Current Events > Drinking Topic 58: We're live this week.

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All the seltzer is gone. The seltzer is dead. Long live the seltzer

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Wine tasting hang out thing today was a big success. Went through about half of 11 different bottles between the three of us. Cousin's wife had small sips of each so I don't count it. Spent the day outside around the long rectangle fire pit table thing he built. Entire area is covered in pea gravel so fun to walk around barefoot.

MabusIncarnate posted...

Good luck moving @a-c-a-b and enjoy your break from here. I hope you dig your new place and everything goes over smooth.

Yeah I'm expecting lots of pictures of the new place whenever you get back.

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Played golf today for a work function. First time I've ever played. My back is in agony

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My girl is looking for a new job now. She's been a manager at this restaurant for 2 years now and even after so many people quit during covid and she held the fort down during it all, they still won't give her anymore raises and have scheduled her on approved days off twice now, citing because they don't have enough employees.

She's been trying to get out of food service for a while now, but she was waiting to get a new car so she'd have reliable transportation, and she finally got one last week after saving up for a good while and she's wasting no time putting in apps on Indeed lol. She had an interview this morning at a dentist's office that pays like $4 more an hour and she thinks it went well, so keep the fingers crossed!

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Heck yeah man, hoping for the best. Wife worked for a restaurant in our younger years and it sounds like similar treatment. No one gets the appreciation, pay or recognition they deserve, it turns into a dead end pit of a job. Hope she can get out and land the new job.

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MabusIncarnate posted...

Wife worked for a restaurant in our younger years and it sounds like similar treatment. No one gets the appreciation, pay or recognition they deserve, it turns into a dead end pit of a job.

Yeah I worked in food service for almost a decade before I finally found a way out. It's a vicious cycle because food service jobs for the most part don't build your resume up for jobs outside of the food service industry. She wanted to apply as a retail manager but a lot of the stores required retail management experience and essentially her 2 years as a restaurant manager didn't count. Food service workers are underpaid and overworked, she gets overtime and still has to pick up shifts because people keep quitting and it's starting to affect her mood at home, she was literally crying some nights because it's just becoming overwhelming that the entire company relies on her but won't compensate her fairly for all the extra duties and stress and hours.

Which is why they're about to lose her and after she's gone idk what they're gonna do. They already opened up their lobby once the mask mandate was lifted, but then they had to shut it back down because they don't have enough employees to work the drive thru and lobby at the same time, so they're drive thru only because they can't staff enough people.

Really hoping she finds something to get her out of the industry for good

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I think I've finally hit a point where I am going to block vegy, he fucking clogs the board with so much fucking garbage I hate the purge rate on this board and he is directly fuckkng responsible for it.

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I've been very close many times honestly. I try hard to like everyone, but i'm getting close with him also.

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I used to like to just take non moddable jabs at him whenever I can, but after his participation in banning drinking topics bullshit. I wouldn't miss him.

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I mean it won't help with the purge rates but at least he might end up as an out of sight/out of mind kind of thing.

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I kinda have already mentally blocked him out. He has a unique posting style so I don't even need to look at the user to know a topic isn't worth the click.
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Car shit itself. Whoo.

That sucks man. I have a lot of knowledge in a lot of areas, but cars aren't one of them. If you told me to point out the transmission on an engine, I couldn't. I can change my oil, change a tire, and fill my washer fluid and that's basically it, I never learned a thing about cars. Hopefully it's nothing serious.

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I think the timing chain blew, which is "ok, fuck it" time.
Got sick of putting alternators in that damn thing anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3at_Ev2kOoI

MabusIncarnate posted...

That sucks man. I have a lot of knowledge in a lot of areas, but cars aren't one of them. If you told me to point out the transmission on an engine, I couldn't. I can change my oil, change a tire, and fill my washer fluid and that's basically it, I never learned a thing about cars. Hopefully it's nothing serious.

Same. Only recently have I started googling things to see if its something I can replace with the help of youtube. Biggest accomplishment is replacing the plastic piece that pushes and pulls my wife's driver side window in her car. Piece was $20. 3 hours and lots of swearing later, it was fixed.

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BlazinBlue88 posted...

3 hours and lots of swearing later, it was fixed.

At least it got fixed. Never a good feeling when it's 3 hours and lots of swearing later, the godamn thing is still broken and you fucked something else up in the process and kick a hole in the wall.

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Last repair I made, my electric window got stuck down on the drivers side, and I tried to pull it up while holding down the button, and eventually got annoyed and hit the inside of the door like 4 times and it worked again. Pretty much a mechanic prodigy waiting to be unleashed.

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2002 ZX2 is apparently a non-interference engine, so the alternator-eater may be resurrect-able.
...dammit.

Questionmarktarius posted...

2002 ZX2 is apparently a non-interference engine, so the alternator-eater may be resurrect-able.
...dammit.

My wife was driving one of these when we first started dating like 18 years ago. Not sure the year but it was that car unless you are talking about something besides an Escort.

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MabusIncarnate posted...

Not sure the year but it was that car unless you are talking about something besides an Escort.

ZX2 is an Escort, but with a spoiler on the back and a different air intake configuration.

Johnny_Nutcase posted...

At least it got fixed. Never a good feeling when it's 3 hours and lots of swearing later, the godamn thing is still broken and you fucked something else up in the process and kick a hole in the wall.

True but it pushed me and my cousin(who's very car repair inclined) to our limit.

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https://youtu.be/l8KpjxesjsU

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BlazinBlue88 posted...

True but it pushed me and my cousin(who's very car repair inclined) to our limit.

I'd have done more work on my car, were it not goddamn impossible to get to everything.
Changing out the belt tensioner meant exploding the power steering a couple months later, because of course a bolt had to go through the high-pressure line to remove.

Questionmarktarius posted...

I'd have done more work on my car, were it not goddamn impossible to get to everything.
Changing out the belt tensioner meant exploding the power steering a couple months later, because of course a bolt had to go through the high-pressure line to remove.

True. Once I had to replace the sensor that the brake pedal pushes to make the brake lamps light up. I was basically upside-down in the front seat with half my arm in the chest cavity of the car just to reach the sensor. Shit sucked.

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Also I destroyed my phone while waiting on a tow.
Dad showed up to give me a ride, so I bought him a new phone too.

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Aw is that your doggo?

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BlazinBlue88 posted...

True. Once I had to replace the sensor that the brake pedal pushes to make the brake lamps light up. I was basically upside-down in the front seat with half my arm in the chest cavity of the car just to reach the sensor. Shit sucked.

In my case, the little rubber pad that pushes the sensor disintegrated. Stuck a chair-leg pad in there until I got the part - and then the pad on the clutch fell apart three months later.
Luckily, I bought two.

Welp we're about to get flooded in South LA like 2016 all over again. My girl can't even make it home from work tonight because all the roads leading here are flooded. She has to stay the night at work.

Reading stuff that people are taking in water all over the Baton Rouge area. I havent taken any luckily.....yet. The water is building though
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Shit man be careful and stay safe, hope your wife is too

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The ZX2 turd is my longest car, by ever.

1984 Citation, rolled over in 1992 or 1993.
1985 Fiero, stopped running in 1995.
1995 Cavalier, ran into a trailer - totaled
2002 ZX2, died monday..

Didn't realize until recently you are pretty well aged, there's a bunch of us here that are. I'm gonna be 40 in October, there's a few in this topic that I know are older, i'm guessing you are closer to 60 if you were driving in 84.

I'd advise a Camry, mine refuses to die, I treat it like shit, 220k miles and I never have any problems with it ever. It still runs great. I get an oil change like every 6k miles.

My first car was a 1990 Geo Metro that I drove in 98. It was a hunk of trash. Electric blue, obnoxious color.

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My dad will disown me if I get a "ferrin" car.
Dude worked at the Fairfax plant in Kansas from 1976 to 2000-something.

lmfao okay, get this...I was tearing up some newspaper to line my bird's cage, when something caught my eye. It was just a random roofing ad with the picture of the owner. But the thing is that I had to do a double take because at first I thought someone drew the mustache on his face lol



Mind you that it's news print, so the quality was worse and it was harder to see. But it instantly brought back memories of when I was a kid and would draw funny mustaches on pictures lol

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That... legit looks entirely fake. It's like 5 o'clock shadow curly moustache lol.

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My first thought was "Who the hell would draw a mustache on my newspaper??" lol

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MabusIncarnate posted...

That... legit looks entirely fake. It's like 5 o'clock shadow curly moustache lol.

I'm pretty sure that's just "Cheech" Marin.

MabusIncarnate posted...

That... legit looks entirely fake. It's like 5 o'clock shadow curly moustache lol.

Naw dawg. That mans facial hair demands respect

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Is there some kind of mental deficiency with the poster joe40001?

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IfGodCouldDie posted...

Is there some kind of mental deficiency with the poster joe40001?

Lmao

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Smackems posted...

Lmao

I'm legit curious, the guy comes across as such a toxic piece of shit im not sure if they are a real person with legitimate problems or of they are just a really pathetic troll.

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Let's not shit on other CEmen.
Really, we're the worst.

IfGodCouldDie posted...

I'm legit curious, the guy comes across as such a toxic piece of shit im not sure if they are a real person with legitimate problems or of they are just a really pathetic troll.

I dunno. I just found the comment itself funny

As for them, i haven't seen much of them so couldn't tell ya

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Questionmarktarius posted...

Let's not shit on other CEmen.
Really, we're the worst.

You're right, this topic is supposed to be drama free.

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I think I may be kinda fucked up

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Meh, I just put him on ignore. The guy clearly isn't right in the head.

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IfGodCouldDie posted...

You're right, this topic is supposed to be drama free.

Drunken drama is the whole point, tho.
My car of twenty years died. It's practically a spouse by now.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Drunken drama is the whole point, tho.
My car of twenty years died. It's practically a spouse by now.

In not drunk though, im at work >_<

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WaterLink posted...

Welp we're about to get flooded in South LA like 2016 all over again. My girl can't even make it home from work tonight because all the roads leading here are flooded. She has to stay the night at work.

Reading stuff that people are taking in water all over the Baton Rouge area. I havent taken any luckily.....yet. The water is building though

Friend at work said her boyfriend was driving from here to Alabama last week and I told her to tell him he better stop in New Orleans along the way. She said he did and didn't want to leave. Guess if he waited until this week, he may not have been able to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XCjBvA1E8M

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High definition Pia

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