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    What vehicle do you drive?

    Same here. I have one under the rear seat in my PU. In AZ, car fires are frequent. Usually cars overheat and tranny fluid pukes out of the dip stick and onto the exhaust manifold. I almost got the chance to use mine when the truck behind me burst into flames but by the time I stopped and ran...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    But how is that ethical? You know what? Never mind. I don’t fucking care.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I still don’t know what that means.
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    The Equalizer 3 (2023)

    Found it at Walmart for <$10.
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    The Video Thread

    Well, at least it was qui
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    The Equalizer 3 (2023)

    I don’t remember the first two and I’ve been trying to find them to watch for free. I like Denzel Washington and I’m looking forward to this.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    That was my mom's dream car. I think mostly because it had an Italian name and she was fresh off the boat Italian. By the time I was successful enough to buy her one, she had put a restraining order on me. It's a long story. This was her first new car. A 1968 Toyota Corona. Not hers but the...
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    You know you're getting old when.....

    The first place to check when looking for your glasses will be your head.
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    What vehicle do you drive?

    Just drove to CA from ID and back in my base Hyundai Accent 5sp, around 1200 miles. Got over 50 mpg and stopped for fuel one time each way. Fueling took 15 minutes including the bathroom break. The car was under $20k new. Why would I ever want an EV?
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    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    Gotta be better than this version
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    High density is just about all they build in Idaho.
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    What vehicle do you drive?

    Now don't laugh. I went through the same thing. My bike, a K75, was just too big for just tooling around town or for just going out for a short ride. This is what I bought about 3 years ago. It's a 2006 Kymco Grand Vista (Grand Dink in every other country) 250. Cost less than $2k and it's a...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Was in Lowes this morning to get some lawn sprinkler parts. They were setting up Halloween shit. Half way into July and they’re selling end of October stuff. Some guy behind me at the self serve (no cashiers anywhere) had 2 stupid blowup Halloween things totaling over $750.
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    The Video Thread

    I call bullshit. Those are saltwater fish.
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    The Video Thread

    So sad. I have good memories of Jack Hanna.
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    Indiana Jones 5 (2020)

    I saw this today. I didn’t mind it. 4 out of 5. All the actors know they are old and make jokes about it. They’re not like Tom Cruise who never gets old. Indy is still white. Arabs are Arab colored. Greeks aren’t black and neither are Nazies. Popcorn was good, too.
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    So My Wife Died...

    What a remarkable woman.
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    I used to be able to just click a Twitter embed in a thread on this site and be taken to Twitter to read the tweet and replies. Now I get blocked because I don’t have a Twitter account.
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    What tickles your pickle

    Wife and I went bowling today. Actually, we go twice a week cuz the local center has a summer deal where you can bowl 3 games any day, any time for around 3 months for a onetime fee of $50 per family. This was our second game. She's was killin' me. I staged a comeback but it wasn't enough.
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    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    The organization is called the GPAA, Gold Prospectors Association of America. They have local chapters.
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    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    My wife and I are members of a local chapter of a gold prospectors organization and once a month they have an outing, some of which are overnight. I have an RV but it would never make it to the locations of the claims which are very remote and involve trails that require 4WD. I bought a tent...
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    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1605783/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk 9/10. I really like this movie. I like how the music evokes the period and how the cinematography sometimes looks like a French painting. Excellent writing (won an Oscar for sceenplay). Just thoroughly enjoyable. In my top 10.
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    Home Improvement

    My house in AZ had a very severe crack in the slab. I ended up putting laminate flooring in that room. The size and slope of the crack exceeded what the specs for the laminate said was acceptable, but I did it anyway and never had any issues. I would imagine modern luxury vinyl is even more...
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    Home Improvement

    Tile on a cracked concrete slab is done every day. Every house I worked on in AZ was built on a slab and if the concrete wasn't cracked by the time we got to it, it would be soon. There are techniques and materials designed to prevent the moving slab from cracking the tile on top of it. The most...
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    What vehicle do you drive?

    I did at first. If you look at the "before" picture, the PO had painted the rear bumper black after putting a huge crack in it and doing a shitty repair to it. It just looked too dark with the car being a dark blue to begin with. I tried to mimic the factory look of lighter colored trim pieces...
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    What vehicle do you drive?

    Removed the cladding and bumpers. Stapled and plastic welded the cracks and painted everything with Durabak bedliner in sand color. Put it all back together with new fasteners. New tires, struts, shocks and 1" lift.
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    Home Improvement

    I looked into replacing my AC two years ago. We're talking AC, furnace and air handler and my quote was twice that. I don't remember the tonnage or seer but it was close to yours. Get another estimate or two. Maybe prices are different in Phoenix, where I assume you are, than in ID. 8 years ago...
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    You know you're getting old when.....

    Only it's not. Cheers debuts in 1982, 37 years after the end of WW2 in 1945, and went off the air in 1993, 30 years ago.
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    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780571/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk 7/10. I always thought Kevin Costner was not much of an actor but he's not bad in this. William Hurt is much better. Remember when Marg Helgenberger was a thing? Anyway, an entertaining, creepy film.
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    The Video Thread

    Slap my ass and pin a tail on me. I'm a pony, too.
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    What vehicle do you drive?

    Just picked this up. 1997 Suzuki JX Sport. Mechanically pretty sound but needs some help cosmetically. Bought it primarily to tow behind my RV but the 4wd will be fun when my wife and I go shooting or prospecting. More economical and handier than my pickup. Going to bedliner the bumpers and...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    My wife has good form.
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    What tickles your pickle

    Finally warm enough in ID to spend a while at the range today. Shot some pistols and muzzleloaders. Mined about 10lbs of lead from the berms. Here’s my wife shooting at a gong at about 75 yards.
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    The Video Thread

    I've done the paper/cardboard method a lot with small masonry nails.
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    The Video Thread

    One of the favorite movies we saw in grade school growing up was "Hemo the Magnificent", a film by Frank Capra. The soundtrack was Beethoven's 3rd symphony.
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    Home Improvement

    I'll never tell.
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    Home Improvement

    yes
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    Home Improvement

    Sometimes you're stuck with what somebody before you has done, but ideally, the transition from one floor to another when entering a room with a door, should happen under the door so that with the door closed, you will only see one floor or the other.
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    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    12 Monkeys Sci-Fi film directed by Terry Gilliam. Stars Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe and Brad Pitt, who turns in an amazing performance. Timely epidemic subject matter. Kinda sad at the end. The last time I saw this was 2008. It has aged very well and was still engrossing. A good story well told.