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[britrock88]

Go with salt and pepper.

[Draft Dodger]

Originally Posted by Lathum

salt and vinegar popcorn is not good

false

[Ksyrup]

I don't want to derail the NBA thread, so I'll just post this here:

The whole "glasses" thing is a microcosm of why I cannot stand the NBA. I've seen snippets of OKC's press conference to see Durant and Westbrook doing their best "designer twin Urkel" imitations. And then last night, DWade one-ups them by wearing lens-less rims while being interviewed. I mean, seriously.

[spleen1015]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

I don't want to derail the NBA thread, so I'll just post this here:

The whole "glasses" thing is a microcosm of why I cannot stand the NBA. I've seen snippets of OKC's press conference to see Durant and Westbrook doing their best "designer twin Urkel" imitations. And then last night, DWade one-ups them by wearing lens-less rims while being interviewed. I mean, seriously.

I just saw it and was wondering WTF? I don't get it either.

[Logan]

Originally Posted by spleen1015

I just saw it and was wondering WTF? I don't get it either.

Because it's cool to go against the grain and purposely make yourself look like a hipster nerd. Oh yeah, except everyone else is already doing the same shit.

Scott Van Pelt with the winning line last night:

@notthefakeSVP: Imagine MJ after a game 5 loss at home to fall behind 3-2 thinking...where r my fake glasses w no lenses...THERE THEY ARE

[gstelmack]

I am not sure how I'm going to get lunch, as they are doing a rolling shutdown of the road outside where I work (Weston Parkway for those in the area) so they can film a car chase for Iron Man 3. Which is cool, but I have to hope they don't shut down the exit from our business park (which has ZERO food options right now) for like 2 hours around lunch...

[Ksyrup]

I didn't listen to DWade's interview - did he throw in a Mumford and Sons reference?

[Ksyrup]

It really surprises me that with technology as advanced as it is, certain things can't be done better. Take searches on iTunes app store on your phone/iPod, or searching through potential contacts on LinkedIn. You're basically scrolling through dozens of apps/profiles, and when you find one you are interested in and click it, and then are done with it, you get taken back the the VERY FUCKING BEGINNING of the list of apps/profiles you started with. How has this not been fixed? If I'm 55 apps in, and I stop to look at something, you'd think they could put me right back at the same point in the list of apps I was at when I stopped to look at that one.

Same thing with LinkedIn. Searching through people you may know is so frustrating, because when you run across someone and hit "connect," to go back to the list of profiles you have to scroll back through the dozens/hundreds of people you just saw. Multiple times. Hitting "show more" every 10 or so people. I can't believe that no one has come up with a better solution.

[Passacaglia]

Dunkin Donuts sells a single donut for 89 cents, and a half dozen for 5.99

[JediKooter]

My question would be, why would even want to eat Dunkin Donuts donuts?

[chadritt]

Originally Posted by JediKooter

My question would be, why would even want to eat Dunkin Donuts donuts?

Anyone who ever lived in Boston. We had a Dunkin Donuts in my dorm, it makes me feel good just being back in one.

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by chadritt

Anyone who ever lived in Boston. We had a Dunkin Donuts in my dorm, it makes me feel good just being back in one.

Those are probably the most disgusting donuts I ever attempted to eat in my life. Was visiting my dad in Rhode Island and there was one in the airport. I was hungry, I like donuts, figured it's a major chain, so it has to be decent. Got a regular chocolate covered donut and spit it right back out after the first bite. Ok, maybe a bad donut. Tried a Dunkin Donut in town, tasted exactly the same. There is something seriously wrong with the donuts at Dunkin Donuts or the taste buds of people in the New England area.

[sabotai]

As time goes on, I find myself hating kids less and less. And then I think, what if it's not that I'm hating kids less, but that I'm just hating adults more and more....

[QuikSand]

So, I'm a dad, and I make pancakes. Nothing exciting there.

When I pour them onto my square-shaped griddle, I usually just pour out 4 pancakes, and I pour them into the four corners of the griddle. Nothing exciting there.

However, I think 100 out of 100 times I have/will/would pour them out in a certain order. And to do it any other way would just seem... wrong. Like really wrong. I'm not really an OCD or neat freak sort of guy, but for some odd reason this seems like it's important.

So...

#1 - anyone else know what I'm talking about here? either with pancakes or something equally trivial?

#2 - anyone out there know deep in your heart (like I do) what the proper order is to pour out four pancakes onto a square griddle?

[stevew]

I'd assume you're going back left, back right, front right, front left?

[spleen1015]

I have been thinking that I want to learn how to ride a motorcycle and start riding one to work.

What kind of motorcycle should I start out with?

[JediKooter]

A reallly reeaaaalllly fast one.

[Grover]

Scooty Puff Jr.

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by Grover

Scooty Puff Jr.

This +1000

[spleen1015]

Anyone with any serious answers?

[cartman]

One of those Can-Am three wheel things.

[Scoobz0202]

Anybody looking to make the jump into SSD storage, here is a pretty good deal.

256GB for 180

Amazon.com: Crucial 256 GB m4 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive SATA 6Gb/s CT256M4SSD2: Electronics

[stevew]

I never knew Pumpy was a member of the group Calloway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztk9t...e_gdata_player

[Passacaglia]

Originally Posted by stevew

I'd assume you're going back left, back right, front right, front left?

This is me also.

[QuikSand]

Originally Posted by stevew

I'd assume you're going back left, back right, front right, front left?

Absolutely not.

Back left, front left, front right, back right.

No idea why, but it's a strong instinct, somehow.

[Shkspr]

My god, I'm among Philistines.

Back left, back right, front left, front right. Anything else is weird.

[QuikSand]

Originally Posted by Shkspr

My god, I'm among Philistines.

ummm...

Originally Posted by Shkspr

Location: Amarillo, TX

[Radii]

back left, back right, front right, front left, wtf is this diagonal from back right to front left you people want to do?

[Passacaglia]

Oh, I should have said earlier, I'm more of a french toast guy, not pancakes.

[Shkspr]

Originally Posted by QuikSand

ummm...

To say this town embraces Philistinism implies that they know any other meaning of the word besides "enemy that Samson fought."

"I'm among fuckwits." There. That embraces the local culture. I mean, it could be worse - I could make my living trying to get these people to read anything (ANYTHING!) besides their Bible.



...oh, crap.

But pouring pancakes right to left? That's barbarism on a "at least familiar with modern colloquialisms" scale that I can at least deal with.

[Passacaglia]

Originally Posted by Shkspr

To say this town embraces Philistinism implies that they know any other meaning of the word besides "enemy that Samson fought."

"I'm among fuckwits." There. That embraces the local culture. I mean, it could be worse - I could make my living trying to get these people to read anything (ANYTHING!) besides their Bible.



...oh, crap.

But pouring pancakes right to left? That's barbarism on a "at least familiar with modern colloquialisms" scale that I can at least deal with.

No one's really said they do right to left -- looks like most people do clockwise.

[stevew]

Clockwise or counterclockwise at least makes sense. Zigzag motion=maybe pancakes aren't your game.

[Passacaglia]

Incidentally, I think we can all agree that this post clearly deserves its own thread.

[Pumpy Tudors]

Originally Posted by stevew

I never knew Pumpy was a member of the group Calloway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztk9t...e_gdata_player

How did you not know?

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by QuikSand

So, I'm a dad, and I make pancakes. Nothing exciting there.

When I pour them onto my square-shaped griddle, I usually just pour out 4 pancakes, and I pour them into the four corners of the griddle. Nothing exciting there.

However, I think 100 out of 100 times I have/will/would pour them out in a certain order. And to do it any other way would just seem... wrong. Like really wrong. I'm not really an OCD or neat freak sort of guy, but for some odd reason this seems like it's important.

So...

#1 - anyone else know what I'm talking about here? either with pancakes or something equally trivial?

#2 - anyone out there know deep in your heart (like I do) what the proper order is to pour out four pancakes onto a square griddle?

holy shit! I never realized it until now but I do the same thing. Start in the upper right, then lower right, then lower left, then upper left.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by Passacaglia

Oh, I should have said earlier, I'm more of a french toast guy, not pancakes.

please stop causing problems

[JonInMiddleGA]

Wonder if there's any sort of left-handed/right-handed influence on whether you start pancakes on the left or on the right?

[Shkspr]

Originally Posted by stevew

Clockwise or counterclockwise at least makes sense. Zigzag motion=maybe pancakes aren't your game.

I assure you, pancakes are indeed my...wait, no. No, actually, I am more of a waffle guy, come to think. But yeah, pancakes. If you go in a circular pattern, at some point you're holding the pancake batter directly above the pancake you just made, and that's pretty awkward, particularly if you're dipping a measuring cup that consequently has batter dripping down the side. Maybe the circular folks are all perfect pourers. I dunno. Like I said, really more waffle guy these days.

But hopefully we can all agree on the whole "my neighbors are not cultured enough to be Philistines" thing.

[JediKooter]

I don't care how my pancakes are made as long as the waitress brings them to me nice and hot so the butter melts.

[MacroGuru]

Originally Posted by JediKooter

I don't care how my pancakes are made as long as the waitress brings them to me nice and hot so the butter melts.

And she calls you Honey, winks at you and slaps a whole mound of grits right on the plate...

[Rizon]

Originally Posted by JediKooter

I don't care how my pancakes are made as long as the waitress brings them to me nice and hot so the butter melts.

Just as long as her titties aren't pancake titties. Amiright?

[Rizon]

Originally Posted by QuikSand

So, I'm a dad, and I make pancakes. Nothing exciting there.

When I pour them onto my square-shaped griddle, I usually just pour out 4 pancakes, and I pour them into the four corners of the griddle. Nothing exciting there.

However, I think 100 out of 100 times I have/will/would pour them out in a certain order. And to do it any other way would just seem... wrong. Like really wrong. I'm not really an OCD or neat freak sort of guy, but for some odd reason this seems like it's important.

So...

#1 - anyone else know what I'm talking about here? either with pancakes or something equally trivial?

#2 - anyone out there know deep in your heart (like I do) what the proper order is to pour out four pancakes onto a square griddle?

Originally Posted by stevew

I'd assume you're going back left, back right, front right, front left?

Originally Posted by spleen1015

Anyone with any serious answers?

Originally Posted by stevew

I never knew Pumpy was a member of the group Calloway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztk9t...e_gdata_player

Originally Posted by QuikSand

Absolutely not.

Back left, front left, front right, back right.

No idea why, but it's a strong instinct, somehow.

Originally Posted by Shkspr

My god, I'm among Philistines.

Back left, back right, front left, front right. Anything else is weird.

Originally Posted by Radii

back left, back right, front right, front left, wtf is this diagonal from back right to front left you people want to do?

Originally Posted by stevew

Clockwise or counterclockwise at least makes sense. Zigzag motion=maybe pancakes aren't your game.

Originally Posted by Lathum

holy shit! I never realized it until now but I do the same thing. Start in the upper right, then lower right, then lower left, then upper left.

Originally Posted by JediKooter

I don't care how my pancakes are made as long as the waitress brings them to me nice and hot so the butter melts.

Originally Posted by MacroGuru

And she calls you Honey, winks at you and slaps a whole mound of grits right on the plate...

[Swaggs]

I would think moving clockwise, while trying to spend the least amount of time with your hands directly over the heat would be the key.

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by Rizon

Just as long as her titties aren't pancake titties. Amiright?

NAILED IT!

[Passacaglia]

You guys are thinking too much about this. You just do it that way because that's the way you do it.

[DaddyTorgo]

I need a dropdown-menu option in Salesforce (our CRM) for "Rude Asshole prospect" to clue me in and enable me to passive-aggressively get back at the people in my mind.

It's particularly amusing when said prospect is so incredibly marginal in the first place (ooh boy...you consult on what...$1bn in total assets? *Yawn*) that I'm basically wasting my time calling him, and then he's rude on top of that (interrupting me as I try to be polite to say "-call me another time" *click*). If he's that busy he shouldn't be picking up the phone.

[MacroGuru]

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

I need a dropdown-menu option in Salesforce (our CRM) for "Rude Asshole prospect" to clue me in and enable me to passive-aggressively get back at the people in my mind.

It's particularly amusing when said prospect is so incredibly marginal in the first place (ooh boy...you consult on what...$1bn in total assets? *Yawn*) that I'm basically wasting my time calling him, and then he's rude on top of that (interrupting me as I try to be polite to say "-call me another time" *click*). If he's that busy he shouldn't be picking up the phone.

That's what customer notes sections are for..

I use Microsoft CRM for this and place information like that in the notes sections, assign them a specific relationship type as well...It's fun and I have some phone with my DHP list...

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by MacroGuru

That's what customer notes sections are for..

I use Microsoft CRM for this and place information like that in the notes sections, assign them a specific relationship type as well...It's fun and I have some phone with my DHP list...

Yep - I put notes like that in the "notes" section too. But sometimes I think it'd be fun if I had a checkbox/a specific relationship type like you say.

DHP?

[Rizon]

Originally Posted by MacroGuru

I use Microsoft CRM for this and place information like that

Speaking of, how do you like it? We're moving to a MS CRM platform in a month or two.

[CU Tiger]

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

Yep - I put notes like that in the "notes" section too. But sometimes I think it'd be fun if I had a checkbox/a specific relationship type like you say.

DHP?

Ill take a swing at ___head prospect?