The new randomness (Page 7 of 13)

I feel sorry for you.

Chuck Bartowski understands your pain.

Well I'm gonna go ahead and give myself a big pat on the back today.

I changed the timing belt in my Jetta by myself. Was a pretty big job, all in all it took about 10 hours for me to complete it. I started on it yesterday, finished today. I did take quite a few breaks, and it was the first time I've done it.

I spent roughly $220 on the kit, which included the timing belt, accessory belt (alternator, etc), a new tensioner pulley, and tensioner, along with a new water pump and thermostat. Most shops charge upwards of $800 for the job, so I saved at least $600. I'm lucky enough to have a shop and the tools necessary for the job, plus another vehicle to drive.

Here's a pic I took with just the cover off. Pretty much everything you see on the left side of the engine came out, all the hoses, etc. Then I took off the engine mount, and the bracket that connects it to the engine. Put a jack under the engine with a 2x4 on the oil pan and moved the engine up and down as necessary to reach what I needed to.

Fun fact, wikipedia is temporarily inexplicably down.
Back up.  Wasn't just me, I actually checked with others.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGSXMuWMR4 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHRKkXtxDRA

That sucks. I have a closet full of old Dell keyboards, they're all black, haha most of them are still PS/2 connections. But hey, they work!

It'd probably be more expensive for me to ship one that way then it would be to buy one new.

He stared at it long enough.

On screen keyboard... That's rough.

Can't you get a cheap keyboard from Wal-Mart for like $15?

The computers will fix themselves if you let them be.

How is Mass Effect 2? My sister fucked up the Xbox again, so I'm going to order a new one. I'm also going to get a couple of games with it.

I never played the first Mass Effect, so I don't know if it's something I'd enjoy.

Erik I think I played Xbox with your sister once.  It was kinda weird.

And Alex, what do you mean by limited ammo?  Did they actually make you have finite ammo in this game?

Look her up on Facebook, Katharina Friedland

To answer your question, no.

Harsh.

"I even get my age wrong sometimes."  -CheesyBread

This:

Although, I agree it would be weird if someone said their sibling was hot.

"I even get my age wrong sometimes."  -CheesyBread

I approve

http://www.shadyurl.com/
Kinda funny idea.  It's pretty weird that no one's posted in this thread for almost 2 weeks.

That site is great but good luck getting anyone to click on one. Jasoco the "ironic" link isn't working for me, care to share the irony?

that definitely warrants a WTF.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljEC7HKbP0g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQJFv9SM … r_embedded

Damn.

Yeah, he's pretty funny.

Have you seen Kevin Hearts' stand up? He's one of my favorite comedians.

The more recent Aziz Ansari is hilarious too.

Hillary Duff is engaged...

LOL

“One of the most prominent icons of modern day Christianity, the Crocoduck is capable of dispelling all arguments in favor of Atheism and Darwinism simply by not existing. Its sworn enemy is the platypus, which, in harsh contrast, is capable of proving god does not exist by existing.”

Wow all that caught on (digital) film.

The creeper is almost definitely a paparazzo. But to answer your question, it appears so.

please keep the she-male off the forums. kthxbi.

Awesome in the sense that she is played endlessly on the radio. I won't judge, plus my 3 sisters and many people I know love her. To each their own.

Whenever I work out and forget my iPod I am forced to listen to 4 of her songs essentially on repeat on the St. Louis top 40 station they have blasting in the gym. It gets really annoying. Speaking of which I've concluded that top 40 stations play the same 10 songs all day, not 40. Other stations are no better, which is why I never listen to the radio.

Fa fa fa fa fa fa - fa fa fuck her face!

I seriously thought that's what the song was until I saw the music video.  I was like "Hey!  They can't put the fuck her face song on muchmusic!"

Poker face, in case my unbelievably great text singing didn't do it for you.

Are we seriously talking about Lady Gaga?... She needs to fade away soon.

She'd do better in porno.

"I woke up this morning and I just can't think of any better way to describe it, but I felt mysteriously like Sean Combs, you know?" -- Anonymous NeoGAF member

“One of the most prominent icons of modern day Christianity, the Crocoduck is capable of dispelling all arguments in favor of Atheism and Darwinism simply by not existing. Its sworn enemy is the platypus, which, in harsh contrast, is capable of proving god does not exist by existing.”

Lady Gaga is terrible, but Ke$ha is worse.

And I think this post should mark the end of any discussion of them here.

"I even get my age wrong sometimes."  -CheesyBread

I hate radio because of being a convenience store clerk for so long.  It was always blaring in the background and I would try my hardest to shut it off.  Then othe employees would come out and say "Hey man why is the radio off?" and just turn in back on.  I was basically the only one who hated the radio but they NEEDED it on for some reason.  I now have a bunch of shitty year old songs stuck in my head.

Len I just googled it...lmao.

Wow kesha (I'm not using the fucking dollar sign) is really offensively bad. Why do people like music like that? All autotuned, generic beats...She's not even attractive, so what's the point of her being in a video, let alone being a mainstream female singer? Fuck modern mainstream music. It's so bad. I keep hearing this song on the radio when I'm at the gym that has the lyric "I'm trying to find the words that describe this girl without being disrespectful" sang out in hideous autotune. That doesn't even make sense. He can't find a word to describe an appearance that wouldn't piss the girl off? Is he a fucking retard?

I don't like to sound condecending when I talk about music but honestly anything but this crap...I could find artistic merit in almost every genre of music out there. But this cookie cutter generic club pop garbage needs to die.

I'd rather listen to silence than than most songs on the radio.

What happened to when pop music was made by bands like The Beatles? I mean that was catchy, popular music that wasn't dumbed down so all the morons could enjoy it. The guys actually played all the instruments and sang all the vocal tracks. And no FUCKING AUTOTUNE.

This is much better.

The accent reminds me of Flight of the Conchords.

“One of the most prominent icons of modern day Christianity, the Crocoduck is capable of dispelling all arguments in favor of Atheism and Darwinism simply by not existing. Its sworn enemy is the platypus, which, in harsh contrast, is capable of proving god does not exist by existing.”

The sweet home alabama was fused with werewolves of london...if you listen you can hear it.  It's the piano.

I liked werewolves of london.

I liked sweet home alabama.

So I got to like the song.  I know it's a terrible thing, but rest assured that I listened to the separate originals of the above mentioned songs about 100x as much as I ever heard all summer long.  I like Hank Williams so it's also my duty to hate Kid Rock.

Oh no, I would fuck the shit out of Lady Gaga. I know she's really not that great looking without all her make-up and what not, but when she's on stage or in the videos... Yup, I'd have no problem with it.

You mean "Hear, hear"?

Here, here means "Wait a minute, I disagree!"

Hear, hear means "I agree with what you are saying!!!"

“One of the most prominent icons of modern day Christianity, the Crocoduck is capable of dispelling all arguments in favor of Atheism and Darwinism simply by not existing. Its sworn enemy is the platypus, which, in harsh contrast, is capable of proving god does not exist by existing.”

"Here, here!" means "Here, I have a gigantic penis to blow Lady Gaga with!"

*grabs crotch*

Get it?

eh, used to be  huge fan. he got too into the kanye movement, but he's definitely a very talented kid.

No. I didn't. You actually only have 2,936 posts. 4 were deleted.

I have 7,307 posts. ~100 were deleted.

“One of the most prominent icons of modern day Christianity, the Crocoduck is capable of dispelling all arguments in favor of Atheism and Darwinism simply by not existing. Its sworn enemy is the platypus, which, in harsh contrast, is capable of proving god does not exist by existing.”

I really don't care though, I was just curious what you had posted in so many times to get that high?

Was it all those personal threads you made?

For the record I do not have the ability to modify post counts.

No, I know you guys don't, I didn't say you did. I was just saying that you remember the whole taking over the forum thing, blah blah blah...

Then Erik's post count got set to zero for a little bit, everyone bitches, and then it went back to what it was before.

LMAO I lol'd!  That was epic.

*wipes tear*

Hehe.  I love Willy Wonka.

I find it funny that this thread was started in 2006 and we are still posting in it.

Bitches aint shit but hos and tricks...

Listening to Dr. Dre - Chronic 2001

Which reminds me, why don't we have a babe thread? No total nudes, but I think it'd be entertaining anyways.

Post 1001. I 2nd the babe thread. I'll let you do the honors if you want to start it, in case it turns into one of those epics threads like this one that last years. But I can't promise it'll stay PG-13, lol.

Well, how many of our Elite members are mature enough? Just use the Red Light District.

“One of the most prominent icons of modern day Christianity, the Crocoduck is capable of dispelling all arguments in favor of Atheism and Darwinism simply by not existing. Its sworn enemy is the platypus, which, in harsh contrast, is capable of proving god does not exist by existing.”

Everybody is 4 years older since you took over Geekpub in 06

Use the RLD since outsiders can read, but not post in the first 5 forums. But they can't see the two Elite ones.

I won't shut it down unless it gets really bad. By which I mean stuff no one wants to see.

“One of the most prominent icons of modern day Christianity, the Crocoduck is capable of dispelling all arguments in favor of Atheism and Darwinism simply by not existing. Its sworn enemy is the platypus, which, in harsh contrast, is capable of proving god does not exist by existing.”

Who cares...Whatever we post can be found on the internet anyway.

Someone's gotta do it.

Have fun man.

Did you just question that he said "cya"?

As promised:

Front door, view from outside. The glass spread all over the inside and the brick was found about 20 feet away from the door.

Click for larger view

Inside view, after being boarded up.

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They finally cracked the Starcraft 2 beta but you can only play AI right now and it's not as fun as playing another person. But I still can't wait for this game.

a) Yes it's the deli/store I was telling you about on XBL. I work there Friday night and Saturday for 8 hours.

b) Illinois is expensive for cigarettes compared to other states (besides NY and CA). Premiums off sale are $5.59-$5.99. In MO across the river they are a couple bucks cheaper per pack. I know smokes in Canada are expensive but just to give you an idea how much cigarette prices spiked: Premiums in IL 6 years ago were $2.99.

c) I don't blame you, you sneaky bastard.

Marlboro Lights run about $5.50-$6.25 a pack here depending on where you buy them, and in Missouri they are waaay cheaper.

A can of Copenhagen is roughly $6, too.

I was digging the Copenhagen Wintergreen for $3.17/can, but that's over now :sadface:

If I could get it for free (which I can) I wouldn't touch the stuff.

You're doing it wrong, haha.

Nah, I'm just playin, not sure why I like it, but it tastes pretty good to me, and I dip Copenhagen, which, if you thought Skoal was rough, just take a smell of Cope.

Eh, I smoke when I drink, I enjoy it because it's something to do, and for a while (nearly two years) I smoked daily.

I just couldn't stand smelling like smoke all the time. I can take a dip out, go inside somewhere and no one knows I ever had one in. And I have both my hands, smoke isn't going in my eyes when I have to use both hands, etc.

I still smoke when I drink, but not that often.

Thing is, evidently it's a helluvalot harder to stop dipping then it is smoking, reason being one dip has about as much nicotine as 3-5 cigarettes. When you go through a can a day, that's a lot of nicotine.

I agree, but the oral fixation and the act of inhaling pure gratification is stronger in cigarettes than in dip, even though the dose is lower.  Compare it to injecting a drug...say heroin.  If you eat a gram a heroin you will get very high over the course of a few hours and be satisfied for possibly half the day (with a habit) and come down gradually and no one will know you ate it.  If you smoke heroin, you get high instantly because it crosses the blood/brain barrier more rapidly than eating, snorting, or recal insertion.  If you inject heroin, you get the ultimate effect by completely surpassing the blood/brain barrier mechanism and devilering pure chemical into the bloodstream, which is pumped thorugh the heart and directly into the brain.  Smoking is somewhere between dipping and snuff (snorting powdered tobacco popular in europe) and injecting pure nicotine.  It is more instantly graifying anf pleasureable, and therefore harder to kick.

Also, smoking is almost identical to injection in blood/brain barrier terms.  Intravenous injection allows the drug to pass pure through the hypodermic, into the vein, into the ateial system, into the heart which subsequently pumps the chemical into the brain in a pure form.  This causes an immediate and predictable effect in patients of any size or shape.  As a comparsion, a smaller person may require 325mg of tylenol (acetaminophen) to abate a headache when someone my size would require 1000mg.  Comparably, smoking causes the drug to be vaporized and absorbed into the bloodstream immediately through the aveoli of the lungs and surpasses the liver and kidneys in the same way an injected substance would.  This is why crack cocaine is so popular and addictive.  It allows the intravenous effect of cocaine to be experienced without poking oneself with a needle and simply smoking the crack, which provides immediate and intense gratification.  Nictotine works on some of the same receptors in the brain as cocaine and heroin.  It is speculated to be harder to quit than both those drugs, but I believe that to be a result of social usgae and acceptance in modern culture.

What's hilarious is the amount of people that smoke in Europe (Germany specifically), yet they have a longer life span then us.

It's not tobacco that's killing us, it's the food we eat and the lack of exercise.

I've had roughly 8 beers this evening. I'm about to go outside to smoke my cigarette before I go to bed (the only one I smoke every day), and as long as things go as planned, I'll go to bed immediately afterwards.

This one cig makes me very happy.

They should sell these at Wal-Mart... (By the way, pup is only 6 months old... Already 68Lbs)

He likes balls, too. But he likes pulling shit around more, for instance he'll go find a log, not a stick, but a log, and bring it into the front lawn for no reason.

Heh heh.

"I even get my age wrong sometimes."  -CheesyBread

Gender and color? And women may be goldfish.

Dead forum is dead.

Indeed.

I've been busy with school and ass, mostly ass.