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8 hours ago, closetohumping said:

Finally happened.  I met someone named Raptor and he’s every stereotype you’d imagine 

I imagine a skinny dude around 50. Always has a cigarette. Weathered, tanned. Grey goatee, ponytail. Wears a straw that looks like this:

Bullhide Anytime - Raffia Straw Cowboy Hat

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On 8/15/2022 at 11:32 PM, Superhero said:

If I change my screen name. Should it be:

Super Hello

SuperHello or

Superhello?

I always assumed your name was Super Hello, but you just signed up by doing it phonetically.

 

But seriously I like most of your posts so I say not to change it unless you have some kind of NowThis moment.

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Whatever happened to all those softcore/T&A movies they used to play on Showtime and Cinemax? Whenever I'm on Netflix or Amazon and I see movies or shows that list "Nudity & sexual situations" on the ratings, it turns out to be a bunch of dicks or a guy's ass. Maybe I'm just in mourning for the lack of Shannon Tweed or Tanya Roberts in the cinema of today. 

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My 83 year old mother made me dinner tonight.  A Bolognese from Giada de Laurentiis’ cookbook.  We were talking about Giada and I said something to the effect of “I like to watch her…cook”.  My mom came right back and said “I bet you do, and she likes for you to like watching her”. 

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That is all. 

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I couldn't find a better thread for this, so here goes.  Only you assholes will understand (I think)---

My cousin, who I haven't seen in years, just sent me a text outta the blue saying his arm and part of the left side of his body went numb last night and he had to go the ER.  Turned out he had two fractured vertebra in his neck.  He sent pic #1 and my only response was pic #2.  I don't think he got it.  Oh well, one less seat and plate of food at the next daughter's wedding I suppose...

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On 8/19/2022 at 9:16 AM, FirstTimeCaller said:

I imagine a skinny dude around 50. Always has a cigarette. Weathered, tanned. Grey goatee, ponytail. Wears a straw that looks like this:

Bullhide Anytime - Raffia Straw Cowboy Hat

Swap the goatee for a necklace featuring some kind of animal tooth (or perhaps talon), add a ratty t-shirt that he ripped the sleeves off with the sides cut super low, and this is my guess too. 

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8 hours ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

Swap the goatee for a necklace featuring some kind of animal tooth (or perhaps talon), add a ratty t-shirt that he ripped the sleeves off with the sides cut super low, and this is my guess too. 

Yes. And lives within three miles of the coastline.

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In 1958 I attended junior high at the Taipei American School in Taiwan.
One morning when my 8th grade English class was about to start, the teacher Mrs. Gregg said,  “Everybody in my brother-in-law’s family is ok”. 
I asked the kid next to me, “What is she talking about?”, and he replied, “The Air Force accidentally dropped a hydrogen bomb on her husband’s family farm back in Georgia.”. 
Pretty shocking stuff, as I had not heard the news up until that moment (no tv over there at the time, and I didn’t listen to Chinese radio stations).

Anyway, I just stumbled across this Youtube video that relates the near-tragic event:

 

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ASU is building a new 5,000 seat hockey arena for their somewhat newly division 1 minted team. The NHL Coyotes will apparently and ridiculously play there for some period of time.

They named it after a family who donated a bunch of dough. The Mullet family.

Mullet Arena. Home of the only two hockey teams in Arizona. You couldn’t make up something this perfect.

https://arizonasports.com/story/3267141/asu-names-new-multi-purpose-arena-coyotes-home-mullett-arena-arizona-state/amp/

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I was trying to be Johnny Cool by getting the darkest tint on my windows. Now I can’t see and am not sure what to do about it.  Maybe just douse each one with a gallon of bleach

It can be very dangerous at dawn and dusk because pedestrians and bikers think you can see them as from their perspective it is plenty bright outside. Definitely proceed with caution
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2 hours ago, closetohumping said:

I was trying to be Johnny Cool by getting the darkest tint on my windows. Now I can’t see and am not sure what to do about it.  Maybe just douse each one with a gallon of bleach


My F150 is 18% all around. Exceptions being the moon roof is 60%, and windshield is 99%. All have UV blocker. 
 

They put clear UV on the back windows, and matched the front to that. Smoked back and clear front looks dumb. 😂

Lurch is right though. It can be tricky at dawn/dusk, and obviously night when it’s super dark.

 

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3 hours ago, closetohumping said:

I was trying to be Johnny Cool by getting the darkest tint on my windows. Now I can’t see and am not sure what to do about it.  Maybe just douse each one with a gallon of bleach

At least you are out less than $100.  Take it off and have lighter put on. 

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1 hour ago, thunderlounge said:

Yeah. $100 for a full tint is going to be purple and peeling pretty quick. 

Correct, but I was talking about replacing the driver and passenger windows only with legal 35%.  My truck was (I think) $80 for 2 windows on computer cut film, so not the hand cut in somebody's backyard. 

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If you name your daughter Erika, there is a 95% chance all her relationships end by one or more of these ways:

She stabs her partner.

She steals all her partner’s money.

She rips her partner’s heart out and devours their soul.

If you spell her name with a “c” the stat drops to 85%.

It’s science.

I’m glad I am not married to an Erika.

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Why in the everliving fuck is an eye prescription good for only one year?

Im about to lose a 50% off scrip lenses deal on Ray Bans because mine expired 3 weeks ago and I can get an immediate appointment

Most of the online eyewear stores no longer ask for a copy of the prescription. You just enter the info yourself.

EyeBuyDirect is Austin based and they definitely don’t ask for a prescription. I ordered two pairs of Ray Bans from there a few months ago.
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12 hours ago, Scheiss Meister said:

A couple of weeks ago I was introduced to ranch dill pickles, and now I am addicted.

How are they packaged?  Like you get dill pickles and dip them in ranch?  Or it's a jar of ranch dressing with a bunch of dill pickles at the bottom?  Or they inject dill pickles with ranch kinda like a pimento olive?  I don't like ranch dressing but I could see the flavor profile going well with a dill pickle.  But I don't understand the logistics.

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1 hour ago, YGIFS said:

How are they packaged?  Like you get dill pickles and dip them in ranch?  Or it's a jar of ranch dressing with a bunch of dill pickles at the bottom?  Or they inject dill pickles with ranch kinda like a pimento olive?  I don't like ranch dressing but I could see the flavor profile going well with a dill pickle.  But I don't understand the logistics.

I imagine powdered ranch added a jar of pickles. 

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2 hours ago, YGIFS said:

How are they packaged?  Like you get dill pickles and dip them in ranch?  Or it's a jar of ranch dressing with a bunch of dill pickles at the bottom?  Or they inject dill pickles with ranch kinda like a pimento olive?  I don't like ranch dressing but I could see the flavor profile going well with a dill pickle.  But I don't understand the logistics.

Just like @FizzleFish said above.  Add a package of ranch dip mix to a 32 oz jar of dill pickle slices and shake to mix.  Let stand two or three days, then enjoy.  I like the HEB Pickle Me Dilly slices for this, but I imagine Del-Dixie hamburger slices would be just as good.

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Just now, Superhero said:

I'm taking our company's Positive Workplace Training. I'm so fucked. Not because it's due at midnight. But because I'm a serial offender of inappropriate jokes and invading personal space.

And they haven’t even scoured your Surly postings yet. 

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Maybe it’s just me, but it ain’t. 

Why did most training platforms finally break down and put in stop gaps to keep you from doing the “click click click, answer; rinse, repeat until done”  routine?

Those dirty mother fuckers. I don’t want to listen to 45 minutes about becky and her fuck ups in 4 minute segments. 

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1 hour ago, thunderlounge said:

Maybe it’s just me, but it ain’t. 

Why did most training platforms finally break down and put in stop gaps to keep you from doing the “click click click, answer; rinse, repeat until done”  routine?

Those dirty mother fuckers. I don’t want to listen to 45 minutes about becky and her fuck ups in 4 minute segments. 

The 6 sigma people finally got ahold of the HR people.

god help us.

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9 hours ago, thunderlounge said:

Maybe it’s just me, but it ain’t. 

Why did most training platforms finally break down and put in stop gaps to keep you from doing the “click click click, answer; rinse, repeat until done”  routine?

Those dirty mother fuckers. I don’t want to listen to 45 minutes about becky and her fuck ups in 4 minute segments. 

This. They've also thwarted the "watch at 1.75 speed" option as well.

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My department has to do 20 hours of continuing education training each quarter.  Typically I picked 20 hours worth of courses and play them at lunch for 2 weeks or so and get it done quickly at 1.75 speed and guess/pass the test and I’m done.  This month I tried that and when I pulled my records it didn’t show 20 hours like it normally did it showed less than 12 since I played them at 1.75 speed.

Well fuck that.  I just found a 30 minute course I’m going to play at 0.5. speed and see if that gets me a full hour of credit  works I’ll be playing these things at half speed going forward.

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