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  1. 3 hours ago, Sandman said:

    My wife is always insisting on using the GPS, I told her you've lived here (OKC metro) your whole life, how do you not know where you're going? Fuck, anytime we go somewhere "new", I have to drive because she's too scared to drive in a new place. And sound the alarm if there's any one way streets involved.

    I use Waze to take my kid to school. It's only a little over two miles, but it allows me to avoid traffic jams along the usual route.  Sure, that's only once a year, but it's better than him being late.

  2. On 2/25/2019 at 8:01 PM, immamac said:

    Let me know if this is still an issue. I did some maintenance today, but nothing that should effect sign ins

    Signing in is borked in IOS again. It was fixed, but now the sign-in menu on mobile is non-responsive. I have to click into a thread to sign in. 

  3. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/26/ibm_racist_job_applications/

    Last line is mine, not the article's.

     

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    Exclusive IBM has apologized after its recruitment webpages asked applicants whether their ethnicity was, among other options, the racial slurs Yellow and Mulatto.

    In online application forms for positions within the US tech giant, in among other questions ranging from military veteran status, and eligibility to work in America, a bizarre drop-down menu asked whether jobseekers were Caucasian, Black, or Indigenous, as well as the aforementioned insults.

    The Register was first alerted to the baffling error on Monday by an engineer who tried to apply for a technical role at IBM earlier this month, and was stunned by the slurs listed for a mandatory input field labeled: "Please state your ethnic group." [/quote]

     

    I must confess that sometimes I conduct searches for ethnic and racial slurs on Indeed.com.

  4. 1 minute ago, Armybrat said:

    Fair to say though that the Church has never been upfront about it.

    That situation would change considerably if they would ditch the stupid rule about not allowing the ordination of married men.

    Married men can be ordained. This is normal for Eastern Catholics. Even for Latins, formerly Protestant ministers can be ordained as married men. In fact, the documents that set up the so-called "Personal Ordinariates" for former Anglicans entering the Catholic Church allow the ordination of married men who were not previously Protestant ministers -- provided that Rome approves.

  5. Most surveys put the number of homosexual Catholic priests somewhere between 15% and 60%. Informed observers, (such as the psychologists who treat them), put it higher for the bishops and cardinals. Since the Vatican consists of bishops, cardinals, and wannabe bishops climbing the career ladder, 80% would not be shocking. The situation is compounded by the fact that Italy is a hotbed of organized crime families whose members have always sought to suborn clerics to use in their schemes and that, in certain respects, there isn't much difference between the criminals and the Vatican bureaucrats. So even if a gay priest is celibate and chaste in his home diocese, when he goes to Rome the coke-fueled orgies are just too tempting. There was even one crazy example of (presumably bisexual) man who fucked girls before entering seminary, switched to dudes in seminary, and then quit the Church to go back to women. So sometimes it might be like prison. Some of these dudes may not even be gay, but they started seminary in their early teens and kinda went Spartan warrior. Who knows?

     

  6. 23 hours ago, Cheeseweasel said:

    ZOMG! PEOPLE SELLING THINGS!!! Must be on drugs!

    My suburb requires solicitors to obtain a city license and to wear both a badge and a yellow vest. It's a good system and the police will come for unlicensed solicitors.

  7. I have a sensory issue with normal pencils. The sound of lead on paper is far worse than nails on a chalkboard. By the time I was in high school, I'd switched to Papermate #2 mechanical pencils, the ones that look like real pencils and where you twist the tip to extrude the lead. These days the only pencils I use are colored pencils for ticking and tying small sets of hardcopy workpapers.

  8. The 911 call from the mom was shortly before 1 am. The dog woke up Jayme. Mom and Jayme hide in the bathroom while Dad checks the front door. That's not an unreasonable procedure at that time of night in a rural or semi-rural setting.

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  9. 4 hours ago, UTEX90 said:

    My wife is constantly walking around the house turning off lights when she gets hot.  I tell her the light bulbs are not giving off enough heat to cause her to be hot, she needs to turn the air conditioner up.  She believes I am completely full of shit and that by turning off the lights she will be cool and comfortable.  Last night she was complaining about being cold and I told her to just turn on the lights and she should be fine.  Tone.

    Do you still have halogen and incandescents?

    Even if you don’t, it could be almost Pavlovian at this point. 

  10. Last week, I told my wife that she had used my toothbrush.

    Me: I just wanted to let you know that you used my toothbrush earlier today, the green one.

    Her: That's my toothbrush.

    Me: No, you just got a new one and it's pink.

    Her: That's your toothbrush. I just got a new one, it was the last one in its package.

    Me (shows her that the pink toothbrush is unlike any of the others in the package and that the green one is the same as all the others in the package).

    Her: silence

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