That feeling when...

Aux-In · 09-11-2015, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by fiddler

Some things you can slide by with getting the cheap stuff. But if it's something you're going to use often, or want/need it to work when you need it to work, it's generally better to assume that cheap price means cheap quality. Obviously this isn't always the case - $0.97 towels from Walmart do the same thing that $3 towels from Target does but that's neither here nor there.

Here's what the situation was: I needed a new battery and power cable for my laptop. My laptop is about 6 to 8 years old. So, you can get OEM aftermarket parts or OEM original (used) parts off ebay. I went with the latter, as in the past aftermarket parts did well initially, as they're brand new, but they pooped out after a year or so.

I've done the whole buy cheapo power cables off ebay thing for years now, because an aftermarket universal one is $44 at the least. Used OEM power cable = $16.99. Turns out the ebay special didn't work, so I had to go and buy the $44 universal cable anyway. Now I spent $60.99 instead of $44.

The Batlord · 09-11-2015, 06:31 PM

TFW you have a smallish TV, and apparently the game designers don't give a **** and make the text in their games impossible to read if you don't have a television the size of Canada.

Mondo Bungle · 09-12-2015, 03:33 PM

Tfw you stare forward so long that everything in front of you blends and flattens and next thing you know you're on your back looking up at a sky made out of styrofoam. Then you blink and lose it, it's just trees.

**Frownland** · 09-15-2015, 09:07 PM

TFW you have a creative writing homework assignment, but you get writer's block so you pull a Hemingway and get drunk but at the end of your run on sentence you pass out and end up missing your deadline.

DwnWthVwls · 09-16-2015, 02:36 AM

Youre such a good student.

**Frownland** · 09-16-2015, 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Youre such a good student.

At least I go to class sober. Well, not sober exactly, I just don't go to class drunk. Everything else I can handle.

DwnWthVwls · 09-16-2015, 01:26 PM

Yeh I used to do that.. Drove to college with a 2 liter filled with water and an ice tea pitcher. Set up my gravity bong in the back of my jeep to use before my classes.

Now I'm sober all the time. :-/

Chula Vista · 09-16-2015, 01:29 PM

TFW when you take your first bite of food after not eating anything for 41 hours. Made even better by the fact that you're still a bit woozy from anesthesia.

Subway and cool ranch Doritos never tasted so good!

DwnWthVwls · 09-16-2015, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

TFW when you take your first bite of food after not eating anything for 41 hours. Made even better by the fact that you're still a bit woozy from anesthesia.

Subway and cool ranch Doritos never tasted so good!

Seriously? You make good food and this is the shit you eat after fasting?

**Frownland** · 09-16-2015, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Yeh I used to do that.. Drove to college with a 2 liter filled with water and an ice tea pitcher. Set up my gravity bong in the back of my jeep to use before my classes.

Now I'm sober all the time. :-/

I just shoot up in the bathroom closest to my class.

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Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	TFW when you take your first bite of food after not eating anything for 41 hours. Made even better by the fact that you're still a bit woozy from anesthesia. Subway and cool ranch Doritos never tasted so good! __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”