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When I was in third grade, the automatic answer was: "Playboy photographer!" All other dream jobs seemed like a wasted opportunity. -- nm - Max Aug 16, 08:58
Hello fom Cleveland! What's for (early) lunch? - CovingtonCat Aug 16, 08:58
TTIS - Computer help needed. My wife needs a new laptop. She doesn't want to go Apple again (she had problems with her macbook and doesn't want to - pmb Aug 16, 08:57 9
- I'd get the Sony (also look at HP) -- nm - decline Aug 16, 09:00
- I'm a Sony Vaio fan. -- nm - loosilu Aug 16, 09:00
- I'm a big fan of HP. They are a bit heavier than most laptops so that may be a problem for your wife. -- nm - David Aug 16, 08:59
- Number 3 - Dell -- (link) - pmb Aug 16, 08:59 2
  - Here is a better system for cheaper. -- (link) - David Aug 16, 09:00 1
    - I know there are better systems out their for cheaper in 15" computers, but she wants smaller and lighter. -- nm - pmb Aug 16, 09:02
- Number 2 - Sony -- (link) - pmb Aug 16, 08:58 1
  - I see this one has an SSD. That's pretty good. -- nm - zork Aug 16, 09:02
- Number 1 - Toshiba -- (link) - pmb Aug 16, 08:57
How all 50 states are usually stereotyped -- (link) - amoxy Aug 16, 08:50 18
- This is fun to try with countries. US: Conservative, religious, stupid. -- nm - loosilu Aug 16, 08:55 11
  - Australia: so expensive, called oz, so hot, called down under - Roger More Aug 16, 08:58 3
    - I get expensive, dangerous, dry, scary. -- nm - loosilu Aug 16, 08:59 2
      - Americans are scaredy-cats -- nm - Roger More Aug 16, 09:00 1
        
        and dheap. -- nm - loosilu Aug 16, 09:02
  - Canada: so great, better than america, day july 1, colder than Europe - Roger More Aug 16, 08:57 5
    - for Canada I get: Expensive, lame, gay, great. -- nm - loosilu Aug 16, 08:58
    - Ireland: Green, wet, expensive, bad at soccer. Japan: Weird, expensive, awesome, advanced. -- nm - loosilu Aug 16, 08:58
    - World view of Canada - Polite. Cold. -- nm - Andie Aug 16, 08:57 2
      - I tried to convince my girlfriend that there would be snow on the ground when we went to Niagara Falls last week - decline Aug 16, 08:58 1
        
        it's a magic weather line when you cross the border! -- nm - Andie Aug 16, 08:59
  - Scotland: Violent, crap, wet. UK: Expensive, cloudy, rich, great. China: Populated, successful, rich, polluted. -- nm - loosilu Aug 16, 08:57
- PA: boring, haunted, humid, famous -- nm - znufrii Aug 16, 08:53
- from what i can tell, it seems like people think most states are humid. -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 16, 08:53
- Missouri: humid. - spamlet Aug 16, 08:52
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  - Poor Arkansas - so poor (and nothing else) -- nm - amoxy Aug 16, 08:53
  - Virginia: Humid, expensive, boring. -- nm - loosilu Aug 16, 08:52
Wiggie and Diva both liked Gone Girl, so it's something I can recommend to my wife to read, right? - prayformojo Aug 16, 08:47
Tax evaders and fraudsters gallery is published by HMRC -- (link) - LMS Aug 16, 08:46
115 degree rain recently fell in California. -- (link) - mara Aug 16, 08:45 1
- jeebus -- nm - decline Aug 16, 08:56
So Batman movie question: Who do you think should be the next Batman villain for whoever picks up the franchise now? -- nm - Jovian Aug 16, 08:43 10
- Kevin Spacey should be The Riddler. -- nm - Jim Aug 16, 08:55
- While watching TDKR, I was thinking Killer Croc could actually be done in an interesting way. -- nm - Kim Pine Aug 16, 08:50 3
  - And they pretty much foreshadowed it. Nolan built it in, just in case. -- nm - Spawn Aug 16, 08:52 2
    - Ah, so I was incepted. - Kim Pine Aug 16, 08:55 1
      - *ding* - Spawn Aug 16, 08:56
- the person who posted this web site: -- (link) - prayformojo Aug 16, 08:48
- Superman -- nm - LMS Aug 16, 08:46
- it should no a no brainer. - groiny Aug 16, 08:45
- Spiderman -- nm - Don Homer Aug 16, 08:44
- Hush -- nm - David Aug 16, 08:44
halo waypoint has some info on the Specializations now. - tRuMaN Aug 16, 08:38 3
- Any of this gonna help me kill others faster? -- nm - Mop (198 lbs) Aug 16, 08:45 2
  - well, maybe. - tRuMaN Aug 16, 08:47 1
    - That's definitely an edge. -- nm - Mop (198 lbs) Aug 16, 08:49
Soledad O'Brien tries to explain to Tim Pawlenty that savings in Medicare spending are not cuts in Medicare benefits. -- (link) - mara Aug 16, 08:37 14
- That's not a savings. It is a cut to the projecting spending on Medicare. Both of their arguments are pedantic though. -- nm - Inigo Aug 16, 08:42 13
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    - It would be a key distinction if her point was that there's more to the cut than meets the eye. - Inigo Aug 16, 08:56 2
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      - Because they're claiming not just a cut, but that it's "gutting medicare for seniors" and that they'll be hurt by it. - pmb Aug 16, 09:00
  - It's a meaningful distinction though. It's a cut in pay rates to providers, it's not a cut in services. It reduces spending on medicare, but it's - pmb Aug 16, 08:47 8
    - See my response to Jack above. -- nm - Inigo Aug 16, 08:59
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      - I love that they're lamenting these so-called "cuts" while simultaneously proposing a much more radical overhaul of the system - znufrii Aug 16, 08:50 2
        
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        well, yeah. -- nm - znufrii Aug 16, 09:11
      - It is funny. They should be applauding this. It reduces the spending. - pmb Aug 16, 08:49
      - Depends on my audience that day. -- nm - Romney si Aug 16, 08:49
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- eeesh. -- nm - znufrii Aug 16, 08:44
- I haven't read a whole lot about it. Why the sandwiches? - spamlet Aug 16, 08:41 5
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    - or a chicken, apparently. -- nm - loosilu Aug 16, 08:47
  - shootin' works up a crazy appetite -- nm - decline Aug 16, 08:41
  - spoils - groiny Aug 16, 08:41
  - Bullets don't kill people. High-fat diets do. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 16, 08:41
SITWAP? Mayim Bialik in accident, only minor injuries ... what I didn't know is that ... - i'm not dead yet ! Aug 16, 08:34 10
- I saw her mention on Conan that the BBT writers/head honchos/whoever changed her profession on the show to whatever she has a Ph.D. in. - kelly Aug 16, 08:53 2
  - did she say what it originally was going to me? -- nm - zork Aug 16, 08:56 1
    - She might have. I think she was going to be working in the same fields as Sheldon and Leonard, but I can't be sure. -- nm - kelly Aug 16, 08:59
- The headline was really decieving yesterday "Mayim Bialik has serious injuries" - amoxy Aug 16, 08:41 1
  - yeah, first reports were that she might lose a finger or more. -- nm - zork Aug 16, 08:46
- And did you hear they're remaking Red Dawn?!?! -- nm - Ender Aug 16, 08:36 2
  - And Dawson is getting a new job?? -- nm - amoxy Aug 16, 08:40
  - no, actually ... i live in a 5x5 cardboard box on the outskirts of town ... someone's posting on ST for me ... so ..... - i'm not dead yet ! Aug 16, 08:38
- how did you miss that? -- nm - loosilu Aug 16, 08:35 1
  - I don't know ... something must have been distracting me all this time ... -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Aug 16, 08:37
the everyman weapons line for Tediore (yes, borderlands 2) -- (link) - tRuMaN Aug 16, 08:34
My biggest problem with Nolan films is that he wants them to make people think, but you can't think too much about them or they fall apart. - ceregon Aug 16, 08:32 1
- Nah. -- nm - David Aug 16, 08:32
Fuzzy, yeah, it's tough. I feel the same way as your wife. - kelly Aug 16, 08:32 3
- If it helps, she stayed home for 13 years through 2 kids and she often says she has no regrets at all. - Fuzzy Aug 16, 08:36 2
  - We're going to take it year by year...hopefully I can continue this for a while, though. - kelly Aug 16, 08:44 1
    - I think it has made a tremendously positive impact on our kids. -- nm - Fuzzy Aug 16, 08:56
also key: weighing yourself at approximately the same time every day. - mafic Aug 16, 08:30 11
- My current scale is definitely off, though. I just weighed 2 3-lb weights. I got weights of 5.8-6.2. - kelly Aug 16, 08:50 3
  - it matters where you stand, too, correct? -- nm - coffee jones Aug 16, 08:54 2
    - yeah, it's a crap shoot with all bathroom scales. doctor type ones with the sliding weights are the most reliable. -- nm - zork Aug 16, 08:55
    - I would assume so. My weights stood in the same spot... -- nm - kelly Aug 16, 08:55
- Preferably only once a week, too. You can really vary from day to day and it can get discouraging. -- nm - Kim Pine Aug 16, 08:37
- Oh yeah, I do this. -- nm - kelly Aug 16, 08:33
- There is no spoon. -- nm - Spawn Aug 16, 08:32
- In the morning, before eating or drinking, after urinating, wearing the same type of clothes. -- nm - ty97 Aug 16, 08:32 2
  - heh, exactly. -- nm - kelly Aug 16, 08:33
  - nekkid -- nm - decline Aug 16, 08:33
- yeah, this is a big one as well. nm -- nm - groiny Aug 16, 08:32
Wow, we finally got the fast wireless in my building. 87 mbps up, 80 down. -- nm - prayformojo Aug 16, 08:30 1
- quick! download a bunch of hd porn -- nm - decline Aug 16, 08:33
but they set up the Joker in DK, as a genius level intellect. - groiny Aug 16, 08:29 53
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  - lovely, lovely -- nm - Spawn Aug 16, 08:34 1
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- but spoils - tRuMaN Aug 16, 08:32
- Spoilers - David Aug 16, 08:32 48
  - I'll assume that the IM contains two separate facts about the character. :) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 16, 08:40
  - which was never mentioned in the movie - tRuMaN Aug 16, 08:40 15
    - See below. spoil - Spawn Aug 16, 08:45 1
      - both of which seem like something out of a bond film from the 90s - tRuMaN Aug 16, 08:49
    - You should have read Secret Six. Why didn't you? -- nm - David Aug 16, 08:41 12
      - because i shouldnt have to read a comic to understand a big movie like this. - tRuMaN Aug 16, 08:43 3
        
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        agreed -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 16, 08:48
        
        Lazy. -- nm - David Aug 16, 08:44
      - What is Secret Six? -- nm - amoxy Aug 16, 08:42 7
        
        A Gail Simone story. -- (link) - David Aug 16, 08:43 4
        
        have I mentioned how much I dislike DC character names? nm -- nm - groiny Aug 16, 08:52 1
        
        No, *groiny*, you haven't. -- nm - David Aug 16, 08:57
        
        A movie should be able to explain something without movie goers reading an obscure comic book -- nm - amoxy Aug 16, 08:45 1
        
        Not *have* to read it, *GET* to read it. - David Aug 16, 08:51
        
        the sequel to Secret Five. nm -- nm - groiny Aug 16, 08:43 1
        
        Which was the sequel to semi-secret four. -- nm - amoxy Aug 16, 08:43
  - this may be true, but that didn't really come across in the movie -- nm - decline Aug 16, 08:34
  - This. And Bane has 10x the focus that the Joker does and did not have spoil - Spawn Aug 16, 08:33
  - where did they explain that in the movie? nm -- nm - groiny Aug 16, 08:33 28
    - Did you see the article on the Bane backstory stuff they had to cut out? - Spawn Aug 16, 08:35 3
      - no, I did not, but that does not help in the issue though. nm -- nm - groiny Aug 16, 08:37 2
        
        Just saying, they wanted to do more, but thought the audience could infer from the scenes in the movie. -- nm - Spawn Aug 16, 08:48 1
        
        from what you see just here on these boards , they chose poorly. nm -- nm - groiny Aug 16, 08:49
    - Bane is my Joker. -- nm - David Aug 16, 08:34 23
      - I get that, but they did a poor job setting him up in the movie. nm -- nm - groiny Aug 16, 08:35 22
        
        The opening scene with him was meant to establish it. -- nm - Spawn Aug 16, 08:40 17
        
        if you have to tell me that, it did a poor job of explaining it. nm -- nm - groiny Aug 16, 08:41 16
        
        You did a poor job of watching. Both sequels dis the same, had an opening/early scene with the villain to establish their intelligence levels. spoils - Spawn Aug 16, 08:43 15
        
        From those setups, The Joke seemed demented but brilliant, Bane seemed physically imposing with a cult leader vibe. - Inigo Aug 16, 08:46 6
        
        See above. spoil - Spawn Aug 16, 08:47 5
        
        (spoils) - Inigo Aug 16, 08:49 3
        
        Well, I mean the whole operation. -- nm - Spawn Aug 16, 08:53
        
        And the stock exchange? -- nm - David Aug 16, 08:52 1
        
        that was mroe brute force than planning IMO. nm -- nm - groiny Aug 16, 08:54
        
        lol, that is not the point, homer. nm -- nm - groiny Aug 16, 08:48
        
        saw it twice, and no, it did not help establish how BANE planned it all out. - groiny Aug 16, 08:44 7
        
        Wait, you thought Bane spoil - Spawn Aug 16, 08:46 6
        
        at what point in that did they establish that he planned the whole thing out? - groiny Aug 16, 08:48 5
        
        The same could be said for the Joker? I mean, we did not see him sititng and writing it in his journal, right? -- nm - Spawn Aug 16, 08:52 4
        
        the henchmen were talking about "joker told me to do X" and when it is done to "kill y" - groiny Aug 16, 08:53 3
        
        That was more because the gimmick of them spoil - Spawn Aug 16, 08:55 2
        
        "no, I kill the bus driver....." - groiny Aug 16, 08:58 1
        
        A bank robbery. Vs... -- nm - Spawn Aug 16, 09:00
        
        Other than his voice and the split of his backstory, I thought they did a fabulous job with him. - David Aug 16, 08:36 3
        
        but, I would love to know WHY they were so loyal to him. m -- nm - groiny Aug 16, 08:39 2
        
        spoils - Roger More Aug 16, 08:49
        
        Yeah I had the same issue (spoiler) - Guigue Aug 16, 08:40
It's always awkward when a group is self-destructing off-camera but has to pretend to be civil or even jovial on camera. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 16, 08:29 4
- Is this more Batman complaining? -- nm - Spawn Aug 16, 08:32 1
  - Only if Al Roker is Batman -- nm - Beryllium Aug 16, 08:38
- Wikileaks? -- nm - loosilu Aug 16, 08:29 1
  - The Today Show -- nm - Beryllium Aug 16, 08:30
Elvis Elvis Elvis Elvis Elvis Elvis Elvis needs boats! -- (link) - landbeck Aug 16, 08:29 [youtube] 2
- Mojo Nixon! -- nm - amoxy Aug 16, 08:43 1
  - Skid Roper! -- nm - zork Aug 16, 08:47
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