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Re: whatcha doing?

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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by Bigshankhank » Thu Aug 21, 2014 8:51 am

Eating this wierd taco-thing off the roach coach at work. Nothing but the best...
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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by Jaeger » Thu Aug 21, 2014 10:53 am

Had to put my cat Charlemagne down this morning.

Contemplating the cat-shaped hole in my heart. :(

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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by DerGolgo » Thu Aug 21, 2014 11:31 am

Putting down a pet is the shittiest. I've been there.
If there were absolutely anything to be afraid of, don't you think I would have worn pants?

I said I have a big stick.

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Post by Jaeger » Thu Aug 21, 2014 1:44 pm

DerGolgo wrote:Putting down a pet is the shittiest. I've been there.
Yep, it's sort've part of the package when you love a critter with a much shorter lifespan than you. This wasn't my first rodeo, but... godammnit, it's never easy, and this one was especially hard. Sorry you (Golgo) won't get to meet him.

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Post by guitargeek » Thu Aug 21, 2014 2:03 pm

Char was a great cat, and he will be missed.
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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by Pintgudge » Thu Aug 21, 2014 5:23 pm

Sorry.

I put down Calpurrnia about a year ago.

She was the best cat in the whole world.

Of course, they all are.
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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by 12ci » Thu Aug 21, 2014 7:49 pm

this makes me sad. sorry for your loss.

how'd the kids take it?
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Post by Jaeger » Fri Aug 22, 2014 6:43 am

12ci wrote:this makes me sad. sorry for your loss.

how'd the kids take it?
Kids are OK. They're still too young to really grok what happened.

And yeah, Pintgudge, they're all the best cats. Like the gal at the vet said, "I do this for a living so I know the deal, but I know when it's your own cat..."

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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by DerGolgo » Sat Aug 23, 2014 1:16 pm

Fucking Nazis won their court case, so they marched today.
That it was the day of a Christopher-Street-Day related event anyway was just a cherry on top for the fuckers.
Dortmund, a neighboring town, has for the last twenty years or so become comparatively friendly to the brown fucks. Not the Dortmund people, they are no more or less friendly than anyone else, but the Dortmund authorities.
So, it wasn't just today's CSD parade that made a detour, I did, also. Well, detour, spent over four damn hours hanging around there.
The pic doesn't show it, the cops had made sure that the bulk of people were kept a few hundred feet distant, but there were about 500 decent folk vs. 40 or so scum.
I think I might be in that picture, somewhere, but haven't found myself. If you notice anyone with a black hat and drab-green jacket, that's me.
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Nazis are on the bottom left, btw, the little white bubbles are cops in riot-gear, a fraction of decent people present are on the top right.
The Nazi scum are wearing a lot of yellow because a) it's the color of the local football team and b) they have therefore picked it as the color of their nationalist "city-guard", a pseudo-neighborhood watch intended to let them intimidate anyone they don't like so their penises feel bigger.

The fucking Nazis tried to do a lot of talking through their PA. As it turns out, a hundred or so people standing right in front of that PA and engaging in determined yelling are louder than such a PA.
Some of the things we yelled to shut 'em up. Translated from German, of course.
"Shust your mouth! Shut your mouth! Shut your mouth!"
"Alerta! Alerta! Antifacista!"
"All your kids are gonna become like us, gonna become like us, gonna become like us!"
"Give us the Nazis, we'll give them back - bit by bit by bit!"
"Close the abattoirs - eat more anti-semites!"
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Post by xtian » Sun Aug 24, 2014 8:14 am

well at least it's reassuring to see that there is a counter movement, unlike the indifferent racist joke passing every day here and there, and it's reassuring that really, that's more a small reunion than a protest, unlike the massive french right wings protest against gay marriage from last year.

What Am I doing ? taking an OFF sunday watching TV and drinking various beverages after a magnificent Saturday of endless PR and cock sucking where I managed to ride in hail storms for most of my 220 miles trip to come home around 1.30 am, go to 3 VIP parties and only drink 1 beer, and be in francorchamps on a F1 GP weekend and not even see the race track. My riding buddies must be riding around in circle somewhere.
I'm not really from around here.

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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by DerGolgo » Mon Sep 01, 2014 12:54 pm

Waiting for a friend of mine who, after being given a last, final extension (which he entirely deserved) on medical grounds for his master's thesis to, perhaps, crash here. Today is the last day he has to hand it in, 65 minutes to go as I type this. And, obviously, today would be the day the train-driver's union had a strike. That ended nearly two hours ago, but the rails are still in chaos, my friend has no car, and must get to one very specific mailbox at the university two towns over.
His bed is in a town that doesn't even have any train service at this sort of hour on normal days, so he'll need a crash-pad. But only if, once he has dropped his thesis through the slot no later than 11:59 PM, he can find a train to take him here.
There's a good chance he'll have to find a park-bench.
I'm quite tired but am now waiting for a phone call.

EDIT: late, late short messages. The trains that were supposed to run again didn't, so park bench it was.
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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by guitargeek » Tue Sep 02, 2014 8:59 am

Sucks for your friend, hope everything goes through for him!

I'm sipping coffee, eating pills, about to go get my monthly poisoning. :yuck:

Later: yayyyy...
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Later: best thing about today has been coming home to find a motorcycle part in the mailbox!
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xtian wrote:Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken

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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by goose » Tue Sep 02, 2014 3:15 pm

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slowly coming together. Wish I could remember where some of these brackets go. I'll just keep plugging away
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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by guitargeek » Tue Sep 02, 2014 3:19 pm

I like yours better.
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Post by Zim » Tue Sep 02, 2014 5:41 pm

I'm laughing at my feet.

"Fell asleep" in a recliner, and now I have red toenails on the right, green on the left. Sure, my girls transposed the colors, but I wasn't about to argue with the giggling that was going on.
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Post by Bo_9 » Wed Sep 03, 2014 4:31 am

goose wrote: Wish I could remember where some of these brackets go. I'll just keep plugging away
If you can't figure out where it goes it must no belong on there. Think of it as "adding lightness"...
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Post by Rench » Wed Sep 03, 2014 5:46 am

The only thing I require myself to find and correctly replace all the parts on is my brakes. And there's even debate in there.

Bo_9, my neighbor down the block is obsessed with old Brit cars. He's got some limited edition 60 or 70-something lotus he's always tinkering with, he makes that comment about everything. :mrgreen:

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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by Zim » Thu Sep 04, 2014 12:06 pm

We've done the impassible, and that makes us mighty.

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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by 12ci » Thu Sep 04, 2014 4:38 pm

Rench wrote: limited edition 60 or 70-something lotus

pretty much any lotus of that era would qualify as limited...they were (are) a very small manufacturer.


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i can't find any earlier numbers. the data must be out there, but my google-fu is weak
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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by goose » Thu Sep 04, 2014 6:40 pm

I helped rebuild a fiberglass bathtub (europa) back in the 80s. What an absolute pile of crap. Handled great, when it didn't break. Totally under engineered for the performance it wanted to have. Don't get me started about that Renault motor. Could have been a great lump. But, it wasn't.
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Post by Rench » Thu Sep 04, 2014 7:09 pm

I *believe* it was an Élan +2. I thought he said there's only 2 or 3 of them in the US, his was brought in from Canada. I don't remember it having back seats per se, but I know he went on at length that it was an unusual off shoot of another model that was slightly longer, and that seems to fit the bill. That and lots about adding lightness :mrgreen:

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Post by guitargeek » Thu Sep 04, 2014 7:28 pm

Wasn't the two seat version what Hamster drove in Top Gear's British Leyland episode?
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Post by guitargeek » Thu Sep 04, 2014 8:56 pm

Potty training my possum.
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Can't tell you how proud I am! Good boy, Pete Postlethwaite O'Possum!
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xtian wrote:Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken

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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by goose » Fri Sep 05, 2014 5:35 am

And, in today's episode of "Only In East Goatfuck" . . . .
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Post by xtian » Fri Sep 05, 2014 6:08 am

guitargeek wrote:Wasn't the two seat version what Hamster drove in Top Gear's British Leyland episode?
just to brag around, I think the elan that appeared in a british top gear challenge (but probably not the leyland one since lotus hasn't anything to do with it) was the terrible front wheel drive M100 elan from the 90's, when the elan + 2 was a more luxury extension of the original elan sportcar at the end of the 60's.
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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by Bo_9 » Fri Sep 05, 2014 6:39 am

guitargeek wrote:Potty training my possum.
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Can't tell you how proud I am! Good boy, Pete Postlethwaite O'Possum!
Oh dear. Fun times. We bottle raise a baby racoon when I was a kid. It was fun when it got big to let it out when the cousins were over since the first thing it did when you let it out was chase someone down and climb them like a tree. Was the only animal I've ever watched shuck corn...
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Post by DerGolgo » Mon Sep 08, 2014 10:34 pm

Not smoking.
I've spent a couple of weeks, over a month really, slowly reducing my nicotine intake, to make the e-cigarette less appealing.
I didn't cut out nicky entirely, I'm on the patch now and am seriously considering nicotine gum.
Last night, I went through the last of the last of the e-cigarette liquid I had. I shall buy no more.
I feel the urge, but so far, it's not as bad as I had expected. Not so much an urge, really, more the habit, I think.
Not trying to find a place to grab a smoke or to recharge the e-cigarette will make my travels ever so much easier, one hopes.
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Re: whatcha doing?

Post by guitargeek » Tue Sep 09, 2014 12:00 am

I just mowed my lawn by the light of the harvest moon.
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