08-08-2014, 09:03 PM | #13301 |
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: the yo'
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I really think that Blue Valentine could push someone over the edge.
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08-08-2014, 09:24 PM | #13302 | |
Banned
Join Date: Oct 2003
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Sometimes when I try to go to YouTube on a different computer without autocomplete, I end up Googling "you" and being reminded that "You (Time Person of the Year)" is a pretty funny Wikipedia page. |
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08-09-2014, 02:31 PM | #13303 |
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: MA
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The World War Z movie is stupid as fuck.
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08-09-2014, 02:37 PM | #13304 |
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2013
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"I am God's prophet, and I need an attorney" |
08-09-2014, 04:42 PM | #13305 |
Go Reds
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Location: Bloodbuzz Ohio
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08-11-2014, 10:41 AM | #13306 |
General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: The Mountains
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I hope both that the ice bucket challenge raises a lot of money for ALS research, and that it will be over soon.
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08-11-2014, 10:46 AM | #13307 |
Favored Bitch #1
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Location: homeless in NJ
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08-11-2014, 11:03 AM | #13308 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: NYC
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Saw something that said $170K in 3 weeks.
I originally thought it was monumentally stupid, but realized that's because the first exposure I had to it was a couple who phrased it poorly, that they were doing it to "get out of" donating. Glad most are putting up money as well. |
08-11-2014, 11:58 AM | #13309 |
General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: The Mountains
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I bet Obama is thrilled that Ethel Kennedy nominated him for the challenge.
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08-11-2014, 12:48 PM | #13310 |
Head Coach
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Location: NYC
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08-11-2014, 03:27 PM | #13311 |
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Where Hip Hop lives
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I bought a pack of Jelly Belly Cold Stone Ice Cream Parlor flavors for an afternoon pack. The flavors provided:
Chocolate Devotion Birthday Cake Remix Our Strawberry Blonde Apple Pie A La Cold Stone Mint Mint Chocolate CHocolate Chip While I think I will enjoy these (I like sweets), the explosion of sugar in the air when I opened the bag is almost overhwelming. See you on the other side.
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08-11-2014, 03:57 PM | #13312 | |
Coordinator
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Not too far away
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If the Guardian isn't your cup of tea, I can produce similar articles from other publications. |
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08-11-2014, 04:42 PM | #13313 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Where Hip Hop lives
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What do you think I am trying to say? lol... I am just saying it's very sweet if I can smell the flavors just wafting over everything. I finished said packet, BTW, and it was indeed quite sweet (probably too sweet).
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. . 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. |
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08-11-2014, 04:58 PM | #13314 | |
General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: The Mountains
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I bet social networking has been very good for charitable giving generally. In increases awareness obviously, but then there's this social pressure when friends and family ask for things. This one is pretty brilliant - call someone out publicly to dump water on their heads, OR they can get out of that just by contributing $10. What kind of monster would do neither? So there are some weird uncomfortable social dynamics there, with how public everything is, but nothing life-shattering and the impact on good causes has been great, so it's a net win, I guess. Last edited by molson : 08-11-2014 at 04:59 PM. |
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08-12-2014, 09:43 AM | #13315 |
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Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Watching various people help their kids move in at college today on social media.
2 years from now I'm gonna be posting those same pics from somewhere. And that's definitely the closest it's ever felt to me.
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08-12-2014, 10:35 PM | #13316 | |
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Raleigh, NC
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My wife yesterday mentioned something that gave me pause: she's got a friend who has I think like 8 kids or something and the oldest is about to start college either this or next year. She said that they will be spending the next 23 years moving someone into or out of college. Yeah, I'm kind of glad I have just three girls and my oldest and middle ones will be the only ones overlapping for a couple of years and 5 1/2 years straight. We then get a break of about 4 years before the final one (barring anything unexpected) goes through on her own. |
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08-12-2014, 11:40 PM | #13317 | |
Hockey Boy
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Royal Oak, MI
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Wait. What? I thought your son was like 8 or 9 tops? Fuck. We've been around here a long time.
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08-12-2014, 11:47 PM | #13318 | |
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Turned 16 back in April. His junior yr of HS starts Monday.
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08-13-2014, 12:06 AM | #13319 |
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Not something I noticed the first time but in the hotel "future room" he plays the song You and Me. Then near the end after he meets her parents you hear it again in her bedroom and realize it was "their song". The story behind that song is great cause it was some lost demo and they had a hard time confirming which Motown era people performed on it. Last edited by stevew : 08-13-2014 at 12:08 AM. |
08-13-2014, 11:59 AM | #13320 |
College Prospect
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: TX
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I finally have a failproof plan to spend time with pumpy, show up at his house in a horse costume and offer to play horseshoes.
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08-13-2014, 12:02 PM | #13321 | |
Death Herald
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Be careful. He doesn't always remove the horseshoes before throwing them.
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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 |
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08-13-2014, 06:45 PM | #13322 |
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Aug 2008
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08-14-2014, 07:12 PM | #13323 |
Death Herald
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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I thought ads and commercials were supposed to get you interested in buying their product. Based on these latest commercials, I have no interest at all in finding out more about Liberty Mutual insurance.
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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 |
08-14-2014, 07:17 PM | #13324 | |
Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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I work for a competitor and we got a memo today regarding the fine print in their "new car replacement" coverage. It only applies if the totaled car is new from the current model year, less than 15,000 miles, and you are the original owner. Not all that helpful. |
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08-14-2014, 07:19 PM | #13325 |
College Starter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Midwest
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So here's my vent about my wife's situation at her school:
Over the summer, the school turns off the air and the end of the summer was particularly humid. Mold has been an occasional problem at my wife's school, but this summer mold was visibly growing over her carpet. She said something about it, and maintenance's response was to vacuum it up. Naturally it came back. Second response was to clean the carpets then turn my wife's classroom's AC to 65. Today, the board's minutes are released and my wife furiously calls me because a board member asked about the report of mold at her school. Maintenance blamed a teacher that turned the AC off (wrong) and the matter has been resolved. I went into my wife's room after school and there's a very strong musty odor and the room feels like an autumn evening in the Yukon. We've been warned about the "chain of command" when it comes to complaints, but I'm very close to make an anonymous call to the department of health. This has happened to several other classrooms as well. |
08-14-2014, 07:21 PM | #13326 | |
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Location: Massachusetts
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Mold can be dangerous (as you no doubt know). You should absolutely make that anonymous call. |
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08-14-2014, 09:13 PM | #13327 |
Pro Starter
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Madison, WI
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Doesn't it just make sense to keep the air on at a high temp, like 80, specifically to prevent that kind of crap?
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08-14-2014, 10:36 PM | #13328 |
College Starter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Midwest
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The trouble is the schools (and this is district wide as the temp in my own room varies wildly) swing between frigid and boiling temps. They turn the air off completely on the weekends to save money. It hasn't help that there's construction going on at my wife's school that's added dust to the mix.
And, no, the mold speeds worst when the temp is high in the room. In the end, it's the result of years of cutting costs in construction that's led to moisture coming in and cheap policies that allow mold to have the perfect breeding ground (warm, damp, and mostly dark rooms due to safety glass, windows that only open a few inches, and a lack of windows in general. The Mrs. is miserable and has bad allergies as it is. I think the phone call happens tomorrow. |
08-15-2014, 07:33 AM | #13329 |
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Has school started already? If so, then you have the cover of it possibly being a parent who called. If not, I'd wait the couple of days until school starts.
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08-15-2014, 08:12 AM | #13330 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Not too far away
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Does the Health Department have any jurisdiction in your state? In Illinois neither Health (except for limited food prep issues) or Fire Inspectors have any jurisdiction in public schools.
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08-16-2014, 07:28 AM | #13331 |
"Dutch"
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Tampa, FL
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Has the US scrapped it's Canadian Invasion Plan???
No Plans for Canada Invasion, Pentagon Leader Says | Five by Five |
08-16-2014, 07:32 AM | #13332 |
"Dutch"
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08-16-2014, 08:56 AM | #13333 | |
College Starter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Midwest
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Yes, there's a health code that states mold must be dealt with in schools within a 48 hour period of notification and with special documentation that follows. I was going to call yesterday but someone must have beaten me to it (I think a school board member got wind of it). My wife said they are doing tests in the building for mold now. Edit: Yes, school has started!!! My wife currently has kids in her class wearing jackets. Guessing it's possible a parent might have raised the alarm. Last edited by ColtCrazy : 08-16-2014 at 08:56 AM. |
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08-16-2014, 11:57 AM | #13334 |
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Watching bits & pieces of sorority rush drama from a safe distance & all I keep thinking is ... thank God I had a boy.
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08-16-2014, 01:41 PM | #13335 |
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08-16-2014, 01:44 PM | #13336 |
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"I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis |
08-16-2014, 09:14 PM | #13337 |
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Pre season football sucks.
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08-16-2014, 09:18 PM | #13338 | |
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God damn, I love formal rush.
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08-16-2014, 09:21 PM | #13339 |
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One of the better looking blondes that appears repeatedly (according to my wife) in this photo gallery just graduated from my son's school. I'll just say her looks may far exceed her personality (per my son) and leave it at that.
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08-17-2014, 06:29 AM | #13340 |
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The rink seems colder at 7am practice than 7pm practice.
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08-17-2014, 10:21 AM | #13341 | |
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As a longtime friend has said since high school "I've still never found the hole in a personality." |
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08-17-2014, 10:23 AM | #13342 | |
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There's the hot/crazy scale to consider though.
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08-17-2014, 10:57 AM | #13343 |
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08-17-2014, 10:58 AM | #13344 | |
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If you ain't never met one too crazy to screw, well, there were some people I wish I coulda introduced you to
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08-17-2014, 11:26 AM | #13345 |
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Touche....though it sounds fun.
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08-18-2014, 10:58 AM | #13346 | |
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Location: Phoenix, AZ by way of Belleville, IL
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I would have prefer the challenge be to dump a bucket of ice (or don't) and then donate atleast $25 to a charity of your choosing and put a paragraph on facebook about that charity and why it's important to you. That's a challenge I would participate in and it would be interesting to see which charities are important to people and why. Instead, I see 15 videos of people dumping ice on themselves and calling others out and I bet *maybe* 5 know what ALS is and maybe half ended up donating any money. I think this says it the best: |
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08-18-2014, 11:03 AM | #13347 | |
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Location: Massachusetts
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I tend to agree with you. |
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08-18-2014, 11:18 AM | #13348 | |
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Location: homeless in NJ
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I don't get the faux outrage or why anyone has any gripe about this. Half is better than zero and if half the people who never heard of Als learn something about it then awareness is greatly increased. |
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08-18-2014, 11:21 AM | #13349 |
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I've changed my mind on being a little annoyed of the whole thing. All these millions to a good cause trump my minor annoyance. If giving people an opportunity to draw attention to themselves on facebook = millions to a good cause, let's do this more often.
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08-18-2014, 11:45 AM | #13350 |
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Question for Arles
Do you ever water your grass? Wash your car? Use a dishwasher or clothes washer? Shave with the faucet running? Take a nice long shower after a workout? If so then you are a hypocrite. |
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