The 10,000 Post Thread v2

[Larks2242 251]

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Wb to the thread hittwice.

[Duke87 1,070]

(1562)

Yup, the snow plow buried my car....

[Muck308 55]

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That's weak, Duke. Have fun with that!

Have a safe trip, hittwice, although I've no idea why anyone would ever want to leave Sydney... what a great town!

[Frdm920 50]

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Because Sydney isn't always as awesome as it seems to be

Happy now Duke? 

[Duke87 1,070]

(1565)

Six, not eight, Fred.

[nathanthemayor 1,261]

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Have a nice trip hitwice!!

[astronelson 339]

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Well, I'm now over half-way to 10,000 posts!

[Duke87 1,070]

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Cookie?

[Frdm920 50]

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Looks like the thread's getting problems again. This page was empty at first

[astronelson 339]

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It loaded fine for me when I posted on it before...

Duke: Yes please.

[Larks2242 251]

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Extra long reboot today.

[Duke87 1,070]

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This morning's interesting brain fart of a simile:

Wedding rings are like occupied lights on airplane bathrooms, they inform people that you're unavailable.

[Muck308 55]

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Met yourself a married woman eh, Duke?

I met a divorced woman a few weeks ago... she never called.

[Larks2242 251]

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Maybe cause she is going though a tough time.

[nathanthemayor 1,261]

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Who is going through a tough time?

[Duke87 1,070]

(1576)

Originally posted by: Muck308

Met yourself a married woman eh, Duke?quote>

Heh. No, I would never make such a comment if it were associated with a particular person. Then it would be very much a private matter.

What that was was a product of a session of letting my mind wander (I have a lot of those). I was running through a rant about silly things people do that serve no functional purpose, and jewelery came up as an item on that list. Then I realized that wedding rings were an exception; they actually do serve a functional purpose. As for why airplane restrooms came up as the thing to compare them to... let's just say my mind can be a strange place.

Actually, I thought restrooms on trains first, but airplanes seemed to make for a better comparison because most people would probably think of that before trains.

[Larks2242 251]

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The randomness of ST.

[Chptrk 86]

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My sister and I just spent all day watching this MangaMinx play Amnesia: The Dark Descent on Youtube.

[astronelson 339]

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Yeah, that's why we love it.

I'll be away for the next few days, my family is taking me camping.

[Frdm920 50]

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Have fun

[Vahr 341]

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Have fun, Astro!

Someone give me a massage... I need it. Faceplanting doesn't quite bode well for your body.

[Duke87 1,070]

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Presenting....

Duke frees his car: a photographic story.

This is the spot in my driveway where my car (and my father's car) will be going.

Here is the driveway. It is plowed now; yesterday it was covered in six inches of snow and impassable. We had to leave our cars on the street, and they are visible there in the background. Mine is the one in front.

A closer view of the situation my car is in. Not that bad, actually. Snow plow didn't bury it as much as I thought it did.  Getting my car into this position was a slip-sliding adventure, though. In case you didn't notice, I'm parked on the wrong side of the street. That doesn't really matter since this is a quiet street and no one ever parks on it (we all have driveways and garages), but still seems to be poor form. Nonetheless, yesterday when I was parking there were 2-3 inches of fresh wet snow covering the street, and once I was successfully at one curb I was going to settle for it regardless of which curb it was!

The front of my car. Tempting to try to pull out this way since there's less snow to go over, but forward is uphill, and there's still snow under all my wheels. Let's check out the back.

More doable, but I shall have to move my father's car first. He got home later after the snow was mostly over (and after the street was plowed), so his car I can just move. No big deal.

The next step is clearing the snow off of my car. And, as I soon discover... a lot of ice! (which I blame the snow plow for)  Here I've gotten a patch of the back window cleared.

This video is an attempt to show what I'm up against here.

Whew... all clear. Now we have to attempt to move this sucker. Looks like that may actually be doable without any digging. One other hurdle remains, though...

I'm parked up against this wall of snow. I had to climb out through the passanger side yesterday afternoon, and I shall have to climb in through the passenger side this morning.

I'm free! Yay!

Mission accomplished.

 

[kj3400 178]

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Looks like your next mission Duke, should you choose to accept it, is to get out of the neighborhood now.

We got some snow a couple of times this week, but nothing to scoff at.

[Frdm920 50]

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Originally posted by: Blue Lightning

Faceplanting doesn't quite bode well for your body.quote>

No it doesn't BL 

[Ocram's Razr 964]

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We usually do not receive quite so much snow in any given decade.

[Skimbo 304]

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The american ford focus is completeley different from the european version....

over here it looks like this....

[Duke87 1,070]

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Well, first of all, the picture you posted is of the coupe (2 door) version, mine is a sedan (4 door). But still, yes, there are going to be some stylistic differences. Most noticeably, my car has a huge trunk, the Euro-sedan seems to have almost none. Probably a consequence of the fact that European cars are usually smaller than American cars.

[Larks2242 251]

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@ Duke does that damage your car sitting on there i would think it would rust.

[twinsfan14 36]

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That's nothin. We had snow up to our second story window last week.  North Dakota in the winter isn't exactly, erm, nice.

@Larks the cars are built to withstand that. As long as you get it running regularly, it should be fine. Of course that's where garages are handy, too.

I just realized that life would be boring as heck without music.

[Duke87 1,070]

(1590)

Originally posted by: Larks2242

does that damage your car sitting on there i would think it would rust.quote>

Nah, the paint protects the car. It can tolerate being left covered in snow.

Besides, car bodies these days are made more out of aluminum than steel, so they wouldn't "rust" in the traditional sense anyway.