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21 Surprising Statistics That Reveal How Much Stuff We Actually Own -- (link) - Andie Sep 21, 08:05 1
- I'm blaming my clutter on my tiny apartment, but really I need to purge - ty97 Sep 21, 08:06
apparently there is video making the rounds of Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard making out - Beaker Sep 21, 08:02 2
- the trailer for Allied? -- (link) - Andie Sep 21, 08:07
- interesting -- nm - Epiphany Aloha Sep 21, 08:03
LYC: wife medical update - Strongbad Sep 21, 07:59 6
- good news. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 21, 08:09
- glad she is doing better -- nm - Epiphany Aloha Sep 21, 08:02
- glad she's starting to feel better! -- nm - ty97 Sep 21, 08:02
- Yeah for good drugs! (glad she's ok!) -- nm - decline Sep 21, 08:01
- yeah for improving! -- nm - Andie Sep 21, 07:59 1
  - We're a little concerned, hoping it goes away and everything is back to normal - Strongbad Sep 21, 08:02
Apple in talks with carmaker McLaren for full takeover of the company or a strategic investment -- (link) - budice Sep 21, 07:47
You still playing NMS, decline? -- (link) - oblique Sep 21, 07:47 3
- haven't played in a week, but still plan to continue with it sporadically. XCom2 comes out next week. That should eat up my playing time for awhile -- nm - decline Sep 21, 07:52 2
  - and as for the developers, it almost feels like they took their money and ran -- nm - decline Sep 21, 07:54 1
    - It is really disappointing. Civ VI is just around the corner. They've lost whatever window they had to keep people engaged... -- nm - oblique Sep 21, 07:57
I get the distinct sense that the producers of Brooklyn Nine-Nine do not care for the state of Florida - Reagen Sep 21, 07:44 2
- Just because they call it "America's stinky butt" and a "steaming orifice"??? -- nm - Ender Sep 21, 07:47 1
  - "Hey, I graduated high school, I don't have to prove to you I can count." -- nm - Reagen Sep 21, 07:49
Speaking of spending money, kidless trip to Europe booked in business class. I'm super psyched. -- nm - Reagen Sep 21, 07:41 7
- Where are you going? -- nm - Roger More Sep 21, 07:57 6
  - For right now, we've only booked the direct to London (it almost certainly won't be London) - Reagen Sep 21, 08:01 5
    - yay! -- nm - Diva Sep 21, 08:10
    - Close enough for a trip to Bruges! -- nm - Roger More Sep 21, 08:07 1
      - would definitely be on the agenda. -- nm - Reagen Sep 21, 08:15
    - awesome. -- nm - Andie Sep 21, 08:05
    - woot! -- nm - Epiphany Aloha Sep 21, 08:04
it's monica's birthday today so of course we have a potluck. someone brought in tater tot pie. have you heard of this? - university of amanda jones Sep 21, 07:36 13
- I think I saw something like this on FaceBook recently -- nm - Epiphany Aloha Sep 21, 08:06
- I had something similar as a kid, but in casserole form. -- nm - The Munificent Baron Sep 21, 07:48 1
  - omelette -- nm - budice Sep 21, 07:50
- My PCP sensed something in the Force, called me preemptively and told me never to eat that. - Mel Profit Sep 21, 07:40 6
  - sounds like a breakfast food you could talk to...alone...in your office... -- nm - oblique Sep 21, 07:43 2
    - 'if you think all I'm going to do is talk to it, you don't know me very well.' [nm] - Mel Profit Sep 21, 07:46 1
      - *sings*...Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce,cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun -- nm - budice Sep 21, 07:49
  - needs some whipped cream. -- nm - Reagen Sep 21, 07:41 2
    - it comes with a Jumbo Baked Potato with sour cream, butter, chives and a Cardiologist. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 21, 07:43 1
      - Topped with bacon. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 21, 07:45
- I'm sure it's very healthy for you too -- nm - decline Sep 21, 07:39
- That sounds very good - Will Hunting Sep 21, 07:39
- sounds delicious -- nm - oblique Sep 21, 07:39
This is insane: 29% of people making >$150,000 per year who have less than $1,000 in savings -- (link) - decline Sep 21, 07:27 34
- This is *crazy* to me -- nm - ty97 Sep 21, 08:02
- What do they qualify as savings? If it's a savings account that makes sense because right now a savings account makes you - Bacon Sep 21, 07:32 13
  - Not having at least two months' salary in a real, liquid savings account is insane. -- nm - mara Sep 21, 08:02
  - I don't even have a "savings account." Checking, brokerage, IRA, employee retirement plan, yes, but no savings. -- nm - The Munificent Baron Sep 21, 08:01 5
    - if you needed, say, $2000 tomorrow for an emergency, could you pay for it without using a credit card and having to pay it back later? -- nm - Andie Sep 21, 08:03 3
      - Yes. -- nm - The Munificent Baron Sep 21, 08:04 2
        
        then you have it in savings, somewhere. -- nm - Andie Sep 21, 08:05 1
        
        I agree, even though this survey would put me in the $0 category. -- nm - The Munificent Baron Sep 21, 08:08
    - Checking counts; it's just as liquid. -- nm - mara Sep 21, 08:03
  - Having liquid savings for a rainy day is paramount, no matter how low the interest -- nm - ty97 Sep 21, 08:01
  - Savings accounts, specifically. -- nm - znufrii, dad. Sep 21, 07:57
  - assets isn't the same. your house is an asset, but that's not in any way liquid savings. -- nm - Andie Sep 21, 07:52 1
    - And since the survey was done by gobankrates.com, I'm pretty sure they're not interested in the nuances of that discussion - znufrii, dad. Sep 21, 08:00
  - the underlying survey says 'savings rates' which doesn't mean just savings accounts or mattresses -- nm - decline Sep 21, 07:37 1
    - Actually it specifically asks about savings accounts only. -- nm - znufrii, dad. Sep 21, 07:58
- "Don't Buy Things You Can't Afford" - ML Sep 21, 07:30 1
  - Every American should have this tattooed to their wallets -- nm - ty97 Sep 21, 08:03
- people buy way too much crap. -- nm - Andie Sep 21, 07:28 16
  - so true. mel and I are in the midst of a purge - it's all very evident. -- nm* - Diva Sep 21, 07:31 14
    - We just moved everything back from the storage unit after the reno and The Great Consolidating is happening - Reagen Sep 21, 07:39 13
      - when I moved last month, I threw out so much crap it was crazy -- nm - decline Sep 21, 07:42
      - All of my stuff that survived Rnd 1 of The Great MelDeevs Purge is physical media, books, comic books and CDs. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 21, 07:41 8
        
        old CD's and DVD's are basically worthless right? -- nm - decline Sep 21, 07:45 5
        
        increasingly obsolete other than collectors items. I'd like to save the CDs. - Mel Profit Sep 21, 07:48
        
        Try here -- (link) - Reagen Sep 21, 07:46 3
        
        thanks. I have 4-5 boxes of old dvd's I will probably never watch anymore that I should get rid of -- nm - decline Sep 21, 07:57 2
        
        i have about 10 dvds left and 5 cds. it was just sitting on shelves getting dusty. i pulled the plug and donated all of it to goodwill. -- nm - Andie Sep 21, 08:02 1
        
        I had 9 boxes of books I donated last month -- nm - decline Sep 21, 08:13
        
        I was glad that guy on the street was so happy to take those books. -- nm - Diva Sep 21, 07:43
        
        Comic books and GN are the last Great physical media purchases I still make. -- nm - Reagen Sep 21, 07:42
      - We are downsizing a good amount and there's so much stuff I could chuck -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 21, 07:40 2
        
        So much goddamn paper. -- nm - Reagen Sep 21, 07:41 1
        
        Dude, you gotta trigger warning this stuff. Kelly is in the fetal position. - Will Hunting Sep 21, 07:52
  - "Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. " -- nm - decline Sep 21, 07:29
Potential threat in Atlantic Canada has closed all schools in PEI and some University Campuses in Nova Scotia.,...(link) -- (link) - Walt_Disney Sep 21, 07:23 1
- yikes -- nm - Beaker Sep 21, 07:51
United Airlines flight 1231 from Honolulu to Lax. can anyone find me the terminal and gate info - Epiphany Aloha Sep 21, 07:22 5
- Terminal M, Gate 10 -- nm - budice Sep 21, 07:29
- does this help? -- (link) - Diva Sep 21, 07:25 1
  - yes thanks everyone! -- nm - Epiphany Aloha Sep 21, 07:28
- Today's? -- (link) - spamlet Sep 21, 07:24
- terminal 7 gate 72 -- nm - decline Sep 21, 07:24
The #Patriots have done extensive preparation over the past few days to get WR Julian Edelman ready as the backup QB. It may actually happen -- (link) - decline Sep 21, 07:22
Jared Leto to star as Andy Warhol in a new bio-pic. - Diva Sep 21, 07:20 1
- hmmmm - Epiphany Aloha Sep 21, 07:26
Ladies and germs, I present: Excellence in Local News: "Beaver in Falls Church bites man’s shoe, gets punched in the head" -- (link) - prayformojo Sep 21, 07:04 8
- who punches a beaver? jerk. -- nm - Andie Sep 21, 07:05 7
  - have you ever seen one in the wild? They are mean mofo's -- nm - decline Sep 21, 07:08 5
    - She's Canadian. -- nm - Diva Sep 21, 07:15 1
      - most of us have one as a pet as children. -- nm - Andie Sep 21, 07:19
    - they usually just ignore people. -- nm - Andie Sep 21, 07:13 2
      - unless you kayak too close to their dam and don't realize it and they hiss at you and slap the water with their tales and scare the bejeezus out of you -- nm* - decline Sep 21, 07:23 1
        
        Beavers happen. -- nm - Diva Sep 21, 07:27
  - The comments on the story are actually fairly entertaining (edited to add: though they run somewhat anti-beaver) -- nm* - prayformojo Sep 21, 07:07
Twitter will livestream all three presidential debates, thanks to a new deal with Bloomberg -- (link) - ty97 Sep 21, 06:57
And while I'm talking about him, decipher this for me -- (link) - ty97 Sep 21, 06:56 3
- It's policy by tweet --- a normal person could get from sentence 1 to sentence 2 if given space and time - Will Hunting Sep 21, 07:11
- I'm guessing it's an iPhone sent tweet. -- nm - Reagen Sep 21, 06:58 1
  - *ding* -- nm - ty97 Sep 21, 07:01
This guy (who I did not realize was a Canadian journalist until today) posts a daily tweet of all of Donald's lies from the day before -- (link) - ty97 Sep 21, 06:52 3
- He's one of the two reporters that drove the Rob Ford the most. Left Toronto City Hall for Washington to cover "serious" politics again. - Name Withheld by Request Sep 21, 07:37
- This Economist article on post-truth politics is interesting. (It probably doesn't say anything new, but it does knit together a lot of info) -- (link) - Roger More Sep 21, 07:06
- God bless him. - znufrii, dad. Sep 21, 06:59
Awkward! -- (link) - ty97 Sep 21, 06:51
This is new large bolder font some people are posting with on FB is the equivalent of shouting -- nm - ty97 Sep 21, 06:46 2
- I don't think that's something they choose, I think Facebook just decided to make short posts bigger for some reason. -- nm - Ender Sep 21, 06:48
- I hate it. -- nm - znufrii, dad. Sep 21, 06:48
ST Magic 8 Ball Poll -- Does the Fed raise interest rates today? - znufrii, dad. Sep 21, 06:46 2
- Probably not, darnit. -- nm - The Munificent Baron Sep 21, 07:03
- nope -- nm - decline Sep 21, 06:46
LYC, in my softball league we were the 4th place team out of 6 teams for the season. Somehow we made the finals. And somehow last night we won Game 2 - Andie Sep 21, 06:46 11
- Very nice -- for the reverse, the team I was on that was unbeaten 2 years ago, went 2 & 11 this year with the same people. - Will Hunting Sep 21, 07:09
- Who's going to play you in the movie that will be made? - Mel Profit Sep 21, 07:00
- yay!! -- nm - Diva Sep 21, 06:58
- Good luck! My team won this year. Playing is fun, but winning is much, much better - Guigue Sep 21, 06:53 1
  - oooh. -- nm - Andie Sep 21, 07:00
- We once lost our softball final because Gina lost her hat rounding third, and went back for it. Dammit, Gina! -- nm - mafic Sep 21, 06:49 4
  - I did this in second grade. I was traumatized I realize now by the teasing at the time. It was merciless. kids are evil lil mouth breathers. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 21, 06:59 1
    - :( -- nm - Diva Sep 21, 07:32
  - seriously Gina! -- nm - Andie Sep 21, 06:49 1
    - But really, what's the point of winning without the hat... -- nm - Guigue Sep 21, 06:52
- Very nice! -- nm - Krusty Sep 21, 06:47
Venezuela was never really socialist, more populist. Chavez called himself a socialist, but really what he did was just give oil money to people. - mafic Sep 21, 06:22
I don't think it was noted yesterday that the Starwood-Marriott merger finally got Chinese approval and will close Friday. -- (link) - spamlet Sep 21, 06:21 6
- Aren't they American companies? Why would China have any say in their merger? -- nm - Krusty Sep 21, 06:24 5
  - Because they own hotels in China, it has to go through Chinese anti-trust regulators. Same thing with two non-US companies merging with US operations. -- nm - spamlet Sep 21, 06:27 4
    - Thanks. -- nm - Krusty Sep 21, 06:32 2
      - There was speculation that they were dragging their feet because Anbang (ANBANG!) lost the bidding war but they ended up approving without conditions. -- nm - spamlet Sep 21, 06:41 1
        
        don't think we don't know that you're talking crap about Anbang... -- nm - Anbang Sep 21, 06:59
    - right, same thing with the European Consortium too -- nm - decline Sep 21, 06:29
Krusty re swing states: not really - ty97 Sep 21, 05:52 11
- FiveThirtyEight hasn't been having a good polling year. They've been off a few times where in the past they were almost always right. - Krusty Sep 21, 06:05 3
  - None of those polls were performed by 538. Each link contains a list of polls done by the other polling firms -- nm - ty97 Sep 21, 06:39
  - Michigan was where they didn't trust what the polls were saying. They corrected for that and have been fine since. - TWuG Sep 21, 06:09 1
    - I'm not panicking. Have you read my posts. I think she crushes him and he stays below 200 EV. - Krusty Sep 21, 06:11
- Romney had a ~40% chance of winning into mid October. -- nm - TWuG Sep 21, 05:55 6
  - That's fine, but please show me anything else about this year that has acted like past years. -- nm - ty97 Sep 21, 05:56 5
    - That is why Trump is probably going to win. - Bacon Sep 21, 07:29
    - You're panicking. It isn't time to do that yet. The conventions happened earlier than in 2012, so there's been more time between their end and the - TWuG Sep 21, 06:06 3
      - I am not panicking. I'm also not burying my head in the sand. -- nm - ty97 Sep 21, 06:40 2
        
        I'm concerned but not panicked. Mostly, I'm disappointed in my fellow citizens. - Mel Profit Sep 21, 07:17 1
        
        Unfortunately, even if he loses, Trump has activated something in our society that won't just go away -- nm - ty97 Sep 21, 08:05
Watched Bull last night...I want my money back. I feel personally insulted by it. #neveragain -- nm - Beaker Sep 21, 05:48
TV PSA: Survivor, Big Brother, Blindspot, Lethal Weapon, Goldbergs, Speechless, Empire, L&O SVU, Modern Family, Blackish, American Horror Story, -- nm - Beaker Sep 21, 05:47 2
- Who's Line, Chicago PD, Designated Survivor, Mr Robot, South Park, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Sep 21, 05:48 1
  - Just Survivor for me (record and watch Saturday night). Chicago PD, Survivor and Big Brother for the missus -- nm - Beaker Sep 21, 05:49
Sad story here locally, female accusing county school system of Title IX violations after she was sexually assaulted and the school suspended both -- (link) - Strongbad Sep 21, 05:46
Destiny, the mountaintop climb at the Iron Temple is an extreme test of patience - J Sep 21, 05:39

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