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    advres Guest

    Things you wish you never got involved in halfway through it...

    I looked over at my laptop and it finally sunk in how gnarly dirty it was. So I figured I would take every key off, wash them and put them all back on. About the time I got them all off I had regretted my decision to get involved with this. It worked out cool in the long run, but I really wish I just didn't burn the last hours of daylight doing this.

    Whatchu got? Relationships are too easy

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    Stay away from The Meth, Ad.
    Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident

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    didja get them back in Qwerty order?
    When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis


    Kindness is a bridge between all people

    Dunkin’ Donuts Worker Dances With Customer Who Has Autism

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    advres Guest
    I did! Luckily I had an identical keyboard right on the desk next to me to check for reference.

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    Quote Originally Posted by advres View Post
    I looked over at my laptop and it finally sunk in how gnarly dirty it was.
    Stop using your keyboard as a jizz rag.
    Quote Originally Posted by powder11 View Post
    if you have to resort to taking advice from the nitwits on this forum, then you're doomed.

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    I once tried to switch to Dvorak.
    holy fucking shitballs

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    if there doesn't come a point where you ask yourself why or how did you ever get yourself into a fuckedup situation like this

    then it's not an adventure

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    Any time I work on my bike or car. Or when I go touring, although I usually change my mind and turn around within 100 yards of the trailhead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KQ View Post
    didja get them back in Qwerty order?
    No fun at all. I put mine back on randomly. The space bar is hanging off the side where delete should be, and my tab key says 5 with a % sign over it.

    Watch: sldf fdisoosijs sp8.2=co\~,
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    Usually, when the snow has been falling for 2-3 days, we haven't made any power in 3-4 days, accumulation is somewhere between 4' -5', been plowing for 12 hours straight and piles are higher than the truck, and I'm running out of places to plow it, I start wondering WTF I'm doing up there.

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    My Chemistry minor in college.


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    I usually get that feeling when doing open heart surgery.
    Took me like 10 minutes to figure out how to change this shit

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    thinkin that the 'i just smoked an ant' thread might qualify here...
    Something about the wrinkle in your forehead tells me there's a fit about to get thrown
    And I never hear a single word you say when you tell me not to have my fun
    It's the same old shit that I ain't gonna take off anyone.
    and I never had a shortage of people tryin' to warn me about the dangers I pose to myself.

    Patterson Hood of the DBT's

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    I ate an entire 1/8th of boomers in college and realized waaaaaay before the halfway point (about 30 minutes later when the room started breathing and I was physically attacked by a house plant) that it probably wasn't a wise decision. Fun times though.
    Old's Cool.

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    I took my 1976 BMW 2002 apart. ALL the way apart.
    Down to the metal, glass out, carpet, engine ect.
    I did get it back together after a year, painting, new headliner but
    man I never thought it would ever happen.

    Cherry now!

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    Philosophy 110. Dumbest class ever.

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    That Henry Miller thing is like Bukowski without the alcohol.

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    Electrical
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    "Buy the Fucking Plane Tickets!"
    -- Jack Tackle

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    Quote Originally Posted by JoeStrummer View Post
    Cunnilingus

    "The only thing that separates you from the victim is your attitude when you hit the water" -- The Guardian

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    My first time drywalling I decided to do a ceiling. How hard can it be?

    Wow, what a mistake. Got half way through, saw how crappy my work was, and hired a guy to finish it. Lesson learned.
    "A local is just a dirtbag who can't get his shit together enough to travel."

    - Owl Chapman

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    Quote Originally Posted by peterslovo View Post
    My first time drywalling I decided to do a ceiling. How hard can it be?

    Wow, what a mistake. Got half way through, saw how crappy my work was, and hired a guy to finish it. Lesson learned.
    On that note - deciding to paint all our ceilings (in our old house.) After the 1st hour of having my hands over my head I was over it -- we had 8 rooms left.

    Never again.

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    Butchering deer that were still nearly completely frozen in a friends unheated garage. After the first hind quarter my hands felt like clubs holding onto a extremely sharp knife. Not sure how I didn't end up losing a finger or two after that.

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    Great thread.

    1. Almost every "optional improvement" project on my Bronco.
    2. Reseeding my lawn.
    3. Calling the class bully in 7th grade a "fat ass piece of...."
    "All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."

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    Walking up next to the poma lift to get to mushroom bowl. should've done the mile instead. Vail.

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    Hosting a foreign exchange student.

    But every cloud has a silver lining and now, by comparison, I am absolutely *certain* of what an amazing, wonderful, considerate, cooperative, smart, great, unspoiled/unselfish teenaged kid I have!

    Sprite
    "I call it reveling in natures finest element. Water in its pristine form. Straight from the heavens. We bathe in it, rejoicing in the fullest." --BZ

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