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inspired by an Apartment Therapy post: When was the last time you went to a proper house party? - Andie Oct 8, 08:13 10
- August, doris and greggs annual backyard potluck. used to be various groups had parties once a month -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 8, 11:32
- As in the actual definition, where people stay over night? Never. -- (edited) - Spawn Oct 8, 08:22
- Sunday but it was outside (bonfire) -- nm - spamlet Oct 8, 08:22 2
  - you burned a house down? -- nm - decline Oct 8, 08:25 1
    - good party, dude. -- nm - Andie Oct 8, 08:29
- a few years ago -- nm - decline Oct 8, 08:18
- Probably 3 years ago? -- nm - Andie Oct 8, 08:17
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  - totally counts. -- nm - Andie Oct 8, 08:17
- August 21st. -- nm - Ender Oct 8, 08:15
Katie Nolan Calls Out "Garbage Human" Greg Hardy (she also lays into the NFL) -- (link*) - Beaker Oct 8, 08:05 4
- She's great. -- nm - Volnelk Oct 8, 08:27
- well yeah--he is -- nm - ML Oct 8, 08:06 2
  - she is great though -- nm - Beaker Oct 8, 08:07 1
    - I miss her old videos, but glad she is finally getting paid. -- nm - Spawn Oct 8, 08:14
CBS: "French train attack hero Spencer Stone was repeatedly stabbed last night, is in critical condition." -- nm - ML Oct 8, 07:57 2
- link -- (link) - ML Oct 8, 08:11 1
  - dude has bad luck with knives -- nm - decline Oct 8, 08:19
FBI Director: "Unacceptable" that The Guardian does a better job than law enforcement of tracking deaths at the hands of police officers. -- (link) - znufrii Oct 8, 07:56
our prayers were answered. my second monitor will finally be functional this afternoon. -- nm - Andie Oct 8, 07:56
Will: "More than 100 class action lawsuits over floors made in China have also been filed against Lumber Liquidators." -- link - Beaker Oct 8, 07:51 1
- Okay -- I was putting them on a watchlist for stocks...they lost so much value that if they could resolve the issues - Will Hunting Oct 8, 08:05
How many fried chicken jokes will be posted before tomorrow night? -- nm - spamlet Oct 8, 07:47
Andy Greenwald is singing the praises of Fargo season 2. (premieres Monday) (spoils) -- (link*) -- (link*) - Beaker Oct 8, 07:46
HRC currently has a minus-39 net favorability with men in recent poll. -- (link*) - Ender Oct 8, 07:44 3
- the author also tweeted this today -- (link) - ML Oct 8, 07:54
- is that good? -- nm - ML Oct 8, 07:48 1
  - It's like golf. Lower is better. -- nm - Baron Bostwick as Brad Majors Oct 8, 07:49
HRC sides with unions over Obama and her previous backing as SoS, now opposes TPP -- (link) - Strongbad Oct 8, 07:42
Volkswagen's top U.S. executive will tell a panel of U.S. lawmakers that he knew as long ago as the spring of 2014 that the German carmaker might be - Beaker Oct 8, 07:35
SlingTV review: Worked superbly on my FireTV Stick. Image quality was top notch. No one in my house even noticed it was streaming until I mentioned it - oblique Oct 8, 07:23 7
- I'm going to sign up for the trial for Friday night and try it on Roku as well. - spamlet Oct 8, 07:34 5
  - Apparently you can get Postseason.tv which gives like 10 camera angles but not the commentary and not the actual stream - oblique Oct 8, 07:36 4
    - It looks like only if you have pay TV. -- nm - spamlet Oct 8, 07:43 2
      - yes. I have the advantage of having about 30 comcast account credentials via work :) -- nm - oblique Oct 8, 07:47 1
        
        *coughs* -- nm - spamlet Oct 8, 07:58
    - I would take 10 angles and silence. -- nm - psilotum Oct 8, 07:40
- I've noticed the delay as well. -- nm - David Oct 8, 07:24
"Andrew Luck will throw pregame, but Hasselbeck expected to start." -- nm - ML Oct 8, 07:18 11
- Trying to decide what I will get out of Frank Gore this week. Argh. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 8, 07:50 1
  - A goal line fumble. -- nm - Spawn Oct 8, 08:14
- Shefty linkage -- (link) - budice Oct 8, 07:23 7
  - Colts' starting QB Matt Hassebleck was in emergency room until 2 am Monday morning, dealing with a virus he's still feeling effects of. -- (link) - budice Oct 8, 07:37 6
    - Just flipped back to the HOU defense for tonight. -- nm - spamlet Oct 8, 07:41 1
      - Those who don't learn from history... -- nm - David Oct 8, 07:49
    - Neither Colts' QB, Andrew Luck and Matthew Hasselbeck, threw passes in practice this week. -- (link) - budice Oct 8, 07:40
    - Tonight's gonna be a sh!tshow -- nm - decline Oct 8, 07:39 1
      - even moreso than a regular Thursday game -- nm - Beaker Oct 8, 07:41
    - MRSA!! -- nm - Diva Oct 8, 07:39
- "So, screw you fantasy owners" -- nm - spamlet Oct 8, 07:19
Livestream: VW hearing on Capitol Hill -- (link) - budice Oct 8, 07:17
Amazon introduces Handmade - Marketplace for handmade products. -- (link) - budice Oct 8, 07:12
zee Germans have raided VW headquarters -- (link) - decline Oct 8, 07:11
"Report: Oklahoma used wrong drug in January execution of Charles Warner, according to autopsy documents" - ML Oct 8, 07:09 5
- I can't wait until SCOTUS rules against the death penalty - ty97 Oct 8, 07:14 1
  - ...again -- nm - ML Oct 8, 07:14
- Is it the same one that they just ordered "by mistake"? -- nm - spamlet Oct 8, 07:10 2
  - man, they need to suspend these -- nm - ML Oct 8, 07:14 1
    - They have until they get the correct drugs but... - spamlet Oct 8, 07:18
House Rejects Proposal to Disband Benghazi Committee, 240-183 -- nm - David Oct 8, 07:05 1
- for the good of politics, I mean country -- nm - Beaker Oct 8, 07:06
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- I haven't been. I suppose it depends how much time you have? - Roger More Oct 8, 07:25
Here's what drives me crazy about baseball. - David Oct 8, 07:02 47
- And it only matters in game 163? Just for sake of argument, you have possibly 16k pitches per team leading up to this moment - oblique Oct 8, 07:15 13
  - I mean, the plate is defined to exacting dimensions, and that's used to call B&S. Why make it fuzzy after going to that trouble? -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 08:21
  - No, it matters in all 163. That's why computers should call balls and strikes. -- nm - David Oct 8, 07:16 11
    - I think they will sooner, rather than later, but we're still on the cutting edge of it being possible. It'll take a little while to figure out how to do it. *NM* - Ender Oct 8, 07:31
    - I don't like the absoluteness of it. It seems too mechanical. I know that sounds strange but to me it's part of baseball -- nm - oblique Oct 8, 07:20 9
      - I don't see what the problem is, they've been doing it in tennis for years. -- nm - Martina Navratilova Oct 8, 07:46
      - I used to agree with this, but it's gotten so bad and umpires are so bad at this I can't argue on this side anymore. - Jim Oct 8, 07:23 6
        
        How much of that is bias *because* you have something supposedly showing you what a ball/strike is? It seems SO bad because there's a line drawn by a - oblique Oct 8, 07:25 5
        
        I'd agree that it hasn't really gotten worse, we're just in a much better position to recognize it. - Ender Oct 8, 07:33
        
        In some cases, really bad. Again, the better pitchers get the calls. Catchers who are better at framing pitches get the calls. - Jim Oct 8, 07:28 2
        
        And that's been recognized since the days of Walter Johnson. -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 08:19 1
        
        ....and and Honus Wagner, Cap Anson and Mordecai "Three-Finger" Brown -- nm - prayformojo Oct 8, 08:23
        
        It was awful long before pitch tracker. - David Oct 8, 07:27
      - REAGEN!!! -- nm - David Oct 8, 07:22
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  - I thought McCann was going to kill that home plate ump. -- nm - David Oct 8, 07:11
- Yet another reason to never have one game decide a "series". No team plays just one game against another the entire season but - Krusty Oct 8, 07:08 22
  - It's not about determining who's better. it's about determining that the #1 seed should have an advantage over the team they were better than all yea - Will Hunting Oct 8, 07:12 12
    - Re-seeding based on record instead of division is something all sports need to do. -- nm - David Oct 8, 07:14 1
      - I would go as far as putting the WC team as either seed #3 or 4 depending on where they fall...but I can't give them homefield. - Will Hunting Oct 8, 07:17
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      - And here's the argument for re-seeding in the playoffs...which I happen to agree with. -- nm - Jim Oct 8, 07:15 8
        
        Which makes the divisions meaningless. Not sure I'm okay with that either. I know I'm not okay with a one game playoff. -- nm - Krusty Oct 8, 07:17 7
        
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        Dodgers: 92 wins. Mets: 90 wins. Pirates: 98 wins. The Mets and Dodgers get to lose three (or four) times as much before being eliminated. - David Oct 8, 07:18 5
        
        Yes but they play an unbalanced schedule with more games against your division. They need to have a balanced schedule with equal teams in each league. - Krusty Oct 8, 07:23 4
        
        Only 7 NL teams won 83+ games this season. So, the balance isn't there across the league. -- nm - David Oct 8, 07:26
        
        This year even flies in the face of that as the Pirates and Cubs are in the best division...so - Jim Oct 8, 07:25 2
        
        Yeah, I would expect the Mets or Dodgers to run up a huge total given how awful the bottom of their divisions were. - Will Hunting Oct 8, 07:41
        
        It's just one year. I would need to see the numbers from multiple years to see if it does matter. - Krusty Oct 8, 07:29
  - I'm still livid about that infield fly bullshit against Atlanta in 2012. -- (link) - David Oct 8, 07:09 8
    - What in the goddamned hell? -- nm - Reagen Oct 8, 08:18
    - I think we all need to stop dwelling on the past here and should really be focused on the future. :) -- nm - Jim Oct 8, 07:56
    - wow -- nm - psilotum Oct 8, 07:39
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    - See? That one was just good solid quality umpiring. nm - Jim Oct 8, 07:13 3
      - I'll just root for the Cubbies. -- nm - David Oct 8, 07:15 2
        
        Oooh, how many hours will YOU get for that though? :) -- nm - Jim Oct 8, 07:16 1
        
        Like she could ever stay mad at me. -- nm - David Oct 8, 07:17
- There are people, I kid you not, who think umpire mistakes *add* to the appeal of baseball. - Reagen Oct 8, 07:06 3
  - It'd be like playing 21 and not knowing whether your ace counts as one or eleven until a coin is flipped. -- nm - David Oct 8, 07:07
  - drug test the Umps! -- nm - Beaker Oct 8, 07:06 1
    - See if they have Fan Duel accounts -- nm - Bacon Oct 8, 07:08
- It's maddening. Especially when you consider that there's a way to fix it that won't impeded the game. - Jim Oct 8, 07:05 3
  - It would actually speed up the game. Managers can't argue with computers. -- nm - David Oct 8, 07:06 2
    - Further, it would get rid of the whole "he's a Cy Young candidate, so we'll give him the call" bullshit. - Jim Oct 8, 07:07 1
      - Even as a Greg Maddux/Tom Glavine superfan, I agree. - David Oct 8, 07:08
VW testifying on Capitol Hill this morning Re: Diesel deception -- nm - budice Oct 8, 07:01
Destiny: If you completed the quest yesterday regarding the Sleeper Simulant, you can acquire it today via another quest. - Shaun Oct 8, 06:58
IOC calls for `credible external presidential candidate' to take over FIFA -- (link) - budice Oct 8, 06:57 5
- Pot calls for 'credible external color candidate' for pigment of kettle. -- nm - Diva Oct 8, 07:02 2
  - heh -- nm - Damn It Pippy Janet! Oct 8, 07:17
  - (winner) -- nm - ty97 Oct 8, 07:03
- Trump! -- nm - ML Oct 8, 06:57 1
  - Bill Cosby! -- nm - David Oct 8, 06:57
Amazon Nerd Alert: Welcome Amazon "Snowball" - Storage Transport for up to 50TB of data into AWS. -- (link) - budice Oct 8, 06:55 1
- So the way I'm reading that, you put all your data on a hard drive, then ship it to them, and they upload it? - JaxSean Oct 8, 07:57
Oct 8, 1918: In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132, for which he is awarded - Beaker Oct 8, 06:52 3
- he is one of my favorite Conscientious Objectors. -- nm - Diva Oct 8, 06:53
- 1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game. -- nm - Beaker Oct 8, 06:52 1
  - 1956 – New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series. -- nm - Beaker Oct 8, 06:52
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unable to find any traction against Planned Parenthood at the state level, GOP opens congressional hearings into the matter. -- (link) - znufrii Oct 8, 06:47 8
- Here we go again. -- nm - Krusty Oct 8, 06:51 7
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    - It's things like this that make the people angry and hate the people in power. -- nm - Krusty Oct 8, 07:03
    - What if we just counted them in some fractional portion? - Reagen Oct 8, 06:59 1
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    - This can't be a real thing that real people really think. - ty97 Oct 8, 06:56 2
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        I said *real people* not Justice Thomas -- nm - ty97 Oct 8, 07:03
$15 One-Way Flights at Frontier Airlines -- (link) - budice Oct 8, 06:46 19
- $15 + checked bag fee + CARRY ON bag feee + seat selection fee, etc - ty97 Oct 8, 06:48 17
  - I want this shit regulated out of existence. -- nm - Bacon Oct 8, 07:09 9
    - It's misleading to the consumer. Like a Starbucks saying any coffee 1.00 then you find out the cup costs 3 dollars and you have to use their cup. - Bacon Oct 8, 07:31 2
      - how is a discount any less misleading, once again, you won't know your final price till you go through all the options, just like now. but in reverse -- nm - Andie Oct 8, 07:34 1
        
        (Plus no airline is ever going to post their *most expensive* price as a starting point, that would be insanely stupid marketing) -- nm - Andie Oct 8, 07:35
    - you don't have to fly those airlines you know. -- nm - Andie Oct 8, 07:15 5
      - And they keep the pressure on the mainline airlines to keep prices low. -- nm - spamlet Oct 8, 07:19 4
        
        yeah, i don't get the anger. if you want to and can afford to, fly a higher end airline. but there is a market for the low market stuff, so, let it - Andie Oct 8, 07:20 3
        
        I think my anger is directed to the assumption that its okay to treat the cheap people like shit - Damn It Pippy Janet! Oct 8, 07:36 2
        
        We are currently shopping for airfare to Florida. I have been looking for a couple months. I had to create a fucking chart of which airline charges - Bacon Oct 8, 07:39
        
        oh, there still should be customer service. -- nm - Andie Oct 8, 07:38
  - I just know my time and treatment are more valuable than a cheap ticket. -- nm - Damn It Pippy Janet! Oct 8, 06:51 6
    - Plus some of Frontier's seats have 28 or 29 inch seat pitch. - ty97 Oct 8, 06:56 4
      - well,that's horrible. -- nm - Andie Oct 8, 06:56 3
        
        Frontier has copied Spirit's model (who copied RyanAir and others). You can get deals, just be aware of what else you are choosing. - ty97 Oct 8, 06:58 2
        
        What else are you choosing with Frontier? - David Oct 8, 07:05 1
        
        Never mind. I see the original post now. -- nm - David Oct 8, 07:10
    - enh. pay for the extras to make it bearable and it often is still cheaper. and the flight doesn't last forever. -- nm* - Andie Oct 8, 06:54
- "ok, everyone start flapping your arms....NOW!" -- nm - Beaker Oct 8, 06:47
Wait--the NHL started back up already? - ML Oct 8, 06:46 1
- Habs! suck it Leafs -- nm - Beaker Oct 8, 06:47
Have you killed anyone in the prior 6 months? 12 months? Ever? - Beaker Oct 8, 06:43 1
- no, no, no comment -- nm - Spawn Oct 8, 08:16
#FlyTheW -- nm - oblique Oct 8, 06:42

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