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  1. On 5/21/2023 at 2:37 PM, Knoxtnhorn said:

    The theme for my son's film class this year was Top Gun, so my wife bought a bunch of cheap, Ray Ban, knockoff aviators for the kids to wear.  There are at least 20 pairs currently sitting on various shelves in my fireplace room/kitchen.  Yesterday, I got pissed while cleaning up after my slob family.  I grabbed a pair of the cheap sunglasses and threw them.  They shattered.  I threw the pair away without thinking about it.  This morning I can't find my Ray Bans.  Yep.  5% chance I grabbed an actual pair of expensive specs to throw across the room.

    Is that a humblebrag that your wife bought knockoffs instead of the real thing?

     

  2. On 5/15/2023 at 9:07 AM, 'stache said:

    Is there any real penalty for not paying a parking ticket from a private lot company? Best I can figure is they send you to a collection agency, but it would seem not worth it to them, and they have no jurisdiction to fuck with your driving record, right? We left our car at a brewery overnight because we wisely Ubered home. I forgot to go back on the app and pay for an extra day. The ticket is for $75. I'm thinking of mailing them a check for $10 for an additional day of parking and leave it at that.

    Depends on the jurisdiction, but most places, if you park in another one of their lots again and they find you, they can tow you.  Usually the only way they find you is if you again don't pay the required amount.  It's not like they scan every car in their lot to see if there are any past offenders in there.

  3. I think you guys are doing the 'in the ass' thing wrong by putting it behind the actual title.

    In the Ass of Mice and Men

    In the Ass...and Justice for All

    In the Ass There Will Be Blood

    In the Ass Something Wicked This Way Comes

    In the Ass You've Got Mail

  4. 3 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    I don't know what this means, or that it means anything. But I do want to record here for posterity that the Trump org employs security execs named Matthew Calamari Sr, and also his son. Matthew Calamari Jr. 

    Not clear: which Matthew Calamari is pictured below. 
     

     

    I bet Trump hired them just because he likes their names.

  5. On 4/28/2023 at 5:43 AM, Goredho said:

     Tampons have microchips in them that allow the government to take control of women’s bodies and cause the shedding of their uterine lining to prevent an egg from being carried to term.   All the blood — that is the government triggering an abortion.  Real women are unvaxxed, unplugged and uncowed!

    Did you just make that up?  Or is that what they really believe?  I mean...it wouldn't be the craziest thing they believe.

  6. 2 hours ago, kevwun said:

    Here's the website of the tour guide we had.  I can't recommend Fausto enough.  He is extremely knowledgeable and very friendly.  We went with a bunch of biologists and scientists and even they couldn't stump him.  I would definitely talk to him to plan something.

    https://galapagosbest.com/

    That's the same one we took.  Book in advance though, they get full.  As I mentioned, we got lucky and got on a ride with a tour group of 10 Germans (well 9 Germans and their translator) and the boat only holds 12 plus crew.  Fausto was awesome.  Has a graduate degree from Cornell and is fluent in English.  Although at one point, one of the Germans did something dumb and he muttered to one of the crew 'el stupido' without knowing I could hear him.  So he would fit right in here.

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  7. 28 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    So what number does he wear. Don't follow the NFL but I'm assuming RBs can't wear single digits.

    That changed a couple years back.  Couple RB with single digit numbers that spring to mind are Fournette with Tampa and Akers with the Rams.

  8. 45 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

    Preemptive post -

    Joe Biden will not dump Kamala Harris so don’t fucking waste anyone’s time speculating about it.

    Agree.  She brings in/retains more votes than she would cost.  Unless she gets replaced with another woman of color, none of whom are evident, no one else can increase the net votes.

  9. 21 hours ago, Red Five said:

    Must be nice to not worry about getting the most votes. Like a football team knowing they'll "win" if they're outscored 37-24.

    The rule of the game is whoever wins the electoral college, not whoever gets the most votes.  A more accurate analogy would be if a football team outgained its opponent but still lost.  Sure you did better in a metric that should have gotten you more points, but ultimately, you didn't score more points.

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