Everything posted by Okie State
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The New Car Fanatic Thread
The interior colors on old cars are so great. My Grandpa had a 1964 Mercury Montclair. Blue exterior and interior. Thankfully my Uncle kept it and restored it to its former glory.
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Sell Me a Washing Machine
The cheaper models still have the top lint traps. I usually try to go cheaper just because they're simpler with less shit to break. Or just buy a Speed Queen that's simple and expensive.
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
Backlash for what? Unless you had symptoms or knowingly attended the training while you were sick.
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ERCOT Urging For Energy Conservation
We typically keep ours at 74 when we're home and that's fine to me. I could go to 76, but higher than that starts to suck. Seems like everyone else I know keeps theirs at 68-70 which seems insane to me. No thanks to $500 electricity bills. Thankfully my new house has more shade and badass windows. We'll see how that works out during the Summer months.
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ERCOT, PUC, and deregulation got us here
Mine is set to 78 when I'm not at the house. Has fuck all to do with Ercot asking me to though.
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Abbott being Abbott
So illegals are responsible for our crime, spreading Covid, formula shortages...what else? Need to get my talking points straight.
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Abbott being Abbott
I swear I read in the property tax thread where the state just disappeared a $1.4B windfall last year. They could use that to 'relieve the burden'. Or maybe that was just fake news.
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
But the speed limit is 70!
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
That's because all of the people on Nextdoor bitching that some suspicious man knocked on their door asking for access to their backyard WITH NO WARNING!
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Fuck this city.
If you don't buy a $550K watch, how else would you post on Surly about your $550K watch?
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Got damned Surly. Lol
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Dumbass Shit We See On Facebook
Tailored jersey
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
She passed a while ago. Crazy you knew her. Small world.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
OU and Texas were supposed to play in the CCG last year too. I read it on the internet.
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Austin housing affordability crisis
Fucking criminal enterprise. Not a damn thing will happen either.
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Electric Power Washer Recs?
From what I read not all foam cannons work well with electric due to the lower GPM throughput. I need to revisit though before I finally buy one.
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Recommend me a dishwasher
Bosch is basically unattainable for 9-12 months last I checked. I found a Miele in stock online and it was delivered in a week.
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Austin housing affordability crisis
Is that for HISD only? Not sure what is considered 'Houston' anymore.
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Austin housing affordability crisis
This was a few months ago. We bought before we sold. Probably paid too much, but got more than we were expecting so fuck it, right?
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Austin housing affordability crisis
We sold our pretty basic although somewhat upgraded house in the West Houston burbs for almost $100K more than I thought it was worth. Had probably 50 showings and more offers than I could count. Builder grade house a few doors down listed for half a million and was pending in two days. Amazing if that is what half a million gets you in the burbs these days.
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Maybe this is why there is so much CC fraud, Chase thinks its totally cool a single CC just added SEVENTY authorized users to it
I use one card for recurring auto payments and another one for daily purchases. Much less of a pain when the daily card inevitably gets flagged for fraud. My ATM card has been compromised twice in the past six months and I never really even use it. No idea how they're getting that number.
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The New Car Fanatic Thread
I disagree that it's even remotely worse than rebadging a base model as a performance model. In general I leave the badges alone though. Everyone asks me why I don't rebadge the SS as a Commodore and to be honest, I've been tempted. I decided to just own the shitty gold bowties and roll with it. That said, I'm a firm believer people should do whatever they want with their own cars.
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Electric Power Washer Recs?
I have a Stihl RE90 that I picked up for general patio, sidewalk, siding work around the house. It's small, light, and does a good enough job for what I need. I also plan to use it on my cars, but need to research more about what kind of foam cannon to buy.
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The New Car Fanatic Thread
Why so many dickhead comments? I thought this was a safe space?
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The New Car Fanatic Thread
I get the sleeper look, but I would have left the star only. I don't own it though so fuck my opinion!