Dude a meme.
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The life of being a man.

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This is what happens when you have big-ass holes in your earlobes *AND* a pet snake. You wind up in the ER, with a snake stuck in your ear...


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Weird dye job, check.
Gauged ears + multiple other facial piercings, check.
Many tattoos, check.
Side shave, check.
Pet snake, check.

It's official, we've found daddy issues patient zero.

For @Joe Perez:

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for joe:

person attacking free speech gets run over:

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Besides the gauges, this describes my college GF exactly. But she had a great relationship with her dad, who was cool as hell. Rode an oldass harley to work every day even in the RI winters, raced a competitive formulaV at limerock towed by a vintage 70s pimpvan. Would involve all of his kids in the fun shit he did. They were real out-doorsy type.

Now her mom was a real bitch. I girl can have mommy issues, right?

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triple charged
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Mmmmmmm. Chemical X.

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cammy doesn't seem very impressed with my most recent gift

​i am unsure how to impress her

I like the way the newer craftsman stuff is labeled so you can actually read it. Ive had my current set so long, I ID sockets by the scrathes or wear patterns on them. The one with the spiral groove on the outside is a 14mm for example.

Been a long time since I was in a Sears. My Craftsman set hails from the 80s, though the 1/2" drive socket wrench was replaced after I accidentally welded it to the battery in a 1971 VW Beetle.

Despite what I've heard, based purely upon visual observation, the quality appears to have improved since the move abroad.

Do they suck?





Haha. My 10mm short 1/4" drive socket is the one with baby-blue paint overspray on it, the color of the '71 Beetle. The 13mm 3/8" drive socket is the one with red overspray that matches the '90 Miata. And so on.

(Oddly, I don't have any sockets that match the metallic teal paint on the '93 Grand Am.)

Craftsman is now owned by Stanley. Which is probably an improvement considering the sharp decline in Craftsman quality over the past decade.
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Jeebus...

I've only ever broken (in that manner) one Craftsman tool that I can recall. It was a 36mm socket that I was using to remove the rear axle nut from a Beetle. Put the breaker bar on it. Nothing. Put a pipe on the bar. Nothing. Moved the bar around so it was parallel to the floor and jumped up onto the end of it with both feet. *Crack*


This nut, basically:




Sears replaced it no questions asked.

I then drove the car to the local VW / Porsche / Audi shop owned by the father of a schoolmate of mine, and had them remove it with the biggest goddamned impact wrench I'd seen to date in my life (a two-hander.)

Apparently there is a football game on television this weekend.

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I use 3/4" drive sockets and a huge breaker bar for the axles.

That stuff seems like their "breaking feature" has been deleted at the factory.
Then I use a 4 foot long pipe as a cheater bar, and "crack" the nut loose.

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Planned obsolescence in garden sprayer

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Used in putting together steam turbines. A sledge hammer was used to tighten the nuts on the studs. Then studs had through holes that then allowed them to be heated with torches or electric heaters, in order to expand (lengthen the bolts). Then the nuts were hammered around so many more flats.

See the link for how massive some of these wrenches were (are).

Seriously? 12 7/8" is the largest one they make?

Sheesh, I thought you said these were large.


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"An amazing historical photo...this early image showing the early test flights of the F-14 "Tomcat" during the American Civil War.

Some question the authenticity of this photograph, as it is widely known that the 6 pounder 1841 Model Gun, the workhorse of Mexican War, was considered obsolete by Civil War. You be the judge..."

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Your's is a better photo, Joe.

If i was a game designer i can see my self designing a game where a cat or a dog is in china town and you have to escape.

Dammit, now I'm all nostalgic about playing the Kong King map in TF2.

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I have learned, as a result of this thread, that Google is all-knowing...

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Yup, it's been 20 years since Chumbawamba released their hit. Tubthumping came out before this year's crop of high school seniors. It's officially an oldie.



Insert Brainey claiming that he was a better drummer in 4th grade.

(Skip to 2:10 - 2:45 for especially glaring examples of mediocrity)

Totally serious post:

If you've got an hour to kill while all the popular kids are watching sportsball today, and you'd like to learn a bit about the making of the most epic rock ballad ever to come out of western civilization, the brainchild of a pickle-kisser who died of AIDS, watch this full-screen with good speakers or headphones:

Tour of injector dynamics:

And while you have them on, que up In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly. At least for the drum solo.

In the radio biz, that's what we call a Bathroom Single. Something you put on when you feel a particularly difficult shit looming.


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BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. this is why women dont get paid more than men:

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So why not live below your means? :likecat:

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Another crazy track-hoe driver:

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Actually, it's not. This is:


The number of women graduating with college degrees has exceeded the number of men since 1981, and the gap continues to widen:

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And yet, women tend disproportionately to major in relatively low-paying fields (education, psychology, social sciences, arts, etc), whereas men tend disproportionately to major in relatively high-paying fields (science, engineering, math, physics, etc):

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So, yeah... No real surprise here, unless you consider working 40 hours a week as a social worker or a teacher to be "equal" to working the same number of hours as a software developer or a civil engineer, in which case it's no secret that the market disagrees. The only "solution" to this is, well... literally communism.

If I owned a business and I found out that I could hire a woman to do a man's job, equal labor, for 73 cents on the dollar...

Let's just say that, capitalistically speaking, women would find their unemployment rate falling to near zero all across the country.

And not to be sexist or anything, but not only would I have an all-female workforce, but I'd step down and put a female CEO in charge of it - and then I'd sit back and collect 27% of my entire total previous payroll while sitting on a beach somewhere.

Obviously this isn't the case.

"In capitalist America, job pays YOU!"

For those who like all the Boston Dynamics critters, here's a (somewhat poor) video of the company founder, Marc Raibert, giving a presentation. It includes a lot of old stuff we've all seen, but there is also some new, and very interesting, stuff as well.

In Chicagoland for Joe P:

Rare 1981 VW Puma GTI - $5500 (Mokena)



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1981 Brasilian built Puma GTI. All mechanical parts are easily obtainable VW parts. More info can be found on Puma GTI on Wikipedia. Car runs and drives well but one front tire rubs the wheel flare and will need thinner front tires. Only 87,000 km on odometer, Car looks decent but could use paint. Car comes with hard to find original puma fan shroud and exhaust not yet installed. Good clean Illinois title in my name. Call 7O8 269 6427.

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Too bad your driveway is now fucked up to hell and back.

Actually the reason is because the entire 79 cents or whatever the bullshit number is now days is completely wrong. They got that number by taking all of the earnings for all the men in the country and compared them to all of the earnings of the women in the states for x amount of years and then called it "woman makes less than a man, crucify the men" bullshit. They didnt bother looking into how much time both sexes worked, they didn't bother looking at the fields, they didnt even bother normalizing to compare the numbers of workers, they just took the average on record of all gross income for both sexes and compared it... well no shit a man will make more than a woman. On average in their entire life time a woman works almost 1/3rd less hours than a man. Women usually spend couple of years at home with the kids while the man works 25 hours a day. Even when you compare women without kids, men will stay late and work over time way more often than most women. If you have someone that works the minimum and someone that stays after often to advance the company, who will you promote? Doesn't take a genius to figure that out. At last, as you pointed out, men will take higher paying fields and then that brings up the whole other bullshit of "men are at fault because women dont want to go in those fields because they are populated by men."
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This is why men make more than woman.



Also because we film in portrait.

The eyewitness is awesome.