08-04-2022, 10:34 PM | #23501 |
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I'm not saying this is the case for you, but my parents had to be with a "family" member (likely was but they're not even sure, in the end) who got into contact with them via 23 and me or whatever DNA test they did because, well, some people are always looking for another avenue to con people out of money.
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08-05-2022, 01:51 PM | #23502 | |
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Wow. Conyers may not have much to offer, but it has the best per slice pizza deal around. You can do a slice, salad and a drink for $6.95. |
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08-05-2022, 02:30 PM | #23503 | |
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Welcome to Athens, where everything is f'n overpriced
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08-05-2022, 02:34 PM | #23504 |
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There is a place by me that has a lunch special of a liter of soda and a slice for $6. The slice is about the size of a plate.
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08-05-2022, 03:23 PM | #23505 |
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4 slices(fills a Togo box)of iffy pizza and a can of Coke for 5$ near me. It’s kinda bad pizza but kinda good in that school lunch pizza type way.
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08-05-2022, 03:26 PM | #23506 |
World Champion Mis-speller
Join Date: Nov 2000
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I could do that every once in while. I can't really do Little Cesar's bad. Mostly because it really tears up my stomach. Mellow Mushroom that we are talking about is actually some the best pizza in this area.
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08-05-2022, 08:32 PM | #23507 |
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Newcastle, Australia
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I have officially passed over into decrepitude.
I bought a 3D camera and a selfie stick a few months ago and hardly touched it after the initial setup. Now I cannot find the selfie stick for the life of me. I live on my own in a one-bedroom apartment so I can't blame anybody else for moving it on me. I have turned over the most obvious places I could have put it (several times) and I now give up. I am losing it - or have already lost it. |
08-05-2022, 08:56 PM | #23508 |
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Didn't know there were consumer versions of 3D cameras. I googled and found a GoPro Max 360 for $500 (which I guess is halfway reasonable).
Thanks, will have to research this more. |
08-05-2022, 09:02 PM | #23509 |
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Location: Newcastle, Australia
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Insta360 ONE X2
Insta360 ONE X2 – Waterproof 360 Action Camera with Stabilization You don't happen to know where my selfie stick is . . . ? |
08-05-2022, 09:09 PM | #23510 | |
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We don’t have mellow mushroom but I would never eat there because I don’t like mushrooms. And I rarely get LC, but if you have it custom made with extra sauce and extra cheese it’s decent. Their deep dish lunch is nasty Last edited by stevew : 08-05-2022 at 09:10 PM. |
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08-05-2022, 09:22 PM | #23511 | |
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Thanks, I'll read up on reviews. Don't know about your selfie stick but com'on, they're cheap enough. Look at the bright side, better than misplacing your insta360. |
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08-07-2022, 09:35 PM | #23512 |
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I never got the appeal of Beavis and Butthead
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08-08-2022, 02:26 AM | #23513 |
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08-08-2022, 05:14 AM | #23514 |
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It's a brilliant satire of American life, the educational system, male teenagerdom, and the primal id. There's a lot going on beneath the surface of the lowbrow humor if you actually pay attention.
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08-08-2022, 06:18 AM | #23515 |
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08-08-2022, 07:32 AM | #23516 |
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B&B is maybe the one show I've seen ads for that has me a little interested. But, if it's only on Paramount+, it's not happening.
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08-08-2022, 10:03 AM | #23517 |
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♫♪♪ Stewart wets his bed... ♫♪♪ (can't believe how easily that came back to me after not thinking about it in 20+ years) |
08-08-2022, 10:52 AM | #23518 |
This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
Join Date: Nov 2000
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This is what Twitter was made for - reminding me that it's been 18 years since Dave Matthews' tour bus dumped 800 pounds of waste on a Chicago tour boat. Although technically, it was the violinist's bus.
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08-08-2022, 01:52 PM | #23519 | |
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(not sure what thread to throw this in so I'll put it here)
Malcolm Gladwell slammed after criticizing WFH policies—despite having worked remotely for decades | Fortune Quote:
LOL, no. |
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08-08-2022, 02:07 PM | #23520 |
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I feel a part of a lot of things and have an extra couple of hours a day to feel a part of more when I'm working from home. Work doesn't give me my only purpose in life, it gives me money to facilitate other things
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08-08-2022, 02:40 PM | #23521 |
Resident Alien
Join Date: Jun 2001
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I know I could do without the time spent on the train to New Haven. Unfortunately, we're moving to 3 or 4 days in the office from 2 this fall.
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08-08-2022, 03:19 PM | #23522 |
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Covington, Ga.
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People's whose life is their work just can't understand people whose life is outside of work.
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08-08-2022, 04:24 PM | #23523 | |
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The funny thing about this is what he said before and after the reported comments. I pulled it from the transcript so no punctuation. Go to about the one hour and eighteen second mark of the video if you want to listen to it instead.
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Ummm Malcolm, the people in positions of leadership don't have to explain it. If they actually showed that their employees that they wanted the employees to be a part of something important, the employees might feel like they are a part of something important. If the employer is holding a paycheck over the employee's head for whatever reason, then yes it is only about the paycheck.
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08-09-2022, 08:22 AM | #23524 | ||
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Exactly. Also, I found this quote of his amusing, about his time at the Washington Post: Quote:
I feel if it takes you 10 years to feel like an expert at a job you go to literally every day (and don't even change employers), it... might be too long? Outside of certain specific complex specialities, of course. |
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08-09-2022, 08:42 AM | #23525 | |
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{ponders} I think that's probably fair, yeah. A caveat I might be inclined to put on it is that you can transition from one of those types to the other (though I don't know that it's so much a gradual transition as more of a switch flip or three)
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08-09-2022, 08:56 AM | #23526 |
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I'm fighting a terrible cold today so I work from home. I may need a few days, I can do all my work remote.
I still feel I'm being judged to not work in person or to just burn a sick day. As long as I'm getting work done to a high standard let me handle my business.
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08-09-2022, 09:01 AM | #23527 |
This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
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My daughter found a can of that Coke Marshmello at a convenience store and grabbed one. I liked the flavor (fruity) but the aftertaste was definitely cough syrupy. I wouldn't drink it again.
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08-09-2022, 09:18 AM | #23528 |
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I'm mad Coke is killing off Honest Tea though I saw that coming a mile away.
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08-09-2022, 01:03 PM | #23529 |
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I am amazingly cranky when unexpectedly woken up from my midday workplace nap.
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08-09-2022, 01:28 PM | #23530 |
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I'm not a cat person but I suppose at some point, it was common enough that "skinning a cat" became an idiom. And not just skinning a cat but that there were many different ways to skin a cat? Are there really that many ways? Is there like an MLA way to skin a cat and a Chicago-style way to skin a cat?
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08-09-2022, 01:30 PM | #23531 |
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I think that is fair. I have seen people transition but there is usually a catalysis, like a health scare or a death in the family. There are some people that actually plan it that way. Work-aholics till they have enough to retire. Though many times if they are relatively young they will find some other work to obsess about. A-type personalities have a hard time changing.
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08-09-2022, 03:58 PM | #23532 |
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Location: Land O Lakes FL
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/09/busin...ngs/index.html
Outside of the "richer people are households that make over $75,000" debate, why is CNN acting like people with a little money in their pocket just started making their way back to Applebee's and IHOP?
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08-09-2022, 04:10 PM | #23533 |
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I actually canceled Applebee’s. The last time we went and it was like 100$ after tip which is a lot for microwave food.
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08-09-2022, 04:17 PM | #23534 | |
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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We will occasionally do IHOP. Applebees is a hard pass unless I am grabbing a beer while my kids are at a party or something. |
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08-09-2022, 04:28 PM | #23535 | |
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08-09-2022, 04:34 PM | #23536 |
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08-09-2022, 04:37 PM | #23537 |
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Finally, I'm rich. To Applebee's, Jeeves!
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08-09-2022, 05:02 PM | #23538 |
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Applebees gave me the worst diarrhea of my life years ago.
I do like Olive Garden as my chain restaurant of choice. |
08-09-2022, 05:11 PM | #23539 |
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The only time I've been to Applebee's in the past 10+ years was visiting my daughter at college where it was like an hour to a normal shopping area with anything other than fast food. I'd sell a $50 Applebee's card for $15 just to get rid of it
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08-09-2022, 05:20 PM | #23540 | |
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Location: homeless in NJ
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My wifes uncle used to give them to us all the time. At one point we had $100 worth. Wife and I wen there. Got an app and a couple drinks each. Gave the rest to the waitress as a tip. |
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08-09-2022, 05:24 PM | #23541 |
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We live on the Jersey shore and there are amazing Italian places everywhere. We went to OG for the first time since moving from Oregon 4 years ago a few months back. It was by the movie theater we were going to. It actually scraped an itch i didn't know needing scratching. I think we all posses a gene that craves bad pizza and Italian. |
08-09-2022, 05:39 PM | #23542 |
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Bourbon street steak was great back then. Olive Garden was always a yuck to me. Haven't been back to either in over a decade (maybe 2).
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08-09-2022, 06:01 PM | #23543 |
This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
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I had no idea Phil Hartman was a graphic designer in the 70s and designed or worked on several dozen well-known album covers.
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08-09-2022, 07:43 PM | #23544 |
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Yeah, I'd be interested in knowing in what parts of the country 75k for a household is rich. Maybe comfortably middle class, at best. Unless you're talking super-rural in which case they probably don't have an Applebees or IHOP anyway. |
08-09-2022, 07:44 PM | #23545 |
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Applebees is horrendous. The last time I ate there (years ago), I concluded I would be a lot better off just getting something from the frozen section of the grocery store plus a six pack or something.
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08-09-2022, 07:59 PM | #23546 |
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Applebees and Pizza Hut were always a ticket to stomach issues for me. Haven't eaten in either in a lonnnnnnnng time.
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08-09-2022, 08:20 PM | #23547 |
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Oh yeah the Applebee’s in my town somebody got a rat in their salad. I forgot about that but it was another reason why I stopped going there
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08-09-2022, 08:23 PM | #23548 | |
This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
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I suppose there's a median income or yearly definition of middle class, but I feel like there's a wide gap in wages that term covers. Certainly, the more you make the better off you are, but there's a big difference between living comfortably and being rich. I grew up comfortable, no doubt, but we lived middle class - dad drove a beat up POS car for several years, both parents worked, we took a vacation every summer but never flew. But we never needed anything. Even now, I'm miles better off than my parents were but I don't consider myself rich. I'd need a hefty increase to get to the $400K income level that is always used as the magic cutoff by politicians on who should be taxed more than others.
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08-10-2022, 05:44 AM | #23549 | |
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TaxVox | Tax Policy Center. Quote:
TBF, the article does say "richer people" vs "rich people". But yeah, that headline is click bait. Last edited by Edward64 : 08-10-2022 at 05:47 AM. |
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08-10-2022, 10:49 AM | #23550 | |
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Bingo! Besides that, I just don't agree with the idea that people throw everything they did when they were poorer away when they become richer. I am not saying it is an everyday thing for them or that the richer people won't go to the more expensive places in town because they can afford to. Just that, I have not seen any evidence that people who liked going to places like Applebee's and IHOP stopped going to those places simply because they could afford to go somewhere else. And yes, they have the restaurant app on their phone that will get them stuff for free or at a discount.
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