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[NobodyHere]

I hate the car insurance rates in Michigan

[panerd]

When do you just give up on a pair of shoes? Bought an 11 sized Reebok because that's what I've always worn in reebok. They felt a little tight. I figured I would "break them in". Well kind of lost track of time and have worn them uncomfortably once or twice a week but haven't really broke in in a few months. Just give up and eat the $60? Think they would take them back?

[Critch]

cut off your toes.

[stevew]

Originally Posted by panerd

When do you just give up on a pair of shoes? Bought an 11 sized Reebok because that's what I've always worn in reebok. They felt a little tight. I figured I would "break them in". Well kind of lost track of time and have worn them uncomfortably once or twice a week but haven't really broke in in a few months. Just give up and eat the $60? Think they would take them back?

It depends on where you got them but with receipt, etc it's worth a shot. I had some Nike Free trainers that were murdering my Achilles and they let me exchange them. Worth a call

[CrescentMoonie]

It never ceases to amaze me that companies like Google and Microsoft make products that are intended to work together but rarely do. The only browser that doesn't work with my Creator's Update of Windows 10 is Edge. It's constantly in a state of disconnecting and reconnecting every few seconds. I've seen some workarounds, but isn't that Microsoft's job? Did nobody do anything that even slightly resemble user testing? How does something like that slip through so that there are pages of search results for fixes for each version of Windows 10 not working with Edge?

[Critch]

The brother of my great great grandfather emigrated to the US with his family in 1897, settling in upstate New York. I've had occasional emails from one of his descendants over the last couple of years, an older guy who's interested in the family genealogy. After the last round of emails, I was inspired to hit the Scottish People genealogy website (an official government run thing) and poke around for old details. I spoke to my sister about it by IM this morning. She's still lives near my hometown (just outside Glasgow, Scotland), and she mentioned she had an envelope full of family history documents that she's taken from our father's house when they were clearing it.

She very kindly crawled around her garage to find the envelope, then photographed the docs with her phone (what kind of philistine doesnt have a scanner?!) and sent them to me this afternoon.

One of the things in the collection is a photograph of an old relative, the brother of my great great great grandfather, Archibald Ritchie, born 1813 died 1879. I'd guess he looks about mid-40 to 50 in the pic, so probably taken roundabout 1860. And the thing is, he looks like me. I can see it, my sister mentioned it and my wife said "that's what you would look like if you were into historical reenactment". 150 years and 5 generations, but he still looks like a close relative. And that's pretty cool, if you ask me.

[thesloppy]

I just saw a dead body on my way to the grocery store. There was police tape, and a gurney and a sheet and a medical examiner's van and everything. It was on the sidewalk directly in front of a funeral home. Convenient.

Of course, I wandered right through the police tape, 'cuz when's the last time that yellow caution tape was actually real police tape?!? I thought someone was marking off their yardwork or whatever. TOOT TOOT, DIPSHIT COMING THROUGH! CLEAR THE WAY, OFFICER!

[Edward64]

So I guess Home - Sports News, Scores, Schedules, and Videos | FOX Sports is mostly video commentary?

[Easy Mac]

Originally Posted by Edward64

So I guess Home - Sports News, Scores, Schedules, and Videos | FOX Sports is mostly video commentary?

It is. Almost all their writers were fired or quit.

[Easy Mac]

Getting old is great. Literally walking from the door to the car, not carrying anything, and I feel a pain in my back. Just out of nowhere, like someone stuck me in the back and just kept applying pressure. Still hurts. Its definitely muscular in nature and right near a trouble spot, but I'd prefer it happen for a reason like lifting a car or saving a child from a burning building. Not from walking 10 feet.

[JonInMiddleGA]

June story on the shift in focus for Fox Sports. It's basically worthless now.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...deo/429257001/

[Ksyrup]

There was a time, a decade or more ago, that I basically lived on ESPN.com. I haven't visited that site (or any other sports news site) in a good 4 or 5 years probably, other than the odd visit trying to track down an old box score, article, or something along those lines. I think the last time I regularly visited a site for one purpose was to read Stewart Mandel's weekly post-weekend college football article. Once he left SI or got canned, I stopped reading anything on any site.

I get all the sports info I need from Twitter and my phone apps, and I get it much quicker than going to a website filled with useless, self-promoting garbage. Now it looks like these sites are turning into YouTube for sports.

[NobodyHere]

Originally Posted by stevew

Watched the teaser for "The Disaster Artist" like 15 times today. Cannot wait.

Me neither

[Ksyrup]

Listening to the latest Body Count album on the way to work, and it amazes me the split personality celebrity/public life Ice T has been able to craft for himself. Not many celebs are able to navigate between actor, pitchman, and lead vocalist of a band that produces profanity-laced metal. Gilbert Gottfried got fired as the voice of a duck for a "too soon" tsunami joke. Ice T is throwing F bombs every other word on his albums (and it's glorious!).

I get that he has his rap background that people know and accept, but this is all current stuff. I guess Ice Cube is similar, given his background and the fact that he's now a Disney movie man, but I don't know... is he currently recording Rated R/controversial music, or are those days gone?

Just a thought I had while trancing out on the 6am hour drive to the office...

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

I guess Ice Cube is similar, given his background and the fact that he's now a Disney movie man, but I don't know... is he currently recording Rated R/controversial music, or are those days gone?

Cube's last album was seven years ago.

[Suicane75]

WeatherUnderground was my go to site for weather. One page, current conditions/radar/10 day forecast, didn't take half an hour to load. Clear, concise, to the point. Everything I needed right there.

And then they go an change the layout, for the much much much worse.

Why can't people just leave well enough alone?

[Suicane75]

Josh Duhamel and Fergie are getting separated. I've waited 8 long years, but finally, the sexiest man alive is back on the market.

[JonInMiddleGA]

I just love a good random internet outtage, don't you?

Can't work, can't app game (due to data demands), can't Xbox thanks to stupid ass cloud saves

Gonna be a productive f'n day around here

[Easy Mac]

Originally Posted by Suicane75

the sexiest man alive is back on the market.

I hate to tell you, but Fergie isn't actually a man...

[CrescentMoonie]

The Costco jar of chocolates of the world is my new favorite way to get fat.

[Suicane75]

Out of the blue I can't get most of the sports channels and a lot of basic channels I watch on Comcast, and I can't watch through the app. Getting "subscription upgrade" notifications. This is gonna be a fun fucking weekend.

[NobodyHere]

Bad News everyone, it looks like the world is going to end in six days

Is the end of the world on September 23 and what's David Meade's theory about the Great American solar eclipse and Planet X?

[Ksyrup]

The PC Matic guy is kinda weird.

[Suicane75]

I have never, ever, been one whose dreams were influenced by outside things. Most of my dreams are mundane and/or completely much ado about nothing.

I started binge watching The Walking Dead last week and have now had 4 very long drawn out dreams involving leading people, or being led by people, out of danger. Nothing frightening mind you, and very little in the way of zombie activity, but when I wake up I know I've just had a dream influenced by the show.

[stevew]

So we took our car to some local notary to have it registered in Pennsylvania. This was over a month ago and I still have not received a formal registration for my car. Is this notary bitch just holding on to our money until the last possible date where she has to file by? I paid like $800 in sales tax and I would really like to be able to Uber in that car.

[Easy Mac]

Hayden Christensen and Rachel Bilson are getting separated. I've waited 10 long years, but finally, the sexiest woman alive is back on the market.

[Autumn]

Originally Posted by NobodyHere

Bad News everyone, it looks like the world is going to end in six days

Is the end of the world on September 23 and what's David Meade's theory about the Great American solar eclipse and Planet X?

Given the combination of weather, geological, and political events in the past few weeks, this is the first time I'm inclined to believe one of these guys.

[CraigSca]

I am headed to India in a couple weeks for business. Who's up for 24+ hours in the air?!

[Easy Mac]

Are you paying for my ticket.

[Suicane75]

Originally Posted by CraigSca

I am headed to India in a couple weeks for business. Who's up for 24+ hours in the air?!

It's the 24 hours on the toilet that'll get ya.

[Ksyrup]

I know we were spoiled with a pretty mild summer, but this mid-upper 80s and humid weather in late September is BS. I had already moved on from summer.

My electric bill for mid-August to mid-September was $84. $84!!

[ISiddiqui]

Where exactly do you live where mid-upper 80s and humid weather in late September is something surprising and/or undesirable?

[Ksyrup]

Kentucky. Average temp in Lexington this time of year is 76 with little humidity. We're in the middle of a 7-to-10 day stretch of temps that are average or above-average for the peak of summer. And it sucks. I enjoy having the windows open, 65-75, no humidity, and abundant sunshine.

Don't get me wrong - by late January I'll be wishing I could complain about hot temps, but I hate hot humid weather and I've gotten quite used to the great temps the past several weeks.

[Chief Rum]

So, as some of you know, I work as a restaurant manager. Every now and then we get promotional things from companies we work with. Coke, Direct TV, local breweries, etc. So while it doesn't happrn that often, it does happen.

Yesterday we received a box (delivered by Fed Ex) that had on the box bottom a sticker promoting the new CBS show Me, Myself and Irene. We look inside. They sent us... door stops. With more promo Me, Myself and Irene ads on it.

Door stops.

I don't think I have ever seen anything quite like this approach. I mean, we can put a big promotional Coke bottle picture our wall. We can hang a Sunday Ticket promo above the entrance to the bar. There is nowhere in the public area of the restaurant where we are likely to have consistent need for a door stop. And even if we did, who looks down at a door stop? Who would notice the advertising on a door stop and say, "Oh yea I wanted to watch that show. I should see when it's on."

And they sent us like 7 or 8 of them.

It's possible they think we might show it on TV in the restaurant, I suppose, but if so, unfortunately for them, we're only supposed to show sports or major events (like Presidential speeches).

Pretty curious marketing ploy which seems unlilely to produce results worth the time and effort.

But hey at least we have some new door stops.

[QuikSand]

I think there needs to be a name for one of my favorite things.

Near my college there was a big sign for "DTS Trucking Services." My friends and I speculated that you'd call and ask what the D stood for, and they'd say "it's for D-T-S." Circular logic, and all that.

I still text my college friend every time one of these comes up. Today it was a solicitation email from a company called CPS Payment Services. I love it.

What could this be called? Maybe the word "circular" could be embedded somehow. Like a Circunym?

[Radii]

Recursive acronym - Wikipedia

Outside of all the software examples are some that are more like what you're talking about, for example:

BWIA — BWIA West Indies Airways (formerly British West Indian Airways)

[Shkspr]

Originally Posted by Chief Rum

Pretty curious marketing ploy which seems unlilely to produce results worth the time and effort.

But hey at least we have some new door stops.

I'm amused at the thought that their marketing ploy was so terrible that you didn't even recall the name of the show correctly.

[QuikSand]

Originally Posted by Radii

Recursive acronym - Wikipedia

Shit, I absolutely loved GEB but don't recall that. It's been a long time. Maybe due for a re-read.

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by Shkspr

I'm amused at the thought that their marketing ploy was so terrible that you didn't even recall the name of the show correctly.

Lol... you're right. I fell into using the Jim Carrey movie name.

Marketing fail.

[21C]

Originally Posted by stevew

So we took our car to some local notary to have it registered in Pennsylvania. This was over a month ago and I still have not received a formal registration for my car. Is this notary bitch just holding on to our money until the last possible date where she has to file by? I paid like $800 in sales tax and I would really like to be able to Uber in that car.

This phrase reminds of the episode of The League with the "cu-notary".

[stevew]

It may not be her fault after all. But somehow the papers are screwed up. Odd thing was that she gave me temporary tags for 4 months, which kinda led me believe it may just be a cash flow scheme on her part.

[CrescentMoonie]

Wendy's has a Giant Jr Bacon Cheeseburger. It's the Jr with 2 patties. Why? Isn't the point of Jr to have a smaller burger?

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by CrescentMoonie

Wendy's has a Giant Jr Bacon Cheeseburger. It's the Jr with 2 patties. Why? Isn't the point of Jr to have a smaller burger?

I think the patties are actually smaller than the usual single patty.

So it's two ... but more like one.

[CrescentMoonie]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

I think the patties are actually smaller than the usual single patty.

So it's two ... but more like one.

So get a regular bacon cheeseburger. I guess people will lie to themselves in some pretty hysterical ways.

[stevew]

Son of Baconator is all the burger anyone ever needs.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by CrescentMoonie

So get a regular bacon cheeseburger. I guess people will lie to themselves in some pretty hysterical ways.

This is actually a very intentional thing

http://www.brandeating.com/2017/08/w...eseburger.html

As the article points out "Interestingly, Wendy's has never offered a regular "Bacon Cheeseburger" although you can have bacon added to any of their burgers. Then again, they don't serve a regular-sized version of any of their other Jr. burgers either (except for the Jr.Cheeseburger Deluxe, which is a smaller version of the Dave's Single)"

[CU Tiger]

Originally Posted by CrescentMoonie

So get a regular bacon cheeseburger. I guess people will lie to themselves in some pretty hysterical ways.

Less bun.
Less calories and carbs.

I mean a cheeseburger aint gonna be healthy but you can minimize damage i suppose

[JeeberD]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

I think the patties are actually smaller than the usual single patty.

So it's two ... but more like one.

I haven't worked at Wendy's in almost 17 years, but I doubt the patty sizes have changed much. Jr patties were 2oz and single patties were 4oz...so you're getting twice as much meat as a regular JBC, and just as much as if you put bacon on a single.

[albionmoonlight]

Woman at my office just sent an office-wide email with the subject line "Donuts, the hot sign is on . . ."

But she was NOT announcing donuts in the breakroom, but instead her daughter's Krispy Kreme fundraiser.

Not cool.

[ColtCrazy]

So I get to school to find out our chiller is down and has been down all day with temps outside around 90. I am wondering if children can spontaneously combust.