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Goddamn it, my car has been egged twice in the last week. I stopped and told a cop, he said he'll let the night guys know but it's a pretty hard thing to catch.
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Goober Peas posted:Everyone still has a job and I'm a candidate for a promotion We're having a reorg too, I'm changing departments after 7 years in the current one (holy gently caress).
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May 1, 2015 17:31
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Xanax OD? Really dude?
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May 1, 2015 20:21
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Beach Bum posted:Yo uh can we get an AI group buy for those bottle openers? This, and also are you guys shortwave? I want to tune in now.
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May 3, 2015 03:55
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So the replacement trunk lid that came with my Midget seems to have its mounting holes threaded just slightly smaller than the other one... smaller than what Moss Motors thinks it should have, too. The bolts I ordered from Moss go in about half a turn before binding up. A trip through the hardware aisle at the OSH didn't turn up anything that would work either. Now, since it's just slightly too small, would I be able to take a tap and re-thread it to work, or will I just totally gently caress it up?
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May 5, 2015 23:48
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DICKPOCALYPSE NOW posted:Do you have any Witworth bolts? No, and I'm really hoping that's not what it is. Gonna make sure all the holes are really clean, then haul it to Lowes and see if they have anything that will fit.
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May 6, 2015 00:11
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DICKPOCALYPSE NOW posted:My dad seems to think it won't be whitworth, and he owned two Bugeyes back in the day. well since a Bugeye doesn't even have a boot, his opinion is invalid  But yeah, everything I've read seems to indicate that it shouldn't be whitworth. If it comes down to it I guess I could simply tap it out to something significantly bigger.
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May 6, 2015 00:23
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Well now I feel dumb, I tried again with those screws for the boot lid and, after hitting the hole with some PB Blaster, it went in. They were still extremely stiff to put in, but judging by the lack of metal shavings they went in properly rather than loving up the threads. The new boot lid is cockeyed just like the old one was, though, so I guess I need to gently caress around with the hinges a bit.
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May 6, 2015 17:48
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External modems kick rear end... I have a picture of my old 28.8 modem somewhere but can't find it. That thing was great and I am totally up for any modem-based shenanigans people want to get up to. UUCP news distribution? Jonny 290 would probably be down for some sort of collaboration with the YOSPOS BBS, because he's a cool dude.
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May 6, 2015 22:02
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Motronic posted:AI-FidoNet but are you allowed to send 90s porn scans over HF? progressive jpeg of course. Edit: by the way, my landline has free long-distance, I guess that's pretty common these days? So dialup across the country is not such a big deal any more. Pham Nuwen fucked around with this message at 22:57 on May 6, 2015 |
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May 6, 2015 22:47
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Beach Bum posted:I miss [...] the days on the farm. I was a tanned, sexy rear end teenager/early 20er.. If I'd been a bit less oblivious I could have been drowning in tail Holy poo poo that was so me. I look at pictures of me in high school, I was loving fit, muscular, tanned. I had one girlfriend in high school, none in college, and was basically a total dipshit in that regard. Working all day outside, climbing up and down a water tanker truck's tank over and over... That and cross country really did amazing things to teenage me.
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May 7, 2015 04:45
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some texas redneck posted:Bad decisions Dude, it's really hard to watch you do this poo poo to yourself over and over and over. You're living paycheck to paycheck on a pizza delivery job and trying to get off the booze before it kills you, but you drove 70 miles to a concert, got drunk, just had to have that $40 t-shirt, just had to have that last shot, tried to drive home drunk, hosed up your car to the tune of at least a couple hundred bucks by hitting a loving concrete barrier while drunk driving and then driving around on the donut's rim. Not only that, but now you're going to miss out on a day's pay which you can ill afford when you have to buy a new tire. We all want you to stick around, man  leica posted:On the surface it may not look that way, but again, do you have any kids in school? Seems to me like everybody has spent 20 years asking why all these other countries do so well at math and science, oh why can't little Timmy add and subtract... then we get guidelines in place that say controversial things like "Children should be able to add and subtract within 1000" and suddenly everyone loses their poo poo.
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May 7, 2015 18:12
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I took off the masking tape and re-attached most of the lights & chrome on the Midget yesterday. It's looking really loving good, hoping to get the rest of the bits back on tonight, then install the windshield whenever I can get my neighbor to come over and help. It looks so drat cheery in that bright yellow paint 
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May 8, 2015 18:13
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NitroSpazzz posted:this and The Martian book are great. The Martian had an interesting concept and by God I read the whole thing pretty much straight through in two days, but from a writing point of view it was kind of bad. Lazy characters ("the German", "the one who likes disco") and terrible dialog were the two biggest problems
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May 11, 2015 01:14
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Phone posted:NUTHIN A LIL BIT OF W33D OR FIREBALL CAN'T SOLVE HEHEHEHEHE or two weeks worth of Xanax
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May 11, 2015 19:46
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drat the Crown Vic likes to break its rear end loose in the rain. I had an rear end in a top hat-puckering moment leaving the grocery store when I did my usual "gun it as you swing out the driveway" routine.
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Lunchtime, realized all the crown vic's interior lights were on. I figure it's a door switch acting up again, go poke at all of them. No dice Drive home to try and troubleshoot, guess I'll have to take a half day at work and fix this. Disconnect the battery and start dicking around. Realize the door chime isn't chiming, so it can't be the door switch. Remember that you can twist the headlight control/dimmer knob all the way to the left to turn on the interior lights Oops. It was raining last night so I had my lights on, must have twisted it when I shut them back off and didn't notice. I guess I should be glad it didn't cost anything to fix... since everything was working as designed.
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May 15, 2015 22:02
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Astonishing Wang posted:Now you know how it works, THAT it works, AND you fixed the problem! Have a beer, you earned it! I actually already knew about that feature, I just forgot about the drat thing  I'll still be having beer tonight.
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May 15, 2015 22:14
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Mbps chat, my internet connection is currently alternating between the 20/5 I pay for and something worse than dialup. It spends most of its time in the "worse than dialup" phase, of course. Sonic is sending me a new modem, we'll see if that fixes it. I have definitely considered pulling out my modem and dialing one of Sonic's dial-in numbers which apparently they still have.
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Raluek posted:Get some easy gains by upgrading to a 28.8 It is actually 28.8, it's just 14.4 for fax. some texas redneck posted:Cable or DSL? I'd guess that's a signal quality issue either way, but cable is a lot quicker to throw up its hands and say "gently caress this poo poo" when there's an issue with signal (also DSL at 20/5 would probably be VDSL, which is black magic as far as I'm concerned). Assuming, of course, it's not predictable (i.e. goes to poo poo between 4-10pm, then works fine once people start going to bed). DSL. We'll see what happens when the new modem gets here. If it still sucks I'll raise hell. It's a shame too because I love Sonic so far. I've never had to wait for tech support, they're knowledgeable, and the prices are pretty reasonable. Edit:  So who wants to set up a BBS? Or maybe UUCP? Pham Nuwen fucked around with this message at 03:39 on May 16, 2015 |
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I haven't seen one of those since 1996 or so. One of the best modems Supra ever made though.
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I tried to post from dialup about how bad posting from dialup is, but submitting the comment timed out. Also, excess vehicle chat: anybody want an 86 Crown Vic for $2300? RUNS GOOD JUST NEEDS TUNE-UP, CLEAN SALVAGE TITLE, RAN WHEN PARKED, OVER $100,000 INVESTED
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Previa_fun posted:what's the lowest price you'll accept?? Got that one the other day. After he had offered $1000. I'm not sure you can buy ANY running car out here for $1000. Certainly not one this clean.
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Regarding modemchat and other retro bullshit, if anyone wants to play around with setting up UUCP dial-up links, with the aim of eventually distributing newsgroups over the telephone lines, send me a PM. You'd need a Unix box and a serial modem. (UUCP over TCP is also possible, so if you don't have a modem that's ok)
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Motherfucker. At some point in the last few months, the circuit to the Midget's fuel pump was broken. The headlights also seem to be affected.
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Pham Nuwen posted:Motherfucker. At some point in the last few months, the circuit to the Midget's fuel pump was broken. The headlights also seem to be affected. Well I figured out the fuel pump at least. There's a quick-disconnect point under the right-hand side of the dash, just before all the rear-end wires get bundled up and routed to the back. While re-installing the windshield, I must have disconnected that wire. Fucker fired right up once I got that sorted. When I get home tonight I'll have to poke around and see if there's another disconnected wire under there for the headlights.
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May 18, 2015 17:13
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some texas redneck posted:Family stuff that I"d rather not go into. Dude you put like $400 worth of poo poo into your parents house every month, I swear you're always working on something there. Take that money and find a cheap room to rent somewhere with decent roommates (read: over 30 and don't do drugs so they won't steal your poo poo). I go out of my loving skull staying at home for 2 weeks during Christmas and I really like my parents... Bro it's time to 
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Goddamn it, why does the inside of the Crown Vic suddenly smell like a dead animal farted? If I open the windows for a minute it's fine, but after sitting for a bit it's kinda loving gross. I only have a few weeks left to sell it before I need to get another smog check, too. Air freshener time I guess, since I can't find anything inside that would be making the smell and turning on the vents gives clean-smelling air.
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May 22, 2015 22:58
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Not sure I like the new makeover to Awful App. Turning off the floating reply button helped, but the bookmarks page seems really sparse now thanks to the bigger post icons.
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May 24, 2015 00:13
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14 INCH SLIT posted:Honestly if Yospos can get like five different gang tags and even pet Island has a few, if AI can't get Warboys or Witnesses or something out of this I don't know what the gently caress else to do
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May 24, 2015 03:48
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1500quidporsche posted:gently caress me I caved in and bought a pack. It's tough, but I've been off for... almost two years now? Something like that? I still grab a pack from time to time when I'm planning on getting loving wasted with friends, but that's only a few times a year. I also find that smoking makes me feel sort of sick these days, unless I'm really drunk.
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Scrambles posted:I'm convinced that I'll always regret whatever I'm doing regardless of how many times I change it! 
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Welp, I'm in Japan now, packing up the hotel room at 6 a.m. because of jet lag. Yes, 1yen coins float on water and the taxis are pretty cool. I'll have to make/pick a new avatar when I get back and add the Black Thumbs tag while I'm at it. 
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