Things I Hate

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  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,406 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Waiting for websites to go live with their restocks.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,406 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The cost of everything these days. Looking into replacing the alternator and battery in my pickup. $375 for the cheaper alternator (rebuilt) $210 for the good battery.

    The good alternator on my last truck was only about $160. Smh.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,108 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ShawnOL said:
    The cost of everything these days. Looking into replacing the alternator and battery in my pickup. $375 for the cheaper alternator (rebuilt) $210 for the good battery.

    The good alternator on my last truck was only about $160. Smh.

    Anywhere up there that rebuilds them? We’ve got a place that does alternators and starters. Once they rebuild them they last at least twice as long as the factory version at half the cost or less.

    If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.

  • First_Warrior
    First_Warrior Posts: 3,659 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That folks believe lies.

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,406 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Rdp77 said:

    @ShawnOL said:
    The cost of everything these days. Looking into replacing the alternator and battery in my pickup. $375 for the cheaper alternator (rebuilt) $210 for the good battery.

    The good alternator on my last truck was only about $160. Smh.

    Anywhere up there that rebuilds them? We’ve got a place that does alternators and starters. Once they rebuild them they last at least twice as long as the factory version at half the cost or less.

    If there are, I've not seen or heard of any.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,700 ✭✭✭✭✭

    For about three days in a row, earlier this week I had a horsefly stalking me every morning as I left for work. He actually only got close to me physically on the first day, but each morning he would swarm all over my truck as if he was trying to get at me while I was backing out of the drive and until I drove away. I haven't seen him in the evenings, but I assume he will bite me eventually because I need to mow and I will be an easy target at that point.

  • dirtdude
    dirtdude Posts: 6,232 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My granddad used to knock them down, grab them while they were still groggy and jam a foot long stem of grass up their backside. They weren't so crafty then, more like an over loaded helicopter.

    A little dirt never hurt
  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,607 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Dang, you @Vision'd that thing, I hope you recover soon.

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  • CalvinAndHobo
    CalvinAndHobo Posts: 3,308 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Glad everyone’s ok, like Randy said there are some plants or trees you should look into planting there now. Maybe @silvermouse or @First_Warrior know

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,581 ✭✭✭✭✭

    radioactive shrimp. I hate radioactive shrinp

    U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) alerted the FDA to the detection of Cesium-137 (Cs-137) contamination in shipping containers and frozen shrimp products processed in Indonesia at four U.S. ports, including Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, and Savannah, Georgia, according to a news release from the FDA.

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,406 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There goes the price of shrimp.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,700 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Yakster said:
    Enjoyed a fire pit last night with Kim, the dogs, and a glass of sangria. The dogs snuggled under a blanket we shared and were pretty happy. I had sprinkled skunk repellant in the yard earlier in the day in preparation, nothing ruins a backyard experience then your partner getting freaked out by a skunk and going in early. All-in-all it was pretty good, until I stepped in a pile of dog doo and tracked it in the house.

    I had picked up the dog dirt before the fire pit, but the dirt don't stop around here.

    My next-door neighbor's dog is allowed to run free. Little football-sized grey Pomeranian mix. For years I didn't even realize he belonged to my next-door neighbor. He seems to be legally blind and roams in traffic. I'm surprised he hasn't been run over. Just recently he's decided he likes to poop in my back yard, or maybe I've been lucky so far and it's just taken me this long to be stepping in it while mowing.

  • dirtdude
    dirtdude Posts: 6,232 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Robocalls, I ignore them for the most part then my voice-mail is full. I've talked to them wasting their time and asking them to remove me from their list. I suppose AI can tell me how many times I have to ask them to remove me before some magical thing happens and they quit calling

    A little dirt never hurt
  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,607 ✭✭✭✭✭

    TODAY, the FCC barred over 1,200 providers from network access for non-compliance with robocall protections.

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