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weekend_warrior said:
Nah, sounds like you just pulled a muscle. Happened to me after a far too intense biking workout. Just keep ice on the sore spots to numb the pain and in a day it will feel much better.
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I've put ice under the numb area for a couple of hours last night. Pain is gone this morning. I'm going to dance my way to school today ^o^
 
How do you get rid of unwanted furniture? Stuff that's not worth the effort to sell but too big and bulky to take to the dump on your own.
 
matt404au said:
How do you get rid of unwanted furniture? Stuff that's not worth the effort to sell but too big and bulky to take to the dump on your own.
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Put it out our front lawn. Write: "For Sale $50". Then just leave the house. It'll be stolen by the time you get back.
 
matt404au said:
How do you get rid of unwanted furniture? Stuff that's not worth the effort to sell but too big and bulky to take to the dump on your own.
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drag it out in the middle of the night and leave it on the other side of the street
 
josephdebono said:
Put it out our front lawn. Write: "For Sale $50". Then just leave the house. It'll be stolen by the time you get back.
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It's a pretty upper class area, no one here is going to want to steal it :(


Snuggler said:
drag it out in the middle of the night and leave it on the other side of the street
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:lol I'd do that if there was no chance of me being seen. It's a secure complex though and I'd have to drag it past security guards.
 
matt404au said:
How do you get rid of unwanted furniture? Stuff that's not worth the effort to sell but too big and bulky to take to the dump on your own.
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Do you live in the UK?

Some city councils provide a free service, where you leave it in front of your house at an allocated time and a van will pick it up. They then clean it up, and give it to charity.

Edit* Just noticed the AU in your username..
 
matt404au said:
It's a pretty upper class area, no one here is going to want to steal it :(
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You're on the Gold Coast, aren't you ?

You can't be more than a 15 minute drive from an at least slightly shady suburb.
 
matt404au said:
How do you get rid of unwanted furniture? Stuff that's not worth the effort to sell but too big and bulky to take to the dump on your own.
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Have you tried sidewalk? That's your best free option.

There are countless junk removal services in the yellow pages, for just about any given area if you don't mind paying for this. It hardly seems worth it if you can go the sidewalk route though. Maybe I have ultra nice throwaway furniture or live in a terrible neighborhood (neither are the case actually), but that's been a mighty reliable way to get rid of semi-decent, large, furniture. I am 100% successful going this route.

Now, I a question that has been driving me bananas.

Why is it that some YouTube videos scream down, and some take their sweet ol' time?
I have FIOS, so internet connection speed is something I rarely have issues with. I've had great luck with FIOS. Apart from the cost, it is incredible.

But this occasional issue with YouTube videos - I can't track it down. It's not due to them being brand new and still parsing or anything like that. These videos could be years old. The only thing I can think of is the following:
Youtube videos cache by location don't they?
If so, isn't it possible that a given video has never been viewed in my state/region/territory?

I have no other theories.
Do you?

Thanks,
AA
 
matt404au said:
How do you get rid of unwanted furniture? Stuff that's not worth the effort to sell but too big and bulky to take to the dump on your own.
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Put it on the side of the road with a sign that says "Haunted chair". Some wacko will pick it up.

TacticalFox88 said:
Are there any countries in the World that the US wouldn't totally curbstomp in a conventional war?
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Would greatly depend on the circumstances of the war. The US is nearly a generation ahead of most countries in terms of technology, and only rivaled by China in production capacity. But there are also a lot of countries that would sympathize with our adversaries. Like N.Korea, and Middle East countries. There's very little they could do to us in a conventional war, aside from cutting oil supplies. And in the event that any country is stupid enough the launch a Nuclear Missile at us, that would pretty much be the end of them. The US wouldn't cause global fallout for the sake of pride, but we would systematically and efficiently destroy any enemy facilitys capable of deploying nukes. And when the dust clears if only one country survives, it will be the US.
 
weekend_warrior said:
Would greatly depend on the circumstances of the war. The US is nearly a generation ahead of most countries in terms of technology, and only rivaled by China in production capacity. But there are also a lot of countries that would sympathize with our adversaries. Like N.Korea, and Middle East countries. There's very little they could do to us in a conventional war, aside from cutting oil supplies. And in the event that any country is stupid enough the launch a Nuclear Missile at us, that would pretty much be the end of them. The US wouldn't cause global fallout for the sake of pride, but we would systematically and efficiently destroy any enemy facilitys capable of deploying nukes. And when the dust clears if only one country survives, it will be the US.
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whats that one bioware run website that lets you download some old games? I downloaded fallout on another laptop and i wanna download it again, but i just an't remember what the website was called? something with a G....
 
Some jackass has stolen some food from me, from my shelf in the freezer in the common room (I live in a students' dorm with a shared kitchen). What should I do? :D Calling the cops on six missing meatballs and the bag they were packaged in seem a bit ridiculous. But seriously, who the hell steals six meatballs? Thinking of putting up a notice saying that the next time they're hungry, just knock on my door and I'll give them a dollar for a cheeseburger if their economy is that lousy.
 
Minamu said:
Some jackass has stolen some food from me, from my shelf in the freezer in the common room (I live in a students' dorm with a shared kitchen). What should I do? :D Calling the cops on six missing meatballs and the bag they were packaged in seem a bit ridiculous. But seriously, who the hell steals six meatballs? Thinking of putting up a notice saying that the next time they're hungry, just knock on my door and I'll give them a dollar for a cheeseburger if their economy is that lousy.
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Better yet, leave a note that says "I hope you enjoys my seman laced meatballs, asshole. Yeah thats right, I cum in random food I leave in the fridge, just for assholes like you who like to steal it."
 
Roi said:
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How do I get rid of the flag?
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It stays there until your team wins the WC. ENJOY.

What is the best FREE dvd creation program? Tried the one packed in with Win7 and it was decent but I couldn't setup any form of chapters and it totally screwed up my aspect ratios :|
 
weekend_warrior said:
Better yet, leave a note that says "I hope you enjoys my seman laced meatballs, asshole. Yeah thats right, I cum in random food I leave in the fridge, just for assholes like you who like to steal it."
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True, but that seems so obvious :)
 
awesomeapproved said:
Why is it that some YouTube videos scream down, and some take their sweet ol' time?
I have FIOS, so internet connection speed is something I rarely have issues with. I've had great luck with FIOS. Apart from the cost, it is incredible.

But this occasional issue with YouTube videos - I can't track it down. It's not due to them being brand new and still parsing or anything like that. These videos could be years old. The only thing I can think of is the following:
Youtube videos cache by location don't they?
If so, isn't it possible that a given video has never been viewed in my state/region/territory?

I have no other theories.
Do you?
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Interested to see if anyone has had a chance to ponder those eccentric YouTube videos that randomly take an eon to come down in comparison to others. I guess worth adding is that I never see the flip side taking place. Like - I never see bizarrely fast YouTube videos to make up for these oddly slow ones.

Also I have another question that doesn't deserve its own thread.
It's about BitTorrent.

Love it or hate it from a moral standpoint BitTorrent traffic is bananas and people get away with it for the most part. Right? Either that or most of the traffic is from outside of the US. Perhaps both are true. Bah, we know the truth.

So is it still a fact that if you plan using BitTorrent in a way that does not raise eyebrows, the best thing you can do is use it quietly and quickly?
As in, go about your business, and be gone. Search using your favorite tracker/engine, grab the thing and the moment it is done, sign off, sign out, done.

That's the best practice still right? In other words the dumbest thing you can be doing is sitting there seeding the file for hours on end. That's where you get messed up. Right?

Either way I don't think BitTorrent is long for this world but that's an entirely different subject.
 
awesomeapproved said:
Interested to see if anyone has had a chance to ponder those eccentric YouTube videos that randomly take an eon to come down in comparison to others. I guess worth adding is that I never see the flip side taking place. Like - I never see bizarrely fast YouTube videos to make up for these oddly slow ones.
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No idea. It probably has to do when Youtube itself is getting slammed, rather then the particular video you're trying to watch.
 
Gaf, I read a long time ago and I guess it's now general knowledge, that human mind makes you go left instead of right when facing a choice (unkown corridors/doors, entering a place) etc... because left is from the side of your brain that seek security while the other part seek for aventure.

But I can't find any study or written doc online. I don't know the name the this behavior or anything. Can you help me find some relatives documentation ?
 
UnluckyKate said:
Gaf, I read a long time ago and I guess it's now general knowledge, that human mind makes you go left instead of right when facing a choice (unkown corridors/doors, entering a place) etc... because left is from the side of your brain that seek security while the other part seek for aventure.

But I can't find any study or written doc online. I don't know the name the this behavior or anything. Can you help me find some relatives documentation ?
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Even if that preference is observed, are you sure it wouldn't just be because we read things left-to-right, and so conciously or unconciously start with the option on the left?
 
I was going to ask why the :lol smiley is gone, but someone linked me to the locked thread. What the fuck, man. :(
 
Why do American grocery bags not have handles?

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They just seem terribly inconvenient to carry compared to our Swedish bags (and most European bags, I believe), which always have handles:

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Or do bags with handles exist in the US as well? You never seem to see them in movies and such.
 
I think you only see those bags without handles because they're a reused prop that suggests that a character is carrying groceries.
 
Well, there are handle-less bags, but nobody really uses them anymore.

Even if I have handles on a paper bag though, I tend to carry by the bottom because the bags tend to be flimsy.
 
Does anyone have any problems with Firefox's plugin container?
If I'm watching a flash video, Firefox will sometimes just slow to a crawl and not respond. I do watch a fair few live streams, but this can even happen if I'm just watch a single youtube video.
When I check task manager after I get this problem, the plugin container for Firefox could be using double the memory that Firefox is using or more.
Does anyone know any way to prevent this?
 
RoadHazard said:
Why do American grocery bags not have handles?

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They just seem terribly inconvenient to carry compared to our Swedish bags (and most European bags, I believe), which always have handles:

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Or do bags with handles exist in the US as well? You never seem to see them in movies and such.[/QUOTE]

A lot of places, such as Trader Joes, have paper bags with handles. Most big chain groercy stores have paper without handles and plastic bags with handles. So they just put the paper bag in the plastic one.
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Alucrid said:
A lot of places, such as Trader Joes, have paper bags with handles. Most big chain groercy stores have paper without handles and plastic bags with handles. So they just put the paper bag in the plastic one.
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I have never seen that. Plus, you have to specifically request paper bags these days.
 
Its so fucking awkward telling my college aged cousin to be careful not to get futa.
 
I bought a new xbox after mine died, and I put my old hdd on it. For some reason, I can't set some of the themes I bought (namely Castlevania, and another one I can't remember)

What am I missing?
 
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