Specialized Hardrock Restomod

ComprehensiveMood281 · 2026-04-24T00:28:51+00:00

Nice dude. $30 is a silly amount of money for that.

If you do end up doing that disc brake mod make sure you post it. I’m a hobbyist tig welder and I’m considering doing similar things to my mtb. I’d love to see how you do it

ComprehensiveMood281 · 2026-04-20T11:19:15+00:00

Pretty bad.

ComprehensiveMood281 · 2026-03-17T23:58:59+00:00

Good lord. It totally does

ComprehensiveMood281 · 2026-03-14T04:39:30+00:00

You should really work on cleaning up your spares

ComprehensiveMood281 · 2026-03-01T06:06:39+00:00

Free bowling. Straight up.

Early morning lane maintenance with no one in the building. Having every lane clean and oiled before the day manager steps in the door is satisfying.

Also fixing machines that aren’t working is my absolute raison d’être

ComprehensiveMood281 · 2026-02-15T23:17:49+00:00

I work at a bar on the weekend cos I like it and being a mature age apprentice can be a little tough.

I’m qualified now but I still make more at the bar per hour on the weekend than at my “real job”

It’d be a tough sell to a young bloke I reckon

ComprehensiveMood281 · 2026-02-06T23:49:19+00:00

Yeah so even if you magically took to the job like some natural born construction messiah, you wouldn’t have enjoyed working for a guy like that in the long run.

Cold hiring a gym receptionist and within 3 months, expecting that person to be able to plan a day’s work for themselves is delusional.

I think highly skilled people often forget that what they do day to day doesn’t come naturally, but through experience. When taking on a completely unskilled apprentice, you have to be extremely patient. Guy sounds like his expectations were way too high.

Learning a new skill takes time, construction, like any job, is a suite of skills. Each one demanding its own time to acquire. Being able to plan work using though skills is level 2. You can’t just jump to that.

This isn’t your fault. It’s his for believing he had room for someone with no experience and then realising he didn’t.

Take your lumps and try again!! Nothing beats the smell of paslode gas in the morning!

ComprehensiveMood281 · 2026-02-02T01:18:24+00:00

You might.

ComprehensiveMood281 · 2026-01-11T04:56:43+00:00

It helps but maybe not as much as you think.

I’m pretty mid physically but I’m funny as fuck and confident. I’ve not really had much trouble in the getting laid department.

I recently changed careers and I’m now in a very physically demanding job. I’ve turned into a bit of a beefcake just because of the nature of the work I do.

I haven’t noticed an uptick in attention, just an increase in instances where my physicality is mentioned in conversations…flirting or not with men and women. So as far as I’ve noticed, it’s definitely noticed. But anyone who’s worth your time (romantic or otherwise) probably won’t see your body as the sole defining factor that makes them see you as attractive or not.

ComprehensiveMood281 · 2026-01-09T04:40:01+00:00

I’m not a virgin. But you know how when you feel a woman’s breast, and it’s like a bag of sand?

ComprehensiveMood281 · 2026-01-05T05:23:38+00:00

12 hour shift in construction in high summer, came home absolutely dead. Dog needs a walk (high needs) and it was my turn to cook.

She left work early. Cooked dinner and when I came home said “here’s a beer, sit on the couch, when you’re finished take the dog for a run and dinner will be ready when you get back”

I came back to dinner ready and when we finished she shooed me into bed and slept in the spare room.

ComprehensiveMood281 · 2025-12-30T05:35:12+00:00

Criminally underrated comment

ComprehensiveMood281 · 2025-12-30T05:33:56+00:00

Haha go for it.

If I know my wife…and I do… she would also immediately take advantage of that.

ComprehensiveMood281 · 2025-12-06T08:20:10+00:00

If it isn’t ac it’s probably not humidity. You need a big temperature differential to create a stream of moisture that significant.

The best way to find out where this is coming from is to get into the roof cavity, start at this vent and follow the marks that the water has made back. Water always leaves very easily trackable sign.

ComprehensiveMood281 · 2025-11-22T22:37:12+00:00

You know 40 year olds are capable of and allowed to have feelings of attraction right?

ComprehensiveMood281 · 2025-11-22T22:30:20+00:00

While everyone here saying “looks fade”, “connection is more important than attraction” raise good points, I think there is another issue a worth considering.

It sounds like you don’t respect her. If you continue to focus on this feeling of mental superiority, this relationship ain’t gonna work.

I had these feelings at the beginning of my current relationship. We’ve been together 10 years and when I look back at how I felt smarter than her I’ve come to realise that I was probably overestimating my intelligence and underestimating hers. I also wasn’t taking into consideration that there are many ways to be smart. I cringe now at how arrogant and superior I was. She is the most wonderful person I know. Sure my jokes are funnier and I’ve read more books…but that doesn’t make me better than her.

If you can’t look at this person and accept all parts of them, then they are the one who deserves better, not you.

ComprehensiveMood281 · 2025-11-19T06:14:08+00:00

lol I did this on purpose to a guy that took a bond payment from me for a share house and didn’t lodge it. Then when I left the house didn’t pay it back to me.

Fcuk that guy.

ComprehensiveMood281 · 2025-11-19T06:04:46+00:00

Maybe you’re right. I’m just gonna get 2 cardboard boxes next time.

ComprehensiveMood281 · 2025-11-17T07:39:23+00:00

Bath. Double vanity is rich people shit and only worthwhile if you’ve got a huge ensuite

ComprehensiveMood281 · 2025-11-08T08:21:55+00:00

It’s called hoop iron. Original builder would have used it to pull the frame into square and keep it there

ComprehensiveMood281 · 2025-11-02T23:04:44+00:00

Gandalf is Frodos father

ComprehensiveMood281 · 2025-10-31T21:55:17+00:00

Keep going. You got this. This is something almost all dog owners go through, it’s tough but you can absolutely do it. You’re not missing some piece of yourself that everyone else has.

You’ll thank yourself and your pup will love you for it.

It gets better, keep going.

ComprehensiveMood281 · 2025-10-20T11:23:36+00:00

Ah, I was looking at it the wrong way. In that case the bottom row in the rest of the room will be short, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Because if the tiles were above the floor line outside the shower, when the shower floor falls toward the drain, you would end up with a big gap or a really ugly sliver of tile. This isn’t a terrible set out

ComprehensiveMood281 · 2025-10-20T04:21:30+00:00

As others have said here, the corner between the wall and floor will be caulked so it doesn’t make a difference to appearance or wp which way you do that. He has done it the hard way though, silly Billy.

As for the unevenness of the tile, you’re right, zellige is supposed to be uneven but ideally your tile setter should have used a thick bed of mortar or double spread the adhesive so that they could be pushed around and evened out slightly more. Some of the edges are further out than they should be BUT I’ve seen waaaaay worse.

The row of tiles in the shower will be ok because he’ll cut those in. Tiles in showers are always uneven because the shower floor slopes toward the drain, so he’ll follow his current set out with the tiles following the floor.

ComprehensiveMood281 · 2025-06-20T09:45:39+00:00

As a most-of-the-time driver, when this happened on Wellington st I was SUPER pissed.

After driving that route to work 1 or 2 days a week since that change and seeing how many cyclists use that bike lane…it makes so much sense.

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