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bubbie
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Mon Oct 02, 2017 4:35 pm

Wanted to buy a riflescope from the States the other day and found out that riflescopes fall under a restricted to export items under ITAR. I can order a gun, no problems (will probably get some grief at the Canadian border when importing), but a drymounting scope is a big no-no. What the drymount? I understand we supply a shitload of illegal guns to our southern neibours (according to the republican fellows, that's where most of your guns in the wrong hands come from), but a 5-6 drymounting hundred scope...

Run/get your guns out! Canadians got their scopes and are coming to drymounting terrorize us! Lel.
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Mon Oct 02, 2017 4:39 pm

It's because we never shook the all-Canadians-are-nearsighted smear campaign from the 50s.
And to be fair, you're a bit aggro for a Norq.
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Mon Oct 02, 2017 4:41 pm

Also speeding tickets on an empty highway. When there is no one around and you are going 24 km/h faster than the posted speed limit and get a drymounting $198 ticket. Bullshit.
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Mon Oct 02, 2017 4:43 pm

bubbie wrote:will probably get some grief at the Canadian border when importing
bubbie wrote:Also speeding tickets on an empty highway.
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bubbie
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Mon Oct 02, 2017 4:43 pm

fredo wrote:It's because we never shook the all-Canadians-are-nearsighted smear campaign from the 50s.
And to be fair, you're a bit aggro for a Norq.
Lol. Fair enough.
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Tue Oct 03, 2017 7:34 pm

Had to pay a $62 bill and they wanted additional $2 for using my credit card. Ended up charging me $0.30 for using my bank card. What the drymount, really?
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Thu Oct 05, 2017 6:03 pm

The no-spoilers thing has gotten out of hand. I mean... for a rockumentary about Pearl Jam? Pull it together, people!
https://www.theguardian.com/books/books ... chologists

And re: film reviews- imo you can't provide actual, useful criticism without discussing major plot points in some kind of detail. No need to endlessly rehash exposition or say "and the butler did it" but...without the deets you're just talking.
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Sun Oct 08, 2017 12:22 pm

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Sun Oct 08, 2017 12:26 pm

Go Bills!
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That's what she said
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Tue Oct 10, 2017 1:48 pm

I ordered some acid free tissue from ULINE years ago and I've been getting catalogs in the mail on a weekly (almost daily) basis ever since. Today I had 3 huge ones crammed in my box. FFS Uline slow ya roll.
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Tue Oct 10, 2017 1:57 pm

Look on the catalog - usually on the back or inside front cover for an email address to op-out of future mailings. There was a chick I worked with...she had all of her non-work related catalogs sent to our work address. It wasn't just one or two publications. I took care of that bs...
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Tue Oct 10, 2017 10:29 pm

sixstringer wrote:I ordered some acid free tissue from ULINE years ago and I've been getting catalogs in the mail on a weekly (almost daily) basis ever since. Today I had 3 huge ones crammed in my box. FFS Uline slow ya roll.

working for the city, we get their fudge every week. amazing how much they drop on printing and mailing of their catalogs.
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mfaith
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Tue Oct 10, 2017 10:38 pm

I had to call them direct to ask them to stop sending me those bloody things. And after hearing a bit about the owners' political stances when visiting The Bird Machine last year, I won't buy anything from them anymore anyway. (I think i've only ever bought one huge roll of kraft paper from them in the first place, which generated the endless stream of forest graveyards in catalog form)
So it goes...
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Tue Oct 10, 2017 11:25 pm

I pitch em right in the recycling bin.
RupertPupkin wrote:I live by this rule and this rule alone: people are drymounting idiots.
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Tue Oct 10, 2017 11:53 pm

^ Same. I have never opened one. I need to call them as well because it is annoying, but so is having to call. Pretty sure they spent on printing and mailing this fudge to me more than I had ever spent there.
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