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    The Netflix Thread

    I've tried watching that twice now and it freezes 6 min in and if I fast forward past that point I get a black screen with dialog. OH, well This History of Future Folk is a very enjoyable movie with good tunes.
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    Home Improvement

    Yup. Get a quote for tying your house to the gas line. In my neighborhood, if you had 3 NG appliances, they would hook you up to a meter on the side of your house. The rest was up to you, but a lot of that work is easy for an experienced plumber. Unfortunately for me, NG stops 2 blocks away so...
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    Home Improvement

    I'm guessing that AC system you installed is really a heat pump. Run it one direction, it's an AC. Run the other direction, it creates heat. I'm also assuming a heat pump is news to you. If not, ignore this, but there are a couple of points to know about heat pumps. 1) Don't turn them on and...
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    Home Improvement

    Put a couple of tablespoons of olive/cooking oil down the drain after you fill the trap with water the next time. It will float on the water and prevent evaporation.
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    Post Your Pet

    This was Marsh. Best cat ever.
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    Tablets

    Does that thing come with an Apple OS? I need an iPad, but I want it cheap. edit:Never mind. More research told me it won't run IOS.
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    WTF Story Thread?

    Squeal Like a Pig A pig brothel?
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    Tablets

    Any updates on how this thing is working for you?
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    Joe Cocker dead at 70

    RIP Joe.
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    Spectre (2015)

    There's a great 4 part series on Netfix about Ian Fleming/James Bond http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2647420/
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Blackface

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    HDTVs

    Why don't you buy a TV you can afford and gift it to your BIL for his generous hospitality?
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    It's Netsmas Time Again! Post For Free +Nets

    OK, I'm retarded. I can't figure out how to net somebody. I click the little star icon at the bottom of the post but nothing happens. So what I want for Netmas is some help. Edit:Got it-Thanks
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    Remote Car Starters

    I had one in a Ford Focus. It was a Code Alarm brand installed before I bought the car. I really liked the remote start aspect on cold mornings provided I set the HVAC controls properly the night before. But the alarm part of the system sucked. It didn't play well with the dimming dome light and...
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    Washer and Dryer

    Using regular Clorox bleach, and a lot of it, is how the manual says to do the monthly "Clean" cycle on our Kenmore front loader. Maybe different brands have different specs. I dunno.i
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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