What oils your gears?

[TheBender]

Back in 2006 I went to Thailand on a junket business conference in Phuket, and did the traditional night out in Patong Beach.

After a while, I got chatting to a tailor who talked me into a few business shirts and a suit !.

So it's 2:00am and I'm getting measured up, and I leave to go back to NZ that evening. No problem Prem says - I bring them to your hotel for fitting at 5:00pm.

What about alterations I ask - he say no issue, I do them if needed (they didn't)

Bloody good fit, and have worn better than any shit I've bought from NZ shops.

$200 for 5 shirts, $300 for a suit + extra pants - not sure if a great price, but I'm real happy with how they've lasted

What oils my gears. Got a pop-up in Skype tonight, and damn, he still has my measurements, and is going to do me a new suit, and a few more shirts.

just starting the material choice/style, then time to barter on price.

[xor]

I got A's in all my papers and got an A+ in Microeconomics and enrolled in Game theory next semester. Gears well oiled

[Reformed_Quint]

Originally Posted by TheBender

What oils my gears. Got a pop-up in Skype tonight, and damn, he still has my measurements, and is going to do me a new suit, and a few more shirts.

Hahaha yeap, i have a guy in patong who does the same, He even has a picture of me on the wall modelling my suit, heh.

[Gentl e]

Are you the dude in the british flag suit?

btw Patong is fun times.

[Reformed_Quint]

Nope... well, i hope not, some days are hazy.

I've never had as much fun as i did in thailand, its win.

[leadinjector]

seeing Diego Sanchez spend 5 rounds getting his face pounded in by BJ Penn oils my gears. Sanchez may be an awesome fighter but by god, what an almighty fucking douchebag. small man syndrome taken to an extreme level.

[A Corpse]

I feel the same about Berlusconi. Hopefully he doesn't actually gain any popularity from the incident though.

[doppelgänger of someone]

What do you have against Papa Berlusconi, man? Don't like the result of his latest cosmetic operation? SUCH A HATER!

[leadinjector]

What oils my gears is getting an email from one of the guys i used to train when I first started as a fitness instructor who has been AWOL for an entire year, telling me he was gonna get back into it since he just hit 70. trooper.

[Asriel]

Just got confirmation that I have an abstract accepted to a fairly important conference next year.

[p01s0n]

nothing more satisfying than defeating a stuck, rounded off bolt.


six months ago I first tackled this motherfucker. On and off over that period I have had a crack at undoing it. Then tonight I said NO MORE! and sorted that fucker out.

This was absolutely the worst kind too, where as you apply torque, the socket/wrench/spanner would push itself off the end of the head. it was in a bastard of a place which meant heating the surrounding area was not an option, and it was right up against the firewall so there was no room to smack it with a hammer.

[Juju]

Cut your fucken fingernails you women. That MX5 is making you all bitch.


Ps. Good work on the bolt.

[madmaxii]

Woman

[Helious]

the dirt under the fingernails isn't everyday living~ it's at completion of job~ sif my main man pie is gonna stop to clean his fingernails after his magnificent triumph!

[Thomas Meatball]

It's not the dirtiness of his fingernails, it's the length. Look at that thumbnail!

[Helious]

i'd like to see you cunts peel an orange

[Ab]

If you don't have a long thumbnail, how do you quickly open a plastic-wrapped Leaning Tower pizza?

[chiQ]

Originally Posted by Ab

If you don't have a long thumbnail, how do you quickly open a plastic-wrapped Leaning Tower pizza?

Why would you want to?

[p01s0n]

Originally Posted by chiQ

Why would you want to?

girls

[^BITES^]

Originally Posted by p01s0n

This was absolutely the worst kind too, where as you apply torque, the socket/wrench/spanner would push itself off the end of the head. it was in a bastard of a place which meant heating the surrounding area was not an option, and it was right up against the firewall so there was no room to smack it with a hammer.

Fuck I hate those... esp when done by design ...

One similar cunt fucker was my ball joints for the Valiant ... some fucktard thought screw in ones were a good idea ... well tbh its not THAT bad an idea. Except for the fact they are recessed into the upper fucking arm, so you CANNOT get anything on them solid except for some fucking tool from Mopar ... and fuck ordering one of those (shit tons of cash)

To make it even more entertaining, the head is one of those "oh lets put rounded edges on it! With the added bonus of not having grip all the way up the head, to compound this further .... these are the ORIGNAL ball joints from 1972..... ARSE

Ended up doing the overnight soak in CRC etc, next day and 2 Hours later with a fucking monkey wrench and cold chisel, and more swearing than a drunk pirate on fire, we got the bastard(s) out.

Then later on putting the new one in the other side thread fucked out ... had to do it all again. FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARK.

Worst design ever.

[Saladin]

Originally Posted by Ab

If you don't have a long thumbnail, how do you quickly open a plastic-wrapped Leaning Tower pizza?

Like any man would, with a machete

[Reformed_Quint]

Originally Posted by p01s0n

nothing more satisfying than defeating a stuck, rounded off bolt.

With ones like that I get a coal chisel, place it slightly off centre on the right hand side of its centre axis (on the head of the bolt) and whack it with a hammer, a small 'groove' where the chisel is being hit will apear, you can then angle the chisel so that you are forcing the bolt around in an anti clockwise rotation. HATE, rounded bolts, or rounded screws, WHY WOULD YOU PUT SCREWS ON GAURD LINERS,THEY JUST RUST!! FUCK, it stresses me out.

BTW, i always grow one thumb nail long, once the other gets to a suitable size i chop the other off, goes in cycles. One long thumb nail has many uses. A few for chiq;
-Scrapping things clean, so you can see the itching on the metal.
-Peeling things.
-Cutting things.
-Prying things.

Its like a flat head screw driver, ON YOUR THUMB!!!

[Thomas Meatball]

Originally Posted by Reformed_Quint

With ones like that I get a coal chisel

BTW, i always grow one thumb nail long, once the other gets to a suitable size i chop the other off, goes in cycles. One long thumb nail has many uses. A few for chiq;
-Scrapping things clean, so you can see the itching on the metal.
-Peeling things.
-Cutting things.
-Prying things.
-Cat fights

Its like a flat head screw driver, ON YOUR THUMB!!!

Hmmm

[Reformed_Quint]

Originally Posted by Thomas Meatball

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[Markh]

Originally Posted by Ab

If you don't have a long thumbnail, how do you quickly open a plastic-wrapped Leaning Tower pizza?

A knife, a big fuck off shiny one!
For me opening food wrapping is usually done in the kitchen where I have scissors and various knives close at hand. If I am out somewhere and need to open something then I always have a Swiss Army Knife on my belt, so still no problem.

That having been said I actually keep a little length of the nails on my thumb and forefinger on both hands. You need some thumbnail to open a pocket knife and there are various other tasks that a little fingernail is useful for. I do trim my nails regularly, I just don't trim the thumb & forefinger ones quite so close.

[StN]

Originally Posted by Reformed_Quint

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Jimmy Barnes, being the working class man that he is, is turning in his mine...

[Ab]

Originally Posted by chiQ

Why would you want to?

Nostalgia

[Reformed_Quint]

Ho, shame, i've always called it a 'coal' chisel. Even when i was working in a factory, lol.

[Thomas Meatball]

Originally Posted by Reformed_Quint

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Do you use your cold chisel to chip away at coal?

[Reformed_Quint]

Originally Posted by Thomas Meatball

Do you use your cold chisel to chip away at coal?

If i had a mine... i might! Nah, who am i kidding, i've got a pick for that kinda shit.

[p01s0n]

I tried the coald chisel approach with no luck, twas too rounded by then and the chisel would just slip off. It was the top bolt that holds the waterneck in place on the 4ag/ze engines, for those who are familiar.

[Helious]

I sold $1700 worth of books in the last 24hours(14 books) via Amazon. Boss is pretty happy, it's quite an intricate operation, tbh. On one hand I was happy I was able to Get It Done, on the other hand I'll fucking lose the plot if I have to keep doing this shit, I can't stand being on a computer as a requirement for my job, it's extremely unhealthy for me. Books aren't so bad though, it's almost like playing DrugWars! Apparently it's seasonal. We've got 70 cars coming in in the next 6 days, so I'm going to be WAY too busy for books. Apparently the books don't pick up until January anyways and the cars then go quiet(no one travels in NZ from January until just before Winter).

Wait a minute, is this random thoughts?

Oh yeah, my car storage website generated $600 in sales today, I only listed it using Google Ad words yesterday. So things are looking good.

I told my boss "10% of books/website goes to me" -- he said he'll think it over. Could be quite a good little earner. The profit on the books is around 30%.

What Oils My Gears? I'm the happiest I've been in over a decade.

[AcidFang]

Originally Posted by Helious

Oh yeah, my car storage website generated $600 in sales today, I only listed it using Google Ad words yesterday. So things are looking good.

If I wanted to store my car on your website , how do i upload it?

[Helious]

I'd have to ring your mother and see if she could fit something that large(and she probably could) in her arse.

[chiQ]

Originally Posted by p01s0n

girls

Oh! Riiight. Sorry poppet.

Simon: believe me, the memories are better than the pizza.

[MadMax]

Originally Posted by Ab

If you don't have a long thumbnail, how do you quickly open a plastic-wrapped Leaning Tower pizza?

punch the plastic, then pull at it placing stress on the heat seal.

[BaM]

Originally Posted by Ab

If you don't have a long thumbnail, how do you quickly open a plastic-wrapped Leaning Tower pizza?

Do they taste better if you take the plastic off?

[Foggerty]

Cashing in my piggy bank from this year - yes, its an actual ceramic piggy bank my dad made for me years (an years) back - and getting $322.40 to spend on a slap up dinner for me and my girlie


Plus, BBQ sauce. Oils My Gears and lubes my guts. Its fantastic.

[crocos]

Originally Posted by BaM

Do they taste better if you take the plastic off?

No, but you don't get the burnt plastic smell as bad.

[Juju]

Originally Posted by Foggerty

Cashing in my piggy bank from this year - yes, its an actual ceramic piggy bank my dad made for me years (an years) back - and getting $322.40 to spend on a slap up dinner for me and my girlie


Plus, BBQ sauce. Oils My Gears and lubes my guts. Its fantastic.

I have an old ASB Kashun Elephant which I found a few months ago half full of 5c coins. Anyone know if the bank will take them?