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yeah? my work schedule is now completely void of work for the next three weeks. - Truman Sep 18, 07:19 8
- On the bright side, you aren't Jamaal Charles today. -- nm - Bacon Sep 18, 07:26 1
  - shut up. -- nm - Truman Sep 18, 07:40
- that is odd. secret duties? -- nm - Pippy with chopsticks Sep 18, 07:23
- It's kinda slow time for you, right? Don't wish for firing, I still got up at the same time this morning -- nm - amoxy Sep 18, 07:23 4
  - honestly man, it is kinda good to keep on the schedule. - groiny Sep 18, 07:24 3
    - not wishing for it, just have no clue whats going on. -- nm - Truman Sep 18, 07:40
    - You are right, I probably have gotten up at the same time for 15 years, weekday or weekend -- nm - amoxy Sep 18, 07:34
    - What groiny said. -- nm - Shaun Sep 18, 07:26
Happy birthday, Kilbo! Woo hoo!!! -- nm - Krusty Sep 18, 06:59 4
- Don Homer!! -- nm - Beaker Sep 18, 07:15
- Happy birthday -- nm - decline Sep 18, 07:08
- Happy Birthday! May the calories from Chipotle be in your favour. -- nm - Shaun Sep 18, 07:05 1
  - I'm thinking Outback for lunch. Olive Garden for dinner :) -- nm - oblique Sep 18, 07:40
Wine Bar Fined After Woman Has Her Stomach Removed After Drinking Liquid Nitrogen Cocktail -- (link) - amoxy Sep 18, 06:51 10
- well, at least she'll stay thin now -- nm - decline Sep 18, 07:11 3
  - silver stomach lining -- nm - Bacon Sep 18, 07:14 2
    - pixie? max?? -- nm - fabulous squad Sep 18, 07:15 1
      - Even they can't stomach this -- nm - Bacon Sep 18, 07:16
- thanks. this is relevant to something I am working. eesh. -- nm - Pippy with chopsticks Sep 18, 07:02 2
  - There you go, now you can justify being on ST for the next year -- nm - amoxy Sep 18, 07:06 1
    - right?! - Pippy with chopsticks Sep 18, 07:15
- friends of ours went to an ice cream place that did similar. one of their kids tried to eat it... -- (edited) - Beaker Sep 18, 07:02 1
  - ice cream frozen by LN2 is a different story and perfectly safe because the N2 all boils off as it's being made. - Reagen Sep 18, 07:11
- That is an insane thing to serve. - Reagen Sep 18, 06:57
"Indeed, the only candidate who seemed remotely sensible on national security issues was Rand Paul..." -- (link) - znufrii Sep 18, 06:34
Good news everybody! -- (link) - ML Sep 18, 06:30
Peyton is the sex -- (link) - ML Sep 18, 06:26
On Sept 17th, I became the Summer Stalker Puzzle Champion! - SleepyRoollow Sep 18, 06:16 3
- what is it a picture of? -- nm - Pippy with chopsticks Sep 18, 06:24 2
  - I'm uploading it to imgur now - SleepyRoollow Sep 18, 06:36 1
    - Pics of the summer puzzle of the ages -- (link) - Puzzle-a-Roo Sep 18, 06:51
If You Have Savings In Your 20s, You’re Doing Something Wrong -- (link) - iSpam Sep 18, 06:12 19
- don't do what donny don't does -- nm - Beaker Sep 18, 07:15
- What if you can save *and* live life without regret? -- nm* - Inigo Sep 18, 06:50 5
  - Hmm, why can't I edit that post? -- nm - Inigo Sep 18, 06:55 4
    - No ragrets. -- nm - Reagen Sep 18, 06:57 2
      - No rugrats -- nm - Bacon Sep 18, 06:59 1
        
        No Scrubs -- nm - amoxy Sep 18, 07:21
    - Nevermind... -- nm - Inigo Sep 18, 06:56
- This is written by a writer on the internet... as if they were going to have savings to begin with... -- nm - Ender Sep 18, 06:48 1
  - I appreciate the sentiment of the article. Also, try or not, people in their 20s aren't going to have savings regardless. - Mop Sep 18, 07:19
- There's a germ of an idea there but it's taken to an idiotic length. -- nm - Reagen Sep 18, 06:45 1
  - Yeah - you can't waste your 20s. And sure, people are getting married later and having children later, which means less need to save, but they're also - Roger More Sep 18, 06:52
- The author is obviously a future walmart greeter - decline Sep 18, 06:37
- I'm in my 20s, I have savings and am very happy. I hate this article. -- nm - MDH Sep 18, 06:28
- offs. -- nm - znufrii Sep 18, 06:26
- I'm kicking myself for not getting involved with DFS 7-8 years ago. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 18, 06:25
- Yikes. On the plus side, at least the writer spelled "you're" correctly. - We Bare Barons Sep 18, 06:24
- YOLO spammy, YOLO. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 18, 06:15 2
  - This is YOLO in article form. -- nm - Mop Sep 18, 07:17
  - If you just make more money, everything's great! -- nm - iSpam Sep 18, 06:17
In case you haven't heard of him...Cardinal rookie Tommy Pham is having a week. Here's the 3 games he's started this week: - Jim Sep 18, 06:12 6
- This is so unfair. It's like the Cardinals have some sort of, let's call it a "farm system", where they keep developing young talent. -- nm - We Bare Barons Sep 18, 06:28 2
  - MLB is a joke to let them do that tbh -- nm - ML Sep 18, 06:36 1
    - I know,. right? -- nm - Jim Sep 18, 06:38
- *picks him up in Dingers* -- nm - Strongbad Sep 18, 06:15
- And one of those outs was a fly out at the warning track. -- nm - iSpam Sep 18, 06:13 1
  - The kid is absolutely on fire...and yet Matheny insists on running Jon Jay or Peter effing Bourgois out there... - Jim Sep 18, 06:17
Happy birthday, David! Woo hoo!!! :-) - Krusty Sep 18, 06:05 2
- Happy Birthday!! -- nm - Jovian Sep 18, 06:11
- Happy Birthday! May Xur's helmet engrams decode in your favour. -- nm - Shaun Sep 18, 06:09
There shouldn't be any interleague games but to have them in September is very wrong. - Krusty Sep 18, 06:04 26
- To get rid of Sept Interleague, they need to add 2 teams, drop 2 teams or go back to unbalanced leagues - amoxy Sep 18, 06:19 1
  - I love baseball more than any other sport but things like this are pushing me away. - Krusty Sep 18, 06:23
- With 15 in each league they have to have them every day. -- nm - iSpam Sep 18, 06:08 16
  - They shouldn't have them at all but if they must they need to get them out of the way before Sept. -- nm - Krusty Sep 18, 06:10 15
    - it can't be helped with the current league alignment. - znufrii Sep 18, 06:10 14
      - It can be helped by scheduling the games in the other months. There was plenty of time between April and August to schedule those ridiculous games. - Krusty Sep 18, 06:12 13
        
        If you have 15 teams in a league, 1 team would be off (in each league) if you don't do interleague. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 18, 06:16
        
        you're not getting my point... - znufrii Sep 18, 06:14 10
        
        So you're saying that there's no way to schedule the games so these are done before Sept. No way? None? - Krusty Sep 18, 06:17 9
        
        short of expanding or realigning the leagues so they have an even number of teams like they used to, not really, no. -- nm - znufrii Sep 18, 06:18
        
        If we can take pictures of Pluto, we can figure out how to not play interleague games in September. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 18, 06:18 1
        
        Thank you! -- nm - Krusty Sep 18, 06:18
        
        not without having teams sit for 3 days. -- nm - Reagen Sep 18, 06:18 5
        
        So do that. Whatever it takes to makes this not happen again. I'd prefer it go away completely but that won't happen apparently. - Krusty Sep 18, 06:22 4
        
        that's "kill the patient to save it", IMO. -- nm - Reagen Sep 18, 06:27 1
        
        I don't see it that way, obviously. The game is broken and needs to be fixed. -- nm - Krusty Sep 18, 06:29
        
        You care more than I do. - Strongbad Sep 18, 06:22 1
        
        That's fine though I'd prefer the opposite. I'll take it just to get the leagues playing by the same rules. No other sport does anything like this - Krusty Sep 18, 06:25
        
        but odd number of teams = someone has to be off unless you have interleague. -- nm - Reagen Sep 18, 06:13
- I'm not a fan of interleague, but the month doesn't make a difference - Reagen Sep 18, 06:07 4
  - Statistically speaking, yes. But you and I both know these games are the ones that are stressful and most important in the final push for - Krusty Sep 18, 06:09 3
    - I don't really agree. For example: If Toronto hadn't had a shitty April-May, they'd already have clinched. - Reagen Sep 18, 06:12 2
      - Sure but they didn't and most teams don't clinch in early Sept. This month has always been the most important. Teams have expanded their rosters for - Krusty Sep 18, 06:15 1
        
        I just fail to see the difference other than superstition. - Reagen Sep 18, 06:17
- I agree, feel the same about April. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 18, 06:05 1
  - I want it gone until the rules are the same. I just don't understand how the owners are okay with leaving it this way forever. - Krusty Sep 18, 06:07
LYC Work Rant - Strongbad Sep 18, 05:56 1
- Yeah! Announce Already! -- nm - Pippy with chopsticks Sep 18, 06:25
yeah, this just seems excessive. -- (link) - znufrii Sep 18, 05:53 27
- fuck that video, you have ZERO idea what led up to that point. - groiny Sep 18, 07:15 1
  - other than the eyewitness description quoted in the article... -- nm - znufrii Sep 18, 07:40
- The 9 cops aren't there for the kid, they're there because the douche shouting is making it an incident and they need to make sure nothing happens. -- nm - Ender Sep 18, 07:14
- I'm rarely on the side of cops in these videos, but this time I don't see much of a problem. I don't see any beating and the take down to the ground - Guigue Sep 18, 06:12
- Here's my problem with these videos...they never have the beginning of the altercation. - Jim Sep 18, 05:57 22
  - I wouldn't say it's "convenient". More that bystanders don't start recording until something is already happening. -- nm - Roger More Sep 18, 07:26 5
    - Call it what you will...the fact remains that you never see what got the cop's attention, only his reaction. -- nm - Jim Sep 18, 07:29 4
      - I agree it doesn't tell the whole story - but "the recording started too late" isn't something to get cynical over. -- nm - Roger More Sep 18, 07:37 2
        
        no, not the recording, most of the time. - groiny Sep 18, 07:39 1
        
        "Black teenager arrested by nine California police officers after 'jaywalking'" - Roger More Sep 18, 07:42
      - it is convenient when it is posted with a headline that says "innocent man assaulted by police!" -- nm - groiny Sep 18, 07:31
  - fair point. - znufrii Sep 18, 06:04 4
    - I stopped about 25 seconds in...and it certainly appears to be same ole, same ole white cop beats up on black kid. - Jim Sep 18, 06:06 3
      - There's no beating. 8 other cops show up, they take him to the ground and handcuff him. -- nm - Ender Sep 18, 07:16 2
        
        Well, the first cop did take a swing at the kid. Either way, my point was more about the video only showing part of the story. -- nm - Jim Sep 18, 07:24
        
        1 cop to arrest him, and 8 to hold his pants up. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 18, 07:19
  - Agreed, but it is a skinny 16 year old kid. Do they think he has a weapon? Or a clock? -- nm - amoxy Sep 18, 06:01 10
    - They think that while the one cop is occupied on the ground trying to handcuff him either... - Ender Sep 18, 07:24
    - Then again it is Stockton, not the safest city around -- nm - amoxy Sep 18, 06:05
    - My comment was more in general...but speaking to this...who's to say that 15 seconds before that video started the kid didn't take a swing at the cop? - Jim Sep 18, 06:04 7
      - to your IM, I can think of a number of reasons why submitting to authority might not be the first thing on this kid's mind. -- nm* - znufrii Sep 18, 06:15 6
        
        It might not be the first thing on his mind, but it should be. When has struggling and yelling EVER helped someone in his situation? - Jim Sep 18, 06:25 5
        
        or maybe just not escalate the situation so it gets to that point in the first place? *shrug* -- nm - znufrii Sep 18, 06:50 4
        
        Aren't we saying the same thing? *confused* -- nm - Jim Sep 18, 07:17 3
        
        well, I was talking about the cop -- nm - znufrii Sep 18, 07:27 2
        
        Ah...yeah, we won't find agreement there. -- nm - Jim Sep 18, 07:28 1
        
        apologies for the confusion. :) -- nm - znufrii Sep 18, 07:31
captive: short. black mass: long. maze: short. note that I'm not playing black mass derivatives. -- nm - fabulous squad Sep 18, 05:49 2
- Did you see my email/ data yesterday? -- nm - MDH Sep 18, 05:53 1
  - I did -- sorry I didn't reply; I was on my phone and accidentally deleted it. I am pretty surprised about black mass. -- (edited) - fabulous squad Sep 18, 05:59
Things I learned today.1. There is an occupation such as a robot anthropologist and 2. Sex Robots Will Be 'Detrimental' To Society, Ethicists Say..... - Walt_Disney Sep 18, 05:25 6
- Don't. Date. Robots! -- (link) - Ender Sep 18, 06:46 [youtube]
- but what about Holograms? -- nm - Riker Sep 18, 06:03 1
  - They're truly outrageous. -- nm - Jem si Sep 18, 06:06
- My 8th grade teacher made us watch Electro-Gonorrhea: The Noisy Killer. -- nm - We Bare Barons Sep 18, 05:49
- The first step is to be a robot, the second is to get a Ph.D in anthropology -- nm - Roger More Sep 18, 05:33 1
  - In college, I majored in Calcium Anthropology - prayformojo Sep 18, 05:33
Today is a really awesome day for me. It's the day, each year, that I get reminded that our David and Survivor's Coach Wade share a birthday! - Jim Sep 18, 05:15 17
- happy Birthday -- nm - decline Sep 18, 07:51
- Happy birthday guys!! -- nm - pmb Sep 18, 07:43 1
  - oops -- nm* - decline Sep 18, 07:50
- Happy birthday to oblique and... I guess David too. -- nm - iSpam Sep 18, 06:41
- Happy birthday, boys! -- nm - Inigo Sep 18, 06:12
- Don Homer!! -- nm - Riker Sep 18, 06:04
- HB to all the birthday kids today. -- nm - ML Sep 18, 06:03
- Happy Birthday David and Oblique! Hope you two great gentleman have a fantastic day. -- nm - amoxy Sep 18, 05:50
- Happy birthday Coach! - Will Hunting Sep 18, 05:37
- Happy birthday Coach! -- nm - Roger More Sep 18, 05:32 2
  - Think I'll get any hours for this one? -- nm - Jim Sep 18, 05:41 1
    - Fingers crossed for you! -- nm - Roger More Sep 18, 05:43
- Happy Birthday, Imperator! -- nm - Strongbad Sep 18, 05:29 1
  - Happy Birthday, oblique! -- nm - Strongbad Sep 18, 05:55
- Happy Birthday, David! :) -- nm - oblique Sep 18, 05:17 2
  - oh yeah...happy to you too! lol -- nm - Jim Sep 18, 05:41
  - ...and you! happy birthday, gentlemen! :) - -- nm - b! Sep 18, 05:38
Sept 18, 1837 – Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. - Beaker Sep 18, 04:52 7
- 1851 – First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times. -- nm - Beaker Sep 18, 04:52 6
  - Huh, I thought the Times would have been older -- nm - amoxy Sep 18, 06:10
  - 1919 – Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros. -- nm - Beaker Sep 18, 04:53 4
    - 1927 – The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air. -- nm - Beaker Sep 18, 04:53 3
      - 1990 - IOC announces the 96 Summer Olympics are going to Atlanta. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 18, 04:55
      - 1947 – The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States under the National Security Act. -- nm - Beaker Sep 18, 04:55 1
        
        2009 – The 72-year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast. -- nm - Beaker Sep 18, 04:56
Bitcoin officially deemed a 'commodity' and therefore regulated -- (link) - budice Sep 18, 04:34 1
- Only in a super specific way and only in the sense that everything that isn't a stock or bond is a commodity. -- nm - iSpam Sep 18, 06:07
TGIF! -- nm - Beaker Sep 18, 04:34

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