are they going to do, send the police? everdave posted:My community was recently ROCKED by a massive tornado and there is absolutely nothing going on at grocery stores. See, that makes sense, but water shouldn't be a problem in the event of an outbreak. Toilet paper and food could be affected if shipping/manufacturing are shorthanded, but water isn't usually trucked in. I read that the regular flu killed 80,000 people over 2017-2018. COVID-19 isn't anywhere near that, though it's mortality rat vs. infected is higher. Also, I'm not old (OK, kinda - I'm 50), nor do I live in a too-densely populated area whose primary form of medicine is Traditional Chinese superstition. So not too worried. Sold cars: I only know where two are, I think. My Jeep is very definitely in my friend's driveway, after being hit front and rear multiple times (guy just attracts inattentive drivers - same thing has already happened to the Jeep's replacement), but what really killed it is he lost the lower radiator hose and cooked the 2.5 to death. It will run, but it's very unhappy about it, and seems to be a 3-cylinder now. He cooked it because he didn't replace the temp gauge sender when that died, which is 100% his fault, and he knows it. The other car I think I know where it is, is my Fiat 128 that was used for drivetrain parts for an X1/9 by a friend after a different friend rolled it over. No clue where my '78 Monza, '81 Buick Regal, '90 RX-7, or '68 El Camino are. The first two are likely in the scrapyard or a new Chinese car, though last I heard, the Buick was on its way to becoming a lowrider, so may have survived. I hope the El Camino is still kicking in loving hands. I should have kept that. The kid that bought my RX-7 had to sell it last I heard, then he was killed in a motorcycle accident, so can't really follow up. Oh, and the '84 RX-7 GSL-SE. I wish I knew what was happening with that one. He was a Puerto Rican dude who was going to make it something interesting.
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Ferremit posted:Tho they're going to be horribly disappointed with the single ply, 1500 sheet rolls that are the worst combination of tracing paper thickness and baking paper poo poo removal ability.
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Mar 5, 2020 22:26
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Grakkus posted:The statistic I saw the other day that ~3000 people have died of coronavirus while ~74,000 have died of regular flu this season and ~14,000 people die every day of hunger. Not sure if that's true or not, but either way the fearmongering shitbags in the news media can absolutely go gently caress themselves. Yeah, there's a clip of Dr.Drew going the gently caress off on the media and he said he has never seen it this bad. He also made a good point about in the future if there really IS a pandemic threat people aren't going to take it seriously because of the media crying wolf all the time about this kind of poo poo.
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meatpimp posted:Guys, please be careful with parroting back numbers that you heard without context. Oh, I'm well aware of how dangerous the seasonal flu is, which is why I said not to worry unless you're vulnerable. I suppose the sarcastic tone didn't come through as well as I thought Applebees Appetizer posted:Yeah, there's a clip of Dr.Drew going the gently caress off on the media and he said he has never seen it this bad. It is a big deal on the global scale due to its "high" mortality rates and governments should worry, but individuals? No. Not unless you're already worried about the seasonal flu killing you I get not trusting the current government's information, but the CDC is telling everyone to chill the gently caress out and just wash your hands like every human being already should
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The Door Frame posted:It is a big deal on the global scale due to its "high" mortality rates and governments should worry, but individuals? No. Not unless you're already worried about the seasonal flu killing you There are multiple things to consider -- this is a new virus, so nobody has immunity. This is a new virus, so we don't know its proclivity to mutate, or its dormant cycles or... anything. I'm just sick as gently caress of everybody becoming immunoviral scientists all of a sudden and spouting off statistics they heard on their news outlet of choice like it's some kind of "proof." Everyone needs to chill out and see how it develops. I've said from the start that it's not going to be a plague event, but there will be disruption. It'll really show how our system (and the global system) accounts for stress of the system.
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Supply chain was already reeling at work from the china tariffs. The corona virus shut down enough factories over there that upper management decided to not buy anything from China and use mexico and Vietnam instead. So its disruptive already. Call ins are high this time of year since everyone is armed with a fresh set of vacation days so I don’t want to think about how much that will suck when it eventually sweeps through. I am sure the world will keep right on turning though. In other news, I found out what an ERISA lien is today and gently caress healthcare in this country and gently caress Joe Biden for being good news to them.
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Mar 5, 2020 23:55
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Ugh, all of this and now I have to fly for work next week (doing in install in Arlington, TX). I’ll just have to fly early and try not to touch anything. I’ll bring Lysol wipes for anything I have to touch. All of this to work at a landfill for a week
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Mar 6, 2020 00:48
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Darchangel posted:LOL at any band being able to control a price in the secondary market. What are they going to do, send the police? The Pearl Jam tickets are only valid if used via the Ticketmaster app, no physical tickets will be accepted so if it's possible to control a price that's how it's possible. I guess obviously you can try and get someone to give you some cash in addition to you transferring the tickets to their account via the app at face value but that seems like a lot of work and won't really drive prices up the way arbitrary resale pricing can.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:65 actually and that's not extremely low. Fair comments. I am mostly annoyed by the over hype of the media cycle. One of of our confirmed cases in NZ was at the Tool concert last weekend, possibly while contagious. Will be interesting to see how it spreads.
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InitialDave posted:Ah, the John Wayne stuff. It's rough, it's tough, and it doesn't take poo poo off anybody Except its not tough. If you even think about touching it your finger will go through it... Maintenance takes turn to buy our own packs of bog roll and we carry it too and from the toilets...
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My kids school are panicking and changed the hand soap to something industrial and there's about 30 kids who already have to bring their own soap in now because the new stuff is causing sores and blisters. My son is one of them as of yesterday, looks like he tried to fish a lobster out of a boiling pot. Also flu is a problem for him because he has to get his meds through a drip if he gets even the normal flu. My wife is stressing the gently caress out and the media are not helping one loving bit. It's impossible to get a fair and balanced view of the situation because panic sells more views.
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bandman posted:Ugh, all of this and now I have to fly for work next week (doing in install in Arlington, TX). I’ll just have to fly early and try not to touch anything. I’ll bring Lysol wipes for anything I have to touch. Hey, my hometown! Enjoy the complete lack of public transit, stay way the gently caress away from the parks mall and do not speed in pantego or dalworthington gardens. It's been a decade since I lived there or I'd recommend a good food joint or two. What part of Arlington will you be in?
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Welp, my store ran out of our two major TPs - Charmin and store brand. Store brand is trickling in every night, but not nearly enough. I had to pull a pallet of another brand (don't even remember which now) for a customer before I left, but it was just the mega packs, and she only wanted 2. Shelf was empty, so why not - she got her two 36 roll packages of TP, I refilled the shelf, and tried not to ram the forklift into anything living while putting it back. Totally out of all antibacterial hand soaps and sanitizer (almost out of all hand soaps in general), no expected date on when we'll get them back. Corporate has mandated that any personal air travel or cruise ship travel between now and Memorial Day has to be cleared with HR.  Elmnt80 posted:Hey, my hometown! Enjoy the complete lack of public transit, stay way the gently caress away from the parks mall and do not speed in pantego or dalworthington gardens. Habanero's The Taco Revolution is decent, they're in a Valero on E Lamar. They do a good knockoff of El Paso's Chico's Tacos too. And uh... yeah, don't speed. Since he seems to enjoy garbage dumps, guessing he'll be by the dump that some smart developer built a new high end housing development around. I wound up running Amazon packages out there quite a few times, holy hell the STENCH around those $1M houses... randomidiot fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Mar 6, 2020 |
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They terminated someone in another building for stealing two gallon jugs of hand sanitizer. All hand santizer is now locked up.
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The irony is I normally have at least a couple of small pocket sized bottles of sanitizer. I ran out a bit over a week ago. I don't use it obsessively, but it's a leftover habit from being a cashier - usually use it a couple of times a day. We had a mandatory meeting at work this morning, partly covering what the company is doing in reaction to shittybeervirus. Nobody in the company is allowed to travel by air for business right now (... I mean, we're only in 1/2 of Texas, so worst case you're a day's drive on a business trip anyway, unless it's to a supplier out of state). We're not allowed to shake hands or fist bump with coworkers or customers.  And if we feel sick at all, we're supposed to self isolate. Except we have a semi strict attendance policy.My department interprets it very loosely though (so long as you don't NC/NS, and don't call in excessively or show up late constantly, you basically get a pass - I should have at least had a documented talking to by now, and several people should have been fired). I think we get treated a little differently because it's so hard to find a reliable overnighter. There's only been one person written up since I started, and he had multiple NC/NS in a row (2 in a row = bye, if you go by the official company playbook). I think he found a new job, stopped showing up here, decided he didn't like the new job and just started showing back up, but I'm not 100% on that.
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I'm mostly worried about it because my fiance is on chemo. Sure, it's not gonna kill me, but I worry about bringing it home and loving her up. Granted, I don't think she's super immuno-compromised because I just spend the last two weeks pretty sick and she hasn't caught a whiff of it, so maybe I'm making myself panic which is par for the course! I went to the grocery store late last week and no one has ravaged it as of yet. So I'm topped up on TP and toilet paper (not hoarding!) and we have a few bottles of sanitizer from when we bought a bunch when she was first diagnosed last year. I'll have to stop in this weekend and see if people have panicked and destroyed it yet.
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I'm finishing up my lunch and then i'm running to Costco, eager to see if the panic has made it this far.
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bandman posted:Ugh, all of this and now I have to fly for work next week (doing in install in Arlington, TX). I’ll just have to fly early and try not to touch anything. I’ll bring Lysol wipes for anything I have to touch. If you're actually doing Arlington's landfill on State Highway 157, please be sure and laugh at the very expensive housing/mixed use development ("Veridian") that was built directly across the road, on a former flood plain. I do, every time I drive by. Elmnt80 posted:Hey, my hometown! Enjoy the complete lack of public transit, stay way the gently caress away from the parks mall and do not speed in pantego or dalworthington gardens. If he's doing the landfill, he should be right there by the STR posted:Habanero's The Taco Revolution is decent, they're in a Valero on E Lamar. They do a good knockoff of El Paso's Chico's Tacos too. Exactly. There's also Al's Hamburgers at 157 and NE Green Oaks, and, if you like pubs, The Fox & Hound right next door to it. There's a Torchy's Tacos at about I-30 and 157, too. A bit north, there's Euless, with a bunch of stuff. Fuzzy's Tacos on Highway 10 for example. Most of the stuff I frequent is chains, because my wife doesn't like a lot of the stuff I like, and definitely doesn't like "weird" stuff <sigh>. I'll have to try out Habenero's myself. Ether Frenzy posted:The Pearl Jam tickets are only valid if used via the Ticketmaster app, no physical tickets will be accepted so if it's possible to control a price that's how it's possible. Yeah, OK, I guess that would do it. Sorry, I'm an old guy, and despite being in IT, I still don't think in purely digital terms.
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STR posted:And if we feel sick at all, we're supposed to self isolate. Except we have a semi strict attendance policy. That right there is American business in a nutshell. Say the words, but don't walk the walk. American healthcare, too, for that matter.
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My problem is just I haven't been in over 10 years so most of the places I could recommend may be long gone. Or I've forgotten them in the last decade+. Though I think Airways in North Central Arlington is still there and makes a nice greasy charcoal grilled burger in a airplane themed place. Nizza pizza does a good new york style pizza if you're in the mood and even sells by the slice. Never ate at the original by Arlington High, but I ate at the now closed location by my highschool plenty. Colter's is consistently decent for a small chain BBQ joint, but with some looking around there's plenty of hole in the walls that will beat it. hosed if I can remember any right now though.
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