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brian wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 4:04 am My best friend’s stepson is named Jack White and 12 years later it never fails to make me laugh. (He’s 18 and just accepted a scholarship to MD)
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wlu_lax6 wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 6:42 am
brian wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 4:04 am My best friend’s stepson is named Jack White and 12 years later it never fails to make me laugh. (He’s 18 and just accepted a scholarship to MD)
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Steve of phpBB wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 4:11 pm
Nonlinear FC wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 4:03 pm I have a run of 4 days in a row of first shot id'ing the country in Worldle.

But some that comes down the countries being so easy, like Australia yesterday.
Did you get today's? I just started doing that game and completely failed today.
Yeah, the weirdly straight Utah/Colorado nature of the NE part of that country ticked something off in my brain. Coupled with the coastline features, set me up for a 2 guesser.
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The Sybian wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 4:50 pm
Steve of phpBB wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 4:11 pm
Nonlinear FC wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 4:03 pm I have a run of 4 days in a row of first shot id'ing the country in Worldle.

But some that comes down the countries being so easy, like Australia yesterday.
Did you get today's? I just started doing that game and completely failed today.
I like this game, but it's ruined by all the territorial islands off Antarctica that I've never heard of. They should limit it to countries.
I wonder if they changed the back-end, because they had a 3 or 4 day run of just bullshit islands in the middle of nowhere, and then it started with kind of easy stuff like Puerto Rico and stuff like that. I guess I'm OK with getting skunked, because some of those little weird islands are fun to look up on Wiki. Like the one that is a weird English protectorate type deal in the Channel that I'd never heard of...
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Giff wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 5:02 pm
The Sybian wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 4:50 pm
Steve of phpBB wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 4:11 pm
Nonlinear FC wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 4:03 pm I have a run of 4 days in a row of first shot id'ing the country in Worldle.

But some that comes down the countries being so easy, like Australia yesterday.
Did you get today's? I just started doing that game and completely failed today.
I like this game, but it's ruined by all the territorial islands off Antarctica that I've never heard of. They should limit it to countries.

Anyone play Weddle? My son showed me this a couple days ago. You guess an NFL player (skill positions only), and it tells you if you have the right conference, division, position and tells you if the mystery player is taller or shorter, younger or older, and if their number is higher or lower.
That's funny. (no way that's real is it?)
Oh, it's real. And it's fantastic: https://www.weddlegame.com/

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When the more general topic of "revenge" came up in a phone conversation last weekend, I suggested Camaro'ing.
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I have become the childless guy in his 30s who is reading up on school board candidates on a Saturday morning in an attempt to prevent the fringey folks from winning on Tuesday

one of the guys running wants to move away from "race-based education" and would rather the district focus on aristotle, socrates and plato

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Around here the problem is half these guys use school board seats as political stepping stones. The other half wish they were superintendents. Vote for whomever is willing to do the boring board stuff (approve budgets, pass policies, hire superintendents) and leave everything else alone.
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HaulCitgo wrote: Sat Apr 02, 2022 9:34 am Around here the problem is half these guys use school board seats as political stepping stones. The other half wish they were superintendents. Vote for whomever is willing to do the boring board stuff (approve budgets, pass policies, hire superintendents) and leave everything else alone.
This is actually a fairly widespread practice, putting a lot more importance into local politics.
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Brontoburglar wrote: Sat Apr 02, 2022 9:27 am one of the guys running wants to move away from "race-based education" and would rather the district focus on aristotle, socrates and plato
Tell them you are in support of their pagan-centric approach.
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P.D.X. wrote: Sat Apr 02, 2022 10:54 am
Brontoburglar wrote: Sat Apr 02, 2022 9:27 am one of the guys running wants to move away from "race-based education" and would rather the district focus on aristotle, socrates and plato
Tell them you are in support of their pagan-centric approach.
And their support for gay pedophiles.
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Very cool!
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Nice!
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That's neat. I remember early in my marriage we were joining some friends at a house party and there were some grammys on a shelf. I assumed it was just some kind of decoration but it turned out one the people hosting the party was the daughter of some producer who won some grammys in the 80 or some shit. Obviously I didn't know them well enough to remember who or what they were for. It was similar in that it was more of a fringe category, but hey, one down going for the EGOT!
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That's great, Brian.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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Kinda funny but my buddy is kind of the black sheep of the family because he went into IT instead of music. His dad was a music professor at U-Minnesota
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Walked to gas station a couple hours ago and a bird basically fell out of the sky and died about 5 ft behind the lady walking in front of me. A pigeon. Flapped some and hit the pavement. Must have come from the overhead power lines. The homeless ish lady stopped like wtf and kept going. Freaky. No clue what happened.
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Fans of Sebastian Stan are Sebastian Stan stans?
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Losing the parking ticket for an airport parking lot is one of the costliest mistakes/most needlessly expensive things ever. $1 -> $13 as if everyone spends the entire day hanging out in the short term lot.

I'm never making that mistake again.
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Johnnie wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 12:14 am Losing the parking ticket for an airport parking lot is one of the costliest mistakes/most needlessly expensive things ever. $1 -> $13 as if everyone spends the entire day hanging out in the short term lot.

I'm never making that mistake again.
If you’re in a long-term lot and dishonest it can be a profitable mistake.
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“mistake”
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Sure. That makes sense.

But even the highest 'daily' rate is $10, unless you decided to stupidly use the hourly lot for the entire day.

It's designed for the inevitable lost ticket fuck up like I had. I don't know why I didn't just leave the thing in my center console or glove box.
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Her; You are eating all of the Easter chocolate! You’ve eaten half of it!!
Me; [eats a little more chocolate]
Her: ok, now , I get all the rest!
Me: [eats a little more chocolate]
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sancarlos wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 9:00 pm Her; You are eating all of the Easter chocolate! You’ve eaten half of it!!
Me; [eats a little more chocolate]
Her: ok, now , I get all the rest!
Me: [eats a little more chocolate]
Her: [world war III!]
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Not for nothing - but you are both experienced adults - hit the day after sales at your local drug store and bathe in chocolate.
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tennbengal wrote: Mon Apr 18, 2022 7:19 am Not for nothing - but you are both experienced adults - hit the day after sales at your local drug store and bathe in chocolate.
I had the same thought. I have a childhood memory of going into CVS with my parents the day after Easter and my Dad making a comment about a benefit of being Jewish is we can wait a day to buy Easter candy 75% off.
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The Sybian wrote: Mon Apr 18, 2022 7:24 am
tennbengal wrote: Mon Apr 18, 2022 7:19 am Not for nothing - but you are both experienced adults - hit the day after sales at your local drug store and bathe in chocolate.
I had the same thought. I have a childhood memory of going into CVS with my parents the day after Easter and my Dad making a comment about a benefit of being Jewish is we can wait a day to buy Easter candy 75% off.
Just flat killin' Easter.
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i had grand plans of going to buy hundreds of cadbury eggs this morning and instead I am laid up with an absolutely nasty stomach bug. haven't felt this bad in years

all four of the males at our family easter dinner got sick too from the toddler to my dad. I got it last and might have gotten it the worst.
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Oops Wordle. They had to do an emergency word swap at some point this AM.
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rass wrote: Mon May 09, 2022 8:29 am Oops Wordle. They had to do an emergency word swap at some point this AM.
What happened?

Speaking of Wordle, my daughter showed me a game that will immediately make you realize it's almost impossible not to win Wordle. It's called Anti-Wordle. You try not to get the word correct, but you have to follow the hard rules. You can't use a letter you know isn't in the answer, you have to use letters in the correct space, and you can't use a correct letter in the wrong space you already attempted. It's hard not to get the answer in 6 or fewer guesses.
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I usually get words in the 3-5 attempt range (4 being most often). However, the times I've failed is, for example when I uncover _ O U N D, and you've got 4 guesses to choose from about a half dozen options.
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Yeah homer got me the other day and I figured 69 in a row was a nice time to stop.
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Giff wrote: Mon May 09, 2022 3:58 pm Yeah homer got me the other day and I figured 69 in a row was a nice time to stop.
Nice.

I also quit after homer as well.
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The Sybian wrote: Mon May 09, 2022 2:14 pm
rass wrote: Mon May 09, 2022 8:29 am Oops Wordle. They had to do an emergency word swap at some point this AM.
What happened?
[+] spoiler
The original, randomly chosen, word of the day was “fetus”
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All time great clue in the nyt xword today. Possibly my favorite ever.
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