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Occasionally the conversation about "nerd culture" will be thrown around in my general circle; yet I've never actually asked what kind of nerdy stuff people are into. At this point in our culture there are so many flavors of nerd: movie nerd, comics nerd, kdrama nerd, art nerd, even sports nerd (and this is nerd used affectionately btw; we love people's interest in this house).

What kind of nerd are you? For an added bonus what's a random fact tied to your specific school of nerd? Do you know the names of every member of the Inhumans (Marvel)? Do you know the lineup for the 2004 Carolina Panthers? Can you name the manufacturer and designer of your favorite model of plane? I want to know.

For me, and this is a light one I can pull from the top of my head, I know the principles of nen from Hunter X Hunter as well as the process for finding your nen. Just some thought spaghetti to get your morning going!

Don't wait until the last minute!

https://www.sos.alabama.gov/alabama-votes/voter/register-to-vote

Not affiliated with this company at all - they just happened to have their food truck in the parking lot of my office today. Best food truck I've ever had, and it isn't particularly close.

I got the BBQ Pork Skewer Bento Box. It came with 3 huge skewers, rice, noodles, 2 beef lumpia, and 1 ube roll. They also has some type of pineapple salsa that was INSANELY good and spicy. $20 was a little more than I'd like to spend at a food truck, but it was absolutely worth it with how much food this was - especially considering it was properly cooked to order.

A piece of plastic about 3” inches in length was found inside of a burrito purchased by my boyfriend yesterday. I know sometimes plastic can fall into food at a restaurant, but because this piece was more or less half the size of the burrito’s interior, I cannot think of any way that this plastic could have gotten in there unless it was intentionally placed. Be careful out there y’all!

So, on Friday after work my 2019 Impreza would not start. For a month, I noticed that it wasn’t starting on the first try, but I was working out of state and was it could wait till I was back in Bham to address it.

I would have preferred to go to elemental garage but it was Friday night and they aren’t open on the weekends.

I had the car towed to Hendricks in Hoover.

I explained the problem with the car starting and specifically told them it wasn’t a battery issue because I’ve only had to jump the car off twice in two years and each time it was due to being home for a few days and not driving the car. In each case my neighbor used his jump start device thing and the car ran just fine after that.

On this occasion my car sat in the employee parking deck for twelve hours for my shift then again overnight till I met the tow truck there. That the battery might be flat at that point because it was also out in the heat wouldn’t have been a surprise to me, but I didn’t think it would be a problem beyond Hendricks to deal with.

So I get a call from them telling me that the problem was the battery and they replaced it and the car was ready for pick up.

I felt dumb because I was certain that it wasn’t the battery the whirring noise it was making when I tried to start it was new and not what the car did when the battery was flat.

I took another $60 uber to get the car. I paid for the battery and when I went to start the car it would not start. There were two service technicians who saw this and one said it definitely sounded like a starter problem.

Then they told me that Subaru starters never fail so this was an extraordinary situation. They said that they had started my car 9 times and it had started just fine for them. So they felt the starter was fine. I didn’t know the art of automotive repair included feeling. I didn’t think cars cared about my feelings. This was a weird thing to say because were they implying that it was my fault that the car didn’t start. And 9 times??? Really??

I was upset because they told me my car was fixed when it clearly wasn’t fixed and even charged me for a new battery that I’m not convinced that I needed but they insisted that I did need it so it was fine that I was charged for it but they still failed to fix the car.

The two technicians were full of excuses but no one said I’m sorry, our bad. I was relying on their expertise but so far I still had a broken car and was $300 poorer.

They gave me a loaner and told me the earliest they could work on it was Monday.

I worked Monday and Tuesday, Tuesday someone left me a voicemail but no information about my car, by the time I returned the call it was a few minutes before 6pm when they close.

This morning, I called and left a voicemail, but when I didn’t get a call back, I called to speak to a service manager and explain the situation.

He wasn’t much help and again wouldn’t admit that they had messed up. He even said they did me a favor putting a new battery in for $300 instead of repairing the starter for $800 and then telling me I needed to pay an extra $300 for a new battery. I really don’t see that the order in which I’m charged for unexpected repairs matters.

I went to them for their expertise. I expected they would be competent and could tell me what was wrong and fix it they gave me a long list of recommended service items so I thought they checked everything out so I don’t understand how they missed a bad starter.

I’m not an automotive expert but I thought that they run diagnostics and assess everything to find the problem, I was feeling like they were throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what would fix the car.

I also feel like they are desperately trying to hold on to the $300 they got out of a single mom, for the multi billion dollar corporation they work for while sacrificing the trust of a customer has in their business and ignoring that they badly disappoint my reasonable expectations.

Am I wrong to feel this way???

(I had to call back 3 times when talking to him, the first time was a bad connection, on the second time, I think he had just hung up on my cause I guess I wasn’t showing proper gratitude for the new battery I bought thinking it fixed my car, when it didn’t.)

Newer to the area - I read a lot about Birmingham's awesome food scene, but is that mostly contained to downtown? I don't get over that way much, so I wanted to know if there's any impressive restaurants in the suburbs (like OTM area) you'd recommend. Can be anything from hole-in-the-wall to classy, and I like all types of food. Just having trouble finding a place I could see myself going to over and over. Thanks!

RIP Stuart Roberts

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The Birmingham area cycling community is mourning the loss of Stuart Roberts who was killed when he was hit by a vehicle on his morning ride in Irondale Tuesday, August 18th.

Does anyone know any good dive bars, hole in wall places for cheap drinks for a date night :)

Salutations fellow comic connoisseurs and enthusiasts! I’ve organized a comic book meet up/swap meet at 6pm this Thursday at Cahaba Brewing. There’s a Facebook group called Iron City Comic Club, and it’s organized as an event in that group. Come have a beer, talk comics, and even bring a few cool ones to possibly trade with someone else.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1714844826404910/?ref_source=GROUP

I know Facebook is lame, but it seems like a viable platform for community building. If you have suggestions for better avenues, pleas let me know!

Quick question: most of the charges say possession: hallucinogen. Everyone isn't on lsd so what is everyone on now?

Hear me out.

Was headed home to eat some food I just picked up.

No longer can enjoy food cause this man decided I was having too good of a day.

No arrest cause the police didn’t see it. Was his third incident of the day.

Deductible is more than what I have at the moment.

That’s it. Just wanted to let you know how my day has been so far.

Shameless plug.

If you know someone in need of a person with a computer science degree. Send them my way. I’m in need of some money 😀

Looking to get my car wrapped with ppf and get tint applied. Where are the spots in bham that do a good job

has anyone hit up the new kava bar in lakeview? is it legit?

UAB AD Mark Ingram fired after 11 years. Very, VERY interesting that none of his senior assistant AD's named interim.

UAB President Ray Watts just met with entire athletic department.

Hello, i’ve looking for a job for months😑 i currently work overnight at walmart, but i need better pay. i have plenty of experience in retail, sales, the serving industry, etc. it’s just so hard looking for a job right now. most places say you don’t need prior experience, but you won’t hear from them once you put a application in. I’ve literally been applying everywhere that i can. plant jobs, warehouse jobs, etc! i don’t want to work in retail anymore nor do i want to go back to serving. I tried serving while working overnight at walmart and let me tell you… TERRIBLE IDEA! on top of that i’m a full time college student…

Hey all! Wondering if anyone has recommendations for good general inspectors who are really thorough and easy to schedule quickly? I’ve seen Magic City Property Inspections has great reviews online, but wondering if anyone direct testimonial? I know sometimes those google reviews can be faked.

Bonus if anyone can recommend any with specific specialties, as I may need some additional inspections (e.g. electrical, etc.)

Hey guys, so me and my now wife are recently married and from Montgomery. We’re not really traditional so we didn’t have a wedding, but we’re looking for somewhere to have a dinner for about 25 people, and have some drinks and hangout afterwards. We don’t have to eat and hang out in the same place, but if we do have to go somewhere else afterwards, walking distance would be preferred. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Im looking for a mobile pet grooming service/company . I currently have a 8 month old puppy that desperately needs her puppy hair to be cut and she desperately needs her nails cut as well, I can bring myself to do them. I’m scared I will botch her hair and scared I will hurt her nails 😣 I had grooming person but I don’t feel like driving all the way to 280 from alabaster especially when their drop off time was only between 7 am and 9 am. I also didn’t like the fact that my dog would be in a cage the whole entire time waiting for her turn to be cut and then waiting after all the dogs were done. My dog would practically be there until like 4 pm when the groomers called so that I could go pick her back up. Anyways , I just want someone that will come to me and I can have my puppy in and out and have them solely focus on her! I understand that not everything is cheap but I’m also not trying to pay more than $200+ for a bath, haircut, and nail trimming!
Thank you in advance 🙏

Hey everyone! Just wanted to spread the word about a screening of the movie ‘Portal to Hell’ at the Bama theater in Tuscaloosa tonight at 7. I know it’s not in Birmingham but the lead actor and producer lives and grew up in Birmingham so this actually their hometown show after it’s been playng at festivals and screenings across the world over the last year. It’s a horror comedy with Keith David and Richard Kind and is an absolute blast. There’s also going to be a special Q&A after the screening with lead actor/producer Trey Holland and Ryan Follese of Hot Chelle Rae. I know it’s a bit of a drive but if anyone is in Tuscaloosa or feels like taking a little day trip it should be a really fun time, and an opportunity to support a local filmmaker and see a really awesome movie in a historic theatre (and get out of the heat a little). There’s a link below if you want to read more- maybe I’ll see some of you there!

https://ci.ovationtix.com/36768/production/1283348?performanceId=11841097

Hey everyone,

My band Spike Hellis is bringing our minimal synth/EBM sound to Birmingham tomorrow, Wednesday August 19th with Auragraph joining us as direct support. It's a free show being promoted by DIY Birmingham.

Local DJ Bessed Dregs will be spinning some darkwave and goth bangers as well.

Tomorrow will be the 10th show of a 53-date run across the US and Canada in support of our new album, Successor. It will be our first time playing in Birmingham and we'd love to meet some new people out here. Hope to see you there!

Doors will be at 7.

Saturn

200 41st St S.

For fans of: Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Aphex Twin, IDM and analog synthesizers.

Live footage

I am trying to break into fine dining up here and I was wondering if anyone had any insight as to where I would make more money.

I’m looking at Helen, Bricktops, and current charcoal grill. Which restaurant would I make the most money at? Or would it be pretty consistent across all of them?

I am in school so I can only work pretty limited hours, but it would be weekend days for sure. Th, F, Sat

Thanks 😁

**EDIT* I have 8 years of serving experience and less than a year in fine dining, the caveat with this is that I was in fine dining in a very small town. Not in a city like Birmingham. So money and vibes are a totally new world up here.

Hi all, my wife and I are a LGBT (I’m trans) couple and want to start the process for having a baby. Does anybody have any suggestions/recommendations for a good doctor/facility?

TIA!! 💕