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[Chief Rum]

I worked at Sbarro's (the mall pizza place) early on in my college years, and that is where I discovered calzones. They are awesome.

[Suicane75]

I was perusing old magazines on Ebay and found that most of the ones I wanted were around $4-$5 with varying degrees of shipping costs that would usually, if bought in bulk, come out to around $7 per mag.

Then I came across a guy who was selling his for $2.50 but wanted $10 shipping. So I emailed him and asked if he combined shipping. His response was that there's no way he would do that at his already slashed rates.

I really want to explain to him that $60 for 5 magazines is in no way cheaper than $35 for 5 magazines but it's just not worth the effort.

I guess I'm maturing.

[ISiddiqui]

Originally Posted by Suicane75

I had my first ever Stromboli on Sunday. How have I never discovered this? It's like 3 slices of pizza stuffed into a flaky hot pocket. My lord.

How exactly did it take you that long to have a 'boli?

[stevew]

Originally Posted by Suicane75

I was perusing old magazines on Ebay and found that most of the ones I wanted were around $4-$5 with varying degrees of shipping costs that would usually, if bought in bulk, come out to around $7 per mag.

Then I came across a guy who was selling his for $2.50 but wanted $10 shipping. So I emailed him and asked if he combined shipping. His response was that there's no way he would do that at his already slashed rates.

I really want to explain to him that $60 for 5 magazines is in no way cheaper than $35 for 5 magazines but it's just not worth the effort.

I guess I'm maturing.

I assume the ones stuck together qualify for combined shipping?

[cuervo72]

Stromboli is rolled, kind of like a deli pinwheel.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by ISiddiqui

How exactly did it take you that long to have a 'boli?

Wild guess is that they simply aren't as common, depending upon your geography and/or dining choices. I probably discovered the existence of calzones around 25 years ago. I don't know if I knew what a stromboli was until at least 10 years after that, maybe more.

[ISiddiqui]

Yeah, but Suicane's location is "NJ"

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by ISiddiqui

Yeah, but Suicane's location is "NJ"

I guess I just don't recall if that's lifelong or more recent or what.


(old age, the memory is the first thing to go sometimes. I forget what the second thing is)

[Suicane75]

Nope, always lived here. But like I said, I've never thought pizza could be improved upon so I've never had the desire to try and zone or a boli.

[Suicane75]

Originally Posted by stevew

I assume the ones stuck together qualify for combined shipping?

Ewwww.

[Coffee Warlord]

Sitting here deciding whether or not to send my sick kid to school today.

He's been out all week (tried sending him tuesday, but he threw up at recess), nasty cough, little bit of stomach issues earlier in the week that seem to have abated. Fever's gone, but he's still got that vicious hack and snot.

But god damn, I hate for him to miss a full week of school, even if it is only kindergarten.

[Suicane75]

Originally Posted by jeff061

I am a master of the 1-trip.

I too am all about the 1 trip. Is it laziness that you only to walk once, impressive that you can carry 6 bags of groceries at once?

One time I decided to put two of the heavier bags handles over my head to free up my arms for the many other bags. But as I got halfway to the door I realized I was slowly being strangled by the handles around my neck. Couldn't stop though, it was 1 trip or death. I guess I made it.

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by Suicane75

I too am all about the 1 trip. Is it laziness that you only to walk once, impressive that you can carry 6 bags of groceries at once?

One time I decided to put two of the heavier bags handles over my head to free up my arms for the many other bags. But as I got halfway to the door I realized I was slowly being strangled by the handles around my neck. Couldn't stop though, it was 1 trip or death. I guess I made it.

Not laziness. It's a rite of passage. One trip to rule them all.

[Suicane75]

Originally Posted by Suicane75

Exactly! It feels like a giant orgasm on my face!

What else does that part of the brain control?

You never answered me. Dick.

[Suicane75]

If only Jeffrey Dahmer had been Canadian, he might be a free man right now. A living, free man.

[NobodyHere]

Originally Posted by Suicane75

If only Jeffrey Dahmer had been Canadian, he might be a free man right now. A living, free man.

Imagine if that released cannibal was your neighbor. I hope he never invites anyone over for dinner.

[Suicane75]

Whenever I see a commercial for Quantico, I think of a TV exec somewhere saying "What if we took the horror and terror of 9/11 and added lots of tits?"

[ISiddiqui]

Sounds like a pilot for a new HBO show.

[NobodyHere]

Whoever decided that Cheeze-Its should have an "Extra Toasty" version should get a raise.

[Easy Mac]

Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

Sitting here deciding whether or not to send my sick kid to school today.

He's been out all week (tried sending him tuesday, but he threw up at recess), nasty cough, little bit of stomach issues earlier in the week that seem to have abated. Fever's gone, but he's still got that vicious hack and snot.

But god damn, I hate for him to miss a full week of school, even if it is only kindergarten.

Were you home with him all week? If the answer to that is yes, then send him to school.

[Breeze]

Originally Posted by NobodyHere

Whoever decided that Cheeze-Its should have an "Extra Toasty" version should get a raise.

My kids would second this...

[Thomkal]

Originally Posted by NobodyHere

Whoever decided that Cheeze-Its should have an "Extra Toasty" version should get a raise.

+1

[Critch]

Originally Posted by NobodyHere

Whoever decided that Cheeze-Its should have an "Extra Toasty" version should get a raise.

We picked up a box of them at the store last night. I'll pass on the positive reviews to build up the cheesy-wonderland anticipation.

[molson]

It's kind of a nice feeling when the car dealer tells you that they're not interested in your trade-in. It's tough to take on a car payment for the first time in about 8 years, but I feel confident that I got maximum value out of that '06 Elantra. And it still runs great, it's just fallen apart aesthetically.

[cuervo72]

See, our issue is not knowing when to part with cars. Like our '93 Saturn SL2. It doesn't have AC (and due to a botched conversion, might not be fixable), the odometer stopped at 177k, and the ceiling cloth hangs. But it still runs really well for a 23yo car!

(and actually has fewer miles than our '98 Cherokee Classic...)

[Radii]

My '03 Mitsubishi Lancer hit 100k on the move up to Indiana. Hooray for working from home and putting limited miles on the car. Though the heat doesn't work currently and it gets cold here. I'm not completely convinced its not fixable yet. Otherwise it runs great and I'm hoping to get it to at least 150k if not 200k miles.

[Suicane75]

I gave up on my fantasy baseball season halfway through 2015. I skipped 2016 entirely. I'm thinking of jumping back in, but gosh dang do I feel so far out of the loop. The research ahead feels so daunting.

[Suicane75]

I don't know if it's the lighting, the makeup or the fact that everyone smoked like a chimney, but every TV show from the 70's looks like it's actors are made out of leather.

[thesloppy]

[CU Tiger]

Originally Posted by Radii

My '03 Mitsubishi Lancer hit 100k on the move up to Indiana. Hooray for working from home and putting limited miles on the car. Though the heat doesn't work currently and it gets cold here. I'm not completely convinced its not fixable yet. Otherwise it runs great and I'm hoping to get it to at least 150k if not 200k miles.

Contrast my 2015 Tundra hit 100k on Wednesday...

[Suicane75]

Apparently Dolph Lundgren has an engineering degree from MIT and is a literal genius.

[lungs]

Originally Posted by Suicane75

Apparently Dolph Lundgren has an engineering degree from MIT and is a literal genius.

Indeed, my cousin is a bright fellow.

[CrescentMoonie]

Originally Posted by Suicane75

Apparently Dolph Lundgren has an engineering degree from MIT and is a literal genius.

His degrees are from other places (Washington State, Clemson, Royal Institute of Technology, University of Sydney). He had a Fulbright Scholarship to attend MIT but left to become an actor. He is freaky smart though.

[thesloppy]

You know what infuriates me? Those 'articles' where some crappy site collects a bunch of stories from a reddit thread and turns it into a clickbait slideshow. Now, what infuriates me about this is not the redundant-content, circle-jerk but the fact that the number of stories that headline claims this article contains never actually matches up with reality. Is it that hard to properly count XX stories? Has some young internet hotshot figured out how to make money by promising me 21 stories and then only delivering 14?

[Suicane75]

I'm with you dude. I scrolled through 11 pages of "where are they now" about the cast of Bring It On trying to find out which one was doing porn. And none of them were doing porn.

[Coffee Warlord]

The good news: My wife gave me a pass to go to GenCon this year.

The bad news: Housing registration opened up on 2/12. My son's birthday. I obviously missed it.

The worse news: There ain't nowhere downtown to stay, unsurprisingly.

[Easy Mac]

There's currently a 50+ post conversation on my neighborhood's facebook group about people parking on my street. I'll agree its annoying that people park on both sides of the street (especially when my neighbors park in front of my house) when every home in the neighborhood has a at least a two car garage, but this comes up at least twice a year and nothing ever happens.

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by Easy Mac

There's currently a 50+ post conversation on my neighborhood's facebook group about people parking on my street. I'll agree its annoying that people park on both sides of the street (especially when my neighbors park in front of my house) when every home in the neighborhood has a at least a two car garage, but this comes up at least twice a year and nothing ever happens.

I remain a member of my Charleston-area neighborhood's FB group for one reason and one reason only: fireworks. I know that you know this, but for the benefit of other readers, big, massive, powerful mortar fireworks are legal in SC. (I'm not sure that there's anything that you see at a public fireworks show that you can't buy over the counter in South Carolina. We're talking that level of firepower can be sold to and shot off by the public.) On the overnights of July 4-5 and December 31-January 1st, they are legal in the municipality in which I lived until 2am, and I think 10pm is the limit all other nights due to a noise ordinance. The FB group is not just for the 400ish-home subdivision in which we lived, but for the entire development, which contains around 8 subdivisions, some of which are as large as the one we lived in. The development as a whole is middle to upper-middle class and has a ton of...

a. very small children
b. dogs
c. turnover, with many move-ins coming from out of state (four good-sized employers of middle/upper-middle class types are within 15 minutes).

Plus, the development is heavily clear-cut, and of course being so close to the coast, it's extremely flat. Most people in the development can easily see fireworks within a good mile or more radius from their front yard.

As a result of all of that, people who want to see fireworks and live in that development tend to buy their own, stay home, and watch the show. I've never been in a true war zone, but I am not exaggerating when I say that for an hour or so, it sounds like what I imagine a war zone sounds like. Mortars firing off that you can feel in your chest if you're outside, barrages of high-impact firecrackers, rockets, you name it. We lived on a street that was a little under a quarter mile long, and there were usually at least 3-4 gatherings of people shooting off the big stuff on just that little street.

So, as you might imagine, January 1st and July 5th are always popcorn-worthy mornings in that FB group as there are inevitably newcomers (usually with horror stories about their dogs and kids) who are FREAKING OUT that such a thing is allowed, and of course there are also a handful of usual suspects who complain about it every six months, and they're always responded to by a larger group of *other* usual suspects who remind them that "you bitched about this 6 months ago. You knew it was coming and you chose to stay home, didn't board your dog, didn't turn on a fan in your kids' rooms, etc. etc. etc., dummy!" There are always posts in the day or two prior to the holidays warning newcomers which get pointed to as "well, you were warned," and inevitably the response is "yeah, ok, I read that, but I had no idea it would be THAT loud!!! I can't believe you people literally burned up that much money in one night!"

It's a guilty pleasure; I feel a bit juvenile for enjoying it, but I confess that I look forward to it every time those holidays roll around.

Point being, yeah, neighborhood FB groups are, uh, something else.

[CU Tiger]

Thank you, Ben.
I just spit coffee literally.

I dont facebook but we have the same arguments every year here as well...

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by CU Tiger

Thank you, Ben.
I just spit coffee literally.

I dont facebook but we have the same arguments every year here as well...

I'll hazard a guess that your face-to-face discussions are a lot more civil and productive than the FB flame wars. I just checked: the development's FB group has around 1,700 members at the moment--big enough so that the general internet feeling of anonymity is definitely a thing there. FOFC's most heated moments in political threads are more civil than that group on July 5th.

[CU Tiger]

Originally Posted by Ben E Lou

I'll hazard a guess that your face-to-face discussions are a lot more civil and productive than the FB flame wars. I just checked: the development's FB group has around 1,700 members at the moment--big enough so that the general internet feeling of anonymity is definitely a thing there. FOFC's most heated moments in political threads are more civil than that group on July 5th.

I have a pretty strong redneck/country bumpkin side that stays well hidden. But I will admit my one weakness is GIANT fireworks displays. We spend ~$2k every July 4th to blow colored gun powder into the sky. We have acreage, but they built a neighborhood that runs up to the side of my property. I literally have 1,500 ares off my back porch of fields and trees (I dont own anywhere close to all of it. My piece is less than 100) but now off to my two sides I have neighbors on 3/4 acre lots.

We cook a whole pig, usually have a couple kegs, 100 or so of my closest friends and a big firework display. ('Merica Fawk Yeah)...and my two labs - who were trained under a shotgun as duck dogs before they go too old - lay around and enjoy it.

The new neighbors from Buffalo couldn't understand 2 years ago and said we traumatized their poor 3 toy chihuahuas. They didnt exactly approach us civily..the retired Buffalo police officer rode up on his golf cart with his side arm clearly visible. After the 3rd GD-it...I explained it was time for him to take himself back home and off my property. Looking at the crowd we had gathered he decided it was a good idea.

The next year he joined us, after his pups were boarded at the vets.
I call him a friend now but we got off to a rough start.

[JonInMiddleGA]

I'll just stick this local headline here.


Athens man assaults mother with pork chop, head-butts her, police say | Online Athens

[JonInMiddleGA]

I really think I'm more offended by click-bait crap than I am by "fake news".

Worst part is how, by & large, the source of that garbage -- or at least the reason it works to its purpose -- is that the average person is either too lazy or too stupid to check shit out before clicking the #$%@$ "share" button.

[Kodos]

It's like the stupid reply-all people.

[JonInMiddleGA]

I frequently lament things I do for work being "a grind" or "tedious".
I rarely describe much that I do as being genuinely "hard", as in having to figure shit out.

After 5 days of what amounted to forensic accounting, I've conquered one of those rare truly "hard" tasks.

I am ... relieved. Relatively satisfied to get to the end and find only a single Jon mistake (an extra billing cycle for a contract that I didn't pick up on).

And I am glad to be on the other side of this shit so I can move on to something else.

[Mobarak]

If a tree falls down in the woods with nobody around, it's still a tree right?

[NobodyHere]

[NobodyHere]

Taco Bell pulling popular chicken-shelled chalupa

This is an outrage, I absolutely love those things.

[cuervo72]

Yeah, those things are tasty.

[Suicane75]

A nose is something you really can do without, for the most part.