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Post by 🔪 silly buns on Jun 7, 2023 9:09:55 GMT -5
On the early flight today I was assigned a middle seat. On this TWO hour flight, the guy who had the window seat woke me up halfway through so he could go pee. Dude you either need to hold it in or negotiate your incontinence ahead of time to swap to another seat. And then on the return instead of waiting two seconds for me to stand up, he just stepped over my knees. You know, we're living in a society here. Wifemate was also on this flight, stuck in a different row's middle seat - and the exact same thing happened to her, including the stepover. Maybe it's because it was a flight to Florida and that's how they are here? back in say, 2013 or so, I had the aisle seat on a 5 hour night time flight. I was seated next to a couple that was whisper arguing about how the guy pays for everything so she needs to be nicer, during the beginning of the flight. The guy looked like Entourage was his favorite show and he listened to LA Strip rock music like Buck Cherry and whoever sang "Lips of an angel". Anyhoo, I guess the guy needed to pee in the middle of the night while I was asleep, because I woke up to this guy hovering over me, inches away from my face. I guess he was trying to climb over both me and his gf to go to the bathroom, without waking me up.  |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jun 10, 2023 8:35:58 GMT -5
On the early flight today I was assigned a middle seat. On this TWO hour flight, the guy who had the window seat woke me up halfway through so he could go pee. Dude you either need to hold it in or negotiate your incontinence ahead of time to swap to another seat. And then on the return instead of waiting two seconds for me to stand up, he just stepped over my knees. You know, we're living in a society here. Wifemate was also on this flight, stuck in a different row's middle seat - and the exact same thing happened to her, including the stepover. Maybe it's because it was a flight to Florida and that's how they are here? back in say, 2013 or so, I had the aisle seat on a 5 hour night time flight. I was seated next to a couple that was whisper arguing about how the guy pays for everything so she needs to be nicer, during the beginning of the flight. The guy looked like Entourage was his favorite show and he listened to LA Strip rock music like Buck Cherry and whoever sang "Lips of an angel". Anyhoo, I guess the guy needed to pee in the middle of the night while I was asleep, because I woke up to this guy hovering over me, inches away from my face. I guess he was trying to climb over both me and his gf to go to the bathroom, without waking me up. Silly, now that Entourage is no longer on the air, what do you think that guy’s favorite current-day television show is assuming he isn’t dead now, and do you think it’s the one where Sylvester Stallone plays a septuagenarian mob guy who just got released from prison and who constantly complains about wokeness? |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Jun 11, 2023 13:07:42 GMT -5
I bet it’s his DVD boxed sets of Entourage, bought on a season-by-season basis when the series was still ongoing. Writing this I’m thinking of just how old that model of watching TV sounds.
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Post by 🔪 silly buns on Jun 12, 2023 10:30:27 GMT -5
Silly, now that Entourage is no longer on the air, what do you think that guy’s favorite current-day television show is assuming he isn’t dead now, and do you think it’s the one where Sylvester Stallone plays a septuagenarian mob guy who just got released from prison and who constantly complains about wokeness? I saw ads for that show, but haven't watched in. Maybe he likes that Game of Thrones prequel..? |
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Jun 12, 2023 13:14:20 GMT -5
Silly, now that Entourage is no longer on the air, what do you think that guy’s favorite current-day television show is assuming he isn’t dead now, and do you think it’s the one where Sylvester Stallone plays a septuagenarian mob guy who just got released from prison and who constantly complains about wokeness? I saw ads for that show, but haven't watched in. Maybe he likes that Game of Thrones prequel..? That dude is probably pissed the GoT prequel's comparative lack of nudity. Also, dude is primarily just watching clips of Joe Rogan's podcast while waiting for sentencing for his participation in the January 6th insurrection. |
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Post by Lurky McLurk on Jun 27, 2023 4:33:45 GMT -5
There's an interview in the Graun today with someone called "Tuppence Middleton" and I swear they're just making people up these days.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Jul 13, 2023 13:46:02 GMT -5
I just read a work email about Chelsea and Wrexham Football Clubs playing a match here next week. A couple minutes later I realized that I was hearing the Jamie Tartt version of the baby shark song in my head.
Why, yes, I did just watch Ted Lasso!
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Jul 24, 2023 6:06:34 GMT -5
I just realized that I haven't seen any new issues of Games Magazine at my local supermarket this year.
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Post by ganews on Jul 24, 2023 13:26:38 GMT -5
Sorry seminar organizers, if you want people to ask questions you're going to have to get off Zoom and having meetings in person again.
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Aug 6, 2023 13:53:43 GMT -5
I just realized that I haven't seen any new issues of Games Magazine at my local supermarket this year. Found them! Instead of on the usual magazine rack, they were hiding behind the sudoku books on a separate cardboard standee. That's the good news. The bad news is: the Redbox DVD rental machine is gone.  |
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Aug 7, 2023 16:23:41 GMT -5
I just realized that I haven't seen any new issues of Games Magazine at my local supermarket this year. Found them! Instead of on the usual magazine rack, they were hiding behind the sudoku books on a separate cardboard standee. That's the good news. The bad news is: the Redbox DVD rental machine is gone. Is the cover story about Hide and Seek? |
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Post by ganews on Aug 25, 2023 12:10:46 GMT -5
From a discussion with my European postdoc:
What item of clothing is the most telling identification of a European? The Guess t-shirt.
What item of clothing is the most telling identification of an American? This is tricky because so much of the world has adopted casual American style, but we arrived at Crocs worn in public.
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Aug 25, 2023 13:29:59 GMT -5
From a discussion with my European postdoc: What item of clothing is the most telling identification of a European? The Guess t-shirt. What item of clothing is the most telling identification of an American? This is tricky because so much of the world has adopted casual American style, but we arrived at Crocs worn in public. I always heard a baseball hat was a dead giveaway for Americans. |
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Post by ganews on Aug 25, 2023 16:03:24 GMT -5
From a discussion with my European postdoc: What item of clothing is the most telling identification of a European? The Guess t-shirt. What item of clothing is the most telling identification of an American? This is tricky because so much of the world has adopted casual American style, but we arrived at Crocs worn in public. I always heard a baseball hat was a dead giveaway for Americans. This used to be true, but now you can go anywhere in Europe that tourists are and see people from every country wearing a Yankees cap at least. |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Aug 27, 2023 14:33:20 GMT -5
From a discussion with my European postdoc: What item of clothing is the most telling identification of a European? The Guess t-shirt. What item of clothing is the most telling identification of an American? This is tricky because so much of the world has adopted casual American style, but we arrived at Crocs worn in public. Guess t-shirts are popular with Europeans? |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Aug 27, 2023 19:08:49 GMT -5
Brands associated with the eighties and nineties are—or until relatively recent were—living on in Europe. I have fond memories of Esprit, one of my Mom’s favorite brands when I was a tiny child (and also one with an interesting history), and they were still extant in the Netherland as of a few years ago. I got a nice red, very Pierrot le fou shirt from them, hand wash it only because I like it so much.
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Post by ganews on Aug 28, 2023 16:52:40 GMT -5
I have yet to get the thumbs-up emoji from someone under 60. From a Twitter exchange between a locked-down student at UNC today hiding from the active shooter and a mother
The thumbs-up emoji is an acknowledgment of something this serious now? To me it reads, "sigh, yes, ok, leave me alone now".
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Aug 28, 2023 19:53:09 GMT -5
I have yet to get the thumbs-up emoji from someone under 60. From a Twitter exchange between a locked-down student at UNC today hiding from the active shooter and a mother
The thumbs-up emoji is an acknowledgment of something this serious now? To me it reads, "sigh, yes, ok, leave me alone now".
I use it all the time to indicate “yep cool got it” without any sarcasm, but I wouldn’t use it for that, it feels wrong. |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Aug 29, 2023 15:42:38 GMT -5
Who is our universally beloved, unusually active, extremely elderly comedian now? There always seems to be one. Is it Mel Brooks? Dick van Dyke?
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Aug 29, 2023 16:05:13 GMT -5
It’s probably Mel Brooks. Dick van Dyke is universally beloved (local connection: I know the guy who saved him when his Jaguar caught on fire) but I think Brooks is more active in the public eye while Dick still spends more time with his family and his homebrew computer animation. Brooks’s stuff is also more widely liked and remembered—except for Mary Poppins DvD’s cinematic output hasn’t outlasted the past, and while the Dick van Dyke Show still more than holds up it’s more beloved by people who are either TV history cognoscenti or watched it on Nick at Nite as kids (of course there’s significant overlap between the too).
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Aug 29, 2023 16:33:43 GMT -5
I saw a tiktok video the other day done by Dick Van Dyke where he said, Hi, I'm what's left of Dick Van Dyke! He's like 97 now, but was on an exercise bike, white hair and beard sticking out in all directions. I love that man.
P.S. If I had married the love of my life my last name would be Van Dyke.
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Post by ganews on Sept 21, 2023 14:05:08 GMT -5
I wish I had the business acumen of the guy who realized you could split one chicken wing into a drum and a flat and sell it as two chicken wings.
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Post by LazBro on Sept 22, 2023 7:29:35 GMT -5
I wish I had the business acumen of the guy who realized you could split one chicken wing into a drum and a flat and sell it as two chicken wings. A barbecue joint near my house serves whole smoked wings. On the menu board it didn't say they were whole, so I only learned the first time I ordered 12 wings and got the restaurant equivalent of 24 goddamn wings.
I like whole wings though, because you get the off-discarded tip. There's only one bite on a tip, and it's pretty much all skin, but once you've smoked and fried it, that's a darn good bite.
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Post by ganews on Sept 22, 2023 14:41:35 GMT -5
I wish I had the business acumen of the guy who realized you could split one chicken wing into a drum and a flat and sell it as two chicken wings. A barbecue joint near my house serves whole smoked wings. On the menu board it didn't say they were whole, so I only learned the first time I ordered 12 wings and got the restaurant equivalent of 24 goddamn wings.
I like whole wings though, because you get the off-discarded tip. There's only one bite on a tip, and it's pretty much all skin, but once you've smoked and fried it, that's a darn good bite.
One of the party ideas I had in the bleak depths of 2020 was a fried chicken party, where I would buy fried chicken for all my friends and they would bring beer and hot sauce. I finally did this a couple weeks ago. It's better to buy too much food than to run out, and Hip Hop Fish and Chicken sells full drums and full wings for $1.25 per (when you buy by the hundred), so I had a bit leftover. |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 22, 2023 17:58:01 GMT -5
A barbecue joint near my house serves whole smoked wings. On the menu board it didn't say they were whole, so I only learned the first time I ordered 12 wings and got the restaurant equivalent of 24 goddamn wings.
I like whole wings though, because you get the off-discarded tip. There's only one bite on a tip, and it's pretty much all skin, but once you've smoked and fried it, that's a darn good bite.
One of the party ideas I had in the bleak depths of 2020 was a fried chicken party, where I would buy fried chicken for all my friends and they would bring beer and hot sauce. I finally did this a couple weeks ago. It's better to buy too much food than to run out, and Hip Hop Fish and Chicken sells full drums and full wings for $1.25 per (when you buy by the hundred), so I had a bit leftover. Wait, how big a chain are they? We have a couple here but I always thought they were local. |
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Post by ganews on Sept 22, 2023 18:19:13 GMT -5
One of the party ideas I had in the bleak depths of 2020 was a fried chicken party, where I would buy fried chicken for all my friends and they would bring beer and hot sauce. I finally did this a couple weeks ago. It's better to buy too much food than to run out, and Hip Hop Fish and Chicken sells full drums and full wings for $1.25 per (when you buy by the hundred), so I had a bit leftover. Wait, how big a chain are they? We have a couple here but I always thought they were local. Wow in Florida? I thought it was a small chain from Baltimore, I've never seen them outside Maryland. Most of my guests had never heard of it. |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 22, 2023 18:24:26 GMT -5
Wait, how big a chain are they? We have a couple here but I always thought they were local. Wow in Florida? I thought it was a small chain from Baltimore, I've never seen them outside Maryland. Most of my guests had never heard of it. Yeah, they're nearby, so we get them sometimes - they're one of the few places in town I can get chicken gizzards. I looked at the Maryland page and the color scheme is the same - not sure if they're connected or it's a coincidence. |
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Sept 22, 2023 23:34:08 GMT -5
The thumbs-up emoji is an acknowledgment of something this serious now? To me it reads, "sigh, yes, ok, leave me alone now".
I use it all the time to indicate “yep cool got it” without any sarcasm, but I wouldn’t use it for that, it feels wrong. I really would like to know HOW the thumbs-up became passive-aggressive to millennials and down. I’m sure it has something to do with the way its useage morphed on FB from the original intention of “Person likes this post!”, but the fact that it does seem to be generational is peculiar to me. Particularly when those generations have never really been very active on FB. Maybe we should all start saying 10-4 . |
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Nov 5, 2023 21:19:49 GMT -5
You know that T-Mobile ad with the stars of Scrubs singing "Oh What A Beautiful Morning"? They incorporate the T-Mobile email alert sound effect into the song. It gets on my nerves, I keep checking my phone
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Post by LazBro on Nov 7, 2023 8:58:19 GMT -5
ELI5:
What's the business case for making things harder to download? Referring specifically to file storage platforms here. Every time Google Drive updates its UI, the download function gets nested deeper and is harder to find or less convenient to use. Bruhs, this is why Drive exists!
I just spent more than two minutes in a shared Google Drive folder looking for a way to download a file without opening it. It's not in the top toolbar, it's not in the right-click menu. Now it's only available as an option on mouse-hover, waaaaaaay over to the right of my screen nowhere near the file name.
Why?!
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