07-09-2018, 09:19 PM | #17801 |
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Is there like a mandate that you throw away your trash at a sporting event or movie? I mean I know it probably just falls under a blanket "don't be an asshole" clause. I throw my trash away anyways, but I don't feel like many people do
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07-09-2018, 09:22 PM | #17802 | |
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I usually leave mine, I figure it helps keep someone employed. Our local theater serves beer, so I usually leave a movie at least twice for a refill and once to hit the head. Larry would hate me. |
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07-09-2018, 09:23 PM | #17803 | |
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I'd say it's under 10% at a major event. Hell, I doubt it's more than 25% even at stuff like, say, high school football games.
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07-09-2018, 09:51 PM | #17804 |
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I do. It takes little effort from me and saves someone a little bit of work.
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07-10-2018, 06:34 AM | #17805 |
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For movies, we always put our stuff in the trash as we are walking out (other than the spilled popcorn of course). I see many people doing this.
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07-10-2018, 07:59 AM | #17806 | |
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With the shitty movies they make now popcorn is the only reason to go to a movie. He's eating it properly. I would have mentioned to him that I enjoyed the constant reminder of popcorn.... He probably felt your bad attitude and was in a rush to leave so left his trash behind.
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07-10-2018, 09:57 AM | #17807 | |
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Great news. Hope the kids recover well from this ordeal.
It will be interesting to read all the details on how they pulled it off. https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/09/asia/...ntl/index.html Quote:
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07-10-2018, 11:17 AM | #17808 |
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Glad they are out. Yesterday, I literally had to stop reading an article about it because just reading about trying to navigate a confusing series of paths under water to get out was pushing me toward panic. I can't imagine how scary that must feel.
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07-13-2018, 06:40 AM | #17809 | |
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Some more details.
Cave rescue: Key questions answered - BBC News Quote:
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07-17-2018, 01:01 PM | #17810 |
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I think of all the useless professions I have ever had to deal with, background checker has to be near to or at the top.
I've switched jobs a couple times in the last 18 months and each time it's been the same song and dance - fill out the online forms, wait until a few weeks after starting the job and then get officious sounding emails from idiots telling them I have to provide them a ton of information immediately as they weren't able to validate my details. Firstly, if I have to send you every detail of my life in pdf format (offer letters and pay slips to validate employment periods and certificates to validate degrees and professional certifications) what exactly are we paying you to do, and secondly, if this process is that critical to making sure I'm not a criminal or a psycho who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near full time employment, shouldn't it be completed before I've worked at the company a few weeks with full access to everything? It's also worth noting that these jobs have covered a few Fortune 500 companies and now a cloud-native company with a startup culture and awesome technology, so it seems like either I've been unlucky or all background check companies are just terrible and this is a prime opportunity for somebody to come in and disrupt the whole thing. |
07-17-2018, 02:46 PM | #17811 |
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I've known a few other Uber drivers who have been on the platform for years and will suddenly get deactivated for a week or two due to some Checkr delay. At this point they've probably done 3-5000 rides. I don't think they're just going to randomly start finger banging pax. But no, you'll take him off the road for a week and a half so they can't earn any money.
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07-17-2018, 04:52 PM | #17812 |
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Not sure how sticking a garbage bag out of one of your windows makes a broken down car immune from Towing. Seems like a poor way to indicate that you will be right back to retrieve your car
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07-17-2018, 05:00 PM | #17813 |
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The gravity of Doc Emmett Brown thwarting a domestic nuclear terror attack never really occurred to me.
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07-17-2018, 05:09 PM | #17814 | |
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This is heavy...
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07-17-2018, 05:14 PM | #17815 |
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07-17-2018, 06:16 PM | #17816 |
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They were from the middle East I thought
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07-17-2018, 06:29 PM | #17817 |
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Ya, they were Libyan nationalists, but they supplied Doc plutonium in the United States, and Doc supplied them a fake bomb in the United States. Seems more likely the Libyans planned to use the bomb in the U.S. rather than transport it overseas, which would be difficult and seemingly backwards. OR, Doc went overseas himself to make this deal and deliver the fake bomb, and then transported the plutonium to the U.S. using secret mad scientist channels. Which would be quite the Back to the Future spin-off movie. Last edited by molson : 07-17-2018 at 06:30 PM. |
07-18-2018, 12:41 AM | #17818 |
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Location: SF
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I just realized cars don’t have radio antennas anymore
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07-18-2018, 12:59 AM | #17819 |
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Well, they don't have old-school whip antenna. The most common application now, I guess, is "in-glass" ... but they're still there.
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07-18-2018, 03:46 PM | #17820 |
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The future attorney offspring has had an interesting summer internship.
Today's adventure: watching a defendant who only spoke in iambic pentameter. Both sides and the judge all quickly agreed that perhaps a competency hearing was in order before the case proceeded further.
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07-20-2018, 05:46 PM | #17821 |
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So, my boss proverbially walked out the door on Monday. No notice, he said fuck it, I'm done. (I can understand the frustrations.)
I'm the boss now. This week has been, ahem, insane. |
07-20-2018, 08:43 PM | #17822 |
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Congrats on the promotion?!
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07-20-2018, 09:53 PM | #17823 |
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This is why I only eat junk food
McDonald’s salads tainted with poop have now infected 163 people in 10 states
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07-21-2018, 01:44 AM | #17824 | |
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I’d like to set the record truly straight, And take a moment to reiterate: I’m not the state’s defendant in this plot; My therapist says I still have ration’l thought. |
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07-21-2018, 03:25 AM | #17825 | |
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The meta-fact that this post came from a poster named Shkspr truly takes it into the sublime.
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07-21-2018, 03:55 AM | #17826 | |
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+1
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07-23-2018, 08:17 PM | #17827 |
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My youngest (14) made a really dirty "that's what she said" comment earlier today (his older brother said "she said it's not wet enough" talking about something mom said) and I had mixed feelings about it.
As dad, I was able to keep a straight face, and simply shake my head, no. I did eventually have to relent that it was indeed funny. The kid is funny. His timing is totally natural and he's easily the funniest of my boys. On the inside, I was totally proud of his ability to totally nail this. It's just weird when your kids are hitting completely adult jokes, right in stride, right in earshot. Parenting is all about choices, ya know?
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07-23-2018, 09:47 PM | #17828 | |
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It's a transition, to be sure. To retain the upper hand, just be sure that you remind them now & again that you can still come up with stuff that makes them blush
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07-25-2018, 07:23 PM | #17829 |
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Well my whole block was evacuated by a hazmat team. So that's a new one.
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07-25-2018, 07:29 PM | #17830 |
Resident Alien
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Did you have a McDonald's salad?
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07-25-2018, 07:32 PM | #17831 |
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Location: Chicago, IL
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Not sure. Was at a real estate office a couple doors down that people were getting sick and losing feeling in their tongue. Might be from one of the condos above.
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07-25-2018, 07:38 PM | #17832 |
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Does this mean the zombie apocalypse won't be happening?
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07-25-2018, 08:27 PM | #17833 |
Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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I find it interesting that 15 years ago if you didn’t own a watch you probably walked around not knowing what time it is.
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07-26-2018, 12:11 AM | #17834 |
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Location: SF
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I’ve become obsessed with this reviewer from Missouri. She keeps doing great vacation things a having the worst time ever.
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07-26-2018, 06:55 AM | #17835 | |
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Location: homeless in NJ
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lol, she seems like a fun person. |
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07-26-2018, 06:02 PM | #17836 |
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Every youtube ad I've seen over the past 3-5 days has been for Gaia, some wacky 'Ancient Aliens'-type of conspiracy site. I can't figure out what it is about my browsing habits that has led to this.
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07-29-2018, 06:57 AM | #17837 |
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I'm pretty sure that this is the first person to hold "world" titles in both the lightweight and heavyweight boxing world.
Now, it is the WBU, and it was 45 year old Danny Williams he faced, but Lee McAllister, who fought at the 158 pound weight class, stopped him in the 10th round to win the title. With Williams retirement after the fight, I think that was the last active boxer to defeat Tyson, right?
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07-29-2018, 07:15 AM | #17838 | |
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I believe that'd be correct. There were only 6 Tyson losses, to 5 different fighters. Buster Douglas last fought in 1999 Evander Holyfield last fought in 2011 Lennox Lewis last fought in 2003 Kevin McBride last fought in 2011
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07-31-2018, 06:15 PM | #17839 |
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Yeah, this is from my FB but I'm gonna repurpose it here. Deal with it.
----------------- Some things are just too quintessentially ... me. I decide to make a necessary Walmart run before the rain hits. Naturally, the rain starts as I'm walking to the car. I figure, hey, there's a Subway in Walmart. Wife is fine with it & I can manage, that'll save an additional outing. 15 minutes in line behind 2 families, get to the counter ... "oh, we outta white bread". (You have ovens ... you're open for another four hours ... how in the #$% are you 'out' of bread?!? And for the second straight time on my rare visits no less). No, I don't want that nasty wheat crap nor any of your other not-worth-a-damn breads. And so, after 90 minutes out & without a dry thread on ... and my dinner will end up being the same baloney sandwich I coulda had without ever leaving the house. You wonder why I chainsmoke & have only seen a doctor once in almost twenty years? THIS. 51 years of that kinda shit, the last thing I'm looking to do is artificially extend it.
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08-02-2018, 09:35 AM | #17840 |
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Apple hit $1T market cap this morning.
Congratulations and well deserved. Definitely one of the companies that changed the world. Hope your stock price keeps on going up! |
08-02-2018, 10:12 AM | #17841 |
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along the Apple line. This fell into my lap yesterday. Was a facinating read.
General Magic: Oral History of the Influential Tech Company |
08-03-2018, 02:29 PM | #17842 |
This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
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I have an employee who is about to have his first child today (and might have already), and while I have absolutely no interest in revisiting that time in my life (my youngest is 14 and that's fine by me), I damn sure wish we had been able to have children during a time when it was common for employment benefits to include 2-3 months of paid parental leave - which includes the father. My first job was at the state - not exactly a sweat shop - but I still only took off 3 days before I returned to work after Caitlin was born.
I think those of us who missed the parental leave bus should get like a month sabbatical after we've been with the company for like 10 or 15 years. Just to even things out a bit.
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08-04-2018, 06:56 AM | #17843 | |
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I had this thought a couple of weeks ago. About a year after my son was born, the military introduced parental leave for the father. I think it was 10 days. I was shocked when my civilian nephew told me that he will get three months parental leave for his son's birth. Good deal for parents today. I hope they use that time wisely
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08-04-2018, 09:13 AM | #17844 |
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I don't think paid parental leave from the employer is the norm yet
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08-11-2018, 10:58 AM | #17845 |
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I am relatively new to Little League baseball so maybe this has been a thing for a while. When did they begin using replay to review calls and at what point do they start? I know they did not use it in my son's local league and at the district level but I see it being used at the regional level.
Side note: I am secretly hoping one of the kids makes the VAR sign on a close call.
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08-13-2018, 08:15 AM | #17846 |
This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
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Gotta love it when credit card and other billing companies don't adjust monthly payment due dates to account for weekends or holidays. I usually pay my bills at least a day early so I don't get screwed when a payment doesn't post the day of, so my 3 bills due on September 4th? Looks like they are due on August 31st. Awesome!
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08-13-2018, 08:39 AM | #17847 | |
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2016 was the first year it was used at the regional level. As the linked article from that announcement notes, it's actually been available for the LLWS since 2008, the first baseball league to make use of it.
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08-16-2018, 11:08 AM | #17848 |
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Dear Sweet Newborn Baby Jesus,
Please let this be true.
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08-16-2018, 01:39 PM | #17849 |
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Earlier today I shaved for the first time in, well let's just say it'd been a little while.
And while doing so it struck me that I've reached the point in life where I probably lost more weight from shaving than I do from a haircut. That's just bloody depressing :/ (yep, repurposed from my social media ... but it's often quite random thought'ish)
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08-16-2018, 01:58 PM | #17850 |
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I'm picturing present day David Letterman.
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