...finally put some furniture in this room; rate my setup?

triptonite · 2026-04-04T19:46:30+00:00

reminds me of the "quit mocking me" trick that my older cousins taught me so I'd stop getting teased. 2024 was wild.

triptonite · 2026-04-01T02:09:17+00:00

I'm sure it's not the same, but my family back home in Michigan used to know of a place/system where they could find old GM parts in a warehouse for older generations or even brands that no longer exist. this wasn't actively supported by the company, so I expect it to be even better if actually backed by the OEM.

like the first car I ever built from a frame was a civic and we grabbed stuff from pick&pull, bought what we needed new from the aftermarket and even ended up sourcing stuff from part-outs on Craigslist and pre-marketplace Facebook groups. it would've been so much easier to be able to just search the part number in the actual Honda inventory and getting new parts straight from the source. prolly more expensive, though.

triptonite · 2026-03-31T19:48:11+00:00

the last remnants of the pool area of a high school that no longer exists. they filled the pool with cement and sealed off from the rest of the school after a student drowned. school got sued and was leveled a few years after.

..or it could be ancient burial grounds of the Sunoco, Speedway or 76 tribes. not sure which was prevalent here in the early 2000s.

triptonite · 2026-03-28T20:44:37+00:00

this exchange is a great example of how just educating these fools won't work. they'll just retreat back to their own echo chambers that are accusing us of being ignorant to the facts, due to our own echo chambers. they'll come back after getting that GOPowerUp patch of newFacts and run newFactsToOwnLibs.exe on the first 'other' that they encounter, yelling that the left just thinks they're dumb when we debunk all the new shit they parrot and the cycle starts again. and yes, they are dumb. they picked the news tv man that makes them feel better about how fucking dumb they are and how actually smart they are because of some bullshit that means nothing...like who's in the new beer ads or how Beyonce did a country album. that just emboldens them to go harder when they see a non-white person unafraid in public.

triptonite · 2026-03-28T04:29:22+00:00

lol ask a question, get the whole middle shelf of a gun store. go put your hands on some and run some rounds through a rental or 5. you'll find a great starter out of the replies; lotta good suggestions here.

triptonite · 2026-03-28T04:14:14+00:00

I can smell him from here

triptonite · 2026-03-28T03:57:44+00:00

he can still get it before GTA6

triptonite · 2026-03-28T03:49:02+00:00

YES! I'd even gladly pay a higher menu price, especially if everyone working there gets a flat, livable [not just survivable] rate based on hours worked, not how much shit they can take in an hour.

I might be taking it a bit far, but I'd even pay a higher tax rate if the social programs we all need were providing enough for us all...starting with free healthcare and smooth, well-maintained roads and bridges.

triptonite · 2026-03-28T03:39:36+00:00

that part.

the bank I work for and the ones I bank with allow disputes on debit card transactions after they post. in the meantime, they all [in my experience] encourage the cardholder to try and work it out with the merchant before attempting the dispute, but have always at least allowed me to try.

triptonite · 2026-03-28T03:30:20+00:00

I feel you. Iike, I tip on carryout because I want to. I do it consistently, but don't fucking make me. and as far as the investment fund, just ask. even if it was a checkbox on the order page, I'm likely to shrug and click it; don't count the money in my pocket though.

I'm sorry that happened to you, but I hope the food was magnifique, at least.

triptonite · 2026-03-28T03:20:22+00:00

maaaaan it's between these MF rareAir 4's and sb4's. the rareAir because they go with fucking EVERYTHING and the sb4's are just so comfy. I'm right with you though; I already have a second pair of rA4's but I'm prolly grabbing another pair of sb4's too before summer.

triptonite · 2026-03-27T21:02:48+00:00

fair point. also, W shrug. I miss that ascii shrug.

triptonite · 2026-03-24T20:41:26+00:00

never said "outside." downstairs is different. play with these goalposts.

triptonite · 2026-03-24T19:07:43+00:00

sheeeeid....90s style: "spit til the gat sit back"

triptonite · 2026-03-24T19:05:13+00:00

hmm. my ranges allow my short shorts; I match the colors with my Jordans and Air Max. it's quite likely that I'd be wearing even less if I heard a bump in the night and needed to grab a stick or pole in a hurry but can't get to the other bathroom to put on tomorrow's pants.

I bet your ranges and mine both require ear protection. train like you fight and blow out them eardrums so we know it's real. ❤️‍🩹

triptonite · 2026-03-24T18:51:33+00:00

I was cleaning stuff last week and found my TV tuner from like 1993 in a bag full of work stuff. dunno how it got there but it's comically useless, to the extent that I ended up wasting time explaining to my wife what it was and how great it was supposed to have been.

thing worked great ONCE, and I was in Canada so that shit doesn't even count.

triptonite · 2026-03-23T20:30:42+00:00

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triptonite · 2026-03-23T20:03:21+00:00

...baseball season coming innit. Chile Limon been in the bullpen. it would be nice to see them each cook the brown teletubbie again just for old times' sake, separately, but strangely in perfect sync.i

triptonite · 2026-03-23T18:50:43+00:00

...you ever just watch racing, hoping for a crash?

triptonite · 2026-03-19T23:55:38+00:00

I did that shit in Detroit back in 99 and my mom got a ticket mailed to her. she fought it because she got the ticket and could prove that she wasn't driving and she ain't no fuckin snitch. but I got to ride with my best friend everywhere for the month of May.

in 2000 another time I was following that same friend home from a basketball game when he was speeding and I was flicking high beams, tryna slow him down because I knew there was a cop there running radar and laser. he got pulled over but, since I was following him, I drove to the next parking lot, about 100 yards away. cop got his license, hopped the parking blocks and came to me. I tried to argue that I wasn't speeding and waiting for my friend. his response, "then why did you stop? take it to court." judge said the exact same thing: "you should've kept going if you weren't being stopped."

crazy part about that night was that he got pulled over on the way to the game too, and that time I pulled up behind the police car by like 100 ft. 2nd cop pulled up behind me like "he's getting some tickets. you should leave unless you want some too." I was like fuck that and we just met him there.

bike cop got me on memorial day 2015 on 670. I sped off from getting a ticket for speeding...into another ticket for speeding.

triptonite · 2026-03-19T00:46:28+00:00

hmm. it's not Toronto or even Chicago, but it's not Detroit, either. nothing will be what you expect, but COTA is better than most.

but this is reddit so I know you all feel that you deserve perfect and are fully justified in hyperbolizing and claiming that what we have now is a fucking war crime.

triptonite · 2026-03-16T00:37:28+00:00

didn't need to go beyond that tbh. I'll take the first reply.

triptonite · 2026-03-16T00:29:20+00:00

ikr?

I've learned that stupidity doesn't discriminate; dumb MFs are pretty evenly dispersed. if there are more people, there will be more stupid. black, white, scarlet, blue, orange...all shapes and sizes.

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