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  • HAYZ1LLLA0

    Do Americans use DIY as an expression much?
    Do It Yourself is extremely popular saying in the UK but I'm working on a US thing and want to know if it will go across well.

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  • PonyBoy2

    “If you ever think about going to the dark side and getting back into a FTE roll (at XXX) let me know.”

    —XXX XXXX, Director of Creative Services, Big-ass American Insurance Company

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    • traveler's, the oldest american insurance company has had profits in the 13-14 billion dollar range lately. take that fucking moneyimbecile
    • FTE and 100% WFHok_not_ok
    • FTE and 100% PIITB
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    • you'd be in the $250K plus some benefits range there!bulletfactory
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  • zaq21

    50 today
    Instead of a traditional celebration, I dropped everything and flew to Mexico by myself. No kids, no wife, no friends, Just me... in a Mayan Temple... reflecting on the past 50, planning the next 50.

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    • were you high as fuck? or are you going to be?pango
    • I like itscarabin
    • I wish I had done the same, now I don't know what to do for the rest of my 50s ;) Being serious, congrats!OBBTKN
    • Your wife and kids know you're planning on coming back, right? Right?
      ;)

      Have fun!      microkorg
    • So what else did you do in that temple huh?milfhunter
    • Get off the fucking internet if you're there!Nairn
    • But post some pictures from the other side if you can. Some winged serpents if you can! HBD!uan
    • brilliant!Gardener
    • Awesome happy birthday and welcome to Mexico!YakuZoku
    • happy belated. stoked you rocked your bday with style.dibec
    • Thanks for the greetings!!

      @pango I got a three-day supply of booze made of cold-pressed juice. Cleanse was my high.      zaq
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  • bainbridge1

    I don't feel like I'm learning anything anymore at my job.

    After a few years, I feel like I do the same thing over and over and it's easier, but not exciting at all anymore.

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    • signs your getting old thread.d_gitale
    • I don't remember the last time I learned anything related to my job.i_monk
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  • maikel4

    I wonder how many people I bump into on a normal day would catch the reference if I were to print a t-shirt saying:

    "finding myself a bit hungry, so i may go and get a snack"

    Probably on Helvetica 85, white on black.

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    • i didnt find what i was looking for in the fridge, so i may have to go to the store!Miesfan
    • Make the t-shirt look Swiss, so that it staysGnash
    • Do it, but for god's sake, use grids ;)OBBTKN
    • And add "face first in to a propeller" in much smaller typedmay
    • There’s like 12 of us left on here so good luck!_niko
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  • Gardener4

    This a bit of a rambling and very brief summary of an event from my past which I was sharing with someone who asked me about a life journey. So I related this story which I guess is OK to share with you guys as just typing it out brought back tons of memories (I did keep a diary at the time too so have oodles of sordid details, lol)

    In brief as I can put it, I once went on a weekend trip to Amsterdam with a mate and we had a great first night out dancing in a club, however the following morning he decided he just wasn't enjoying the vibes in the city so decided to head home. I had no intention of doing so and hung around for a couple more days, when I happened to get friendly with an Australian lady who was working her way around Europe and South America and had been in the city for a few weeks. I met her in a hotel one morning and we hit it off straight away and we went on dates chatting and playing endless games of backgammon (and smoking industrial amounts of weed) and quickly became good friends but kept it cordial.

    When I left to go home a few days later I gave her my address in England and hoped we might meet up again one day. Three months later my doorbell rang out of the blue she was standing on my doorstep. I invited her in of course and we carried on our friendship like we'd met just the day before but it escalated to sex within days. We got on so well she stayed with me for another 2 months and by Christmas of that year she said she wanted to head back home to Australia and maybe we could do some travelling together and would I come with her. So I put my flat on the market and within weeks I had sold it and we headed down under on one-way tickets.

    When we arrived in Oz her parents were overjoyed their daughter had returned after so many years working and travelling abroad. They were not so overjoyed that the man she'd come home with was hoping to take her off travelling again only this time to Asia. After a few weeks of stressful living in their house (dad was a racist ex gambler, mum was paranoid pill popper) we moved into a flat together in Sydney, but the money I had saved was already starting to go down rapidly and even more so when I started getting bad toothache. Having no dental insurance I got hit for $2,000 and I was forced to try and find work to raise enough money to carry on our travelling dream.
    I had no work permit at the time so took what I could get but the stress of all this put our relationship under more pressure, so much so that we split up. So I was left alone in a foreign country with no girlfriend little money and not even a plane ticket home. I was starting to get to my wits end when just by chance I saw an advert for a fortune teller reading Tarot Cards so thought what I have I got to lose but a couple of dollars. So I took a punt on something I had never previously considered before and the lady who read my cards told me I would reunite with my girlfriend and that we would indeed go travelling in Asia all within a few months but, although I would have a great time she would get really poorly and have misfortune and would want to return home and that we would split up for good somewhere overseas.

    Well to cut a long story short we DID get back together, we DID go travelling in Nepal, India, Burma, etc and I had an absolutely fantastic time however despite me never telling my girlfriend what the fortune teller had told me (as she thought it was all a load of bollocks anyway) she did indeed have a rotten time, getting food poisoning three times and even ending up in hospital on an island in Thailand after nearly chopping her hand off on a ceiling fan.
    We finally made it back to England after many months but returning to a rainy Milton Keynes was the final straw and she decided to go back to sunny Australia offering me the chance to go with her but I just decided to stay and start a life afresh here, so when she flew out of Gatwick Airport that was the last time I ever saw her, but so many journeys starting from a chance meeting in a hotel foyer. I should probably write a book haha.

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  • Nutter3

    I got my friedge replaced the other day, and the doors opens the correct way! Only took three months of phone calls, waiting for repair guys and more phone calls.

    Phew.

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    • what's this "correct way" you speak of. i thought it was quite easy to flip a fridge doorscruffics
    • the doors opened inwards?Fax_Benson
    • Correct way = left to right (due to placement).

      Yes normally but a single bolt would not come lose and so the whole fridge had to be replaced.      Nutter
    • Aren't doors on fridges all fairly easily swappable?Nairn
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  • Longcopylover7

    There is a video the Saudi governement doesn't want to be shared on vice anymore. Since they bought vice, they just pulled it from all their sites.
    But yeah, the internet is a magical place. So here it is from webarchive and we all should watch it:

    https://rb.gy/r86k8

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    • Maybe it also just got pulled from there. Next try: https://web.archive.…Longcopylover
    • Forget this, click the link in the next post, that works somehow.Longcopylover
    • I'll watch it anyway, but is Vice owned by the Saudis?Nairn
    • Not really bought, but they have "a deal". So money was flowing: https://www.theguard…Longcopylover
    • Mohammed Bin Salman, the man who puts the Mohammed Bin Salman in the phrase 'US intelligence believes that Mohammed Bin Salman....BuddhaHat
    • ... authorised the assassination of Washgtin Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi'BuddhaHat
    • I think they also bought internet archive since you posted this. Waiting for them to buy QBN now.Beeswax
    • no more Vice for me thenYakuZoku
    • i've saved the video and will re-up it hoping to be bought out by the saudishans_glib
    • reup to gofile.iosted
    • plssted
    • That's a 404 on that Guardian link.Continuity
    • Article is still there, Its the url limit on here, forever cutting the end off links and sometimes breaking them.webazoot
    • can someone tell us what it's about without us having to watch it?Krassy
    • here u can watch or dl:
      https://gofile.io/d/…      sted
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  • Longcopylover2

    ^ Maybe like this? (Sorry for the multi-posts, url shortener kills it)

    https://web.archive.org/web/2023…

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  • Nutter2

    Regarding what happened to VICE and its current state this article documents it pretty well: https://novaramedia.com/2023/08/…

    "In one particularly bleak scene, Jax staff moved a photo depicting a protester at a Sarah Everard protest in London in 2021, who is being arrested by police while wearing a t-shirt saying “Abuse of power comes as no surprise”, and replaced it with a map of Saudi Arabia.

    “That was a step too far. It felt tone deaf. How insensitive do you want to be?” said an employee who has since left the company.

    “It’s a completely hostile environment”, said a current employee. “It’s ridiculous.”"

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  • drgs1

    I despise Google. It's cached history of QBN is now down to the last 6 months?

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    • Gotta roll your own copy, bro.Nairn
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  • bainbridge0

    I'm making an extra $10k this year on a side project that is costing me $2k.

    Is there anything tax-wise I should be thinking about. Assuming this is too little for incorporation?

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    • Expense the hell out of it - home office space, accounting fees, capx purchases...Gnash
    • You can still treat your practice as a sole proprietorship.cannonball1978
    • Set aside 33% for taxesmonospaced
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  • BuddhaHat10

    Only worked 3.5 days this week, spent time with family, played with my baby and watched her cover herself head to toe in pasta sauce, got 90km of riding in on a 21C day with perfect sunshine, about to make a big steak with roast potatoes and greens. Fucking awesome day.

    Can we adopt the 4-day work week already please? This beats the shit out of working.

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    • Why stop at 4?palimpsest
    • Envious of that bike ride ;)

      Bien hecho!!      OBBTKN
    • Amen.

      BUT $$$ / workaholic(s) / etc.

      I think a few folks lives are their work, which to me is sad.      ideaist
    • ALSO fantastic @ 90km ride; cycling is the only time I still feel like a kid always.ideaist
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  • NBQ000

    Thinking of getting tattoos later this year. For the first time in my life. Midlife crisis?

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    • see tattoo threads_niko
    • I'm thinking of getting sleeves done in a year or two.i_monk
    • I am also contemplating a tattoo. How odd. I've never had any desire for one, but I'm thinking of getting 4130 on my right hand palm.Horp
    • Why 4130drgs
    • interesting, I have a few already but also have the hankering for some more at the moment.BuddhaHat
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  • PonyBoy7

    My Wife's going through a bunch of boxes at work rotating books out for patients... she just came across a first edition Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and a first edition Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince... both hard cover in near pristine shape w/dust covers.

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  • imbecile4

    this bitch, half a dozen times a day...

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    • Rabit! Delicious with vegetables and rice ;)OBBTKN
    • haha... same w/my pup... we live so rural that we encounter skunks, bunnies, possum, foxes etc... she nearly rips my arm from it's socket daily. <3PonyBoy
    • Same except not rural. Just cats, other dogs and guineafowl.skinny_puppy
    • Also <3skinny_puppy
    • :)sted
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  • BuddhaHat3

    A real fucking weird dude who lives in his car has setup shop just outside my home office window, he is totally manic. List of activities in the last few hours:

    1. He has emptied the contents of the car out on the sidewalk and reloaded it.
    2. He has taken a couple of the wheels off the car and put them back on.
    3. He has wiped the words 'HOW WILL HISTORY REMEMBER US?' off his back window and has replaced it a huge paragraph of unintelligible scrawl.
    4. He has spent the last half an hour fiddling with something under the hood, followed by turning and holding the ignition without letting go for about 2 minutes before the engine finally started again.

    He has removed the front passenger sear of the car entirely by the looks of it, and just has to shove everything piled on the driver's seat every time he moves. A sewing machine has remained outside the passenger door for the entire duration. Perhaps it is his most prized possession?

    On the bright side, when I went out there and asked him politely to turn his radio down, he said 'sorry, sorry...' and then babbled a bunch of things I couldn't understand, so at least it was a fairly uneventful interaction.


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  • OBBTKN5

    Tired after being all the weekend sanding and painting our garage door.

    Now, some chickpeas to eat and I hope the afternoon is calm, tomorrow will be another day.

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    • Cider is the answer.palimpsest
    • Sadly, any cider left in the bodega, it's going to have to be wine ;)OBBTKN
    • anyone know the difference between a chickpea and a garbanzo bean?imbecile
    • Man’s a nutter. Love listening to him while I rub, no matter how much pain I’m on he’s always in million times worse pain and keeps me going :)_niko
    • Run I meant run! Lol_niko
    • Ok, _niko. That's enough IDW for you for one day.palimpsest
    • imbecile: R Kelly never had a garbanzo bean on his faceAkagiyama
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  • drgs2

    I have one brain cell which registers whenever I have something copied to my clipboard. I feel the weight until it's pasted/released...

    Discuss

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    • I have the same, be it an image or text, I hold it while I do a bunch of daft tasks then go back. though the worst is forgetting and copying something else.PhanLo
    • And when copying, one Ctrl+C is not enough, its Ctrl+C Ctrl+C Ctrl+Cdrgs
    • ^haha I don’t know why that isfuturefood
    • use an app that expands your clipboard to accept more so you can copy like 10 things and drive yourself crazycanoe
    • On PC I have enabled the windows key +v clipboard so I often have multiple things in my clipboard. You could say I get wild sometimes.BuddhaHat
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