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DrizztLink posted...

I'm picturing you putting some rosemary sprigs on a slab and just absolutely fucking smiting them with one of those powerlifter stones.

Yes, I am that strong

Yes. A heavy granite one, which is pretty much the only kind anyone should have.

For the doubters - consider how annoying it is to clean a food processor or a garlic press. Sometimes this is the better option.

divot1338 posted...

I think you might just be bad at negotiating car prices.

I am too.

I'm not great at it but in this case there wasn't anything I could do. The car had failed its MOT which is a legal requirement in the UK. At this point it was a "pay $1500 to fix the car or scrap it to earn a couple hundred".

So I understand why it wasn't worth anything - nobody would be prepared to buy a car that is expensive to repair while being worth nothing to sell. But it makes me wonder how fucking wasteful the car industry is. Like, this thing ran fucking fine, it was like 90% operational, just not 100% road legal.

Like you get this luxury car. It cost 40k. It's a marvel of technology. A comfortable living room packed with technology that weighs several tonnes and can zip you across the country at a hundred miles an hour and barely shake while doing so. It has an engine that can do maybe 300,000miles and still run perfectly fine.

But literally the second they get in and drive it out of the showroom it's immediately worth like 10k less. Then a year later when it's done maybe 10,000 miles, it's worth another 5k less. This depreciation continues, barely slowing down for years.

Then you end up with the car I have. I bought it 5 years ago for $1200. It's 15 years old. It's done 190,000 miles. What is it worth? Like $100 to a dealership. But everything still works. Sure, it has some rusty spots. The paint looks like shit. It's maybe not as fuel efficient as it once was. But the engine runs fine. The mechanical parts all run fine. The electrics all run fine. It's somehow even more comfortable inside than it was when it was brand new. All that luxury is still there, and it still maintains the primary function of being able to zip you across the country at a hundred miles an hour, but what was once 40k is now worth not even 0.25% of that.

To sell this car, some kid turns up and offers me $400 and somehow that feels like a really good deal for me.

Ok he did it, and that really happened. That money really exchanged hands, he did pay that pornstar, he did falsify business records.

But its a SHAM.

Of all the things trump has done I rate him fucking a pornstar as probably one of the most ethical and understandable actions of his entire life

Guys it's not difficult. MTG is

• morally bankrupt
• corrupt to a comic book level
• incredibly, dangerously stupid
• vacuous of good will or human spirit or kindness
• a hideously awful weapon against democracy and society
• incapable of having even a single good opinion about any topic
• singlemindedly guided by hatred

Look at all that stuff you can talk about. You don't need to point out her fat rolls ffs

Fun fact.

Assume Bill Gates' net worth as a cash amount.

Every time he wanted a meal for the rest of his life, he could buy an entire mcdonalds franchise - 3x a day - and he'd still have over 80% of his fortune left by the time that he probably dies in 15 years.

Yes. Fuck the gold card. Bill Gates could spent 5 million dolalrs every for 15 years and still have over 100 billion dollars left, and that's without doing any kind of interest calculations or whatever.

OP is right and y'all are gonna figure that out eventually

There's so many things to make fun of her for, her body is not one of them

I genuinely don't even know one. My Operations Director drives an X5 (so has that double whammy of SUV driver and BMW driver) and is the kind of person to do 40 through a narrow road 20 zone and act completely indignant when people call her out on it. I've also seen her deliberately speed through a flock of birds.

My brother had a 3 series convertible (double whammy of convertible and bmw driver) and he was the kind of dude to steer with his knee so that he could text more easily.

I recently almost (ALMOST) bought a 1 series and couldn't bring myself to do it (or rather, i didnt want the headache), and now my youtube is dripping in BMW driver memes. Let me tell you, these people have no sense of humour at all

The games quests and characters are its strong point

Wait, you built your first habitat below the ship? So you got the radiation suit pretty early?

Anyway, amazing game.

Republicans go for the balls, break all the rules and stick up for each other.
Democrats rarely punch below the belt, stick to the rules and tear each other apart.

E.g. if your app uses microsoft email to authenticate users

Everything works fine until Microsoft changes some shit randomly and doesn't announce it and then you're scrambling to fix it.

I hate CEOs as much as anyone but making important strategic decisions in uncertain conditions seems like the one task that AI would be singularly terrible at

My most toxic trait is fantasing about having superpowers so that I can dump politicians and their families in gaza and see if they continue to have the same opinions about "necessary action "

I got a job in construction mining in australia despite having zero construction experience and being objectively bad at even basic home DIY. I was pretty useless on the job site, but I made up for it in enthusiasm.

My paycheck then was around $10k per month in take home, with basically zero expenses. Man I really should have milked that job for longer.

Anti biden bros are like people who will let sauron win because they don't like denethor

Sadly there's no gandalf or aragon to swoop in at the last minute so make your damn choice

Does it feel embarrassing being an apologist for the ultra wealthy?

Like what does that feel like. Are you hoping that wealth is going to trickle down like a piss to the face?

MrResetti posted...

Do your rates go down at 25?

I have no idea how the specific fuckery works when it comes to car insurance prices (I can get various different quotes just by slightly changing the wording in my job title), but the basic idea is that young drivers and big engines are heavily penalised, as are older cars, higher emissions and any previous insurance write-offs etc.

TMOG posted...

If it makes him happy and he can afford to do it then it's really none of your business

Bitching about it anonymously on gamefaqs is free and makes me happy, what do you think about that huh?

Neighbour's 18 year kid (works part time at a gas station, earns maybe 12k a year) became enamoured with another neighbours old Lexus because it had a relatively (for UK standards) big engine, like a 4litre V8 or something. Guy sold it to him for 1k because it's old and has all kinds of electrical problems.

the insurance for him to drive it is 400 a month.

I know you pay a lot in insurance in the USA but for reference, 400 is what I pay in car insurance for the entire year. 400 a month is also what you might pay in finance if you wanted to drive a pretty much brand new Lexus RX sport. So he's not even making a stupid decision that makes any goddamn sense. I want to shake him.

I hate this fucking algorithm shit

Weird that I can't find this on ANY news site except...al jazeera?

WTF is going on with western news

Jeff_AKA_Snoopy posted...

How dare mangaka be inspired by what made them love the craft!

What will happen next? Directors who make movies like Steven Spielberg and George Lucas?

How dare someone on CE make a lighthearted topic about it

Like look at the core team:

Main character: Yuji/Naruto

• kind of a himbo
• lacks magical ability
• makes up for it with tenacity and physical stamina
• carrying a ridiculously powerful mythical creature inside

Best friend: Megumi/Sasuke

• moody with spikey black hair
• Child prodigy
• Grapples with morals

Girl in the group: Nobara/Sakura

• Fiery temper/tsundere type
• Uses brute force in combat

Mentor: Gojo/Kakashi

• Spikey white hair
• Eyes/face partially hidden
• easy going demeanour
• Ridiculous once in a milennia prodigy

Seems pretty sus

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They've done some studio tours and it seems like his staff are all really chill and its a good place to work. I bet he is pedantic as fuck to work for but a good boss overall

There's so many tech reviewers who try to compete in this space and somehow they're not even close.

Like, there are other guys that give way better tech information, that break down the hardware, that put out more information. MKBHD just sort of chats casually and somehow he gets right to the heart of the issue and is so damn likeable

Is it literally just that this is the only tech reviewer on the entire planet that seems like a person you would actually like to chat to at a party? I think thats it

I dont know how these things work but woukdbt every team be tripping over themselves to have her?

Americans always misunderstand this.

You don't need a license to have a TV.

The licence is for certain programming amd live service shows. It's basically a government opt in subscription service.

Now If you want to discuss whether its worth it, or the underhanded tactics tv licensing use to make money out of it, we can talk

Seems like a stretch to think the president is responsible for the economy in such a direction and instant way regardless of who you align with

Interesting

I think paying more than like $600 for a phone is gross, so less than that lol

The GOATs or any sport aren't the ones who were geeat for a year, but the ones who were consistently so for a decade. So we will see I guess.

The entire thing seems completely grotesque to me. Just s conveyer belt of death because underprepared tourists queue up and put everyone else at risk

If we all had "perfect" bodies you'd have people modifying their bodies in some way to stand out in some new way

Segue, it makes the aang/katara romance less disturbing

Can someone tell me wtf sokka is wearing in pic 2

like he looks like a missionary recruit from some lame medieval fantasy fiction

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I'll throw you a bone and say those things are cool as fuck

divot1338 posted...

Bruh, Ive survived a fully loaded beer truck hitting me head on at forty mph.

A distracted housewife hitting me in the drivers side front wheel blowing through a red light.

A kid ramming my driver door.

All within the last year and a half.

I didnt feel a thing in my 4Runner. Every one of them but the beer truck was an SUV.

Oh you meant while in a truck yourself. I was talking about as Iif ou're a pedestrian.

It's true that it's safer to be in a truck if you're hit by a truck. It woukd be safer still if everyone wasn't driving trucks.

divot1338 posted...

Well you see the larger size of American cars means they have larger crumple zones.

So in an accident the person reading their phone will most likely not kill me as they drive into me headfirst.

The grill on these trucks are literally head height.

In conventional car design, you will be hit, you'll roll over the hood and off the roof of the car. You'll definitely break your legs but you might survive.

In a truck (and often, it has a bullbar) you are getting smacked by a 7tonne wall of steel to the face. The only thing that's crumpling is your skull.

Romulox28 posted...

pinky maybe u should stick to ur haggis and kilts and leave the big boy trucks to us freedom loving americans

Clown cars are a valid form of self loathing

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What you driving?

cjsdowg posted...

What type of car do you have anyway.

Skoda Superb

Purple_Cheetah posted...

That's what I gathered after a bit. For the US it's totally average/reasonable. In the UK or Europe I could definitely see the comments, since hatchbacks are king.

I've seen this guy daily driving a dualie around here, the back tires and fender flares are exactly the width of a highway lane. Which reminds me of how I haven't seen the local Centurion E350 for a long while. I miss it... it was like a literal unicorn sighting on the road. It looked similiar to this, but with a roof spoiler.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/769b3069.jpg

It's half van, half fullsize dualie pickup, full awesome.

That's pretty awesome ngl

MacadamianNut3 posted...

wow a truck is bigger than a car

much wow n surprise

Why are people getting so held up on this point, are y'all being obtuse on purpose.

If it bothers you so much, let me concede the point - A truck is not a car - and offer a better argument: why is the vehicle of choice for most americans trucks and not cars, why are these trucks getting absurdly bigger every year, why are manufacturers allowed to skirt safety and emission standards based on a pedantic legal loophole when people are clearly using these trucks for non commercial purposes

cjsdowg posted...

Who the fuck tries to hit a turtle. I have to question that aspect of the video. Like saddly I have seem people out of their way to hit a snake. Like just recently..too. But really who hits a turtle .

That part really fucking disturbed me too. I mean any wildlife you hit is bad, but going out of your way to kill a turtle is...hard to explain by any standard

Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

Do you use mpg as a measure? I would have thought it was kilometers per liter

Youd have thought so but the UK is completely stupid when it comes to consistently measuring things. A lot of people will give you their weight in stone, their height in feet and inches and their tape measure measurements (for DIY) in centimetres.

Purple_Cheetah posted...

Is it the truck or the wagon looking one. If it's the wagon thing it's probably due to perspective, as it does look like it has some ass on it. Makes it seem bigger when by itself.

If it's the truck, then that's on you.

It's the wagon. It's quite big by UK standards. Big old ass on it, longer than most cars around here.

Mad_Cow46 posted...

My nice big truck gets 13 MPG on a good day. It my familys daily driver and road trip vehicle. Would buy again.

How much does this cost you in fuel a month, would you say?

mustachedmystic posted...

I like my crossover, and I got 35 mpg on my commute this morning.

Is 35 considered good in America? Like if my car ever said 35mpg I would be taking it to the dealership to get it checked because something would be seriously wrong. 55mpg is what I'd expect on a regular commute and my car is really not particularly fuel efficient at all.

(I'm slightly shitposting at this point, it's cool that you like your car and nothing personal. If I lived in the USA I'd probably be buying a truck too. but I'm serious about the truck criticisms.)