Random Thoughts That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread Go Here - Page 257

DaddyTorgo · 03-14-2014, 08:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lathum

There is something comforting about that as well. Sounds like a well run business.

It is. Great pizza too. Love the guys.

And really it's no different from when I used to work at Starbucks and I'd do the same thing.

No complaint from me at all. I just thought it was amusing. I mean I know they knew me and my order, but I didn't imagine they'd be like "hey he's late" necessarily.

cuervo72 · 03-14-2014, 09:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stevew

I basically have to scream at them to hold the mayo at this point. One light pass asswhites!

They never give me enough mayo. I've asked them for extra and still put on more at home.

<------- really, really likes mayo

stevew · 03-14-2014, 09:22 PM

Try asking for regular mayo. Then follow it up by asking for low fat mayo as well.

JediKooter · 03-14-2014, 11:58 PM

I know the owner of an Outback Steakhouse and would call up one of the managers if I knew he was working there that day and call in an order for a BLT. It would be ready for me when I got there and it was great seeing everyone's face when I sat at the bar and no more than two minutes I'd have my BLT. Good times....good times.

Coffee Warlord · 03-15-2014, 11:25 AM

Rarely a good thing when you spend 2 hours at the auto shop waiting for them to tell you you've got a $820 repair job.

B & B · 03-15-2014, 11:41 AM

Were you wearing the hat , CW?

Cause, that's like fifty bucks right off the top of the bill for that.

Lathum · 03-15-2014, 12:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

Rarely a good thing when you spend 2 hours at the auto shop waiting for them to tell you you've got a $820 repair job.

for what?

Chief Rum · 03-15-2014, 12:57 PM

So I waited an hour and a half online this morning to get Comic Con tickets and wasn't selected to buy in their randomized order, which sucks.

I am okay with it in the scheme of things because I know the tickets are limited, and the demand is high.

But what is frustrating is that they give you no indication after they randomize the order on whether you even have a legit shot to get tickets. It would seem to be a reasonably easy thing to do. If you have, let's say, 10000 tickets available and this such and such person is the 15000th in line, well, you can more or less let them know they're not likely to get tickets and they can choose whether to still stay on or not at that point.

Coffee Warlord · 03-15-2014, 04:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lathum

for what?

Long story short, it was venting vapor around the fuel cap.

stevew · 03-16-2014, 12:43 PM

So, when does Aaron Paul get a new TV series. All that promo, and need for speed opens to 18m

sabotai · 03-16-2014, 05:56 PM

The chick in the AT&T commercials is the very definition of "perfect combination of sexy and cute".

Matthean · 03-16-2014, 07:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sabotai

The chick in the AT&T commercials is the very definition of "perfect combination of sexy and cute".

Q: Who is the hot girl, "Lily", in the AT&T...

Her?

sabotai · 03-16-2014, 08:01 PM

That's the one.

stevew · 03-16-2014, 08:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matthean

Q: Who is the hot girl, "Lily", in the AT&T...

Her?

goddammit, why did i read that discussion comment section under that post.

CraigSca · 03-16-2014, 08:51 PM

Kids are not good at buffets.

Lathum · 03-16-2014, 09:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CraigSca

Kids are not good at buffets.

especially since most are lower than the sneeze guard.

Blackadar · 03-17-2014, 07:12 AM

I understand weather delays, but this is getting absurd.

6:30 AM flight delayed to 8:30. Then to 10:30. Then to 10:45. Then to 12:15. Just cancel the fucking thing already. By the time they cancel this, all the other flights to DC tomorrow will be full and I won't be able to get there at all.

Oh...maybe that's a good thing.

Blackadar · 03-17-2014, 09:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blackadar

I understand weather delays, but this is getting absurd.

6:30 AM flight delayed to 8:30. Then to 10:30. Then to 10:45. Then to 12:15. Just cancel the fucking thing already. By the time they cancel this, all the other flights to DC tomorrow will be full and I won't be able to get there at all.

Oh...maybe that's a good thing.

Exactly what I thought would happen just did. My flight was canceled a couple of minutes ago (I was on my way out the door and did one last check on the flight). Called the travel agent and now there's nothing available to DC until mid-morning Wednesday because all the passengers on other flights that were canceled (unlike mine which kept getting delayed) have had a chance to rebook. I can work from home so that's ok, but it doesn't look good since everyone else flew in last night and made it into the office.

cartman · 03-17-2014, 12:10 PM

I was up at my cousin's house this weekend, and his 7 year old son asked me what SXSW was. I told him it meant "South by Southwest" and it is a big music, movie, and tech festival. He asked what bands were there, and I told him it is mostly bands people never have heard of that are trying to become famous, but also sometimes famous people play. I told him that Justin Bieber played last week. His reply was awesome: "How? I thought he was in jail."

Izulde · 03-17-2014, 04:59 PM

Police: Two Charged After Caught in Sex Act Near School - Racine County Eye - Racine County Eye

I laughed so hard I almost cried at this story. Hilarious on so many levels, but maybe that's just me.

molson · 03-17-2014, 05:27 PM

A spirited attempt to document all of the various shenanigans the police were called for during St. Patrick's day weekend in Chicago:

Crime In Wrigleyville + Boystown: IT AIN'T EASY BEING GREEN: St. Pat's Festivities Rack Up 21 Arrests, 17 Ambulance Runs In Wrigleyville

Suburban Rhythm · 03-18-2014, 08:13 AM

I bet if I went back a year, and two years, I'd find similar posts I made like this one...

My company (a charter school) founder is a huge college basketball fan. Every year, we run a huge brackets pool, people receiving up to 5 brackets, based on tenure. Back in the day, before I got here, the CFO used to manually calculate everything (this alone should tell you about priorities, he did nothing for the balance of March and early April but this).

I came along a couple years ago. After unsuccessfully trying to sway the powers that be to pick one site (say Yahoo!) and lift the restricted access for the time of tournament, and have everyone enter brackets there (legally, I guess it looks bad that employees are "gambling" on company time, should the Board of Education see this...but it's OK that we do it in general. Logic not a strong point here!), I built brackets in Excel, and they all tie back to a master score sheet. Initial setup is a little tedious, but scoring is a breeze.

Since yesterday, I've beat my head against the wall multiple times. The instructions are pretty simple: Save the file as FirstnameLastname#ofentry. Email back to me.

I've received so far this morning:

One person who completed the brackets in Excel...then took a screen shot and pasted the screen shot into his return email.

Another who sent 5 separate emails, changing the subject line of the email in the format described above, but named each file "Brackets" (sure, I can rename, but not the point!)

And a 3rd who filled out 4 brackets...then for some reason moving the file into a new workbook, away from the hidden tabs that calculate scoring in the original file. But he named them right!

tl;dr I WORK WITH IDIOTS

albionmoonlight · 03-18-2014, 09:06 AM

I saw a guy this morning wearing an old school Eagles jacket who looked almost exactly like Randall Cunningham. I know that it wasn't actually him because he was under 6' tall, and he was working maintenance in a federal building in Raleigh, NC.

But I had questions. Do you know you look like Randall Cunningham? Is that why you have the jacket? Is that why you became an Eagles fan in the first place?

DaddyTorgo · 03-18-2014, 09:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Suburban Rhythm

I bet if I went back a year, and two years, I'd find similar posts I made like this one...

My company (a charter school) founder is a huge college basketball fan. Every year, we run a huge brackets pool, people receiving up to 5 brackets, based on tenure. Back in the day, before I got here, the CFO used to manually calculate everything (this alone should tell you about priorities, he did nothing for the balance of March and early April but this).

I came along a couple years ago. After unsuccessfully trying to sway the powers that be to pick one site (say Yahoo!) and lift the restricted access for the time of tournament, and have everyone enter brackets there (legally, I guess it looks bad that employees are "gambling" on company time, should the Board of Education see this...but it's OK that we do it in general. Logic not a strong point here!), I built brackets in Excel, and they all tie back to a master score sheet. Initial setup is a little tedious, but scoring is a breeze.

Since yesterday, I've beat my head against the wall multiple times. The instructions are pretty simple: Save the file as FirstnameLastname#ofentry. Email back to me.

I've received so far this morning:

One person who completed the brackets in Excel...then took a screen shot and pasted the screen shot into his return email.

Another who sent 5 separate emails, changing the subject line of the email in the format described above, but named each file "Brackets" (sure, I can rename, but not the point!)

And a 3rd who filled out 4 brackets...then for some reason moving the file into a new workbook, away from the hidden tabs that calculate scoring in the original file. But he named them right!

tl;dr I WORK WITH IDIOTS

They should all be eliminated for failing to meet entry requirements.

sterlingice · 03-18-2014, 10:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

They should all be eliminated for failing to meet entry requirements.

And the entry fee is forfeit

SI

Suburban Rhythm · 03-18-2014, 11:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

They should all be eliminated for failing to meet entry requirements.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sterlingice

And the entry fee is forfeit

SI

No fee...though they give out giftcards to the top finishers.

And I'm with DT. I used to ask people if they needed help. Now? I mail back to them and/or the admin they filter all them through, saying it's incorrect. If they don't resubmit, less work for me.

Just mindblowing someone can screenshot the file and paste into a message, but not capable of saving a file and attaching?

Matthean · 03-19-2014, 09:08 AM

Reitman steps down as director for the Ghostbusters reboot but stays on as producer. Would be nice if it just saw its eventual death and people moved on.

stevew · 03-19-2014, 03:00 PM

Moving hot dogs back to the "do not consume" list. Feel like I wanna die today.

Honolulu_Blue · 03-19-2014, 03:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stevew

Moving hot dogs back to the "do not consume" list. Feel like I wanna die today.

I rarely eat hot dogs. When I was like six or seven I once threw up after eating a couple of hot dogs and ever since then I very rarely eat them. There is a taco place nearby, however, that also serves some hot dogs. Every time I've gone there I've stuck with the tacos, but the last time I was there they had a chorizo mac and cheese hot dog. It sounded too good to pass up, so I ordered one. I was right. It was delicious. I crave one now. This place is an exception to my general anti-hot dog rule.

Matthean · 03-19-2014, 04:27 PM

Every time I have a hot dog I remind myself I should have gotten a brat instead.

stevew · 03-19-2014, 04:52 PM

I got brats from the store and one of them had a bunch of really black hogs hair in it. Haven't eaten more than 1 or 2 since.

sterlingice · 03-19-2014, 07:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stevew

I got brats from the store and one of them had a bunch of really black hogs hair in it. Haven't eaten more than 1 or 2 since.

Don't worry. That wasn't hog's hair

SI

Lathum · 03-19-2014, 08:21 PM

about what year did free refills become commonplace?

stevew · 03-19-2014, 09:03 PM

I Wanna say about 87. At one point we were stuck with "the pitcher" at pizza hut and then they switched to the bottomless glass

Lathum · 03-19-2014, 09:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stevew

I Wanna say about 87. At one point we were stuck with "the pitcher" at pizza hut and then they switched to the bottomless glass

I was thinking around the same

Logan · 03-20-2014, 07:35 AM

When you have a place that doesn't offer free refills, it really makes you notice.

DaddyTorgo · 03-20-2014, 10:30 PM

Jem & The Holograms To Star In Presumably Outrageous Live-Action Movie

Quote:

Looks like the "movies based on '80s toylines" genre is no longer just a boys club. Former doll and cartoon franchise Jem and the Holograms will rock their own live-action movie, to be directed by G.I. Joe 2's Jon M. Chu.

stevew · 03-20-2014, 11:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Logan

When you have a place that doesn't offer free refills, it really makes you notice.

Venn overlap of "don't offer free refills" and "cash only please or use our ATM" is huge.

chadritt · 03-20-2014, 11:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

Jem & The Holograms To Star In Presumably Outrageous Live-Action Movie

AKA the Justin Bieber film director and its also produced by Biebers manager...I dont know if its relevant but it doesnt make me smile.

DaddyTorgo · 03-20-2014, 11:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chadritt

AKA the Justin Bieber film director and its also produced by Biebers manager...I dont know if its relevant but it doesnt make me smile.

LOL aaak.

There must be a part for Bieber in it somehow then. LOL.

stevew · 03-21-2014, 12:02 AM

I keep thinking that Bieber should be out of it by now yet he keeps banking 50+mil a year. It would be hard for him to go bankrupt at this point. With the caveat that I'm assuming he uses better financial dudes than MC Hammer did.

Matthean · 03-21-2014, 12:42 AM

It gets better.

JonInMiddleGA · 03-21-2014, 12:17 PM

Did ya miss me?

Draft Dodger · 03-21-2014, 02:13 PM

in keeping with the thread theme, I sometimes wonder if I'm supposed to answer rhetorical questions

Suburban Rhythm · 03-22-2014, 11:10 PM

Rant

I guess I kind of knew this already, and have heard all the horror stories, but lots of sports parents/organizations are total douchebags.

Played our first two games of a mite (8 & under) hockey tournament. 13 kids, all first year kids, but one, in his 2nd year. And he's 6 (coach's son, started at 5). So we're playing White Minor level.

In order, there is Red Major, Red Minor, White Major, White Minor, Blue (no designation, these are typically 5 year olds).

Game one, before we even started, one of the mom's from the other team told anyone who'd listen "they're all 6!!". Awkward you'd announce it to nobody in particular. There was not one kid smaller than our biggest kids.

Game 2, neighboring district, including the son of somebody I went to HS with. I know this kid's an 8 year old, third year of organized hockey.

Sure, by the rules, they all qualify for any mite team, they're within age parameters. But it's just so skeevy.

Maybe it's the bitterness talking, but I'd like to think I'd be embarrassed as a parent to place my kid on a team he surpassed the level of play a year+.

JonInMiddleGA · 03-23-2014, 10:17 AM

I'm not sure I recall anything quite like the past 48 hours or so. 3 former school/classmates (two from my graduating class of a hundred or so, one from the class just ahead of us) all died abruptly. And within an hour or so of hearing of the third death, we got a call about the wife of a local scoutmaster who passed suddenly as well.

It's sobering, perhaps the most I've felt my own mortality since discovering it in my late teens. When you're about to turn 47 you rationally know that there's a very good chance there's less in front of you than behind you but a sequence like this really puts the spotlight on that fact.

OldGiants · 03-23-2014, 10:32 AM

Sunday morning, you want to see a late score, turn on ESPN, see the score come on the bottom, think "YES!!"

And then you see NCAAW in the left-hand corner and no longer care.

DaddyTorgo · 03-23-2014, 11:41 AM

I'm guessing there's a thread for this, but I'm irritated and cranky in general today and don't want to take the time to search for it.

/rant on/

I really really hate iOS7. They had a perfectly good UIX and they went and redesigned the whole thing. So what, now instead of dragging left to search for apps from my homescreen i have to get the right "pulldown" from the top. Because if I get the wrong one then I get the fullscreen pulldown. And the bar at the bottom that gets pulled up seems so much more intrusive and less obvious .

Just some freaking arrogance to go and completely redesign your UIX. Makes me sorry I finally I upgraded my iPad to iOS7 frankly, and is a key driver in ensuring I won't be getting an iPhone or another iPad. I just find it literally...painful to use. It's probably resulted in a 40-50% decrease in the amount of use my iPad gets.

Fucking Apple

//rant offf//

irritated for plenty of other reasons today anyways.

Lathum · 03-25-2014, 11:56 AM

need a favor. Can someone try opening this website

NetSpend Prepaid Debit Cards, Visa Prepaid Cards, Prepaid MasterCards

I am in London and just keep getting an error this webpage is not available.

trying to see if it is the sight or some issue with being in the UK.

saldana · 03-25-2014, 12:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lathum

need a favor. Can someone try opening this website

NetSpend Prepaid Debit Cards, Visa Prepaid Cards, Prepaid MasterCards

I am in London and just keep getting an error this webpage is not available.

trying to see if it is the sight or some issue with being in the UK.

it opens for me

03-14-2014, 11:58 PM	#12804
JediKooter Coordinator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: San Diego via Sausalito via San Jose via San Diego	I know the owner of an Outback Steakhouse and would call up one of the managers if I knew he was working there that day and call in an order for a BLT. It would be ready for me when I got there and it was great seeing everyone's face when I sat at the bar and no more than two minutes I'd have my BLT. Good times....good times. __________________ I'm no longer a Chargers fan, they are dead to me Coming this summer to a movie theater near you: The Adventures of Jedikooter: Part 4

03-15-2014, 11:41 AM	#12806
B & B College Benchwarmer Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: A sports era long ago when everything didnt require a Nike logo	Were you wearing the hat , CW? Cause, that's like fifty bucks right off the top of the bill for that. __________________ Nobody cares about Kyle Orton because he's black. -PT

03-15-2014, 12:57 PM	#12808
Chief Rum Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Where Hip Hop lives	So I waited an hour and a half online this morning to get Comic Con tickets and wasn't selected to buy in their randomized order, which sucks. I am okay with it in the scheme of things because I know the tickets are limited, and the demand is high. But what is frustrating is that they give you no indication after they randomize the order on whether you even have a legit shot to get tickets. It would seem to be a reasonably easy thing to do. If you have, let's say, 10000 tickets available and this such and such person is the 15000th in line, well, you can more or less let them know they're not likely to get tickets and they can choose whether to still stay on or not at that point. __________________ . . I would rather be wrong...Than live in the shadows of your song...My mind is open wide...And now I'm ready to start...You're not sure...You open the door...And step out into the dark...Now I'm ready.

03-16-2014, 08:51 PM	#12815
CraigSca Pro Starter Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Not Delaware - hurray!	Kids are not good at buffets. __________________ She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! She loves you, yeah! how do you know? how do you know?

03-17-2014, 12:10 PM	#12819
cartman Death Herald Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas	I was up at my cousin's house this weekend, and his 7 year old son asked me what SXSW was. I told him it meant "South by Southwest" and it is a big music, movie, and tech festival. He asked what bands were there, and I told him it is mostly bands people never have heard of that are trying to become famous, but also sometimes famous people play. I told him that Justin Bieber played last week. His reply was awesome: "How? I thought he was in jail." __________________ Thinkin' of a master plan 'Cuz ain't nuthin' but sweat inside my hand So I dig into my pocket, all my money is spent So I dig deeper but still comin' up with lint

03-14-2014, 09:22 PM	#12803
stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	Try asking for regular mayo. Then follow it up by asking for low fat mayo as well.

03-15-2014, 11:25 AM	#12805
Coffee Warlord Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Colorado Springs	Rarely a good thing when you spend 2 hours at the auto shop waiting for them to tell you you've got a $820 repair job.

03-16-2014, 12:43 PM	#12810
stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	So, when does Aaron Paul get a new TV series. All that promo, and need for speed opens to 18m

03-16-2014, 05:56 PM	#12811
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	The chick in the AT&T commercials is the very definition of "perfect combination of sexy and cute".

03-16-2014, 08:01 PM	#12813
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	That's the one.

03-17-2014, 07:12 AM	#12817
Blackadar Retired Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Fantasyland	I understand weather delays, but this is getting absurd. 6:30 AM flight delayed to 8:30. Then to 10:30. Then to 10:45. Then to 12:15. Just cancel the fucking thing already. By the time they cancel this, all the other flights to DC tomorrow will be full and I won't be able to get there at all. Oh...maybe that's a good thing.

03-17-2014, 04:59 PM	#12820
Izulde Head Coach Join Date: Sep 2004	Police: Two Charged After Caught in Sex Act Near School - Racine County Eye - Racine County Eye I laughed so hard I almost cried at this story. Hilarious on so many levels, but maybe that's just me. __________________ 2006 Golden Scribe Nominee 2006 Golden Scribe Winner Best Non-Sport Dynasty: May Our Reign Be Green and Golden (CK Dynasty) Rookie Writer of the Year Dynasty of the Year: May Our Reign Be Green and Golden (CK Dynasty) Last edited by Izulde : 03-17-2014 at 04:59 PM.

03-17-2014, 05:27 PM	#12821
molson General Manager Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Mountains	A spirited attempt to document all of the various shenanigans the police were called for during St. Patrick's day weekend in Chicago: Crime In Wrigleyville + Boystown: IT AIN'T EASY BEING GREEN: St. Pat's Festivities Rack Up 21 Arrests, 17 Ambulance Runs In Wrigleyville

03-18-2014, 08:13 AM	#12822
Suburban Rhythm Pro Starter Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Pittsburgh	I bet if I went back a year, and two years, I'd find similar posts I made like this one... My company (a charter school) founder is a huge college basketball fan. Every year, we run a huge brackets pool, people receiving up to 5 brackets, based on tenure. Back in the day, before I got here, the CFO used to manually calculate everything (this alone should tell you about priorities, he did nothing for the balance of March and early April but this). I came along a couple years ago. After unsuccessfully trying to sway the powers that be to pick one site (say Yahoo!) and lift the restricted access for the time of tournament, and have everyone enter brackets there (legally, I guess it looks bad that employees are "gambling" on company time, should the Board of Education see this...but it's OK that we do it in general. Logic not a strong point here!), I built brackets in Excel, and they all tie back to a master score sheet. Initial setup is a little tedious, but scoring is a breeze. Since yesterday, I've beat my head against the wall multiple times. The instructions are pretty simple: Save the file as FirstnameLastname#ofentry. Email back to me. I've received so far this morning: One person who completed the brackets in Excel...then took a screen shot and pasted the screen shot into his return email. Another who sent 5 separate emails, changing the subject line of the email in the format described above, but named each file "Brackets" (sure, I can rename, but not the point!) And a 3rd who filled out 4 brackets...then for some reason moving the file into a new workbook, away from the hidden tabs that calculate scoring in the original file. But he named them right! tl;dr I WORK WITH IDIOTS __________________ "Do you guys play fast tempos with odd time signatures?" "Yeah" "Cool!!"

03-18-2014, 09:06 AM	#12823
albionmoonlight Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: North Carolina	I saw a guy this morning wearing an old school Eagles jacket who looked almost exactly like Randall Cunningham. I know that it wasn't actually him because he was under 6' tall, and he was working maintenance in a federal building in Raleigh, NC. But I had questions. Do you know you look like Randall Cunningham? Is that why you have the jacket? Is that why you became an Eagles fan in the first place?

03-19-2014, 09:08 AM	#12827
Matthean Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Aug 2008	Reitman steps down as director for the Ghostbusters reboot but stays on as producer. Would be nice if it just saw its eventual death and people moved on. __________________ Board games: Bringing people back to the original social network, the table.

03-19-2014, 03:00 PM	#12828
stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	Moving hot dogs back to the "do not consume" list. Feel like I wanna die today.

03-19-2014, 04:27 PM	#12830
Matthean Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Aug 2008	Every time I have a hot dog I remind myself I should have gotten a brat instead. __________________ Board games: Bringing people back to the original social network, the table.

03-19-2014, 04:52 PM	#12831
stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	I got brats from the store and one of them had a bunch of really black hogs hair in it. Haven't eaten more than 1 or 2 since.

03-19-2014, 08:21 PM	#12833
Lathum Favored Bitch #1 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: homeless in NJ	about what year did free refills become commonplace?

03-19-2014, 09:03 PM	#12834
stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	I Wanna say about 87. At one point we were stuck with "the pitcher" at pizza hut and then they switched to the bottomless glass

03-20-2014, 07:35 AM	#12836
Logan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: NYC	When you have a place that doesn't offer free refills, it really makes you notice.

03-21-2014, 12:02 AM	#12841
stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	I keep thinking that Bieber should be out of it by now yet he keeps banking 50+mil a year. It would be hard for him to go bankrupt at this point. With the caveat that I'm assuming he uses better financial dudes than MC Hammer did.

03-21-2014, 12:42 AM	#12842
Matthean Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Aug 2008	It gets better. __________________ Board games: Bringing people back to the original social network, the table.

03-21-2014, 12:17 PM	#12843
JonInMiddleGA Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA	Did ya miss me? __________________ "I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis

03-21-2014, 02:13 PM	#12844
Draft Dodger Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Keene, NH	in keeping with the thread theme, I sometimes wonder if I'm supposed to answer rhetorical questions __________________ Mile High Hockey

03-22-2014, 11:10 PM	#12845
Suburban Rhythm Pro Starter Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Pittsburgh	Rant I guess I kind of knew this already, and have heard all the horror stories, but lots of sports parents/organizations are total douchebags. Played our first two games of a mite (8 & under) hockey tournament. 13 kids, all first year kids, but one, in his 2nd year. And he's 6 (coach's son, started at 5). So we're playing White Minor level. In order, there is Red Major, Red Minor, White Major, White Minor, Blue (no designation, these are typically 5 year olds). Game one, before we even started, one of the mom's from the other team told anyone who'd listen "they're all 6!!". Awkward you'd announce it to nobody in particular. There was not one kid smaller than our biggest kids. Game 2, neighboring district, including the son of somebody I went to HS with. I know this kid's an 8 year old, third year of organized hockey. Sure, by the rules, they all qualify for any mite team, they're within age parameters. But it's just so skeevy. Maybe it's the bitterness talking, but I'd like to think I'd be embarrassed as a parent to place my kid on a team he surpassed the level of play a year+. __________________ "Do you guys play fast tempos with odd time signatures?" "Yeah" "Cool!!"

03-23-2014, 10:17 AM	#12846
JonInMiddleGA Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA	I'm not sure I recall anything quite like the past 48 hours or so. 3 former school/classmates (two from my graduating class of a hundred or so, one from the class just ahead of us) all died abruptly. And within an hour or so of hearing of the third death, we got a call about the wife of a local scoutmaster who passed suddenly as well. It's sobering, perhaps the most I've felt my own mortality since discovering it in my late teens. When you're about to turn 47 you rationally know that there's a very good chance there's less in front of you than behind you but a sequence like this really puts the spotlight on that fact. __________________ "I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis

03-23-2014, 10:32 AM	#12847
OldGiants College Benchwarmer Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Location, Location, Location	Sunday morning, you want to see a late score, turn on ESPN, see the score come on the bottom, think "YES!!" And then you see NCAAW in the left-hand corner and no longer care. __________________ "The case of Great Britain is the most astonishing in this matter of inequality of rights in world soccer championships. The way they explained it to me as a child, God is one but He's three: Father, Son and Holy Ghost. I could never understand it. And I still don't understand why Great Britain is one but she's four....while [others] continue to be no more than one despite the diverse nationalities that make them up." Eduardo Galeano, SOCCER IN SUN AND SHADOW

03-23-2014, 11:41 AM	#12848
DaddyTorgo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Massachusetts	I'm guessing there's a thread for this, but I'm irritated and cranky in general today and don't want to take the time to search for it. /rant on/ I really really hate iOS7. They had a perfectly good UIX and they went and redesigned the whole thing. So what, now instead of dragging left to search for apps from my homescreen i have to get the right "pulldown" from the top. Because if I get the wrong one then I get the fullscreen pulldown. And the bar at the bottom that gets pulled up seems so much more intrusive and less obvious . Just some freaking arrogance to go and completely redesign your UIX. Makes me sorry I finally I upgraded my iPad to iOS7 frankly, and is a key driver in ensuring I won't be getting an iPhone or another iPad. I just find it literally...painful to use. It's probably resulted in a 40-50% decrease in the amount of use my iPad gets. Fucking Apple //rant offf// irritated for plenty of other reasons today anyways.

03-25-2014, 11:56 AM	#12849
Lathum Favored Bitch #1 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: homeless in NJ	need a favor. Can someone try opening this website NetSpend Prepaid Debit Cards, Visa Prepaid Cards, Prepaid MasterCards I am in London and just keep getting an error this webpage is not available. trying to see if it is the sight or some issue with being in the UK.

Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 43 (0 members and 43 guests)