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  1. 5 hours ago, Post Oak said:

    It was the turbo.  They said that it affects the ability of the car to pick up speed and keep speed.  What I was told was that the turbo is like a fan and it got out of balance and threw other things off. The oil started leaking and the car started to smoke.

    We were lucky that it happened when it did because there was a dealership close by.  There's not much between Colorado Springs and Amarillo.  

    We are waiting at the airport.  Could've been worse.  We were lucky.  Kids are troopers.

     

    You could stop in Trinidad and get a sex change surgery while you are waiting on the car repair.  Two birds.  One stone.

  2. 25 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Yes. But my insurance stayed relatively the same through 10 years, including multiple hurricanes, floods, ice storms, whatever. And never heard a peep about shit. But in the last two years whole insurance companies are talking about pulling out of states a because of catastrophic financial losses and yet even more catastrophic than usual weather events, and we see changes in Texas policy. You think it took insurance actuaries 6 years after Harvey and the Memorial Day floods to put pen to paper and raise rates in Texas? 
     

    also my insurance guys response when I made this comment to them was “Well, I’d never say that, but…”

     

     

     If the actuaries had any say in the matter anyone within 50 miles of the Gulf  would be uninsurable.  Politics dictate otherwise.  If anyone wants to complain about their insurance rates they should consider living in a place that is not in a disaster zone.

  3. 4 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I'll chime in. My 12 month renewal with my guys in Houston went up 40% for car, and it looks like my mortgage went up $150 a month becuase of insurance as well. My insurance guys in Houston bascially said "Providers don't even want to cover guys they already have." This is all of us paying for Florida hurricanes and Cali wildfires, right?

     

    Because Houston never has catastrophic weather events.

  4. 8 hours ago, Skipper said:

    Ticket pricing is pretty insane.  I went to games 4 and 5 in the 2011 finals and that wasn't cheap (in 2011 money) but just no way to justify $2K for a shitty lower.  Will be interested to see if this market holds.  I know of several half season or 20 game pack holders putting up game 3 to try to make their playoff spend back on 1 game which isn't a bad strategy if it works.  

    It worked in 2011.

  5. 16 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

    Well, sorta... if you put it in the context of her being the greatest female college basketball player of all-time you'd think we'd hit more than 7 pages in 1+ years.

    The WNBA thread, for the entire league is 4 years old and has 6 pages.

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  6. 8 minutes ago, WithoutAClue said:

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    You still can.  It’s just expensive.  Had a young guy who worked for me several years ago. I bet he broke 3-4 phones per year.  He came in one day bitching about it.  I told him I try not to get up in people’s personal business, and I am generally against such things, but he might want to take out the insurance on the new one.  Just a thought.

  7. On 5/22/2024 at 10:23 PM, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    If you listen closely to Biden, you can hear/see him doing exactly this. Sounds like fairly short pauses at random places in his speech. 

     

     

     

    As someone who has done this my entire life, he didn’t have to get elected potus for me to notice.

  8. 3 minutes ago, Deej said:

    Loved the salad bar as a kid. 

    There’s a lesson there for parents who have a hard time getting kids to eat their veggies. I usually ended up with two leafs of lettuce, a pound of croutons, and 1/2 gallon of ranch.

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