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Sham bam bamina! posted:you're supposed to stick them inside your shirt's collar when you carefully take them out of your starched collar and place them on a table next to the bed hosting your shameful one night stand, that "lucky" man/woman will observe two things: 1. you worry too much about collars 2. oh sweet you have an awkward tattoo-looking thing on your $0.35 plastic collar stays. that definitely reflects your unique personality !
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Nov 7, 2013 04:27
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coffeetable posted:just looked up the JOBS act don't forget the SEC's no-action letter about the goldman/facebook shennanigans. there are now essentially no limitations to a private stock offering thanks, obama
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Nov 9, 2013 16:21
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goddamnedtwisto posted:fish in fish and chips is fried in batter, not breadcrumbs - basically the same stuff as pancake batter but slightly thicker and obviously unsweetened. it has to be heavily whisked to get air into it, otherwise you get a hard crust rather than a light crunchy one. for some reason every single "proper" chef manages to miss that step and it just loving ruins it beer battered chicken is even better than beer battered fish
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Nov 28, 2013 17:56
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ahmeni posted:ive always wanted a system for bars and restaurants where you get to lock your phone away while it charges but im not a spergineer so i know you cant solve social problems with hardware goddamnedtwisto posted:there's a company that sells mobile phone charging lockers, you see them dotted around shopping centres and stuff - but nobody is ever going to lock their phone away in a bar because what else can you do if there's even the tiniest lapse in conversation but incessantly scroll through old emails trying to make it look to everyone else in your group that you have some sort of social life even though none of them are noticing it because they're doing the exact same loving thing? i have seen charging stations in bars a few time, but they never have lockers.... you're expected to just plug in your $600 smartphone and i guess stand right next to the station so nobody steals the most-easily-fenced thing
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Dec 3, 2013 03:54
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WorkingPeer posted:this is cook's illustrated's top recommended 12-inch non-stick pan. buy it and love it: http://www.amazon.com/T-fal-Professional-Thermo-Spot-Indicator-Dishwasher/dp/B000GWG0T2 t-fal is not v. durable (also most of them are made in china. idk about this particular model)
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Dec 21, 2013 18:28
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Install Windows posted:incidentally, this is why everyone thinks people from nyc/the general area is "rude" and "mean". because the standard way to talk to a stranger is the way that full of themselves faux politeness areas reserve for talking to close friends. new yorkers are perfectly nice people, but you will never hear "bless your heart" i consider this a feature not a bug
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Dec 28, 2013 18:42
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~Coxy posted:what do you do on say a weekend if you and your SO want to go to different places i did the math and owning a car was costing me about $600/mo. maybe you have cheaper insurance or drive crappier cars, but that was my number. is it seriously worth $600/mo to resolve a conflict that arises a maximum of four times a month? (the weekends) i kept two cars despite having a train commute for a while, but when i did the numbers it was stupid. i was mostly keeping the second car just so i could have MY CAR. it was a weird ego thing i think i put 10 miles on MY CAR the last year i owned it. i had to ask my wife to drive it to work occasionally just to stop it from rotting out in its parking spot
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Dec 31, 2013 17:41
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Dead Inside Darwin posted:one of my most favorite parts of that whole debacle is that its all generic mass produced ingredients hes just slapping together and trying to pass of as bespoke handmade hot dogs it's rural alabama, dude just using salt and pepper will blow minds
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Dec 31, 2013 17:43
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Tori CMOS posted:Speaking of cars, we have a Mazda3 we owe $5k on and the girlfriend has a thing for the new 3 Wagon, any way we could roll that up without getting hosed over or should we just wait a year? when you buy a new car, you are doing high stakes negotiating with a pair of professionals (the sales idiot in front of you and the guy in the tower). they negotiate $30k deals all day every day. you do it like, once every couple of years the point is, you're at a huge disadvantage. every time you make the deal more complicated, you put yourself at a greater disadvantage. why put more balls in the air when you're already competing with a professional juggler? if you buy cash (or with bank financing) you negotiate:
if you buy, and have a trade-in, you negotiate:
if you buy, and have a trade-in, and you want to roll up into a new loan:
if you lease:
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Dec 31, 2013 18:37
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Tori CMOS posted:What I'm asking here isn't necessarily what we're buying, but the easiest way to get something else with a year or two left on the current loan. I'm sure there'd be a loving involved somewhere but she wants to know and she likes the people at her dealership and I'm not going to dictate to her where and what she buys unless it's an obvious and real loving. if you pay off the loan on the current thing, that massively reduces the "surface area" for the dealer to gently caress with you (if you can't afford to casually pay off a $5k auto loan, maybe you shouldn't be buying a new car)
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Dec 31, 2013 18:40
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Dead Inside Darwin posted:if you want a hatchback you can get something thats a few years old that will have plenty of space good used car deals are much harder to find than they were before the financial crisis. new car sales have slowed, new car leases have slowed even more. not nearly as many 1-2 year cars on the market, lots more people chasing after them. i'm not sure i would buy/lease a new car but it's not as plumb stupid as it was 5 years ago
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Dec 31, 2013 18:41
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Dead Inside Darwin posted:so do you willingly have no social life or did it arise accidentally you post in yospos pot, kettle, black
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Jan 1, 2014 18:14
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minivanmegafun posted:"Okay, but we must bring Dead Inside Darwin with us. He is a terrible teetotaler but he wishes to be the designated driver." nobody ever does this, and then they end up needing one of these after a few years. it's not a kickstarter but it's made by a company called quickstartaz so close enough right http://interlockcup.com/ 
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Jan 1, 2014 18:27
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hide your shameful dui conviction by pretending to be a goony pre-diabetic who drinks warm soda
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Jan 1, 2014 18:28
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TOOT BOOT posted:I swear, the LGBT acronym grows a couple letters every time I see it you're getting old
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Jan 4, 2014 06:26
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syscall girl posted:after a lucrative career as a writer and being well respected as a teacher of creative writing, having a lovely wife and children and basically living the american dream he hanged himself the most touching moments for me in infinite jest were DFW's discussions of depression and addiction. particularly the depression. the author's suicide should not be a surprise to anyone.
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Jan 21, 2014 22:53
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spoiling the subject of The Entertainment gives away nothing and won't change the book for you at all hth
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Jan 21, 2014 22:54
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syscall girl posted:took a lot of mushrooms and got the darkness so bad i was fortunate that i literally couldn't get off the ground to find a sharp thing to end it all imagine this for the rest of your life year after grinding year
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Jan 21, 2014 23:34
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syscall girl posted:which he never found funny it's not funny infinite jest is often farcical in content, but the tone is so dark that it is pretty much never funny. a book that features The Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment in the proud country of O.N.A.N. nevertheless manages to contain almost nothing that could fly as a joke if you find yourself busting a gut consider whether you may in fact be a sociopath
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Jan 22, 2014 00:01
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syscall girl posted:i didn't say it was funny critics did the foreword and blurbs on the back of my copy wouldn't shut up about how riotously funny the book was now, having read the book, i wonder if those critics being quoted aren't just pod people
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Jan 22, 2014 00:26
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Dead Inside Darwin posted:"large heatsink" it's a 25 watt amd that is slower than your average cellphone. passive cooling and $300 price targets are not unreasonable the product itself is bad though. a 2 ghz constantly-throttling amd mobile chip is just dogshit. i don't know what game you think you're gonna run on that
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Jan 24, 2014 02:00
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anthonypants posted:"Play smooth and responsive Call of Duty(r) at 1080p" and there's a mention of someone playing COD4 on it, a game which came out seven years ago. truly a remarkable benchmark. no loving way maybe for three seconds before the chip throttles itself when it hits 65C
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Jan 24, 2014 02:01
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stoutfish posted:finally, a safe space for gamers to avoid fursecution
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Jan 24, 2014 05:01
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video games targeted at adults exist, they're just not aaa blockbuster titles spacechem is not going to set any sales records and that is at least partly because it is unlikely to set most teenage boys hearts athrob
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Jan 25, 2014 22:23
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Proteus4994 posted:i assume he lives with his mom and dad because 40k/yr is a pretty poo poo salary 2k for cheetos, 18k for booth babes at the wrap party in mom's back yard
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Feb 1, 2014 02:41
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Sham bam bamina! posted:it's actually just about average but he's still a shithead average wage is around 28k average salary is higher because salary implies a pretty good job. not really a fair measure
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Feb 1, 2014 04:53
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Al! posted:in america getting a salary is universally worse than being a high paid hourly employee. that's why unions almost universally reject salaries unions represent hourly workers by definition. by the same token union work rules etc all revolve around hourly rates because go figure all their members are hourly. you could in theory apply the same rules to a salary but it would make things more complicated for no reason
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Feb 1, 2014 04:58
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dont change my name posted:agreed in the u.s., salaried employees are still entitled to overtime pay (but they ain't gonna ask for it)
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Feb 1, 2014 04:58
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yes, tech workers and doctors/nurses/EMTs are blanket exempted from ot requirements  there are some other blanket carve-outs but those are the two biggiesbut virtually no one else. overtime fraud by employers is really, really common. having a salary doesn't make you exempt. being on-call counts for overtime, even if you are not actually working. etc etc etc
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Feb 1, 2014 06:08
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Al! posted:do work 10 hours a week or do you occupy an office or a chair and work for only 10 hours of that because there is a huge difference it's the sad one
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Feb 1, 2014 06:51
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transfatphobic posted:i lived alone in a nice apartment in baltimore with a brand new car on $40k a year while paying off student loans on time you lived in baltimore holy gently caress yes every normal white collar person in america is looking at that behavior (brand new car, lives in baltimore) and saying "christ what dire straits drove him there?" the answer is: 40k a year
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Feb 3, 2014 20:53
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hubris.height posted:fwiw upper midwest 50k is basically middle class, and rent / mortgage is normally about 600-700 for a very nice two bed room or reasonably nice three the median income is around 26k, so 50k would be a household with two average incomes in a place with completely average living costs so no duh that is basically middle class
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Feb 3, 2014 20:54
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Proteus4994 posted:i mean, can you live on 40k/yr? yes so here is the heart of it: average americans live like poo poo but this is yospos so we all have computer careers and money flowing out of our ears and we argue about what kind of steak or beer to buy, not how the gently caress do we put food on the table it is downright uncomfortable to confront how the average person lives. i suggest not making the attempt
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Feb 3, 2014 20:56
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Proteus4994 posted:nyet i assume he works in the middle of loving nowhere that 63k average is like 80k on the coasts and 50k in the flyovers
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Feb 3, 2014 21:07
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transfatphobic posted:baltimore is OK on individual streets and then hosed up anywhere else you know that this is how people describe mogadishu and kinshasa, right?
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Feb 3, 2014 21:40
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hubris.height posted:yeah that's kinda my point median household income in nyc is not significantly different from the rest of the country, despite the cost of living. most of maryland is meth country. average americans suffer everywhere you go.
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Feb 3, 2014 21:42
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transfatphobic posted:why the actual gently caress would i know that you talk about your hometown the way expats discuss tortured third-world capitals, i couldn't help but notice the similarity
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Feb 3, 2014 21:43
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anthonypants posted:it's getting closer best. kickstarter. ever.
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Feb 3, 2014 21:49
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power botton posted:just stopping into the thread to mention that I'm crazy rich welp hape you all have a nice day yeah it was totally subtle and understated until now
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