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It's so dumb when people complain about how unfair it is that their car naturally loses lots of resale value as time passes. As if that is a strange phenomenon they could not possibly have known about, and not what happens to 100% of cars 100% of the time barring some collector's poo poo with Princess Di's embalmed head embedded into the dash or something.
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Tell Jackie to hang on to that 19" B/W Magnavox. It will be worth a fortune when the next hipster fad takes off.
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Dec 14, 2015 05:59
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ghlbtsk posted:Tell Jackie to hang on to that 19" B/W Magnavox. not a bad thought. since nobody these days actually watches TV, having a vintage TV will probably be a good living room setpiece for your dumb cocktail parties.
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Dec 14, 2015 06:10
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Say Nothing posted:My Brother had one of those old cabinet TVs taking up a bunch of space. He only kept it because they can be made into a decent drink cabinet. Ended up getting rid of it and three other TVs when the local council offered to recycle them for free. why is there a map of skyrim in that booze tv
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Dec 14, 2015 06:21
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Crow_Robot posted:Guys should I buy these HOME COMPUTERS I found on Craigslist. i like that he built a henge to display them
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Dec 14, 2015 06:38
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ghlbtsk posted:this is pretty much the equivalent of walking into the last remaining used bookstore in town and trying to sell them all your Stephen King paperbacks I did this except it was all my Stephen Erickson books. Plus a few boxes of books themed along lines of dfw and foer from when I thought about stuff. Book store dude laughed and gave me a $10 credit at the store out of pity. I bought a cookbook for my wife with it. I feel hollow some how.
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Dec 14, 2015 06:47
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Nien posted:I did this except it was all my Stephen Erickson books. Plus a few boxes of books themed along lines of dfw and foer from when I thought about stuff. Book store dude laughed and gave me a $10 credit at the store out of pity. I bought a cookbook for my wife with it. I feel hollow some how. does your wife not cook or?
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Dec 14, 2015 06:50
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i have some first printing illustrated pre-special edition first printing gunslinger books, which if feel like were maybe worth something? well, were, before my ex wife stored them in a dank basement for a year.
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Dec 14, 2015 06:52
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yeah if it really is the first edition of the gunslinger it might be worth money to collectors. one of the few first edition Kings that are like Carrie and Salem's Lot after that he became hella popular and all the First Editions had huge printings so they aren't rare
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Dec 14, 2015 07:53
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JnnyThndrs posted:I don't care what you guys say, I'm not getting rid of my old CRT TV. based on this picture im 99% certain you own radioactive fiestaware plates which are actually valuable colletctors items unlike CRTs
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Dec 14, 2015 10:20
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mdm posted:does your wife not cook or? In this day and age!?! Good luck just getting them into the kitchen, amiright guys?
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Dec 14, 2015 10:23
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Jackie, baby, the plan was to smuggle drugs in worthless old CRTs. You gotta take them out before you sell them. We talked about this, honey.
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Dec 14, 2015 10:29
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My parents where early adopters and bought a plasma TV back in 2003. The picture's been slowly getting shittier and shittier after a decade+, so now all the colours are faded pastels and the black level is middish-grey. Of course they refuse to chuck it out because they paid something like $17,000 for it  edit; lol I just remembered they stopped making plasma TV's last year. Toys For Ass Bum fucked around with this message at 12:50 on Dec 14, 2015 |
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Dec 14, 2015 12:16
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I bought a 48" 1081i widescreen projection TV in tyool 2004, for like 1200 bucks. The red projector went out of alignment and I ended up giving it way a few years ago to save having to haul it to the dump, fortunately I got some takers on craigslist. If only I'd waited a couple years. 
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Dec 14, 2015 12:22
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wayne curr posted:edit; lol I just remembered they stopped making plasma TV's last year. did they? i still have a 50" plasma tv in the spare bedroom (got a new 55" led for the living room) and it's quite nice for watching movies on because it's darker than led tvs, even new ones. terrible for video games though because the hud will show up for hours after if you play anything for more than about an hour
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Dec 14, 2015 12:59
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Crow_Robot posted:Guys should I buy these HOME COMPUTERS I found on Craigslist. $275 for spawn of the devil compaqs with celerons in them. they foisted these onto so many schools and they're awful
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Dec 14, 2015 13:06
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CaptainSarcastic posted:It's such a good monitor I actually looked into repairing it when mine died. A few pages of "be careful or you will literally x-ray yourself to death" made me abandon the idea, however. drat. At the very least you probably just needed to solder in new capacitors. It's pretty safe working on CRTs, you just gotta discharge them properly which can be pretty scary at first but it's not a big deal at all. You might go pee pee a little when you hear that pop sound for the first time though.
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Dec 14, 2015 13:18
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using an apostrophe, when simply concatenating ss is clumsy, is orthographically acceptable and nobody will prove me wrong 
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Dec 14, 2015 13:41
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OP should have an awfully long and drawn out conversation with her where he reveals only at the very end that he wants to be paid $75 to take her massive box of death away.
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Dec 14, 2015 13:58
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You basically have to pay or trick people to remove CRT's here. Some lady suckered my old roomates into picking up a 30 inch unit that looked like it was a flatscreen. She made them promise before they arrived that they would take the tv no matter what. Of course it weighed about 150 lbs and she had lost the cables. For all I know it's still sitting in the old apartment, unplugged. I don't think it even took RCA cables.
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Dec 14, 2015 14:13
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Sometimes I miss those old days of having to trick your TV into thinking that it was receiving your stuff on Channel 3  Also messing with the color settings was fun.
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Dec 14, 2015 14:20
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ghlbtsk posted:Tell Jackie to hang on to that 19" B/W Magnavox. I actually had a moment of nostalgia on eBay when I saw someone selling those little handheld TVs with the dial on the side. They were awesome for when your parents were watching the main TV. Then I realised there's no more analogue signal, so they'd just be useless plastic boxes. Unless you could convert old B&W TVs to digital I'm not sure even hipsters would want them.
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Dec 14, 2015 14:29
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Luxury Communism posted:using an apostrophe, when simply concatenating ss is clumsy, is orthographically acceptable and nobody will prove me wrong theres nothing clumsy about "TVs" you dummy
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Dec 14, 2015 14:58
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Lol are there a bunch of children in this thread or are normally aged people pretending to be clueless children because they never knew anything about nothing but can finally ride the ignorance wave
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Dec 14, 2015 15:00
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on the edge of my seat about this punctuation dispute
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Dec 14, 2015 15:15
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Formal written English demands an apostrophe after abbreviations, like "TV's." There isn't any argument, that is just how it is done in formal written American English (the only English that matters).
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Dec 14, 2015 15:51
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satanic splash-back posted:Formal written English demands an apostrophe after abbreviations, like "TV's." I don't know who this Mr. Formal is, but there are other opinions, such as that of Mr. Chicago who said, "So far as it can be done without confusion, single or multiple letters, hyphenated coinages, and numbers used as nouns (whether spelled out or in numerals) form the plural by adding s alone."
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Dec 14, 2015 16:07
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satanic splash-back posted:Formal written English demands an apostrophe after abbreviations, like "TV's." eSports Chaebol posted:I don't know who this Mr. Formal is, but there are other opinions, such as that of Mr. Chicago who said, "So far as it can be done without confusion, single or multiple letters, hyphenated coinages, and numbers used as nouns (whether spelled out or in numerals) form the plural by adding s alone." tv is not properly capitalized so you would write tv's to avoid confusion (tv itself is improper as an initialism and is actually an abbreviation) only i am right *mic drop* gary oldmans diary fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Dec 14, 2015 |
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Dec 14, 2015 16:12
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gary oldmans diary posted:and now that youve correctly told him why his example is wrong i can tell you why you just explained that youre wrong too I believe you mean...."mike drop" 
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Dec 14, 2015 16:30
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Crow_Robot posted:Guys should I buy these HOME COMPUTERS I found on Craigslist. Tucson Craigslist, where you can find 80s mustangs and early 2000s Toyotas and Hyundais 5K over bluebook and dozens of Airmen trying to sell their two year old Camaros for retail price before the bank repo's them. Really cheap minivans as far as the eye can see, though
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Dec 14, 2015 16:46
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I need to dispose of my old CRT monitor - even the local scrap recycling place doesn't take them. Repurpose it? 
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Dec 15, 2015 00:31
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Say Nothing posted:I need to dispose of my old CRT monitor - even the local scrap recycling place doesn't take them. A perfect distillation of the Internet.
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Dec 15, 2015 00:37
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Say Nothing posted:I need to dispose of my old CRT monitor - even the local scrap recycling place doesn't take them. Woah, that's like art or something.
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Dec 15, 2015 00:39
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Do you guys remember when 19'' used to be big monitor. Could anyone even work on 14'' today?
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Dec 15, 2015 00:39
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Say Nothing posted:I need to dispose of my old CRT monitor - even the local scrap recycling place doesn't take them. lol if you think a cat will ever spend time in something like this they are programmed to sleep exactly where you don't want them to. maybe if you put it right on top of the kitchen table with a bunch of fragile poo poo nearby that it can knock over, but otherwise no way
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Dec 15, 2015 00:50
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Just leave your CRT in front of the gate to your town's dump or transfer station after closing time.
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Dec 15, 2015 00:55
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satanic splash-back posted:Formal written English demands an apostrophe after abbreviations, like "TV's." that is a bold lie no apostrophe is needed it's just "TVs"
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Dec 15, 2015 00:58
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eSports Chaebol posted:I believe you mean...."mike drop" mike rotch
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Dec 15, 2015 00:59
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error1 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEi1ggtO5Oc You and I are friends now. The video recorder (VCR) is pretty good too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOULWR4h4Io As a child my mom always flipped out whenever I used PAUSE instead of stopping the VHS tape, she said it would destroy the tape. Not sure if that's true or an urban legend. Three-Phase fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Dec 15, 2015 |
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Deranged M posted:Do you guys remember when 19'' used to be big monitor. Could anyone even work on 14'' today? Have you ever hard to carry or help move a 32" Sony Trinitron? It's volume to weight ratio is somewhere between lead and a fricken neutron star.
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