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Contractors mark up supplies. Hell, contractors get it cheaper than your HD price even.

Just wait until you are tryin' to reason with hurricane season...

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  On 6/14/2018 at 4:17 AM, UT_OB1 said:

Right , so they are quoting 5x markup on materials, and same cost to install. 

 

Is it just a busy time of the year for siding so people jack up prices?  10k seems outrageous for this small home. 

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Pretty much. If in Austin reach out to Titan siding. They do the most resides in Austin. 

Allied is a little overpriced

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  On 6/14/2018 at 4:27 AM, woohorn said:

Contractors mark up supplies. Hell, contractors get it cheaper than your HD price even.

Just wait until you are tryin' to reason with hurricane season...

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I deal with industrial contractors all the time at work, and the markup on off the shelf type stuff (valves, pipe, etc) is usually 10-25%. Not 300-400%

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In my slacks and a couple of pairs of my shorts, there is a second really small pocket inside my normal right hand pocket. WTF is this for other than something that my car key will get stuck in when my hands a full?

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  On 6/26/2018 at 10:38 PM, Jameslaw121 said:

In my slacks and a couple of pairs of my shorts, there is a second really small pocket inside my normal right hand pocket. WTF is this for other than something that my car key will get stuck in when my hands a full?

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Pocket watch. 

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  On 6/26/2018 at 10:38 PM, Jameslaw121 said:

In my slacks and a couple of pairs of my shorts, there is a second really small pocket inside my normal right hand pocket. WTF is this for other than something that my car key will get stuck in when my hands a full?

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Cocaine

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  On 6/26/2018 at 10:38 PM, Jameslaw121 said:
In my slacks and a couple of pairs of my shorts, there is a second really small pocket inside my normal right hand pocket. WTF is this for other than something that my car key will get stuck in when my hands a full?


In jeans, the small pocket is for guitar picks. In slacks, the little pocket inside the pocket is also for guitar picks.
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  On 6/26/2018 at 10:38 PM, Jameslaw121 said:

In my slacks and a couple of pairs of my shorts, there is a second really small pocket inside my normal right hand pocket. WTF is this for other than something that my car key will get stuck in when my hands a full?

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[Jameis] roofie holster? [/Winston]

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Speed limit is 75.  Two-lane highway.  Why in the everlivingfuck does one truck pull into the left lane to pass another truck, and then end up side-by-side for several miles @ 65-70mph?  Happened at least 30 times today while I was on I-20 through Louisiana and E. Texas.

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  On 6/27/2018 at 12:59 PM, Kennythetiger said:
Check out Drifter's trucking thread.  Wind drift, governors, fuel efficiency, Bob Stoops, etc. 

We know why they're limited. We don't know why they bother passing if they're going so incrementally faster that it takes several minutes to complete.

 

 

Other than being an asshole, that is.

 

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  On 6/26/2018 at 10:38 PM, Jameslaw121 said:

In my slacks and a couple of pairs of my shorts, there is a second really small pocket inside my normal right hand pocket. WTF is this for other than something that my car key will get stuck in when my hands a full?

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Were you and your brother raised by your single mother?  You two ask questions about stuff that boys that grew up with a father figure usually know the answer to.

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  On 6/27/2018 at 9:08 PM, baboso said:

Were you and your brother raised by your single mother?  You two ask questions about stuff that boys that grew up with a father figure usually know the answer to.

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Thanks for the answer... Guess you must not understand the thread title. Good job

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In the ESPN app, when I look at the World Cup matchups, it shows, for example:

Belgium LWWWW

England WWLWW

That's for the Saturday 3rd place game.

WTF do the Ws and Ls mean? I thought it might be wins and losses over the last 5 games, but since both Belgium and England lost their last matches, that apparently isn't the case.

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  On 7/14/2018 at 4:31 PM, WhatTheBuck said:

What else would it use it for?

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drying the dishes

we don't have a hot water line run to the dishwasher in our new office kitchen, my position was that the washer can heat up water on its own using the same element it uses to dry the dishes.  others looked at me like i was crazy.  

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  On 7/14/2018 at 4:42 PM, elfenix said:

drying the dishes

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That's a good answer. Do they do that? I've always assumed the hot water drains/evaporates pretty quickly. I've taken damp dishes out of the washer before but usually a fair amount of time has passed between washing and unloading so I'm just used to dry dishes.

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  On 7/14/2018 at 4:58 PM, WhatTheBuck said:

That's a good answer. Do they do that? I've always assumed the hot water drains/evaporates pretty quickly. I've taken damp dishes out of the washer before but usually a fair amount of time has passed between washing and unloading so I'm just used to dry dishes.

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every dishwasher i can remember has had a heat/air dry button on it.  so, if you've got that set to heated dry, it'll use the element.  

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  On 7/14/2018 at 5:07 PM, elfenix said:

every dishwasher i can remember has had a heat/air dry button on it.  so, if you've got that set to heated dry, it'll use the element.  

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Luiz. Yep, mine has a switch for heated dry or air dry. It's set to air dry. I just put it on normal wash and let it go. I haven't paid it more attention than that in years. My needs have been served just fine by the air dry. I can't imagine the heated dry being worth it. 

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Regarding the rock throwing trucks, can they not design a compartment that encloses all the loose rocks? Seems idiotic to have a truck carrying around that much loose gravel and rocks with nothing to cover it. But hey, they have a sign on the back that says they are no liable for any damage so they got it covered I guess.

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East Texas is a mix of almost Deep South and almost coastal Louisiana. Even considering that, Beaumont is particularly ugly. Swamp people and rebel flag wavers.

I’ve had good times in both Nacogdoches and Beaumont, but that’s the gist of it.

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I consider BPA just trashy gulf coast. East Texas is piney woods.

It gets trashed here because most posters have spent time in Austin. No matter how much shit East Texas gets here, it beats the crap outta West Texas or the panhandle, so it is all relative (kinda like East Texas).

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  On 7/14/2018 at 11:58 PM, shakahorn said:
Do silencers in real life sound just like silencers in the movies?
On a .22 they sound like a pellet gun. On a larger caliber they sound like a slightly muffled .22 if subsonic and bolt action. It gets slightly louder from there.

And no they dont have the laser gun sound whatsoever like in the movies.
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  On 7/14/2018 at 10:19 PM, Vic Mackey said:

Regarding the rock throwing trucks, can they not design a compartment that encloses all the loose rocks? Seems idiotic to have a truck carrying around that much loose gravel and rocks with nothing to cover it. But hey, they have a sign on the back that says they are no liable for any damage so they got it covered I guess.

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