Off Topic 2014

[Watson]

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Just pants? I get butt *** naked and do jumping jacks

I'm hearing clapping noises in my head now. Make it stop.

[l3ulvl]

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In other news, watch this baby rhino try to bounce around like his little lamb friend:

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[BurghFan]

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There're people who don't like pretzels I love pretzels, a trait I must've inherited from my grandpap who always had a can with a bag or 2 of pretzels in it sitting next to his TV chair. I will say that some places put way to much salt on their soft pretzels. A little salt is good, but when it's saltier than the Dead Sea, that's getting a tad ridiculous.

[l3ulvl]

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There're people who don't like pretzels I love pretzels, a trait I must've inherited from my grandpap who always had a can with a bag or 2 of pretzels in it sitting next to his TV chair. I will say that some places put way to much salt on their soft pretzels. A little salt is good, but when it's saltier than the Dead Sea, that's getting a tad ridiculous.

They make me thirsty

[PadresFan]

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Trying to kill a spider on the ceiling is an absolute no-win situation. Stupid thing fell on me.

[Chef Matt]

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They make me thirsty

Bar snack, yep. Still suck.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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The only good pretzel are the big warm ones you get from the mall with mustard or creme cheese on it.

[Majingir]

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For some reason,the light grey on the forum(the one that's the background color behind peoples usernames and stuff when showing who posted last and stuff) looked to be diff(I use OS 2.0 default).

Restarted my computer and everything looks fine again....Really hope nothings wrong with my computer cause that grey was showing up almost greyish-blue.

[Chef Matt]

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The only good pretzel are the big warm ones you get from the mall with mustard or creme cheese on it.

Ok on the mall ones..

I buy my boys those on a dads day outing when we go the mall and hit up the little arcade and comic shop. They get them with pepperoni and other stuff and I finish them up.

Those Are pretty good.
Admittedly.

[dickey1331]

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Chilis is amazing.

I remember when Olive Garden came to Anchorage it was mad crazy. You'd have an hour wait at 2-3pm. I'm like who the hell eats this late/early. It didn't matter what time you went there was always a wait.

[BlueNGold]

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My current manager looks almost exactly like Dallas Green (City & Colour and Alexisonfire).

I think if the time ever comes where he has to give me ****, I'm just gonna belt out "SO SAVE YOUR SCISSORS, FOR SOMEONE ELSES SKIN".

[slickdtc]

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I'd make him serenade me my whole shift.

[~LiverpoolRed~]

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I'm off work until Wednesday and my wife and son are out of town until Wednesday. By the time they get back you will be able to fry an egg on top of my PS4.

[Brandwin]

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Piotr Naskrecki was taking a nighttime walk in a rainforest in Guyana, when he heard rustling as if something were creeping underfoot. When he turned on his flashlight, he expected to see a small mammal, such as a possum or a rat.

"When I turned on the light, I couldn't quite understand what I was seeing," said Naskrecki, an entomologist and photographer at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology.

A moment later, he realized he was looking not at a brown, furry mammal, but an enormous, puppy-size spider


Known as the South American Goliath birdeater (Theraphosa blondi), the colossal arachnid is the world's largest spider, according to Guinness World Records. Its leg span can reach up to a foot (30 centimeters), or about the size of "a child's forearm," with a body the size of "a large fist," Naskrecki told Live Science. And the spider can weigh more than 6 oz. (170 grams) — about as much as a young puppy, the scientist wrote on his blog. [See Photos of the Goliath Birdeater Spider]

Some sources say the giant huntsman spider, which has a larger leg span, is bigger than the birdeater. But the huntsman is much more delicate than the hefty birdeater — comparing the two would be "like comparing a giraffe to an elephant," Naskrecki said.

The birdeater's enormous size is evident from the sounds it makes. "Its feet have hardened tips and claws that produce a very distinct, clicking sound, not unlike that of a horse's hooves hitting the ground," he wrote, but "not as loud."

Prickly hairs and 3/4-inch fangs

When Naskrecki approached the imposing creature in the rainforest, it would rub its hind legs against its abdomen. At first, the scientist thought the behavior was "cute," he said, but then he realized the spider was sending out a cloud of hairs with microscopic barbs on them. When these hairs get in the eyes or other mucous membranes, they are "extremely painful and itchy," and can stay there for days, he said. [Creepy-Crawly Gallery: See Spooky Photos of Spiders]

But its prickly hairs aren't the birdeater's only line of defense; it also sports a pair of 0.79-inch-long (2 centimeters) fangs, which can sometimes reach up to 1.5 inches (3.8 cm). Although the spider's bite is venomous, it's not deadly to humans. But it would still be extremely painful, "like driving a nail through your hand," Naskrecki said.

And the eight-legged beast has a third defense mechanism up its hairy sleeve. The hairs on the front of the spider's body have tiny hooks and barbs that make a hissing sound when they rub against each other, "sort of like pulling Velcro apart," Naskrecki said.

Yet despite all that, the spider doesn't pose a threat to humans. Even if it bites you, "a chicken can probably do more damage," Naskrecki said.

[Mabster]

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The dude is an Entomologist at Harvard and couldn't understand what he was looking at? Really? Maybe Harvard needs to review it's curriculum.