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9 airports where flying is about to get a lot worse -- (link) - ty97 Nov 19, 10:56
The Norden: Retired Prison Superintendent frum Buffalo goes to scandinavia and don't belive in it's prison -- (link) - DaneDukeNuuk Nov 19, 10:48 [youtube] 3
- The 'prison' scene in in the original swedish Girl w/Dragon Tattoo looked like a college dorm -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 19, 11:08 2
  - one of the really had prisons then -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Nov 19, 11:26 1
    - had=hard -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Nov 19, 11:26
AgentsOfShield: Alien spoils.... -- (link) - budice Nov 19, 10:45 1
- SHIELD spoils for last night - Beaker Nov 19, 10:48
so - I'm researching the topic of "Go Bags" - or BOB - Bug Out Bags - for possibly a blog or whatevs for our clients about being prepared. There are - JenBro Nov 19, 10:39 15
- Nothing like that level of readiness. I can lay my hands on a motorbike and plenty cash to escape to escape God's fury. - Loyola Nov 19, 10:44
- we have one, it's not crazy survivalist stuff, it is what we'd need if we had to evacuate quickly. - Andie Nov 19, 10:43 6
  - (we also have pretty much the same stuff in our car trunk - plus winter-emerg stuff.) -- nm - Andie Nov 19, 10:43 5
    - yep - it's THIS type of thing I'm writing for our clients ... but the survivalist things he has - even in his smaller gear bag - are so cool. - JenBro Nov 19, 10:45 4
      - being as you are who you are, i am sure you mentioned it, but people tend to NOT have their insurance policy number and contact phone number - Andie Nov 19, 10:46 3
        
        right ... someone else mentioned having all your utilities and account numbers and phone numbers for those all in the documents too - I wouldn't have - JenBro Nov 19, 10:49 2
        
        google doc and facebook -- nm - [email protected] Nov 19, 10:58
        
        we have a set of all that in a safe deposit box. I deal with most and that way my wife has access to all the docs - Beaker Nov 19, 10:58
- JenBro is a Doomsday Prepper! -- nm - Remlik Nov 19, 10:41 6
  - heh heh ... well ... reading some of the stuff about having only 5 minutes to grab stuff and leave your home (fire or whatever) - it makes you think -- nm - JenBro Nov 19, 10:43 4
    - if you have a fire, you don't have five minutes. :) -- nm - Andie Nov 19, 10:43 3
      - *stays behind as long as possible, hands out over the flames* -- nm - Buffalo'ans Nov 19, 10:49
      - one of the articles I read was a home owner with a power line sparking on a tree on their property - and the power company couldn't put it out with - JenBro Nov 19, 10:48 1
        
        same here, really the only reason i would have to evacuate is a fire, or if there was some sort of gas explosion/leak nearby. - Andie Nov 19, 10:49
  - we watched (and liked) that show when it first came out...then it went to crazy town -- nm - Beaker Nov 19, 10:42
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- Sproles would so dominate that game. -- nm - decline Nov 19, 10:41
- "His knee was down" "How can you tell?" -- nm - spamlet Nov 19, 10:38
- I've suspended Old Man Winter for 4 games for the use of performance enhancers -- nm - Roger Goodell Nov 19, 10:38 2
  - Jon Bon Jovi made me do it! -- nm - Old Man Winter Nov 19, 10:40 1
    - Now that I have seen the videos and pictures, I've upped it to 8 games - Roger Goodell Nov 19, 10:41
I'd be super impressed if people started doing the ice bucket challenge NOW. -- nm - Andie Nov 19, 10:35 7
- I was just watching a video I can't find at the moment, about the ice city in Harbin, China, also showing some swimmers. -- (link) - Max Nov 19, 10:42
- Why? The entire goal was to shock your system, not warm it up. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 19, 10:36 5
  - And support ALS! (or something) -- nm - Roger More Nov 19, 10:40
  - you wanna go outside and dump cold water on yourself right now? -- nm - Andie Nov 19, 10:37 3
    - Course not, it's a joke about how friggin cold it is. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 19, 10:45 2
      - i was all ready to challenge you! -- nm - Andie Nov 19, 10:50 1
        
        Okay. - Will Hunting Nov 19, 10:54
TNA Wrestling signs new TV deal with something called Destination America. To start in January when Spike deal ends. -- nm - Tim Nov 19, 10:35 18
- details.... - Remlik Nov 19, 10:42 4
  - Let's not assume they re-signed Angle and Kim....TNA is quite good at getting it's employee relations horribly wrong. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 19, 10:44 3
    - very true. But it does look like Del RIo will be there -- nm - Remlik Nov 19, 10:50 2
      - He's supposed to be in that Lucha Underground promotion too. - Tim Nov 19, 10:53
      - If Jeff Hardy didn't help them, a beaten-down Del Rio isn't. - Will Hunting Nov 19, 10:53
- Oh, the former Animal Planet -- home now to a lot of paranormal shows. - Will Hunting Nov 19, 10:36 12
  - DID YOU HEAR THAT KNOCK? WHAT WAS THAT BUMP? - Beaker Nov 19, 10:39 3
    - WHAT THE FRIG WAS THAT?! - Will Hunting Nov 19, 10:43
    - I CHALLENGE ANY SPIRIT TO APPEAR BEFORE ME! -- nm - Remlik Nov 19, 10:41 1
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  - Sooo the .8 or .9 Impact gets will make it their highest rated show? -- nm - Tim Nov 19, 10:38 7
    - yeah. But they'll bring a million eyeballs to that network. And they will get to be featured in more programming than Spike would give them -- nm - Remlik Nov 19, 10:42
    - Very likely. It's only in about 60mil homes so they probably would be happy as hell with a .8 or .9 -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 19, 10:42 5
      - I think it's a win for Destination America....hopefully TNA can make it work. -- nm - Remlik Nov 19, 10:44 4
        
        Oh, it's a win for TNA becuase they get to stay on the air. It's a loss for anyone having to pay them. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 19, 10:44
        
        people have lost alot of money thinking TNA can get anything to work... -- nm - Beaker Nov 19, 10:44 2
        
        I've heard rumors the company is more or less a tax write off for the parent company owned by Dixie's father. -- nm - Tim Nov 19, 10:49 1
        
        which her mom runs with a tight fist. -- nm - Remlik Nov 19, 10:51
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- offs -- nm - znufrii Nov 19, 10:49
- (I wonder if the response would have been different if they'd asked "important" instead of "urgent") -- nm - Roger More Nov 19, 10:37
- And cancer (10%) just beats out government interference (9%) -- nm - Roger More Nov 19, 10:35
- you were doing a fine job of wetting your trousers there for awhile... -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 19, 10:28 2
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    - Ebola barely rates as a concern here... - Mel Profit Nov 19, 10:43
- that's the closest I've seen them to calling people idiots. -- nm - Reagen Nov 19, 10:28
- You can't catch coronary disease from the semen of a fat person, ML. -- nm - Max Nov 19, 10:27 11
  - what if the semen comes out as gravy? -- nm - groiny Nov 19, 10:34 4
    - So that's whats on Chicken Fried Steak? -- nm - budice Nov 19, 10:37 2
      - KFC Bowls! *erp* -- nm - Diva SI Nov 19, 10:38 1
        
        so true. so very true. -- nm - Diva Nov 19, 10:40
    - I find it hard to believe that anyone has had sex with Meat Loaf in the last 20 years. -- nm - Max Nov 19, 10:36
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  - I'm gonna wager that science has actually studied that yet. -- nm - ty97 Nov 19, 10:29 1
    - seriously, in the 80's a nutritionist consulting with a hooker realised semen is highly caloric - zeitgeist Nov 19, 10:34
  - well there's a sentence that's never been written before. -- nm - Reagen Nov 19, 10:28 2
    - Seth McFarlane probably excised it from 2 or 3 different Family Guy scripts in 2007 alone. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 19, 10:35
    - I'm on a continuing mission to boldly go where no brain has gone before. -- nm - Max Trek Nov 19, 10:31
I get Linkedin requests from people I know - is there a way to decline these so I don't keep getting reminders? - Meg Nov 19, 10:23 3
- Do you have a LinkedIn account? - oblique Nov 19, 10:24 2
  - Ah, thank you. Maybe I'd used that for other emails and decided it wasn't working...to many email addresses :) -- nm - Meg Nov 19, 10:27 1
    - I just had to do the same for my wife. If they are the same, they are emails designed to get you into LinkedIn -- nm - oblique Nov 19, 10:29
warmachine has gmail. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 19, 10:20
Have any of you seen Overwatch from Blizzard? - Roo-Murderous Christmas Intent Nov 19, 10:18 1
- they just announced it at Blizzcon. Looks cool but not my style of game. -- nm - Tim Nov 19, 10:20
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- ND is like the world after the Langioliers are through with it. -- nm - Reagen Nov 19, 10:21
What's my go to sub $50 wireless router? Thanks again. -- nm - Amanda Nov 19, 10:16 13
- btw, I cannot recommend these APs enough -- (link) - oblique Nov 19, 10:30 1
  - I concur. We used these to hook everything up at church and they really impressed the network guy doing the work. - spamlet Nov 19, 10:40
- Super-Cheap: Wireless-N router for $15 with Prime shipping -- (link) - budice Nov 19, 10:29 2
  - Wireless-N New for $20 with Prime ship -- (link) - budice Nov 19, 10:30 1
    - YGM mandy, but it's this one. -- nm - spamlet Nov 19, 10:38
- How many devices are you hooking up? - spamlet Nov 19, 10:22 2
  - What did you get? -- nm - Amanda Nov 19, 10:28
  - Hmmmm. Good point. -- nm - Amanda Nov 19, 10:26
- Linksys AC900 (b/g/n/ac support) $45 with Prime shipping. No ugly antennas -- (link) - budice Nov 19, 10:22
- I've had sub $50 routers and they all sucked. Now I have this. -- (link) - Shaun Nov 19, 10:21 2
  - I considered that but went with the brand new Asus - oblique Nov 19, 10:22 1
    - You certainly are sir. -- nm - Shaun Nov 19, 10:23
- I *just* bought myself one but it is most decidedly not < $50. In that convo, my BIL recommended this -- (link) - oblique Nov 19, 10:19
Buffalo. -- (link) - Shaun Nov 19, 10:14 [Image]
Guardians of the Galaxy: Behind-The-Scenes Dance-Off -- (link) - budice Nov 19, 10:14 [youtube] 1
- Follow link to watch vid -- nm - budice Nov 19, 10:15
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- yes but, are there ways to prevent that from happening? -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 19, 10:36
My state map thing -- (link) - ty97 Nov 19, 10:11 11
- Wait, no. This: (corrected) -- (link) - ty97 Nov 19, 10:12 10
  - WI is beautiful. One of my favourites. -- nm - Loyola Nov 19, 10:15 2
    - I still can't believe I never got there while living in Chicago. Gonna try to go next year when in Chicago for the ST event -- nm - ty97 Nov 19, 10:20 1
      - I liked how green it was. Reminded me of home. -- nm - Loyola Nov 19, 10:22
  - a surprising number of us have been to Mississippi. -- nm - Reagen Nov 19, 10:13 6
    - Just an airport or out in the wild? -- nm - Max Nov 19, 10:14 5
      - I had a work conference near Tupelo. -- nm - Reagen Nov 19, 10:15 4
        
        I've been to Tupelo as well! Drove there from Nashville. -- nm - MDH Nov 19, 10:20
        
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        I have tasted grits and survived! -- nm - Reagen Nov 19, 10:20 1
        
        The chef who forced them on you did not. -- nm - ty97 Nov 19, 10:25
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~romeo save me, I don't want to be alone........~ -- nm - groiny Nov 19, 10:06
Groot Tree Swing (pic) -- (link) - budice Nov 19, 10:05 [Image] 1
- that is about a million on the cool scale. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 19, 10:06
Just how many hosts does the Today Show have? Regardless, they have 2 less this morning. -- nm - Mop Nov 19, 10:05
This is my current favourite song, sadly it's attached to a Burberry advert starring Romeo Beckham -- (link) - LMS Nov 19, 10:01 [youtube] 1
- *like* -- nm - Loyola Nov 19, 10:07
Oh, on those maps, I'm totally counting Kentucky even though I've only been in the Cincy airport. -- nm - Cran-Baron-ies Nov 19, 10:01 3
- YDC, but I don't count cities/states/countries if I have only been in the airport. -- nm - ty97 Nov 19, 10:03 2
  - right. -- nm - znufrii Nov 19, 10:05
  - Same with me. -- nm - MDH Nov 19, 10:04
Happy Hump Day: Carrie Fisher in Leia's Metal Bikini at the beach in 1983. (pic-lir) -- (link) - budice Nov 19, 09:55 [Image] 3
- ah, those were the days . . . - call me Ishmael, sweet potato cassarole consumer Nov 19, 10:16
- whatever Lucas did later, he did 12 year Mel a solid with this. - Mel Profit Nov 19, 10:00
- Mel just felt a disturbance in the Force and has no idea why. -- nm - TWuG Nov 19, 09:58
Anyone playing the new Farcry or Dragon Age? -- nm - Ender Nov 19, 09:54 20
- getting PS4 for xmas. I plan to get Modor and Dragon Age with it -- nm - decline Nov 19, 10:39 1
  - *applause* -- nm - Shaun Nov 19, 10:42
- Stupid video game question: Can one play games without having to interact with someone else? - Mel Profit Nov 19, 10:05 9
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    - There are other players around in Destiny, but they're definitely not jabbering in your ear. -- nm - Ender Nov 19, 10:11
    - With the exception of the raid and strikes, Destiny can be run through solo. -- nm - Shaun Nov 19, 10:11
  - not WoW, but most others yes. -- nm - Reagen Nov 19, 10:06
  - It depends on the game, but of course. -- nm - Ender Nov 19, 10:06 4
    - cool. I figured but I just wanted to check with you geeks and really just complain like a cranky middle aged dude. - Mel Profit Nov 19, 10:19 3
      - By "the first version of WoW" do you mean just "Warcraft"? I wish they'd make a Warcraft RTS again... -- nm - Ender Nov 19, 10:20 1
        
        yep. meant Warcraft...I loved that game. - Mel Profit Nov 19, 10:21
      - Are you confusing World of Warcraft with Warcraft? -- nm - Shaun Nov 19, 10:20
- They've both been well-reviewed, but I'm still a Destiny guy. -- nm - Shaun Nov 19, 09:55 6
  - I had major issues trying to play last night...... - groiny Nov 19, 10:00 5
    - That sucks. I think overall the previous gen systems have a lot more issues than the current ones. -- nm - Shaun Nov 19, 10:02 4
      - xbone? -- nm - groiny Nov 19, 10:04 3
        
        I thought you were on 360 for Destiny, or did you upgrade? -- nm - Shaun Nov 19, 10:06 2
        
        upgrade baby -- nm - groiny Nov 19, 10:26 1
        
        Nice. So how much of a change did you notice going from the 360 to the One for Destiny? -- nm - Shaun Nov 19, 10:34
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