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    Quality home appliances

    I bought a Toastmaster toaster at an Estate Sale a few years ago. It's a Toastmaster from the early 60s, a time when 'Made in the USA' meant it was the very best quality. We were just starting to import things like radios from Japan and their quality was suspect. Nothing was coming from China...
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    Tablets

    But you can make it larger
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    Home Improvement

    Is he licensed? If yes, you can get in touch with the State License Board. They'll straighten him out.
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    Home Improvement

    Ventless is easiest, you probably know, but they have some sophisticated electronics in them to keep them from killing you and those components are built in China by the lowest bidder. I wouldn't install one.
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    My new Dating Pool

    OK, I'm done with this thread.
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    Building a Treehouse

    That's Jack's sister. Family has money.
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Nah, it's not just you. I see it on every forum I frequent. That's why I think it might be some auto-complete feature or something similar. It grates. I love English.
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    This grammar error rustles my jimmies. I don't know if it's some feature of the device people are using to post with or laziness or some new edgy way to write, but is it so fucking hard to add the two little words "to be" to the sentence? There, I said it. I feel a little better and I hope...
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    My new Dating Pool

    I'll never buy a used car again.
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    WTF Story Thread?

    Wow, even all the Constitutional scholars in the cell with him thought it was nonsense.
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    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    I had no idea parachutes were that expensive.
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    You could fix that with a screwdriver in five minutes and live happily ever after.
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    Longmire

    I hope Netflix picks it up. I think they did a very decent job with the last season ofThe Killing.
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    The Last Ship

    I do love it. The only thing that could make it better was if it took place on the USS Ronald Reagan.
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    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    I didn't think it would work either, but it does and so I bought a desk model in "avocado" at an estate sale. It works also. I was using Quest and now I use Vonage. I bought a little device that you hold up to the mouthpiece. It has a keypad and it sounds the corresponding tones when you...
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    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    I put one in my kitchen, the wall mounted kind. Ergonomically, it is still the best with a real speaker for your ear and a real microphone to speak into and a real handle between the two. Very comfortable and it sounds good. Pressing "1" for English is a problem.
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    The Video Thread

    What's with all the pop-ups that cover the video image? Can I prevent them or is it how youtube works these days?
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    Longmire

    I love a good western and Longmire is a good western.
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    Motorcycle Thread

    I'm a shitty rider. Sure, I've taken the courses, read the books; hell I even practice things like panic stops and swerving. Technically, I'm good. Practically, I suck because speed, acceleration and deceleration make me high and the euphoria makes me dangerous to myself if not others. So when...
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    Motorcycle Thread

    Each one of us has to decide for ourselves which risks are acceptable and which are not.
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    Hell on Wheels

    Trivia-The character Eva is based on the real life Olive Oatman. Here's some pictures I took last month in Oatman, AZ, a town named after her. The place is overrun with wild burro.
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    Motorcycle Thread

    Thanks. I've been too busy to ride much this summer but if I had your bike, I'd find time.
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    Motorcycle Thread

    . Double post
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    Motorcycle Thread

    Mine's 27.
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    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    My Epson did the same but some how I convinced to play. Printed like shit. Not sure if it was fuckin' with me or the Costco refills were crap.
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    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    Wooden cutting boards are breeding grounds for all sorts of nasty shit, not to mention the cross-contamination that occurs by using the same board to cut everything. Use plastic. You can buy lots of them and sterilize them in the dishwasher.
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    The Video Thread

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    First World Problems

    Costco. $20.
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    4th of July

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    First World Problems

    The bed in my RV is hard to make.
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    Home Improvement

    Before you do any cutting, get a roll of painter's plastic and seal that room off. Cover doorways, walls windows, in fact, cover everything with a layer of plastic. You're going to make a lot of very fine dust and you need to confine it. Get a respirator, too, not just one of those paper mask...
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    The Animated GIF Thread

    For the same reason we have HOV lanes; to encourage people to stop causing gridlock by riding one-up in a car. Put 2 or 3 people in a car and you get to go to the front of the line in the HOV lane. Buy a bike and create less pollution and congestion per person, and you can go to the front of the...
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    The Animated GIF Thread

    It is legal but I never did it when I lived in CA because some people, like the guy in that vid, just can't stand the idea of you moving while he's stuck going nowhere in traffic.
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    is there such thing as an air conditioner that doesn't need to vent?

    Yeah, because right now the outside humidity is 6%. Inside with the swamp cooler running it's 65% and 20 degrees cooler. The furniture, the doors, my skin, my instruments, etc are all happier.
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    Home Improvement

    I think it's really hard to say. Here in AZ our water is very hard but I don't have a water softener and both my electric water heaters are over 15 years old. My friend with soft water goes through one every 6 years. His is gas.
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    Home Improvement

    You know you might have to up size the gas line feeding that WH.
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    Smartwatches / Fitness Trackers

    I've been using this site https://www.healthvault.com/us/en to track fitness and health things. This is where I first learned about fitness trackers. I enter the info manually for now but things like lab results and info from my blood pressure monitor are automatically uploaded and the...
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    Home Workout Equipment

    I would think you could get a whole Bowflex machine off Craigslist for the price of a set of those dumbbells, but maybe those machines aren't any good at any price. I really don't know much about them except that I've seen various used ones for sale.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Here in AZ, a ton of women is 4.