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Changing the oil is super easy. I'm not a car person (I don't even own one), but I've done it. However, once you factor in the cost of the filter & oil, you end up spending about $20... the same price you'd be charged at a shop.
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Sep 1, 2010 04:15
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kapalama posted:This is so very true. Add to that the fact that you have to pay to properly dispose of used motor (or commit a felony by illegally dumping it) and there is no reason to ever change your oil yourself. I'm not sure if this is widespread, but in Massachusetts at least, I believe any place that sells motor oil has to take it back for disposal. So you just funnel the old stuff into old bottles and bring it back to Autozone or where ever you bought it.
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Sep 1, 2010 13:32
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Sometimes on sunny days I see people (okay, women) (okay, usually Asian women and usually older) walking around with umbrellas to protect them from the sun. I have very fair skin that burns easily (never tans, just burns & goes back to pale) and this seems like a great idea. Sunscreen is okay, but it itches & makes me sticky, and also sometimes I'm not expecting to be out very long and welp 15 minutes later I'm burned so it'd be easier to carry a small umbrella in my bag just in case. My question is: just how eccentric/stupid does it look to you? I know this shouldn't matter, but I'd like to get some other impressions regardless. I suspect the answer is "stop being such a loving goon" Eggplant Wizard fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Sep 2, 2010 |
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Sep 2, 2010 02:58
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A Violence Gang posted:Not going to argue that but it's anything other than dumb conformity but if you're an American dude carrying an umbrella in the sun, you're absolutely going to get made fun of by like every single person who sees you. Many people might not even get that it's for the sun and would just assume you're a lunatic. Does it help that I'm a chick?
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Sep 2, 2010 03:27
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alan negative posted:I have a new social security card coming into my new address. But at the social security office, i forgot to specify the apartment number. I'm freaking out, what do I do? Is your name on your mailbox?
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Sep 4, 2010 03:47
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Purple Rain Man posted:I ordered a book from a seller on Amazon Marketplace, and when the package came, it appeared to have been torn in shipping, exposing the book (particularly the jacket) to quite a bit of wear and tear. It was ordered from an individual THROUGH Amazon, not from Amazon directly, and the package was not insured (to my knowledge). Is there anything I can do about this? You can email the seller and say you wish to return the book since it was damaged in shipping, and you'd like a refund. It's easy to do on their end, and all you have to do is ship it back.
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Sep 9, 2010 14:37
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kapalama posted:This should be true, but since there is no time search for one once there, the hope is that someone from NYC who knows the area will say 'this here is nearby' and open. Notary are always avaialable during weekday business hours at business hotels, but generally not avaialable on Sunday or nights etc. This is probably the case for most other locations. I also have no idea what's close to what. I just looked for the convention center & searched for UPS & Fedex stores nearby. Here's the closest FedEx store that's open on Sundays. Call and find out if they have a notary. 500 7th Avenue New York, NY 10018 (646) 366-9166 Here's the closest UPS store that's open on Sundays: 328 8TH AVE NEW YORK, NY 10001 Tel.: 212-337-3104 This one's only open from 12-pm-5pm, but it definitely has a notary. Again, you might want to call ahead and make sure the person will be there at the right time. Amazingly, I used google for all of this.
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Sep 12, 2010 16:52
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Does anyone know of a place, online or in NYC area, where I can sell Japanese-language manga? Obviously I'm trying SAmart and I'll try eBay next, but failing that, I'd like to have some options lined up. Any big anime forum that has a sales section would be great, too... I just don't know where the happening anime places are on the internet anymore :P
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Sep 14, 2010 00:53
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Xanin posted:Is anyone else getting popup ads on the forums? It's quite annoying. I emailed support a few days ago but it's still happening, I'm not sure how long it'd take to fix. You might want to run a scan for adware on your computer, or try a different browser and see if it happens there.
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Sep 14, 2010 14:55
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kapalama posted:Isn't this a job for Microsoft's own MSE? (Is it still free?) Seconded. I have been happily using MSE (Microsoft Security Essentials) for several months. It's quick, non-invasive, free, and doesn't seem to slow down my computer appreciably.
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Sep 29, 2010 13:55
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My apartment has carpet, not too deep but not berber either. I have an area rug that is in the living room. It moves around and bunches up a lot, though. Is there anything I can put under it to keep it in place? I know, "don't put carpet on carpet, idiot," but it really ties the room together. My roommate won't let me nail it in 
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Oct 3, 2010 03:41
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Brigadier Sockface posted:There're these cooking videos on youtube. The first one is Simply Sarah, or Simply Sara. She did take down the video but there're plenty of copies. Why do you hate yourself?
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Oct 3, 2010 21:18
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Gravity Pike posted:I'm making a lazy-assed crockpot curry that's basically a step + Golden Curry blocks. Toss potatoes, carrots, celery, peanuts, curry-blocks, and meat in, and leave it for a day. Is chicken and beef in there together going to work, at all, or is it just going to be kinda gross? It'll be a hell of a lot better if you brown the meat first, I'd think. I don't know how well chicken & beef would go together but it sounds like overkill to me. Repeat this question in the GWS small questions thread and you'll get better answers. You'll also get yelled at about "curry blocks," whatever those are.
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Oct 5, 2010 14:59
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Land's End, which sells through Sears as well as online/catalogue, might be a good idea. LL Bean is good too.
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Oct 17, 2010 23:42
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change my name posted:Yeah that seems like exactly what I want, thanks! Get Chopin instead. His hair looks dashingly windswept!
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Oct 19, 2010 14:57
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Anjow posted:There's what I think is a sort of food that I have heard mentioned on several American TV shows. The problem is I've only heard it in an American accent so I don't know how it would be spelled so that I could look it up. Please could someone tell me the correct spelling of the thing that is phonetically spelled "blahb jahmens"? Could it be this Indian dessert, Gulab jamun?
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Oct 21, 2010 13:53
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Sooo I have braces and a palate expander and I forgot to tell my great aunt. Why does this matter? Because my great aunt sends me a totally sweet tin of Popcorn Factory popcorn every Halloween-ish  It arrived today.So what I'm asking is, what's the deal with braces & popcorn? I know I'm not supposed to eat it, but is it a crunching thing or something more insidious? Because I can totally chew carefully or just suck on it I guess.
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Oct 25, 2010 17:17
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fishmech posted:In retrospect we'll probably just refer to 2000-2009 as "turn of the century" again. I have even heard people doing this, on NPR for example. It confuses the gently caress out of me because I am an idiot. "WHAT BUT BUSH WAS NOT PRESIDENT IN 1900"  They have switched to "the turn of the previous/last century." for the old one.As a decade, I mostly hear "the two-thousands" for 2000-2009ish.
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Oct 28, 2010 16:48
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Anjow posted:Ignorant question about genetics follows. Raoul is right and here is a fun real life example.
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Oct 31, 2010 19:16
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thomawesome posted:Could someone please translate? It's in Japanese, we know that much. It looks like only one word is different between the two. The one with the little old dude says "Ojiichan na(ga)ikishitee!" and the old lady one sayd "Obaachan nagaikishitee!" The "ga" on the first one is in parentheses because I think they left out most of the character, but left the little ditto mark/diacritical mark for it. My Japanese is more or less limited to reading the basic alphabet... "Obaachan" means grandma, and "Ojiichan" means grandpa. I have been attempting to make sense of the rest with google and I'm not getting terribly far beyond that. "Nagai" might mean "for a long time" and I feel like "ikishitee" means go or live or something basic like that, but that's more of a feeling than anything else. Hopefully someone else will do a better job 
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Nov 1, 2010 18:45
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Tostito posted:I got a fortune cookie message that says "All generalities are false". But wouldn't that statement be a generality itself? I'm not sure how to interpret this fortune. That fortune cookie is loving with you. I hope you taught it a lesson.
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Nov 9, 2010 00:42
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In ancient Rome at least, all major marketplaces would have a set of weights against which merchants/customers could calibrate their own wares/purchases. They were pretty good at standardizing stuff so I imagine the soldiers that built the roads had some method of making sure they made them the proper width, too. Fun fact: a cubit is so called because cubitum is the Latin word for elbow, and a cubit is the length of a man's forearm from his elbow. When you're not dealing with super precise tiny mechanical things or computers, close enough is good enough.
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Nov 13, 2010 00:14
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kapalama posted:What's the brand name of the once a year period birth control? Google tells me Lybrel is the first FDA approved no period pill. There are a lot of other options if you want to limit or plan for when your periods will be, though, so it might be a good idea to browse through the Birth Control Megathread a bit. Pollyanna posted:I'm trying a sentence, "I ___ (verb-ed) the cat", in English, but I want the sentence to convey the subject and object but be cut off before the verb. Kinda like how in German you can say "Ich habe die Katze ____" (or something like that) or "私はその猫を" in Japanese. Is there a way to do this? You can kind of do it if you use the passive voice: "The cat has been _____." English relies so much on word order though that it would be nonsensical to say "I the cat (verbed)."
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Nov 19, 2010 23:34
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change my name posted:There's one banner ad I keep getting for coupons in nyc, and the picture on it is a stack of multicolored burgers(?). What are they? I've seen that too, and I'm pretty sure they're cookies.
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Nov 21, 2010 21:41
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If I bring my own travel mug and my own tea (usually loose in a teaball), is it a dick move to ask a coffee shop for hot water and use a dash of their milk to finish it off? I assume no if I'm buying other things, but sometimes I feel like a jerk if I'm not buying anything. OTOH, my tea is better and I don't want to pay to drink crap. 
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Nov 29, 2010 19:18
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kapalama posted:Someone mentioned this already but yes, absolutely bringing your own food and drink to a place of business is a complete and total dick move. Thank you for giving me actual reasons. I've never gotten a negative response on it (actually last time the guy was really impressed that I had loose tea and talked to me about a trip he took to England once), but I don't like to be rude. This is generally in food court type college cafes, btw; I'm not walking into free-standing coffee shops and doing that. Good to know-- I'll just pay for hot tea in the future.
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Nov 30, 2010 16:03
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Does anyone have opinions on a free software that I can use to make a file that is an .avi right now watchable on a DVD from a DVD player? I would like one that doesn't put on a watermark or anything, and I'm not a big AV person so it needs to be semi-simple. Any opinions on Avi2DVD, or suggestions for other programs? Thanks.
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Dec 5, 2010 20:51
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BorderPatrol posted:DVDFlick is a free, open-source program that will do exactly what you want. Thank you 
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Dec 5, 2010 22:45
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change my name posted:Why wouldn't you thank the bus driver? Nearly everyone does it. It's not as common as it should be where I am (college campus, lots of busses). Also more props to gmail.
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Dec 7, 2010 05:32
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The Aphasian posted:Is there a way to globally change the tenses in a document from Future to Past easily? My wife is in a grad class and they made all of the students change the first draft of their documents to future tense because their projects weren't done yet. Now that the projects are done, their making them change back to past tense. No. She should woman up and do it properly. It's not like an automatic one would even work well.
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Dec 8, 2010 02:51
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A good boy posted:Why do english speaking countries call donuts donuts? Yes there is dough, but where does the nuts enter the picture? They should really be called dorings or dobagels. Nut = tight curled up thing. The hole in the middle of many doughnuts is not inherent to their doughnutitude. What makes a doughnut a doughnut is frying a wet, eggy dough.
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Dec 11, 2010 23:24
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Mechafunkzilla posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2IHnWY-i6Y Song identification megathread
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Chinaski posted:Is it okay (non-harmful) to plug my Droid X phone into the car charger used by my Garmin GPS? I'd check the various current ratings or whatever on the appropriate charger and see if they're different from the Garmin's. I'd err on the side of nodon't, though, just because it's an expensive thing to break.
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Dec 13, 2010 23:51
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the posted:If I'm including the title of a book in the title of a paper for a college course, how should I format the entire thing? Bold the title and underline the book? Don't do anything to your title. Italicize the book title with in it. E.g., Racism in Huckleberry Finn
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Dec 14, 2010 22:49
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Elijya posted:I'm fairly positive yes, because even if you aren't scamming to get insurance or get out of debt, it's still fraud. You're forcing officials to fraudulently issue a certificate of death and launch an investigation and such for one thing. I was glancing over a list of cases where people have done it, and it seems if there's no scam involved they may not bother prosecuting you or just have it be a misdemeanor, but it's still illegal. I'd agree with this. If nothing else, it's tax fraud, right?
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Dec 20, 2010 15:10
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change my name posted:Is it generally considered poor form to not have read a book that your professor has written, especially when it relates to the class you're taking? I feel like that's something they'd probably draw from a lot. Uh no. Read it if you're supposed to read it for class, but apart from that it'd just be sucking up/for your personal edification. Honestly it's considered slightly bad form for professors to put their own work on the syllabus (unless they're pretty much the only person/one of few people who works on the topic or who works on it in the language your class speaks in).
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Dec 20, 2010 19:42
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I looked up "go" in the Oxford English Dictionary and "go off" is meaning 85 under that. I assume the use for alarms is 85.g "To start into sudden action; to break into a fit of laughter, extravagance of language, irrelevant or unintelligible discourse, etc." Here are the quotations it offers: quote:1825 New Monthly Mag. XVI. 342 The patriarch and fifty monks..go off into praises of her beauty. 1844 Fraser's Mag. XXX. 467/1 In the intervals of the most lugubrious chants..the organ went off with some extremely cheerful..air. 1879 J. C. SHAIRP Burns v. 115 The rest of the letter goes off in a wild rollicking strain. I don't know if there is an answer to your "why," however. Alarms used to "sound" and I suppose "go off" is a more colloquial way of expressing it.
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Dec 20, 2010 23:42
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I am a grammar nazi and in my head I pronounce "xmas" "ex-mas" and  "lb(s)" as in "pound(s)" "lib(s)." It's not downmarket, it's just lazy. Relax. 
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Kurt_Cobain posted:Is there a thread on credit reports? I've been turned down for an apartment because of a credit report through rental some or other dot com told them to deny me. I have never been in debt but I also have never had a credit card so I imagine that has something to do with it. I have no idea what is up with these things. You can get a free credit report from each of the three bureaus once a year (I'm pretty sure this is the case, I mean, that you can actually get 3 a year if you use each bureau once). Annualcreditreport.com is the legit site; don't use another one. The three bureaus are Equifax, Transunion & Experian. You will not be able to see your credit score, but you can see what's on there. Your credit score is calculated in a mystical way by a secret order of money druids, but I can tell you one or two things: 1) each credit card or line of credit you have is counted as GOOD for you, so if you have a credit card with a $5k limit and another one with like a $1k limit, you come across as having $6k of available credit. This is positive for your score. (2) Another thing is that it's actually good to have some debt-- or rather, to have HAD some debt and paid it off (student loans, mortgage, car, etc.-- not $$$ of credit card debt). If you have managed a long term debt or have been managing one that is still current, that is good for your credit score. So if you haven't ever had any loans or credit cards, your score is actually probably not as good as it would be if you'd bought a car or had a card for a while. A little counterintuitive, but that's druids for you. Get a card and pay it off completely every month. Doing this will make your score much, much better. As for right now, the guy who said something about demonstrating steady income was correct-- you can write a letter explaining your income situation & give your employer as a reference, maybe show the rental agent a paystub. Also, since they looked it up, ASK THEM what your credit score is right now. It doesn't really matter what it is exactly, but hey, it's YOUR score, and you should know it.
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