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A_B · Post by **A_B** » Fri Jul 05, 2013 10:30 am

brian wrote:
AB_skin_test wrote:I mean this as nicely as possible, Brian, but you're out of your fucking mind.
You're probably right. But I'm hanging on to that thing for another 50 years just in case.

Well, I think you should because of what it means to you. But I don't think DFW will ever be as accessible as Salinger, which is the main point for my admittedly vitriolic response above.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 1:22 pm

Rex thinning down and doing some running with the bulls.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 4:21 pm

Wonder if he sniffs their hooves.

teeteebee · Post by **teeteebee** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 9:35 pm

wlu_lax6 wrote:Rex thinning down and doing some running with the bulls.

Like wearing white jorts after eating spinach soup, I can't imagine wearing white pants to the bull run is a good idea.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 3:30 am

BOOM! Finalized the contract on the house I'm going to rent. 4 beds/2.5 bath 175 m² (1,884 ft²) with a carport, a couple extra parking spots, and a small backyard (in other words: not a lot of grass to mow). Large kitchen, large living room, really large deck. Also: all wood everything. The place is awesome. Found it 3 days after I got here and I'll move in in a couple weeks. Once I'm in, I'll do a virtual tour video and post it on YouTube. And it's only 10km from base too. My rent cap (called OHA) is 1,282.50 Euro. This place was 1,300 Euro. The difference is completely worth it. I couldn't have asked for a better spot to live.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 10:42 am

Johnnie wrote:BOOM! Finalized the contract on the house I'm going to rent. 4 beds/2.5 bath 175 m² (1,884 ft²) with a carport, a couple extra parking spots, and a small backyard (in other words: not a lot of grass to mow). Large kitchen, large living room, really large deck. Also: all wood everything. The place is awesome. Found it 3 days after I got here and I'll move in in a couple weeks. Once I'm in, I'll do a virtual tour video and post it on YouTube. And it's only 10km from base too. My rent cap (called OHA) is 1,282.50 Euro. This place was 1,300 Euro. The difference is completely worth it. I couldn't have asked for a better spot to live.

Congrats! What are you going to do with a 4 BR house?

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 11:38 am

The Sybian wrote:Congrats! What are you going to do with a 4 BR house?

No idea. I did it to make up for living in a one room shack with a shared bathroom in Korea. At least one of those rooms will be a guest bedroom. So if anyone has plans to visit Germany ever, you know who to call.

howard · Post by **howard** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 1:56 pm

America no longer world’s fattest, UN report says

Chipotle will fix this.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 2:07 pm

Johnnie wrote:
The Sybian wrote:Congrats! What are you going to do with a 4 BR house?
No idea. I did it to make up for living in a one room shack with a shared bathroom in Korea. At least one of those rooms will be a guest bedroom. So if anyone has plans to visit Germany ever, you know who to call.

Where are you in Germany?

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 2:22 pm

Jerloma wrote:
Johnnie wrote:
The Sybian wrote:Congrats! What are you going to do with a 4 BR house?
No idea. I did it to make up for living in a one room shack with a shared bathroom in Korea. At least one of those rooms will be a guest bedroom. So if anyone has plans to visit Germany ever, you know who to call.
Where are you in Germany?

Ramstein AB. I'm near Kaiserslautern.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 3:09 pm

Ah...so not near Hamburg. Hamburg is not only awesome but holy fuck, the women.

HDO45331 · Post by **HDO45331** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 12:57 am

Dustin Hoffman is the best, most veratile actor, of my lifetime. Followed by Robert DeNiro, but it is not a close race.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 4:31 am

Jerloma wrote:Ah...so not near Hamburg. Hamburg is not only awesome but holy fuck, the women.

That's 6 hours away. One of these days I'll go there. But I'm 45 minutes from Trier. I'm sure it's the same diff when it comes to ladies in this country. I can't stop rubbernecking. And what's great is they stare back too! Completely different from Asian or American women. I'm liking it.

rass · Post by **rass** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 8:57 am

My wife, in her Honda Odyssey, was backing out of a parking space after dropping my daughter off at girl-scout camp when she hit (or was hit by) another mom, in her Honda Odyssey, backing out of a parking space after dropping her daughter off at girl-scout camp.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 9:15 am

In 1957 mini-vans didn't exist.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 10:49 am

AB_skin_test wrote:In 1957 mini-vans didn't exist.

Rass, your wife and daughter would have been safer in the AB-mobile!

rass · Post by **rass** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 11:22 am

sancarlos wrote:
AB_skin_test wrote:In 1957 mini-vans didn't exist.
Rass, your wife and daughter would have been safer in the AB-mobile!

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 12:17 pm

rass wrote:
sancarlos wrote:
AB_skin_test wrote:In 1957 mini-vans didn't exist.
Rass, your wife and daughter would have been safer in the AB-mobile!
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Coal powered?

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 12:22 pm

Obvs.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 8:44 am

for those who follow cricket, the most amazing thing is happening.

England vs Australia in the bi-annual best of 5 Ashes Test series.

England are collapsing, Australia were 117/9 down and they have now batted for an additional 150 run 10th wicket partnership. The 11th batter (19 years old) is approaching a century.

BBC TMS ‏@bbctms 5m
This is the highest 10th wicket partnership for Australia in Test cricket breaking a record that had stood since 1924

http://www.espncricinfo.com/the-ashes-2 ... 66932.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Post by **brian** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 12:27 pm

We have a lot of athletes and celebrities who compete in our contests, so I'm always interested for some reason to see what their e-mail addresses are. There are a LOT of yahoo.com addresses for some reason. Athletes don't like the Gmail I guess.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:20 pm

brian wrote:We have a lot of athletes and celebrities who compete in our contests, so I'm always interested for some reason to see what their e-mail addresses are. There are a LOT of yahoo.com addresses for some reason. Athletes don't like the Gmail I guess.

any outstandingly funny names, like HoopStar@yahoo.com or such?

Post by **brian** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:32 pm

No, nothing too crazy. Usually it's some weird inversion of their real name(s). (I wonder if someone consults them about this stuff.)

For example, Lavar Arrington is ravalarrington(at)yahoo.com (obviously, no one please e-mail him)

howard · Post by **howard** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 2:31 pm

brian wrote:For example, Lavar Arrington is ravalarrington(at)yahoo.com (obviously, no one please e-mail him)

And that includes you guys, NSA!

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:48 am

Good-bye YYJ . . . hello YVR.

Move complete (except for all that troublesome unpacking).

Passing through the Gulf Islands on BC Ferries, like it or not, the vista is spectacular.

The amount of ferry traffic in those narrow channels is surprising. These shots are of other BC Ferries going in opposite directions.

That's sunrise, not set. The 4:30 AM wake-up to catch the first ferry after a final night's frenzy of preparation allowed no moment's slumber. The final object stuffed into a moving truck and then hit the highway to the seaway.

And then, one day, you wake up in the morning and find yourself living in Vancouver. Again.

So it goes.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 12:27 pm

I've ridden that ferry a few times. Beautiful part of the world.

howard · Post by **howard** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 2:45 pm

Hmm.

I thought you left the swamp because you were too much of a pussy to stick around and argue historic metaphors used to try to analyze current Egyptian politics.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 4:25 pm

degenerasian wrote:for those who follow cricket, the most amazing thing is happening.

England vs Australia in the bi-annual best of 5 Ashes Test series.

England are collapsing, Australia were 117/9 down and they have now batted for an additional 150 run 10th wicket partnership. The 11th batter (19 years old) is approaching a century.

BBC TMS ‏@bbctms 5m
This is the highest 10th wicket partnership for Australia in Test cricket breaking a record that had stood since 1924

http://www.espncricinfo.com/the-ashes-2 ... 66932.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I've heard of Sir Donald Bradman, but that's about as far as my cricket expertise goes. Wait...there's some dudes in India that hit wicked sixes, and that's cool too. And Pakistan.

I was watching cricket (same series I think - it was England-Australia) and I can't figure how they never miss the ball when swinging. That's crazy to me. BODYLINE!

EDIT: Meant to say I was watching some cricket two weeks ago at a pub in Istanbul.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 5:18 pm

Yup it's the start of the Ashes series which takes about 6 weeks to complete.

best of 5 matches, each match is 5 days long.

And yes they protect those three sticks (stumps) and hardly ever miss. Any pitch that is bad they just let go.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 11:32 pm

howard wrote:Hmm.

I thought you left the swamp because you were too much of a pussy to stick around and argue historic metaphors used to try to analyze current Egyptian politics.

There is a philosophical term for this. Well there is now since I'm about to come up with it.

Moving a house full of stuff; some necessary, some idiosyncratic. This takes weeks. Possibly months. When everything is boxed, and you have denied yourself so many essentials for so many days days days because, well, it's boxed, then you are finally ready to have movers put it all in a big ass truck. Or two. This takes maybe a couple of hours. Which is fuck all compared to how much time you spent preparing all this. They are a mere fraction of your frustration.

Truck, ferry, arrival. Then. Then? Then! The movers toss everything in the hut. And then comes unpacking. Unpacking? Oh, yeah, that's fucking fun. Those nuts and bolts that I put in a plastic ziplock bag that belong to the Ikea moron table? Yeah? Yeah. I put those where I would never lose them. And that would be about . . . ah, fuck knows. Not in any of the first hundred boxes.

Amount of time to prepare compared to the amount of time it takes movers to physically take your stuff from one place to another? This is a collision of alternate universes that I get to fund. They are urgent whereas I am more like plate-tectonic over-cautious.

There is a philosophical term for this. No, it's not Schrodinger's Cat. That would be a ridiculous comparison. I have a better term. One more suited to tree-hugging British Columbia.

This is Kierkegaard's Untrimmed Cunt. This is Seneca's Sphincter. This is Aristotle's asshole.

howard · Post by **howard** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 11:40 pm

Ah, the 'ol KUC_SS~AA.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 12:01 am

Well . . . I really just wanted to call the whole thing "Kierkegaard's Pussy", because that would have really nailed it on every level of Dante's definition of Hell's structure and, as icing, Kierkegaard would have fondly bareback anal'd a Spruce tree. But you snuck "pussy" in there so I had to get verbose. Although it worked out well. Y'know. Kind of.

There will be (thankfully for all involved) no PowerPoint presentation.

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 7:00 am

degenerasian wrote:for those who follow cricket, the most amazing thing is happening.

England vs Australia in the bi-annual best of 5 Ashes Test series.

England are collapsing, Australia were 117/9 down and they have now batted for an additional 150 run 10th wicket partnership. The 11th batter (19 years old) is approaching a century.

BBC TMS ‏@bbctms 5m
This is the highest 10th wicket partnership for Australia in Test cricket breaking a record that had stood since 1924

http://www.espncricinfo.com/the-ashes-2 ... 66932.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Pretty nice drama this morning.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 7:10 am

Steve of phpBB wrote:
degenerasian wrote:for those who follow cricket, the most amazing thing is happening.

England vs Australia in the bi-annual best of 5 Ashes Test series.

England are collapsing, Australia were 117/9 down and they have now batted for an additional 150 run 10th wicket partnership. The 11th batter (19 years old) is approaching a century.

BBC TMS ‏@bbctms 5m
This is the highest 10th wicket partnership for Australia in Test cricket breaking a record that had stood since 1924

http://www.espncricinfo.com/the-ashes-2 ... 66932.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Pretty nice drama this morning.

What the hell happened? I tried reading the papers this morning, and all they talked about was that the umpire completely botched a call, and how it was a traveshamockery, but I couldn't understand just what he did that was so wrong.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 7:12 am

I went to an Aussie Rules football match last night.

They don't have roaming vendors in the stands at all. Couldn't believe it.

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 7:24 am

AussieDave wrote:
Steve of phpBB wrote:
degenerasian wrote:for those who follow cricket, the most amazing thing is happening.

England vs Australia in the bi-annual best of 5 Ashes Test series.

England are collapsing, Australia were 117/9 down and they have now batted for an additional 150 run 10th wicket partnership. The 11th batter (19 years old) is approaching a century.

BBC TMS ‏@bbctms 5m
This is the highest 10th wicket partnership for Australia in Test cricket breaking a record that had stood since 1924

http://www.espncricinfo.com/the-ashes-2 ... 66932.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Pretty nice drama this morning.
What the hell happened? I tried reading the papers this morning, and all they talked about was that the umpire completely botched a call, and how it was a traveshamockery, but I couldn't understand just what he did that was so wrong.

I don't know about that. I'm just following the Guardian over-by-over, and Australia has been edging closer and closer to the win. On their last wicket and need 29 runs.

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 7:37 am

And now they've stopped for lunch. Australia started the day needing 150-ish runs in 4 wickets. Now they need 21 runs.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 9:11 am

wow, to lose on an inconclusive review that hurts. England hardly even appealed on the field.

England win by 14 runs.

AussieDave: the hullabaloo was when England were batting Stuart Broad (the 8th batsman) nicked the ball and was caught by the wicketkeeper (catcher). However the umpire didn't call it and Australia were out of challenges. The honorable cricket way used to be the batter would just admit he touched it and 'walk' without having the need for the umpires call. But that book has been thrown out long ago, especially in the Ashes. And it was the Aussies in the 2000s who threw that book away so they shouldn't be complaining.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 5:01 pm

AussieDave wrote:I went to an Aussie Rules football match last night.

They don't have roaming vendors in the stands at all. Couldn't believe it.

As someone who doesn't watch baseball, I am starved for sports this time of year and usually watch recordings of the AFL matches that air here in Canada.

I'd love to attend a match one day - it is an amazing sport to watch.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Mon Jul 15, 2013 5:50 am

Pruitt wrote:
AussieDave wrote:I went to an Aussie Rules football match last night.

They don't have roaming vendors in the stands at all. Couldn't believe it.
As someone who doesn't watch baseball, I am starved for sports this time of year and usually watch recordings of the AFL matches that air here in Canada.

I'd love to attend a match one day - it is an amazing sport to watch.

I've been watching it on TV, but its really something to see live. You have to see the whole field to get a sense of the play developing.

And the pitch is HUGE. Its so big the coaching staffs have runners, in bright orange outfits, that run on the field during play to talk strategy with the players.

And there's a ton of pushing and shoving and cheap shots that go on behind the play, or in between goals. Any of which would get a tech in a basketball game, but in AFL its just no big deal.

I still can't get anyone to tell me why they don't have chairs or benches for them when they go into the locker room at half time.