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Seminal Flu posted:Rocket says "Merry Christmas" to you nerds. It's cold as poo poo here and our pup gives no poo poo.  
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BloodBag posted:The fact that 14 was the guy that convinced me to go see Mad Max: Fury Road giving such a glowing review of Rogue One has me super stoked for my Sunday matinee showing with my wife.  Just reserved seats for my wife and I for 3:00 PM today. W00t!Goober Peas posted:I dunno, my Kenmore appliances are holding up well - granted they're 15 years old. The microwave is probably going to be the first to die. Our previous Kenmore lasted 10 years, and frankly probably would have continued to work if someone would have been willing to recharge it  I'm hoping our new American built Whirlpool will last as long if not longer. Fricking $1300 fridge. So glad we didn't buy a Samsung (thanks to you guys bitching about them earlier.) Applebees Appetizer posted:So I've been talking to some idiot dealer about a car im interested in a few hours south of me. I said I'm busy so I'm not sure when I'll make it down to see it. He then offers to deliver to me for $100, and I tell him I'd think about it. So the next day I call him and tell him I'd rather see it first, and that my wife has some business to attend to down there in the next few weeks and i'd just come then. Then the guy goes off on a tangent saying OH GREAT IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS MAYBE MERRY CHRISTMAS....And before I can tell him to gently caress of hes says he's just kidding. Car sales is a sick and twisted industry. Sadly, they can't seem to figure out why people don't really like buying a new car. Hint: it's because you employ a bunch of douchebags and pay them based on how deep they can lodge the dildo. I'm very interested in this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UeuMHrPS4Q Rear mount turbo in a CV P71. I really want to see how the engine holds up to boost.
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Washed/waxed my car today since I'm lucky enough to have a heated garage and hose in my building. We just got hit with 7 inches of snow this weekend, so I'm going to take the bus to work because I don't want to ruin the car while the snow's getting cleared. 
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Hey guys I've been awake without eating since like midnight and i've got the gordon ramsay youtube channel on autoplay, can someone tell me why i feel so hungry?
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Enourmo posted:Hey guys I've been awake without eating since like midnight and i've got the gordon ramsay youtube channel on autoplay, can someone tell me why i feel so hungry?
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Dec 18, 2016 23:37
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I'm now watching Kitchen Nightmares USA. I love Gordon Ramsay 
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keykey posted:Not really sure what you're talking about.. Our college hypes football as much as the next and as a result people come to games, etc.. Also the money is being used in the break to refresh parking lots and adding an additional one. Last year it also updated the facade on a few buildings, year before last a new cafeteria. So, yes. It's hyped but for good cause that the money actually gets used elsewhere on campus. Classroom materials and other things are already included in lifecycle funding. The less bonds we conceive, the better it is for the community. http://www.acenet.edu/news-room/Pages/Myth-College-Sports-Are-a-Cash-Cow2.aspx No. Most college athletic programs, ESPECIALLY football, are largely funded by mandatory student fees and are a net loss overall. http://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2014/dec/22/jim-moran/moran-says-only-20-colleges-make-profit-sports/ https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/05/16/ncaa CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Dec 19, 2016 |
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Enourmo posted:Hey guys I've been awake without eating since like midnight and i've got the gordon ramsay youtube channel on autoplay, can someone tell me why i feel so hungry? 
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Dec 19, 2016 00:04
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At my wife's work Christmas party. These things are even worse without booze. Also Peter Fonda's double is here.
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Dec 19, 2016 00:24
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YouTube Ramsay is a chill rear end dude though? He's only an angry lunatic on TV (and even then mostly just on the American shows, he appears reasonable in his UK stuff unless he's dealing with legit grade-A dipshits)
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Shrugs Not Drugs posted:YouTube Ramsay is a chill rear end dude though? He's only an angry lunatic on TV (and even then mostly just on the American shows, he appears reasonable in his UK stuff unless he's dealing with legit grade-A dipshits) I watch him in those restaurant disasters things and he is as sweet as pie to the wait staff that are getting screwed over by bad bosses.
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He's firm but fair, something about US tv makes him angrier or something, I dunno. The episode I just watched I'm amazed he didn't slash up the owner's face, holy gently caress.
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CommieGIR posted:No. Most college athletic programs, ESPECIALLY football, are largely funded by mandatory student fees and are a net loss overall. Traditionally, sport and music are two avenues through which someone with no "saleable" metric can succeed, and as such, I'm on board with it being a valid path to get into college/university. On the other hand, real sports involve engines, mountain bikes, or lifting weights, and as such other stuff - particularly team sports - can sod off. Maybe college football would be cheaper if they didn't wear all the padding, and called it rugby.  Olympic Mathlete posted:something about US tv makes him angrier or something, I dunno. Seminal Flu posted:That's seriously funny.
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keykey posted:Not really sure what you're talking about.. Our college hypes football as much as the next and as a result people come to games, etc.. Also the money is being used in the break to refresh parking lots and adding an additional one. Last year it also updated the facade on a few buildings, year before last a new cafeteria. So, yes. It's hyped but for good cause that the money actually gets used elsewhere on campus. Classroom materials and other things are already included in lifecycle funding. The less bonds we conceive, the better it is for the community. Must be nice. My university pissed money away on a basketball team that nobody other than the players gave a poo poo about, pulling funding from arts and sciences to build a new gym "for the students" that less than 1% of the student population use. loving waste of money and a piss-off for those of us whom actually give a poo poo about education and not slack-jawed shitlords dribbling balls who gently caress over group projects by not showing up/working. I don't mind professional sports, but good lords the money that gets pissed away, salaries that are paid, etc. are just so far out of whack. Also, its -33C, -42C with the wind, so I may also be slightly crabbier than normal :P
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Siochain posted:Must be nice. My university pissed money away on a basketball team that nobody other than the players gave a poo poo about, pulling funding from arts and sciences to build a new gym "for the students" that less than 1% of the student population use. loving waste of money and a piss-off for those of us whom actually give a poo poo about education and not slack-jawed shitlords dribbling balls who gently caress over group projects by not showing up/working. If it makes you feel any better, here it's been -20 to -30 here for the last 2 weeks and today it was 0.
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Siochain posted:Must be nice. My university pissed money away on a basketball team that nobody other than the players gave a poo poo about, pulling funding from arts and sciences to build a new gym "for the students" that less than 1% of the student population use. loving waste of money and a piss-off for those of us whom actually give a poo poo about education and not slack-jawed shitlords dribbling balls who gently caress over group projects by not showing up/working. I thought the reason that so many colleges did this stuff is because public universities can't be making too much money, so they piss it away on useless garbage, and then this weird cargo cult grows around sports because some universities can afford to spend millions every year on losing teams
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Powershift posted:If it makes you feel any better, here it's been -20 to -30 here for the last 2 weeks and today it was 0. Yeah, we haven't had it as bad as the prairies. And we're back up to -10'ish and snowing for the rest of the week. This is making not buying a new sled very difficult.
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The Door Frame posted:I thought the reason that so many colleges did this stuff is because public universities can't be making too much money, so they piss it away on useless garbage, and then this weird cargo cult grows around sports because some universities can afford to spend millions every year on losing teams Well if they cant be seen making too much money, why not reduce tuition fees and raise salaries? Oh wait, that would be logical.
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CommieGIR posted:http://www.acenet.edu/news-room/Pages/Myth-College-Sports-Are-a-Cash-Cow2.aspx what kind of college programs aren't a net loss? i'm all for funding engineering programs but they frequently require tons of capital investments compared to a lot of other programs.
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BraveUlysses posted:what kind of college programs aren't a net loss? i'm all for funding engineering programs but they frequently require tons of capital investments compared to a lot of other programs. You don't buy tickets to engineering games, engineers don't have have merchandise, engineers don't sell food, and engineering exams aren't broadcast on TV
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Sports dont put rockets in space and solve complex human related problems. Doesnt matter anyway. This country all but criminalizes mathematics and critical loving thinking.
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cursedshitbox posted:Sports dont put rockets in space and solve complex human related problems. No, but no one who would donate to those programs is donating to sports instead.
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From the files of "When it rains, it pours": Wife's grandmother died this morning around 2:30 am. Spent the day with family and all that. Got home and decided to grade papers and do laundry.... and the transmission in our washer went out thanks to me overloading it (my mind was elsewhere when I loaded it, and I didn't feel like I crammed too much in there, but when I emptied it, the washer was clearly overloaded.) A new one is about 180 bucks; new washers start at 287 for an Amana (offbrand Whirlpool). The one we have is a GE, and the parts I'd need to fix it would be about 200 bucks - transmission, belt, and nut, so I'm going that route first. The nut I need to remove is corroded on there solidly, and no one has a socket big enough (and I'm just rounding it off with channel locks), so I have to wait until tomorrow to proceed. HomeDepot, Lowes, and Northern Tool had nothing. Planning to try Harbor Freight tomorrow.
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Condolences on grandma  If you can get a new washer with presumebly some sort of warranty for less than $100 more to fix your broken one, I would just go that route tbh.
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West SAAB Story posted:Goodbye, Grandma. QuarkMartial posted:From the files of "When it rains, it pours": Sorry guys.
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cursedshitbox posted:Sports dont put rockets in space and solve complex human related problems. We're a dying breed, man. iwentdoodie posted:No, but no one who would donate to those programs is donating to sports instead. That's the point: We can't donate to large R&D projects for the most part, but people can piss away money onto school sports programs that are largely a no-pay recruiting camp for a for-profit sports league.
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I need some help, last year I built new XP pcs for my store and some kind posters here supplied me with some XP Pro keys so I could use the ISO I had on hand. I've been asked to built two new machines for our Lansing store and none of the keys I have found online have worked. Anybody got an old XP Pro key they don't need anymore?
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Rhyno posted:I need some help, last year I built new XP pcs for my store and some kind posters here supplied me with some XP Pro keys so I could use the ISO I had on hand. I've been asked to built two new machines for our Lansing store and none of the keys I have found online have worked. Anybody got an old XP Pro key they don't need anymore? I should. Let me dig around.
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CommieGIR posted:I should. Let me dig around. That'd be awesome man, they can't find anything up there so i'm just throwing some new towers together from my parts bins but the only ISOs I have are XP Pro.
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CommieGIR posted:We're a dying breed, man. Not disagreeing with you. But, again, the people spending that money wouldn't be spending it on STEM either way, it'd be going to more regressive poo poo. I do think that college athletics, football especially, should be shunted into a minor/feeder league however. I love CFB, but I'd root the same for the Austin Longhorns as I do for the UT Longhorns. The NCAA is a loving scam.
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*finishes watching Pitch Black again* *pretends lighter is my last source of light outside while smoking*
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Damnit. I got adopted by a stray cat. Neighbor had one show up on her doorstep. Too cold outside for any pets, and neighbor is allergic. So I have a second cat hanging out here until I can get him/her checked for a chip. I'm keeping him/her separated from my cat, though I did let them see each other.. no hissing or any signs of aggression from either cat, aside from my cat being a bit startled and the other cat giving a "great, there's another cat in this place?" look. Getting her checked for a microchip tomorrow, and I've been posting on Nextdoor, various Facebook groups, reddit, etc to try and locate her owner. I don't want to let her mingle with my cat, since my cat doesn't do that well with other cats... and I have no idea what she may have. I'm assuming female just based on size, I might be wrong, but I'm not gonna go and grab the pussy by the pussy (or the penis) to find out. *Bruce Campbell voice* WELL HELLO  e: holy poo poo, my car grew a pair. He's been hissing at the bathroom door (other cat is in there) every time he walks past it. The only time I've heard a hiss from him before was when his tail got stepped on.  Should have expected that, but he's generally scared of his own shadow, and there was no aggression when they first saw each other.randomidiot fucked around with this message at 10:03 on Dec 19, 2016 |
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There is no joy like the joy of a drunk man after midnight who's just rememvered theree s a chimichanga in the fridge
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A person on a local Facebook Lexus group is selling their '96 SC300, and even has the original window sticker. Check out this price... That's 44 grand (MSRP), in 1996, for an SC300, which is basically Lexus' "base" coupe. In 2016 money, that's $68,000 for the cheapest coupe Lexus made at the time. (we aren't even talking about the SC400.) The spiritual successor to the SC300 in 2016 is the RC (they actually even have a trim called RC300), which has an MSRP of ~$40k for its cheapest trim. In 1996 dollars, that's just $26,000. So the 1996 SC300 was roughly 40% more expensive than its current model. Now admittedly math isn't my strong suit, but this is mind boggling to me. It's no secret that Lexus built the hell out of their cars in the 90's, but I never would have thought you could buy the same model car 20 years later with significantly more tech and features for 40% less. I have to assume decreased market share, more US based plants, less taxes, and other stuff caused the drop in price. Still kinda crazy though.
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$1050 for a CD changer?! Even by 95-96 prices.. holy poo poo. 
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14 BAR RIFF posted:There is no joy like the joy of a drunk man after midnight who's just rememvered theree s a chimichanga in the fridge Replace "chimichanga" with "ridiculously dense chocolate Irish coffee cake with white chocolate whisky ganache", but yeah. That recipe is definitely in my top 3 ever, holy poo poo. Several thousand calories of goodness. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 12:51 on Dec 19, 2016 |
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trouser chili posted:It's starts kinda fun but by the last season I felt it had become a chore. Okay, I watched Sons of Anarchy to the end of season two and I am officially done. It's just a stream of bad decisions and personal angst. Worst, every single crisis was their own fault that could have easily been solved had they shot the bad guy when they first met them and had the opportunity. Time after time, they are in dire straits with someone they could have easily killed 5 episodes ago and avoided the whole issue. So, The Walking Dead is too dull (feels like an extended PTA meeting about the upcoming bake sale), Breaking Bad is out because I hated every single character in it and had no empathy for any of them (Jessie was kind of relatable, but too dumb). The Blacklist makes CSI look realistic. Guess I might go back to watching The Wire on continuous loop.
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