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I can't even begin to understand the logic of this. -- (link) - Beryllium May 3, 13:31 35
- gravity is broken. a 1 ounce feather takes more time to fall than an ounce of steel -- nm - Peglegpete May 3, 13:48 4
  - The speed of light is now officially just "really fast". -- nm - VMan May 3, 13:49 3
    - Pi now equals exactly three -- (edited) - znufrii, definitely not 40 May 3, 13:52 2
      - Nature no longer abhors a vacuum. She actually thinks they are kind of cute. -- nm - VMan May 3, 13:53 1
        
        e = mc hammer -- nm - Beryllium May 3, 14:01
- OFFS. -- nm - VMan May 3, 13:38 1
  - I suppose his next insight is that when speeding in his car it does not feel like he is moving at all. -- nm - VMan May 3, 13:41
- "That's not how it works. That's now how *any* of this works!" -- nm - znufrii, definitely not 40 May 3, 13:35
- Hail Hydra!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- nm - Peglegpete May 3, 13:35
- "Now we take the fight to the enemy".. - Marlowe May 3, 13:34
- This is the least of this guy's misunderstandings -- (link) - Reagen May 3, 13:34 23
  - Trying to get this stuff to make sense gives me a headache. -- nm - . May 3, 14:07
  - What he needs is a really long stick/board. Weight down one end and then walk along it. A growing gap will develop between the Earth and the board. -- nm - VMan May 3, 13:45 4
    - he needs a medium length stick, weight down one end and hit himself in the head with that end -- nm - crash davis May 3, 13:52
    - And then we can whack him with the stick and be far away. Good thinking. -- nm - Reagen May 3, 13:50 2
      - I'd rather toss him out of a car and see if he can just step out. -- nm - VMan May 3, 13:52 1
        
        Moving "really fast". -- nm - VMan May 3, 13:52
  - I don't understand his problem with seeing Venus and Mercury -- nm - crash davis May 3, 13:41 16
    - Willful misunderstanding of the astronomical unit. -- nm - Beryllium May 3, 13:45
    - The "logic" of it is that if they are between us and the sun, how can they be seen at night, as if they are always directly between - Reagen May 3, 13:45 14
      - i don't understand how they think the sun works *at all* if we were flat. -- nm - Andie May 3, 13:49 11
        
        I feel dumber for having looked but the sun is a "spotlight" rotating around the north pole - oblique May 3, 13:55 7
        
        Ahhhh. So obvious. The earth does not need to spin for gravity since we are standing on a flat plane. -- nm - VMan May 3, 13:57 3
        
        The spinning of the Earth isn't why there's gravity. - Reagen May 3, 14:01 2
        
        Been a while. Forgot. But doesn't the spin help correct for the curvature or something? -- nm - VMan May 3, 14:07
        
        So, if the earth was round and actually spinning we'd fly off? -- nm - . May 3, 14:04
        
        What is The North Pole, then? -- nm - Beryllium May 3, 13:56 2
        
        And how does the spotlight theory work when demonstrated on a piece of paper? -- nm - Beryllium May 3, 13:57
        
        The center of the universe? -- nm - VMan May 3, 13:57
        
        As I recall, the sun would be like a shaded lamp hovering over our spinning disc world. -- nm - VMan May 3, 13:51
        
        It's just on a dimmer. -- nm - pmb May 3, 13:51
        
        The Truman Show, I guess? -- nm - Beryllium May 3, 13:50
      - oh, because on a globe we are facing away form the sun at night....I got his madness here now - thanks -- nm - crash davis May 3, 13:48
      - (and of course you mostly can't see them at night) - Reagen May 3, 13:47
- well see, it's a level ...it shows you stuff is "level" -- nm - mud May 3, 13:33
The failing NYT added 308,000 digital subscriptions in the first quarter -- (link) - crash davis May 3, 13:27 1
- But then they hired a climate denier and destroyed that good will -- nm - Beryllium May 3, 13:55
Dear today: you annoy me -- nm - ty97 May 3, 13:24 2
- No Humpdaying for you! -- nm - Humpday May 3, 13:43
- Right back at you loser -- nm - Today May 3, 13:28
my 'on the subway home reading' tonight - Brad Pitt profile at GQ. Would you like to join me? -- (link) - Andie May 3, 13:11 4
- (How was the movie?) nm - Dignan May 3, 13:26 2
  - KIng Arthur? I liked it. B / B+. Very Guy Ritchie. If you liked his take on Sherlock Holmes, you'll like this. -- nm - Andie May 3, 13:28 1
    - the whole "Which George" skit was quintessential Ritchie. - Mel Profit May 3, 13:33
- is Brad Pitt gonna be there too? -- nm - groiny May 3, 13:25
I'm trying a McDonald's mighty anus burger for the first time. It's pretty good, actually. -- nm - Beryllium May 3, 13:11 16
- Also, they're having a bake sale. -- nm - Beryllium May 3, 13:26 3
  - I think I made the face painter feel inadequate by showing some of my coworkers in face paint -- (link) - Beryllium May 3, 13:41 [SmugMug]
  - Straight from the Dutch oven? -- nm - VMan May 3, 13:27 1
    - they would use it if they hadn't wrecked em -- nm - groiny May 3, 13:28
- ~I see you Bery, eatin dat ass, eatin dat ass, eatin dat ass~ -- nm - groiny May 3, 13:22 3
  - Should I try the Orange fruitopia? -- nm - Beryllium May 3, 13:22 2
    - chocolate milk would be better. -- nm - groiny May 3, 13:23 1
      - I agree completely, but they don't serve milk from the drink fountain & im not drinking soda & I had iced tea & they have free refills - Beryllium May 3, 13:24
- medium well done: warm brown, pink center -- nm - Max May 3, 13:21 2
  - With a tossed salad on the side. -- nm - VMan May 3, 13:22
  - I grilled some burgers a few weeks ago that turned out that way. Maybe tending a little closer to Medium. Good stuff. -- nm - Beryllium May 3, 13:22
- and it is back to rimjobs -- nm - groiny May 3, 13:18
- L4 -- nm - oblique May 3, 13:17
- I'm pretty sure that was what burger were back before the current pink slime method -- nm - zeitgeist May 3, 13:16
- It's Ass-tacular. -- nm - VMan May 3, 13:12 1
  - Shit. Should of went for Ass-tounding. -- nm - VMan May 3, 13:12
Holy crap, it's straight up summer out there! -- nm - Mop May 3, 13:08
STOP HAVING KIDS AS OLD AS MY CAREER - ty97 May 3, 13:08
ST Poll: Does your workplace have a "company store" online? - oblique May 3, 13:06 10
- my main workplace is way too small, my part-time one of course has a "company store" -- nm - crash davis May 3, 13:12
- Yep. Most of the times it's for us to give to Clients. -- nm - MDH May 3, 13:10
- yes -- nm - Epiphany May 3, 13:10
- 'Hey, we want free advertising, so you all need to spend your hard earned money buying crap you don't need with our logo on it" -- nm - decline May 3, 13:08 3
  - but we get 20% off with a coupon code -- nm - oblique May 3, 13:09 2
    - We get up to $100 free for our birthday. What a time to be alive. -- nm - VMan May 3, 13:10 1
      - this made me snort -- nm - Epiphany May 3, 13:14
- We have a closet filled with that stuff. -- nm - pmb May 3, 13:08
- I'm sure we still do - ty97 May 3, 13:07
- A what????? lol -- nm - groiny May 3, 13:06
ST, please place me on an 'ordering out food' moratorium. Thank you. -- nm - ty97 May 3, 13:04 34
- I get to go home tonight and bake some items for my daughters' school bake sale. -- nm - groiny May 3, 13:24 5
  - I can bake for days. But actual food? Clueless -- nm - ty97 May 3, 13:25 4
    - start with a food that has baking in it. like pizza or calzone. -- nm - Peglegpete May 3, 13:36
    - but do you wanna spend a couple hours baking at 7:00 PM after a long day of work? -- nm - groiny May 3, 13:26 2
      - I'd find that therapeutic I think. What are we baking? -- nm - ty97 May 3, 13:26 1
        
        strawberry cheesecake cupcakes, snickerdoodle cookies. -- nm - groiny May 3, 13:27
- c'mon over. i'll cook. -- nm - Peglegpete May 3, 13:17
- if you would just buy a damn toaster oven you could make more stuff at home -- nm - decline May 3, 13:08 3
  - I have an oven oven though. -- nm - ty97 May 3, 13:09 2
    - then make dinner dinner in it -- nm - decline May 3, 13:19
    - I rarely if ever use my actual oven and cook almost all of my meals. -- (edited) - Krusty May 3, 13:12
- but survivor is on tonight. we have to get pizza from wilfredo. -- nm - amanda jones state university May 3, 13:05
- is Moratorium a hot new NYC restaurant? -- nm - crash davis May 3, 13:05 2
  - It opened across the street from "boy.cott", the portable bed store. -- nm - Beryllium May 3, 13:13
  - "It doesn't have anything: no brand names, no trendy ingredients, no fat/sugar/salt, midget tossing..." -- nm - Max May 3, 13:08
- Make yourself a sandwich instead. -- nm - VMan May 3, 13:05 18
  - I ordered a panini, is that a sandwich? -- nm - ty97 May 3, 13:06 17
    - Do you know how to cook? Or do you just not like cooking? - Krusty May 3, 13:11 15
      - Not really a good cook, and never know what to make. But I really need to cook more. -- nm - ty97 May 3, 13:14 14
        
        I want to cook more. With recipe sites and YouTube,there's no better time to learn. -- nm - Beryllium May 3, 13:19 10
        
        it's kind of true. I want to stop wasting so much money on lunch and *not* eat crap. so sure, I'll cook. whatever. -- nm - amanda jones state university May 3, 13:20 9
        
        WHO ARE YOU?! -- nm - Epiphany May 3, 13:31 1
        
        you just typed you are going to ' cook'. you need to lie down -- nm - Epiphany May 3, 13:31
        
        I need to buy ground turkey and make like turkey burgers or something. - ty97 May 3, 13:25 2
        
        I tried ground turkey, I just couldn't like it. -- nm - groiny May 3, 13:32
        
        As long as you use actual ingredients and avoid pre-packaged, processed stuff it should stay on the healthy side. -- nm - VMan May 3, 13:30
        
        I like making frittatas. It's fun to say and delicious to eat. -- nm - Beryllium May 3, 13:23 3
        
        Great way to use up leftovers too. -- nm - VMan May 3, 13:25 2
        
        I made mini quiches with "crap from the fridge." ten minutes to prep, 30 minutes in the oven. done. -- nm - amanda jones state university May 3, 13:27
        
        Yep, for sure. -- nm - Beryllium May 3, 13:26
        
        Chili. Easy and very flexible for ingredients, heat, etc. -- nm - VMan May 3, 13:15 2
        
        Are you really trying to start the 'beans or no beans' war on top of The Sandwich War of 2017? -- nm - ty97 May 3, 13:16 1
        
        Oh carp. I forgot or missed the great bean debate. -- nm - VMan May 3, 13:19
    - Yes, yes, it is. -- nm - VMan May 3, 13:09
Things that happened in a 29 year span: we went from prop planes to landing on the moon; the end of WWI to end of WWII - Max May 3, 13:01 7
- John Travolta starring in Perfect, then Look Who's Talking, then Pulp Fiction, then flubbing Idina Menzel's name -- nm - Max May 3, 13:08
- This is just to make me feel even older isn't it. -- nm - pmb May 3, 13:06 5
  - Had I not got laid off from the bank, I would be at 26 years -- nm - groiny May 3, 13:14
  - David Lee Roth leaving Van Halen to Wolfgang Van Halen being born and then playing for Van Halen... -- nm - Max May 3, 13:13 2
    - Just in my busines, we originally had "word processing machines" rather than computers. I had a partner when I joined tell me that he couldn't imagine - pmb May 3, 13:56 1
      - wow -- nm - zork May 3, 13:59
  - 29 years ago computers were big boxes on the desk, and used noisy modems to connect with dialup services. No cell phones, just beepers we could send a -- nm - zeitgeist May 3, 13:13
OK Krusty, which 4? -- nm - rollo May 3, 13:01 4
- My Favorite Murder, The Last Podcast on the Left, True Murder and Sword and Scale cover murders of all kinds. - Krusty May 3, 13:08 3
  - I've been thinking about starting MFM. Stranglers is pretty good so far. -- nm - rollo May 3, 13:15 2
    - MFM is a fun show if not the most informative. - Krusty May 3, 13:29 1
      - The production values are terrible. I had to quit when they started cutting in ads very inexpertly -- nm - Amanda May 3, 13:39
Remlik's a good dude, I almost feel bad for giving him so much shit. He is right about one thing.... - groiny May 3, 12:55 5
- He has a great heart. But heart doesn't make you right about Rush or all the other stuff he is wrong about. But I will give him the David comment -- nm - crash davis May 3, 13:05 4
  - And Batman. -- nm - Spawn May 3, 13:15
  - the Donald Trump of Halo players.... - groiny May 3, 13:09 2
    - STPOW -- nm - Remlik May 3, 13:35
    - The IM is killing me. Good work -- nm - crash davis May 3, 13:19
Today is the first day back to work from Maternity Leave for a colleague that sits across from me. She literally can't stop crying. -- (edited) - Diva May 3, 12:53 6
- sort of the opposite - Roo is starting work at my work place on Monday - Epiphany May 3, 13:09 2
  - awesome -- nm - decline May 3, 13:18
  - that is great. -- nm - groiny May 3, 13:16
- :( -- nm - znufrii, definitely not 40 May 3, 13:04
- she'd get a year's leave up here. How long was she off for? -- nm - Beaker May 3, 12:59 1
  - 3 months. -- nm - Diva May 3, 13:01
Sometimes, you just have to go on an Amazon shopping spree... -- nm - Mop May 3, 12:49 16
- Apparently some good toaster oven is $50 off -- (link) - oblique May 3, 13:02 1
  - Do they give me $20 take take it off their hands? Also, Kinja is the devil. -- nm - Mop May 3, 13:11
- Keg of lube? -- nm - groiny May 3, 12:56
- the Paradise Island Mall is great. -- nm - Peglegpete May 3, 12:53
- Toaster, 3/4 sleeve length shirts, pixie lights, pre-order of a book in time for Christmas, lightning cables... - Mop May 3, 12:51 10
  - 3/4 sleeve length shirts? for *men*? no nono no no -- nm - amanda jones state university May 3, 12:59 6
    - Baseball t-shirt. See b2. -- nm - Mop May 3, 13:10 3
      - psst...I played baseball and I do not own one. Just sayin.... -- nm - groiny May 3, 13:12 2
        
        got a tenant who is a huge Astros fan, he says he wears nothing but Astros shirts - he wore a 70s one in the other day to prove his point - crash davis May 3, 13:14 1
        
        most of those old jerseys are horrid. -- nm - groiny May 3, 13:16
    - he just watched Everybody Wants Some -- nm - groiny May 3, 13:02
    - he's reliving his childhood in the 70's -- nm - decline May 3, 13:02
  - are you growing a mullet too ? -- nm - decline May 3, 12:58 1
    - The best thing about having an abundance of hair is being able to so stupid things with it. -- nm - Mop May 3, 13:09
  - You can't buy pixie lights without buying pixie sticks -- nm - Bacon May 3, 12:52
- Oh. *Shopping*. Well. Hah-hah. Isn't this awkward? -- nm - Patrick Bateman si May 3, 12:50

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