GM's thread about nothing (22 Viewers)

[Thorn]

I just spent an hour looking at toilets. My boys are constantly clogging them up so I thought I would look into replacing them so playing in poop water isn't exactly my thing. So to have 4 toilets replaced with a decent/cheapest model is almost 2 grand. You have to be freaking kidding me.

Find a vacant/foreclosure and break in there.

No kidding. If all of the toilets weren't different colors in the old house I would have seriously considered taking them with me a replacing them with these low flow POS's.

Putting in a toilet is really a pretty easy DIY job. A gross job, but not a difficult one.

 

[T Bell]

I just spent an hour looking at toilets. My boys are constantly clogging them up so I thought I would look into replacing them so playing in poop water isn't exactly my thing. So to have 4 toilets replaced with a decent/cheapest model is almost 2 grand. You have to be freaking kidding me.

Game of Thrones

I'm fairly certain I can find it cheaper, looking at this one.

Maybe just feed them less fiber. Or you could just raise the tension level in the house and let the stomach acid work its magic.

 

[ffjunk]

I just spent an hour looking at toilets. My boys are constantly clogging them up so I thought I would look into replacing them so playing in poop water isn't exactly my thing. So to have 4 toilets replaced with a decent/cheapest model is almost 2 grand. You have to be freaking kidding me.

Find a vacant/foreclosure and break in there.

No kidding. If all of the toilets weren't different colors in the old house I would have seriously considered taking them with me a replacing them with these low flow POS's.

American Standard Champion 4.
They have been on sale at Lowes/Home Depot for around $210- up here in Mass. Got one and my boys have yet to clog it after almost daily plungings

 

[St. Louis Bob]

Putting in a toilet is really a pretty easy DIY job. A gross job, but not a difficult one.

Yep, I've replaced several in my life. At the old house I had my painting guy remove all of the wall paper that covered the entire house. He decided to keep flushing the glue water down the master bath toilet rendering it pretty much useless. So I put an old tank on a low flow bowl and it was pretty awesome. I just don't know if I feel like messing with 4 of them. Knowing me I'll throw my back out carrying them or something.

Maybe just feed them less fiber. Or you could just raise the tension level in the house and let the stomach acid work its magic.

These two #### giant logs and then like to use a lot of toilet paper. I can't believe these things come out of their little bodies.

American Standard Champion 4.

Thanks!

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I just spent an hour looking at toilets. My boys are constantly clogging them up so I thought I would look into replacing them so playing in poop water isn't exactly my thing. So to have 4 toilets replaced with a decent/cheapest model is almost 2 grand. You have to be freaking kidding me.

Find a vacant/foreclosure and break in there.

No kidding. If all of the toilets weren't different colors in the old house I would have seriously considered taking them with me a replacing them with these low flow POS's.

Putting in a toilet is really a pretty easy DIY job. A gross job, but not a difficult one.

Yeah, I've even done it.

 

[Limp Ditka]

I just spent an hour looking at toilets. My boys are constantly clogging them up so I thought I would look into replacing them so playing in poop water isn't exactly my thing. So to have 4 toilets replaced with a decent/cheapest model is almost 2 grand. You have to be freaking kidding me.

Find a vacant/foreclosure and break in there.

No kidding. If all of the toilets weren't different colors in the old house I would have seriously considered taking them with me a replacing them with these low flow POS's.

Putting in a toilet is really a pretty easy DIY job. A gross job, but not a difficult one.

Yeah, I've even done it.

And you bought the toilet from this guy, right?My link

 

[T Bell]

I just spent an hour looking at toilets. My boys are constantly clogging them up so I thought I would look into replacing them so playing in poop water isn't exactly my thing. So to have 4 toilets replaced with a decent/cheapest model is almost 2 grand. You have to be freaking kidding me.

Find a vacant/foreclosure and break in there.

No kidding. If all of the toilets weren't different colors in the old house I would have seriously considered taking them with me a replacing them with these low flow POS's.

Putting in a toilet is really a pretty easy DIY job. A gross job, but not a difficult one.

Yeah, I've even done it.

Tanner installing the toilet.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I just spent an hour looking at toilets. My boys are constantly clogging them up so I thought I would look into replacing them so playing in poop water isn't exactly my thing. So to have 4 toilets replaced with a decent/cheapest model is almost 2 grand. You have to be freaking kidding me.

Find a vacant/foreclosure and break in there.

No kidding. If all of the toilets weren't different colors in the old house I would have seriously considered taking them with me a replacing them with these low flow POS's.

Putting in a toilet is really a pretty easy DIY job. A gross job, but not a difficult one.

Yeah, I've even done it.

And you bought the toilet from this guy, right?My link

Oh yeah?

 

[Limp Ditka]

I just spent an hour looking at toilets. My boys are constantly clogging them up so I thought I would look into replacing them so playing in poop water isn't exactly my thing. So to have 4 toilets replaced with a decent/cheapest model is almost 2 grand. You have to be freaking kidding me.

Find a vacant/foreclosure and break in there.

No kidding. If all of the toilets weren't different colors in the old house I would have seriously considered taking them with me a replacing them with these low flow POS's.

Putting in a toilet is really a pretty easy DIY job. A gross job, but not a difficult one.

Yeah, I've even done it.

Tanner installing the toilet.

 

[rickyjgo]

Thank you all for the warm welcome.

Trying to rally for the St. Patty's pub crawl on Fremont. Bought an off-brand energy drink w/195 mgs of caffeine to wash down the Vicodin. Now I have a tingling sensation over my left shoulder blade. Am I going to die?

This guy. I need to party with him.

I used to work on the jets (for some reason they make us stop doing the fun stuff and manage people instead at a certain point), not fly them. Besides I am sure I can give GM a run for his money as far as pasty white guys go...the sun is not my friend. Great question though.

Hey Ricky, thanks for the service. My FIL did did similar work to you. He was a career enlisted man (E6 I think it was - they called him "Chief," except he's a big German so it was only a slur ironically) on an aircraft carrier working as a flight mechanic, usually fighters (don't ask me which kind, I assume F-16s toward the end). When he retired all the officer pilots chipped in and got him something expensive to drink and told him they hated seeing him go as they always felt safer seeing him down there before take off. I want to say he was on the Eisenhower, but I'm not positive. He toured a lot of your haunts. Dubai comes up in his stories a lot.

He likely retired as an E7, that is the rank of Chief Petty Officer.

My uncle was on the USS Enterprise in 'Nam. Somewhat disturbingly...

Spoiler

Obviously they were out of harm's way for the most part, but one time a guy on the deck got cut clean in half by one of those wires that they use to launch the jets.

My father-in-law told me the same story about a guy on his boat. I'll have to ask him which boat he was on.Unfortunately things like that do happen. We had a wire separate while I was on the Kitty Hawk that took a leg off and dumped an aircraft in the ocean (Pilot and Operator ejected safely).The flight deck is always organized chaos, surprisingly little goes wrong for all the dangers present...I miss working it a lot of times, it was certainly exciting.

 

[Disco Stu]

Yay Monday

 

[T Bell]

Link

 

[T Bell]

Why is this so damn funny?

 

[MacArtist]

Disco Stu, how was Lower Greenville? First time in years that I missed the festivities. Living in Plano now. Warned my tenant who lives off University and Greenville (she is 60) to either escape or stay put.

It was the same as always... drunken fun with friends and thousands of others. We technically didn't make it to Lower Greenville though. Tailgating in the CVS parking lot (at Lovers) was good enough for us.I felt great yesterday, since the hangover started at 7pm Saturday.

Man, sometimes I miss living in Dallas. I used to be able to walk to the parade. Glad you had fun!

 

[SofaKings]

I just spent an hour looking at toilets. My boys are constantly clogging them up so I thought I would look into replacing them so playing in poop water isn't exactly my thing. So to have 4 toilets replaced with a decent/cheapest model is almost 2 grand. You have to be freaking kidding me.

Didn't chet go through the replacement toilet thing once?

 

[Abraham]

They are not hard to replace. It's maybe a two beer job.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

I just spent an hour looking at toilets. My boys are constantly clogging them up so I thought I would look into replacing them so playing in poop water isn't exactly my thing. So to have 4 toilets replaced with a decent/cheapest model is almost 2 grand. You have to be freaking kidding me.

Didn't chet go through the replacement toilet thing once?

Yes?

They are not hard to replace. It's maybe a two beer job.

Yeah, again, I've done it several times. I'm just not sure I want to mess with it and I'm certain I don't want to carry two of them upstairs and two of them downstairs. I'll probably do it myself though, they want to charge WAY too much for install.

 

[ScottNorwood]

My 2 year old daughter walked in on me peeing. She's in the middle of potty training and when she got in she walked over to the bowl and started cheering me on. "Good job daddy! You did it!! YAAAAAYYY!!!" Then she tried to give me her lollipop as a reward (which i refused because it had already been in her mouth and then on the floor).

Anyway, I never realized before what a good pee'er I was.

 

[Hawks64]

Hello again GMTAN. Just got back from nearly 7 months at sea with no access to the FBG. Good to see this place is still around...feel like I was out there protecting at least one thing worthwhile Any major areas to hit up with nearly a years worth of back material to sort through?

Thank you for your service.

 

[ScottNorwood]

In other norwood news, I have procured tickets to this event: http://www.carolines.com/comedian/the-roast-of-the-iron-sheik/

 

[ScottNorwood]

Hello again GMTAN. Just got back from nearly 7 months at sea with no access to the FBG. Good to see this place is still around...feel like I was out there protecting at least one thing worthwhile Any major areas to hit up with nearly a years worth of back material to sort through?

Thank you for your service.

I don't know who this dude is, but

 

[T Bell]

My 2 year old daughter walked in on me peeing. She's in the middle of potty training and when she got in she walked over to the bowl and started cheering me on. "Good job daddy! You did it!! YAAAAAYYY!!!" Then she tried to give me her lollipop as a reward (which i refused because it had already been in her mouth and then on the floor).

Anyway, I never realized before what a good pee'er I was.

I'm so proud of you!

 

[MacArtist]

Just need to vent.

My brother, who I came out to at age 22 (I'm 39 now) and who was seemingly fine about it has turned into a ##### about my being gay.

Ten years ago, I was his best man and in his wedding and even wore a dress (which I hate wearing). Moreover, I was ignoring the groomsmen who were behind me to please to "speak up" during the part where the minister asks if anyone objects to the marriage. I remained silent. His life, his decision. At the time, she was a huge ##### and none of them liked her. I never told my brother that they hated his to-be wife since these were his best buds at the time and I didn't want to get them in trouble. So in other words, I was supportive of him. Big time.

Fast-forward to March 2012. My SIL's sister was living with her boyfriend before marriage. (I don't care, but pertinent to story). My now-wife and I were asked by SIL to shoot the wedding in Austin (we are in Dallas). We said, "Sure!" Did it for free, spent hours retouching the photos, got to hang out with my niece and brother.

During the reception, told my brother that wife had asked me to marry her. No congrats. Just a "look" of disgust. He promptly informed me that marriage is between only a man, a woman, and God. I wanted to strangle him metaphorically by bringing up marriage in the Old Testament and in other religions where women are property. He even went as so far as to tell me that he was ok with my being gay unless I wanted a civil union and he never thought I would ever want to be married. So now he is not ok with it.

A few months later, my wife and I got married in Provincetown (September 2012) on the beach. It was a small wedding. Two on her side and two on mine. Instead of inviting everyone to the wedding, we decided to throw a big reception in October 2012. I invited my brother and his wife a month and a half in advance to the reception. My brother informed me that he couldn't make it because be had to play in his church band for a Sunday morning service. He could have found a replacement within 6 weeks. Additionally, there was no acknowledgement of our wedding, no congrats, not even a card by him.

Fast forward to December 2012. I found out later from my parents that he, my SIL, niece, and step nephew were in town. They did not tell us they were coming. Nice. So I texted him to ask him if he would come over to our house to pick up the kids' gift cards so that they would have it in time for Christmas (my parents live close by). I asked him to bring SIL and kids. He claimed that they were all sick. But that he would come get the cards. He shows up with a cup full of dip. Later, I found out he told my parents I smoked. They don't know he dips. Nice. Thanks, bro, for the needless back-stabbing. Not only that, but all he talked about was his upcoming mission trip to China. I'm like, "That's nice." He tells me how they have to go to China under the pretense of cultural awareness, and that they have to be careful when witnessing less they get in trouble with the government. So lying to go is ok? Gotcha.

After Christmas, my mother informs me that they don't want my wife and I around my niece together. Why? Because she looks up to me so much. And they think she will turn gay being around us because of how much she looks up to me. My wife and I made the decision a long time before that to act like just friends around her until she is old enough to understand. But nooooooo! Not good enough. And these are the same parents who I brought my ex home for holidays to spend with us. They were shocked when I initially told them that she was my GF. So when I brought up the fact that ex was allowed to be around my niece, I was told that she wouldn't have been allowed had they known about us. So basically they are admitting, in not so many words, that a five year old will figure out what they couldn't. Nice.

So, this week, my wife and I get a form letter In the mail about his mission trip to China, asking for donations.And he has the nerve to address the envelope as [first name] and [first name] when he knows damn well that her last name and mine are hypenated together. Both of us were furious as that was the ultimate slap in the face. You want our money but you won't recognize that we have a last name together? Screw you!

We made a donation to the Human Rights Campaign in his name, as did my wife's sister and her partner.

And what I want to know is this: Why was it ok for my niece to spend a lot of time with my SIL's unmarried sister and boyfriend who were co-habitating for a year prior to the wedding? But it is not ok for my niece to be around us in case she turns gay? By that logic, they will be ok if she co-habitates with any future boyfriend. Grrrr.

I want nothing to do with him. He has told my parents what a horrible burden my being gay has been on him. Despite having plenty of time to come to grips with it. As far as I knew, he was fine with it. All my friends who know him are shocked at what a ######## he has become over this.

 

[Abraham]

I understand your anger, but have no idea what the last two parts mean.

 

[Abraham]

You type as well as I do on an iPad.

 

[MacArtist]

He is asking for us for money to dung his trip to china to do missionary work. Nope. Not happening. Don't need him spreading close-midnesz

 

[T Bell]

He is asking for us for money to dung his trip to china to do missionary work. Nope. Not happening. Don't need him spreading close-midnesz

Anything we can do to slow down the malignant spread of teh Chinas I think we should do. Be a patriot.Pony up $100.

 

[ScottNorwood]

Why is there no cheese in China?

 

[T Bell]

Why is there no cheese in China?

band name

 

[ScottNorwood]

And what's up with pee pee in my coke?

 

[Mr.Pack]

Hey guys a friend of my daughters at college has cancer and is doing a fund raising marathon.

Here is a link to her fundraising page

If you could find it in your heart to make a donation that would be awesome. She's a great kid and has been through a lot. I'm going to post in the FFA as well, but thought it would be good to post here too.

Thanks!

 

[ffjunk]

I just spent an hour looking at toilets. My boys are constantly clogging them up so I thought I would look into replacing them so playing in poop water isn't exactly my thing. So to have 4 toilets replaced with a decent/cheapest model is almost 2 grand. You have to be freaking kidding me.

Didn't chet go through the replacement toilet thing once?

Yes?

They are not hard to replace. It's maybe a two beer job.

Yeah, again, I've done it several times. I'm just not sure I want to mess with it and I'm certain I don't want to carry two of them upstairs and two of them downstairs. I'll probably do it myself though, they want to charge WAY too much for install.

The Champion 4 I linked earlier comes with a seat (cheapo though) and the wax ring so no need for anything else. Just make sure your water supply line is long enough. Bring a friend if you are gonna get them too. One heavy ####ter.

 

[UniAlias]

During reception, told brother that wife had asked me to marry her. No congrats. Not close. Was told by younger brother that marriage is between only man, woman, and God.

I'm really close with my siblings but if one of them were this judgmental and ignorant I don't think I'd have any issue never speaking with them again. Sorry you have to deal with that, Mac.

 

[Abraham]

"I'm sorry you feel that way. Just know that when your marriage falls apart my wife and I will be there for you."

 

[MacArtist]

During reception, told brother that wife had asked me to marry her. No congrats. Not close. Was told by younger brother that marriage is between only man, woman, and God.

I'm really close with my siblings but if one of them were this judgmental and ignorant I don't think I'd have any issue never speaking with them again. Sorry you have to deal with that, Mac.

Thanks, man . And Abraham too.

 

[Mr.Pack]

Sorry you have to go through that Mac.

Hang in there.

 

[mr. furley]

Not really. I try not to work with hammer and nails so I can't do it.

Not to sound dooshy, but since you're already there, here goes. Telling anyone outside of the 1% that finishing a basement costs 30k is friggin idiotic. The only thing more idiotic is actually paying 30k to finish a basement. I'm assuming mahogany floors, walls made of white children]/b], and a solid gold toilet were on your list of must-haves?

 

[Abraham]

I'm a Christian but I don't understand the whole gay marriage thing. The bible has a lot of stuff in it, and most Christians do a terrible job following most of it. But for some reason many of them/us get fired up about gay marriage and know chapter and verse...but can't even name a single book that talks about love and conpassion and acceptance and having a heart open to helping and healing others. It's bizarre.

 

[bentley]

I'm a Christian but I don't understand the whole gay marriage thing. The bible has a lot of stuff in it, and most Christians do a terrible job following most of it. But for some reason many of them/us get fired up about gay marriage and know chapter and verse...but can't even name a single book that talks about love and conpassion and acceptance and having a heart open to helping and healing others. It's bizarre.

Me either. Drives me nuts. One thing that's for sure is that it's pretty pointless to talk with them about it. The angriest I've ever seen my Glen Beck loving father-in-law get was when my wife dared question him about it. Came up when we were discussing her cousin (his niece) who got married to another woman in Canada.I don't want to get in in much of a religious debate here, but the other problem is that they're largely wrong. Outside of Leviticus (which has all kinds of absurd stuff that we choose to ignore), homosexuality doesn't really seem to be any worse than any other kind of extramarital sex. And I'd love to see those folks judge themselves by this standard:

The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, the verbally abusive, and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God.

 

[Frostillicus]

If any of you want to be in my brother's NCAA pool PM me your email address. $10 entry. Good rules without being complicated.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

Oh, and here is the kicker. I'm not allowed to be around to be around my five-year old nice with my partner around because that might make my niece turn gay.

Sorry to hear, GB. I seriously don't get people sometimes. :(

 

[Bogart]

Just broke up with Non-Reader. Took only two texts, ironically.

She texted me last Thursday asking if I wanted to go to the Mavericks game that Friday. I politely declined, letting her know that I had my kids that weekend, and it just would not work out logistically. She got real pissy and short about it, and hadn't talked or texted me since. So I just told her we are not a match, she quickly replied and that is done.

Spent the rest of the night getting my Christmas tree and all the decorations out of the living room, watched Heat/Celtics and watching WBC (please don't get hurt Profar) now. All in all, a productive night.

 

[kevzilla]

I'm a Christian but I don't understand the whole gay marriage thing. The bible has a lot of stuff in it, and most Christians do a terrible job following most of it. But for some reason many of them/us get fired up about gay marriage and know chapter and verse...but can't even name a single book that talks about love and conpassion and acceptance and having a heart open to helping and healing others. It's bizarre.

Me either. Drives me nuts. One thing that's for sure is that it's pretty pointless to talk with them about it. The angriest I've ever seen my Glen Beck loving father-in-law get was when my wife dared question him about it. Came up when we were discussing her cousin (his niece) who got married to another woman in Canada.I don't want to get in in much of a religious debate here, but the other problem is that they're largely wrong. Outside of Leviticus (which has all kinds of absurd stuff that we choose to ignore), homosexuality doesn't really seem to be any worse than any other kind of extramarital sex. And I'd love to see those folks judge themselves by this standard:

The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, the verbally abusive, and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God.

See you guys in hell!

 

[Good Posting Judge]

I'm a Christian but I don't understand the whole gay marriage thing. The bible has a lot of stuff in it, and most Christians do a terrible job following most of it. But for some reason many of them/us get fired up about gay marriage and know chapter and verse...but can't even name a single book that talks about love and conpassion and acceptance and having a heart open to helping and healing others. It's bizarre.

I have a (completely unsubstantiated) theory that there's a passing mention about homos in the Bible because they didn't have that many people, and they needed as many breeders as possible. But it's more of a public policy thing, e.g. stay away from the shellfish.

 

[Abraham]

There are lots of things wrong right now. But most of them disappear when my kid asks me to pile up with her and watch Doc McStuffins as she goes to sleep.

 

[Mr. Pickles]

Spent the rest of the night getting my Christmas tree and all the decorations out of the living room

Whoa, whoa, whoa.. what?

 

[Mr. Pickles]

There are lots of things wrong right now. But most of them disappear when my kid asks me to pile up with her and watch Doc McStuffins as she goes to sleep.

Horrible show, IMO.

 

[Frostillicus]

I'm a Christian but I don't understand the whole gay marriage thing. The bible has a lot of stuff in it, and most Christians do a terrible job following most of it. But for some reason many of them/us get fired up about gay marriage and know chapter and verse...but can't even name a single book that talks about love and conpassion and acceptance and having a heart open to helping and healing others. It's bizarre.

Me either. Drives me nuts. One thing that's for sure is that it's pretty pointless to talk with them about it. The angriest I've ever seen my Glen Beck loving father-in-law get was when my wife dared question him about it. Came up when we were discussing her cousin (his niece) who got married to another woman in Canada.I don't want to get in in much of a religious debate here, but the other problem is that they're largely wrong. Outside of Leviticus (which has all kinds of absurd stuff that we choose to ignore), homosexuality doesn't really seem to be any worse than any other kind of extramarital sex. And I'd love to see those folks judge themselves by this standard:

The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, the verbally abusive, and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God.

See you guys in hell!

Gambling isn't in there, is it?

 

[Good Posting Judge]

There are lots of things wrong right now. But most of them disappear when my kid asks me to pile up with her and watch Doc McStuffins as she goes to sleep.

Horrible show, IMO.

We're on a big UmiZoomi kick.

 

[Frostillicus]

There are lots of things wrong right now. But most of them disappear when my kid asks me to pile up with her and watch Doc McStuffins as she goes to sleep.

Horrible show, IMO.

We're on a big UmiZoomi kick.

Octonauts here