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    You can hire someone to tear into your drywall, or you could just open the drywall yourself. The repair cost will be the same afterward, and you won't have to pay someone to tear holes in your ceiling.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Mercury in your period?
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    Home Improvement

    That's a nice saw, and the extension is worth it, except I would never buy a table saw with a blade smaller than 10 inches. I'd love a 12 inch one, but they're crazy expensive. Realistically, with an 8 1/4 blade, you have about 3.25 inches of cutting clearance. Won't even cut a 2x4 on end.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Grimmlokk seems upset.
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    The Animated GIF Thread

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    The Fast Food Thread

    Typically I would butcher it on the chopper, but instead I will keep it alive until I get home, at which point I'll eat its still beating heart, its liver, and its eyeballs while I make fire by blowing up the helicopter in order to boil water and make rice.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Does anyone remember the very brief scene in Naked Gun where she says "I boiled you a roast!" haha. Dang, that was gross.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Lots of sushi snobs up in here. This weekend I plan to go helicopter fishing in the Pacific so I can catch a tuna, fly home, carve, and eat the fish while it is still alive. Perhaps I'll smear it with cream cheese. Maybe some mayo. That'll be some awesome sushi, bros.
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    Parent Thread

    Dandelions are delicious, yo! One thing that is really important in all this is communicating regularly with your children's teachers. If there are behaviour problems, keep in mind that the teacher has likely seen it before, and probably has ideas for coping with it. Let them help you, take...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    I have a great recipe for a ham roast that includes boiling it, then finishing it in a hot oven with a honey glaze and cloves. It's delicious, and makes awesome pork stock for soups. Win-win! Now I'm feeling like I need to get a sous vide machine. Except not. I might try it in a cooler...
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    Home Improvement

    I used to have ants in my back yard so badly I couldn't grow grass in large sections. For two years, I went and put a few drops of straight up gasoline in every single ant hole I could find in the yard, while simultaneously putting liquid Torro ant killer all over the house (in non obtrusive...
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    NHL 2013 - 2014 Season Thread

    Sheesh, no score after three with Boston and Montreal tonight. Overtime about to start. Pretty cool series. Net minders have been outstanding, especially Price.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    More asking what you've found in your local spot that's outside of restaurant chains that is good, fast, cheap, delicious.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Okay, I guess. Not prejudging, really, having gone to all the aforementioned restaurants locally, and come to a conclusion only after eating their food. But, yeah. I fail!
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    The Fast Food Thread

    I'm not contesting that. I'll absolutely concede this point. To me, a fresh made soup with fresh ingredients and hand made noodles from a mom and pop shop is more enjoyable than sauces brought in and pasta cooked by people minimally trained. I know that many people enjoy Olive Garden - they...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Here's something that has helped me enjoy my lunches more: The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking: Jeff Hertzberg, Zo? Fran?ois, Stephen Scott Gross: 9781250018281: Amazon.com: Books Don't let the title put you off. Bake a fresh loaf...
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Okay, so lets just say for a moment that the major chains aren't where you want to go. Olive garden, TGIFs, Applebees, and the like are out. What now? Look for local mom and pop restaurants? In every town I've ever lived in, there has been an Asian restaurant run by recent immigrants that...
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    Parent Thread

    Man, this is exactly what made me have a serious adjustment in how I deal with my kids. Happened a couple years ago - I was way, way too hardass on rules. If I died, my kids would have remembered me as a drill sergeant. I haven't necessarily lightened up on rules, and getting things done, but...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Good work on the tenderloins, man. Deals like that are awesome when you can find them. Made a nice chicken breast stuffed with lemon/parsley goat cheese, rice pilaf, and spinach salad tonight. Gorgonzola sauce over the chicken to finish the intense flavours.
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    Parent Thread

    A few reactions in general: 1. if you're just starting with gates - get the kind for the top of the stairs that you screw in place, and open like a gate. You'll have them up for a couple years, then you can deal with repairing the holes. That way it isn't pushing against your...
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Thanks, I guess. Yours looks quite a lot like a gay cowboy, but I'm guessing that was accidental. Thanks, Taco Bell.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    This guy gets it.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Yes, I have been in those restaurants. I'll never go to one again. If I walk into a place, and there are peanut shells on the floor, I'm walking out again. No matter how thoroughly you clean up, sweep up, hoover, or whatever, you're spending a large part of every day with food waste on the...
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Who the hell wants to throw food waste on the floor?
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    Home Improvement

    Windows are easy to get in the hole, yup. Making sure they are set securely and squarely enough that they'll continue to function for 30 years while being insulated tight but not too tight is the challenge.
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    Parent Thread

    This shit drives me crazy. One example I've witnessed - family playing in the park, the three (or so) year old starts running and laughing. Parents say, "Now, don't run! You might fall." On grass. I weep for that child. Another example - parents not letting their10 year oldkid go all the...
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    The Fast Food Thread

    I will never again eat in any restaurant that encourages people to throw peanut shells on the floor. The fuck is that? Here, throw food trash on the floor. What a good idea? Bloody disgusting, and way to attract critters.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Should that be Fuck, now I'm hungry. Or Fuck now, I'm hungry. ?
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    NHL 2013 - 2014 Season Thread

    Montreal may pull this off, yet. Hard fought win.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Had Chipotle tonight, big fat steak burrito with guacamole and hot salsa. it was a lot better than I thought it was going to be. Too big, though. Hard as fuck to eat, and ended up finishing it with a knife and fork because it wouldn't stay together.
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    The Animated GIF Thread

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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Sous vide those damned onions before they go on the pork, for crying out loud.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Yeah, shit's crazy. In Mexico And U.S., Lime Lovers Feel Squeezed By High Prices : The Salt : NPR