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McJose said:
Dilly dilly!
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Bob Sacamano said:
On Thanksgiving, I want to return the favor to my Facebook feed and post 1 picture that will piss off all of them.  Off hand, I'm thinking a picture of me kneeling on the corpse of an elephant or a giraffe Tanner in a Kaepernick jersey with a gun in my hand in front of my Keurig, while the National Anthem from the NFL game is playing on the TV in front of me, laptop open to Breitbart and PIP on CNN. 
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Wisconsin bar offers free beer until Packers score, really regrets it during shutout

Wisconsinites love their Green Bay Packers more than anything else, but they love their beer too. So at least something good came out of last Sunday’s Packers game at one Wisconsin bar.

According to “As It Happens” on CBC Radio, the Bavarian Bierhaus in Glendale, Wisconsin, has a fun promotion: Free beer during Packers games until they score. With Aaron Rodgers at quarterback, that’s not a big problem for the bar. With Brett Hundley replacing an injured Rodgers quarterback? That’s a lot of free beer, especially last Sunday.

The Packers were shut out 23-0 by the Baltimore Ravens last week, the first time Green Bay has been shut out since 2006. That meant the tap was on for more than three hours, for an estimated 275-300 free cups of beer according to “As It Happens.”

“I have to tell you, Carol, that so many people, when they came back after the half time and in the third quarter, actually apologized for drinking my beer, hoping the Packers would score,” Scott Bell, the bar’s general manager, told show host Carol Off.

Bell said they looked at the statistics before offering the promotion, and usually the Packers score on the first or second drive with Rodgers. Even with a backup quarterback you don’t expect an NFL team to get shut out. Bell said, “in reality, you know, it was kind of a shocker.” However, Bell also said it was a fun afternoon. It presumably was quite fun for the fans who knocked down free beers for three hours.

Rodgers is out with a broken collarbone, and unless the 5-5 Packers win some more games to stay in the playoff race, Rodgers is unlikely to return this season. That means six more games with Hundley or whoever else the Packers might try at quarterback, though it sounds like the bar is continuing the promotion.

“We’re going to have a whole lot of beer available, just in case the same thing repeats itself,” Bell said.
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I think I'd like living in Wisconsin. 

 
Dan Lambskin said:
It's basically like a ####ty version of Michigan I think, except with worse sports teams and fatter women
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I've said this numerous times and I'll say it again - the women in Michigan are sneaky hot.  Consider this - for nearly a century, Detroit was home of some of the richest and most powerful men in the auto industry.  These rich and powerful men would tend to land attractive spouses as money tends to attract the hot.  These couple would procreate and breed attractive people, born with silver spoons in their hands and the cycle would repeat for decades.  Now, obviously, Motor City hit a skid along the way, but the well monied families of Detroit proper continued on with this cycle and today, you'll find no shortage of good looking ladies roaming around the city in various stages of financial stratus.  And this is without the benefit of good, warm weather which aids the hotness in cities like San Diego or Dallas where rich, powerful men more recently in our country's history started on the same cycle that Detroit was on 50 years sooner.

 
proninja said:
Last night I noticed some water leaking out of my water heater. Not wanting to wake up to a flood, I shut off the power to it at the circuit breaker, shut off the water to it at the valve, and drained it through a hose outside. At 2am the water finally stopped draining out of it and I went to bed. My wife woke me up at 7 to a semi-flooded garage  (which is half finished) anyway. Not entirely sure how that happened. 

Anyway, I got everything dried and now it's shut closed with heaters going hard. I'll be spending Thanksgiving replacing a water heater. Yay, home ownership. 
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Wait until those kids grow up and start taking 30 min "showers"

 
proninja said:
Last night I noticed some water leaking out of my water heater. Not wanting to wake up to a flood, I shut off the power to it at the circuit breaker, shut off the water to it at the valve, and drained it through a hose outside. At 2am the water finally stopped draining out of it and I went to bed. My wife woke me up at 7 to a semi-flooded garage  (which is half finished) anyway. Not entirely sure how that happened. 

Anyway, I got everything dried and now it's shut closed with heaters going hard. I'll be spending Thanksgiving replacing a water heater. Yay, home ownership. 
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Are there ways to test a water  heater to make sure it's not about to explode?  Asking for a friend.

 
General Malaise said:
Are there ways to test a water  heater to make sure it's not about to explode?  Asking for a friend.
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If you smell gas, call the gas company they send someone over to test, free.

If not and it's just a pilot lighting issue or not much hot water issue, you can call a tech. Many times they'll just tell you to replace.

Unless the thing is making really weird sounds, what's the deal, friendo?

 
tommyboy said:
If you smell gas, call the gas company they send someone over to test, free.

If not and it's just a pilot lighting issue or not much hot water issue, you can call a tech. Many times they'll just tell you to replace.

Unless the thing is making really weird sounds, what's the deal, friendo?
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Nothing now, but it's in a utility closet next to the heater which is in our finished basement and I'd not be very happy if it started leaker or blew or whatever and ruined my nice bamboo flooring et al.  It was the old lady's water heater and I have no idea how much longer this thing has on it.

I also have no idea what I'm doing.  In general.

 
proninja said:
Last night I noticed some water leaking out of my water heater. Not wanting to wake up to a flood, I shut off the power to it at the circuit breaker, shut off the water to it at the valve, and drained it through a hose outside. At 2am the water finally stopped draining out of it and I went to bed. My wife woke me up at 7 to a semi-flooded garage  (which is half finished) anyway. Not entirely sure how that happened. 

Anyway, I got everything dried and now it's shut closed with heaters going hard. I'll be spending Thanksgiving replacing a water heater. Yay, home ownership. 
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rinnai tankless is your friend here.......love mine!

 
General Malaise said:
I've said this numerous times and I'll say it again - the women in Michigan are sneaky hot.  Consider this - for nearly a century, Detroit was home of some of the richest and most powerful men in the auto industry.  These rich and powerful men would tend to land attractive spouses as money tends to attract the hot.  These couple would procreate and breed attractive people, born with silver spoons in their hands and the cycle would repeat for decades.  Now, obviously, Motor City hit a skid along the way, but the well monied families of Detroit proper continued on with this cycle and today, you'll find no shortage of good looking ladies roaming around the city in various stages of financial stratus.  And this is without the benefit of good, warm weather which aids the hotness in cities like San Diego or Dallas where rich, powerful men more recently in our country's history started on the same cycle that Detroit was on 50 years sooner.
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So you're saying they're inbred?

 
General Malaise said:
Nothing now, but it's in a utility closet next to the heater which is in our finished basement and I'd not be very happy if it started leaker or blew or whatever and ruined my nice bamboo flooring et al.  It was the old lady's water heater and I have no idea how much longer this thing has on it.

I also have no idea what I'm doing.  In general.
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Just replace it. Problem solved

 
I'll sign on for a kernel of truth in GM's creepy eugenic theory, but I would state that the awl bidness in Texas might have had a small head start on the car business in Michigan.

 
General Malaise said:
I'll let you venture a guess on this one.
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Okay.  Somewhere on your water heater is a thing that looks like this.  Find it.  Put an empty bucket under the pipe/tube that comes out of it.

Flip up that little widget on top and hold it up for five seconds. Then let it go - don't push it back down.  Ideally you should get some water out of the pipe/tube and nothing coming out of the valve itself.  Report back.

Edit:  Also do this regularly, every six months.  Every year at an absolute minimum.

 
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If you don't do that regularly:

1. You don't know if your T&P valve works.  That's very bad.

2. You aren't ever relieving the interior pressure on the water heater.  That's also very bad.

This is how they explode. You also need to flush the water heater once a year, but that's something many people pay someone to do (or you should at least watch a YouTube video for.)  Too many steps to just type out.  I'd forget something and you'd die and I'd feel guilty.

 
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