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We took the kids trick or treating in the historic housing district, which was interesting. Maybe 20% participation, but those who were, were pretty awesome. This one house had 4 projector screens with spooky displays; the whole yard was elaborately decorated and they gave out a bag of good candy, sealed with a custom stamp with their address. Then we went to a downtown burger bar which was pretty dead being Monday night, and my 3 yo who is potty training took her first fully successful #2 in the toilet there. .....yes, my daughter took her first sit down poo poo in a bar bathroom.
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Re: vehicle warning lights. So after owning a succession of BMWs and Volvos, my current DD Toyota kinda weirds me out because Toyota doesn't think you need any warnings of any kind. Tundra and Corolla are the same way, no bulb out, no coolant level. Oil pressure lamp and whatever the emissions kicks on a CEL for, that's it. Hell the Volvo had a fuse and circuit for every individual bulb....which meant the dual filament bulbs had two per bulb.
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Darchangel posted:On the minus side, those things freak the gently caress out when you convert to LEDs. Anyhow I have LED in my licence plate, reverse, and interior bulbs, and regular incandescents everywhere else.
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Well not everyone is good at finding deals. If she thinks you're doing a poor job at it, then she shouldn't expect you to keep on being the one to make those decisions. She can shop for a hvac contractor same as you can.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:I was behind a cargo van today that had the brake lights swapped to LEDs, and they slammed on the brakes. I didn't see the lights until I was about to eat their bumper. There's also the issue, if you have LED bulbs and add resistors or whatever to make it trick your bulb warning kerjigger, you won't know if one dies.
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They had to be some of the dimmest LEDs I've ever seen.. or not seen, really. They were barely noticeable with the sun out.
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I'm on call this week, and while on a call for no power earlier, I got a text from capital one, asking if I had spent $100 at a Jamba Juice in NC. Great, sent back a negative reply text and they locked the card. Got home, was on the phone finishing up with the bank getting a new card otw and my call duty partner calls then immediately texts me, 5 car wreck, 911 says power lines on car, people trapped, fire dept can't reach them. gently caress gently caress gently caress, that's nightmare scenario right there. Hang up on card customer service mid-sentence, run to my work truck and bury the loving accelerator into the floor board so hard I put a hole in my sock on the way there. Google maps says it's a 30 minute drive - I made it in 14. Found out a 2011 2500HD is speed limited to exactly 100 mph. And of course when I get there, it wasn't even what they claimed, they had already gotten everyone out, and the power wires they saw were just control wiring for the DOT box for the traffic light at that intersection. (All traffic signals were out) I mean I'm glad it wasn't like they claimed, but drat I wish they wouldn't exaggerate like that. They did have to life flight out two people, though.  But that better than the alternative.
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Congrats Ken! You won't regret eloping. I mean you might regret getting married, lol, but you won't regret not having the big stressful wedding. We didn't tell anybody, flew to Vegas and got married, then called and shocked everybody. (Double posting like a muufuckka)
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Applebees Appetizer posted:I learned a long time ago that when i'm working not to trust what people say until I've seen poo poo for myself, sometimes the exaggerations are unbelievable, especially when it's one person trying to get another in trouble. Now I'm numb to the hysterical calls, and other people think I'm nuts for not taking poo poo seriously. Yeah I take calls from our consumers with a grain of salt, but it's rare for emergency personnel on scene to exaggerate like that with us. If you tell me that a power line that's my responsibility is sitting on a car with hurt persons in it and they are trapped until we get there, I'm going to haul rear end.
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Somewhat Heroic posted:
Personally from his description of the people on the nightmare bus ride from hell, I think it was a missed opportunity for thread content.  But maybe taking pictures of crazy people on the bus is how you get stabbed, beheaded and cannibalized on a bus.
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cold blooded. I don't know if the OP is from Canada though.
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Enourmo posted:look at all these dudes desperate to get a little hot Rhyno Sauce in their mouths
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I had a '96 2.3 manual ranger for a work truck way back when and it wasn't painfully slow, BUT it had the bitty like 13" steel wheels with small tires. Later had a 2.3 00'ish ranger with the bigger wheel package and it was a dog.
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And this whole time I've been putting up perimeter/pasture fence, I thought it was to keep the animals in.
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What's the chances that the republican party splits?
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mariooncrack posted:Good luck STR. We're rooting for you. Yeah man. I don't know your situation but I had to figure out how to manage the stress in my life. Also I need a spreadsheet of name changes in here cause drat
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Doing some maintenance on the power lines at the local military base that we serve, cleaning up some lines and poles still down from the hurricane. Just got turned around at the gate by the Billy Bob looking guard from Iowa, can't get in on a federal holiday LOL. If their lights were out, they'd be waving us in with open arms. Military bureaucracy is a joke.
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Being that I live in BFE, SC I figured I'd check the local Wal-Mart just for kicks. ...Nope, said they got six and were gone before they opened at 6am, whatever that means.
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Look what you guys went and made me do Reports of it looking crappy on modern tvs are greatly exaggerated. (But I am not a gamer )
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Have a picture of my kid riding shotgun in my dearly departed mj.
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Very nice. Dagen where you located at? My daughter never rides her yamaha raptor 90, was thinking about selling it and getting a side by side, or golf cart for xmas.
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Oh, I'm a bit far away in SC. Was thinking you were Virginia or NC for some reason Edit: Dagen H posted:I'm looking to trade my Lincoln Ranger 10LX. Although this is tempting. angryrobots fucked around with this message at 15:25 on Nov 16, 2016 |
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kastein posted:Just be careful with how often you use it and how much you take. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sleep-newzzz/201102/melatonin-not-magic-bullet-sleep One of my HS classmates is now a scientist and researcher who studies sleep. From what she's said about it I think she would agree with this article. When it comes up, her emphasis is always that most human sleep issues are directly caused by our modern lifestyle/schedule that runs contrary to millions of years of evolution.
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nm posted:We should do one where we all just send poo poo to 14in's firld. I mean, we already do that, but in a festive, organtized way. If he's still in the field at Christmastime, things have gone pear shaped and we should probably arrange rescue
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State farm guy just told me that he's cutting me a check for my hurricane damaged roof to-day. Holy poo poo what a relief!
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BraveUlysses posted:Walmart should have t6 errday
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Scrambles posted:Should I buy this chinesium 56" tool cabinet on sale for seven hundred dollars for my new garage? I have poo poo for storage currently and I like the long drawers. Whatever you do, never pay full price for anything from HF. I -hate- mailing lists, but theirs is worth it for the (quarterly?) giant coupon book. Also, the above mentioned 44" cabinet goes on sale this weekend for $339. Friday, Saturday, Sunday no coupon needed.
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Doesn't compare with the other BCBS horror stories, but my wife just had a cyst removed. Went through the surgeon, got a quote and paid him directly. Said hospital would bill for surgery suite, quoted at $600. Yesterday got a bill for $6300. Itemized list shows where they billed for the surgeon 3 TIMES when we've already paid him.
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spog posted:I agree it's odd. You expect Aldi and Lidl to be where the worst of humanity shops; purely because they offer very low-priced alcohol, yet mostly the shoppers are well-behaved. It was even better before the locals figured out you didn't have to actually pay for a shopping cart, they were rarely even busy. (You put in a quarter which pops back out when you return the cart)
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Bought a couple gifts for the kids on Amazon (walkie talky set, couple books), but the only major purchase I plan on this weekend is the horror freight Badlands 12000 lb winch on sale for $279.99. It's for my car trailer and will be stored indoors. I can't find any compelling reason not to buy it, especially at that price.
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Only if she's 5'3" E: drat your edit
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Cop Porn Popper posted:The 4.3 v6s in the new silverados are kinda neat. The power of the gen 3/4 5.3s in a smaller package. Alternately, I'd nab a 03-06 silverado. Cheap, plenty of aftermarket gubbins available, simple to work on, take a beating and you don't have to worry about tearing up a shiny new truck. Ya I'm partial to gm trucks also, pretty bulletproof drivetrains. I dunno if there's a fuel mileage goal, but a 2500 3/4 ton with the 6.0 can be had for pretty dang cheap nowadays.
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funny Star Wars parody posted:Yeah, my dad has a garage full of poo poo that i would like to take care of while he is still around and able to tell me what's actually good and what's garbage. plus i just got my hunting license so I'd like to be able to go shoot big animals in the UP and haul a camper and all that jazz. BUT, I'm in The South, and rust is non-existent.
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funny Star Wars parody posted:See this is why I consult with you guys, I have no idea about trucks and I've never looked for one before  Also there should be a trucks/trailer/hauling thread.
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scuz posted:What do you guys do when:
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funny Star Wars parody posted:I was recently informed that my mother got a life insurance policy at some point in the last decade and told my father that she was glad she would at least be able to pay for my university using that
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I know a couple ups drivers, and they both said they had to bust rear end in the warehouse and wait for a driver position to open up. Mandatory career path thing. But maybe things are changing, I would think package delivery is an expanding business. And seconding that you never see any fat ups drivers haha.
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