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Among Syria's Islamist fighters (nmbl) - Brian Sep 6, 08:02
How your body language changes your brain chemistry -- (link) - znufrii Sep 6, 08:02
I love the overreactions of sports fans. For fun, I just listed my National Treasures Julius Thomas rookie auto on Ebay. - Jim Sep 6, 07:59
Todays FWP: Do I wear the new shoes for the first time on travel day or do I pack them in my suitcase? - ty97 Sep 6, 07:50 15
- I'm starting to get the suspicion that whatever you decide, the particulars of your shoes will prove to be vitally important - prayformojo Sep 6, 08:07
- You're high if you're even thinking about wearing the new shoes. -- nm - spamlet Sep 6, 08:05
- travel is uncomfortable enough with broken in shoes....nm - x Sep 6, 07:53
- what kind of shoes? are they likely to cause blisters? -- nm - mafic Sep 6, 07:53 7
  - I think you'll be ok wearing them. also: nice shoes. -- nm - mafic Sep 6, 07:59
  - I FB photo'ed -- nm - ty97 Sep 6, 07:55 5
    - My guess is you'd be fine in those. I thought you meant dress shoes. -- nm - Krusty Sep 6, 08:02 3
      - heh. I never imagined ty ever wore anything else! -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 08:03 2
        
        I've never seen him dressed up in a suit, only casual. But for some reason I thought he was trying to break in shoes for work - Krusty Sep 6, 08:06 1
        
        me too. I was imagining something leather filling with blood at heathrow. -- nm - mafic Sep 6, 08:14
    - Qulaity posting. -- nm - MIL Sep 6, 08:00
- Yeah, all that standing during the flight would be problematic. -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 07:52 2
  - Obvs I'll ditch the shoes on the plane in favor of the slippers the airline provides. BUT - ty97 Sep 6, 07:53 1
    - That is the way I prefer to break shoes in. A few bursts of long walking with breaks in between. - Spawn Sep 6, 07:57
- Pack them. Be comfortable while you travel and you also don't need them possibly adding an annoyance to your trip. -- nm - Krusty Sep 6, 07:52
Grantland: Let's kick off the NFL season with a trip to Las Vegas to put our money where our mouth is -- (link) - Strongbad Sep 6, 07:50
Also - there's free BBQ at work today. The parking lot, which is usually 60%-75% full most Friday's is... - Mel Profit Sep 6, 07:49 8
- I love living in a place with a lot of barbecue. Don't have to worry about that. -- nm - spamlet Sep 6, 08:06
- could you work from home if you wanted? I'm just curious. I'm terrible at working from home during normal business hours.) -- nm - amanda hk Sep 6, 08:04
- If I wasn't 3,000 miles away, I would come and crash -- nm - amoxy Sep 6, 07:52
- Let's hope you're getting real BBQ, not that Carolina garbage. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 6, 07:52 1
  - *...hears distant war drums begin to beat...* -- nm - Diva Sep 6, 07:55
- sure, for decent BBQ, I'd do the same. -- nm - znufrii Sep 6, 07:50
- BBQ ain't no joke. -- nm - Diva Sep 6, 07:50 1
  - Apparently... -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 6, 07:52
California fire was started by hunters and not pot growers as has been reported. -- (link) - Krusty Sep 6, 07:46
Posted this last night. Got less response than I anticipated. Every NFL team as a Game of Thrones house. Pretty cool. -- (link) - volnelk Sep 6, 07:43
John Harbaugh didn't challenge Welkers "catch". He blames NBC -- (link) - amoxy Sep 6, 07:42 4
- I love that. NBC didn't show it. They showed it at least 3-4 times before Peyton snapped the ball. -- nm - Jim Sep 6, 07:45 3
  - And at least one of the Balt defenders was signaling the sideline to challenge - amoxy Sep 6, 07:46 2
    - Harbaugh definitely made a mistake, but you can't go by the defender's reaction. - Inigo Sep 6, 07:50 1
      - the spotters in the booth should have convinced him. -- nm - Diva Sep 6, 08:00
Powerful Texas Republican advocates for seceding from the United States... -- (link) - Don Homer Sep 6, 07:27 13
- New Hampshire does this too... -- nm - colin Sep 6, 07:46
- (And I wouldn't really call the Railroad Commissioners "powerful") - ty97 Sep 6, 07:41 4
  - do not laugh at the iron horse!...nm - x Sep 6, 07:45
  - "Fun fact: the Railroad Commission no longer regulates Texas’ railroads." - znufrii Sep 6, 07:43 1
    - Yup. They haven't for a number of years. It's TX, just tick the box next to (R) for every positions. Titles don't matter. -- nm - ty97 Sep 6, 07:45
  - They criss-cross the nation. -- nm - Kim Pine Sep 6, 07:43
- That Barry Smitherman is a real piece of work. He thinks the China "One Child" policy with -- (link) - amoxy Sep 6, 07:41
- It's apparently a year with four digits again. - ty97 Sep 6, 07:38
- Let em -- nm - amoxy Sep 6, 07:32 4
  - Only if they pay cash for all the federal public lands they'd be taking with them. -- nm - mara Sep 6, 08:00
  - As a citizen of a state for which the same could be said, please don't. -- nm - nubby Sep 6, 07:38
  - Yep. Go ahead. -- nm - Kim Pine Sep 6, 07:33
  - That would be *awesome*. -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 07:33
Zac Hanson calls fan "drunk b*tch" during VA concert -- (link) - amanda hk Sep 6, 07:24 10
- Spoiler: Skip to 1:30 in the video to be spared 90 seconds of bad live recording. -- nm - nubby Sep 6, 07:43 1
  - Spoiler: Skip to 1:30 in the video to be spared 90 seconds of a Hanson performance. -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 07:48
- painting trip to Virginia indeed. -- nm - mafic Sep 6, 07:33
- Was she? -- nm - Mop on Nook Android Tablet Sep 6, 07:27 2
  - If she paid money to see Hanson... -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 07:27 1
    - heh -- nm - Don Homer Sep 6, 07:28
- Is he trying to sing horrible on purpose or is that how he really sings? I couldn't get to the bitch part because that singing is karaoke bad! -- nm - Bacon Sep 6, 07:26 1
  - I'm willing to chalk that up to a bad recording. -- nm - nubby Sep 6, 07:45
- Any news is good news! - Hanson Sep 6, 07:25
- sorry, loosi. -- nm - znufrii Sep 6, 07:24
Can somebody pack my suitcase for me? I am out of practice. -- nm - ty97 Sep 6, 07:22 2
- I have two beautiful solid weeks at home, longest I've been here since early March. -- nm - mafic Sep 6, 07:51
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Good job, CapOne! By dropping support for eBills through my bank, I'm going to make you print and mail me a bill now. - spamlet Sep 6, 07:15
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- Still waiting on a Mac version of TL2. -- nm - Tim Sep 6, 07:15
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work mini-rant: I think for the next week I need an Outlook folder deleting anything with the words - Strongbad Sep 6, 07:12
So, there's a special edition of XCOM coming out. Do companies generally put the extras on stuff like this as DLC for the original? - spamlet Sep 6, 07:11 2
- have you tried the ipad version? it's pretty good. -- nm - Don Homer Sep 6, 07:29 1
  - No, I haven't yet. My wife generally commandeers the iPad so I don't generally buy games for it. -- nm - spamlet Sep 6, 08:04
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- Secretly, I'm guessing he wants the House to vote No. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 6, 07:10 18
  - No politician wants a public defeat -- nm - Roger More Sep 6, 07:21 1
    - That is why I agree with the thought that he wants an out. -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 07:31
  - with the majority of the population against what he's advocating I'm guessing he's expecting them to vote No. - Mel Profit Sep 6, 07:17
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    - the theory is that he boxed himself in with his talk but he never really wanted to actually follow up. - spamlet Sep 6, 07:12 13
      - plus he gets to bluster about congress being weak-willed and backing down from Syria. -- nm - mafic Sep 6, 07:17
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        This is another example of his inexperience regarding DC... - Mel Profit Sep 6, 07:24 2
        
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        I think he does... - Mel Profit Sep 6, 07:44
        
        He's already told us he has the power to do this regardless of what Congress says. - Strongbad Sep 6, 07:19 3
        
        Because it makes him look the opposite of Dubya. -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 07:21 2
        
        He's trying to appear that way, I agree. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 6, 07:23
        
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        You have that backwards. SB's theory is he doesn't want to act and knowing Congress will vote no is his cover for not acting. -- nm - spamlet Sep 6, 07:18 3
        
        Uh, see above. -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 07:21
        
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        heh -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 07:24
Huh, I did not know that cow tipping isn't a real thing... -- (link) - Ender Sep 6, 06:51 2
- It's a way to get naive idiots to run around a cow pasture at night. -- nm - Reagen Sep 6, 07:17
- That was interesting. I was never sure. -- nm - Krusty Sep 6, 07:11
a pic has gotten out of the Team Canada (hockey) sweater for Sochi. Reminds me of the rugby/rugger shirts from the 80s or 90s -- (link) - zork Sep 6, 06:46 2
- Toews looks really excited to be there. -- nm - spamlet Sep 6, 06:55
- i like that design...nm - x Sep 6, 06:55
USDA ended ban on processed chicken imported from China -- (link) - amoxy Sep 6, 06:39 13
- *smh* There's no way I could trust a Chinese company with food products. - Krusty Sep 6, 06:47 12
  - Only chickens grown in the US/Canada are eligible for the program. - spamlet Sep 6, 06:55 9
    - I have zero trust in anything out of China. Zero. -- nm - Krusty Sep 6, 07:07 8
      - i'm about 100% sure that you are using products of china to type that out....nm - x Sep 6, 07:13 3
        
        Yes, I understand how much stuff we all have and use from them. But I don't trust their products to work well for long. - Krusty Sep 6, 07:16 2
        
        it's a fair point, really, i think there's no doubt in many cases the quality control in production is lacking.... - x Sep 6, 07:24 1
        
        You're definitely right about things changing and I'm hopeful we'll see a change in the Chinese made products. - Krusty Sep 6, 07:31
      - China Zero? Is that Coke Zero's communist brother? -- nm - Strongbad Sep 6, 07:11
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        Communist party tool! -- nm - Krusty Sep 6, 07:10 1
        
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  - you're probably already eating them. chinese food imports to the us have grown about 10% annually over the last decade.... - x Sep 6, 06:53 1
    - I rarely eat any processed foods these days. Fresh fruit, veggies and meat. - Krusty Sep 6, 07:06
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- He looked good last night...but then, everyone but Decker looked good last night. -- nm - Jim Sep 6, 06:59 1
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- Guess I should have started him after all. -- nm - spamlet Sep 6, 06:59
"Don't Be a Fucking Idiot" - Your Guide to the upcoming Australian Election -- (link) - Reagen Sep 6, 06:19 1
- Yeah, that's more or less accurate -- nm - Roger More Sep 6, 06:29
Its only Friday and already I know I have lost the first week of Vampirates...Foley got 70 points from two players :( -- nm - Walt_Disney Sep 6, 06:13 1
- Foley's keepers are so loaded... he's going to be on top of Vampirates for a few more years at least. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 6, 06:16
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- They couldn't use that big a font if they got the name right! -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 6, 06:14
We've seen this before but a new billboard just popped up in L.A. - "Need A Job, Date A Sugar Daddy" and - CrankYanker Sep 6, 06:02
This Man Moved to a Desert Island in Order to Vanish. Here's What Happened... -- (link) - Don Homer Sep 6, 05:58
GA Senate Update: 1st radio ads hit the airwaves this week, 8.5 months before the primary vote - Strongbad Sep 6, 05:55
Dear Yahoo, thank you for not showing *anywhere* on your FF pages what Leauge you are currently viewing - oblique Sep 6, 05:49
I hate week 1 games that really don't tell you anything other than what you knew - Will Hunting Sep 6, 05:49 18
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- I think 7 TDs tells you a lot. Their secondary was exposed last night. - Inigo Sep 6, 06:05 13
  - Week 1 -- vs one of the top 5 QBs ever in his home stadium with payback on mind - Will Hunting Sep 6, 06:13 10
    - Go ahead, and name me the team Peyton has thrown 450 yards against in week 1 before. - Inigo Sep 6, 06:19 6
      - 2003 - Buffalo beat New England 31-0 ... NE won the Super Bowl. - Will Hunting Sep 6, 06:26 5
        
        You arguing a strawman. None of that has anything to do with my response. - Inigo Sep 6, 06:31 4
        
        "But I can't imagine a worse showing by a team in week 1." - Will Hunting Sep 6, 06:37 2
        
        The team has never given up 49 points before. It should have been 56 if it wasn't for a Leon Lett moment. - Inigo Sep 6, 06:47 1
        
        That second half was better than many legendary QBs best *games*. -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 07:33
        
        ^ You're -- nm - Inigo Sep 6, 06:31
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      - Because Manning starts slow! - Spawn Sep 6, 07:19
      - Give the fans what they want :) - Will Hunting Sep 6, 06:18
  - I shouldn't say receivers. I should say tight ends. Clark and Dickson were just awful. - Inigo Sep 6, 06:09 1
    - Clark took 29 minutes of game time to fit in perfectly -- dropped a TD. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 6, 06:14
- Forget the game and the score. The Ravens lost a couple key players last night...that could hurt moving forward for them. -- nm - Jim Sep 6, 06:01 2
  - Yeah ... depending on how bad Oher is hurt, that could be huge. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 6, 06:12
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BLS: 169,000 new jobs last month, unemployment unchanged at 7.3% -- nm - Ender Sep 6, 05:44 6
- and by "unchanged", you mean down from 7.4%? -- nm - znufrii Sep 6, 05:45 5
  - By "unchanged" I mean "I misread the BLS email that actually said 'little changed'." -- nm - Ender Sep 6, 06:18 2
    - Quit lying Ender, I'm sure you got that from Fox News! -- nm - Strongbad Sep 6, 06:21
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  - regardless, this is a punk report. below expectations, with june and july revised down to the tune of -74000 jobs....nm - x Sep 6, 06:02 1
    - for sure, but that's no excuse to misrepresent tha actual numbers. -- nm - znufrii Sep 6, 06:14
•Alec Baldwin's MSNBC show is official, and will begin in October. - Beaker Sep 6, 05:43 2
- Should be interesting. Professionally, he's very charasmatic and personable, offstage he's pretty volatile. Wonder how he acts for this. -- nm - volnelk Sep 6, 06:40 1
  - Can't be any worse than Olbermann. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 6, 06:43
Syria offering a bounty on foreign "terrorists" -- (link) - Beaker Sep 6, 05:41

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