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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Or seeing gays in every fucking TV show.
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    Home Improvement

    Those are called candelabra base bulbs and not chandelier bulbs. A quick search using the proper name yields lots of results for outdoor candelabra base bulbs. Don't know if they would work better for you or not. Good luck.
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    Ferrari

    If you watched Napoleon, you'll know what I mean when I say this is how that movie should have been made. In this flick, we see a period of 1-2 years of Enzo Ferrari's life (he lived to be 90) and explore one race out of hundreds. It's a great insight into the man's life, his passions, his...
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    Home Improvement

    I was doing work on a new, expensive house, oh, probably 15 years ago where they had installed copper rain gutters. Not recessed, just hanging off the fascia. The very finicky HOA told the general contractor that the gutters were too shiny and to do something about it, quick. He told the gutter...
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    Home Improvement

    If I had started with pretty wood cabinets I would agree with you. Although my cabinets were/are solid wood with medium quality hardware (glides and hinges), they were just ugly and plain. The had that cheap ass spray on stain. No pretty grain or figure in the wood at all. They might as well...
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    Home Improvement

    You need a heated paint booth and an airless sprayer. I have a friend with both so he did the job for me. I had no place to set up a booth and it's also 35 degrees in my garage right now. All doors and drawer fronts are removed and go to a warm paint booth. The cabinets are painted in the house...
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    Home Improvement

    We've always had them in every house we've owned. I don't understand them being "disease magnets" as porcelain is less porous than granite, marble or synthetic solid surfaces like corian. It's essentially glass. Grout lines need to be maintained and sealed, but so does a granite slab. As far...
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    Home Improvement

    Use Tinkercad online.
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    Home Improvement

    Starting kitchen remodel. This is just the little nook where we have our coffee machines. Used this area as a test, sort of, to see if we liked our choices. Before. Laminate countertop, 6x6 white ceramic tile backsplash. After Painted cabinets, new hardware, undercabinet lighting...
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    Country Music Thread

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    Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie (2023)

    I'm guessing you have to subscribe to Peacock to see this.
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    Obscure / Rare Technology you used.

    The first picture is moveable type I set for imprinting a customer's name onto some bookplates. The second picture is a slug from a Linotype machine. The brass piece laying next to it is called a matrix. It is one letter. I don't remember what I set this for. It says "...that you may have...
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    Obscure / Rare Technology you used.

    IBM Selectric. It's the one with the little ball that held all the characters. No carriage. The paper stayed still and the ball moved back and forth spinning around. You could change fonts in seconds by swapping out the ball. My receptionist typed all the invoices for our business on this...
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    Obscure / Rare Technology you used.

    Pioneer Laserdisc Player. Mine had a mechanism that rotated the head around the disc so you didn't have to flip the disc half way through the movie. I also bought a little board some guy made that you installed inside the unit to upgrade it to AC-3 or 5.1 Dolby Digital. Still have it in a box...
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    Obscure / Rare Technology you used.

    I had one of these. Don't remember where I got it from. Could have been Boy's Life or maybe the back of a cereal box. You used to have to send in box tops as proof of purchase. A baking soda powered submarine. You'd pull the top off the conning tower, put a teaspoon of baking soda in there...
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    Obscure / Rare Technology you used.

    To continue with old computers, as I said earlier, my first computer was a TRS-80 Model 1. Later, when I first had my business, I had a pair of TRS-80 Model 3s. Mine had two floppies. My wife did the books on one. I don't remember the software title but it was very good. If I remember, it was...
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    Obscure / Rare Technology you used.

    I had a Zip drive for my Amiga 1000.
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    Obscure / Rare Technology you used.

    My first computer was a TRS-80 Model 1. I had a cassette player for storage. The basic command to retrieve a file from it was "cload". The cassette tape, as you know is a miniature reel to reel tape. You have to go forward or backward to find the song or in this case, file you need. I upgraded...
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    Bluegrass Thread

    Not Bluegrass...more Old Timey. If you're not familiar with banjo playing, what she does is called "Clawhammer" or "Frailing". A little of her voice goes a long way but her playing is virtuoso.
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Clifford Clavin and Brenda Leigh Johnson's mom passed away at 93.
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    Napoleon (2023)

    I just saw this and it was terrible. Shitty acting and even worse screen play. Joaquin Phoenix was bored throughout the whole thing and they gave him stupidest lines to say. I think trying to condense Napolean's adult life into 2 hours was too much for the director and the screenwriter.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Why did they remove the rear sight from that rifle?
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    RIP Gemini 7 and Apollo 8 Commander
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    Home Improvement

    James Condon is one of my favorite YouTube channels.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Sailor missing at sea for 2 weeks found alive in life raft 70 miles off Washington coast That's just a great photograph. The subject, the framing, the exposure. It's just a great shot all around. It's crisp and sharp. Fuck, I'm blown away by how good it is.
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    What vehicle do you drive?

    It does look fun. I wonder what the payload is.
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    The Equalizer 3 (2023)

    Exactly. Really likable good guy kills off really unlikable bad guys in a beautiful setting.
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    Home Improvement

    I've always used Purdy brand. I buy a 2" angled brush. If you got to HD or Lowes they will carry them and the sleeve it comes in will tell what it's for.
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    TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023)

    I have an app for Cinemark theaters where I can purchase tickets for shows and reserve my seats. So I'm browsing to see what's showing and what's coming. TS's movie is coming 10/13 and will be on 12 screens. Most showings are around 80% full and tickets are almost $20. Crazy.
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    What vehicle do you drive?

    That cambering shit has got to be the dumbest thing you can do to a car.
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    Home Improvement

    This is pretty interesting.
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    What vehicle do you drive?

    Fuckin' noise pump.
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    Country Music Thread

    A tribute to Emmylou from the next generation.
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    TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023)

    You're going to have to add me to that group that couldn't pick out a Taylor Swift song from the cacophony that is radio today. It's a generational thing mostly. I can recognize the artists that I grew up with, but I've got a daughter that is older than TS is. My wife might know some of her work...
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    RIP Jimmy Buffett

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    The Equalizer 3 (2023)

    Saw this yesterday. It was OK, not great, maybe not as good as the first one, but it was OK. In many ways, I enjoyed it more than the latest John Wick movie. IMO, those movies border on the ridiculous. Maybe they're supposed to, but it doesn't work for me. I don't have a friend who couldn't win...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    AliExpress
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    What vehicle do you drive?

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    The Netflix Thread

    Canceled Netflix today. We just don’t watch it anymore. Too much crap. We watch Britbox or Acorn TV almost exclusively.