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oxbrain posted:Nobody gave a poo poo about the seahawks before they started winning. Give them a couple average seasons and we'll return to not giving a poo poo. The same goes for the mariners. Johnnie-come-latelies can feel free to gently caress off now instead of waiting 
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oxbrain posted:Nobody gave a poo poo about the seahawks before they started winning. Give them a couple average seasons and we'll return to not giving a poo poo. The same goes for the mariners. I did
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SedanChair posted:Johnnie-come-latelies can feel free to gently caress off now instead of waiting Oh man, thanks that takes a ton of pressure off of me. You don't even know.
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Jan 3, 2015 06:42
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RuanGacho posted:Try building outside of an "urban growth boundary" and give me you sass! How dare the mean ol' county government try to keep King County from turning into another DFW or LA. It would be so much better if they allowed us to have shining stars of rural development, like Bonney Lake and Orting.
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Jan 3, 2015 08:28
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We should start an initiative that makes it legal to run people off the road if they have one of those loving window flags on their car.
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Space Gopher posted:How dare the mean ol' county government try to keep King County from turning into another DFW or LA. OK I take it back I'm sorry. Jesus that's cold.
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Jan 3, 2015 08:36
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oxbrain posted:Nobody gave a poo poo about the seahawks before they started winning. Give them a couple average seasons and we'll return to not giving a poo poo. The same goes for the mariners. Nobody gives a poo poo about the Mariners because nobody cares about baseball on the West Coast. I don't think this season really changed anything.
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Jan 3, 2015 11:22
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Thanatosian posted:I mean, I've only been here for ~8 years, but I feel like people have always given a poo poo about the Seahawks. The Mariners were either way more popular in the early 90s or I cared more because I played baseball. Either are equally possible because I was pretty young then.
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Pyroxene Stigma posted:The Mariners were either way more popular in the early 90s or I cared more because I played baseball. Either are equally possible because I was pretty young then. The fans are minimally involved because all of them that actually care about the team that I know largely think management is far too incompetent to actually not make the team bad and any success is in spite of management, kind of the opposite of the seahawks where the coach and management are seen as doing the right things and part of them solution of instilling 1000 years of socialist Superbowl darkness. Where the legion of boom rides on top of Prius making sure no one drinks non fair trade coffee 
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Jan 3, 2015 18:13
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RuanGacho posted:OK I take it back I'm sorry. Jesus that's cold. It really highlights the problems that the county has, though. They have three options: - Set very strict rules and say "gently caress you, no" to anybody who wants to build outside those rules (what jerks!) - Let people build where they want (and end up with infrastructure in the middle of nowhere for 5,000 nonexistent houses because the developer was a shithead) - Approve or deny development outside the lines on a case-by-case basis based on somebody's best judgment (now you really do have feudal lords, who can be jerks and still be suckered into thinking that meth-McMansions in the middle of nowhere is a great idea) The system isn't good, but it's not as bad as it could be, either.
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Jan 3, 2015 18:50
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Space Gopher posted:- Approve or deny development outside the lines on a case-by-case basis based on somebody's best judgment (now you really do have feudal lords, who can be jerks and still be suckered into thinking that meth-McMansions in the middle of nowhere is a great idea)
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Jan 3, 2015 18:56
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I saw on TV that serfs had more days off than we do, therefor we should go back to feudalism. Of course I would be the lord of Serf City because being a peasant is something that happens to other people.
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Pyroxene Stigma posted:The Mariners were either way more popular in the early 90s or I cared more because I played baseball. Either are equally possible because I was pretty young then. That 2001 team was magical tho!
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The Growth Management Act is such a rare act of forward thinking and putting future good above monied interests I really can't believe that it has gone so long being relatively unknown, and surviving. It definitely does hurt a lot of normal people, like most laws, but it on balance has and will continue to do good for the area as a whole. Because gently caress becoming LA.
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Best Friends posted:The Growth Management Act is such a rare act of forward thinking and putting future good above monied interests I really can't believe that it has gone so long being relatively unknown, and surviving. It definitely does hurt a lot of normal people, like most laws, but it on balance has and will continue to do good for the area as a whole. Because gently caress becoming LA. I'm only aware of it because my job requires me to be aware of the fact that we have no budget support to speak of from the state and we've got to develop what remaining land we have as commercial or risk having no tax base at all for services. I think, probably for the greater good, the general public is not even aware it exists. Just like they're not aware their city only gets 9% of the property taxes they pay, 46% of what they're paying going to the local school district.
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Pyroxene Stigma posted:The Mariners were either way more popular in the early 90s or I cared more because I played baseball. Either are equally possible because I was pretty young then. Baseball is literally a dying sport in this country. As in, the median age of a world series viewer in 2013 was 53.4. The MLS is as popular with teenagers as MLB, which excited a lot of soccer fans, but has more to do with the declining popularity of baseball than the climbing popularity of soccer (though, both definitely contribute). It's sort of regionalizing; everybody likes football. Baseball is for the Northeast, and soccer is for the West.
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Jan 4, 2015 01:20
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Along with Grocery Store Chat, does anyone want to contribute to Thrift Store Chat? As far as I know, the only real big chains are Goodwil (good, as its name states) and Value Village (cheaper, usually has bigger stores, but less selective in the merchandise they put out than Goodwill). I can't remember the last time I went to a Salvation Army, and when I did, it was not very good. Goodwill has been moving from being a thrift store to being a retail store that sells used merchandise for almost twenty years now. I do kind of miss the days when you could go to a thrift store and get a t-shirt for 99 cents and a pair of pants for one dollar 99 cents. Does anyone have thoughts on this important topic?
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glowing-fish posted:Along with Grocery Store Chat, does anyone want to contribute to Thrift Store Chat?
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RuanGacho posted:The fans are minimally involved because all of them that actually care about the team that I know largely think management is far too incompetent to actually not make the team bad and any success is in spite of management, kind of the opposite of the seahawks where the coach and management are seen as doing the right things and part of them solution of instilling 1000 years of socialist Superbowl darkness. I dunno the owner of the mariners died in sept 2013, in the off season we signed Cano + new coach and almost made the playoffs. I still don't really watch baseball ,but the owners are actually spending money to win again rather than just letting the team exist. Thats what made me stop watching was it always seemed like the mariners were mediocre ,but not terrible and always had good pieces, (first our pitching was terrible then we fix pitching and our batting turns to poo poo etc.) but this year we seem to have moved in the right direction and I wouldn't be surprised to see us make the playoffs this year. oxbrain posted:Nobody gave a poo poo about the seahawks before they started winning. Give them a couple average seasons and we'll return to not giving a poo poo. The same goes for the mariners. I liked the sea hawks ,but people have gone overboard my mom has way to much Seahawks crap now, it just sucks tickets are way to expensive my grandparents were initial season ticket holders, but gave them up when I was little for reasons?  kensei posted:That 2001 team was magical tho! Mariners were a good team from like 1995 to 2003 then it went downhill fast.
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glowing-fish posted:Along with Grocery Store Chat, does anyone want to contribute to Thrift Store Chat? I went to a St Vincent once to donate some stuff and they were hella picky so I just drove across the street to Goodwill and they took it all. That's my story.
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Jan 4, 2015 02:35
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There's a small street in Lynnwood near Alderwood Mall that has like 3-4 thrift stores next to each other, as well as a creepy sex shop.
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Kenmore has a good St. Vincent's, I picked 2 forest green Fiestaware cups and paid a buck each for those bitches.
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glowing-fish posted:Along with Grocery Store Chat, does anyone want to contribute to Thrift Store Chat? Both Goodwill and St Vincent down here are okay, but the former is usually more consistent. I think there is a Value Village in Springfield, but I've only been there for Halloween costumes.
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glowing-fish posted:Goodwill has been moving from being a thrift store to being a retail store that sells used merchandise for almost twenty years now. I do kind of miss the days when you could go to a thrift store and get a t-shirt for 99 cents and a pair of pants for one dollar 99 cents. Does anyone have thoughts on this important topic?
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Goodwill sucks because it takes free poo poo, profits from it, and then moves those millions in profits to the top. Then it hides behind being a "non-profit" and pays its workers pennies. Its the Walmart of thrift stores. http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/25/19062348-disabled-workers-paid-just-pennies-an-hour-and-its-legal quote:Goodwill Industries, a multibillion-dollar company whose executives make six-figure salaries, is among the nonprofit groups permitted to pay thousands of disabled workers far less than minimum wage because of a federal law known as Section 14 (c). Labor Department records show that some Goodwill workers in Pennsylvania earned wages as low as 22, 38 and 41 cents per hour in 2009.
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Yeah people still donate all their old unused attic-stuff to Goodwill, thinking it's a charity, when it hasn't actually been a charity in forever. They basically siphon off what little philantropic spirit suburbanites have, and turn a sizable profit off it.
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Ditocoaf posted:They basically siphon off what little philantropic spirit suburbanites have, and turn a sizable profit off it. That's funny. People mostly dump off poo poo they don't want in my experience.
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Jan 4, 2015 09:54
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Quick poll: what do people in the area generally set their thermostat to?
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Jan 4, 2015 12:15
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Thanatosian posted:Quick poll: what do people in the area generally set their thermostat to? If I am to believe the dial on the wall, mine is set to 60 but its warmer in here b/c of surrounding apartments.
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Jan 4, 2015 12:59
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I bounce between 65 and 75 depending on whether I feel like wearing pants/shirt around the house or not
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Jan 4, 2015 13:21
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I find 50 to 60 adequate.
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Accretionist posted:I find 50 to 60 adequate. I used to keep it here, and then I got married and had to keep it at at least 65 for her. Now we have two kids and it stays at 68-70 depending on how bad the draft coming off the windows is.
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Maybe 67 or so. Also I agree with Pyroxene, I just give poo poo to goodwill about once a year when my closets get too full of poo poo.
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60 if I'm going to be active, 68 if I'm gonna be sedentary.
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I thought about jokingly posting "90 in the winter, 60 in the summer," but then I thought about it and realized the answer is: 75, all the time.
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I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I had no idea Goodwill was so lovely. Is there an alternative organization I can donate stuff to?
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Jan 4, 2015 18:53
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Bargain World. On Pearl st in Tacoma near Point Defiance. Not a piece of furniture in my house cost me more than 30$. It's as big as a value village but it's locally owned so 3$ levis are a thing. Also Goodwill sucks. You shouldn't shop or go there. Donate to your local one off thrift store instead.
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The fact that some
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My thermostat is usually set between 70 and 75, depending on time of day. I don't do well with cold.
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