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SquirrelGrip: Jul 4, 2012

Olympic Mathlete posted:

Go on then, how much fun are you having here?

leave the misses and quit my job fun

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fjelltorsk: Sep 2, 2011; I am having a BALL

Seminal Flu posted:

How are you doing?

Im doing pretty good. Handling my own mental issues with some pretty kick rear end therapy

# ? Mar 31, 2017 13:48

Adiabatic: Nov 18, 2007; What have you assholes done now?

The Locator posted:

I'm not sure what that thing has to do with having an HOA, but I'm pretty sure that much like the people that show up for HOA meetings because they are either busybodies or mad about something, the people who would sign up for and use this app are probably the same sort of people, who I want nothing to do with.

Yeah basically this. If I had an HOA, the board would be filled with the type of people on NextDoor.

fjelltorsk posted:

Im doing pretty good. Handling my own mental issues with some pretty kick rear end therapy

# ? Mar 31, 2017 13:58

keykey: Mar 28, 2003; Â Â Â Â Â

KozmoNaut posted:

$800/year in emissions tax

What kind of fuckery is this?!?

# ? Mar 31, 2017 14:24

Cage: Jul 17, 2003; www.revivethedrive.org

The house I posted sold already.

House hunting is frustrating. Lots of patience and nothing and looking and nothing and then suddenly a good deal gets posted and its sold within 24-48 hours.

Cage fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Mar 31, 2017

# ? Mar 31, 2017 14:24

meatpimp: May 15, 2004; Psst -- Wanna buy

EVERYWHERE
some high-quality thread's DESTROYED!

Adiabatic posted:

# ? Mar 31, 2017 14:27

Boaz MacPhereson: Jul 11, 2006; Day 12045 Ht10hands 180lbs
No Name
No lumps No Bumps Full life Clean
Two good eyes No Busted Limbs
Piss OK Genitals intact
Multiple scars Heals fast
O NEGATIVE HI OCTANE
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Lone Road Warrior Rundown
on the Powder Lakes V8
No guzzoline No supplies
ISOLATE PSYCHOTIC
Keep muzzled...

Cage posted:

The house I posted sold already.

House hunting is frustrating. Lots of patience and nothing nothing nothing and then suddenly a good deal gets posted and its sold within 24-48 hours.

Move in anyway.

SQUATTERS' RIGHTS!

# ? Mar 31, 2017 14:27

Olympic Mathlete: Feb 25, 2011

SquirrelGrip posted:

leave the misses and quit my job fun

Sweeeeeeet. Hoping to get over there in the next year or so. Probably not to do much drifting 'cos I can't but I'm definitely renting out an AE86 for some mountain driving.

# ? Mar 31, 2017 14:27

KozmoNaut: Apr 23, 2008; Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle

keykey posted:

What kind of fuckery is this?!?

The penalty for 8.9L/100km rated fuel mileage.

# ? Mar 31, 2017 14:39

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

KozmoNaut posted:

I'm seriously considering selling my car, because it costs $800/year in emissions tax and $1,250/year for insurance, plus 10L/100km is no fun when gas is 11DKK/litre ($6/gallon). With 20,000km/year, that's ~$2,850/year in gas alone. Of course the comfort and torque is nice, but it certainly does come at a cost.

I was considering getting a Panda again, but your post is sort of putting me off that idea. I noticed that mine would pick up a little bit of road dirt in front of the rear wheels, but I didn't know about the front chassis member thing.

Currently, I'm thinking about a Peugeot 206 SW with the 1.4 (or 1.6, I guess).

I'll take pictures later, some por15 will probably make it a non-issue though.

Having owned a 206SW I'll tell you the 1.4 petrol is dog slow. The 2.0hdi was fantastic. If it hadn't started suffering random electrical gremlins I'd still have it for certain.

# ? Mar 31, 2017 14:53

Nidhg00670000: Mar 26, 2010; We're in the pipe, five by five.; Grimey Drawer

Just get an RC, the only 206 ever worth considering.

# ? Mar 31, 2017 14:54

The Locator: Sep 12, 2004; Out here, everything hurts.

Cage posted:

The house I posted sold already.

House hunting is frustrating. Lots of patience and nothing and looking and nothing and then suddenly a good deal gets posted and its sold within 24-48 hours.

That's exactly why I ended up in a new build, in an HOA instead of finding the 'perfect' house somewhere outside of an HOA. It was simply impossible for someone working full-time and financing to be able to buy a house when people were jumping on everything with cash in hand and bidding over asking price. This was back in 2005 when the prices of houses here were going up sometimes several thousand dollars in a single week.

This is also why I'm now still upside down in my house, as when the crash came, this area crashed really hard (fell to 20% or less of the top, and about 35% of what I bought at). Luckily the prices are recovering and I'm probably only a couple years away from being in a position to actually be able to sell and move if I decide I want to.

# ? Mar 31, 2017 14:56

SquirrelGrip: Jul 4, 2012

Olympic Mathlete posted:

Sweeeeeeet. Hoping to get over there in the next year or so. Probably not to do much drifting 'cos I can't but I'm definitely renting out an AE86 for some mountain driving.

i can't either but I have another 5/6 days to go play on tracks and get comfortable going sideways. if you aren't getting a car try and do the drift school in their car if you want to learn, or get rides on each track in the taxi if you want to get scared of what's possible in a 4 door uber camry

# ? Mar 31, 2017 14:58

Darchangel: Feb 12, 2009; Tell him about the blower!

Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:

SATURN IS A loving GO-GO

(loving finally)
(mostly anyway... I'll finish putting the interior back together tomorrow, I'm loving DONE with this godawful piece of poo poo for tonight)

I never, ever want to do that job again. It doesn't help that the internet is full of "oh you don't have to remove the steering column, just unbolt it and let it hang and work the pedal out around it. NO, loving REMOVE THE COLUMN, I WOULD HAVE BEEN DONE HOURS AGO HAD I DONE THAT TO BEGIN WITH.

Now I just have to re-learn how to use a loving clutch. The slip point has been "through the firewall" for so long that I'm having a lot of trouble driving it - and i'm going to guess that the clutch is pretty close to well done based on where the slip point is now. Seems like I got the steering wheel pretty well centered too, it seemed dead on when I took it down the road and back.

Never... again... if I have to do this job again, it will involve a bonfire.

e: remember the pic I posted earlier showing the ball socket on the replacement pedal?

This is the original:

I don't think there's supposed to be a hole there.

No, what should be there is a cast in piece of metal to reinforce that spot. Any decent mechanical engineer would know that spot will fatigue, but they were probably overruled by the bean counters. I'll have to ask my brother in law about his Cobalt's clutch.

Regarding the Nextdoor app, I joined up just for the neighborhood for sale and wanted notices. Also good for lost pets. I have seen very little bitching about neighbors on ours. Been handy for road closures and construction that's been happening lately.

# ? Mar 31, 2017 15:01

Nidhg00670000: Mar 26, 2010; We're in the pipe, five by five.; Grimey Drawer

Darchangel posted:

Any decent mechanical engineer [...] were probably overruled by the bean counters.

I see you're new to this whole GM thing?

# ? Mar 31, 2017 15:03

totalnewbie: Nov 13, 2005; I was born and raised in China, lived in Japan, and now hold a US passport.

I am wrong in every way, all the damn time.

Ask me about my tattoos.

Nidhg00670000 posted:

I see you're new to this whole GM thing?

It's much more a Chrysler thing.

Don't get me wrong, it happens at GM just like anywhere else, but engineers do have some say at GM.

# ? Mar 31, 2017 15:05

fridge corn: Apr 2, 2003; NO MERCY, ONLY PAIN

Cage posted:

The house I posted sold already.

House hunting is frustrating. Lots of patience and nothing and looking and nothing and then suddenly a good deal gets posted and its sold within 24-48 hours.

Is it sold or just under offer? If you make a good offer you just might gazump them

# ? Mar 31, 2017 16:57

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
(and can't post for 11 years!)

Darchangel posted:

No, what should be there is a cast in piece of metal to reinforce that spot. Any decent mechanical engineer would know that spot will fatigue, but they were probably overruled by the bean counters. I'll have to ask my brother in law about his Cobalt's clutch.

I don't know if the Cobalt and G5 suffer from this issue nearly as much - they use a different part number, and a quick google didn't really turn up any results for the same issue.

# ? Mar 31, 2017 16:59

Cage: Jul 17, 2003; www.revivethedrive.org

fridge corn posted:

Is it sold or just under offer? If you make a good offer you just might gazump them

My realtor said they accepted a bid. It was a nice house and reasonable price but I wouldn't want to pay much more than asking.

What happened with your offer?

# ? Mar 31, 2017 17:05

fridge corn: Apr 2, 2003; NO MERCY, ONLY PAIN

Cage posted:

My realtor said they accepted a bid. It was priced low for the area and condition.

What happened with your offer?

It's moving along although slowly. We've got our official mortgage offer but I'm struggling at the minute getting builders to show up to give me quotes or even return my calls

Though I rang this dude yesterday who answered the phone immediately but told me he couldnt help me cuz he was in a real sticky situation and he couldn't even think straight and he sounded like he had been crying 😬

# ? Mar 31, 2017 17:09

The Door Frame: Dec 5, 2011; I don't know man everytime I go to the gym here there are like two huge dudes with raging high and tights snorting Nitro-tech off of each other's rock hard abs.

Contractors have been in a lovely situation lately. A family friend had to sell his remodeling business after 20 years because he got too few real jobs in the last two years to be able to even cover the cost of his warehouse, let alone his staff

I'm bartending a wedding tomorrow night, but I just found out that the bride and groom can't afford to actually pay me. It's worked out that I get to keep all of the leftover booze and any tips I get. I'd like legal tender, but I can always take more alcohol, I guess

# ? Mar 31, 2017 17:24

scuz: Aug 29, 2003; You can't be angry ALL the time!; Fun Shoe

The Door Frame posted:

I'm bartending a wedding tomorrow night, but I just found out that the bride and groom can't afford to actually pay me. It's worked out that I get to keep all of the leftover booze and any tips I get. I'd like legal tender, but I can always take more alcohol, I guess

Girlfriend and I did this on short-notice for a friend of hers and we had a ball! Same thing, didn't get a paycheck but got to take home two cases of beer and made like a hundred bucks in tips, and the groom's family didn't even drink!

# ? Mar 31, 2017 17:26

The Door Frame: Dec 5, 2011; I don't know man everytime I go to the gym here there are like two huge dudes with raging high and tights snorting Nitro-tech off of each other's rock hard abs.

Yeah, I agreed to do it for my sister-in-law's cousin as a favor and never talked to anyone in the wedding personally, but it was implied that I'd be paid. I can't complain too much, it should be fun either way

# ? Mar 31, 2017 18:00

Siochain: May 24, 2005; "can they get rid of any humans who are fans of shitheads like Kanye West, 50 Cent, or any other piece of crap "artist" who thinks they're all that?

And also get rid of anyone who has posted retarded shit on the internet."

fjelltorsk posted:

Im doing pretty good. Handling my own mental issues with some pretty kick rear end therapy

Glad to hear man

# ? Mar 31, 2017 18:14

Fender Anarchist: May 20, 2009; Fender Anarchist

I've barely made any progress in therapy since it's about once a month (this school is huge and busy and the counseling office is a bit undersized) but the meds have got me feeling pretty good baseline lately. Now if I could just motivate myself to do work while I'm already swimming in serotonin...

# ? Mar 31, 2017 19:15

keykey: Mar 28, 2003; Â Â Â Â Â

Enourmo posted:

Now if I could just motivate myself to do work while I'm already swimming in serotonin...

That's a whole different drug called intrinsic motivation.

# ? Mar 31, 2017 19:21

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

Went to the NEC Classic & Restoration show with my dad today, nice day out. They had a section of "barn find" stuff people had got hold of but not started restoring yet, including this: