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Dunno if this qualifies as a "life hack," but if you're still using a towel or cloth bath mat it's time to join the 21st century with a diatomaceous earth bath mat! That's right, a bath mat made of...

First time I visited Thailand my buddy had to explain to me what the "bum gun" next to the toilet was. "Trust me, you've never felt so clean. You'll never go back to just toilet paper"

He was...

Since this thread has shifted to calling it in.

My buddy and I rode up to the Chabot shooting range one time on motorcycles. It's a windy, hilly road through the park and they had just chip sealed...

Yeah, it all does sound the same:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY8SwIvxj8o

Yup. That was the spot. Many a good day spent there shooting milsurps.

Sometimes deer would wander onto the range and they'd have to shut down the firing line until they wandered off.

The park...

OK, not absurd sh!t I heard, but a public range story nonetheless.

At a now-closed outdoor public range in Northern California.

Guy sits down at the bench next to me with a scoped rifle. Soon...

Lots of details emerging about this particular story.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/1-shot-new-york-city-subway-scuffle-man/story?id=108134540

Apparently the National Guard aren't at every New York...

Lucky you, seeing this in full for the first time. IMHO the best television series ever made.

And it's even better the second time around; the writing is so good, they're setting up plot lines...

I just moved some furniture from one coast to the other with a U-box and it was mostly fine. $1900 for one box coast to coast; it's a big plywood box with a vinyl covering to keep the rain out. 24...

I watched the whole series and it made me want to visit Hong Kong again.

Though not in the company of dysfunctional spoiled whiney expats like the ones in the show.

It's well directed. I give...

Believe it or not, Willcox has a pretty decent winery scene these days. There are several really nice tasting rooms right in the downtown.

Perhaps you were thinking of Lordsburg, NM?

Mosul on Netflix.

Best war movie I've seen in quite a while. Iraqi cops vs. Isis in the ruins of Mosul. A place where life is complicated, nasty, brutish, and short.

Definitely un-Hollywood,...

Nobody's mentioned Nouvelle Vague yet.

Multiple albums covering college radio/Britpop hits of the 80's. In a jazzy/easy listening style.

Sense of humor required.

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The Tourist, limited series on Netflix. Apparently originated on HBO.

Crime drama set in Australia. Guy gets in a car crash, wakes up with no memory, and starts meeting people from his past....

This would have been in the early 2000's. I lived in Da Filmo' from the late 80's through the early 2000's so saw a lot of changes, and a lot that stayed the same. Visited Northern Station (lobby...

I used the live a few blocks from there. Da Fillmo' is pretty sketchy, in spite of its proximity to a more expensive neighborhood just to the North. The McDonald's just up the street has had its...

That is a great memoir. The HBO follow-up to "Band of Brothers," "The Pacific" features Eugene Sledge as one of the characters, and you get to see some of the hell he went through during his time in...

100% agree, a good plumbing supply house is invaluable for quality parts. The name brand faucets at the big box stores are mostly junk.

Speaking of sink drains, I first saw the one-piece flexible...

+1 for Hansgrohe. I've personally installed them in three showers and had a pro install one in another during a larger remodel.

Their iBox modular system for mounting the valve body is very DIY...

Meanwhile the Houthis, in classic fashion, blame the US for provocations and commiting crimes.

"In a statement Sunday, the Houthis said they lost 10 group members after U.S. forces fired on their...

Try buying a water filter from Amazon or other delivery service if you live in CA. A lot of the prepper-type filters are banned from delivery. Same thing with lead balls for your black powder pistol...

You're right. Nobody paid that 91%.

According your link: "It shows that the effective tax rate for the top 1% of households (by income) was 42% in the 1950s, versus 36.4% today." Only 5.6%.
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The guy got to live the dream and change the world in the process. Still love my G23.

Rest In Peace

"Alphonse" on Netflix. French miniseries about a schmucky watch salesman who takes over his eldery father's male gigolo business. All his clients are very old ladies and most of them are crazy. This...

"Thank goodness I won't live to see the day the government takes half our income in taxes."

The rest are just inflation, but this one quote is backwards. The top Federal tax bracket in 1957 was...