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Old Dec 8, 2020 | 09:20 AM
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Old Dec 8, 2020 | 11:35 AM
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Anyone else here suffer from this affliction?



Old Dec 8, 2020 | 12:06 PM
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Originally Posted by wackbards
Anyone else here suffer from this affliction?

Black zip ties, the bane of all good mechanics, on his knives...
You are AFFLICTED!
Nice knives however...

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Old Dec 10, 2020 | 06:06 PM
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As part of my research for a new vehicle, I joined some forums and Facebook groups. The forums aren't too bad, but my God...the FB groups.

Every question posted makes me think "How do you remember to breathe?" That these people exist and are allowed to vote really sheds light on how our politics and culture has gotten to where we are.
Old Dec 10, 2020 | 07:21 PM
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My everyday-carry:


Old Dec 10, 2020 | 08:46 PM
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Originally Posted by dleavitt
As part of my research for a new vehicle, I joined some forums and Facebook groups. The forums aren't too bad, but my God...the FB groups.

Every question posted makes me think "How do you remember to breathe?" That these people exist and are allowed to vote really sheds light on how our politics and culture has gotten to where we are.
But on the FB page, Scott (Braineack) actually talks about turboed Miatas, something he rarely does here anymore. Maybe that will change after Jan 20? Nah
Old Dec 10, 2020 | 08:48 PM
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[QUOTE=Joe Perez;1588225]My everyday-carry:
Tiny Knife
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20 years ago I purchased one of those for each of my children IN AN AIRPORT in Denmark.
Old Dec 10, 2020 | 09:30 PM
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Scissors, tweezers, pliers, screwdriver, bottle opener. 1.5 oz, fits in coin pocket, & is TSA compliant.


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Old Dec 10, 2020 | 09:54 PM
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About pocket knives, I’m sure I must have posted this years ago, but here it is again-
Old Dec 12, 2020 | 04:35 PM
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Any ford people here? A buddy just bought a 2002 E-150 econoline van and he's looking for a good source for an online complete service manual.
Old Dec 12, 2020 | 05:20 PM
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About once every two weeks, I get a call from "Steve from Canadian Online Pharmacy."

Steve always calls from a different spoofed number, but I'm pretty sure it's always the same guy.

Also, I'm fairly certain that "Steve" lives in either Mumbai, New Delhi, or Bangalore. Not Toronto or Lunenburg.

Today, I tried a different tactic. I asked him to describe himself. What is he wearing?

"Do you need to purchase any medications today?"

Tell me about your hair. Do you have long, thick hair?

"Sir, I am calling about your medications."

I can feel the skin of your cheeks. Warm, soft and supple. It's hot where you are now. I can taste the sweat on your skin.



He hung up.



If Steve calls back, I'm open to suggestions on how to up this game. I want to make him *afraid* to call me, even if it is on his queue.

Sister / mother stuff is ok. PM me if you feel uncomfortable posting in public.
Old Dec 12, 2020 | 06:06 PM
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Do you go right to in depth detail about the physical sensations the sound of his voice gives you? Do you provide great detail about your male anatomy that swells against your inner thighs?

I mean. I have no issues going straight to homo erotic.
Old Dec 12, 2020 | 06:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Erat
Do you go right to in depth detail about the physical sensations the sound of his voice gives you?
I did talk about his voice, yes.

From his reaction, I gather that the response to that was not on the script.



Originally Posted by Erat
Do you provide great detail about your male anatomy that swells against your inner thighs?
We didn't get that far before he hung up. I'm looking for specific advice on how to bring our relationship into that phase before he decides to drop the call.
Old Dec 13, 2020 | 01:04 AM
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Joe, you would like my mom...
Olan Mills (photographs) would call her and she would say just how much she wishes that she could have pictures of her family as they all died last night in a huge house fire.
She was trying to make the telemarketer cry, sometimes she was successful...
Once a Sears Salesman was trying to sell her a trash compactor that she didn't want.
He beat feet when she asked just how big a child would fit into the compactor. I was three and my sister was an infant, we were with her...

Please keep us updated on this. It would be nice if you could come up with a way to stop all the telemarketing crap without using the legal system.
You would be EVERYONE'S HERO !
Old Dec 13, 2020 | 06:00 AM
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My google phone does a fantastic job. Haven't gotten a spam call in years. Every once in a while one will slip throu but it sends it straight into voicemail.
Old Dec 13, 2020 | 09:56 AM
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Originally Posted by technicalninja
Black zip ties, the bane of all good mechanics, on his knives...
You are AFFLICTED!
Nice knives however...
I have a nice collection of switch blade knives. My pride and joy is a stag horn italian made 17" one. It's a monster knife! I ordered it just after 9/11. The crafty Italians wrapped it in tin foil to resemble a lobster cracker, and labeled it as one. No weapons were allowed to ship at that time, but my knife got through.
Old Dec 13, 2020 | 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by technicalninja
Joe, you would like my mom...
Olan Mills (photographs) would call her and she would say just how much she wishes that she could have pictures of her family as they all died last night in a huge house fire.
She was trying to make the telemarketer cry, sometimes she was successful...
Once a Sears Salesman was trying to sell her a trash compactor that she didn't want.
He beat feet when she asked just how big a child would fit into the compactor. I was three and my sister was an infant, we were with her...

Please keep us updated on this. It would be nice if you could come up with a way to stop all the telemarketing crap without using the legal system.
You would be EVERYONE'S HERO !
Sounds like your mother is quick thinking or plans ahead, she would also get along with my mother. After she divorced her second husband (UAW union president at Lordstown Ohio plant), we started to get more phone calls looking for him. After a few days my mother, brother and I started saying in a sad tone of voice, "he's no longer with us" and hanging up. Within a week or two the phone calls stopped.

A few years later I used that technique on Columbia House Records. My father and mother divorced when I was 4. He moved away and I never had a chance to get to know him before he died when I was 13. Columbia must have traced him through the family tree but he had never lived at the address, nor our previous address. "No he's not here, he has never lived here...he's dead, thanks for reopening the wound!" Click!
Old Dec 14, 2020 | 07:59 AM
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1 week short of 7 years (on a 6 year warranty) the water heater decided it was time to die. I have replaced the water heater in this house at least 3 times before this, so it should be a fairly straightforward process. Still, a pain in the ***.
Old Dec 14, 2020 | 09:15 AM
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WTF? How?

My water heater has to be going on 20 years now.

And now that I said something my *** is gonna be without hot water and a huge mess Christmas morning, watch.
Old Dec 14, 2020 | 09:54 AM
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Some places just have icky water.

Even the expensive all-stainless water heaters don't last all that long in Florida, for example. I'm sure that some here remember the moist and unpleasant saga of how I wound up with a nice epoxied garage floor back in 2009.

The unit I installed then failed about 5 years later.



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