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proninja said:
I am, but there's literally nowhere up for me to go in this industry. I have the best job at the place I work, and it's the best place to work locally in the area. My boss loves me, I could coast here for 25 years and call it a career. 
 

And for some dumb reason that sounds the opposite of appealing. Need a new mountain to climb. Wouldn't mind some more money too, these kids ain't free. 
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AREA MAN HAS BEST JOB IN AREA

SEEKS MOUNTAIN TO CLIMB

ATTACKED BY MT LIONS

 
El Floppo said:
it's strange to me how many "is it safe" questions I still get. there are still people out there- and in here- who think NYC is still like the warriors or new jack city.

also a bit strange that I kinda miss those days. people who lived here wanted/needed to live here, and would put up with having to be hypervigilant and overly considerate of their immediate environment every second of their day... or get punished.
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People have funny stereotypical preconceived ideas about places. I have been asked more than once in a non-joking manner by non-Texans if we ride horses to work.

 
mr. furley said:
9 year old ate the cheese off her pizza last night.. with her fingers.

wife lost her #### about it.

somehow not being furious about my daughter one-day potentially being an embarrassment at a fictitious future dinner party because she eats pizza cheese with her fingers makes me an #######.

"WHAT IF WE GO OUT TO EAT WHEN SHE'S FIFTY AND SHE EATS THE CHEESE OFF HER PIZZA WITH HER FINGERS LIKE SOME KIND OF ####### ANIMAL???? THAT'S ####### EMBARRASSING TO ME!!!!!"

:hot:
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COULD YOU IMAGINE!?!?!

 
I can relate to the quote for this month, which is why I chose it:

"Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most."  - Ozzie Osborne

 
Ignoramus said:
People have funny stereotypical preconceived ideas about places. I have been asked more than once in a non-joking manner by non-Texans if we ride horses to work.
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I still remember a girl moving from San Diego to Ohio my freshman year of high school (yeah, not ideal). That winter her friends from SD wrote her and seriously asked if we skied to school.

 
Ignoramus said:
People have funny stereotypical preconceived ideas about places. I have been asked more than once in a non-joking manner by non-Texans if we ride horses to work.
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To be fair we are nearing the time of year when major surface streets entering the City are shut down during the business day for Trail Riders making their way to the rodeo.

 
GroveDiesel said:
I still remember a girl moving from San Diego to Ohio my freshman year of high school (yeah, not ideal). That winter her friends from SD wrote her and seriously asked if we skied to school.
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I thought everyone in Ohio drove either a Gremlin or an El Camino. 

 
GroveDiesel said:
I still remember a girl moving from San Diego to Ohio my freshman year of high school (yeah, not ideal). That winter her friends from SD wrote her and seriously asked if we skied to school.
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was at a house party in my early 20s. random African guy shows up late in the night. my buddy is..... blackout hammered..... and starts talking to this guy about how awesome it is that he gets to see giraffes and hippos and lions and #### every day.

the guy, quite incredulously, and with a half Brit accent says "i don't live in a ####### zoo! i live in the ####### city! #### off!"

never saw that guy again

 
In retrospect, I may have made a poor decision today. 

Me and my family were walking to the gondola, about a mile, because we had missed the shuttle bus, by 30 seconds or so :hot:   It was a fun walk, in a decent blizzard. Some lady, in her Chrysler 300, managed to plow off the road into the 3' snow bank half a block in front of us.  By the time we got there, there was a small group of good samaritans helping push her out of the snow and back on the road.  The 3 of them couldn't quite get the car out, so I jumped in to help.  It was me, some regular joe and two stoner brotato chips.  

After we pushed the lady's car out of the snow, I asked the brochacho's for a ride up the hill.  They said sure.  As I'm walking up to their suburban, I hear a big ### dog barking from inside the car. :mellow: . As I get in the SUV, which reeked of weed, passenger stoner is manhandling a huge, brindle murder dog, up into the front seat with him. :mellow:   :mellow:   I'm pot committed at this point, I'd already slid across the back seat and am sitting on top of the other seat, which has been folded down.  Wife and daughter climb in.  Murder dog is going slightly bonkers, growling, barking, writhing, all while his tail was wagging like a metronome.  The brotisserie chicken brohamskis thought it was hysterical. :mellow:   :mellow:   :mellow:   Finally, "buddy" wriggles his way free and heads our way, still growling, yipping, and quasi barking.  Tail still wagging.   I immediately grab his collar, in an attempt to protect my family from this killing machine. I do my damnedest to make friends with him asap, aka, not get chewed to death.  He's jumping all over me, wriggling like a puppy, still making the most unsettling guttural moans, growls, barks.  We go nose to nose.  I Pee a little. Then he has to check out my wife and daughter, I redouble my grip on his collar and let him sniff them. He then promptly plops down on my and my daughters laps, still growling and moaning and barking occasionally.  Thankfully our ride only took about 5 minutes. Buddy got all fired up when we got out of the car and refused to get off me :wub:   I had to lift/shove him into the front seat, so I could get out.   The two teddy brosevelts are laughing and saying, "sure was good you guys were dog people".  

tl/dr:  I put my family at risk, jumping into a strangers car, that housed a giant murder dog. 

 
Binky The Doormat said:
San Diego HS kids.
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When I was in high school my friend Duff took an inflatable boat into Mission Bay, went up to the back fence of Sea World, climbed over and stole a keg from their catering area.  For two weeks he would roll up to the parking lot after surfing, get out of his hotboxed VW bug, and we’d drink warm ####ty beer from the keg before school.

 
I am now driving the last American car I will ever own.   My 2012 F-150 Harley Davidson has dual climate control.  Ford decided it would be a good idea to use an actuator with plastic parts to control the air flow between the sides.   The plastic gears inevitably fail, meaning that one side or the other has no heat or A/C.  The $20 part can only be replaced by removing the entire dashboard, which costs $1,400.   I finally sucked it up and took it in to get repaired.   They put it back together and learned that because the actuator failed, it caused amperage to back up and fried the control module, which costs another $550.   The A/C also needed to be bled and recharged in this process.  When they recharged it, freon sprayed out of my condenser through a small hole.  New condenser costs $600.

All in all, just because I want a small thing like heat in my truck, it's costing me $2,550.

 
the rover said:
I am now driving the last American car I will ever own.   My 2012 F-150 Harley Davidson has dual climate control.  Ford decided it would be a good idea to use an actuator with plastic parts to control the air flow between the sides.   The plastic gears inevitably fail, meaning that one side or the other has no heat or A/C.  The $20 part can only be replaced by removing the entire dashboard, which costs $1,400.   I finally sucked it up and took it in to get repaired.   They put it back together and learned that because the actuator failed, it caused amperage to back up and fried the control module, which costs another $550.   The A/C also needed to be bled and recharged in this process.  When they recharged it, freon sprayed out of my condenser through a small hole.  New condenser costs $600.

All in all, just because I want a small thing like heat in my truck, it's costing me $2,550.
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Harley Davidson doesn't make cars

 
Epic Problem said:
Harley Davidson doesn't make cars
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Nope.  But they license their name to Ford for a limited edition that's the same trim package as the F-150 platinum, only with Harley branding and a dual exhaust.   

I had no intention of buying it specifically, but I got a vendor discount so it was the same price as a lower-end model.

 
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the rover said:
Nope.  But they license their name to Ford for a limited edition that's the same trim package as the F-150 platinum, only with Harley Branding and a dual exhaust.   

I had no intention of buying it specifically, but I got a vendor discount so it was the same price as a lower-end model.
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So you didn't pay for the HD stickers?

 
the rover said:
I am now driving the last American car I will ever own.   My 2012 F-150 Harley Davidson has dual climate control.  Ford decided it would be a good idea to use an actuator with plastic parts to control the air flow between the sides.   The plastic gears inevitably fail, meaning that one side or the other has no heat or A/C.  The $20 part can only be replaced by removing the entire dashboard, which costs $1,400.   I finally sucked it up and took it in to get repaired.   They put it back together and learned that because the actuator failed, it caused amperage to back up and fried the control module, which costs another $550.   The A/C also needed to be bled and recharged in this process.  When they recharged it, freon sprayed out of my condenser through a small hole.  New condenser costs $600.

All in all, just because I want a small thing like heat in my truck, it's costing me $2,550.
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What is it with American cars and that GD actuator?  

The one on my crappy old Impala (that my kid drives now) started "failing" years ago.  Fortunately, it isn't dual climate and doesn't affect the heat or A/C.  BUT it does click for 2-3 minutes after you start the car and 1 or 2 minutes after you take the key out.  It sounds like a IED is about to go off.  

The replacement isn't actually that hard.  You just have to pull out the  glove box...but I never did it.  It's not my car now anyway.

 
Reg Lllama of Brixton said:
What is it with American cars and that GD actuator?  

The one on my crappy old Impala (that my kid drives now) started "failing" years ago.  Fortunately, it isn't dual climate and doesn't affect the heat or A/C.  BUT it does click for 2-3 minutes after you start the car and 1 or 2 minutes after you take the key out.  It sounds like a IED is about to go off.  

The replacement isn't actually that hard.  You just have to pull out the  glove box...but I never did it.  It's not my car now anyway.
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GM and Ford use the same part.  They both know that it will fail, only GM designed it so that it can be easily replaced.   For the F-150, you have to remove the dashboard for the driver's side actuator and remove the entire center console for the passenger side.  The mechanic that I talked to first said it was actually easier if you also removed a seat.

 What's funny is if you replace it, you can't even buy the crappy plastic one...the replacements all use metal gears.   

 
the rover said:
GM and Ford use the same part.  They both know that it will fail, only GM designed it so that it can be easily replaced.   For the F-150, you have to remove the dashboard for the driver's side actuator and remove the entire center console for the passenger side.  The mechanic that I talked to first said it was actually easier if you also removed a seat.

 What's funny is if you replace it, you can't even buy the crappy plastic one...the replacements all use metal gears.   
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