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  1. D1gger

    I hit a cat last night.

    I hit a seagull once while driving a pickup truck. The gull was swooping down to pick up some food item off of the road and dived directly into the top of my windshield where it met the roof. The carcass then flipped over the roof and landed in the back of my truck, dead as a dodo. All I had to...
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    so that GnR tour is actually happening.

    I wonder how long the tour lasts before they crash and burn like Van Halen did on their last reunion tour.
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    Cancer.. i have it

    You are awesome Slag!
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    My wife wants to get a dog and I don't.

    Wow, quite the necro! Update: My wife bought a $500 older purebred lap dog of some type. I spent two days reworking our fence so it couldn't get out of the back yard, she spent more $100s on toys, food, misc equipment. After a week realized she was allergic to it and gave it away. We were...
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    Hunting Hitler on History

    They dug up the bodies of 11 people that were in the bunker. The items they tested were not Hitler. But they could not confirm that the pieces tested were definitely from the body they thought was Hitler.
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    If you could have anyone's voice who would you choose?

    Is there any doubt ... Captain Picard for the win!!!
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    Who is Retired, How old were you when you stopped working ?

    I retired last December at 55 years old. No pension until Canada Pension Plan kicks in at 60, but even then I don't think I'll see a penny of it as it gets clawed back in taxes if your earnings are too high. I made some lucky financial decisions early in my career and have no need of a pension...
  8. D1gger

    Asian girl swallows bulk beef!!! Sugoi

    My guess is that she doesn't actually eat all that food. With the time-lapsed video, the blank background and simple lighting, they could easily stop the camera and restart at any time in the future.
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    Is there any way to save this chair?

    Why would anyone allow a cat in their home? I swear that a cat's only purpose is to plot pain, anguish and ultimately death on all humans.
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    Are you CPR/AED certified?

    Yes, I worked as a lifeguard in my early days, and kept current when I got into construction management. Now that I am retired, it will expire.
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    Hitchbot dead in Philly

    Hitch hiking robot doesn't last long in the US. After hitch hiking across Canada and parts of Europe, the robot is destroyed in Philly ... who would have guessed it. Repost. http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2441573 esquared Anandtech Forum Director
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    Man shoots armadillo, bullet richochets and hits him in the head

    And now they both have leprosy.
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    SCOTUS ruling - Death Penalty Drugs

    I am an advocate of the death penalty for particularly heinous crimes, but the cost associated with it, including the mandatory appeals, leads me to believe it would just be better to have them imprisoned for life, with no parole. If there was a way to have them put to death within a year or...
  14. D1gger

    Bellator 138 Fri June 19th FREE on Spike

    The whole night looked more like WWE than MMA.
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    Donald Trump Talks Presidential Campaign

    His announcement speech was one of the most weird and disjointed talks I have ever seen. He was actually foaming at the mouth. But it should make things interesting for the next year in politics.
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    Tom Magliozzi Dead @ 77

    Best NPR show ever! Sad news indeed.
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    YATT - Yet, another tipping thread.

    A restaurant near here tried that and had to change back to allowing tipping. link
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    Tip calculator/card

    10% is really easy to calculate: $150 bill 10% = $15, for excellent service I just double that for $30. For adequate service add 1/2 of the 10% $15 + $7.50 = $22.50. I have never felt the need to use a calculator to do this math.
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    What is the most you've spent on lunch?

    I was in Vegas a couple of years ago and got hungry for sushi at lunch. Wandered into the sushi bar and asked the chef behind the bar to just start serving me and stop when I told him to stop. The total was about $300 including tip for just me.
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    Anand Retires!!

    Very sad to see him leave the tech journalist world. I am very curious about what he will be doing for Apple.
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    Taking wife to Vegas for her 40th...looking for help on planning the trip

    I'm going to Vegas again in September. I have stayed at the Wynn, Cosmo, Mirage and Bellagio. My favourite is the Wynn, but the Cosmo was a close second. I'm going to spend some time at the Barrett Jackson car auction, see Penn & Teller and maybe a little gambling.
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    I keep bread in the fridge. Deal with it.

    I started storing my bread in the fridge (or freezer sometimes) after we had a brief mouse infestation. Lost a full loaf to the little buggers and just didn't like the idea of mice or insects getting into my bread.
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    is it ok to kick a woman in the face?

    I think that Ray Rice and War Machine are in agreement with the giraffe.
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    Has anyone broken an apartment lease before?

    I did once. I had to move to a new city for a job and left with 8 months on the lease. My lease specifically said that there was a three month rent penalty for early termination so I was on the hook for $3,600.
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    I don't think I'll look at sweetened tea from a restaurant in the same way again

    Yeah!, I've heard that some of the "special sauce" used in kitchen restaurants has a real bleach odor.
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    Another example of suppression of religion

    Article Shouldn't he be allowed to wear his religious headgear?
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    Good apartment complexes... is it a hopeless search?

    TridenT's manual would be 25 pages about the reasons he couldn't make a peanut butter sandwich.
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    Russion hackers get 1.2 billion usernames/passwords

    For the above password this site predicts: "It would take a desktop PC about 25 thousand years to crack your password"
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    ATOT Effect Needed *Found*

    http://www.amazon.com/10-Pack-Acryli...1X7PGWYSBS8T4G
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    man, jerry jones is awesome

    I'm pretty sure he can both continue to ruin the Cowboys and hit on the Cowgirls.
  31. D1gger

    How long to foster a child before you legally become kin to that child?

    I think what you are referring to is Fictive Kinship, which is a sociological concept. There can be legal rights that go along with that kinship, but I have never heard of a set time frame for establishment of these rights.
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    Russion hackers get 1.2 billion usernames/passwords

    This is a typical password I use: DCDQ0Z86sMjY. Generated by and stored by Lastpass.
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    Going to be in NYC for one night

    I understand there is a cart that sells Kalkalash on a stick with canned crab juice that is to die for.
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    BC Canada real estate market is getting out of hand.

    I own homes in both Victoria and Vancouver, and while I think Victoria is more scenic, when I retire, I think I will live full time in Vancouver. There is simply more to do and more access to whatever in Vancouver, and when I don't have to commute to work, I won't care about Vancouver traffic.
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    Good spices for rice?

    Curry Fried Rice with bacon for the win.
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    I met Candice Swanepoel

    I'm curious about what she did to bring you to the conclusion she is a bitch.
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    What's your FICO Credit Score?

    811 as of last November. I haven't checked it since then.
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    Where's the fiscal conservative outrage on this? (F35 costs 400 billion so far)

    Our government is still undecided about the purchase of F35's. I sure hope they decide to look at the alternatives more closely.
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    what did you have for lunch today?

    Chicken Mole Burrito with extra spicy salsa from a local taqueria. It was very good.
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    The Wire -- How long until I'm hooked?

    One of my favourite series of all time. I nearly cried when was killed. On the other hand I have not been able to get into The Shield. I'll have to give it another try.