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"There are no wrong choices. The only wrong choice is to sit there like you're doing." -- nm - Beryllium Apr 22, 08:50
I corresponded with Ed (shades) last night. He's clearly fighty and optimistic and isn't about to back down from his situation. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) Apr 22, 08:48 2
- good to hear. -- nm - znufrii Apr 22, 08:51
- Awesomesauce. YGM (in a sec) -- nm - Spawn Apr 22, 08:49
Looks like that's all she wrote for Futurama. -- (link) - Mop (190 lbs) Apr 22, 08:48 3
- Again. -- nm - spamlet Apr 22, 08:51
- :-( Hopefully they find yet another home for the show. -- nm - Krusty Apr 22, 08:51
- aww... -- nm - colin Apr 22, 08:50
Game of Thrones (last night spoils) - Jovian Apr 22, 08:45 4
- Spoils - volnelk Apr 22, 08:46
- spoils - groiny Apr 22, 08:46 2
  - Yup (spoils) - Jovian Apr 22, 08:49 1
    - yeah, I said the same last week. nm -- nm - groiny Apr 22, 08:50
So no Game of Thrones talk? I was floored by last night's episode. Floored. - volnelk Apr 22, 08:43 2
- heh same brain today I see? (GoT spoils) - Jovian Apr 22, 08:46
- There was some talk last night. And there is talk above, too! -- nm - Spawn Apr 22, 08:46
MLB: Pitchers losing zip on their fastball -- (link) - budice Apr 22, 08:43 4
- And still, hitters can't hit it consistently. So many strikeouts. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 22, 08:51 1
  - that is because it is accepted now, more than ever. nm -- nm - groiny Apr 22, 08:51
- I call it learning how to pitching without having to throw the ball through a wall. nm -- nm - groiny Apr 22, 08:45
- AKA MLB Pitchers losing their drug dealer's numbers. -- nm - volnelk Apr 22, 08:44
LYC: My new goal is to upgrade to a better phone without paying anything out of pocket. I believe this will be a challenge. - Shaun Apr 22, 08:35 4
- My goal is to get rid of my Bionic and pay a lot of money out of pocket for the latest and greatest. -- nm - Ender Apr 22, 08:43
- $299 Nexus 4? - colin Apr 22, 08:37 2
  - No that's money out of pocket. Also most of the carriers here tend to only roll with the 16gb model. -- nm - Shaun Apr 22, 08:41 1
    - can you run an unlocked phone or does it have to be from a carrier? -- nm - colin Apr 22, 08:42
Do Not Touch - really cool music video project that records the position of your cursor. NSFW (boobies) -- (link) - colin Apr 22, 08:27
Question for ST parents who have more than one child....especially for CQ and ML..... - Walt_Disney Apr 22, 08:27 27
- Having 2 that are 12 1/2 months apart, I can say it's not easy. But it's also not overwhelmingly hard. - Jim Apr 22, 08:53
- Are you in a position that outside help would be an option? Either for childcare or housework? - Meg Apr 22, 08:41 1
  - Our families for the most part have been supportive, but I guess I worry about over relying on them.... - Walt_Disney Apr 22, 08:50
- I am really, really glad that our kids are 6 years apart. nm -- nm - groiny Apr 22, 08:39 3
  - see, I come from the opposite point of view, that sounds much worse. ;) -- nm - Don Homer Apr 22, 08:40 2
    - This is why we have one. - spamlet Apr 22, 08:50
    - one kid is old enough to lend another set of hands. - groiny Apr 22, 08:41
- As an adopted child, I can tell you that there are lots of options in the world. . . - OAE -- aka Old Antarctic Explorer Apr 22, 08:32 14
  - i can tell you as someone who has started the adoption process that it's not that easy. - Andie Apr 22, 08:33 13
    - That's awesome and best of luck! -- nm - Krusty Apr 22, 08:53
    - awesome, good luck! nm -- nm - groiny Apr 22, 08:48
    - :) -- nm - kelly Apr 22, 08:47
    - Good luck! -- nm - Spawn Apr 22, 08:46
    - Good luck to you and Dave. -- nm - Walt_Disney Apr 22, 08:45 1
      - thanks. - Andie Apr 22, 08:48
    - awesome! - colin Apr 22, 08:41
    - good luck - Epiphany Apr 22, 08:40
    - You'll make a great mom when it happens. Sorry that it's been tough so far. -- nm - Inigo Apr 22, 08:36 1
      - :) - Andie Apr 22, 08:37
    - (best wishes) -- nm - Don Homer Apr 22, 08:34 2
      - thanks. - Andie Apr 22, 08:34 1
        
        hope it goes well for you. -- nm - zork Apr 22, 08:35
- It is a lot of responsiblity, and if you already feel overwhelmed, then I say wait. - Inigo Apr 22, 08:30
- I love him, but I'm not sure we'd have had the second if we could do it all over. -- nm - Don Homer Apr 22, 08:28 3
  - I am ecstatically happy with only one. - Spawn Apr 22, 08:33 2
    - The worry from your last sentence just disappears once your second child is born. -- nm - Inigo Apr 22, 08:37 1
      - But see, for me, it would not. -- nm - Spawn Apr 22, 08:47
Don't take the cinnamon challenge: Doctors warn teens after surge in calls to poison centers... -- (link) - Don Homer Apr 22, 08:22 3
- I can't imagine having Cinnamon Lung or even lingering sinus cinnamon. Ick. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 22, 08:29
- but I saw Arya Stark do it! -- nm - mafic Apr 22, 08:26 1
  - She certainly attempted it. -- nm - Shaun Apr 22, 08:30
Egg Rollie? Must be a thing to roll egg salad into wrap, why would anyone freak out over th....OMG THAT'S, THAT'S UFCKED -- nm - zork Apr 22, 08:17 5
- the way it rises, like it's been conjured by a demented snake charmer. -- nm - colin Apr 22, 08:17 4
  - I really don't need my breakfast looking like it's happy to see me. -- nm - TWuG Apr 22, 08:27 3
    - Hey pal, I'm not *that* easy. -- nm - Eggs over easy Apr 22, 08:34
    - That's what she said -- nm - zork Apr 22, 08:27
    - And dirty. -- nm - Spawn Apr 22, 08:27
NYC proposes raising minimum age for cigarette purchases to 21... -- (link) - Don Homer Apr 22, 08:13 11
- *smh* 18 is old enough to make bad decisions. - Krusty Apr 22, 08:21 10
  - I like this idea -- nm - Epiphany Apr 22, 08:41
  - yeah, if you are old enough to join the army, you are old enough to do anything. nm -- nm - groiny Apr 22, 08:38
  - not a good idea to have kids starting drinking and driving at the same time. They should be used to one before starting the other. -- nm - zork Apr 22, 08:35 1
    - See my point below. -- nm - Krusty Apr 22, 08:37
  - I would go two years earlier for driver training. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 22, 08:30 2
    - That's common. 16 for driver's ed and you can get your license at 17. No driver's ed and you have to wait until you're 18. - Krusty Apr 22, 08:34 1
      - Agreed. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 22, 08:37
  - agree with your IM. -- nm - colin Apr 22, 08:28 2
    - The argument I always fall back on is, how can we ask a kid to go fight in a war but not allow him to have a beer when he's home? - Krusty Apr 22, 08:37 1
      - actually I do believe that in the army the soldiers could drink 3.2 beer even in dry states on base - zeitgeist Apr 22, 10:36
i can't allow myself to buy the shark shaped pet bed, but i want it: -- (link) - Andie Apr 22, 08:13
now I remember why I quit south pacific: too much jesus. -- nm - amanda Apr 22, 08:12 1
- ~Jesus Christ may call you. Any night, any day~ -- nm - colin Apr 22, 08:13
Perhaps this will be a better week...early email from my doctor... - Meg Apr 22, 08:10 12
- nice. I have an extra bottle of thyro-tab for one of the dogs. Let me know if I should send it to you. -- nm - zork Apr 22, 08:18
- excellent. -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 22, 08:12
- Yay! :-) - Krusty Apr 22, 08:12 6
  - Oh, I've been on synthroid for years. They just have to keep boosting the dosage. - Meg Apr 22, 08:16 5
    - Can I ask, how could you tell you had problems with your thyroid? Or could you not? - kelly Apr 22, 08:37 1
      - Right, my initial diagnosis was from my annual blood work. They always ask about weight gain or tiredness but I've never noticed these. - Meg Apr 22, 08:46
    - Jeez. Is it causing other issues? - Krusty Apr 22, 08:19 2
      - Generally it's no problem - lots of people live with under-active thyroids - but I have noticed my hair thinning lately which may be related. -- nm - Meg Apr 22, 08:22 1
        
        Good to hear it's generally no problem. :-) -- nm - Krusty Apr 22, 08:23
- A thyroid ultrasound? I didn't even know your thyroid could get pregnant... -- nm - Ender Apr 22, 08:12
- this is a 'no news is good news' scenario, right? keep it up! :) -- nm - Andie Apr 22, 08:11
- maybe it was just a Cheeto? - groiny Apr 22, 08:11
To add to the week of hell (that is OVER), we (the properties) had not one, but TWO fires over the weekend! - Spawn Apr 22, 08:08 5
- have you thought about renting to mma fighters? they don't have problems like that - ceregon Apr 22, 08:17 2
  - Who knew mma fighters could stop electrical fires? -- nm - Jim Apr 22, 08:18 1
    - They own so few things that you plug in, they never overload the wiring. -- nm - ceregon Apr 22, 08:51
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- jeez. brick up those fireplaces :) -- nm - colin Apr 22, 08:09
Poll: Imagine you can instantly learn three new languages. Which three do you pick? - loosilu Apr 22, 08:06 53
- Japanese ... Spanish (get fluent, I know a little now) ... and, oh, I'll take Italian for 1000 Alex -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Apr 22, 08:46
- Mandarin, Russian, Italian -- nm - Jovian Apr 22, 08:37
- esperanto, jive, fluent kangaroo...nm - x Apr 22, 08:33 2
  - L3! -- nm - Epiphany Apr 22, 08:41
  - I thought you already were fluent in jive? -- nm - Don Homer Apr 22, 08:40
- Practical and benefical: Mandarin, Spanish and Arabic Wishful fun: French, Japanese and German -- nm - Walt_Disney Apr 22, 08:28
- Spanish, Japanese and russian -- nm - amoxy Apr 22, 08:26
- not sure if French and German that I took in school count as already knowing but in addition to those I'd like to know Spanish, Japanese, Ukrainian - zork Apr 22, 08:25
- Italian, Arabic, Mandarin. (I speak Spanish already - although I may like to use that to become fluent) -- nm - MDH Apr 22, 08:21
- that I don't already speak? mandarin, arabic, and probably cantonese. maybe hindi instead of cantonese. -- nm - mafic Apr 22, 08:19
- Spanish, Portuguese, Elven -- nm - ceregon Apr 22, 08:18 3
  - Elven, nice! Surprised nobody said Klingon - zork Apr 22, 08:27 2
    - reading is hard. -- nm - loosilu Apr 22, 08:38 1
      - d'oh! - zork Apr 22, 08:39
- Mandarin, Spanish, Japanese. -- nm - Ender Apr 22, 08:13 1
  - this -- nm - Diva Apr 22, 08:43
- Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin. - spamlet Apr 22, 08:12 3
  - Why waste two slots on basically the same language? (This also goes for everyone who said French and Italian) -- nm - Roger More Apr 22, 08:20 2
    - Because our biggest foreign subsidiaries are Mexico and Brazil. - spamlet Apr 22, 08:31
    - yeah, I think I need to switch out Italian with Russian. -- nm - loosilu Apr 22, 08:23
- In this neighborhood - Vietnamese, Korean, Spanish. -- nm - Meg Apr 22, 08:12
- Spanish, German, Irish. -- nm - ty97 Apr 22, 08:12
- Spanish, and two that are in danger of going extince -- would have to do some research. -- nm - mara Apr 22, 08:11 3
  - Ooh, right - I should pick a couple of the local native dialects...but there are so many. -- nm - Meg Apr 22, 08:24 1
    - Yeah, I should do that too. I probably have native blood so it would make sense. -- nm - zork Apr 22, 08:28
  - actually, if it's instant, I might learn an extinct one. linear A, here I come! -- nm - mafic Apr 22, 08:24
- Mandarin, Spanish, Farsi. -- nm - nubby, Astro-lord, koozie aficionado Apr 22, 08:11
- Mandarin. Italian. Spanish.. -- nm - Andie Apr 22, 08:11
- farsi, greek, russian -- nm - amanda Apr 22, 08:10
- French, Spanish, Arabic -- nm - Beaker Apr 22, 08:10
- Japanese, Korean, Spanish. -- nm - Was Bar Was Apr 22, 08:10
- Mandarin, Russian, Arabic -- nm - Roger More Apr 22, 08:09 1
  - This, for varying definitions of Arabic -- nm - Beryllium Apr 22, 08:18
- Spanish, Mandarin and French. -- nm - Krusty Apr 22, 08:08 2
  - I know enough Italian to get by but I'm far from fluent. - Krusty Apr 22, 08:10
  - this is me as well. -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 22, 08:09
- spanish -- nm - James Bond (on phone) Apr 22, 08:08 3
  - tres -- nm - ty97 Apr 22, 08:13
  - math is hard. :) -- nm - loosilu Apr 22, 08:09 1
    - he just wants people to stop asking him "you don't speak Spanish?" -- nm - Roger More Apr 22, 08:13
- russian, arabic, chinese -- nm - colin Apr 22, 08:08
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  - I'm that way with Italian too. Sounds like an ST trend. -- nm - loosilu Apr 22, 08:09
- Chinese, Spanish, Arabic. -- nm - LMS Apr 22, 08:08
- Spanish, French, Klingon -- nm - Epiphany Apr 22, 08:08
- Spanish, Vietnamese, Japanese. -- nm - Don Homer Apr 22, 08:07
- Italian, Chinese, Arabic. - Mel Profit Apr 22, 08:07 4
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    - I'm going to need a VP in '16... - Mel Profit Apr 22, 08:10
    - ML Profit -- nm - loosilu Apr 22, 08:09 1
      - ...in 2016! -- nm - Inigo Apr 22, 08:10
- Spanish, Chinese, German -- nm - oblique Apr 22, 08:07
- Spanish, Chinese,Tagalog - decline Apr 22, 08:07
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- *pats his John Buck* - Ding This Apr 22, 08:06
MLB - Angels: Need pitching help, looks like moves to offload Haren and Greinke were the right ones regardless. -- nm - budice Apr 22, 08:02

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