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    Yha, it's the thought that counts in this situation
    Yeah, although it'll neither break my social deadlock nor grant me any waffles, so it feels a bit empty...

    ION: FARC got Colombia. I make terrible death squads, although the government was arguably worse. The coca growers seemed way too complacent to even care about shipping their own wares. I think they just sat around with their neighbours and ate the stuff while being generally useless.[/gaming night]
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    Am I going to get shot if I don't even know who Pratchett is...? *dodges bullets*

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    Yeah, although it'll neither break my social deadlock nor grant me any waffles, so it feels a bit empty...

    ION: FARC got Colombia. I make terrible death squads, although the government was arguably worse. The coca growers seemed way too complacent to even care about shipping their own wares. I think they just sat around with their neighbours and ate the stuff while being generally useless.[/gaming night]
    Well, perhaps you could ask them for waffle time?

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    Yeah, although it'll neither break my social deadlock nor grant me any waffles, so it feels a bit empty...
    I've always wanted to go to Sweden...

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    Only just noticed that as of yesterday, new One Direction song. Squeeee! *conjures barrier to deflect hate*

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    Well, perhaps you could ask them for waffle time?
    Yeah, then we're back to the whole deadlock thing I was talking about. If I just found it that easy...
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    I've always wanted to go to Sweden...
    It's kind of nice here. I like it a lot better than some places I don't like. Just make sure to visit at the right time. Early summer is probably the best you want to see stuff, while the winter is the best if you want snow.

    Also, I'd make a terrible travel advisor.
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    Yeah, then we're back to the whole deadlock thing I was talking about. If I just found it that easy...
    *sigh*

    It's kind of nice here. I like it a lot better than some places I don't like. Just make sure to visit at the right time. Early summer is probably the best you want to see stuff, while the winter is the best if you want snow.

    Also, I'd make a terrible travel advisor.
    Yha, good point. *hugs* I wish you luck

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    Only just noticed that as of yesterday, new One Direction song. Squeeee! *conjures barrier to deflect hate*

    Tonight let's get some! And live while we're young! Okay, maybe it doesn't have the best lyrics..
    *flings ALL of the hate at you*

    BAHHHHHHHHH-D. Why post a link to something so earshattering? *cradles bleeding and broken ears, because they fell off*
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    *flings ALL of the hate at you*

    BAHHHHHHHHH-D. Why post a link to something so earshattering? *cradles bleeding and broken ears, because they fell off*
    Oh come on m'dear, it isn't that bad!
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    Who knows anything about cars overheating? This is the third major incident with my Durango dumping all of its coolant everywhere.

    I have had nearly everything in the system replaced (radiator, head gasket(s), probably all of the hoses at one point.)
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    Am I going to get shot if I don't even know who Pratchett is...? *dodges bullets*
    That's... well. It's just a massive gap in your common knowledge. Sir Terry is one of the all-time bestselling UK authors in any genre and one of the most popular fantasy authors, if not the most popular, of the last twenty years.

    Not to mention his charity campaigns which have also been very high profile.

    The quality of the work, and whether it's to your taste, are broadly irrelevant - the name is just something that everyone should know, especially anyone involved in roleplaying or geek culture or whatever. His influence is colossal.

    Also, he wrote an entire book about Australia.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aedilred View Post
    That's... well. It's just a massive gap in your common knowledge. Sir Terry is one of the all-time bestselling UK authors in any genre and one of the most popular fantasy authors, if not the most popular, of the last twenty years.

    Not to mention his charity campaigns which have also been very high profile.

    The quality of the work, and whether it's to your taste, are broadly irrelevant - the name is just something that everyone should know, especially anyone involved in roleplaying or geek culture or whatever. His influence is colossal.

    Also, he wrote an entire book about Australia.
    Considering I love fantasy, this is surprising to me...
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    Who knows anything about cars overheating? This is the third major incident with my Durango dumping all of its coolant everywhere.

    I have had nearly everything in the system replaced (radiator, head gasket(s), probably all of the hoses at one point.)
    For things you haven't said you did:
    Last oil change?
    Have you bled all the air out of your coolant system?
    What condition is your fan belts in? Is your fan reliably working?
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    Considering I love fantasy, this is surprising to me...
    Well, then, there's no time to lose!
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    Not to mention his charity campaigns which have also been very high profile.
    Darn, I've never heard a peep about those.

    Good luck Logic, hope you don't end up with any water damage from all that leakage.
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    For things you haven't said you did:
    Last oil change?
    Have you bled all the air out of your coolant system?
    What condition is your fan belts in? Is your fan reliably working?
    Oil change: ~2-3 months ago, ~2200 miles ago
    Have I bled the air out recently? No. Not entirely sure how to do this (turn the car on with the radiator cap off, perhaps?)
    I have not looked at my fen belts in some time. Status: Unknown.
    Fan Working: Unknown

    (I am not present at the vehicle at the moment, so I cannot get this information to you easily.)

    And another thing that I think bears mentioning: My grandfather would be appalled that a lady knew more about cars than his grandson did. (In my defense, I fix airplanes! It's what I do!)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Logic View Post
    Oil change: ~2-3 months ago, ~2200 miles ago
    Have I bled the air out recently? No. Not entirely sure how to do this (turn the car on with the radiator cap off, perhaps?)
    I have not looked at my fen belts in some time. Status: Unknown.
    Fan Working: Unknown

    (I am not present at the vehicle at the moment, so I cannot get this information to you easily.)

    And another thing that I think bears mentioning: My grandfather would be appalled that a lady knew more about cars than his grandson did. (In my defense, I fix airplanes! It's what I do!)

    I am fine taking advice of (almost) any sort from nearly anyone.
    I couldn't tell you and I don't know if you'd be able to find DIY materials online that would be trustworthy enough for you to try it at home. I presume, this being the information age and all that you'd be able to find something out of all the dross and dreck that mucks about the place, but we all know what assuming does. Not really sure what all I could say if I did know though, given the nature of advice.

    I must admit though, one thing that has always annoyed me about how I was raised was that I never really did get taught the kinds of hands-on, necessary low-level handyman skills by my father. Granted, I spent most of my childhood being too much of a bookworm and general loser to have thought to ask to learn at the time, given that I was more interested in how explosions work than how to properly join things together or take care of what any adult should be capable of doing with their car or in the kitchen.
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    model Limbo is a place that is totally insane. It’s a place where the answer to every question really is “Giant
    Frog”. Creatures of Chaos then proceed to go to non Chaotically-aligned planes and are disappointed and
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    I can not stop laughing at this.
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    I couldn't tell you and I don't know if you'd be able to find DIY materials online that would be trustworthy enough for you to try it at home. I presume, this being the information age and all that you'd be able to find something out of all the dross and dreck that mucks about the place, but we all know what assuming does. Not really sure what all I could say if I did know though, given the nature of advice.

    I must admit though, one thing that has always annoyed me about how I was raised was that I never really did get taught the kinds of hands-on, necessary low-level handyman skills by my father. Granted, I spent most of my childhood being too much of a bookworm and general loser to have thought to ask to learn at the time, given that I was more interested in how explosions work than how to properly join things together or take care of what any adult should be capable of doing with their car or in the kitchen.
    In response to your first paragraph: Experience beats a random Google search any day. I was hoping the playground had some experienced car mechanics or handy-men-persons.

    I was lucky in the handy man skills I got, compared to my brother. I learned how to do every day home repairs, change my own oil, tires, fix a flat, put an egg in a radiator as a temp fix (not on this car, I swear) while my brother learned how to "shut up and hold the flashlight!"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Logic View Post
    In response to your first paragraph: Experience beats a random Google search any day. I was hoping the playground had some experienced car mechanics or handy-men-persons.

    I was lucky in the handy man skills I got, compared to my brother. I learned how to do every day home repairs, change my own oil, tires, fix a flat, put an egg in a radiator as a temp fix (not on this car, I swear) while my brother learned how to "shut up and hold the flashlight!"
    True that. I just like to expel a cloud of words like an ink defense.

    I must admit, I hadn't heard of the egg in a radiator trick before. Now I've heard of people putting eggs on radiators before, but I think that was out of some misunderstanding of where one can cook an egg under the hood.

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    model Limbo is a place that is totally insane. It’s a place where the answer to every question really is “Giant
    Frog”. Creatures of Chaos then proceed to go to non Chaotically-aligned planes and are disappointed and
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    I can not stop laughing at this.
    Gah. I remember reading this and it was hilarious. Where did you find this?
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    Yeah, anytime is probably not going to happen until I get my hands on a flight certificate (which requires time and commitment) and a good long-range propeller plane with decent storage space (which requires a few millions on my bank account).
    Or you could go to any third world country (waves flags) and get your license with a lot less effort, last time I checked it was only a number of written tests, 40 hours of flight time, the 10 hour solo time and the examination.

    As for price... you can get as low as 50$ thousands which is around the price of mid-high range SUV or twice the cost of a Mini Cooper Salt (at least where I live). The Piper PA-23 250, or the Cessna 402 both are around that price range if you know where to look and both should be able to cross the Atlantic if you look for the smallest possible water leg on the Northern Route (though the reason for such a low price probably would imply that it shouldn't be used for such a trip). Even then, you can probably split the payment of the plane on parts or split it along with other aviation enthusiasts willing to share the plane and maintenance costs, in which case you could look for something slightly better at a slightly higher price.

    Alternatively steal the Spirit of St. Louis.
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    *cries*

    I live in an absolute pigsty, and I'm fed up of it. My housemates don't seem to care that the house is filthy and I can't manage the effort to keep it clean on my own.

    It was really brought home to me how little they care today, when I wanted to wipe the table (which was absolutely filthy, all sorts of debris on it) before dinner, and they not only didn't feel the need to, they honestly didn't seem to understand why I did. They said it didn't matter what the table was like because the plates were clean.

    I don't even. How can they live like that?
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    Oh, Cessnas. My dad still occasionally regurgitates jokes about nuclear-tipped cessnas from the 80s.

    Helio: I'm sorry to hear that. I think part of it is that from growing up with lax habits and being inured to a bit of grime on non-essential surfaces and then there's the weird bit that comes from being in university and buying into some kind of cultural value that they can wait until they get older to be conscientious about such things. But there's a big blank as to the lion's share of where such things come from, even with those two potential sources for partially accounting for nurture. I've no idea what, if any, role nature plays here.

    I'm currently dealing with trying to keep the place neat despite two people who are essentially invalids, another person who actively avoids staying here because it's messy and the idea of cleaning overwhelms her psyche or she overexerts herself getting one room halfway clean in a mad rush and then has to recover from the psychic trauma, and myself.

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    *cries*

    I live in an absolute pigsty, and I'm fed up of it. My housemates don't seem to care that the house is filthy and I can't manage the effort to keep it clean on my own.

    It was really brought home to me how little they care today, when I wanted to wipe the table (which was absolutely filthy, all sorts of debris on it) and they not only didn't feel the need to, they honestly didn't seem to understand why I did. They said it didn't matter what the table was like because the plates were clean.

    I don't even. How can they live like that?
    You could scare them by purchasing domesticated rats and seeing them panic to clean it all up.

    Or maybe not since they could decide they are wonderful pets (which they are).

    Try setting a bins system, just have bins everywhere, it's easier to take out trash then have to permanently collect it. Or get an incinerator, they'll throw trash on it if only for the amusement of seeing stuff burn.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Heliomance View Post
    *cries*

    I live in an absolute pigsty, and I'm fed up of it. My housemates don't seem to care that the house is filthy and I can't manage the effort to keep it clean on my own.

    It was really brought home to me how little they care today, when I wanted to wipe the table (which was absolutely filthy, all sorts of debris on it) before dinner, and they not only didn't feel the need to, they honestly didn't seem to understand why I did. They said it didn't matter what the table was like because the plates were clean.

    I don't even. How can they live like that?
    I'd say sit them down and give them a good talk on how bad it is, especially hygiene-wise. I am in a predicament slightly better than this, but not by much. But then, my roommates have been very stressed (complicated, long story) so I don't mind it as much.

    Living with my Dad and stepmum for a few years really beats the 'dirty-ness' out of you... Seeing as my Dad is a neat freak (to a degree) and my stepmum works as a cleaner, yeah... I'd get yelled at just because I had maybe a sock on the floor.
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    *cries*

    I live in an absolute pigsty, and I'm fed up of it. My housemates don't seem to care that the house is filthy and I can't manage the effort to keep it clean on my own.

    It was really brought home to me how little they care today, when I wanted to wipe the table (which was absolutely filthy, all sorts of debris on it) before dinner, and they not only didn't feel the need to, they honestly didn't seem to understand why I did. They said it didn't matter what the table was like because the plates were clean.

    I don't even. How can they live like that?
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    My sister's roommate refuses to throw out expired food until it has been tried and found rancid. I once ate some of her yogurt that was 5 weeks past its expiration date. Point is, people can live pretty much any way you can think of if they're lazy enough.
    Dimonite is sadly correct. Though here it's not really the same... Instead my roommates will leave perishables (milk for example) out for a day or two when I'm not home, it'll either go off, or will in a few days and just, urgh.. They always do it when I go away for a few days.
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    You know... I got a similar education concerning car repair to your brother, except without being told to stop talking. But then... I'm just naturally quiet.

    All in all, I make a great assistant when it comes to mechanical matters, otherwise, I'm mostly useless.
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