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GM's Thread About Everything/GM's Thread About Nothing (31 Viewers)

Uruk-Hai said:
I know very few things well enough to feel confident in what I'm saying in regards to them. Boats are one of the few (I think Maryland tomatoes, steamed crabs, 70s funk, and how not to be in a marriage rounds out the list). Unless you run a successful charter business, there is no way to justify (from a cost standpoint) ever owning one. That doesn't mean owning one is a bad idea any more than having a 80" TV or a Jaguar is. But you'd better be prepared to continually lay out heavy cash to keep that tub running. Marine paint is insanely expensive, so is slip rent. Marine mechanics charge more than lawyers. And that's all assuming you're dealing with legit business people. 
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I love/hate my boat. 

 
-fish- said:
My boat is in rehab. 
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Almost died in a boat today.  I'm in a lake in Central Oregon, with my 4 kids my 2 bil's and 3 of their kids, fishing. This is my brother in law's boat. Few days prior his dad replaced the dash with all the wires. 

Thank God we used the trolling motor to get away from the boat ramp and into the center of the lake. After 3 hrs of fishing at anchor, my bil decides to fire up the main engine which is a 350 block, jet sled. He turns the ignition and the boat is full throttle almost immediately so slams it back into reverse and it's full throttle that way. There is no idle, and the throttle is not working. Meanwhile the boat is damn near sinking itself in reverse and when he finally gets it going forward again the bow heads down almost below the waterline. The boat is ####### possessed.

So I turn the ignition key off.  Nothing happens, boat still going full bore. Bil yells at kids, get up here by us. Yells at other bil in back of boat to open engine hatch and turn red switch to off. He can't find it so I run back to help, find it and turn it off. This is the battery switch. Engine still running! Wtf?  So I switch places and now I'm driving this ##### in circles as my bil is back by the engine. My bil finally pulled all the wires to the spark plugs and she dies .  All of that took about 45 seconds. 

Seemed like an hour

 
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Uruk-Hai said:
What the hell did he do? Were you ever able to tell?
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Didn't reconnect the throttle body correctly and miswired the ignition.

Recipe for disaster. If we had fired the engine up on the dock would have either run it up the ramp or into the rocks on shore.

 
Watched Creed last night.  Enjoyed parts of it, but why the hell did the big fight scene need to look like an XBox Boxing game?  So dumb.  Ruined it for me.  Just film the ####### movie...I'm not paying to see Call of Duty.

 
When i was a kid I thought i would enjoy the feeling of hiring someone to do work that i dont want to do, but it turns out i either feel lazy for not doing it myself or stupid for not being able to.  I dont know how to turn that off even though im perfectly capable of turning it off at work for people i manage.

 
I look at car and boat repairs the same.  If it's going to take longer than the time to drink a six pack, I'm taking it to a mechanic.

 
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General Malaise said:
Watched Creed last night.  Enjoyed parts of it, but why the hell did the big fight scene need to look like an XBox Boxing game?  So dumb.  Ruined it for me.  Just film the ####### movie...I'm not paying to see Call of Duty.
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Really? I thought it was pretty damned good. The video game-ing of the final fight didn't bother me, but then I have no taste whatsoever.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
Really? I thought it was pretty damned good. The video game-ing of the final fight didn't bother me, but then I have no taste whatsoever.
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It looked so ####### fake and digitalized that I almost turned it off.  I'd take Davy and Goliath claymation over this.  If this is the new direction of movies then I'm gladly out for good.

Boyhood....now that's a film.  Tell me a story.  Let me watch it.  I'm not into what a computer thinks things should look like.

I'm irrationally angry over this.

 
General Malaise said:
It looked so ####### fake and digitalized that I almost turned it off.  I'd take Davy and Goliath claymation over this.  If this is the new direction of movies then I'm gladly out for good.

Boyhood....now that's a film.  Tell me a story.  Let me watch it.  I'm not into what a computer thinks things should look like.

I'm irrationally angry over this.
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Racist.

 
bostonfred said:
When i was a kid I thought i would enjoy the feeling of hiring someone to do work that i dont want to do, but it turns out i either feel lazy for not doing it myself or stupid for not being able to.  I dont know how to turn that off even though im perfectly capable of turning it off at work for people i manage.
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Me, too.  I find I have to do everything correctly once or twice before I feel okay paying someone else to do it in the future.

 
General Malaise said:
It looked so ####### fake and digitalized that I almost turned it off.  I'd take Davy and Goliath claymation over this.  If this is the new direction of movies then I'm gladly out for good.

Boyhood....now that's a film.  Tell me a story.  Let me watch it.  I'm not into what a computer thinks things should look like.

I'm irrationally angry over this.
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Boyhood was dull as hell.  Not terrible but I have no intention of ever watching again.  And Patricia Arquette never once showed her yabbos.  Rip off.

 
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