Sept 2017 chat thread - You can get high off Immodium? Are you shitting me?

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Automotive Insanity > Sept 2017 chat thread - You can get high off Immodium? Are you shitting me?

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

fridge corn posted:

im sure my house will be inundated with water at some point within the next 50 years

Yeah, I sometimes clog the toilet like that, too.

# ¿ Aug 31, 2017 20:59

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 12:32

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

Larrymer posted:

We had the baby shower just a couple weeks ago and don't have poo poo prepared at the house yet, lol. Still need to buy a crib and/or pack and play but the kid isn't leaving here for awhile anyway. We were taken by complete surprise, we weren't even supposed to have the child birth class until next weekend.

Definitely feeling unprepared.

I think that is true for all new parents. Even if the little blighter is 400 weeks late, you still won't feel ready.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2017 17:52

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

Applebees Appetizer posted:

I'd rather be at home than stuck in my car in a traffic jam, and with all the gas stations out of gas how far are you gonna make it anyway.

We're very disappointed in you, AA:

There's an environmental disaster.
Fuel is in short supply.
Natives have gone feral.
You need to get somewhere quickly.

There is only one answer:

# ¿ Sep 6, 2017 09:40

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

Cop Porn Popper posted:

I live in a mobile home from the late 80s. I'mma loving die.

Don't those things attract the storms like some kind of magical talisman?

# ¿ Sep 6, 2017 23:17

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

Applebees Appetizer posted:

Nope we boarded up and going to ride it out.

Good luck to you.

# ¿ Sep 10, 2017 21:27

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

Tomarse posted:

I'm selling a car on ebay

How many messages saying 'How much do U wont for it M8????' am I going to get by the end of this?

Still better than the idiots who phone you at 2am to ask for the best price for something you're selling on Autotrader.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2017 16:57

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

cursedshitbox posted:

E: Spouse bought a Scanning electron microscope today

Wants to finally see your penis then?

# ¿ Sep 12, 2017 21:04

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

spog posted:

Wants to finally see your penis then?

Now I feel bad about insulting CSB's penis.

I am sure it is lovely.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2017 21:09

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:

Jesus, today went to hell in a handbasket.

I couldn't sleep, so I did what I usually do.. stay up on the computer. At 9am all hell breaks loose, roommates start ripping me new assholes for being inconsiderate and "typing all loud".

... you guys are sleeping on my loving couch, in my living room, WITH EAR PLUGS. Had you said something, I would have gone to my room. Then they went off about me cooking breakfast at 4am.

And it got even better. Brandon got right up in my face daring me to touch him, started calling me "loving cock sucking human being, you're too loving human being to push me". Made my way around him, opened the door, told him give me the key, which he did. Made the mistake of standing behind the door, fucker mule kicked it. Knocked out a tooth and left a huge knot on my head.

I no longer have roommates. His wife took off on foot when I called the police. He stuck around and tried to press assault charges... except I'm the one missing a tooth, and I have a knot on my head. He went to jail. Cops came up to get his insulin, I told them I wanted him out. They mentioned I may have to evict, I held up his key and said he told me he was moving out immediately, they suggested I throw everything of his in garbage bags and leave it on the porch the day he gets out.

loving christ, Rhyno's luck with friends is rubbing off on me. I have a bitch of a migraine, what's left of my tooth hurts, and my nose hurts.

The Aristocrats?

# ¿ Sep 13, 2017 19:14

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

rdb posted:

I sort of want a generator, and my wife told me to buy one, but the power just doesn't seem to go out here. The longest outage was 30 minutes.

I also can't decide between a PTO generator for the tractor (~30 pto hp) or a whole home propane powered unit either. We generally have at least 100 gallons in the propane tank but if it goes out during the winter that poo poo goes quick. The generator would probably down a half gallon to a gallon an hour and the furnace uses a gallon/hr. With the tractor, the fuel situation is slightly worse, I keep maybe 10 gallons in the garage and 5 in the tractor, but the burn rate would be much lower per hour, and the power unit large enough to run the heat pump/water heater/dryer. It would also have the advantage of being portable. Cost of the unit and wiring would be about the same either way.

Seems that investing in a pile of jerrycans would be the cheapest and most effective solution.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2017 22:16

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

cakesmith handyman posted:

Multipla, pulls all the way up without engaging. I'll take a quick look tomorrow but as I say, if it needs parts it's parked.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2017 17:48

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

Larrymer posted:

We had a baby girl yesterday at 34 weeks! Still a long way to go to taking her home (the estimate range different people are giving us is insane, anywhere from 1-6 weeks ) but everybody is healthy, yet tired.

Cool!

Bet you're feeling like a proud mofo*

(now I realise it, that is a literal statement)

# ¿ Sep 17, 2017 21:10

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

It's a well known factoid:

Stick a ring on a man and he becomes irresistible to women.

Stick a ring on a woman and she becomes invisible to men.

# ¿ Sep 20, 2017 22:29

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

Tomarse posted:

While I was out breaking down in my landrover today the person who won my car on ebay last weekend turned up to pay for and collect it, but obviously couldn't because I was not in.

If you were going to get a lift 50-odd miles to collect a car after being told "let me know when you are going to come and collect it" you would contact the seller before you left home right?... especially if you were turning up 24 hours later than originally agreed?..

I just helped a colleague who sold a car 1.5 months ago and neither they nor the buyer had still figured out how to correctly do a change of owner on the V5 (the title) despite a)it being the first hit on Google and b)the process being printed on the V5 itself.

# ¿ Sep 22, 2017 23:51

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

jammyozzy posted:

Brit goons, is there some loophole to getting a Q plate that I'm currently unaware of? I just saw a completely standard looking LTI taxi rolling around Reading with one on.

Excepting that it may be the world's best sleeper, what gives?

quote:

The ‘Q’ shows that the vehicle was either not originally registered in the UK and proof of age was unavailable at registration, or that it has been built using a significant proportion of used parts.

If a vehicle has to be rebuilt, say after an accident and many new or used parts have been used that it calls the identity of the vehicle into question, the vehicle needs to be registered on a ‘Q’ Plate. This is done through the DVLA. It does not mean that there is anything wrong with the vehicle, just that it’s original identity cannot be clarified from the parts it is made from (i.e. from different vehicle

# ¿ Sep 23, 2017 00:05

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

Rhyno posted:

Somebody beat the ever living gently caress out of the person who was stalking me. I guess I wasn't the only person on their stalk list and somebody didn't take too kindly to the attention.

Based on your current luck, I'd be afraid that you've got a super-stalker and he decided to get rid of the competition.

# ¿ Sep 23, 2017 15:39

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

Anghammarad posted:

Possibly. I'm looking at a ~~Rover 200~~ Honda concerto this afternoon (A 20 year old japanese car built in Longbridge? for under �400 with ticket, what could possibly go wrong ).

Have you chosen what baseball cap to wear when you drive it?

Burberry is traditional.

# ¿ Sep 25, 2017 13:58

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

MA-Horus posted:

GF's dad is getting an E-type Jag.

an Eagle E-type jag

He might let you get inside his daughter, but he isn't going to let you inside that car.

# ¿ Sep 25, 2017 21:37

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

Speaking of work, I just went full retard and used the phrase "How now brown cow?" to an HR employee.
She's black ...and sorta fat.

How hosed am I?

Context is important as you are somewhere between 'nothing' and 'put a blindfold on me'

# ¿ Sep 26, 2017 16:56

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

There was a sassy throat clearing and a solid 60 seconds of silence. I broke the silence with "whelp there you go looks like your problem is all fixed! have a good weekend! *CLICK*"
"...gently caress. It's Tuesday. "

I mean: why were you saying that to her anyway?

If there was a discussion about elocution, then it's fine.
Otherwise, I am confused why you would utter such a phrase.

You do have one chance at covering yourself: spend the rest of the week including rhymes in every conversation with every worker and try to play it off as a conversational quirk.

(Probably best to avoid anything that start 'Baa, Baa...')

# ¿ Sep 26, 2017 22:34

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 12:32

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

Helpdesk ticket. I fixed something for her and that was my weird rear end way of asking her to try it again.

Fingers crossed that you just confused her and she didn't believe that she really heard it.

However, you might want to prepare an answer to the question 'why did you refer to a plus-sized, Africo-American employee as "brown cow"?'

# ¿ Sep 27, 2017 08:37

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