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    *OFFICIAL NFL WEEK 3 THREAD*Refs to meet later today to decide winners

    So spearing a receiver in the head leaving him unconscious shouldn't be called a personal foul if he wasn't targeted by the quarterback?
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    Pushy preggers co-worker aggressively trying to get promotion

    Uh.. that's not true at all.. you may want it to be true, but it's not. In this particular case, it's probably not illegal to deny her a promotion since I don't think being pregnant is in any way considered protected.
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    do you eat at Chipotle?

    I don't really get the hype. We have a Chipotle, a Qdoba, and a taco bell within a few blocks of each other. Qdoba is the best of the 3, followed closely by chipotle. I don't think either one is leaps and bounds better than taco bell.
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    Penn State protects child rapist that was former famous D-Coordinator

    This proves the opposite. The ones being hurt by scholarship reductions and bowl bans are the students. The way to punish the university is to hit them in the wallet and hurt their reputation. Both of which are unaffected by reducing the scholarship and bowl ban sanctions. They are still...
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    Penn State protects child rapist that was former famous D-Coordinator

    Those sanctions were a blessing for PSU. Without them, we would still be suffering through Jay Paterno, Mike McQueary, and the rest of the terrible coaches on offense. Not to mention terrible recruiting. Now we've got great recruits and coaches, and all it meant was 2 years without going to...
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    Propane Grills

    Weber. Anything else is crap.
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    Move over Google Glass - here comes Samsung and Oculus

    lol @ oculus. Will be useless since facebook acquisition. Hopefully Samsung can pick up where they left off. Also, Google Glass isn't even trying to compete with Oculus/Samsung. They are totally different products.
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    "I studied computer science, not English. I still can’t find a job."

    CS is a STEM degree, but it's kind of like when people call golf a sport. IST/CIS/MIS are definitely not STEM degrees.
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    "I studied computer science, not English. I still can’t find a job."

    Programmers are also a dime a dozen. 90% of my job is programming, but that's the easiest part. The hard part is all the engineering work that goes into the programs we write. That's why we hire engineers, not programmers. Engineers are expected to know how to program. Also, I went to Penn...
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    747-sized "fatbergs" in London sewers - Pix!

    Uh.. that's why restaurants aren't supposed to dump cooking oil down the drain. They fill 50 gallon drums with used oil for proper disposal. At least that's what they're supposed to do. My guess is most of this is from residential areas where people just dump anything and everything that's...
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    Fake Cell Phone towers found in areas of America, but no one knows who they belong to

    So basically just some random people setting up an OpenBTS radio in populated areas doing some phishing. Doesn't sound like a coordinated tin-foil hat worthy conspiracy. For less than $1000 anyone can do the same.
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    Fake Cell Phone towers found in areas of America, but no one knows who they belong to

    That's what I was thinking. Had a third party detected and verified this I might buy into it a little more. As it sounds now, they are just trying to scare people into buying their version of android.
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    Do salaried employees get paid extra on leap years?

    Yeah.. that's why there are also things like leap seconds.
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    Do salaried employees get paid extra on leap years?

    There are 365.25 days in a year. On non leap years, are you re-imbursing your employer for the extra quarter of a day you got paid for that you didn't work? If the answer is yes, then I agree, they should be paying you for that extra day.
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    Nuclear program at stake in Scottish independence vote

    Yeah that's a shame. Guess they'll just have to scuttle them all now...
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    Honeymoon - Where to go After 6 days in crete ?

    I disagree. If you want to go somewhere romantic in Italy, go to Tuscany or Chinque Terre (sp?). Venice is overcrowded and touristy. The gondola rides are a complete ripoff and arent that romantic.
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    New Facebook Oculus VR. Takes poking to next level

    Yeah I was gonna say.. how fucking stupid can those guys be to sell for $400,000 cash and the rest stock. That stock is probably gonna be worthless in a few years.
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    Fast food chicken chains..

    KFC and ChicFilA are our only two options. Never been to a popeyes or churches.
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    Have you ever been kicked in the nuts?

    I was hauling ass through Frankfurt airport one time to make it to a connecting flight. I was looking up at signs to figure out where to go and wasn't paying attention to what was directly in front of me. There was a 3 foot high pole coming out of the ground to prevent motorized carts from...
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    Malaysian airlines has lost a 777

    Maybe they took it to secret moon base zeta
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    Malaysian airlines has lost a 777

    Not to mention that a 777 itself is worth far more than any cargo they could have been transporting. Why destroy it?
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    Malaysian airlines has lost a 777

    Seriously. Every day I look they have some new breaking piece of information, and then casually mention that everything they reported yesterday was wrong. What the fuck.
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    What will the World be like 40 years from now? Glad about your age now?

    People like to think it's going to be some blissful utopia where robots are doing all the work and we get to sit around and enjoy life and do whatever we want. The reality is we'll all be packed into communist style apartment buildings and given the minimum amount possible to keep us alive...
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    What will the World be like 40 years from now? Glad about your age now?

    It's gonna be pretty miserable. The outcome of capitalism will inevitably be socialism. Think about it. As companies look to reduce cost (labor, benefits, healthcare), automation will be used more and more. At some point there will be a small fraction of jobs available that we have now...
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    apple wants samsung to pay 40 per phone

    LOL. Tell that to people like myself who got suckered into the fad and bought iPhone 4's. That thing was a heaping pile of shit.
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    It's the brine cured, boiled meat season.

    Corned Beef is nasty. I'll take a real brisket done in the smoker or slow cooker any day over corned beef brisket.
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    How did beer get so popular? It isn't even very good.

    ... because the goal isn't to get shit faced in 5 minutes?
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    Do you guys cuff your jeans nowadays?

    oh sorry.. thought you said cut off my jeans :D
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    Quick vacation for 3-4 days.

    SoCal sounds like a nice place to vacation for 3-4 days.
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    -16 degrees tonite

    But hey, the real feel is only -10, so you got that going for you...
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    Are old, rubbery celery & old carrots ok to use in a pasta sauce

    Why? I've used them before on salads, and they taste exactly the same as fresh carrots. edit: As long as there's no mold, slimy coating, or liquid oozing out into the bag, you should be fine with either.
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    Are old, rubbery celery & old carrots ok to use in a pasta sauce

    I use them all the time, even in fresh salads. They still taste the same...
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    Sister needs to pay bills, but must keep her bank account <$100 - how to do this?

    It's your sister. Why don't you just let her use your account?
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    Brett Favre looks like a crazy old man now

    I think he looks like Harrison Ford on roids.
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    Bed Bugs Are Bastards

    Your possessions aren't worth the possibility of transferring bed bugs to you new residence. I got rid of everything I owned when I moved out of our bed bug infested apartment building. I always check hotel mattresses now, and usually quarantine my suitcase when I get back to my house after...
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    Bed Bugs Are Bastards

    It takes temperatures below 20 degrees for days on end to kill bed bugs. No way in hell you could get an apartment that cold even if you opened all the windows in the middle of winter and turned off the heat. There's too much heat coming through the walls and floor.
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    Bed Bugs Are Bastards

    You're fucked. Unless they fumigate the ENTIRE apartment building at the same time, they aren't going away. They are likely in the walls between units. This happened to an apartment building I lived at in college. They sent exterminators out 3 or 4 times, and they always came right back...
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    Buying lot for future house

    Make sure you ask what it will cost to hook up to your services (water, sewage, utilities, etc...). If you are outside city range, make sure the lot perks enough for septic system and that you can put a well in. Check flood plains to make sure you're not gonna have major water issues.
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    Why are there no instructions with all the plumbing stuff @ Lowe's, Home Depot, etc?

    Yeah, caulking any kind of plumbing is just a horrible idea. All those plastic drain connections like the one OP linked have a plastic or rubber gasket inside. There's no need for any kind of teflon tape, pipe dope, silicon grease or caulk on them. If it's leaking, you're doing something...