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AmbassadorofSodomy posted:I gotta admit, some old big fat biker dude on a three wheeler (with single front wheel, not other way around) is kinda funny some times seeing that. When those groups roll through the Smoky Mountains and Tail of the Dragon the tow truck operators start salivating. Those things don't turn for crap so there's always a bunch off in ditches. You can sit on one of the corners the photographers work and watch people understeer off the road all day. Luckily they're usually going slow enough the injuries are minor.
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Aug 30, 2021 20:40
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Just finished up a 4 day internet outage. Sure I could have picked up a modem from Best Buy, called support sooner - but it was a nice break. Somethings still not quite right (not enough channels bonding for our rated speed). Guess we'll find out if it stays stable, I kept the technician onsite visit scheduled just in case.
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Aug 30, 2021 22:19
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NitroSpazzz posted:Been thinking a lot lately about selling off most of the cars that aren't getting driven often to fund one really fun car and a bunch of home projects. Sure I'd miss looking at them but due to health issues I've driven the E28 about 500 miles and the E30 zero miles since fall 2019. This is not a position I envy at all. You have some absolute holy grail cars that don't appear to be coming back into the atmosphere any time soon. It seems like the saying of "if you are going to do it now is a good time" but you could have said that any time in the last five years and have been wrong. The health issues and not being able to use them is the biggest gut punch of all though, it sucks and I hope some of your treatment gets you in a place where you can enjoy your hobbies a bit more. I have fleeting thoughts about selling the M3 from time to time but one drive will cure it. I also have been bolstered lately by hearing some car journalists talk wistfully about the E9X generation. Just the other week The Smoking Tire just said "The E92 M3 is the move right now," and that the basement on those cars has been set. As cool as the car is to drive now, I think in five or ten years time it will be infinitely cooler.
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Aug 30, 2021 22:55
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Somewhat Heroic posted:This is not a position I envy at all. You have some absolute holy grail cars that don't appear to be coming back into the atmosphere any time soon. It seems like the saying of "if you are going to do it now is a good time" but you could have said that any time in the last five years and have been wrong. The health issues and not being able to use them is the biggest gut punch of all though, it sucks and I hope some of your treatment gets you in a place where you can enjoy your hobbies a bit more. I sold my e92 335d two months ago when I moved and I miss it for real. It was so great having a car that I could take out and enjoy on a sunny day with the pandemic in full swing last year (especially since most of the roads around me were clear towards the start of it). Really looking forward to my next "fun" car and I today was the first day at a job in which I'll be making more than double my previous salary so I'm not really sure what to do with that. Since I found out I got the job I've started thinking differently about money and just want to save everything. Or at least I did until I saw a couple videos about the new 300z  I have always wanted an e30 because my mom had one when I was a really little kid. She had a black two door convertible 325i with an auto transmission. That and the Isuzu trooper were the two cars I learned to drive on as a teenager. I really hoped to inherit the e30 but then cash for clunkers happened and... yeah RIP. If you're looking to sell the e30 in 6 months to a year please DM me because I will be in the position to take care of it financially and it has always been a dream of mine.
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Aug 30, 2021 23:27
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Ugh so apparently my wife witnessed the aftermath of a vehicle vs child leaving work today. She was beside herself 
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Aug 30, 2021 23:45
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Can confirm: E92 M3 is both good, and cool. Just about to hit 35k miles in mine, got the oil changed and got a new battery last week 
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Aug 30, 2021 23:48
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Ugh so apparently my wife witnessed the aftermath of a vehicle vs child leaving work today. She was beside herself Hopefully not fatal? I've come across a couple in my time. It's never fun, especially being among the first.
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Aug 31, 2021 00:09
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Advent Horizon posted:The gently caress did you do in a past life? Seriously, go apologize to whatever Bruja you pissed off, make then some homemade tamales or something, god drat.
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Aug 31, 2021 00:23
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Aug 31, 2021 00:26
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Aug 31, 2021 00:31
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slidebite posted:Poor thing. Yeah it was fatal that's why she was so upset. Totally triggered me too from when I saw a guy get shot and killed by the cops outside of my car
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Aug 31, 2021 01:14
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Aug 31, 2021 02:23
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Rant because you guys get it: instagram conservatives: Joe checks his watch at the funerals of the fallen marines, the most disrespectful thing you've ever seen? really? I mean... loving really? were you loving blind and deaf for the last 4 loving years? I can't even bring myself to post on any form of social media bout how loving dumb these people are because I know these people, in real life. Also, its getting harder to ignore my close friends (brothers) who are antivax. I know these statements are totally obvious, but I just cant. do it anymore? I've complained about social media so much that I think I may have to really take a step back from it. I just cant handle these people. This is a woeful time to be alive, but my jobs are flowing again, picked up 3 new clients in the last few weeks.. feeling somewhat normal again money wise. The whole work from home thing is getting me down a bit as well, all those years sitting in an hour plus of traffic to go 12 miles was awful, but I took for granted that quiet time, time to listen to music and just sit with no screen, no one to bug me - I could explore the music catalogs of long fortotten artists who only old people listen to. I don't have that luxury of 100% peace and quiet anymore. wife: "can you just watch him for 5 minutes, i have to ____________" me: "honey I'm working" " wife "I know but will 5 minutes kill you lobsterboyx" me: 
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Aug 31, 2021 07:37
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LobsterboyX posted:Rant because you guys get it: I'm really getting so exhausted about the COVID stuff everywhere that I cannot escape in the media, then I have to deal with fuckwit antivaxxers at work and I am starting to be in a constant state of irritation, which rubs off onto my underlings. I try to isolate myself away from everyone but that just means I'm then excluded from 'team' activities. LobsterboyX posted:The whole work from home thing is getting me down a bit as well, all those years sitting in an hour plus of traffic to go 12 miles was awful, but I took for granted that quiet time, time to listen to music and just sit with no screen, no one to bug me - I could explore the music catalogs of long fortotten artists who only old people listen to. I don't have that luxury of 100% peace and quiet anymore. I used to enjoy a long commute for the exact same reasons. A podcast here or there, a new album back to back twice a day, phone conversations with family etc. Then the chaos of home.
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Aug 31, 2021 08:54
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Went to bed super early (like 4pm). Apparently got a text and voicemail from HR at a company I interviewed with, saying they have "exciting news". It's a sidestep as far as a job goes (delivery), but using their vehicle, full benefits from day 1, and pays more than what I made before. Normal person hours too - Mon-Fri starting at either 6 or 7 am. Elmnt80 posted:Seriously, go apologize to whatever Bruja you pissed off, make then some homemade tamales or something, god drat. It affected the entire building (23 or 24 apartments and 13 garages), so it wasn't just me. Possibly the next building too, I'm not sure how beefy the transformers are. The lineman was dicking around with the pad mount transformer for a good bit. Went to bed pretty early, woke up a bit ago and everything is fine now. Just swapped a spare transformer to the alarm, that's working fine again. The Nest Hub seems to have come back too, after being left unplugged for awhile. So it looks like I'm only out the alarm clock, UPS, a 15 year old monitor that was already dying, and the network extender I have in the garage (and the apartment will have to replace the microwave and garage door opener). And a few light bulbs. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 09:33 on Aug 31, 2021 |
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Aug 31, 2021 09:00
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Somewhat Heroic posted:This is not a position I envy at all. You have some absolute holy grail cars that don't appear to be coming back into the atmosphere any time soon. It seems like the saying of "if you are going to do it now is a good time" but you could have said that any time in the last five years and have been wrong. The health issues and not being able to use them is the biggest gut punch of all though, it sucks and I hope some of your treatment gets you in a place where you can enjoy your hobbies a bit more.  The E92 is such a solid car, if I had the space I'd probably have one by now. I really thought about and almost went with an E92 over the Cayman.LobsterboyX posted:Rant because you guys get it:  People are poo poo and have been emboldened by the previous chump, they're now proud of their ignorance/racism/etc. Feel you on the WFH thing too, some days have to remind her I'm working from home and can't go run errands for hours.
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Aug 31, 2021 11:03
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Just got loving cleaned up by the sad brains truck. Gonna be off line for a while
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Aug 31, 2021 13:30
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Aug 31, 2021 13:36
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Dude just get off of social media completely, seriously, all of it. Like not just to stop looking at it for awhile, I mean deleting the accounts completely and never re opening them. I don't know how people do it to be honest, SA is the only place I post in that could be considered any kind of social media, everything else is garbage imo. I'm currently losing a friend down the misinformation rabbit hole that is Facebook, he's literally out of his loving mind because all he does is buy all the bullshit the echo chamber feeds him. Just eating up any story that fits his narrative and it's really disappointing. I'm sure he's freaking out about Biden looking at his watch right now too, yeah it was a stupid thing to do but in the grand scheme of things who loving cares, I literally forgot about that story five minutes after I heard it on the radio.
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Aug 31, 2021 13:45
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Dude just get off of social media completely, seriously, all of it. Like not just to stop looking at it for awhile, I mean deleting the accounts completely and never re opening them. I don't know how people do it to be honest, SA is the only place I post in that could be considered any kind of social media, everything else is garbage imo. it ain't worth it. People are loving batshit nowadays.... even more so than before. And I don't know how we're going to get out of this.
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Aug 31, 2021 14:40
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slidebite posted:. And I don't know how we're going to get out of this. Horse meds.
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Aug 31, 2021 14:41
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Let them take the horse meds I say. COVID really is an idiot test.
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Aug 31, 2021 14:43
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People feel empowered to say what they want and just because the son of an illegal immigrant is no longer president doesn’t mean people will put the inside thoughts back inside.
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Aug 31, 2021 15:00
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Humphreys posted:Let them take the horse meds I say. COVID really is an idiot test. I want to help them get the meds. gently caress em. edit: there should be a goddamned line drawn. you show up to the ER with horse med poisoning and you aren't let in. gently caress em. Rhyno fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Aug 31, 2021 |
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Aug 31, 2021 15:14
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slidebite posted:it ain't worth it. People are loving batshit nowadays.... even more so than before. And I don't know how we're going to get out of this. Here's to everyone that is homesick for a place that doesn't exist anymore, the future looks pretty bleak but we just gotta keep on going I guess.
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Aug 31, 2021 15:43
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Ugh so apparently my wife witnessed the aftermath of a vehicle vs child leaving work today. She was beside herself Eighteen years ago the wife and I witnessed a seven-year-old girl fall from a fourth-of-July parade float. She was subsequently run over and killed by the trailer tires. This event unfolded right in front of us in a matter of seconds. I couldn't even rise from my chair fast enough. That little girl would be 25 now, the same age as my wife when it happened. I don't exactly know what the point it, these things just come back.
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Aug 31, 2021 15:57
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trouser chili posted:I don't exactly know what the point it, these things just come back. Turns out the victim was an adult, a small woman that my wife thought was a child but still. I hadn't thought about what I had witnessed in forever, completely forgot about it until my wife called me and it all came rushing back. I just remember it being incredibly surreal.
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Aug 31, 2021 16:13
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I audibly gasped. Let's take a right turn please and everyone wish me a happy birthday. 37.
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Aug 31, 2021 16:14
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Happy birthday young man
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Aug 31, 2021 16:22
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Applebees Appetizer posted:
I'm having some success talking with people in person. I live in two deeply-red states and think maybe I've found a key. See from what I've gathered everyone is getting tuned-up to look for "the enemy". All sides doesn't matter; they've all got a boogieman or two-dozen. You gotta sidestep that poo poo cause every side is conditioned to look for the boogieman and entrench into their pre-determined mindset. Twice now in the past three weeks though I've had conversations with perfect strangers where I've clearly rung a dude's bell a bit, and I know this because in both cases you could just feel that vibe and tension melt away from them, followed by silent contemplation. In any case the key is in how to you tell a person you identify "the enemy", and it's very easy to do. Everyone agrees the propaganda is bad and tearing us apart, but typically an entrenched person doesn't see the propaganda on their "side" as propaganda, and this is because they don't know what to look for. To give them that razor the answer is very simple because if you want to find the enemy it's very simple. The enemy divides us. Look for the messages that divide us. If it makes you laugh at an "other", or feel angry at them, or superior; that's the enemy's message. That's what they want, because if we're divided we're distracted. Perhaps it helps that I look like a red state redneck, but this message is working in the microcosm of my life.
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Aug 31, 2021 16:24
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My nephew they couldn't find a hospital room for yesterday ended up being taken straight to emergency surgery in the afternoon, which seemed to go well, and he's recovering today.
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Aug 31, 2021 16:25
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Dude just get off of social media completely, seriously, all of it. Like not just to stop looking at it for awhile, I mean deleting the accounts completely and never re opening them. I don't know how people do it to be honest, SA is the only place I post in that could be considered any kind of social media, everything else is garbage imo. Did the same thing 5-6 years ago and never looked back. Best decision I ever made - never been happier lol It really is pretty shocking to meet a political mouth foamer in person. I legitimately feel really bad for them because I know it has to be miserable. I try to keep my distance. Generally I just say something like "yeah that's crazy idk I might agree with you probably but also maybe not" and then change the subject. I have found great success with that if I'm being honest. At this point I just see it as a survival trait to keep the crazies away.
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Aug 31, 2021 17:41
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Imagined posted:My nephew they couldn't find a hospital room for yesterday ended up being taken straight to emergency surgery in the afternoon, which seemed to go well, and he's recovering today. Sorry he had to go through that and it got to that point. First couple weeks of recovery are pretty rough, tell him to make sure things are kept clean and watch for signs of infection.
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Aug 31, 2021 18:06
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Applebees Appetizer posted:I'm sure he's freaking out about Biden looking at his watch right now too, yeah it was a stupid thing to do Not sure how the busiest man on the planet looking at his watch is disrespectful whereas the laziest man on the planet who happens to be their cult leader NOT going to honor the WWII dead because the rain would have messed up his hair isn't, but OK. (I know this isn't your position, but I don't think looking at your watch is an offense to anyone the snowiest of magaflakes so let's not help them shift the goalposts.)
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Aug 31, 2021 19:29
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Advent Horizon posted:Also gently caress him for taking a hospital bed right now. That's the worst part of this. Like just go to a loving pharmacy or grocery store or whatever and get stuck. But no you've got to the goddamn hospital and not only waste their resources but also potentially expose yourself to covid anyway and bring that poo poo home to your unvaccinated family. LobsterboyX posted:
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Aug 31, 2021 19:30
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Turns out the victim was an adult, a small woman that my wife thought was a child but still. I hadn't thought about what I had witnessed in forever, completely forgot about it until my wife called me and it all came rushing back. I just remember it being incredibly surreal. I saw a women get run over, literally, one morning, heading to the local commuter train. She was running for the train pulling in, apparently thinking it was leaving, and someone was driving in he drop off lane far too quickly, possibly for the same reason. Regardless, she didn't see the car, and the driver couldn't stop quickly enough. It was very much surreal, like you know this is a thing that happens, but it just doesn't seem real as it's happening. That its something that *shouldn't* happen. You expect maybe it should be more, I don't know, dramatic? I was approaching from the parking lot myself. There was already a crown and plenty of people trying to help, so I just boarded the train, and went to work. I couldn't help any more than was being done, but still you feel like you did something wrong by continuing your day when someone possibly died right there. Knowing that people die every day doesn't help. I don't even know if she survived. I do know remembering this prompts me to both be more careful driving and walking in parking lots and other mixed pedestrian/vehicle areas. StormDrain posted:I audibly gasped. Applebees Appetizer posted:Happy birthday young man
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Aug 31, 2021 20:11
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I've been fortunate in that whenever I've seen someone get hit by a car they've been fine, even the guy on the bike who did mad cartwheels. He broke his arm but overall that's a good outcome.
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Aug 31, 2021 21:17
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Just back to gun chat for a second, my crate of surplus Romanian Mauser ammo showed up today and it’s everything I dreamed of. Can’t wait to try it out at the range later this week.  
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StormDrain posted:Let's take a right turn please and everyone wish me a happy birthday. 37. Happy birthday, have some old people music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnug5_h6DJQ
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