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Two working class dudes, one black one white, just baked a tray of ten cookies together.

An oligarch walks in and grabs nine cookies for himself.

Then he says to the white dude "Watch out for that black dude, he wants a piece of your cookie!"
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vol.2 wrote:The packaging for Koyo bearings.
Are those considered good bearings? What are you putting them in?
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Stevens wrote: Are those considered good bearings? What are you putting them in?
Koyo are high quality bearings for sure.

Last time I bought some it was for something in my FJ40. Repairing stuff is a hobby for me, though I don't have much room atm, so I'm stuck with smaller things like tape decks until GF and I move out of our tiny place.

Anyway, this is this thing. Been slowly working on it since 1996
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Two working class dudes, one black one white, just baked a tray of ten cookies together.

An oligarch walks in and grabs nine cookies for himself.

Then he says to the white dude "Watch out for that black dude, he wants a piece of your cookie!"
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So as mentioned previously a friend of mine died this year to covid. Well today I got a letter from his daughter talking about how he cherished our friendship and had some of my drawings that I gave him out has his celebration of life (which I unfortunately could not attend due to scheduling). :cry:
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Two working class dudes, one black one white, just baked a tray of ten cookies together.

An oligarch walks in and grabs nine cookies for himself.

Then he says to the white dude "Watch out for that black dude, he wants a piece of your cookie!"
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Steamflogger Boss wrote:So as mentioned previously a friend of mine died this year to covid. Well today I got a letter from his daughter talking about how he cherished our friendship and had some of my drawings that I gave him out has his celebration of life (which I unfortunately could not attend due to scheduling). :cry:
Shit man, that's certainly bittersweet. Hope you come to terms with it and the memories will at some point in the future be more sweet than bitter.
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Two working class dudes, one black one white, just baked a tray of ten cookies together.

An oligarch walks in and grabs nine cookies for himself.

Then he says to the white dude "Watch out for that black dude, he wants a piece of your cookie!"
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10/10. Would full parry.
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Steamflogger Boss wrote:So as mentioned previously a friend of mine died this year to covid. Well today I got a letter from his daughter talking about how he cherished our friendship and had some of my drawings that I gave him out has his celebration of life (which I unfortunately could not attend due to scheduling). :cry:
Shit man, that's certainly bittersweet. Hope you come to terms with it and the memories will at some point in the future be more sweet than bitter.
Yeah missing that sucked. But while I knew we both brought each other a lot of joy, that letter is very special.
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Crazy uncle Pence is off his meds again. :-) Talking about out of control spending. The last Republican president to have a balanced budget was Richard Nixon. I doubt even one reader on this forum was of voting age when that happened. Probably nobody here that was even alive.

Crazy fuck didn't have any issues with a huge unfunded military spending package under the orange clown. Spending is fine if that's what you want to do, but don't fucking lecture me about spending when you don't fund your own shit.
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Wedding booked in September. :D
Sadly, circumstances aren't ideal. Partner's Dad has the big C for the second time, and doesn't think he'll see Xmas, so he's asked us to do it while he's still well enough to be able to attend. We'd planned to do so in a few years, so it's all a bit low-key and rushed, but hell, sometimes life, right?

Also yesterday - managed to snag an Xbox Series X from Amazon finally. Got confirmation that the venue was booked. Immediately felt bad for spending on myself, cancelled, and bought a vacuum cleaner in the flash sale instead. :lol:
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My condolences about your partner's father.

Honestly, my wedding was the same, we'd planned to wait a few more years to plan something perhaps a bit bigger, but with family members getting older there was real concern something might happen. We had a very lovely wedding even if it wasn't lavish or extravagant, and it was really for the best as one grandmother ended up having a stroke half a year later, and some other people had some more mobility issues not long after.

The wedding is about not just both of you, but also about celebrating with your families. So it's a good idea to do it soon in these circumstances, good on you for doing it. I'm sure it'll be just fine. You can always do something else bigger later on to celebrate as an anniversary for yourselves if you like.
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I would argue that the wedding is mostly about everybody else and not you, at least that's how mine felt. I actually got married at city hall ages before the actual wedding, and it really pissed off a bunch of relatives, leading to the organization of an official event about two years later.

Though, YMMV; the big family celebration was not important to either of us, but many women spend their life up to that point thinking about it and planning it in their heads. I had none of that to contend with.
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vol.2 wrote:I would argue that the wedding is mostly about everybody else and not you, at least that's how mine felt. I actually got married at city hall ages before the actual wedding, and it really pissed off a bunch of relatives, leading to the organization of an official event about two years later.

Though, YMMV; the big family celebration was not important to either of us, but many women spend their life up to that point thinking about it and planning it in their heads. I had none of that to contend with.
Partner has been married already, had to endure a huge ceremony with all the trimmings, and hated every moment of it so she doesn't give a shit as long as her Dad is there to see it. If we feel the need, we can always redo the vows in a few years or something when we'll be much more secure financially.

@BKR thanks. I never thought I'd end up getting married anyways, so I'm not overly fussed with unnecessary pomp. I'd just like to share it with as much family as we can, so I'm sure we'll have a great day.
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Congrats bud. :smile:
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My marriage was the wife, the witnesses for the legal number and the signing of the certificate, and the civil officers.
We drove to the near national park (Gran Sasso & Monti della Laga), enjoyed naturist eros, then slept the whole afternoon.
Dinner banquet was a lot of pizza and beer while watching anime and playing Bubble Symphony on the Saturn.

We married in Italy, though the wife is South Korean.
No family members invited (no, not even my adoptive parents), because we were broke as hell and we spent the last money to fly to Hungary a few days after, were I was starting my post-doc.

Good times :mrgreen:
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Big Congrats Marc

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Congratulations!

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Two working class dudes, one black one white, just baked a tray of ten cookies together.

An oligarch walks in and grabs nine cookies for himself.

Then he says to the white dude "Watch out for that black dude, he wants a piece of your cookie!"
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Yooooo SUMEZ how we doing? This Danish run at the Euro has me smiling all damn day.
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Steamflogger Boss wrote:Yooooo SUMEZ how we doing? This Danish run at the Euro has me smiling all damn day.
As much as I want to enjoy little ol' Denmark making strides, I can't help worrying about the culture here. :P If there's one thing that brings out the worst in the Danish people it's football. That is, I think they'll actually take a loss quite well because it's sorta expected, but if Denmark ends up winning the whole thing, it'll be an absolute riot everywhere in the country. And right in the middle of a pandemic that's already on the rise, too :S

On the plus side, I'll get most of the country for myself next Wednesday, I think I'll go swimming at the beach with the gf.
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Steamflogger Boss wrote:Yooooo SUMEZ how we doing? This Danish run at the Euro has me smiling all damn day.
As much as I want to enjoy little ol' Denmark making strides, I can't help worrying about the culture here. :P If there's one thing that brings out the worst in the Danish people it's football. That is, I think they'll actually take a loss quite well because it's sorta expected, but if Denmark ends up winning the whole thing, it'll be an absolute riot everywhere in the country. And right in the middle of a pandemic that's already on the rise, too :S

On the plus side, I'll get most of the country for myself next Wednesday, I think I'll go swimming at the beach with the gf.
Oh man, I'm just waiting for the usual crowd of muppets to trash our town centre as soon as we get dumped out. It's quite a concern actually, since moving I live straight off of a really busy street with a bunch of pubs, takeaways etc.... I can already hear from my place when things are going well, I'm nor looking forward to the aftermath when it doesn't.
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I guess we'll both be rooting for England then :lol:
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...It is meaningful that Roberto Mancini and Gian Luca Vialli, the "twins of goal" of the beautiful Sampdoria team from 1989-1990, brought the European cup home 30 years after losing a champions league final with a beautiful Sampdoria against an ugly Barcelona (1991). Two great guys with great football brains, an anime/movie-like type of bromance/friendship that has lasted 30 years, and the stubborness and resilience to take a group of very green and insecure youngsters and turn them into a highly focused, cup-winning team.

It is also true that Southgate was too conservative and decided to play defensively ("catenaccio"-style) after just one goal. At 2-0, England would have had an unassailable lead, I believe. Still, the man also resurrected a national team that became more or less of a joke, so his work is also outstanding.

Lionel M. also finally won a national title with Argentina, and the team is looking good (Brazil less so, though I only saw highlights).

Qatar 2022 is looking good, but hopefully we will also see some surprises from the other continents.
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Randorama wrote:It is also true that Southgate was too conservative and decided to play defensively ("catenaccio"-style) after just one goal. At 2-0, England would have had an unassailable lead, I believe. Still, the man also resurrected a national team that became more or less of a joke, so his work is also outstanding.
Pretty much this. Mistaken were made yesterday, but overall the better team won.
The fans, of course, proved themselves an absolute disgrace again. I'm not sure what it is about England that makes otherwise normal adults act like flag-shagging lunatics, but it makes it very difficult for me to get fully on board with the National team.
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This happens on a local level in the US with American Football and Baseball, but it's very rare that we get something on the order of your football hooligans and the riots that have been known to happen at games. I'm sure that if you dig around, you'll find some examples of extreme fandom gone awry in the US, but it doesn't appear to be anywhere near what I've heard of going on the UK (people being trampled to death, etc.).
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Marc:

I feel that football and its fans calmed quite a bit over the decades, but I am a rugby (union) man, and my idea of "international match day" is the 6 nations, fair play, sharing a pint with complete strangers, and so on...and since you're from Wigan, I also like League, as I spent 5 years in Oz (Sydney): proper free-flowing league matches can be a joy to watch, right?
Anyway, I am abroad (Italian working in China), so avoiding the typical toxic fan is easy: just dodge cheap places for expats.
The local youngsters have a healthy attitude to the football, as they are passionate about the game rather than the teams, so I do watch some football and chat about it with my students afterwards.

...In general, I believe that Southgate needs to be a bit less conservative when it comes to choices and the handling of the closing phases.
The players now form a cohesive team and the defense looked impregnable at times, so the guy could bring some silverware back home, if he takes some well-calculated risks in the big matches.

Still, a 4th place in 2018 and now a 2nd place suggest that his work is in the right direction, and considering how toxic the job was when he accepted, he deserves respect if not admiration.
Same for Mancini, really, as he took a group of also-rans and turned them into winners. Great coaches make all the difference, really.
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vol.2 wrote:This happens on a local level in the US with American Football and Baseball, but it's very rare that we get something on the order of your football hooligans and the riots that have been known to happen at games. I'm sure that if you dig around, you'll find some examples of extreme fandom gone awry in the US, but it doesn't appear to be anywhere near what I've heard of going on the UK (people being trampled to death, etc.).
I bet social scientists and screenwriters alike can (and have) made careers off studying British hooliganism. I remember going to MLB games as a kid with my dad and uncle, while visiting him in Florida, and the former marvelling that not only could he buy a beer in his seat, but there was absolutely no scintilla of anything kicking off, just people watching a ball game. As me old man says though, you could sell hardcore England/Scots thugs lemonade and they'd end up stomping on some poor fuck's head all the same. (the classic UK tabloid line: "the accused then proceeded to kick the deceased's head like a football")

I never heard of even Kingston's football matches having the same explosive potential, despite the surrounding city's infamously world-calibre violence and poverty.

Anyhoo, commiserations/congrats as needed, I only watch England's World Cup games, and from safe distance at that. Image
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aww, it ain't all bad.

.. the second english guy's haircut is tho.

I do wish it was a UK team and not eng/scot/wales. I reckon that would've had a profound effect on the kingdom's unity over the years.
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