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CrescentMoonie · 08-09-2017, 10:38 PM

So, this was in the next door neighbor's yard yesterday chomping on suet cake.

Izulde · 08-09-2017, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by albionmoonlight

Terrific optical illusion by Victoria Skye. @RichardWiseman @chriscfrench pic.twitter.com/IeSFupAcfU
— Martin S Taylor (@martinstaylor) August 7, 2017

If the eclipse does not make me blind, staring at this trying to make the lines look parallel will.

I was able to do it in a couple seconds by just moving my head to a certain spot.

AENeuman · 08-10-2017, 11:19 AM

Such a great story. First generation asian couple buys private street in one of the most expensive and exclusive neighborhoods in the city. All because they failed to pay a $14 dollar property tax, for decades.
Best part, the neighborhood was a whites only community until 1948. Now the people who were originally excluded own the street.

Rich SF residents get a shock: Someone bought their street - San Francisco Chronicle

CraigSca · 08-10-2017, 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by AENeuman

Such a great story. First generation asian couple buys private street in one of the most expensive and exclusive neighborhoods in the city. All because they failed to pay a $14 dollar property tax, for decades.
Best part, the neighborhood was a whites only community until 1948. Now the people who were originally excluded own the street.

Rich SF residents get a shock: Someone bought their street - San Francisco Chronicle

I'm really surprised that Feinstein and Pelosi would want to be associated with a property that banned non-whites until 1948.

CrescentMoonie · 08-11-2017, 05:31 AM

Saw a headline that said a HS football player was killed by a log during a drill.

Didn't read it but immediately my brain went, "I fought the log, but the log won."

If there's an express lane to hell I just hopped on it.

Easy Mac · 08-11-2017, 09:38 PM

ive had the rbi baseball music in my head all day.

Buccaneer · 08-12-2017, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by CraigSca

I'm really surprised that Feinstein and Pelosi would want to be associated with a property that banned non-whites until 1948.

I assume that most neighborhoods in the country (north, south, west) - in 1948 - were segregated, some by law, some by economics, most by choice of association.

thesloppy · 08-12-2017, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Buccaneer

I assume that most neighborhoods in the country (north, south, west) - in 1948 - were segregated, some by law, some by economics, most by choice of association.

Yeah, just because a law is on the books doesn't mean it's necessarily being observed or enforced in any way. For example, the State of Oregon finally got around to removing the words "No free negro, or mulatto, not residing in this state at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall come, reside, or be within this State, or hold any real estate." from the State's constitution, in 2002.

Coffee Warlord · 08-14-2017, 08:49 AM

For the brief time I was online Saturday, I was the #2 X-Plane 11 streamer on twitch.

...with my 3 viewers.

PROFESSIONAL STREAMER.

General Mike · 08-14-2017, 07:57 PM

Been enjoying the coffee stylings of Mr. Tim Horton quite a bit lately. Glad they brought a shop to New Jersey.

Suicane75 · 08-14-2017, 10:30 PM

I love my mom, I really do. But if I hear the Golden Girls theme song or Reba Mcinytres insufferable voice for one more day, I might cut my ears off.

Radii · 08-15-2017, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

For the brief time I was online Saturday, I was the #2 X-Plane 11 streamer on twitch.

...with my 3 viewers.

PROFESSIONAL STREAMER.

PogChamp

what's your stream name?

Coffee Warlord · 08-15-2017, 10:45 AM

Shockingly....coffeewarlord.

Radii · 08-15-2017, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

Shockingly....coffeewarlord.

oh shit I'm your first follower. I'm rhiow2

hollmt · 08-15-2017, 11:06 AM

Does one know they are a toolbag and look ridiculous when they walk around with a gallon jug of water with them everywhere they go?

Chief Rum · 08-15-2017, 02:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Suicane75

I love my mom, I really do. But if I hear the Golden Girls theme song or Reba Mcinytres insufferable voice for one more day, I might cut my ears off.

"Thank you for being a freeeeeeeeiiiiind...."

Suicane75 · 08-16-2017, 09:35 AM

That's just mean.

JonInMiddleGA · 08-16-2017, 04:58 PM

The list of things I should never be associated with is long but high on that list should be: appliance repair

Maytag can kiss my ass.

Suicane75 · 08-16-2017, 07:03 PM

Every other year or so I sign up for a fantasy site that does a slow email draft as a way to get me acclimated to players. It allows me to do a lot of hands on research etc... just a good primer for what I feel are my more important drafts closer to the season.

And then I remember why I hate them when we go through 3 picks in a day.

heybrad · 08-16-2017, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Suicane75

I love my mom, I really do. But if I hear the Golden Girls theme song or Reba Mcinytres insufferable voice for one more day, I might cut my ears off.

You're such a Dorothy!

Suicane75 · 08-17-2017, 12:08 PM

:vomit:

cuervo72 · 08-17-2017, 07:27 PM

Love OOTP, but I raise my eyebrow a little bit when 538 uses it to run projections on specific players.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...r-cooperstown/

I just don't know if I trust its dev curves to that extent.

Suicane75 · 08-18-2017, 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Suicane75

Every other year or so I sign up for a fantasy site that does a slow email draft as a way to get me acclimated to players. It allows me to do a lot of hands on research etc... just a good primer for what I feel are my more important drafts closer to the season.

And then I remember why I hate them when we go through 3 picks in a day.

Guy on the turn makes his first pick at 11:45 last night. Makes his 2nd pick at 8am this morning. I mean... come on.

sovereignstar v2 · 08-18-2017, 10:25 AM

Sounds like the email draft is a bit slow, but that should allow you to do a lot of hands on research.

Suicane75 · 08-18-2017, 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by sovereignstar v2

Sounds like the email draft is a bit slow, but that should allow you to do a lot of hands on research.

I'll put my hands on you.

Coffee Warlord · 08-22-2017, 09:37 PM

For anyone super duper bored. And I mean really bored. I'm streaming again.

Twitch

We theoretically land in San Diego in about 30 minutes or so.

edit: You guys missed me absolutely stick a landing in the dead of night. Go me. Stream's down now.

cuervo72 · 08-22-2017, 09:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Suicane75

I'll put my hands on you.

Lay your hands. It's much more expressive - ask the Thompson Twins. Or Bon Jovi. Or Peter Gabriel.

Suicane75 · 08-25-2017, 12:18 AM

So I keep seeing this new Lane Bryant commercial for something called Super Skinny jeans, in which a bunch of very large women dance happily and somewhat provocatively as they show off their jeans and "assets". Now look, I'm all for loving your body and what not, but are we seriously gonna market jeans for women weighing 250lbs as skinny jeans? Are we just horses with blinders on now, being petted and told everything is gonna be ok as we roll down the conveyor belt in the glue factory?

hollmt · 08-25-2017, 07:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Suicane75

So I keep seeing this new Lane Bryant commercial for something called Super Skinny jeans, in which a bunch of very large women dance happily and somewhat provocatively as they show off their jeans and "assets". Now look, I'm all for loving your body and what not, but are we seriously gonna market jeans for women weighing 250lbs as skinny jeans? Are we just horses with blinders on now, being petted and told everything is gonna be ok as we roll down the conveyor belt in the glue factory?

i watched the commercial just now.
i spent 15 minutes making fun of it with my co-worker.
awful.

PilotMan · 08-25-2017, 08:58 AM

For all the talk about the Reds Billy Hamilton and his blazing speed and skill it amuses me that he'll never even lead all Billy Hamilton's in stolen bases, or be the best Billy Hamilton ever to play the game. Not to be mean to the guy, he's fun. It's the incredible irony of it that I find amusing.

NobodyHere · 08-25-2017, 01:30 PM

Why do we generally but beef patties on hamburgers? Should it not be ham?

ISiddiqui · 08-25-2017, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by NobodyHere

Why do we generally but beef patties on hamburgers? Should it not be ham?

Because it's named for a location, not the animal used

.

JonInMiddleGA · 08-28-2017, 07:44 PM

I know I don't watch a lot of regular TV, but occasionally even I'm shocked.

Just turned on Raw ... TV was on NHL Network. The Finals ended June 11th.

Suicane75 · 08-28-2017, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

I know I don't watch a lot of regular TV, but occasionally even I'm shocked.

Just turned on Raw ... TV was on NHL Network. The Finals ended June 11th.

How much dust was on the remote?

Suicane75 · 08-28-2017, 09:14 PM

I've never sat down and properly watched Hogans Heroes, but the show has been on while I've been in the room at least 100 hundred times in my life. I never knew Richard Dawson was on the show until a few nights ago when I saw the credits.

The board game thread makes me sad cause a lot of those games look like fun, but I don't have enough friends to even contemplate ever playing them.

JonInMiddleGA · 08-28-2017, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Suicane75

How much dust was on the remote?

You say that as though I have the slightest idea where the remote even IS.

cuervo72 · 08-28-2017, 10:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Suicane75

I've never sat down and properly watched Hogans Heroes, but the show has been on while I've been in the room at least 100 hundred times in my life. I never knew Richard Dawson was on the show until a few nights ago when I saw the credits.

The board game thread makes me sad cause a lot of those games look like fun, but I don't have enough friends to even contemplate ever playing them.

I've gotten a couple over the years that have never made it out of the box. First the kids were too young to really get all of the rules, then I was tired and didn't have the mental energy for the games, and now they have too many other things going on. And I don't have any real in-person friends. So, no gaming.

(The best was when I worked at JHU, there was a guy who would go to Avalon Con and had a TON of games, and he would bring some in and we'd play them at lunch. Settlers, Shogun, Modern Art, Family Business, Kill Dr. Lucky...good times.)

Suicane75 · 08-28-2017, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by cuervo72

I've gotten a couple over the years that have never made it out of the box. First the kids were too young to really get all of the rules, then I was tired and didn't have the mental energy for the games, and now they have too many other things going on. And I don't have any real in-person friends. So, no gaming.

(The best was when I worked at JHU, there was a guy who would go to Avalon Con and had a TON of games, and he would bring some in and we'd play them at lunch. Settlers, Shogun, Modern Art, Family Business, Kill Dr. Lucky...good times.)

Yeah, I used to have a friend of a friend who was very much into gaming, but he's since moved. Even then though it was more stuff like Mage Knight, which I spent a bundle on buying stuff and we played maybe 3 times.

cuervo72 · 08-29-2017, 07:01 PM

Sent a picture of myself to my Comcast e-mail (for job ID purposes) yesterday.

Today I am getting ads for St. Jude featuring bald children.

Suicane75 · 08-29-2017, 09:59 PM

Again, I should not laugh. And yet I laugh.

MrBug708 · 08-29-2017, 11:09 PM

I became an Elk last night

Groundhog · 08-29-2017, 11:34 PM

What is an Elk? Is it like a Mason?

MrBug708 · 08-29-2017, 11:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Groundhog

What is an Elk? Is it like a Mason?

Short answer, yes. Long answer, not really.

Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks - Wikipedia

JonInMiddleGA · 08-30-2017, 12:35 PM

About those big price cuts Amazon made at Whole Foods yesterday ... ehhhhh, not so fast my friend, it's still Whole Paycheck.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-a...-idUSKCN1B92MJ

PilotMan · 08-30-2017, 01:34 PM

It's getting close to fuck this shit o'clock.

JonInMiddleGA · 08-30-2017, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by PilotMan

It's getting close to fuck this shit o'clock.

I must be a few hours ahead of you.

Butter · 08-30-2017, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

About those big price cuts Amazon made at Whole Foods yesterday ... ehhhhh, not so fast my friend, it's still Whole Paycheck.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-a...-idUSKCN1B92MJ

Since when are avocados a staple?

JonInMiddleGA · 08-30-2017, 02:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Butter

Since when are avocados a staple?

It's Whole Foods ... how else are the 21st century preppies gonna hand make their guac?

JonInMiddleGA · 08-30-2017, 02:29 PM

Just saw a story from a town outside of Macon (Jones County for those who know their GA geography) ... two kids hospitalized in 24 hours after apparently getting hold of some bad acid.

5 people in custody after a raid that netted 2,100 hits of synthetic hallucinogens (nouveau LSD I guess) and an assortment of other goodies.

Point to me putting this here is that I didn't realize acid had made such a comeback.

stevew · 08-30-2017, 11:24 PM

Met a dude a few months ago doing ubers

Yesterday he pitched me on doing Amway.

I think i would have liked it better if he would have asked me if I wanted to go fuck. At least that way I would have known he actually liked me as a person.

08-09-2017, 10:38 PM	#17001
CrescentMoonie College Starter Join Date: Aug 2016 Location: Earth, the semi-final frontier.	So, this was in the next door neighbor's yard yesterday chomping on suet cake. Last edited by CrescentMoonie : 08-09-2017 at 10:40 PM.

08-16-2017, 04:58 PM	#17018
JonInMiddleGA Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA	The list of things I should never be associated with is long but high on that list should be: appliance repair Maytag can kiss my ass. __________________ "I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis

08-17-2017, 07:27 PM	#17022
cuervo72 Head Coach Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Maryland	Love OOTP, but I raise my eyebrow a little bit when 538 uses it to run projections on specific players. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...r-cooperstown/ I just don't know if I trust its dev curves to that extent. __________________ null

08-22-2017, 09:37 PM	#17026
Coffee Warlord Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Colorado Springs	For anyone super duper bored. And I mean really bored. I'm streaming again. Twitch We theoretically land in San Diego in about 30 minutes or so. edit: You guys missed me absolutely stick a landing in the dead of night. Go me. Stream's down now. Last edited by Coffee Warlord : 08-22-2017 at 10:28 PM.

08-25-2017, 08:58 AM	#17030
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	For all the talk about the Reds Billy Hamilton and his blazing speed and skill it amuses me that he'll never even lead all Billy Hamilton's in stolen bases, or be the best Billy Hamilton ever to play the game. Not to be mean to the guy, he's fun. It's the incredible irony of it that I find amusing. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

08-10-2017, 11:19 AM	#17003
AENeuman College Benchwarmer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: SF	Such a great story. First generation asian couple buys private street in one of the most expensive and exclusive neighborhoods in the city. All because they failed to pay a $14 dollar property tax, for decades. Best part, the neighborhood was a whites only community until 1948. Now the people who were originally excluded own the street. Rich SF residents get a shock: Someone bought their street - San Francisco Chronicle

08-11-2017, 05:31 AM	#17005
CrescentMoonie College Starter Join Date: Aug 2016 Location: Earth, the semi-final frontier.	Saw a headline that said a HS football player was killed by a log during a drill. Didn't read it but immediately my brain went, "I fought the log, but the log won." If there's an express lane to hell I just hopped on it.

08-11-2017, 09:38 PM	#17006
Easy Mac Registered User Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Here	ive had the rbi baseball music in my head all day.

08-14-2017, 08:49 AM	#17009
Coffee Warlord Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Colorado Springs	For the brief time I was online Saturday, I was the #2 X-Plane 11 streamer on twitch. ...with my 3 viewers. PROFESSIONAL STREAMER.

08-14-2017, 07:57 PM	#17010
General Mike Pro Starter Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: The State of Rutgers	Been enjoying the coffee stylings of Mr. Tim Horton quite a bit lately. Glad they brought a shop to New Jersey.

08-14-2017, 10:30 PM	#17011
Suicane75 Coordinator Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NJ	I love my mom, I really do. But if I hear the Golden Girls theme song or Reba Mcinytres insufferable voice for one more day, I might cut my ears off.

08-15-2017, 10:45 AM	#17013
Coffee Warlord Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Colorado Springs	Shockingly....coffeewarlord.

08-15-2017, 11:06 AM	#17015
hollmt High School Varsity Join Date: Aug 2002	Does one know they are a toolbag and look ridiculous when they walk around with a gallon jug of water with them everywhere they go?

08-16-2017, 09:35 AM	#17017
Suicane75 Coordinator Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NJ	That's just mean.

08-16-2017, 07:03 PM	#17019
Suicane75 Coordinator Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NJ	Every other year or so I sign up for a fantasy site that does a slow email draft as a way to get me acclimated to players. It allows me to do a lot of hands on research etc... just a good primer for what I feel are my more important drafts closer to the season. And then I remember why I hate them when we go through 3 picks in a day.

08-17-2017, 12:08 PM	#17021
Suicane75 Coordinator Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NJ	:vomit:

08-18-2017, 10:25 AM	#17024
sovereignstar v2 hates iowa Join Date: Oct 2010	Sounds like the email draft is a bit slow, but that should allow you to do a lot of hands on research.

08-25-2017, 12:18 AM	#17028
Suicane75 Coordinator Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NJ	So I keep seeing this new Lane Bryant commercial for something called Super Skinny jeans, in which a bunch of very large women dance happily and somewhat provocatively as they show off their jeans and "assets". Now look, I'm all for loving your body and what not, but are we seriously gonna market jeans for women weighing 250lbs as skinny jeans? Are we just horses with blinders on now, being petted and told everything is gonna be ok as we roll down the conveyor belt in the glue factory?

08-25-2017, 01:30 PM	#17031
NobodyHere Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Nov 2013	Why do we generally but beef patties on hamburgers? Should it not be ham? __________________ "I am God's prophet, and I need an attorney"

08-28-2017, 07:44 PM	#17033
JonInMiddleGA Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA	I know I don't watch a lot of regular TV, but occasionally even I'm shocked. Just turned on Raw ... TV was on NHL Network. The Finals ended June 11th. __________________ "I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis

08-28-2017, 09:14 PM	#17035
Suicane75 Coordinator Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NJ	I've never sat down and properly watched Hogans Heroes, but the show has been on while I've been in the room at least 100 hundred times in my life. I never knew Richard Dawson was on the show until a few nights ago when I saw the credits. The board game thread makes me sad cause a lot of those games look like fun, but I don't have enough friends to even contemplate ever playing them.

08-29-2017, 07:01 PM	#17039
cuervo72 Head Coach Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Maryland	Sent a picture of myself to my Comcast e-mail (for job ID purposes) yesterday. Today I am getting ads for St. Jude featuring bald children. __________________ null

08-29-2017, 09:59 PM	#17040
Suicane75 Coordinator Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NJ	Again, I should not laugh. And yet I laugh.

08-29-2017, 11:09 PM	#17041
MrBug708 Head Coach Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Whittier	I became an Elk last night

08-29-2017, 11:34 PM	#17042
Groundhog Coordinator Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Sydney, Australia	What is an Elk? Is it like a Mason? __________________ Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. --Ambrose Bierce

08-30-2017, 12:35 PM	#17044
JonInMiddleGA Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA	About those big price cuts Amazon made at Whole Foods yesterday ... ehhhhh, not so fast my friend, it's still Whole Paycheck. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-a...-idUSKCN1B92MJ __________________ "I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis

08-30-2017, 01:34 PM	#17045
PilotMan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Seven miles up	It's getting close to fuck this shit o'clock. __________________ He's just like if Snow White was competitive, horny, and capable of beating the shit out of anyone that called her Pops. Like Steam? Join the FOFC Steam group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FOFConSteam

08-30-2017, 02:29 PM	#17049
JonInMiddleGA Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA	Just saw a story from a town outside of Macon (Jones County for those who know their GA geography) ... two kids hospitalized in 24 hours after apparently getting hold of some bad acid. 5 people in custody after a raid that netted 2,100 hits of synthetic hallucinogens (nouveau LSD I guess) and an assortment of other goodies. Point to me putting this here is that I didn't realize acid had made such a comeback. __________________ "I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis

08-30-2017, 11:24 PM	#17050
stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	Met a dude a few months ago doing ubers Yesterday he pitched me on doing Amway. I think i would have liked it better if he would have asked me if I wanted to go fuck. At least that way I would have known he actually liked me as a person.

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