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  1. BrutulTM

    The Prepper Thread

    That is an outrageous price for a 200 watt solar panel. Check Ebay. I think you should be able to get that for under $200. Maybe under $100.
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    Toastmasters

    I haven't been to an actual toastmasters club, but I had a speech class in college that was done in the format of toastmasters and I it was really fun. Kind of made me want to join a club although I never did.
  3. BrutulTM

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    There's no need for sous vide if you actually know how to cook.
  4. BrutulTM

    Westworld

    They probably saw this video and thought "That guy is a movie star!".
  5. BrutulTM

    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    Sounds interesting but I wonder how much difference it will make. The 6 seed very rarely goes anywhere in the playoffs and presumably the 7 seed will do even worse but I guess it will give good teams that are in a tough division a better chance to get in.
  6. BrutulTM

    Home Improvement

    Depending on what screen door you have they're usually just a couple hundred bucks and you can easily replace it yourself if you're not totally hopeless working with your hands. I don't think I'd get insurance involved.
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    I am being given a business

    That is one downside of small business. You don't *have* to work all the time, but when you don't know what the next month is going to bring it's hard to say no to anything.
  8. BrutulTM

    Better Call Saul

    My money is on the latter.
  9. BrutulTM

    I am being given a business

    It sounds like there's not much capital involved in this business. What you're getting is mostly just the name and the reputation/connections as well as training from the guy? That definitely makes it lower risk. With a farm or ranch there's a multi-million dollar piece of property involved...
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    I am being given a business

    Whether this goes good or bad is all about your relationship with the guy. This happens with farms and ranches sometimes where a guy is getting old and doesn't have kids or his kids don't want to be farmers so he takes some young couple under his wing and promises to give them the ranch when...
  11. BrutulTM

    Home buying thread

    People are currently bitching about their neighbors! Local news is on the case!
  12. BrutulTM

    The Astronomy Thread

    Is this the 4th launch? So there will be 240 up there? I heard they're thinking of doing an IPO on starlink. It would be tempting to put a grand or two into them just in case they change the world. It's hard to see how it won't be transformational tech if it works and they have a huge...
  13. BrutulTM

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    https://amazingribs.com/tested-recipes/spice-rubs-and-pastes/meatheads-memphis-dust-rub-recipe The nice thing about doing it yourself is you can leave the salt out so you can salt the meat in advance and then put the rub on when you're ready to cook. I had to get the rosemary and ginger powder...
  14. BrutulTM

    The Prepper Thread

    I love my Mini-14 ranch rifle. Be sure to get one that can handle 5.56 because some can't. Cheap, reliable, and you don't look exactly like everyone else with an AR.
  15. BrutulTM

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    "Good" and "ground meat jerky" are antonyms in my opinion. Make some burgers and then slice some meat for jerky.
  16. BrutulTM

    Home Improvement

    Being hot water won't help you with freezing. It's only hot for about 15 minutes after you run some hot water unless you have one of those circulator pumps. I doubt it will be a problem but if you're worried about it put that foam that Lanx linked over it.
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    Home Improvement

    And did a shit job of soldering it too. I think cutting all that out and replacing it with pex and a couple shark bite connectors is a great idea.
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    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    Seems like the days of sports stars and rock stars just fucking random chicks every night might be over. Women with no shame + Social Media = No more fun
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    The Fast Food Thread

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    The Fast Food Thread

    Multiple people have done this, and none of them had results like Spurlock's. It was bullshit. People talk about "fast food" as if it's a type of food and not a type of restaurant. The food is bread/meat/cheese/veggies just like every other restaurant. It's not a particularly healthy diet...
  21. BrutulTM

    The Fast Food Thread

    Haven't seen the doc but the chicken processors do have the farmers under their thumb in a big way. It's looked at as a cautionary tale for those of us in the beef industry all the time. Tyson or whoever provides the chicks, and tells the farmer what to feed, how to take care of them, when to...
  22. BrutulTM

    The Fast Food Thread

    Every part of agriculture deals with this narrative all the time. "Activists" from big cities doing exposés where they tell somewhere between massive exaggerations and just outright lies about what goes on with the food supply. We have the safest, most reliable food system in the history of...
  23. BrutulTM

    The Fast Food Thread

    I'm not a regular nugget eater, but at least a couple times a year I'll get a 20 piece and pound it in the car. I like strips too, but almost never go for a chicken sandwich. When I finish one I always think "That could have been a burger".
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    2020 Academy Awards - No Willem Dafoe The Lighthouse nom

    For the most part, I find that there are plenty of movies to watch that are in english already so you can avoid both subtitles and dubbing which both suck. The only movie that I can think of that I really loved that wasn't in english was Pan's Labyrinth.
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    2020 Academy Awards - No Willem Dafoe The Lighthouse nom

    Brokeback Mountain and Capote were much better than Crash. Don't think I saw the other two.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Grant wouldn't lie to us.
  27. BrutulTM

    Home Improvement

    Well I don't have a second story so there's no plumbing in my ceiling. And in the basement I have that convenient drop ceiling so I can access it any time. I do know a couple of people who have done the falling through from the attic trick.
  28. BrutulTM

    Home Improvement

    Why are you patching the ceiling?
  29. BrutulTM

    The Young Pope

    I made it halfway through episode 2 and gave up. I appreciate the show, but I just don't want to watch it anymore.
  30. BrutulTM

    Home Improvement

    My girlfriends uncle who is a retired sheetrock guy came down and helped me with the house this weekend. In 3 days we patched up the kitchen ceiling where I tore out the soffits around the top of the cabinets, put a nice knock down texture on the ceiling in the entire upstairs, patched 4 holes...
  31. BrutulTM

    Home Theater/Game Room Thread

    It's better than 10 years ago but it's still pretty shitty. I have Viasat now but I've been on Hughes net off and on. Right now I have a 35gb soft cap. When I'm under the cap I can stream video in relatively low resolution. It tops out around 18 mbps. Once I'm over the cap I can't stream...
  32. BrutulTM

    The Fast Food Thread

    First time eating a hamburger? This is a strange post.
  33. BrutulTM

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    He confirmed that they had weird animals? WTF does that mean? Tyson slaughters and processes like 20% of the meat in the US but I don't think they actually raise any animals themselves.
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    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    I was just watching the bad lip reading video from 2016 and think "Jesus, half of these people aren't in the league anymore."
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    Home Theater/Game Room Thread

    Yeah, it might be different if I actually had broadband internet. When you're on satellite internet, buying a bluray is the only way to watch a movie on demand with decent resolution. I still think ripping blu rays is more trouble than it's worth though. Not that hard to just stick the disk...