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[molson]

I think people that adopt older dogs are pretty much the greatest people in the world. And I'm likewise annoyed when someone adopts a adorbable puppy from a shelter and then brags about "saving" it - when the puppy obviously would have had no problem being adopted anyway.

[Mustang]

I was standing in line waiting to checkout and had to wait for the lady to write a check. My only thought was, 'Who the hell writes checks anymore?'

[Mustang]

Originally Posted by Vince, Pt. II

I looked over to my left and the driver in the lane next to me was giving me the dirtiest look...took me a second to realize that I must have looked exactly like I picked my nose and ate it. Awesome

Maybe they thought you were eating chocolate covered pretzels?

[Dodgerchick]

Fire alarm woke us up this morning, talk about a rude awakening.

[Dodgerchick]

Originally Posted by Vince, Pt. II

Was eating a Clif Builder's Bar the other day while driving into the office after my shift. It had melted a little in my car, and I ended up getting some chocolate on my nose. I wiped it off my nose and licked it off my finger because hey, who wastes chocolate?

I looked over to my left and the driver in the lane next to me was giving me the dirtiest look...took me a second to realize that I must have looked exactly like I picked my nose and ate it. Awesome

[cuervo72]

Originally Posted by Mustang

I was standing in line waiting to checkout and had to wait for the lady to write a check. My only thought was, 'Who the hell writes checks anymore?'

There was a woman that I'd swear took out her checkbook yesterday in Taco Bell. Taco. Bell.

[molson]

Checks can still be extremely useful, for example, for committing identify theft.

[Dodgerchick]

I just saw this on Facebook, omg.. seriously?

[Passacaglia]

Originally Posted by Dodgerchick

I just saw this on Facebook, omg.. seriously?

I don't get it.

[JediKooter]

And that's probably why Netflix just laid off 160 people today.

[Dodgerchick]

It's the obsession with Twilight. Some women really want to be that Bella chick, it's ridiculous.

[Mustang]

Originally Posted by Passacaglia

I don't get it.

+1

[stevew]

Walmart could destroy just about any company that they wanted to.

[Izulde]

Originally Posted by Mustang

I was standing in line waiting to checkout and had to wait for the lady to write a check. My only thought was, 'Who the hell writes checks anymore?'

I still prefer using checks, TBH. I never use my debit card and my credit card only rarely.

[Ksyrup]

Only thing we use checks for is locally - school stuff, sports stuff, etc. Everything goes on one CC that gets paid off monthly, and we get Delta sky miles for it.

[JediKooter]

I do not fear the Reaper.

[Vince, Pt. II]

If you remove the metaphors, R. Kelly's song "Ignition (Remix)" would be titled "Vagina (Remix)".

[Dodgerchick]

Originally Posted by Vince, Pt. II

Was eating a Clif Builder's Bar the other day while driving into the office after my shift. It had melted a little in my car, and I ended up getting some chocolate on my nose. I wiped it off my nose and licked it off my finger because hey, who wastes chocolate?

I looked over to my left and the driver in the lane next to me was giving me the dirtiest look...took me a second to realize that I must have looked exactly like I picked my nose and ate it. Awesome

I saw a guy in a car going to town using his pinky and yes, it went in his mouth.

[Sun Tzu]

So...

Spoiler

my cats breath smells like cat food

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by duckman

Hope none of these storms drop a tornado.

You live in Oklahoma, right? That's like 3 weeks in a row with a night with a "high" area over Oklahoma from the Storm Prediction Center for severe weather.

SI

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by molson

Checks can still be extremely useful, for example, for committing identify theft.

+1

SI

[JonInMiddleGA]

Some UIC with my wife this morning, this seems like a great discreet place to share it (although I admit in advance that you might have to know more about the discussion than I can share for it to be as funny to you as it was to me).

Long story as short as I can tell it, we're discussing a moderate screw-up on a commercial video shoot by a nationally known on-camera talent. In spite of several opportunities to mention this previously, he calls this morning & says "the copy is too long, I can't get this into 30 seconds".

My wife is telling me about it & I went on a mini-rant about how "that's why you always do a timing read in advance, even my Sounds-like-Foxworthy-doing-Larry-the-Cable-Guy-HS-educated-self-knows-that-much".

My closing line was "that's a problem created by absolute hubris".
Her response? "I don't think he's smoking as much as he used to so that probably wasn't the problem"

Brief discussion about the difference in "hubris" and "cannabis" follows

[MJ4H]

lol

[JonInMiddleGA]

FTR, yes my almost-as-smart-as-me wife does know the difference in the two. But the influence of his known (to us) affection for certain substances subconsciously took over her mind & steered her immediately to what she thought I said.

[Farrah Whitworth-Rahn]

We've now reached the point in the year where it's too hot to be drinking coffee in the morning. I'm sad. I enjoyed my coffee on the patio in the morning.

[JediKooter]

So you did a commercial with Chong?

[Radii]

Hello high speed internet providers: I'm ok with having to answer 5 stupid questions from front line support, even though I spent 3 hours on the phone with your support staff earlier in the same day and you're staring at my trouble ticket. I'm ok with everyone I talk to walking me through clearing my internet cache before taking me seriously, but when you put me on hold to "review my case and read through my trouble ticket" and after 5 minutes you come back and ask me if I have ever had working internet service(the case/ticket should clearly state that I have working access but that my modem is frequently cycling itself, also we've been paying you for DSL service for 4+ years now), I'm going to yell at you, ask for your manager, and yell at him until he's tired of being yelled at too. You are either incompetent or your support processes suck.

[stevew]

pokemon.

Fuck yeah!

[JS19]

Peter Pan, in the Hook version anyhow, was a straight pimp. Had Wendy, Tinkerbell, and his wife all over his junk.

[korme]

Originally Posted by Farrah Whitworth-Rahn

We've now reached the point in the year where it's too hot to be drinking coffee in the morning. I'm sad. I enjoyed my coffee on the patio in the morning.

never

[stevew]

Originally Posted by Radii

Hello high speed internet providers: I'm ok with having to answer 5 stupid questions from front line support, even though I spent 3 hours on the phone with your support staff earlier in the same day and you're staring at my trouble ticket. I'm ok with everyone I talk to walking me through clearing my internet cache before taking me seriously, but when you put me on hold to "review my case and read through my trouble ticket" and after 5 minutes you come back and ask me if I have ever had working internet service(the case/ticket should clearly state that I have working access but that my modem is frequently cycling itself, also we've been paying you for DSL service for 4+ years now), I'm going to yell at you, ask for your manager, and yell at him until he's tired of being yelled at too. You are either incompetent or your support processes suck.

Verizon? They were a bunch of clueless motherfuckers.

[korme]

What does that have to do with verizon?

[stevew]

Verizon DSL Support staff was a bunch of fucking idiots, every time I complained they would run the same 3 line tests and then tell me everything was ok.

[Farrah Whitworth-Rahn]

Would never, ever move back to California. If I had to choose between death and California, I'd choose death.

[molson]

My new DirecTV/DVR/HDTV setup is making me very happy. Like, generally more happy. All the time. I think part of that is the whole setup, but part of it is just an appreciation of the time we live in. Sports TV subscription packages, high speed internet, redbox and netflix, self-serve checkouts. Yes, probably everyone outside of the medievel dark ages could feel that they lived in a "modern time", but I am just appreciating it more than usual at the moment.

[Mustang]

Originally Posted by Radii

I'm going to yell at you, ask for your manager, and yell at him until he's tired of being yelled at too. You are either incompetent or your support processes suck.

I've had success starting off right away going... "Hi, I'm having an internet issue. I know you have the playbook in front of you that will tell me to reset my computer for 3 minutes, clear out my cache, unplug the modem, reset the modem. I've done all that. I've had this service for years with minimal issues, I don't have a new computer nor have I recently installed anything. If there are no existing network issues on your side, please do the line test and then shuffle me to the next level of support. Thanks"

Seems to work for me...

[Mustang]

I will never again subscribe to Directv.

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Originally Posted by Dodgerchick

I saw a guy in a car going to town using his pinky and yes, it went in his mouth.

http://www.damninteresting.com/you-c...pick-your-nose

[Doug5984]

Originally Posted by Mustang

I will never again subscribe to Directv.

Wondering what your thoughts are against them?

I recently changed away from D-TV and have regretted it every day since

[JediKooter]

I really hate Comcast and if there was an alternative where I could just watch what I wanted to watch and not have to deal with the 60% of the other channels that I never watch, I'd be happy.

[vex]

Originally Posted by Groundhog

I have an irrational dislike for people who watch LOST and post about it in their Facebook status updates.

+1

[Coffee Warlord]

Holy fucking shit weddings are expensive.

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

Holy fucking shit weddings are expensive.

There's a reason I'm leaving an IT job to run a place that hosts weddings.

[Farrah Whitworth-Rahn]

Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

Holy fucking shit weddings are expensive.

In other news, scientists discovered today that water is indeed wet.

[Coffee Warlord]

You shut up. IT'S YOUR FAULT. IF WEDDINGS WERE BUILT BY GUYS THEY'D COST 5 BUCKS.

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

Holy fucking shit weddings are expensive.

Just do the wedding yourself. As soon as someone hears: "It's for my wedding" the prices go up 400%.

For my wedding, we did everything except make the dress, the cake and hired a DJ. Total cost was about 4500 and, to me at least, it felt more personal that me and my wife did all of this together and everyone had a good time.

[Farrah Whitworth-Rahn]

Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

You shut up. IT'S YOUR FAULT. IF WEDDINGS WERE BUILT BY GUYS THEY'D COST 5 BUCKS.

Actually, it is not. I didn't have a large wedding. We eloped.

[Farrah Whitworth-Rahn]

Dola - Weddings on a budget can be just as special and elegant as large expensive ones. It's all about how much work you want to do yourself.

[Doug5984]

My girlfriend is awesome- her dream wedding is at my hunting camp next to the pond under the big oak trees and have a huge crawfish boil / jambalaya...it's going to be cheap and niceee.

[Izulde]

Personally I'd like a medium to large wedding in Andalucia or Italy.