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Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

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Applebees Appetizer posted:

Lol snow what's that

It's decided to warm up to the 50s-60s (from 30s-50s) here in Dallas, but in exchange, it started raining, too. Just in time for the weekend.


This is one of the few reasons for which I will accept occasional snow.

Going to go see The Princess Bride with my wife at the local Alamo Drafthouse tonight. Good Friday.

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Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

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STR posted:

VW... I know I'd have to buy some tools to do a brake job (seems they love Torx)...

I believe you mean "triple-square."

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

Then call the cops and get them to speed trap the road.

GG, only ginormous assholes want speedbumps

Goober Peas posted:

I thought you said you were against speedbumps

:drat:

tetrapyloctomy posted:

Hey now, I try to keep the place pest-free.
I didn't have to. May I introduce you to the demon pit in my side yard?



We filled it in ...

... but on windless nights you can still hear the screams.

Well now you've just created a faerie ring.

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

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Queen Combat posted:

Not comparable to anything here



I can say with authority that an 8' 2x4 WILL fit inside the Crown Vic. From left rear package tray to right-front footwell.
Really wish they'd have at least put a ski hole in the rear seat.

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

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Seat Safety Switch posted:

Apples are magnetic.

Well, yeah. How do you think they trigger sleep when the lid is closed?
Wait, you mean the actual fruit, don’t you? Carry on.

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

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I like to think my posting has some value, sometimes, but I’m sure I’m deluding myself.

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

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Applebees Appetizer posted:

You must know my mother in law. She hides everything because she thinks somebody is gonna steal it. We put a locator that loudly beeps on her keys, and she will bury them so deep somewhere you can't tell where the beeping is coming from. Some of her favorite hiding spots include in her shoes under her dresser, and in her pillow. My wife has to go through every pocket of every article of clothing she donates because she hides money and (loving expensive) jewelry in the pockets of clothes. She once found a pair of diamond earrings in a coat pocket that were worth thousands.

Well, it’s effective, I guess. Just sort of pointless if you can’t remember where you hid everything, or, *if* you hid them.

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

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She died well. It took a planet-wide dust storm to stop her. Spirit was a trooper, too. Still boggles my mind that they just kept going for as long as they did.

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

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I too remember when PRecision Power was good equipment. Never had one though, too broke.
I did, however, finally end up with a Harmon-Kardon M2120, which I still have in my Cutlass powering 2 Pioneer 12" Free-Airs. The Crown Vic has a newish Planet Audio, and it's good enough.

bolind posted:

Speaking of, does anyone know of a bedside clock that's really, really dim. I don't need radio, alarm, temp, humidity, snooze or any of that. Just AC or very long battery life, 24h, ideally synced to somewhere so I don't have to, and so dim it doesn't mess with my sleep. Kid still wakes up at all hours, and I'm often too drowsy to realize what time it is, which kinda has an impact on what to do.

I've got an older Emerson that has a couple settings on the brightness level of the display. Not sure how dim would be dim enough for you. I'd imagine newer clocks would have that option, though I've never found what I consider an adequate replacement for this one. It sets itself, has DST adjustment, and a bitchin' wall/ceiling projector. Only thing I wish it had was iPhone charging/connectivity, but it predates those by a decade or so.

One solution I can think of would be to use window tint film on whatever clock you like to dim it down. There is even cling tint so it doesn't have to be permanent.

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

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KakerMix posted:

Any advice for how to remove this stuff?







From what I can tell it's some sort of rubber sheet that's disintegrated all over the rear of this Delica that just arrived today. 98% of it is on the rear mats which can simply be thrown away but I'd like to attempt to save them if I can. There is also a little bit of this stuff on the actual carpet in the back that is, as you can guess, harder to just toss out.

It hasn't been melted on with temperature, more like a rubber band that's been on fabric for years and lost its form or a drive belt in an old tape player that's turned to goo.

Hmmm. Soak with Simple Green or similar to see if it will soften the residue? Test in an inconspicuous area, of course. That's some weird... veneer... stuff. Bet it was attached with some sort of spray glue that has hardened.

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

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Applebees Appetizer posted:

Ugh, god dammit I have one too.

poo poo. Eh, I’ll just use the same mentality that I employ when an artist of whatever stripe is a terrible individual, but has produced work I like. Not like I wear it that often - my Carhartt fits me better.

Javid posted:

I have a cheap one of those, it's great for scrubbing small parts but sucks at being an actual toothbrush. I would hope the $200 ones dampen the motor noise better than this thing, but apparently not. It's unpleasant.

I’ve got one that falls in the category of “premium mediocre”. It’s cheapish, but pretty good. Got it from Woot or Meh, with a whole pile of brush heads. Battery life has been impressive. It’s got a 2 minute timer, broken into 30 second intervals to do your teeth in quadrants, and a UV brush head sanitizer. It definitely does a better job than I can with a manual brush.


On the other subject, God drat, for a bunch of random internet assholes, you guys are some good people. Made me get off my rear end and donate to RAINN. I’m on my iPad at the moment. I’ll post the proof when I get on a computer. I’m honestly stunned at both the cause, and the response, in different ways of course.

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

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KakerMix posted:

Right so I went and got a shallow but wide bin, dumped in 3 gallons of Simple Green on top of the rubbery mats and let it sit, ended up sitting for 48 hours as that's when it finally started to let go. That, plus my steamer unit (one of the best tools I've bought since dealershipin') and a ton of time means I've cleared it from the mats :toot:
To dark to show pics but I'm super stoked on how it came out. So thanks for the suggestion!

Sweet! That stuffs pretty good. If Green doesn’t get something clean, I switch to Purple Power or it’s generic equivalents, with the caveat that Purple will also remove paint, and sometimes color, since it is the same stuff as oven cleaner. Sodium hydroxide? I forget. Also darkens aluminum. But it’s killer on grease and a lot of adhesives. Green is much gentler.

Ferremit posted:

Depends on whether theyre built by a company that specialises in lighting and optics and or not.

https://www.lightforce.com/AUS/led-upgrade-kits.html

In my landcruiser because i've got old crappy glass headlights they dont have a really sharp cut off line, but then again the halogens never did either, but in the new housings I fitted to the Tiida, they've got a cut off line almost as sharp as my mates Subaru liberty with projectors.

The upgrade kits don’t appear to be available in the US. I get a 404 for that link, and can’t find anything but auxiliary lights on the US site. Bummer.

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

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KakerMix posted:



Which used to be this




Also Delicas are fuckin' rad as hell.

Yeah, they are.
Glad the Simple Green saved the carpets.


The promised donation receipt:


This weekend I had opportunity to try my hand at a little basic power carving. We had the dead Catalpa tree in our back yard cut down, and my wife and mother in law decided the cunk that used to be the fork in the tree would make a good planter, so I picked up a "Bad Blade" and one of the chainsaw death wheels. I was only able to use the chain-wheel, because I had a threaded flap wheel on the 4-1/2" grinder, and forgot to grab the nut for the grinder, so could only use the 4". Turned out pretty good. Drilled a bunch of holes in a circle with a 1-1/4" forstner bit, then went to town with the chainsaw wheel.





Made a shitload of very fragrant sawdust, too.

Just watch your cord with that blade:

That was just a brief catch.

If I mess with this thing too much more I'm buying a leather apron or chainsaw chaps. It could rip your leg to shreds toute de suite.

I bundled up the remains of the tree, and when done cutting into smaller chunks than the removal guy left it, wondered whether it would make good firewood:


Turns out Catalpa is a hardwood, though on the soft end, and burns just fine. Buns pretty quickly, but smells nice when doing so, which is fine, since we don't have a fireplace, just a firepit thing:


And then my wife put an idea into my head, so I executed:

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

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cakesmith handyman posted:

Looks much better, open the curtain fully and let the natural light in.

The who-what? "Natural... light"? Sound familiar.

Fermented Tinal posted:

That trashcan's lack of use has more to do with the fact garbage bag tags are $2.50 here and I hate double-bagging trash almost as much as I hate cleaning a trash can that doesn't have a bag in it.

What in the gently caress is a garbage bag tag? You have to pay to throw poo poo away?

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

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I can’t say much. My office is pretty darn cluttered. No trash, though. I can’t stand trash hanging around, particularly since it is so cluttered.
My current main goal, and I started on it a couple weeks ago, is to clean out the desk drawers. There’s almost 20 years of accumulated knick knacks, pens, pencils, etc. in there.
Next is to go through the file cabinet (4-drawer, full length) and trash anything older than 5 or 7 years depending on the nature of the documents.

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

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STR posted:



That strut's been on the car a week, btw, though I reused the original nut and washer. They came with new nuts/washers, but the washers were too big.

At least a new strut mount is only $13 (plus $14 for overnight shipping, and won't ship until tomorrow :sigh:).

I'm kinda impressed a $100 electric impact was able to do that, though.

That's a material failure, probably in the heat treating, I'd say. Too many uggas would have stripped the threads before shearing the strut shaft half an inch below the step-down for the threads. Warranty that poo poo. Well, maybe not for $13.

Adiabatic posted:

I'll ask the Missus. He used to live on a boat there.

I love how that sentence doesn't draw any negative comments here, or even a raised eyebrow.
edit: sincere, not sarcastic.

Ferremit posted:

For reference, this is my 100 series wearing 265/75R16



And now with 265/75R16



They really are a much bigger tyre

Um. I think one of those numbers should be different.

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

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STR posted:

I'd have to warranty the entire quickstrut, since it came with the mounts. Shipping it back would cost probably as much as just buying the whole thing again, and then I'd be out of a working car for that much longer. Plus I don't have the boxes they came in anymore. Or a way to remove it at home, since my jack poo poo the bed.

Ah, that's one of the mount bolts, not the strut shaft. OK, thats less :psyduck:

Queen Combat posted:

A pre-CVT 3.6 Subaru is, for whatever reason, one of my dream cars. Don't care which one.

Just think they're neat.


Of course, my dream car, like, of all time, is a Grumman LLV. So maybe I'm broken.

Dang now I'm thinking of a 3.6 subie swap into an LLV and I'm getting bothered.


I would drive this. I would also happily drop a V8 into one, just for stupid grins. Problem is, the USPS like never sells them - they just keep fixing the ones they have (see: the first "L" in "LLV".)

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

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MomJeans420 posted:

Main use would be as a car for my wife, but we carpool to work so it's more of a second vehicle. Already have one luxobarge for driving people around in and currently I'm driving a pit bull and great dane around in the back of her old GS430, which isn't really the best use of a sedan with leather seats. The pit bull is fine but the great dane's nails have poked holes in the leather. A bigger problem is I used to have two great danes that could figure out how to curl up and share the back seat, but my new dane just can't make it work and insists on manspreading across the entire back seat, making it so my pit has no where to lie down and just making long car rides a pain in the rear end in general.

So basically I need a car that functions as more of an appliance for my wife (auto transmission, more compliant suspension than my old 350Z), that ideally was a wagon so I could put the bigger dog in the very back. It will probably need to handle baby duties in the coming year or so too, otherwise I'd be looking at something more fun with two doors for a second vehicle. I'd use it for driving up to camp sites in the mountains too, but off roading isn't a concern.
<snip>
All the SUV posts in here now have me thinking I should check out Land Cruisers and LXs too, but then the handling will really not be great.

Dogs, eh? Common forum knowledge says you need a Volvo wagon, I think.
I've been eyeballing V70s and XC70s as a nice people and stuff mover myself. Can even get a nice turbo 5-cylinder along the way. If you want more like an SUV, the XC90, I guess.

GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

I went out to shovel snow and when I came back in he had already refunded me my money before I could even message him back.
I'm salty as gently caress now.

Dude's getting negative feedback for sure. Some other guy also negged him for the same bullshit with misjudging shipping.

I once bought a dash pad for my '70 Cutlass. It was in good shape, but won it cheap, and the guy clearly mis-estimated shipping. He sent it anyway, in two Dixie Cup boxes taped together, with like, a handful of packing peanuts inside. I'd bought the gauge set to, and they were just bouncing around inside the box. Needless to say, both ends of the dash pad got broken off, ruining a usable (better than the one I had/have) dashpad. Let the dude know it was broken, and he replied that I'd have to claim it with UPS or whoever, but of course *I* can't do that - the shipper has to. So, negative feedback time. Jackass responded with negative feedback on me, despite me doing everything a buyer should do, *and* did it on the gauges, too (separate auction) which I did not neg him on. This was before PayPal was big, just getting started, and I paid for the dash with a money order, so I couldn't even sic PayPal on him. Still ticks me off. Last time I paid with anything but PayPal. It's been long enough that his negs dropped off, at least.


STR posted:

One of one, as in the only mount bolt. :psypop: I'm used to seeing 3, not 1.

Yeah, that's what threw me. Never seen a 1-bolt strut mount.

quote:

I knew something was wrong with a delivery I had today.
<snip>
I'm a contractor, so they can decide to part ways with me with no notice (though I can request arbitration).

That would be asinine. You did pretty much everything in your power to confirm you were in the right place. Customer needs to take responsibility, and probably have a conversation with his lovely neighbor.

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

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everdave posted:

It had never been smoked in was pristine, has never left the city limits. Now the carpet is covered in ash and I don’t know if there are any burn marks but there was definitely a
Small one on drivers seat now. I was going to advertise this as a time capsule now forget it. If you knew how much this woman bothers me about stuff you would more understand, this isn’t just a stranger.

Yeah, that was a dumbass move on her part. Not a whole lot of polite, conscientious smokers around. It's sort of rude by nature.

keykey posted:

Conversely, if someone is using a mint condition vehicle as an ashtray, they are retarded.

edit: also, don't listen to me, I give bad advice. My son had to go home for the day back in 6th grade for calling another kid retarded. When I showed up to pick him up, the principal had a talk with me about my son calling another kid retarded. He said the other kid kept kicking the back of my son's chair and my son kept turning around and asking him to not kick the back of his chair so he could listen. After the 3rd time, he said "are you retarded?" to which I replied," Well... is said kid retarded?" principal said no, so I said "oh, so he was just acting retarded and now you are too by not actually taking care of the problem child in the equation? Your 0 tolerance policy makes absolute sense."

Frankly, I would have reacted about the same. Fix the root cause, idiot, not the symptom.

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

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Rhyno posted:

You guys should stop calling people who do dumb things retarded.

Yeah, I had to train myself to avoid that. And to stop calling people I don't like "fags" (THANKS, game chat/internet,) since, in my POV, being gay isn't, you know, insulting or a bad thing in and of itself. It just gets stuck after years of gaming with misogynist homophobic 14-year-old assholes screaming in your ear. "That's gay" needs to go, too.


Unrelated: went to see Kiss last night. Suddenly had tickets when a friend was unable to go. Better still, I took my best friend from childhood, who has been into Kiss since we were the aforementioned children, so, 1977 or so. He was stoked! We went to go see them on their reunion tour in 1996 together. They still put on a good show. A+ would induce hearing damage again. We were way up in section 322 of the American Airlines Center in Dallas, but the view was good. With my new eyeballs, I could see better than my phone could. My iPhone 6S hates the dark and bright lights. Some dude in front of me had something that was handling it much better, and was live-streaming.
I took a couple of videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z39vMlnjFXw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hckd3_DHJ0k

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El Jebus posted:

I've been on a similar kick with the word(s) 'cocksucker'. It tends to be used as an insult, and my immediate thought is always "but thats a good thing to do for someone?". Someday, in the future, people will praise one another by saying "you're a real cocksucker!" and the response will be "thank you!".

See, I' had that same thought. Ditto for variations thereof. I'm like, "what's bad about that?" Ties into the homophobic stuff I guess, since it's generally directed at males. I've been having to find gender-neutral non-degrading-to-anyone-but-the-recipient terms. As noted, "rear end in a top hat" seems to work well. "Jerk" if near polite company. Variations of jerk - jerk-rear end, jerklord, etc. for variety. My personal favorite thus far is "butt-nugget." It seems to get across my estimate of that person's' value well.


Nice.
Hell, if I could reach I'd never leave the house.

Pham Nuwen posted:

I like to call people on the road "silly pricks" even though "prick" is presumably derogatory toward men.

I've been know to use "dick" a bit. Probably too much.
Also, your buttcoin avatar amuses me.

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

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The Prong Song posted:

Going back to two pages ago and A/V chat. I got a new Sony A8F last weekend, with this fancy Acoustic Surface technology. Basically there are drivers on the screen, so the screen itself produces mid/high-end frequencies. It's got two subs on the back of the TV.

Music and environmental noise sound beautiful and clear, but dialogue is massively unbalanced. In order to hear character dialogue, I've gotta crank it up so high that things like horns honking or door slamming are startlingly loud. Aside from loving around with the TV's audio settings (of which there are a ton of optimizers/spatializers/DOLBY fuckerizers), what's a good method of evening things out? Would moving to a simple soundbar setup or 2.1 speaker system eliminate the TV's tomfoolery with the audio signal, or should I be looking at an actual receiver/eq unit?

I never trust a TVs built in anything. To be fair, I also don't buy high-end stuff, which surely affects that perception.
I've used a separate receiver and speakers for probably decades, whether just straight stereo, 3.1, or 5.1.
Reminds me that I need to drag one of my old receivers out into the garage to use. I have several that predate HDMI...

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

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Pham Nuwen posted:

I'm going in for a LASIK consult on Tuesday. Although I've become accustomed to seeing myself in glasses over the last 16+ years, they've really become a hindrance lately. When I'm hunting, they interfere with binoculars and rifle scopes. I've scratched them on the viewfinders of old cameras. I'm supposed to do SCUBA lessons soon, and of course you can't wear glasses under the mask. I was on a beach for an event the other day and the blowing spray + sand essentially made them worthless after 30 minutes plus I couldn't dare wipe them given the sand on the lenses.

I hate the idea of anyone or anything messing with my eyes (I don't even wear contacts) but I'm loving sick of having bad eyes. This particular surgeon comes highly recommended by two of my friends, too.

DO IT DO IT DO IT
OMG, it is so unbelievably nice to not have to put on glasses in the morning, clean glass, be careful of glasses, try to keep glasses on your face upside down under a car or dash, FIND glasses, replace glasses, to be able to wear sunglasses, not have earpieces constantly putting pressure on your ears or temples...
I wore glasses for 40 years, can you tell? Got LASIK (and cataract lens replacement) a couple months ago. NO REGRATS.
Kiss last night was the first concert I've attended without glasses, and it was glorious.
LASIK is super quick. Lots of build up, but the actual surgery is painless and fast.

Only drawback so far: have to be careful to remember to wear eye-pro when working with potential flying debris/pokey stuff.

Darchangel
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Queen Combat posted:

Just remember, LASIK corrects near, or far vision. Usually far. This is good when you're younger and the lens in the eye is still flexible and can accommodate between the two, but as you get older, your eyes WILL get presbyopic (unable to accommodate). LASIK can't fix that.

Everyone needs glasses eventually. After a certain point, presbyopia, LASIK just lets you choose which (for reading, or for driving/distance).

This is mostly correct.
You *can* have one eye done for distance, and one for close-up. Your optometrist should give you contacts to test if your brain can handle that. Mine can, so that's how I'm set up, however, I still need readers for anything closer than about 8". Also, since I had a cataract in one eye, and another one getting started in the other eye, I have lens replacements inside my eyeballs (cyborg?), so I'll never have to deal with my vision getting changing again.
QC is correct, though, if you don't have lens replacements you will eventually need glasses (and even so, I still need them for certain situations, as above.)

meatpimp posted:

Queen Combat had an excellent effortpost on lasik a year or so ago. I can't do it justice, but she pointed out that your eyes "take a set" at a certain point in life when you'll either be able to focus better on close things or far things, but not both. It's a factor of age and an unavoidable result.

Well, I've had contacts for 30 years with a correction in the -3 range. Within the past year I think I experienced what she said would happen. All of a sudden I noticed that I could not focus on really small print without a large amount of light. I used to pride myself on being able to read microprint on money and such, and now I need to work at reading the small print on some food packaging.

I accept it as just getting old. I can correct it with bifocal contacts, and probably will next visit, but I think the lasik stuff isn't going to happen because of that choice -- near or far, you're going to need help with the other at some point with or without lasering your eyeballs.

Yeah, it's just a fact of getting old. Your lenses harden up, basically, so you become a fixed focus camera. No more autofocus for you! I've already got that with the cataract lens replacements, but we got to choose the fixed focal length.

MomJeans420 posted:

It's awesome and I'm really glad I did it, and they even gave me a DVD of the surgery which I promptly showed to my friends who were horrified by the flap cutting procedure. It looks gnarly but all I felt was minor discomfort.

Aw, man. Wish they'd done that for me! Though, I got the all-laser procedure where they use a laser to create the flap, too. It was pretty neat.

Galler posted:

Troglodyte is one of my favorite insults and I think it should only be offensive for the right reasons. I started using it to replace my previous favorite insult when I found out that one was actually a, somewhat obscure, slur. It's kind of driving me nuts though as I cannot remember what that old insult even was.

You have no idea how mortified I was when I learned the origin of "spade" in "call a spade a spade." I had literally never heard that word used as an insult to Negro people. I was in my 20's, as I recall. Fortunately, I didn't use the phrase much, either. I believe it was Blazing Saddles that revealed the truth to me.

kastein posted:

I'm guessing it started with mong. Used to be one of my favorites but then I found out 1. It was originally a term for down's syndrome and 2. It's now a rather racist term for Asian people. So yeah, had to knock that poo poo off.

I try and keep it creative and/or old English. Numpty's a favorite, but I'm not gonna try to predict the next insult I come up with, last time someone got called an infinite muppet.

Numpty and muppet are good ones, particularly since they're not common in the US. Confuses the idiots.

I think there was a chat thread that produced quite a few creative insults that I saved somewhere, but most of them still contained what would be considered curse words, so still limited in usage.

Minnesota Mixup posted:

LASIK is awesome and I'm glad I had it done. That was something like 8 years ago and my vision is still perfect 20/10 (33 now). I was nervous about having it done but after they gave me valium before the procedure I was smiling as they did it and thinking how cool it was. The only discomfort was the machine clamping down over my eye sockets and that was fairly minor. I had the type where they cut the flap with a laser instead of a blade. It's cool doing an eye exam seconds after the surgery and seeing the improvement.

It's awesome waking up the next day and driving back for your post op checkup. The most amazing thing about it for me afterwards was how crisp things like leaves on trees look now. You immediately notice how much compression glasses cause when you wear them.

This. I was amazed at how clearly I could see Kiss the other night, despite being in the upper layers of the atmosphere.

edit: found the list. Some of them could be considered misogynist, I'd say:
cockwomble
gently caress-trumpet 
oval office rocket
donkey raping poo poo-eater 
shitrapist
poo poo-breathing nazi motherfucker
pissminstrel 
Fuckstick
titbitch
you absolute cockstain 
Pisslicking 
wankstain 
cockmongers 
cuntnugget 
fucknugget gibbering loving cockwobble

Those are just the ones I found amusing. Obviously, most are very British.

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Pham Nuwen posted:

Good news!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_a_spade_a_spade


(As they point out you might still want to avoid it, but have you EVER heard anyone use "spade" as a slur in the last... 30 years?)

See, now that's what I *thought* it meant. Glad to know I wasn't wrong, but yeah on that second part about avoiding. To be fair, you're probably right about contemporary usage, but there are some super-sensitive people out there just ready to pounce on any perceived slur.

cakesmith handyman posted:

If I run a swear into the ground I go check out Scottish Twitter for a new one, "weapons grade spoon" is wearing well.

*adds "weapons grade spoon" to the list*

quote:

Had fun telling my boss today that yes I do mind going buying a couple of wood chisels on my credit card and claiming it back on pretty cash, because that for some reason literally takes months, and the chisels I'd already ordered for this one little job will arrive tomorrow morning, which basically makes zero difference to when it gets done. He seemed put out I wasn't happy to spend my own money to help a company that recently invested a quarter of a billion pounds.

Yeah, sorry boss. Oh, I know, how about we use *your* credit card?

Darchangel
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Radwood: I thought about going, but decided against, this time. I’m in Dallas, so it wouldn’t have been onerous, but still would have needed a hotel room.

Torque wrenches: I use a couple Harbor Freight ones. I figure they’re better than none. I should see about calibrating them, though. Got to use my brand new 1/4” drive inch-pounds wrench last weekend when I replaced the cam cover gasket on the Kia.
The other one is a big old 1/2” drive. I tend to use them when it’s a critical fastener like a head bolt, or into aluminum.

Jobs: both those situations sound hosed up. What the hell?

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

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Applebees Appetizer posted:

I've been trying to get some Tanabe lowering springs for my car. They have been discontinued by Tanabe recently, but tons of places are still showing them in stock online.....When they don't actually have them in stock. After being refunded twice, I just started calling every place showing them in stock, and none of them actually had them in stock lol. So I decided to order them off Amazon even tho Amazon had the highest price, I was like gently caress it I just want the springs. I get an email, "your order has been shipped!". Cool, at least i'm getting them now.....Next day I get an email of refund notice....What in the gently caress you just said it was shipped!

If you don't stock the poo poo get it off your website for the love of god.

They’re all drop shippers and all use the same source, who doesn’t update their inventory. A lot of the “cheap<insertcarmakename>parts.com” sites do that. They even have the exact same interface for finding the parts, save for the logo. Ticks me off.

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Somewhat Heroic posted:

Hey Rhyno, are you still searching out Grand Nationals? I found a good one without any rust that should fit your criteria: Grand National

This is one of those times when I wish I had gently caress-you money, so I could buy that and then drive the wheels off of it. I hate automotive "investments."

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Feb 12, 2009

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Somewhat Heroic posted:

The crazier thing is that just the other week an EIGHT mile GNX sold for $200K. Who are these rich dudes who no doubt had mullets were buying these up and mothballing them?

No doubt. They were amazing cars at the time, especially the GNX, but it’s purely nostalgia now. To be fair, most of the ‘60s-‘70s muscle cars are disappointing, stock, nowadays. A V6 Camry could outrun a stock ‘70 SS Chevelle, even the LS6. Don’t even ask about handling or braking. The Chevelle still sounds better of course.
I still have a ‘70 Cutlass, despite all that. Mine’s not stock, though, and will become less so as I attempt to make it comparable in comfort and drivability to a modern economy car.

Edit, maybe a ‘90s economy car.

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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

Also the first ratio's of auto are higher than manuals so you get the initial snap off the line that is the big selling point to a car. You could have that short ratio in a manual but yeah kinda doesn't work if you have to change quick that quick after launch.

Of all things, my wife's Kia Spectra5 ('08) has way too short gears in the trans, or too short a final drive. It's got plenty of torque for its size, and would pull a taller final gear easily. It's difficult to not spin the tires in first, especially in the wet, and, yeah, you're through with that gear pretty quickly. I'd settle for a taller 5th/overdrive to drop the RPMs 500-1000 on the highway, so I don't have to sacrifice its pretty reasonable-for-an-economy-car acceleration. It gets buzzy around 70 MPH, and I catch myself reaching for the shifter to go up another gear pretty often.

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Sadly, in the US, cost always plays a factor in decisions to visit the hospital, especially the ER, and even just a GP. It’s criminal that it is even a consideration - we’re deathly afraid of the hospital driving us into bankruptcy.

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Feb 12, 2009

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Oh, cool, some asshat is being an LOL forum automotive internet expert on the video I put up years ago of my Crown Vic being dyno'd. He didn't take well to gentle correction from an adult (ostensibly me.) Internet fight!
Actually, I'm too tired to duke it out with him, and will probably delete the fool. Unless one of you is feeling feisty and wants to pick on him, but then you'd be an comment on a YouTube video, so...
Some days I hate the internet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBHRoY9el_U

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Liquid Communism posted:

He is Angry on the Internet, and now on the defensive because someone called him out. That comment section is now his hill to die on.

That was my impression. Just no going to get a good reaction when you start dispensing your wisdom with "hey, idiots."
I just didn't have the energy to whip out my e-penis yesterday, and ultimately decide to not feed the troll. As I commented, he wouldn't learn or acknowledge that he was wrong regardless.

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

Welp comment is gone now.

Damnit I was just warming up

What? Oh, what a pussy. He did that himself - I didn't delete the comment. He did wander over and slap some stupidity on another of my videos, though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubj_BTvGXVI

Adiabatic posted:

STR posted:

Because my bloodwork hasn't looked this good since I was diagnosed as adiabatic.
lmao I caught that

I didn't even know that you were a condition, much less contagious.

Telyra posted:

I feel like we're probably the only three Dream Theater fans on SA. General music goon consensus is they suck and I wholeheartedly believe otherwise in no small part due to how awesome this album is.

(I'm listening to it for like the twentieth time on the way to work right now)

I like Dream Theater when I'm in the mood for Prog Rock, but not a rabid fan. Neat vinyl, though. I do have a Pandora channel with them as a source.

cakesmith handyman posted:

You sure about that? In sheer numbers the US manages to torture millions in absentia with their health service. They also have more efficient civilian incarceration services, no matter how hard the Tories try.

Fair point.

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Feb 12, 2009

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sneakyfrog posted:

considering theres like 4-5 threads today stalking a guy and his bathroom stalking a comic book clerk is relatively pedestrian

Oh, we don't give a poo poo about the guy, but that bathroom... :allears:

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