Humphreys posted:

My neighbour spotted me being a sweaty gently caress riding around on my mountain bike I got 20 years ago and took pity on a giant riding a tiny bike. Threw me the keys to one of his cars to use until I get the Commodore unfucked (it's a simple alternator change, received replacement today), but organising the auto sparky to borrow his Tech2 for the ECU firmware upgrade and remove the battery saver mode.

EDIT: Man, tooling around in a little Mazda 323 like a clown car is quite fun around town. I have to drive it with the window down so I have elbow room.

shy boy from chess club posted:

So if anyone isn't up on banana history before the 50s the kind of bananas imported were Gros Michel or "Big Mike". Then what's known as Panama Disease wiped them out, it's a fungal disease that rotted the plants from the inside out. Since bananas are all genetically identical they were almost entirely wiped out. The ones we get now are known as Cavendish and are immune to the disease so far.

The Gros Michel ones are supposed to taste like candy, literally. It's the artificial flavor in taffy, runts, etc if you ever wondered why those taste nothing like the Cavendish that we are used to.

I eat a lot of bananas, they are my favorite. Once I found out about the Gros Michel I had to try them. I found a place in Florida that grows them last year but they were out of season. Now they are so I ordered some and just got them today. They are still green and I'm dying for them to ripen. I got 10lbs of them and I'll share some of them to friends and family but I'll probably end up eating most of the 10lbs. I'm so excited.

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

Annnnnd my washing machine decided to let the smoke out of the control board,

Galler posted:

I think this is the problem. If they were on a hard flat surface they would probably stay put. Maybe putting some plywood between the carpet and the mats would fix it. The real solution is, probably, to get some real gymnastics mats. The big folding 2" thick ones.

InitialDave posted:

You can buy these things that are like plastic strips with teeth on them, for holding rugs in place on smooth surfaces and so on.

Logically, they should work in reverse, stuck to the underside of the tiles.

The Door Frame posted:

Hahahaha, the seller was so offended by our offer, he told us to not to send another. I wanted to send another, lower offer, but our realtor said that he didn't want to draw up the paperwork just to make this guy have a heart attack
Onto the next property

Darchangel posted:

About damned time, though as stated, Blau is a Chinese-owned brand now. I have no complaints about those $10-15 mechless Blaupunkt heads that Walmart had, mind you, other than their inability to be ISO mounted.

The Door Frame posted:

How much do you want to bet that it was a spite-buy haha? I've heard so many horror stories of people losing their financing because they go out and finance new appliances or furniture before the keys are in their hands, and our loan officer repeatedly and explicitly told us not to spend money or take new lines of credit. I don't know how so many people make that mistake

The house was a 2 bed 1 bath, 950sqft, no basement, in a desirable location. House completely remodeled and brand new appliances, HVAC, sump, everything new. Worth $240k maximum, but comps put it at about $255k and asking price was $275k, so we came in with a good faith offer of $250k($258k with 3% comps). The dude went off in way I was not expecting, to the point that I actually did ask to put down another, even lower offer just to piss him off

Fermented Tinal posted:

Honestly, I think if I do the moving thing again I will buy land and build what I want.

quote:

Steps to protect yourself during sex

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Powershift posted:

I wish we had a pro-drug, pro-glory hole leader

meatpimp posted:

In my basement reconfiguration I'm losing a 12'x8' closet that was filled with a closet organizer system. In that closet, I had a comprehensive library/archive/stockpile of electronics. From a 1997 laptop/docking station to current stuff. As I was packing it up, I went through my shelves of different cables and threw away *gasp* a lot of them. RCA Video cables? Gone. RCA to miniplug video cables? Why was I even keeping those? Dozens of coax cables, scores of network cables, etc.

Of course, my wife is now WFH and needed a printer set up. A couple things didn't work and I needed a USB A printer cable. Of course I had 5 or 6 that I threw away... took me scrounging for an hour to find the one cable that was left in the house.

There's a balance between having a "backup plan" and hoarding. I'm trying to find that balance.

meatpimp posted:

Gray. Gray everywhere. In 5 years, we'll be looking at houses and say "man, that's some 2018 gray." It works right now, but that trend is going to end soon.

BigPaddy posted:

Granite counter tops, stainless appliances, shiplap walls, HGTV has a lot of answer for.

trouser chili posted:

Go for it, man. My bathroom



You know that tub matches.

trouser chili posted:

You're the closest so I'm calling you the winner, although you fail by Price is Right rules. My house was built in 1961.

LloydDobler posted:

After 3 days on the market, I had 11 showings, and got 2 offers on my townhouse. First one had concessions, and they tried to high pressure me in to taking it by putting a same day deadline on it. Second was $2k above asking price with no concessions or conditions. I'm not doing showings today (to spend time with the kid before she goes to college in three weeks), so I'm trying to decide if I should take the 2nd offer or go for a sunday of showings to see if we can get anything better.

I'll likely take the 2nd offer if my realtor advises it. Securing a sale is more important to me than maximum price. We didn't see a loan approval letter or anything like that so my realtor is trying to find out if there's any risk of the buyer not getting their loan. If their credit and employment are solid she'll probably say take it.


Also side note: I'm trying to get moving quotes and everyone wants all your god drat personal info before they'll even talk to you. Sorry, gently caress you, I don't want to be god drat spammed and data mined to hell and back. Give me your quote and you might get my business. Simple as that.

everdave posted: