09-21-2016, 08:04 AM | #16251 |
"Dutch"
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Tampa, FL
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Screw it, I'm just gonna write e-mails, "The conference call will be at 9am, my time...but be aware I'm boarding a flight from Tampa to Dallas so I might be late...or early....not sure."
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09-21-2016, 08:21 AM | #16252 |
Resident Alien
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Hi. My name is Kodos, and I am a nitwit.
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09-21-2016, 10:58 AM | #16253 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Where Hip Hop lives
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I can't wait until the Designated Survivor airs tonight. I am hoping at that point the endless promoting will finally end.
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09-21-2016, 01:19 PM | #16254 |
Pro Starter
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Location: Madison, WI
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09-21-2016, 01:38 PM | #16255 |
Norm!!!
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Manassas, VA
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My wife wanted to watch this show. I told her if it had been anybody other than Keifer Sutherland as the lead I would have watched with her. I've met the guy. He's a tool. I can't see past that.
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09-21-2016, 02:07 PM | #16256 |
Resident Alien
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Do you know how many times that man has saved us?
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09-22-2016, 03:02 PM | #16257 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Nov 2003
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This is nuts and shows how far we have to go as a country and society around mental illness: Ex-Texas A&M standout Thomas Johnson accused of killing a man in Dallas
Also this might seem heartless, but I'd charge the mother in this case. You let your mentally disturbed kid leave at 9:30 at night with a large knife and just go "oh well". That along with the fact that she seems to have blocked some of the previous attempts to get him help blows my mind |
09-22-2016, 10:30 PM | #16258 |
Go Reds
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Bloodbuzz Ohio
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You know you live by a sketchy gas station when you have to size everyone up when you walk in
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09-23-2016, 02:10 AM | #16259 |
Hall Of Famer
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Location: the yo'
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09-23-2016, 04:02 AM | #16260 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
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Does anyone remember when you could pay after you filled up with gas?
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09-23-2016, 06:34 AM | #16261 | |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: the yo'
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This was still a possibility when I worked at a gas station 7 or so years ago. Shortly after I left that job they finally switched to prepay or post pay(if you use a card linked to your ID). I remember us getting a few drive offs here and there. I guess with the margin on gas being so low, one drive off of 10 gallons took you hundreds of gallons just to pay for. We were basically just selling food. |
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09-23-2016, 06:44 AM | #16262 | |
College Starter
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Earth, the semi-final frontier.
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Sheetz is beginning to open locations that don't sell gas, just food. A couple of Sheetz I've seen recently even have a drive-thru for their food. |
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09-23-2016, 07:46 AM | #16263 | |
Morgado's Favorite Forum Fascist
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Greensboro, NC
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My favorite agent b.s. recently has been the narrative that "ZOMFG YOU CAN'T TRUST ZILLOW TO SEE WHAT IS ON THE MARKET AND THE RIGHT PRICE!!! ZILLOW DOES NOT UPDATE IN A TIMELY FASHION!!! ONLY MLS HAS THAT INFORMATION!!!!111111" I have my house in Charleston listed as a "favorite" on Zillow with immediate notification of changes. I texted my agent this morning to talk about a potential price drop. At 8:32am, she texted that she agreed (another house with identical floor and age dropped last night, and I thought all along that we've been a little too high). At 8:37am, I received my email notification that the price had dropped. "Price not updated," my big black butt.
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09-23-2016, 12:32 PM | #16264 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Just when I figure campaign season has cornered the market on stupidity, along comes Northern Michigan University and this.
A School Is Threatening to Punish Its Suicidal Students -- Science of Us edit to add: the headline sort of sucks. Basically the story is that students have been threatened in writing with disciplinary action if they discuss thoughts of self-harm with other students.
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09-23-2016, 03:59 PM | #16265 |
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Here
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Leaving for Thailand on 11/5, land there on 11/6. Just found out my passport can't expire within 6 months of getting there. My passport expires 5/5/17. 1 day less.
I think I found out in time, as expedited service is 3 weeks, and I have 44 days, but this is really too close for my comfort. Tempted just to take a day off and drive to the office in Atlanta just to make sure I get it done in time. |
09-23-2016, 11:25 PM | #16266 |
College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: SF
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Overheard customer at FedEx getting a quote for her shoebox size package...$7000! No idea where it was going or what it was, but the employee said, yes we can do it,but we would have to use a FedEx charter jet. Didn't know that even existed.
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09-24-2016, 09:41 AM | #16267 | |
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Backwoods, SC
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Still can around here at select stations. Hell the station by my house, I fill up and wave at them then come in on Friday and pay the bill (for me and my wife and my son) Its partly why I dont move... |
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09-24-2016, 10:27 AM | #16268 |
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2013
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So my local CBS station is going to air an infomercial titled, "Why Ise a Pressure Cooker?"
Is this a cooking show or a jihadist instruction manual?
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09-24-2016, 06:40 PM | #16269 | |
lolzcat
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Annapolis, Md
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Overhearing that conversation and leaving without learning more would pain me. |
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09-24-2016, 06:41 PM | #16270 |
lolzcat
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Annapolis, Md
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Guilty pleasure:
I think I would wait in line and pay box office prices to watch two straight hours of "celebrities reading mean tweets" |
09-24-2016, 07:37 PM | #16271 | |
"Dutch"
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Tampa, FL
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Ummmm...isn't that the key warning sign so you can help them? Weird. |
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09-25-2016, 09:25 AM | #16272 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Seven miles up
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Aviation is such a small world. A flight attendant, who I worked with at one of my previous companies, lost her boyfriend (who also worked there, but I never knew him, both are now together at a new airline), yesterday from West Nile Virus.
I looked up the stats, and only 5% of people infected ever show symptoms, less than 1% develop severe symptoms, and even less than that die. Her FB posts from the last couple of days are heart wrenching. They had kept it a secret so it was a huge shock to those of us that knew them. They live in the Dallas area, so you guys down there take care of yourselves.
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09-26-2016, 02:15 PM | #16273 |
General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: The Mountains
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I almost never complain to businesses about customer service stuff - 99% of the time everything goes fine, and if there's a fuck-up, it's usually unintentional and I'm happy to just move on. We all make mistakes.
But I am irrationally pissed off when supermarkets post expired sales tags. When the sales tag says one price and another one rings up because the small print on the tag says it expired 2 days before. I wonder how much money supermarkets bring in every day from people who don't notice this and buy based on a posted, but expired, sales price. So fuck you, my local Fred Meyer. I didn't want to sit around and wait for you to process a $2 refund, but I will check over there in an hour to see if you removed those tags, and I did bitch to corporate via email. |
09-26-2016, 06:03 PM | #16274 | |
Coordinator
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Keene, NH
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and I would totally be your date for that.
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09-28-2016, 03:50 PM | #16275 |
lolzcat
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Herndon, VA
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I'm not sure how many times I saw the "Ice Tea at a Lemonade stand" advert before I got the point. I knew who he was, but I didnt put 2 and 2 together. Was confused why these "idiots" would expect to get Ice Tea at a Lemonade Stand.
Then it hit me, a kind of dumb Eureka moment. |
09-28-2016, 04:23 PM | #16276 | |
Coordinator
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Keene, NH
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ditto for everyone in my family. although I now get the premise, I still don't understand why all the neighbors have a look on their face like you just discovered the dead bodies in their basement, but their secret is going to be safe because you will be the next victim
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09-28-2016, 04:38 PM | #16277 |
Death Herald
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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Bad day yesterday for my cousin and his wife. First their 10 year old suffered a fractured elbow at football practice, then about an hour later their 13 year old broke his thigh bone at a different practice. He got a rod and screws inserted last night, and went home today.
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09-28-2016, 04:46 PM | #16278 | |
College Starter
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Arlington, VA
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I love that commercial. Still cracks me up, even though I've seen it dozens of times by now. |
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09-28-2016, 04:48 PM | #16279 | |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Seven miles up
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+1
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09-28-2016, 06:59 PM | #16280 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Maryland
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+2 Ice-T looks like he is gonna play a great cranky old man.
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09-28-2016, 07:01 PM | #16281 |
Torchbearer
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Location: On Lake Harriet
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09-28-2016, 07:51 PM | #16282 |
"Dutch"
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Tampa, FL
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Awww, you guys!
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09-28-2016, 07:56 PM | #16283 | |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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I have to admit, a good dozen viewings of it for me so far & I still stop and chuckle each time.
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09-29-2016, 10:09 AM | #16284 |
College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: A sports era long ago when everything didnt require a Nike logo
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"delicious" shakes head
That's my fave part. Speaking of commercials... There is a Navy federal credit union commercial about a guy who has a sister that's a chef and makes tiny food. The hot blonde sister is a dead ringer for WTA superstar Eugenie Bouchard and I'm not 100% sure it isn't her. Hell, it could be her sister.
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09-29-2016, 10:48 AM | #16285 | |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Funny thing is that not only are people trying to figure out who she is (Google auto-completes searches about 'actress in Navy Federal ...") but it's at least the second time that NFCU has gotten the same heightened attention (no pun intended) from one of their ads. Before "Tiny Food" there was a spot called "Wedding" that caused the same response. Well done ad agency, well done indeed.
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09-30-2016, 12:22 PM | #16286 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Seven miles up
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It's been a whirlwind in my life the last few weeks. It's amazing that I even know what day it is. I'm sitting here and I swear that there's something I'm supposed to be doing, but I can't remember. I'm just happy that my boy isn't puking is brains out anymore. Short of the long was that he was diagnosed with epilepsy (having absence seizures) two weeks before his 13th birthday. He ended up having a bad reaction to the drug they started him on and hasn't been back to school in 2 weeks. He's off the drug now and trying to get caught up in school so he can maybe go back next week. Now we're back to the beginning with the drugs. I guess we'll start trying again at the end of October. I'm scared to try the next one. I have a feeling that this is going to be a long, long road for him.
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09-30-2016, 03:48 PM | #16287 |
Death Herald
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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The gas station from the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is opening up next weekend as a shrine to the movie, a BBQ restaurant, as well as renting cabins to stay overnight.
Texas Gas Station – The Gas Station
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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 |
10-02-2016, 10:44 PM | #16288 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Marked 23 years of being married today ... here tending the cats & stuff while my wife was in TN helping make the arrangements for her uncle's funeral.
I'm not a big holiday/events/etc kinda guy but I gotta admit, this one was kinda weird.
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10-05-2016, 11:37 PM | #16289 | |
Hokie, Hokie, Hokie, Hi
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Kennesaw, GA
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10-07-2016, 03:37 PM | #16290 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: NJ
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Joe Buck having a hair plug addiction sounds like just about the most Joe Buck thing that could be.
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10-08-2016, 12:21 AM | #16291 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Seven miles up
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I wonder if I should feel guilty that someone passed away before I confirmed their friend status on Facebook? I just sort of left it hanging there. What kind of Johnny-come-lately would I be now?
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10-08-2016, 01:37 AM | #16292 |
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Location: the yo'
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10-08-2016, 10:10 AM | #16293 | |
Head Coach
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Maryland
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I had one of these - a close friend of my Aunt who was also close to my cousin but I never had much affection for (and my dad rather disliked). She has been in friend limbo for ages. A few weeks ago my cousin reposted a memory talking about her death - from four years ago. She's still in limbo.
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10-08-2016, 10:33 AM | #16294 |
lolzcat
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Location: Annapolis, Md
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10-09-2016, 01:49 PM | #16295 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: NJ
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I don't know why exactly, but the phrase "retired cam girl" cracks me the eff up.
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10-09-2016, 02:08 PM | #16296 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Concord, MA/UMass
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The new Aaron Rodgers/Clay Matthews AllState ad made me laugh.
"Did you get it?" |
10-10-2016, 06:22 PM | #16297 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Will someone ask all the people who want to hear Jimmy Eat World and Five Finger Death Punch on the same radio station to gather up, I'd like to meet them.
Just have them wait over there in that old phone booth, I'm sure that'll be plenty of room. (Yes, songs from both appear in the this week's absurdly compiled Active Rock airplay chart)
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10-11-2016, 07:56 PM | #16298 | |
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2013
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Tim Tebow helps save fan having seizure in 'miracle'
This guy hits a homerun in his first at bat and now he's healing the sick. He truly is the messiah. Quote:
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10-13-2016, 01:37 PM | #16299 |
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"Random thoughts" seems as good a place as any for this, though on a more serious note than usual. Indulge me.
One of my best friends from my teens mentioned on Facebook that today marked the 8th anniversary of his dad's death. The third member of our main trio from that era commented about how "us snotty nosed kids always knew he cared about us". I can't quite seem to shake how perfectly he summed up the relationship we had with the man. His house was where we congregated, our jumping off point for most weekend adventures, not to mention our "don't wanna be at home but gotta be somewhere" weekday spot. Frequently exasperated by dealing with our 16-18 year old selves, we not only knew he cared about us but that he fiercely wanted to always see us do better, BE better. At whatever we did, at whatever we chose. I can't explain WHY this has struck me so sharply today but it has. What a great gift that was to have, to simply have that non-family member adult care about your path/choices/outcomes. We knew he cared, you couldn't miss it, but I think maybe the passage of a few decades makes what a blessing it was be a lot clearer.
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10-13-2016, 10:37 PM | #16300 |
Death Herald
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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Went to a fundraiser dinner tonight for a local charity that was held at the Salt Lick. I was just planning to go for the BBQ, but ended up winning an auction for a weekend house rental down on the Texas coast.
An older guy and his wife came and sat down near us for dinner and we started chatting. They'd lived in the area for nearly 30 years, and we started talking about fly fishing and bicycling, and he preferred like I do to ride the roads in my neighborhood due to nice wide roads and little traffic. Found out later that his sons founded the company that makes Yeti coolers.
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