Suspicious Dish posted:

ya im d)

exploded mummy posted:

boston outdrew milwaukee in 2014 despite having a smaller park

hobbesmaster posted:

also apparently its "duck, duck, gray duck" instead of "duck, duck, goose"

jit bull transpile posted:

That's because the Brewers completely collapsed out of nowhere in the second half and ownership was not giving satisfactory answers about how they were going to turn things around.

keyboard vomit posted:

What a Brewers

hobbesmaster posted:

also apparently its "duck, duck, gray duck" instead of "duck, duck, goose"

Captain Foo posted:

also, red sox > brewers as a general concept

C.H.O.M.E. posted:

is this somehow racist or something

Sagebrush posted:

Toronto all by itself experiences like 100F to -30F in an average year

C.H.O.M.E. posted:

is this somehow racist or something

quote:

But it honestly is a shared, strange moment in the life of most Minnesotans when they first learn that no one else in the country calls it this. It is not taught to us as Our Special Version of the game, it’s just...what the game is. Imagine if, growing up, the first time you met some kid from another state, he told you that, everywhere else in the world, they don’t call it “Simon Says,” they call it “Horatio’s Request.” And you are the weird one, apparently, for only knowing it as this other thing.

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

President Beep posted:

in the uk "where's waldo" is called "where's wally" and the hokey pokey is called the "hokey cokey"

hobbesmaster posted:

also apparently its "duck, duck, gray duck" instead of "duck, duck, goose"

Roosevelt posted:

lancemantis posted:

people that wear shorts year round are

a) obese as hell and shorts are the only real pants that work for them
b) poor and thats just the clothing they have
c) manchildren
d) all of the above

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

this is a good read

https://twitter.com/GrahamStarr/status/1024377992917729281

This strong IP ownership funneled capital into Silicon Valley, as the creators of apps, smartphones, and other gadgetry (and then, the massive tech corporations buying out their competitors and their copyrights) were the only business in town. Big Tech’s deregulation continued during the reign of George W. Bush, and was then given an injection of adrenaline under the country’s most tech-friendly president. Whether this access, and presumable clout, by Big Tech was proactively welcomed in by the Obama White House, or if this was simply the White House responding to its growing power, is up for debate. But it occurred during a time when tech officially raided the real world.

Since the DMCA views the computer components in “smart” devices as proprietary information, if you want to fix your “smart machine,” you’re stuck taking it to the dealer instead of a cheaper, third-party repair person. Combined with their ability to cease customer support and updates when they want, tech corporations, this means, hold a monopoly over their product and its lifespan. They not only decide how much their products sell for, but how much it costs to fix them, and how long they even can be fixed.

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

g) cut the hems too high on my jncos

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

g) cut the hems too high on my jncos

President Beep posted:

holy poo poo. jnco cutoffs...

hobbesmaster posted:

i thought there was a dmca exemption for repairing your own stuff

Trabisnikof posted:

“Duck, duck, goose” is boring. It relies on a simple binary: The kid you’re tapping is either “duck” or “goose.” The words aren’t phonetically similar, so basically as soon as the “it” kid begins forming that first consonant sound, you know what’s happening.

“Gray duck,” though, introduces nearly infinite variations. The first, most obvious one—the one all kids figure out right away to add some spice to the game—is to psych them out with a well-placed “green duck.” Soon you’re drawing out the “grrrr” as long as you can to keep the other kids guessing.

Then you add other little tricks. You give each kid a different color—“red duck, purple duck, orange duck, beige duck”—so that when you finally drop the “gray duck,” in the same flat tone, maybe the kid you’re tapping doesn’t notice for a second and you get a nice head start.

Eventually you’re throwing all sorts of modifiers in there, stretching yourself to come up with adjectives: “gross duck, great duck, grand duck.” Now it’s a word game, and not just a simple test of one’s ability to run slightly faster than another kid.

What do you even do in “duck, duck, goose?” Do you name other birds? Sounds like a fun game for birdwatchers, maybe.

Do your children a favor: Teach them “duck, duck, gray duck.”

Trabisnikof posted:

“Duck, duck, goose” is boring. It relies on a simple binary: The kid you’re tapping is either “duck” or “goose.” The words aren’t phonetically similar, so basically as soon as the “it” kid begins forming that first consonant sound, you know what’s happening.

“Gray duck,” though, introduces nearly infinite variations. The first, most obvious one—the one all kids figure out right away to add some spice to the game—is to psych them out with a well-placed “green duck.” Soon you’re drawing out the “grrrr” as long as you can to keep the other kids guessing.

Then you add other little tricks. You give each kid a different color—“red duck, purple duck, orange duck, beige duck”—so that when you finally drop the “gray duck,” in the same flat tone, maybe the kid you’re tapping doesn’t notice for a second and you get a nice head start.

Eventually you’re throwing all sorts of modifiers in there, stretching yourself to come up with adjectives: “gross duck, great duck, grand duck.” Now it’s a word game, and not just a simple test of one’s ability to run slightly faster than another kid.

What do you even do in “duck, duck, goose?” Do you name other birds? Sounds like a fun game for birdwatchers, maybe.

Do your children a favor: Teach them “duck, duck, gray duck.”

ThePeavstenator posted:

birds are cool

infernal machines posted:

we just don't know

FMguru posted:

im beginning to suspect we never will

PleasureKevin posted:

the biggest market right now said their HDD failed and any funds on the site were “away from them”. it’s still running. you're just dong-razzled at this point.

FMguru posted:

amazon hq2 hint spotted

https://twitter.com/MarketUrbanism/status/1024302121502629893