Everything posted by Paper_jam
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Pollen: Texas ongoing thread
Let's hope the oak pollen will bind with the COVID-19 and neutralize it. Or maybe act like a barrier to infection by coating our nasal passages and interior lung surfaces...
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Help me with house puzzle
I can't help you with the floorplan but I can tell you that house is haunted as fuck. See how those photos came out all wavy and warped? Evil spirits bending the light waves. Also the kitchen looks like a place where Jeffrey Dahmer would hang out.
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Company deducting stimulus money from pay
Tell them you aren't consenting to shit. If you want to cut my pay, just do it. Don't ask me to "consent" to you fucking me over. Edit: maybe this has to do with a contract of some type, but still. What a dick move. I'm not a lawyer but I doubt they have any legal right to know how much compensation, if any, you receive.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
I'm also half surprised that the chloroquine thing hasn't caused a run on good 'ol quinine tonic water, from people who don't chemistry good
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
I didn't even want liquor until the moment I found out I can't get any
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Not sure about this shelter in place stuff. What if I just want to go for a pleasure drive to get out of the house? As long as I don't get out of my car, I'm not going to infect anybody (or get infected).
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
With TP, if worst comes to worst, we can just rip pages out of old magazines or phonebooks
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
You win this game by tricking your opponent into leaning out of the window a little too far...
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CoTA sounds like it sucks
Won't help that the Stones postponed their tour, including the Austin show at COTA.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Someone with a lot more energy and talent than me should do a Covid-19 version of that "angry Hitler" meme video from the movie Downfall.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
but I thought after the last crash, the government instituted reforms and controls to ensure that banks and investment houses manage their assets responsibly and don't get overextended (trying to keep a straight face)
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
I went to a N. Austin Chili's for lunch today (hey, I had a gift card to burn) and it was not nearly as busy as it usually is. I bet the lunch line tomorrow at Chipotle gonna be short.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Went to lunch today (indian buffet) and a lady customer there was just sneezing and coughing up a storm. How long do I have?
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MNF 2020: The Dream Team
Bring back the greatest football commentator of all time, Dennis Miller
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
Everyone does shitty work and/or is incompetent.Today's example: eating lunch at a restaurant I regularly frequent but a different person is working the register. I give them my credit card, they put it in the card reader. It goes "beep" but the guy looks confused and irritated at whatever is on the LCD screen (won't show it to me). Runs my card a second time, same result--i can't see what is on the screen but he says it was declined. (At no point did I sign anything or "approve" the purchase.) After the second attempt with the card I say fuck it and pay in cash. I come home and see that my card was billed twice. Now I have to get the place to cancel the pending charges or dispute it with my CC company.
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Austin Transportation & Roadways
Sometimes I feel like Austin (hell, Central Texas) just needs to declare a Transportation Emergency and appoint (or elect) a Transportation Fascist. That position would have absolute authority to bypass all the usual red tape (public input, environmental impact, contractor bidding, property disputes, etc.) that make transportation projects drag on for decades. Also, we need more efficient ways of dealing with accidents and disabled vehicles. Rapid-response crews with bulldozers or heavy-lift helicopters that can move wrecks and disabled vehicles out of the way in minutes, not hours. And let's get big, slow-ass construction vehicles and heavy commercial vehicles off city roads during peak commuting times. Finally, I don't want to see any fuckin' orange cones or barrels in a travel lane unless there is actually work happening there. How many times do you see a lane that's closed for a mile and absolutely nothing is going on, and the surface is still completely drivable?
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7 dead in mass shooting at Coors in Milwaukee
A desire to get back at people or institutions (or just society) who they think have fucked them over. And if the person is sufficiently fucked up, they can rationalize it to the extent that the specific individuals being targeted don't matter-- everyone is in on it or part of it, so everyone gets a bullet. Also, why just go out quietly when you can at least make a big headline? Like the line from the Squidbillies intro song..."I'll take all you sumbitches when I go."
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Need a Cheap, Cash Car
Based on my parking lot at work, you need at least an F150 or Tahoe for this kind of duty.
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2020 NASCAR Thread
A NASCAR winter series in snow country would be great (or F1 or Indycar for that matter) ...
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
- LAST CALL for Girl Scout Cookies!!
Unfortunately, I can't do anything like that kind of volume. I could do 5 boxes of the peanut butter patties, plus 3 boxes of thin mints. But I'm in NE Austin pretty far from everything. I'll PM you with my address and you can let me know if it's worth your time and gas to deliver...- LAST CALL for Girl Scout Cookies!!
How about the "Peanut Butter Patties" variety? (Not the "Sandwich" kind, but the chocolate-covered peanut butter ones.) Those are like crack I can eat.- 2020 NASCAR Thread
Take NASCAR back to homologation racing: showroom-stock vehicles with no modifications (or minimal modifications for safety, such as extra bracing for roll protection, fire protection systems, etc.). Can't race a car that isn't available for public sale.- G'Day Holden
I really liked my 2004 GTO. At the time, they were letting them go cheap because the US market didn't accept the car as a "real" Pontiac GTO. But it was a damn nice car, especially compared to the other stuff coming out of GM at the time.- Delta Moves to Limit Seat Reclining
Reclining only provides a modest improvement in comfort for the person reclining, but it produces a substantial amount of distress for the person in the seat behind, so the net effect when someone reclines is a decrease in overall utility. Put another way, if the total discomfort level of all the passengers could be quantified, the cumulative collective discomfort would be minimized if there is no reclining. - LAST CALL for Girl Scout Cookies!!
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