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Murfdogg21

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  1. 28 minutes ago, GottaB said:

    I was at Home Depot and the had a returned Honda. Looks new. $399 marked down to $280. No bag. Had them knock another $100 off.

    New-ish Honda for $180. Good enough for me.

    Who did you negotiate with, the cashier? I didn’t realize Home Depot was a flea market. 

  2. I’ve negotiated the last two online and much prefer that to negotiating on the spot in person. It allows you to force multiple dealerships to compete against each other. On the Honda we bought last year, I played the best two offers back and forth until I got them to invoice price +$25, quite a bit below the average reported sales price on Edmunds for that model. They doinked me a little bit on my tradein but that car had issues and was happy to unload it. 

  3. Of course the intent is have fewer returns. My earlier post was saying smart coaches will come up with a gimmick to play this rule to their advantage and result in something other than the intended effect. 

    Like in the NFL when they started the 25 yardline touchback, Belichick and others started having their kickers does a sky high kick and drop it in around the 5 yard line and close to a sideline. Often the returnees wouldn’t make it out to the 25. Probably resulted in fewer touchbacks instead of more for these teams’ opponents. 

    Eliminating the kickoff doesn’t exclude onside kicks. The NFL bastardized extra points where you have to declare a 1pt or 2pt attempt. Where the fuck is the element of surprise and extra excitement of the game? Roger Goodell, why hath thou forsaken the Swinging Gate?? They will probably eliminate kickoffs one day and there will never be a mid-game surprise onside kick again. 

  4. On 4/13/2018 at 7:16 AM, Viper said:

    I love a good old fashioned, however I've been doing low carb lately. Usually I'll drink bourbon straight or mix with diet coke or diet gingerbeer, but has anyone gotten a low carb old fashioned to work? 

    I will dissolve two stevia packets with a spoonful of water and the bitters, then add the rye or bourbon. It’s alright. I also do this to make “skinny” mojitos or julips. 

     

    Completely agree with page 1 posts of ordering OFs as a go-to all over the country and 80-90% of them are bad. 

  5. The Silicon Valley machine has picked and groomed her to be the heir to Steve Jobs, right down to her black turtlenecks. She will re-emerge in a few years having “reinvented herself and full of innovation” and be handed the reins of another tech startup. 

  6. I will SELL.YOU.A.LAWNMOWER.  I bought a self propelled Husqvuarna (has Honda motor) from Lowe’s in 2013 and about to move to a house without a yard. Some scratches and such but runs good. Will discount appropriately and credit for Surly rep and non-Best Buy coupons. 

  7. One of my checklist options before closing the sale of my house is having a licensed or certified HVAC guy come out and confirm the bolt is appropriately tightened on the natural gas line leading into the furnace. Inspector said it wasn’t a problem but needed things to put on his report. I called the guy he recommended up in Cedar Park who said it didn’t sound like a problem or leak to him, and I should save my money and his time by going into the attic and tightening it myself. Buyer’s agent is insisting on a professional doing it. The guy quoted me $100 for his time to drive downtown from Cedar Park. If there is a licensed HVAC person on surlybevoshag, I’d rather make a deal with him. 

  8. The effect of moving kickoffs up 5 yards and assigning touchbacks to the 25 yard line was kickers kicking the ball high and forcing the returner to catch the kickoff inside the 5 or 10 and ideally near the sideline to pen them in deep. This new rule takes away that strategy because the returner will just wave for a fair catch. Now coaches must come up with a way have a kick bounce somewhere so they can’t signal fair catch but takes long enough to field so their gunners can get down there and make a tackle before the receiving team can set up a return. 

  9. 4 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

    Sounds like "his ho bag realtor" did a good job representing her client's interest.  

    You don’t have to take things personally just because you are in the same industry. My realtor confirmed she did several borderline unethical things during the option period and then put a gun to our head. I would have loved telling her to pound sand and having her client be pissed he lost the property, if not for personal issues and our desire to sell the house sooner rather than later. Have you never encountered unethical bitches in your line of work? I don’t intend to derail the thread with this. It was a side detail of my post but I’m not going to let you call me out like I’m an ignorant moron just because I don’t have my own real estate license.

     

  10. On 4/10/2018 at 8:34 PM, Buzzrock said:

    Rey/Kylo duel and the Holdo kamikaze are definitely rewatchable.

    Fortunately both these scenes happen in the same 4 minute stretch so you can just fast forward your TiVo about 80% through the movie, then maybe watch the last two minutes and dwell on how terribly sad Luke’s life turned out. 

  11. Listed our house in 78702 a couple weeks ago. Got first offer in 7 days, got a better offer we accepted on day 9 in the MLS. First time home buyer ignorantly asked for the moon during his option period and his ho bag realtor kept trying to justify it. We gave in on most of his requests (almost $2000 for various repairs plus our old appliances) but came out pretty good. Didn’t get the multiple offers in first 24 hours I heard so much about, but maybe I had it priced $15-25k too high. Who knows? [informative brag]

  12. I’d be all for Kaepernick getting a tryout and signing him if he is a legit option to win games if called on. He wasn’t very impressive on the field his last 1+ years and IMO is using this political crap as his excuse and legal grounds to sue for not being employed. We saw with VY and other talented QBs that teams often want a clear #2, not a #1b that could ignite a QB controversy. Maybe CP is more a QB1b than a QB2, or maybe he’s more like a QB3 these days...

     

    If he’s going to be a distraction though, there’s no chance I’d sign him no matter how talented he is. 

  13. Are they unwilling to put any money at backup QB? It seems QB2 (or others) start a few games for Houston every year. They could have gone after the best non-starters, guys like Bridgewater, Gabbert, etc. Weeden makes me want to puke. When does TJ Yates get brought in? I’d personally rather have a 40 year old Sage Rosencopter

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