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  1. 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.

  2. 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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  3. 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. 

  4. 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

  5. 1 hour ago, luke duke said:

     


    I just ignore most of what my wife says the first time. If she wants a response from me, she’ll repeat herself.

    I ignore much of what my wife says, but I have learned to repeat back the last few sentences without paying attention. This also allows me to identify if she says anything important.

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  6. 3 hours ago, Thatguy said:

      I refuse to go shopping with my wife. Not only do I know I will get frustrated by the amount of shit that we buy, but the amount of time we spend in the store will have me ready to strangle someone. She has to go up and down every isle and touch every. damn. thing.

    Lastly, the phrase "I saved _______ dollars" one some shit we don't need is literally the most infuriating thing you could possibly say to me.

    My wife needed to go to Walmart the other day for some cheap plastic table clothes and cutlery. She decided to go after a family dinner at a local cafe. Knowing the torment my son and I were in for, I suggested we go to the dollar store instead. I thought that, because it was smaller, it would take less time. I forgot that my wife never shops there. She looked at everything. It took an hour.

  7. 6 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

    This is my wife. 3x10 and loves it. Problem is she won’t find that anywhere else and it slows down her want to find something better/different.   But she’s happy af, and I absolutely loathe my work, so there’s some benefit. 

    Not surprised she loves three 10"s.

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  8. 2 hours ago, VolenteHawk said:

    You dudes that talk to your wives on the phone so much...how long have you been married? I’m coming up on 15 years and can’t remember the last time I talked to her on the phone.

    Every weekday at least once for a couple of minutes. Married for four, together for nine. While I’d prefer she text me, it has taken me years to train her to let me know when she’s leaving work. (Since I work from home and she doesn’t, coordinating when she is coming home can impact when I cook dinner.)

  9. I don't think it is taunting in all situation, but it is disrespectful. I haven't kept up with this thread because this isn't my fight, (no one does an inverted TCU hand sign), but I had an idea. If you throw horns down with your palm up and arm straight, it looks like Spiderman's webslinging. Yeah, that Spiderman. And it will work with any team's hand sign. I wanna see players of all teams webslinging all over the place (metaphorically, on the field, not elsewhere, NTTAWWT).

  10. On 10/3/2018 at 10:30 AM, Chips O'Toole said:

    I'm about to finish book 2 of the Kingkiller Chronicles. It's been great but I should have held off on reading it until the 3rd book was out.  Should I read The Slow Regard Of Silent Things, or just move on to something else?

    I've read the Slow Regard of Silent Things, the poem "How Old Holly Came to Be", and the Bast novella The Lightning Tree. Slow Regard changes Auri, generally for the better though I am worried that it

    is setting her up as the third novel's deus ex machina or Big Bad

    . The Bast novella really helps flesh out that character, but doesn't add much

    except for the Martin character

    . The poem is great worldbuilding, but doesn't add much to the books. 

  11. 2 hours ago, Chet Steadman said:

    So Turpin’s arrest earlier this year was okay because the media outlets didn’t catch wind of it?  Gotcha.  

    If the school knew about the earlier arrest, some heads should roll. Since it happened out-of-state around Spring Break(?), there’s a possibility that the school never knew, but I don’t think that is likely. At this point in time, you’d think every major program would be running a new criminal background check on every player before two-a-days each year as a risk mitigation strategy. 

  12. Turpin is suspended pending the school reviewing the facts, at which point he is probably done. Tarrant County DA Sharen Wilson doesn't fuck around. Check out her old profile (as a hanging judge) in the NY Times. DV and innocence claims are her big projects, so this won't go well for Turpin. Plus QB Robinson is having season-ending surgery this week. This has gone from a reloading year (in our dreams) very quickly to a rebuilding year and now to an "Aw hell no" year.

  13. 1 hour ago, Sparky said:

    I think this is it, his nerves were so bad when fixing that charge and I think it was because of him being worried about the blast not going well, not about getting blown to smithereens

    At the time, I thought he was nervous because Mike might have them blow the charge early for his earlier transgression.

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