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& these baby penguins would win the cute award between all of them.
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Pants ain't got a chance against penguins.
 
As Nickels would be able to now tell you, what 00 posted are sea lions and what you posted is a seal.
Based upon the always accurate interwebs, this is a sea lion. However,I will you defer to your wisdom if Nickels agrees. There are two rules that I've learned from my many years of marriage.

1. The woman is always right.
2. If in doubt, refer to rule #1.
 
ok, won some veggies today. Some I can put right into my stir-fry but others I need ideas for. Kale, kohlrabi, beets, and zucchini (not enough for bread)

wdsm, what did you do? Make fries out of yours? How did that work?
 
ok, won some veggies today. Some I can put right into my stir-fry but others I need ideas for. Kale, kohlrabi, beets, and zucchini (not enough for bread)

wdsm, what did you do? Make fries out of yours? How did that work?

Kohlrabi - just eat raw
Beets - sautee with a little butter and salt
Zucchini - depending on the size, cut them into halves or quarters, marinate and grill
Kale - dispose of properly
 
Kohlrabi - just eat raw
Beets - sautee with a little butter and salt
Zucchini - depending on the size, cut them into halves or quarters, marinate and grill
Kale - dispose of properly


no grill or I'd o that with some of these
 
ok, won some veggies today. Some I can put right into my stir-fry but others I need ideas for. Kale, kohlrabi, beets, and zucchini (not enough for bread)

wdsm, what did you do? Make fries out of yours? How did that work?


Kohlrabi: Just peel, cut it up, dip in a little salt. Yummo.

*edit: Oh, and the beets...just cut the tops off, wash, drizzle with some oil, wrap in foil, and bake until soft.

http://www.marthastewart.com/336625/basic-roasted-beets

After they're done/peeled, I'd toss with a little butter, dill, and lemon pepper seasoning, but that trio is my go-to for every vegetable.
 
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huh, kohlrabi is good raw? I've never had it but I have some veggie dip left this week so I was hoping for things I could use that up with
 
huh, kohlrabi is good raw? I've never had it but I have some veggie dip left this week so I was hoping for things I could use that up with


I've never eaten Kohlrabi cooked. I suppose one could do it, but I've eaten a ton of them in my lifetime, all just cut up with a dip in salt. Not sure how it'd go with veggie dip, but I'm just set in my ways.
 
Pants and Nickels - Please ignore this post.

Dear The Rest of You - What can we infer from this post?


If I had to guess, the suggestions from pants to go see the water creatures and touch them (like the stingrays) was just a ploy for one of them to splash him, then he could be all "oh, now this shirt is wet, I'm gonna have to take it off", and then nickels secretly initiated her bugout plan where a friend was on standby, if she texted her, the friend would call nickels with 'an emergency'.
 
If I had to guess, the suggestions from pants to go see the water creatures and touch them (like the stingrays) was just a ploy for one of them to splash him, then he could be all "oh, now this shirt is wet, I'm gonna have to take it off", and then nickels secretly initiated her bugout plan where a friend was on standby, if she texted her, the friend would call nickels with 'an emergency'.

More or less spot on.
 
Since when did algebra come into play when buying a car?!?!

Since this weekend, apparently.

Depends on how he worded the 'sounds reasonable' on the original communication. If he said "we might be able to do that depending on the condition of your vehicle, etc.", then I'd maybe play ball. If he just said it looked reasonable and now they changed their story, I'd give them a one-shot response of "I felt like we pretty well agreed on numbers when we talked earlier, now it feels like you're jacking me around...either the original deal stands as an 'out the door' number, or I feel like you just bullshitted me to get me in the door and jack me around...in which case, I'm done."

The other part is...are you more desperate for this car, or are they more desperate to sell it? If it's the former, you're probably going to have to move. If it's the latter, they will.

It was actually a different salesman that said $Y and $X looked like a doable deal. I guess that kind of confused me. So even forgetting the fees that I wanted included in the sales price of the car, this guy is offering $200 less for my trade in. I know it's just nit-picking and it's just a few hundred dollars in the end, but I don't like that I ended up with a worse deal than the one another salesman already told me looked good.

And I really do need to get rid of my trade-in, it's just more vehicle than I need and I can't afford to make those big payments much longer. This other vehicle will do everything I need and be less painful on my bank account. The salesman told me that they've had this car for 53 days so it's getting close to their liquidation point. They have dropped from their initial price.

He's just trying to hide the original numbers, doesn't want us to know he's haggling a few hundred bucks on a 75K car.

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No comment.

I would probably try to deal with the trade-in as a separate transaction unless you really think you're getting a good price on it. Is a similar car available somewhere else? You could always send the offer to another dealer and ask if they can beat it. You could tell current salesman that you only came in to look at the car based on prices of Y and X and want to know why he is giving you different numbers in person.

There aren't a ton of vehicles available with the specific options that I'm looking for that are in my price range. I do think that the price they are offering is pretty fair. One advantage of a trade-down is that I won't have to pay taxes on the purchase price of the vehicle I'm getting.
 
The bloodbrow is pretty creative...wonder if he did that himself, or if it was a performance piece from the popo?

I think it looks like a red-haired Simon Pegg with a blood uni-brow.

Trying to get used to the OS upgrade on my phone from KitKat to Lollipop. Still weird.
 
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