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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.
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    You know you're getting old when.....

    Julian Lennon is 60.
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Everywhere I go, men age 20-30 are fags or at best effeminate. There is nothing masculine about how they carry themselves, the clothes they wear, their voices, their mannerisms, their haircuts. It’s gross.
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    The Video Thread

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    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    Seabiscuit A really well-done feel-good movie. 10/10. Beautifully photographed, beautifully told and if you've got some good subwoofers, the sound of the horses' hooves as they race is tremendous.
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    Home Improvement

    Have you looked into figuring out how to drain the place? Without seeing it, I would think someone with machine could build a crown down the middle of the range like you would do with a road, and then put gutters on both sides to carry away the water.
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    John Wick: Chapter 4 (2022)

    3 hours? That's a fuck ton of popcorn. But I can do it.
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    The Video Thread

    We did this as kids in the first or second grade. Our teacher put the cream in a ball jar and we sat on the floor in a circle and took turns shaking the jar until it turned into butter. She spread it on saltines for us to eat.
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    The Video Thread

    Most likely pallets.
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    Bruce Willis retires

    Meh, so does Biden and he acts like he's President, although poorly.
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    FDA Says No Link Between Taco Bell And Diarrhea, Declares Food 'Safe And Effective'
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    This is Idaho. Now it is legal to get a driver's license if you are a permanent resident of the state; that is, not a US citizen. That has been the case for years here. What is new is that you can now identify yourself as a citizen. Why is that? IDK, it just rubbed me the wrong way. There's a...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Go to the DMV to renew my driver's license. The lady helping me, a sheriff's deputy, asks me if I want to designate on my new license that I am an American citizen. I asked her back, why would there be any question whether I was or not since to the best of my knowledge, only American citizens...
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    The Video Thread

    I agree. It was fast, but it wasn't musical. As a violinist myself, I can tell you the hardest pieces to play are not always the fastest ones. Making music is more difficult than dazzling audiences with pyrotechnics. TL,DR start around the 8 min mark
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    The Video Thread

    Now listen to how it was originally written
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    Online Backup

    Thanks for that. Turns out I can get 5tb for about $100 locally and they all seem to come with backup software. Perfect for my needs.
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    Online Backup

    My laptop is getting wonky. I'd like to back it up, preferably online so that when it fails to light, I can get a new one and download my stuff on to it. Anyone have any recommendations on whose services I should use? It's an HP running Windows.
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    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    True Grit 10/10 I like westerns and this is a good 'un. Well acted, well written, well directed and photographed. Not overly dark, it has some lighter moments . I believe I will commence speaking as they did back then and will use no contractions in my speech
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    La Lollobrigida. RIP
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    What tickles your pickle

    My truck started to idle poorly. Every time the A/C compressor kicked in it would stumble almost to the point of dying. For 2 days, whenever I came to a stop I would shift into neutral, turn off the climate control and feather the gas pedal to keep it running. I'm thinking the worst because it...
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    Social Security - Or How How to Theorycraft Retirement Like a Raider

    I started taking at 62 because my clan are burn outs. My dad died when he was 55 and so did my sister. At 62 I felt I was on borrowed time, no way was I going to make it to 67.
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    You know you're getting old when.....

    A tap is how it will happen, too, cuz I'm a little hard of hearing.
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    You know you're getting old when.....

    My most recent AAA card My mom enrolled me when I left for college.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics