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Old 05-20-2010, 10:41 AM   #251
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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.
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Old 05-20-2010, 10:46 AM   #252
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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?'
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Old 05-20-2010, 10:47 AM   #253
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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?
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Old 05-20-2010, 11:06 AM   #254
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Old 05-20-2010, 11:07 AM   #255
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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
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Old 05-20-2010, 11:07 AM   #256
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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.
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Old 05-20-2010, 11:09 AM   #257
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Checks can still be extremely useful, for example, for committing identify theft.
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Old 05-20-2010, 11:13 AM   #258
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I just saw this on Facebook, omg.. seriously?

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Old 05-20-2010, 11:15 AM   #259
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I don't get it.
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Old 05-20-2010, 11:16 AM   #260
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And that's probably why Netflix just laid off 160 people today.
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Old 05-20-2010, 11:19 AM   #261
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It's the obsession with Twilight. Some women really want to be that Bella chick, it's ridiculous.
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Old 05-20-2010, 11:19 AM   #262
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I don't get it.

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Old 05-20-2010, 11:28 AM   #263
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Walmart could destroy just about any company that they wanted to.

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Old 05-20-2010, 11:51 AM   #264
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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.
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Old 05-20-2010, 11:53 AM   #265
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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.
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Old 05-20-2010, 11:56 AM   #266
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Old 05-20-2010, 01:09 PM   #267
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If you remove the metaphors, R. Kelly's song "Ignition (Remix)" would be titled "Vagina (Remix)".
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Old 05-20-2010, 02:21 PM   #268
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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.
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Old 05-20-2010, 04:12 PM   #269
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Old 05-20-2010, 08:20 PM   #270
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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.

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Old 05-20-2010, 08:20 PM   #271
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Checks can still be extremely useful, for example, for committing identify theft.

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Old 05-21-2010, 10:39 AM   #272
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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
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Old 05-21-2010, 10:47 AM   #273
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Old 05-21-2010, 10:50 AM   #274
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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.
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Old 05-21-2010, 11:31 AM   #275
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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.
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Old 05-21-2010, 11:32 AM   #276
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So you did a commercial with Chong?
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Old 05-24-2010, 11:11 PM   #277
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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.

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Old 05-24-2010, 11:26 PM   #278
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Old 05-25-2010, 12:42 AM   #279
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Peter Pan, in the Hook version anyhow, was a straight pimp. Had Wendy, Tinkerbell, and his wife all over his junk.
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Old 05-25-2010, 01:33 AM   #280
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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.

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Old 05-25-2010, 01:36 AM   #281
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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.
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Old 05-25-2010, 01:49 AM   #282
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What does that have to do with verizon?
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Old 05-25-2010, 01:59 AM   #283
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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.
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Old 05-25-2010, 10:32 AM   #284
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Old 05-25-2010, 10:37 AM   #285
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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.

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Old 05-25-2010, 10:44 AM   #286
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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...
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Old 05-25-2010, 10:45 AM   #287
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Old 05-25-2010, 10:49 AM   #288
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Old 05-25-2010, 10:51 AM   #289
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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
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Old 05-25-2010, 10:55 AM   #290
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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.
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Old 05-25-2010, 10:57 AM   #291
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Old 05-25-2010, 11:01 AM   #292
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Holy fucking shit weddings are expensive.
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Old 05-25-2010, 11:03 AM   #293
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There's a reason I'm leaving an IT job to run a place that hosts weddings.
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Old 05-25-2010, 11:06 AM   #294
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Holy fucking shit weddings are expensive.

In other news, scientists discovered today that water is indeed wet.
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Old 05-25-2010, 11:07 AM   #295
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You shut up. IT'S YOUR FAULT. IF WEDDINGS WERE BUILT BY GUYS THEY'D COST 5 BUCKS.
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Old 05-25-2010, 11:08 AM   #296
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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.
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Old 05-25-2010, 11:12 AM   #297
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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.
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Old 05-25-2010, 11:13 AM   #298
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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.
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Old 05-25-2010, 11:16 AM   #299
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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.
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Personally I'd like a medium to large wedding in Andalucia or Italy.
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