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  1. Ran into exactly that type of shit several weeks ago. The voice was good, not gonna lie, it even had me for a bit. 

    Had to go to a wedding our last bye week, and they had a bank of rooms reserved. Easy enough. Call the front desk, have them book it. So I call the local number, says it’s so and so hotel, someone will be with me shortly. 

    Guy comes on, I tell him I need a room from the wedding block. Says he isn’t able to do that, have to call the event people to book. Gives me the number, I call, it wasn’t the right place, so I call the local number again. Same thing. I try explaining to guy that it wasn’t right, he’s not having it. So finally I said well who the fuck can I talk to besides you?

    *click*
     

    Hung up on me, huh? I call back, asked why I was hung up on, and if they do that to all their diamonds?

    Sir, I’m an AI agent and you used profanity.

    <Ralphie finding out about ovaltine and marketing the hard way gif here>
     

    I call back, then kept hitting 0 while it was talking until it finally put me through to the front desk. 

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  2. 2 hours ago, texasdago said:

    All parties suck but the main culprit though is Disney/ESPN.  They are the ones who want you to switch.  

     

    Let us remember that this fiasco is contributed to, in part, by those nice contracts the SEC gets so we get paid.

     

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  3. 1 hour ago, ousux said:

    The average agroid is now walking more upright, sucking in their BBQ bellies as much as possible, and their micropeens are fully erect for more than 4 hours per day.

     

    Shouldn’t they call a doctor?

  4. 9 minutes ago, Jameslaw121 said:

    Me too. Some times I could eat Mexican food for breakfast, drink margaritas and whiskey. Follow it up with Cajun and Whiskey for dinner. And be fine.

    Other times, salad, water, mild food and it would set my heartburn off.

    I blame Tom Hermann

     

    It’s the weirdest thing for sure.

    I’ve had a script for prilosec for 20 some years. Thought it was just a bad roll of the dice. However I’ve very recently found out that I have Burn Pit Exposure from my time in the ME, and 90% or better of what ails me can be caused by….. yep, burn pit exposure.

     

     

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  5. 2 hours ago, cmontexas said:

    Every time Ive gotten on facebook the last few weeks I am inundated with stories about a British singer named Lily Allen divorcing her husband, who is the hairy guy from Stranger Things. I don't give two fucks about either one of these people yet endless content is being shoved down my throat. I guess she has a new album or something but it is crazy to me that rich celebrities will pay lots of money to shove their personal problems in everybody's face

     

    Your solution lies within the problem.

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  6. 2 hours ago, Jameslaw121 said:

    I actually have the prescription version. And it still hurts pretty badly sometimes

     

    Damn, sorry to hear that. Mine knocks it out really well, but I can tell if I miss a dose. Probably a good thing it works for me as I never could figure out exactly what would set it off. 

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  7. 2 hours ago, JBJ said:

    This as well.  And, honestly, if I were staying a couple extra days and making it a mini-cation I'd do Chattanooga and bite the 3 hr drive.

     

    The Tennessee Aquarium is really good. Ruby Falls is always on our list as well. 

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  8. 13 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

    Right now ESPN gets about $10B per year from carriers. If they are no longer carried anywhere but their app and there are 50 million subscribers, take a wild guess at how much per year that would mean every subscriber has to pay.

     

    By your numbers, if they need $10B/yr off 50M subscribers, that works out to about $16/mo/subscriber. 

  9. Mentioned this in the FB board’s yttv/mouse thread, and I’m still working out the details, but overall I’m going to implement a local dvr solution using channels dvr server.

    In general the setup will be something like this:

    antenna—>HD Homerun->Channels DVR Server<-“cable” streamer

    Devices then use the channels app.

     

    So this combines OTA and streaming channels into one menu, and you record from there.

    You don’t need a cable streamer, but we're lucky to get the 3 main channels OTA here.

    End result is that when the time comes again to swap streaming cable providers, it’s all under the hood and the end user (read that as wife) won’t know the difference.

    Now to figure out the what and how of it all.

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  10. 1 hour ago, Nonbryan said:

    Agree with Cannon, I may switch from YTTV as well.  Any opinions of FUBO?

     

    While sports has good coverage, their remaining channel offering was missing some prominent stations, last I looked.

    So it depends on what you’re after, and whether or not they are missing other channels you want. 

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    46 minutes ago, Slacks said:

    Now y'all have me thinking about dissolving edibles in sparkling water. For education purposes.

     

    Hmmmm. The old “Jly Rancher in a Zima” trick.  Might just work. 

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