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El Floppo said:
Action Bronson also stars in "f-ck, thats delicious" on viceland. Viceland has some interesting programming outside of the stoner stuff... black market dispatches, hosted by Omar from the wire does some amazing and mostly subjective documenting of illegal situations and the people in them. Recommend.
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I don't really like "F That's Delicious" much at all.  It was good for a couple of episodes, but it's just 3 fat guys going around and eating stuff.  Sure, lots of culinary shows are similar, but even the other two on Vice do a better job explaining what they are actually eating than those 3 idiots.  Huang's World is probably the best, but I've always enjoyed watching Matty Matheson (forgot his show's name) do instructional cooking episodes and shorts.

I like Vice better for their Vice Essentials programming.  I could do away with half the shows, but they're just trying to build up a line-up, I guess.

 
mr. furley said:
narwhal skin but with some off-brand treatment apparently
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My cousin used to detail cars.  He tells me that if a single drop of water is leaving a mark on cloth upholstery it probably isn't a stain.  It's actually just cleaning off some of the built up dirt that's already on the seat.  So, you may just need to get all the upholstery legitimately cleaned, preferably by someone using an "extractor"(whatever that is). I assume it's something that sucks the crap they use to clean out of the fabric so it doesn't attract more crap.

 
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jplvr said:
I don't really like "F That's Delicious" much at all.  It was good for a couple of episodes, but it's just 3 fat guys going around and eating stuff.  Sure, lots of culinary shows are similar, but even the other two on Vice do a better job explaining what they are actually eating than those 3 idiots.  Huang's World is probably the best, but I've always enjoyed watching Matty Matheson (forgot his show's name) do instructional cooking episodes and shorts.

I like Vice better for their Vice Essentials programming.  I could do away with half the shows, but they're just trying to build up a line-up, I guess.
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yeah- tbh, I "get" action bronson's shows, but I've just spent enough time hanging around stoned people for it have lost its luster. agree that Vice's documentary programming is the more compelling and interesting- they get into stuff nobody else is looking at. they have this side of programming where they seem to want an immediate appeal to millenials with known quantities/"stars"- action bronson, some chefs, that skateboard guy.. that I find less interesting. although-  the skateboard guy finding abandoned properties throughout america does start to get into more interesting economic themes about how we build/use/abandon these places. him skateboarding around them seems superfluous... but whatever.

 
mr. furley said:
impossible to control for all factors

opening my door in the rain leads to drops on the seats = stain
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Take it to one of those do it yourself car washes that has a shampoo brush, and scrub the ever loving crap out of it.  Then vacuum it.  I'd try that before paying someone else.

 
El Floppo said:
yeah- tbh, I "get" action bronson's shows, but I've just spent enough time hanging around stoned people for it have lost its luster. agree that Vice's documentary programming is the more compelling and interesting- they get into stuff nobody else is looking at. they have this side of programming where they seem to want an immediate appeal to millenials with known quantities/"stars"- action bronson, some chefs, that skateboard guy.. that I find less interesting. although-  the skateboard guy finding abandoned properties throughout america does start to get into more interesting economic themes about how we build/use/abandon these places. him skateboarding around them seems superfluous... but whatever.
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I have liked the episodes I've seen with the skater, but I haven't added it to the DVR.  Driving around very rural parts of Alabama the past 20 years, I've seen some places where I just wonder why there was ever any semblance of a town there.  Watching that show has the same feel for me, except this guy is getting answers as to why everyone disappeared.

I've lost myself in this and other websites like it in the past:  http://leftbirmingham.blogspot.com/

 
mr. furley said:
car upholstery guys:   what the #### do i do about water staining my car seats? my car looks like someone dumped a bar ashtray full of tobacco and beer all over the seats. and it's just from random things like setting a sweaty bottle of water/juice/milk on the seats... or sitting down on the seat with swim shorts before realizing that water would utterly ruin the color.

forget my kids climbing on them with wet shoes, etc.  

i've tried Resolve upholstery cleaner, which was recommended by Hyundai guy.... and that just left a big stain.
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No sense in trying to keep your upholstery clean when you have kids.  

 
Watched The Visit on the plane. Even though I knew what was going to happen since I read the spoilers.  It definitely had some creepy moments and would have had some people jumping in the theater at times.  I thought the part about the kid finally knowing how to tackle after talking about it earlier was too much like in Signs where the brother swings the bat at the water.  Also didn't see M Night in this one; I thought he always appeared in his movies. Anyway, 5 out of 5 stars. Slotted between "deadpool" and the one about the thing.  

 
mr. furley said:
car upholstery guys:   what the #### do i do about water staining my car seats? my car looks like someone dumped a bar ashtray full of tobacco and beer all over the seats. and it's just from random things like setting a sweaty bottle of water/juice/milk on the seats... or sitting down on the seat with swim shorts before realizing that water would utterly ruin the color.

forget my kids climbing on them with wet shoes, etc.  

i've tried Resolve upholstery cleaner, which was recommended by Hyundai guy.... and that just left a big stain.
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Try Brake Cleaner found at any auto store or walmart.

 
mr. furley said:
car upholstery guys:   what the #### do i do about water staining my car seats? my car looks like someone dumped a bar ashtray full of tobacco and beer all over the seats. and it's just from random things like setting a sweaty bottle of water/juice/milk on the seats... or sitting down on the seat with swim shorts before realizing that water would utterly ruin the color.

forget my kids climbing on them with wet shoes, etc.  

i've tried Resolve upholstery cleaner, which was recommended by Hyundai guy.... and that just left a big stain.
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Have you thought about seat covers?  They make some nice ones these days.  You don't have to be like me and get them in camo.

 
jplvr said:
Have you thought about seat covers?  They make some nice ones these days.  You don't have to be like me and get them in camo.
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yeah, i'd bought cheap ones from Auto Zone a couple months back but they didn't fit.  shelved the idea of getting new ones until the frustration/embarrassment built up again.  looks like custom ones run anywhere from $120 - $275 online.

seriously, the #### looks like a homeless person slept on my seats for a month without waking up

eta: i should add that i don't do anything that drags dirt in. aside from my kids Rick Jamesing the backseats (which are mostly covered by car seats) the only way the front buckets get stained is via water but you'd think i slaughtered a vagrant in there.

 
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mr. furley said:
yeah, i'd bought cheap ones from Auto Zone a couple months back but they didn't fit.  shelved the idea of getting new ones until the frustration/embarrassment built up again.  looks like custom ones run anywhere from $120 - $275 online.

seriously, the #### looks like a homeless person slept on my seats for a month without waking up
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Uni?

 
He used to be a chef. Then he became a NY underground rapper, with lots of acclaim. And he smokes weed like most people drink water

 
General Malaise said:
Just got done with Last Chance U.  Now THAT'S a show.
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I just finished it and honestly it mostly made me crazy.  This Buddy Stephens character is kind of a scumbag.  I can't tell if that's what the filmmakers want you to think or not, but either way from about the middle of the second episode on, I was so pissed off with him and this school.  All of this big talk about redemption and giving kids a chance to succeed, when all he cares about is his own self-aggrandizement.  He's a ####### loudmouth, hothead and he wonders why his team gets into a brawl.  And then he has the nerve to yell at them for being thugs.  I guess I give him minor credit for at least coming back and letting them off the hook, but he needed to go further and admit his mistakes.  There is no doubt that Mississippi Delta had a bunch of classless pieces of #### running things over there, but EMCC really had something to lose and Stephens didn't serve the kids well for most of the year.

Ms. Wagner obviously cared about the kids and I did kind of think that she was largely coddling them for a lot of the time, but in the end it did seem like some of them got their #### together somewhat.  But ultimately I couldn't stop thinking about about how badly she needed to get laid.  I mean seriously this broad was in need of a release.  I swear, if some dude was just kind of nice to her and made her feel special, the floodgates would open  and she would probably be totally wild.
 
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I received some exciting news today that relates to my ambiguous "bad decisioning" post from a year ago.  Maybe some time in the future I will tell the entire story.  Perhaps. Maybe. Just know for now I'm getting drunk in a pub just off Times Square with a smile on my face. 

 
Oh and Lawrence Taylor was at the same whiskey bar as me and my boss and we chatted a bit. Not as big as I was expecting to be as awesome as he was. 

 
The only other time in my life I have been as miserable as I am right now is when I was in the darkest days of end of my first marriage.

I am basically estranged from my oldest son, who is 16, and there isn't anything that I can seem to do to change that. And he won't give me an explanation.

I HATE my job and, in particular, my senior partner/boss and am absolutely trapped in it. I once had a promising career. Now I make a fraction of the money I used to and am stuck working for an absolute idiot.

The above two circumstances cause plenty of stress with me and Wife 2.0. And now she is super pissed because I fell off the no dipping wagon for the 35th time and got caught, after having promised not to do it again (or lie about it) a dozen times before. I've apologized but she is still steamed, and has a right to be. But I am having trouble caring.

Oh, and we are buying a house, selling a house and remodeling a house. Maybe. If we can get this damn house sold. 

My mom is undergoing radiation treatment for lung cancer this week and it doesn't even make my top four or five things that are bothering me. That makes me feel like a self-centered ##### too. 

 
RedmondLonghorn said:
The only other time in my life I have been as miserable as I am right now is when I was in the darkest days of end of my first marriage.

I am basically estranged from my oldest son, who is 16, and there isn't anything that I can seem to do to change that. And he won't give me an explanation.

I HATE my job and, in particular, my senior partner/boss and am absolutely trapped in it. I once had a promising career. Now I make a fraction of the money I used to and am stuck working for an absolute idiot.

The above two circumstances cause plenty of stress with me and Wife 2.0. And now she is super pissed because I fell off the no dipping wagon for the 35th time and got caught, after having promised not to do it again (or lie about it) a dozen times before. I've apologized but she is still steamed, and has a right to be. But I am having trouble caring.

Oh, and we are buying a house, selling a house and remodeling a house. Maybe. If we can get this damn house sold. 

My mom is undergoing radiation treatment for lung cancer this week and it doesn't even make my top four or five things that are bothering me. That makes me feel like a self-centered ##### too. 
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Sucks.  Sucks. Been there, recently in my own way as chronicled here.  You didn't ask for advice but I'll give a little of what helped me:

- wake up tomorrow and be grateful for what is good.  In my dark days I wrote down ten things every morning that I was thankful for.  Made it a habit 

- pay someone a compliment every day.  An honest compliment.  I don't believe in karma and ####, but I believe we respond to the world around us.  Paying compliments makes the people you are around happier which improves the world you are in. 

- be patient with others. This quote literally changed my world view "be patient.  You have no idea at all what battles other people are fighting, but they feel as real to them as yours do to you."

- improve. Every day find one problem in your life and make it a little better.  Spend time on your resume. Call your son and leave a heartfelt voice mail. Try to avoid dipping. Do something, anything that makes today a step forward from yesterday. 

- remember that life is short but it's also long.  You get ONE trip around the stars.  7 months ago I dropped a hand grenade on a perfect family because the forest needed to be burnt down for everyone to grow stronger. Make the most of your time here, do what you should and what you want. Because you aren't getting out of it alive and neither is anyone else.  #### your boss. #### your job.  Grab your balls and get to work living YOUR life. 

 
RedmondLonghorn said:
The only other time in my life I have been as miserable as I am right now is when I was in the darkest days of end of my first marriage.

I am basically estranged from my oldest son, who is 16, and there isn't anything that I can seem to do to change that. And he won't give me an explanation.

I HATE my job and, in particular, my senior partner/boss and am absolutely trapped in it. I once had a promising career. Now I make a fraction of the money I used to and am stuck working for an absolute idiot.

The above two circumstances cause plenty of stress with me and Wife 2.0. And now she is super pissed because I fell off the no dipping wagon for the 35th time and got caught, after having promised not to do it again (or lie about it) a dozen times before. I've apologized but she is still steamed, and has a right to be. But I am having trouble caring.

Oh, and we are buying a house, selling a house and remodeling a house. Maybe. If we can get this damn house sold. 

My mom is undergoing radiation treatment for lung cancer this week and it doesn't even make my top four or five things that are bothering me. That makes me feel like a self-centered ##### too. 
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I'm so sorry, GB.  Wish I could offer any help at all - if there's anything I can do, let me know.  You know I love Wife 2.0; you guys will get through it.

Might help if I took Riggins off your hands for a while, just to reduce stress.

 
Abraham said:
Sucks.  Sucks. Been there, recently in my own way as chronicled here.  You didn't ask for advice but I'll give a little of what helped me:

- wake up tomorrow and be grateful for what is good.  In my dark days I wrote down ten things every morning that I was thankful for.  Made it a habit 

- pay someone a compliment every day.  An honest compliment.  I don't believe in karma and ####, but I believe we respond to the world around us.  Paying compliments makes the people you are around happier which improves the world you are in. 

- be patient with others. This quote literally changed my world view "be patient.  You have no idea at all what battles other people are fighting, but they feel as real to them as yours do to you."

- improve. Every day find one problem in your life and make it a little better.  Spend time on your resume. Call your son and leave a heartfelt voice mail. Try to avoid dipping. Do something, anything that makes today a step forward from yesterday. 

- remember that life is short but it's also long.  You get ONE trip around the stars.  7 months ago I dropped a hand grenade on a perfect family because the forest needed to be burnt down for everyone to grow stronger. Make the most of your time here, do what you should and what you want. Because you aren't getting out of it alive and neither is anyone else.  #### your boss. #### your job.  Grab your balls and get to work living YOUR life. 
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Holy hell this is the best post you've ever made.  Bravo.

 
Abraham said:
I received some exciting news today that relates to my ambiguous "bad decisioning" post from a year ago.  Maybe some time in the future I will tell the entire story.  Perhaps. Maybe. Just know for now I'm getting drunk in a pub just off Times Square with a smile on my face. 
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Twins?

 
RedmondLonghorn said:
The only other time in my life I have been as miserable as I am right now is when I was in the darkest days of end of my first marriage.

I am basically estranged from my oldest son, who is 16, and there isn't anything that I can seem to do to change that. And he won't give me an explanation.
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All the other stuff I don't have any good advice on.

Your son, though. . . I have a son about the same age and we go through this from time to time.  Really.  A 16 year old boy, from time to time, NEEDS to be "estranged" from his dad.  Just keep being as stable as you can.  Being kind to him and thoughtful.  Give him space if he wants it.  But also push to do things with him even if it's not something where you have any sort of deep conversation.  

Take him to a minor league ballgame.  Take him to the movies.  Ask him to do some yardwork with you (baby steps; maybe just 15 minutes of work).  Ask him to do the dishes with you (one of my favorite activities is to wash the dishes with my son;  I was and he rinses. It was like pulling teeth at first, but now we will actually talk to one another and I think he actually likes it too).  I know that this is hard for some men to do, but right before bed after he's laid down, I'll go in his room and give him a headrub or rub his feet.  Or even a back rub.  My kid likes it so much (who doesn't like a foot rub or a head rub) that he'll actually let me talk to him.

Maybe when you say estranged you mean really really estranged.  That sucks, but workable too.  I've had some times that I have gotten SO angry at him and just make it worse and he doesn't want to talk to me.  Just have to make SLOW progress; don't rush it.  And just be the person you want to model for him.  He'll come around.  Not right away.  But it will happen. 

 
RedmondLonghorn said:
The only other time in my life I have been as miserable as I am right now is when I was in the darkest days of end of my first marriage.

I am basically estranged from my oldest son, who is 16, and there isn't anything that I can seem to do to change that. And he won't give me an explanation.

I HATE my job and, in particular, my senior partner/boss and am absolutely trapped in it. I once had a promising career. Now I make a fraction of the money I used to and am stuck working for an absolute idiot.

The above two circumstances cause plenty of stress with me and Wife 2.0. And now she is super pissed because I fell off the no dipping wagon for the 35th time and got caught, after having promised not to do it again (or lie about it) a dozen times before. I've apologized but she is still steamed, and has a right to be. But I am having trouble caring.

Oh, and we are buying a house, selling a house and remodeling a house. Maybe. If we can get this damn house sold. 

My mom is undergoing radiation treatment for lung cancer this week and it doesn't even make my top four or five things that are bothering me. That makes me feel like a self-centered ##### too. 
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Damn.  Keep fighting, man.

 
krista4 said:
Abraham said:
Sucks.  Sucks. Been there, recently in my own way as chronicled here.  You didn't ask for advice but I'll give a little of what helped me:

- wake up tomorrow and be grateful for what is good.  In my dark days I wrote down ten things every morning that I was thankful for.  Made it a habit 

- pay someone a compliment every day.  An honest compliment.  I don't believe in karma and ####, but I believe we respond to the world around us.  Paying compliments makes the people you are around happier which improves the world you are in. 

- be patient with others. This quote literally changed my world view "be patient.  You have no idea at all what battles other people are fighting, but they feel as real to them as yours do to you."

- improve. Every day find one problem in your life and make it a little better.  Spend time on your resume. Call your son and leave a heartfelt voice mail. Try to avoid dipping. Do something, anything that makes today a step forward from yesterday. 

- remember that life is short but it's also long.  You get ONE trip around the stars.  7 months ago I dropped a hand grenade on a perfect family because the forest needed to be burnt down for everyone to grow stronger. Make the most of your time here, do what you should and what you want. Because you aren't getting out of it alive and neither is anyone else.  #### your boss. #### your job.  Grab your balls and get to work living YOUR life. 
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Holy hell this is the best post you've ever made.  Bravo.
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no offense to abe... but I skipped it until k4's props.

fantastic stuff, abe. will try to incorporate into my life, stat.

plus... if there's anything I can do for gb, redmond- please let me know. I've got extra scarves. and ####... I didn't ever get back to you about that proposal. :bag:  too late? did it cause extra stress? sunnava... soory. wait... you smell pretty, redmond. complement done, feeling better. phew.

 
Abraham said:
Oh and Lawrence Taylor was at the same whiskey bar as me and my boss and we chatted a bit. Not as big as I was expecting to be as awesome as he was. 
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Maybe it's Lawrence Taylor, shift leader of shipping department at Nordstrom on 5th? 

 
Having experienced a wake up of sorts myself at age 41, I can say that waking up every day and seeing the positives (however small they may be) always keeps me hopfeul.  I think I was a very negative person for a long time and now that I think more positively, I remain positive.  I'm still a sensitive #####, but it's who I am.  :)   

 
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