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Saw this epic thing for 99 dollars ! That ain’t bad
Even has his iconic helmet painted correctly
did u end up buying it? join us AFOL!!!
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I’m not a big fan of the kinetic Lego or whatever Costco typically sells the F1 cars in etc. but comparatively this Senna one looks hella budget lol
i think this one is pretty nice for its price to piece count ratio. blocks always look better than technics sets unless its their $500+ super car series. those are *chef's kiss*
i think this one is pretty nice for its price to piece count ratio. blocks always look better than technics sets unless its their $500+ super car series. those are *chef's kiss*
Oh 100% the blocks always look better but yea like you said unless you get the premium sets I guess they do what they can at this price point
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I had to go to Kamloops late Monday night as a long time friend of mine messaged and told me he has very high brain pressure and wasn't going to make it, take care of his shit after and then he went radio silent.
I called his sister and we booked it up after I put my kids to sleep. We arrived to him just barely conscious in Kamloops ER. The CT returned a big brain bleed on the left side and a small one on the right.
The neurosurgeon operated on him and he now has a tube coming out of his head to relieve any continued bleeding, but he was mostly back to normal. We called his parents and they arrived and take over from me and I had to come back to my family and kids. The neurologists said he'll make a full recovery by a week and walking talking jumping like before, just with a suture in his head and minus some hair.
My friend is 36. He's had a troubling migraine for the last 2-3 weeks and he was given a checklist by his sister (nurse) and he followed through with it in his limited cognitive ability and went to the hospital. If he went a day later the prognosis would have been much worse. This was not a stroke as he didn't lose oxygen to his brain, but it could have developed into one if he waited any longer.
Just a PSA for everyone out there, age doesn't mean anything, there's no tough guy acts when it comes to health.
I can attest to this. Having personally seen a young father come into emergency with a brain bleed was tough on everyone here. Wife was left behind with their young children. Your friend is incredibly lucky to have come out of this alive and well. Vast majority of people don't make it. Liam Neeson's late wife is an example of this too.
Speaking of health - here's an illness that's more common than people realise and which many of you (in your 40's and 50's) are prime targets for (and roughly 1 in a 1,000 get it each year): Sudden Onset Hearing Loss: https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/sudden-deafness
This happened to me about a month ago - I got a bout of food poisoning and next thing I know I've lost most of my hearing in my left ear. I already have hearing loss and this has left my left ear in pretty bad shape - I can barely hear out of it now without my hearing aids. I have to get my hearing aids adjusted before I know what my new quality of life is but so far it's made life considerably worse and has me looking to accelerate retirement (and I've shelved any plans to buy a sports car for now).
Hearing loss is irreversible (unless it's conductive loss where there's some hope) and 38% of Canadians have some kind of loss and half of those people don't realise it so take care of what you've got. If you think you might have hearing loss you can get your hearing tested for free at Costco or any private clinic. You can even download an app (Mimi) that lets you do an at home test.
Is it safe to turn on my PC notebook yet? I've literally been on my work Macbook since Friday.
Personal PC's should not be affected, it's only a risk if your computer uses crowdstrike which is an enterprise level security software run by companies.
And it sounds like it's no longer an issue if you did not update your work PC's crowdstrike software since last Friday.
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Sonick is a genius. I won't go into detail what's so great about his post. But it's damn good!
2010 Toyota Rav4 Limited V6 - Wifey's Daily Driver
2009 BMW 128i - Daily Driver
2007 Toyota Rav4 Sport V6 - Sold
1999 Mazda Miata - Sold
2003 Mazda Protege5 - Sold
1987 BMW 325is - Sold
1990 Mazda Miata - Sold
PSA: I'm pleased to report that the rumours that Chicken Lady of LA Chicken fame is alive and well and working at LA Chicken are real. While she may have put on 20lbs since I last saw her she was spotted working collaboratively with her ex-husband, aka Chicken Man, during the lunch hour service.
In other news, the chicken still rocks and they still don't salt their fries.
Man did you ask why they don't salt those damn fries?
Man did you ask why they don't salt those damn fries?
LOL, after 15+ years of always asking for a pack of salt for my order I would have hoped they got the message to salt their fries. And they ALWAYS have packs of salt to give out too - more so than ketchup packs so it's not like no one else asks.
The owners are such odd people - I imagine they are printing money with that place considering they haven't invested a single cent into the space ever (they might have replaced their chairs at one point), the place is always busy and they've only ever had a single other employee there (some old Chinese guy in the back).
Man, anyone drive HWY 3 and the Coq in the last week or so this summer?
My car got titty fucked by bugs both ways, worst I've ever seen it in years heading out that way in the summer.
Every inch of the windshield, hood, grill were COVERED with dead fuckers.
They were the worst in recent memory when I went down and back a couple weeks ago. Tons of the big ones you actually hear hit the glass and you can hear the grit when you (pointlessly) try to use the wipers.
__________________ 1991 Toyota Celica GTFour RC // 2007 Toyota Rav4 V6 // 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee
1992 Toyota Celica GT-S ["sold"] \\ 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee CRD [sold] \\ 2000 Jeep Cherokee [sold] \\ 1997 Honda Prelude [sold] \\ 1992 Jeep YJ [sold/crashed] \\ 1987 Mazda RX-7 [sold] \\ 1987 Toyota Celica GT-S [crushed]
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half those dudes are hotter than ,my GF.
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reading this thread is like waiting for goku to charge up a spirit bomb in dragon ball z
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OH thank god. I thought u had sex with my wife. :cry:
Speaking of health - here's an illness that's more common than people realise and which many of you (in your 40's and 50's) are prime targets for (and roughly 1 in a 1,000 get it each year): Sudden Onset Hearing Loss: https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/sudden-deafness
This happened to me about a month ago - I got a bout of food poisoning and next thing I know I've lost most of my hearing in my left ear. I already have hearing loss and this has left my left ear in pretty bad shape - I can barely hear out of it now without my hearing aids. I have to get my hearing aids adjusted before I know what my new quality of life is but so far it's made life considerably worse and has me looking to accelerate retirement (and I've shelved any plans to buy a sports car for now).
Hearing loss is irreversible (unless it's conductive loss where there's some hope) and 38% of Canadians have some kind of loss and half of those people don't realise it so take care of what you've got. If you think you might have hearing loss you can get your hearing tested for free at Costco or any private clinic. You can even download an app (Mimi) that lets you do an at home test.
There's a silver lining here in that you're conscious of it and making the most of it!
For years, my dad wouldn't admit there was anything going on with his hearing, and would pretend to himself that he could perfectly hear what we were saying. He would fill in the gaps and insist it's what we'd said, when it wasn't. This got really confusing for my 8 year old niece, when increasingly his responses to her didn't make any sense. Eventually she just stopped talking to him. This was hard on him because he and my mom had basically raised my niece in her younger years. After a ton of painstaking convincing that this was really no different to getting glasses, last year we got him -reluctantly - to try new hearing aids.
We got our dad back, and he got his granddaughter back.
My mother in law isn't far behind. She has it bad enough that if her right ear is turned to someone, she doesn't know when they're speaking, even if they're talking loudly in the same room. She also doesn't think she needs hearing aids, because she "still hears perfectly in the other ear" (she doesn't: she just pretends she does and makes stuff up as we talk).
My wife's insurance has some amount of hearing aid coverage and I'm sure my hearing isn't great anyway after years of power tool use without hearing protection: I figure I'll wear them a while and kinda normalize it around her so she'll have an easier time accepting these glasses for her ears.
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^ Did he swear he will find the culprit ?
