You could offer rainmaking as a service during dry summers.
I Bought A Firetruck
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#202I just bought a warehouse. Similar - I always wanted one. I'm going to turn it into a house and put a roof garden on it and put a sweet garage in to fiddle with cars and set up some office space and generally cause havoc in there. I could drop dead tomorrow. It's nice to tick these ambitions off, although my ambitions always seem to make it more likely that I will drop dead tomorrow. (It's in Manchester, UK if anyone…
Hey Alex, before Christmas you offered me to spend Christmas day at your place, while I turned it down for an offer from a friend I would love to repay your kind offer with some free labor :) I get paid on Thursday (relevant for bus costs), I live in Darwen and I'm free next Sunday, so if you still want some help I would love to come down!
Hi Shane, thanks, dropped you an email.
Re: I Bought A Firetruck
#203I just bought a warehouse. Similar - I always wanted one. I'm going to turn it into a house and put a roof garden on it and put a sweet garage in to fiddle with cars and set up some office space and generally cause havoc in there. I could drop dead tomorrow. It's nice to tick these ambitions off, although my ambitions always seem to make it more likely that I will drop dead tomorrow. (It's in Manchester, UK if anyone…
How does that work zoning wise?
Have to apply for a change of use. The location is bordered by houses anyway so it hopefully won't be a major issue.
Re: I Bought A Firetruck
#204I just bought a warehouse. Similar - I always wanted one. I'm going to turn it into a house and put a roof garden on it and put a sweet garage in to fiddle with cars and set up some office space and generally cause havoc in there. I could drop dead tomorrow. It's nice to tick these ambitions off, although my ambitions always seem to make it more likely that I will drop dead tomorrow. (It's in Manchester, UK if anyone…
A warehouse is my dream, too. A huge warehouse that's kind of run-down (but still safe to be in). That Simpsons episode is what did this for me.
Haha, I vaguely remember that one - will rewatch it at some point.
Re: I Bought A Firetruck
#205I just bought a warehouse. Similar - I always wanted one. I'm going to turn it into a house and put a roof garden on it and put a sweet garage in to fiddle with cars and set up some office space and generally cause havoc in there. I could drop dead tomorrow. It's nice to tick these ambitions off, although my ambitions always seem to make it more likely that I will drop dead tomorrow. (It's in Manchester, UK if anyone…
If it's big enough, I've always wondered if you could basically drive some form of caravan/motor home into something like that and live there while you renovate the place.
That is exactly my plan. I'm planning on driving a motorhome into the workshop area and kind of decompressing out a house from that.
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#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a European I don't understand the american fascination with impractically fhuge cars for every day commuting. Okay I get it, you want a big car for that roadtrip or vacation. Understandable, I do too. But for everyday stuff? My hatchback does perfectly fine around town ... hell, it does perfectly well on most vacations and long drives too.
Im a European, well British anyway.... Something occurred to me today regarding Americans and big huge stupid cars... I was watching the NASCAR earlier and there was a throwaway comment about some driver's sponsors being "local". By local they mean 60 miles away. Now to a Brit, maybe other Europeans, 60 miles feels like anything but "local". So, I get the impression that we don't understand the sort of scale of trave…
America is a big country, and Americans drive everywhere, and so 100 miles isn't that far.
But this is exactly why gas guzzling cars are idiotic.
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#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a European I don't understand the american fascination with impractically fhuge cars for every day commuting. Okay I get it, you want a big car for that roadtrip or vacation. Understandable, I do too. But for everyday stuff? My hatchback does perfectly fine around town ... hell, it does perfectly well on most vacations and long drives too.
Im a European, well British anyway.... Something occurred to me today regarding Americans and big huge stupid cars... I was watching the NASCAR earlier and there was a throwaway comment about some driver's sponsors being "local". By local they mean 60 miles away. Now to a Brit, maybe other Europeans, 60 miles feels like anything but "local". So, I get the impression that we don't understand the sort of scale of trave…
The sense of scale is noticable even in this article. The author is parking a fire engine on his driveway. Here in Europe a driveway is one or two car lengths of gravel or paving blocks.
In the US, everyone's driveway is more like something approaching a major civil engineering undertaking, being the size of a tennis court, consuming several cubic metres of concrete, steel reinforcing, etc.
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#208Waiting for the follow-up article: whether the pumps really work, how well they work, whether it came with a firehouse (and if not, how much those cost+shipping), and fun things you can do with a big jet of water.
Actually, I'd think you'd need a bit of training to operate a firehose (assuming the sellers showed you how to operate all the buttons and levers). But once you have all the safety aspects down, you can go out to a lake, set up an intake hose and make a cool water display. Waiting for the pics.
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#209I'm not into firetrucks myself but something from this rings really true - if you don't put aside time and (a little) money to do extraordinary things, your life will be an endless procession of the mundane.
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#210Is there some sort of crazy game of one-upmanship in the USA as to who can drive the most impractical gas guzzler? First it was stretch limos, then Hummers, then Hummer stretch limos. I wonder if we're gonna see stretch limo fire trucks… Edit (since I'm being downvoted): The story is cool, I just find the fact that he's driving it daily to work completely retarded. What the hell I consider driving a car to work to be…
Yes. :-)