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[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Logan

Now, I'll give her some slack and say maybe her vision isn't good enough to distinguish between the two, but who the hell puts sweet potato, or any potato, in a leafy green salad?

A quick Google suggests that roasted sweet potatoes are at least a minor "thing" for salads now.

[albionmoonlight]

The Big Salad from here Happy + Hale City Plaza - Order Online

has roasted sweet potatoes and is my favorite salad from them.

[Logan]

Originally Posted by albionmoonlight

The Big Salad from here Happy + Hale City Plaza - Order Online

has roasted sweet potatoes and is my favorite salad from them.

That's fine but if you start telling me you double fist brushing your teeth you can GTFO.

[albionmoonlight]

Originally Posted by Logan

That's fine but if you start telling me you double fist brushing your teeth you can GTFO.

I'm lazy enough that I resent having to use even one hand to brush my teeth.

[molson]

Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

Heh. One of my best friends is going there (just to Base Camp, not to the summit) in a few months.

I've read about that trek, it looks like a pretty interesting experience, with all the little towns along the way, but it takes about 3 weeks and $2000+ (unless you want good food and comfortable lodging, then it's a lot more) just from Kathmandu, so you probably need a full month at least to do it from the U.S.

[Easy Mac]

Just got some new Xiaomi Pistol headphones. For $15, these are the clearest, punchiest headphones I've ever owned. I was listening to music at the pool and it scared the shit out of me when a bass guitar cut in. I honestly thought an insect buzzed in my ear.

Speaking of shitting oneself, I sharted for the first time in my adult life this morning. Had some bad food at lunch yesterday and was on the toilet most of the afternoon/evening. Felt fine this AM. Decided to do some cardio since I missed yesterday. While doing some plank exercises, I needed to let one rip. Turns out it wasn't just gas. Thankfully I didn't have a lot left in my bowels, so I feel only about 60% ashamed of myself.

[thesloppy]

"I'm good about twice a year for that."

[stevew]

I feel like the Baltimore CFL Colts was a thing.

[NobodyHere]

Originally Posted by stevew

I feel like the Baltimore CFL Colts was a thing.

Baltimore Stallions actually.

[stevew]

Hmm. I guess there was an injunction or something.

Someone needs to explain the thing where 2 teams were named Rough Riders tho.

[stevew]

I just realized in the car today that the Bieber/Ed Sheeran song "Love Yourself" actually could be called "Eff Yourself." I'm a bit slow.

[Draft Dodger]

Originally Posted by stevew

Hmm. I guess there was an injunction or something.

Someone needs to explain the thing where 2 teams were named Rough Riders tho.

totally different. One was Rough Riders, the other was Roughriders

[cuervo72]

"Memorial Day Weekend. It is about our own war dead not the Japanese, German, Iraqi, Afghani, Russian, Korean, or Vietnamese war dead."

Posts picture of Australian soldier being executed.

(I know, they were on our side. Still.)

[nol]

Originally Posted by stevew

I just realized in the car today that the Bieber/Ed Sheeran song "Love Yourself" actually could be called "Eff Yourself." I'm a bit slow.

Yeah when I first heard it I assumed it was a radio edit and the actual version did use the F word, but apparently Bieber is not at that stage of his career yet.

[MacroGuru]

So, about 4 weeks ago I busted out Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and have been playing with my best friend and his family and our family..I am DMing, and I am running a group of 8. Ages from 10 to 41, it's been awesome to see the young ones enjoying themselves and opening up to a world that they never knew existed.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Countdown to Harambe being named both Time's Man of the Year & sweeping all the major awards at the ESPY's is now underway.

In my whole f'n life I don't think I've ever been sicker of hearing about a damned slow news cycle story.

edit: I'd rather read a detailed profile of Tawana Brawley at this point.

[Neon_Chaos]

We elected this fucker as President of the Philippines.

Philippines Presidential Candidates Soars After Rape Joke

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/19/as...oke/index.html

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/31/as...sts/index.html

For whatever reason, we out-Trumped you, America!

[stevew]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Countdown to Harambe being named both Time's Man of the Year & sweeping all the major awards at the ESPY's is now underway.

In my whole f'n life I don't think I've ever been sicker of hearing about a damned slow news cycle story.

edit: I'd rather read a detailed profile of Tawana Brawley at this point.

The baby's daddy seems like a real winner.

[Mustang]

Haven't posted in forever and a day and seems like nothing has changed.. Now, whether that is good or bad is up for debate...

[General Mike]

I like the concept of this 500 questions show, but there's something lacking about it. If it is gonna be a one week a year limited event, it feels like the stakes should be higher. But what do I know.

[JediKooter]

Hi!

[Suicane75]

So I look up and an old Tonight Show from the 80's is on TV. I see the guest and I can't for the life of me place him, though I know he looks familiar. He's wearing what can only be described as a zoobaz suit, white dress shirt and a bolo tie? One of those shoe string ties, whatever it's called. He's a big dude, not fat, but stout, and it's driving me crazy cause I'm starting to think he may be an athlete or something. And after about 2 minutes of staring at him I realize it's a young Danny Aiello, and I feel so old.

[bob]

Preparing a house to go on the market has to be one of the biggest economic wastes out there. My neighbor put in new carpets, painted the walls, and did a ton of landscaping. The new owner immediately pulled out the carpet to add hardwood floors, dug up the bushes, and repainted all but one room.

And don't get me started on staging with rented furniture.

I get fixing real problems and curb appeal and all that, but still.

[stevew]

I seem to remember that "leather/vinyl fix it" commercials were huge when I was growing up.

[Suicane75]

For like the 3rd time in 5 years I put an air conditioner in wrong. I really don't know what the eff is wrong with my brain, but it always looks right, in front of the lip, even though the back of my mind says "no dummy, it goes behind the lip". If it was my house I'd be fretting over the water damage that must have been done at this point.

[QuikSand]

Originally Posted by stevew

I feel like the Baltimore CFL Colts was a thing.

Best moment of each game was when the cheer team launched a big cheer with "Gimme an S! Gimme a T! Gimme an A!..." spelling out STALLIONS, and the crowd insisted on spelling out COLTS in response, and everyone was totally cool with it. Those games were a blast, and hit at just the right time of my life.

[Suicane75]

Inspired by Abes Chicago thread, I wanted to ask a question about LP's. By the time I starting buying music, tapes were pretty much overtaking LP's. I think the 4 records that I actually bought were Thriller, Purple Rain, Chicago 17 and Make It Big, the latter of which skipped horribly and I had to exchange, only to find that the replacements also skipped, pretty much in the same spots.

My question is, what was the decorum for bad LP's back in the day? Return, exchange, just bite the bullet? How often did you get a bad LP that was just unlistenable? And furthermore, how often was it that you got a bad LP? I'm guessing that since my experience is at the tale end of the industry that not much effort was going into the pressings so maybe they just didn't care all that much?

[timmae]

Been getting into vinyl recently and have had zero issues with about 75 records so far... knock on wood.

[stevew]

All hail the whopperito. Maybe I'll do a 2 day meat fast and try on on Friday.

[stevew]

Originally Posted by QuikSand

Best moment of each game was when the cheer team launched a big cheer with "Gimme an S! Gimme a T! Gimme an A!..." spelling out STALLIONS, and the crowd insisted on spelling out COLTS in response, and everyone was totally cool with it. Those games were a blast, and hit at just the right time of my life.

That's awesome. Thanks for sharing.

[stevew]

Originally Posted by Easy Mac

Just got some new Xiaomi Pistol headphones. For $15, these are the clearest, punchiest headphones I've ever owned. I was listening to music at the pool and it scared the shit out of me when a bass guitar cut in. I honestly thought an insect buzzed in my ear.

Speaking of shitting oneself, I sharted for the first time in my adult life this morning. Had some bad food at lunch yesterday and was on the toilet most of the afternoon/evening. Felt fine this AM. Decided to do some cardio since I missed yesterday. While doing some plank exercises, I needed to let one rip. Turns out it wasn't just gas. Thankfully I didn't have a lot left in my bowels, so I feel only about 60% ashamed of myself.

Yes. It happens more often as you age.

[cuervo72]

Donna Brazile has always reminded me of Dee from What's Happening!!

[cartman]

Originally Posted by stevew

Yes. It happens more often as you age.

The ear buzzing or the sharting?

[stevew]

Originally Posted by cartman

The ear buzzing or the sharting?

at the moment for me, probably both.

[Kodos]

Do you ever find yourself singing the alphabet song in your head when trying to figure out if something is in alpha order?

[Honolulu_Blue]

Originally Posted by Kodos

Do you ever find yourself singing the alphabet song in your head when trying to figure out if something is in alpha order?

Yes.

[JediKooter]

Went and dropped off my mail in ballot yesterday (yes lazy, but, they wanted me to pay postage and I haven't bought stamps in at least 3 years. I do practically everything on line or in person so I just have no need for stamps usually) and even though it was a little bit after 1 in the afternoon, it was a ghost town at the polling station. I don't know why, but, I expected more people.

[timmae]

Eazy E's Real Muthaphukkin G has got to be the best dis song of all time... had about 75 minutes of time to kill on the commute home and was rediscovering 90's gangsta rap. Good times.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Well that was fun.

Not every day I get to see it hail SIDEWAYS (thank goodness). On the bright side it was just pea - to - dime sized hail, and the one tree I see that went down looks like it only took out some hedges (missed the house by at least six yards).

Sunday: 3 hour power outtage
Monday: 12 hour internet outtage
Today: Hail, wind, torrential rain, downed tree

I figure tomorrow will involve locusts.

[JediKooter]

Watched the first 3 episodes of the new Voltron on Netflix and I am quite impressed with it.

[Coffee Warlord]

We got through the first two. Not bad.

Though I also think my family is about the only one on the planet who didn't mind Voltron Force. My 5 year old loves it, and me and my wife both enjoyed it. (hence the reason we watched the new one as well).

[Coffee Warlord]

My coworker brought his Vive into the office today. Holy shit is that thing awesome.

[Suicane75]

It comes with the territory, but going 6/7 on a parlay with a 10,000% return is like being bashed in the nuts with the bones of your dead dog while all your ex girlfriends have sex with someone else in front of you.

Also, I'm a casual viewer of Big Brother UK so I found it sort of amusing, but I imagine anyone with any investment would be majorly irritated when, only 3 weeks in, they get rid of 5 housemates in a single week and bring in 4 new ones. That just screams gimmick desperation.

[Suicane75]

Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

My coworker brought his Vive into the office today. Holy shit is that thing awesome.

Did you have sex with Christie Brinkley on a beach?

[Ben E Lou]

On the one hand, there is some comedy gold here. On the other, who on earth,
in 2016, thought that this was ok???

Waitress upset over ‘Best Butt’ award from management | myfox8.com

[heybrad]

I'm 2.5 hours from receiving the call that should tell me if I got a new job at a Fortune 500 company (an exec position) that could be life changing. It could also take me back to the west coast.

Needless to say... I'm a mess right now.

[albionmoonlight]

Originally Posted by heybrad

I'm 2.5 hours from receiving the call that should tell me if I got a new job at a Fortune 500 company (an exec position) that could be life changing. It could also take me back to the west coast.

Needless to say... I'm a mess right now.

I wish you the Best! Good luck!

[cartman]

if, after you answer the phone, they say "Hey Brad!", you are set.

[Kodos]

Good luck! You've got this!

[heybrad]

Now they've postponed the call for later today so I now have 3.5 hours until I know. Ack. I would think if they didn't want me that would have been as simple as the recruiter I've worked through just telling me. This upcoming call is with the guy who would be my boss.