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Lego builds a drivable Bugati Veyron with 1 million pieces...which means it probably costs as much as the actual super car -- (link) - zeitgeist Aug 30, 11:16 4
- I would like to see a Lego airbag deploy. -- nm - Spawn Aug 30, 11:26
- Top Speed 18mph -- nm - Ender Aug 30, 11:24
- are the tires legos too ? -- nm - decline Aug 30, 11:21
- Yeah, Mop is getting one. -- nm - Spawn Aug 30, 11:18
Hey, you! XML schema validation errors! -- (edited) - znufrii, promoted Aug 30, 11:16
Spawn...meet and greet with Tom Keifer at. Must be at venue at 6:45p check your email -- nm* - Remlik Aug 30, 11:14
The heads in this Game Genie commercial are doing a lot of bobbing. -- (link) - Mop Aug 30, 11:13 [youtube] 2
- I miss my Game Genie. -- nm - David Aug 30, 11:22
- They're like Bill and Ted but not legally like Bill and Ted. -- nm - Baron Starr Aug 30, 11:21
Hungary being fascist again. -- (link) - TWuG Aug 30, 11:12 2
- Thanks a lot, Soros. -- nm - Baron Starr Aug 30, 11:30
- Dammit Hungary. Is Wayne Brady gonna have to choke a nazi bitch? -- nm - Max Aug 30, 11:16
"My name is Joe Biden. I'm a Democrat. And I loved John McCain." - he's giving an impassioned eulogy right now -- nm - decline Aug 30, 11:12 1
- Our next president! -- nm - Spawn Aug 30, 11:18
Encino man arrested by the FBI for making threats against the Boston Globe. Word is it was "likely political" :/ -- (link) - Meg Aug 30, 11:09 6
- Dammit, Brendan Fraser. -- nm - Reagen Aug 30, 11:10 5
  - Squeeze the juice! -- nm - Shaun Aug 30, 11:13 4
    - WEEZ THE JUICE, you canuck!!! -- nm - groiny Aug 30, 11:18 3
      - but is the juice worth the weez? -- nm - Reagen Aug 30, 11:23 1
        
        the weez was justified -- nm - groiny Aug 30, 11:27
      - Fuck Pauly Shore!!!! -- nm - Shaun Aug 30, 11:21
Huge congrats to Nubby! -- nm - Beaker Aug 30, 10:50 3
- Pool party at my place -- nm - nubby Aug 30, 13:05
- Huge Congo Rats to Nubia! -- nm - Egypt Daily News Aug 30, 11:15
- he had a pretty nice house before. -- nm - groiny Aug 30, 10:55
Can data reveal the saddest number-one song ever? - crash davis Aug 30, 10:50 6
- One is the loneliest number -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 30, 11:31
- I was going to guess "Think of Laura" but that never hit #1. -- nm - Baron Starr Aug 30, 11:09
- Not "Alone again, Naturally"? -- nm - amoxy - 2017 Caveman Champion Aug 30, 10:56 3
  - I think the tempo was too upbeat for the algorithim -- nm - crash davis Aug 30, 10:58 2
    - too much to read, but I would bet we would come up with a better list than that -- nm - groiny Aug 30, 10:59 1
      - most definitely, but the scary thing is people are trying to predict emotion with math and not doing too terrible of a job of it -- nm - crash davis Aug 30, 11:01
I like version control on SharePoint...UNTIL you get 3 or 4 docs all labelled as the FINAL version of something -- nm - Beaker Aug 30, 10:49
Champions League draw is complete. Man City got a cake walk. Spurs and Liverpool......didn't -- (link) - Volnelk Aug 30, 10:47 2
- ManU faces CR7 -- nm - budice Aug 30, 10:50 1
  - Yeah, their group is tough too. A couple are snoozers. -- nm - Volnelk Aug 30, 10:51
Trump just cancelled the pay raises for most federal employees that were to take effect in January -- nm - decline Aug 30, 10:45 3
- shouldn't have said such mean things about him -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 30, 10:50
- Trump is about to declare chapter 7 -- nm - crash davis Aug 30, 10:47
- Does that mean we're great again? -- nm - Mop Aug 30, 10:46
Google's now selling their security widget that's kept them phishing free for a year. -- (link) - Mop Aug 30, 10:35
When you guys were talking about Trump's tweets, you didn't tell me that he went after Carl Bernstein. I swear he is President of the 1970s -- (link) - crash davis Aug 30, 10:30 1
- Bernstein has an exposé coming out soon. So, yes. -- nm - Roger More Aug 30, 11:02
The Kennedy Center concert production of Little Shop of Horrors casting: Josh Radnor, Megan Hilty, James Monroe Iglehart, Lee Wilkof. Excited! -- nm - MDH Aug 30, 10:19
However nerdy you think you are, you are not on Stephen Colbert's level -- (link) - Reagen Aug 30, 09:54 [youtube] 4
- I acknowledged this when he started quoted The Silmarillion -- nm - crash davis Aug 30, 10:05 1
  - He knew more details than Peter Jackson -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 30, 10:54
- He does have the best memory I have ever encountered. He quotes long passages from many books, especially LOR. This link is also worth a repost. -- (link) - GregW Aug 30, 10:05 1
  - I remember a Canadian entertainment journalist that cornered her on an Oscars red carper not long after her botched surgery and tried - Reagen Aug 30, 10:13
Aw Man, Bob Dylan's Whiskey Is Already Getting Sued There's trouble in heaven. - crash davis Aug 30, 09:47 5
- everybody wants some of that Clooney tequila money. -- nm - Beaker Aug 30, 09:49
- All 37 Celebrity Liquors and Spirits, Ranked -- (link) - crash davis Aug 30, 09:48 3
  - I think they missed gas monkey garage cinnamon tequila -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 30, 19:10
  - I've had one of the BLUE CHAIR BAY RUM – KENNY CHESNEY varieties. It was...ok. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 30, 09:57
  - Walton Goggins seems like a natural fit for whiskey. I don't think I'd want to drink something with Ron Jeremy's name on it -- nm - crash davis Aug 30, 09:52
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- Just like Trump the other day. -- nm - Spawn Aug 30, 11:19
- So are Avocados. -- nm - amoxy - 2017 Caveman Champion Aug 30, 10:57 1
  - But their English is terrible. -- nm* - Cuzzin Todd Aug 30, 11:14
- wait, you're Mexican? -- nm - decline Aug 30, 10:41
- But where are you *FROM*? -- nm - Mop Aug 30, 10:32
- He is basically saying you have no discernible accent when speaking English. Just a clumsy way of saying it. -- nm - GregW Aug 30, 10:08
- This person's statement is dumb. How would they know if someone is speaking Spanish perfectly? Are they from Mexico as well? -- nm - crash davis Aug 30, 09:58 18
  - There are two separate thoughts in that post. I am not calling Jack dumb, even though it might read that way. -- nm - crash davis Aug 30, 10:05 17
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      - I sincerely meant the person's question was dumb, not yours. And thought that maybe they didn't speak as well as you, so possibly they were asking - crash davis Aug 30, 10:20
      - In large part it's because Americans are largely dumb on this issue and rarely have to encounter another language - Reagen Aug 30, 10:16 14
        
        But that's not the case here where that person would likely hear Spanish and many other languages throughout the day. - Krusty Aug 30, 10:37 7
        
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        I chalk this up to him being oblivious of others and how their situation mirrors his own. It's fascinating that someone - Krusty Aug 30, 11:29
        
        I bet every foreign language speaker he talks to speaks English with a not-American accent though. -- nm - Roger More Aug 30, 11:04 2
        
        You speak English so well! -- nm - Reagen Aug 30, 11:10
        
        (and he assumes everyone who speaks in an American accent was born in the US) -- nm - Roger More Aug 30, 11:07
        
        If you were paying attention to shit and weren't to absorbed in yourself. -- nm - Shaun Aug 30, 10:40
        
        that's true here too, but that doesn't mean people don't make assumptions. -- nm* - Andie Aug 30, 10:39
        
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        YOU KNOW WHAT MAKES ME MAD? I WENT TO CANADA AND THEY HAD TWO WORDS ON STOP SIGNS. THEY HAVE TO BE SPECIAL. THEY CAN'T JUST STOP. - crash davis Aug 30, 10:22 4
        
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        Monolingual francophones are common too! - Reagen Aug 30, 10:39 1
        
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        or the notion that people might be able to speak two languages - Reagen Aug 30, 10:34
- "Telemundo." "But..." "You heard me." -- nm - Reagen Aug 30, 09:57
- “You speak English very well!” -- nm - Tim Aug 30, 09:57
- *smh* -- nm - Krusty Aug 30, 09:56
"My beautiful, beautiful horn." -- nm - David Aug 30, 09:46
dangit Jax, I wanted to do a millennials are clueless rant and then you had to post at the top of B2 - crash davis Aug 30, 09:41 2
- I mean, a can of soup is a meal in itself!!! -- nm - Spawn Aug 30, 09:42 1
  - and if they don't like cleaning bowls, they can eat it out of the can, hobo style -- nm - crash davis Aug 30, 09:44
Do you need to be an accredited school to be an NCAA member? - Will Hunting, King of Blood Feud Aug 30, 09:40 2
- A member is a 4-year college or univ. or a 2-year upper-level collegiate institution accredited by the appropriate regional accrediting agency -- (link) - GregW Aug 30, 10:12 1
  - Cool -- I'd love to see these accrediation teams just go "Nope. Thanks but higher education means learning not to cover up rape and child rape." - Will Hunting, King of Blood Feud Aug 30, 10:29
Fighting Lion using primary ammo explains a lot about Destiny 2 PVP this week. -- nm - David Aug 30, 09:31 15
- I would occasionally run into people using it when it was an energy weapon. - the wrong element, bad guy Aug 30, 10:40
- I have a note to see Cayde at the Tower Ramen shop, but I can't do anything when I'm there. - JaxSean Aug 30, 10:04 10
  - A dude from gamecom said that there's nothing to it beyond the three Ramen tickets. -- nm - David Aug 30, 10:15
  - go back behind the counter and there is something you can interact with...it's nothing major. But I figure its important later on -- nm* - Remlik Aug 30, 10:12
  - Did you preorder officially yet? I think that's the flag to unlock that quest, or maybe it doesn't actually go live til Tuesday. -- nm - Shaun Aug 30, 10:07 7
    - No, everything I find to preorder says it's not available yet (with the exception of the Legendary Digital versions for $80) -- nm - JaxSean Aug 30, 10:12 6
      - Did you try the Director in game like I mentioned yesterday? -- nm - Shaun Aug 30, 10:22 5
        
        Yes, was getting an error in game. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 30, 10:33 4
        
        If I go to this page, and try to get any of these 3 for XBOX & USA, it says "Coming Soon" (with a Redeem Code box) for the XBox website. -- (edited) - JaxSean Aug 30, 10:34 2
        
        clearly Xbox is telling you to play more Fortnite -- nm - groiny Aug 30, 10:37 1
        
        It's changed. A lot. - JaxSean Aug 30, 10:40
        
        Xbox sucks is the only conclusion. -- nm - Shaun Aug 30, 10:34
- Did you see the video of the guys using it to melt the nightfall boss? -- nm - Shaun Aug 30, 09:53
- and yet another reason why I never, ever get rid of any item. -- nm - groiny Aug 30, 09:32
- sounds like a shit show, but I would love to get in and take advantage on OHK on shoulder charge -- nm - groiny Aug 30, 09:32
When you are standing talking some people, what do you do with your arms? - Amoxy Aug 30, 09:21 25
- that's what pockets are for -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 30, 10:58
- Sipping from one of my two cocktails. -- nm - Qale Aug 30, 10:27
- rub my junk -- nm - Beaker Aug 30, 09:49 1
  - Hi Louis! -- nm - GregW Aug 30, 10:15
- slapping groiny -- nm - crash davis Aug 30, 09:38 3
  - ... is that code? -- nm - Spawn Aug 30, 09:41 2
    - it is an answer to the first thing groiny posted in this thread -- nm - crash davis Aug 30, 09:44 1
      - But also a good general rule of thumb. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 30, 09:48
- air guitar -- nm - mud Aug 30, 09:37
- stroke their hair lovingly -- nm - decline Aug 30, 09:36
- I talk with my hands so they're usually moving. -- nm - Krusty Aug 30, 09:34
- hands held together (not crossed arms), slightly higher than waist level. Signifies open/interested, allows you to make gestures, and avoids pockets -- nm - MDH Aug 30, 09:33
- Not sure really but now all I'll do is be thinking "What should I be doing with my arms??? Are they looking at my arms??? Are my arms weird???" - Cuzzin Todd Aug 30, 09:29 3
  - just do Wax On, Wax Off the whole time -- nm - groiny Aug 30, 09:35
  - your hands on your hips - Spawn Aug 30, 09:30 1
    - What's your favorite color? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Aug 30, 09:51
- crossing your arms across your chest while talking is supposedly a non-verbal way of showing blockage or being guarded. - JaxSean Aug 30, 09:28 1
  - yup -- nm - Spawn Aug 30, 09:28
- jazz hands -- nm - Spawn Aug 30, 09:27
- Depends - maybe one thumb/hand in my pocket, or hands behind me. I consciously try not to keep my arms folded in front of me - Roger More Aug 30, 09:26
- serious answer, possibly thumb in pockets, but I also tend to talk with my hands. -- nm - groiny Aug 30, 09:23
- Gesticulate wildly until I can see that they are getting uncomfortable and then go in for the kill -- nm - znufrii, promoted Aug 30, 09:23 2
  - The Team America maneuver -- nm - Max Aug 30, 11:11
  - Ha! -- nm - Krusty Aug 30, 09:34
- feeling them up -- nm - groiny Aug 30, 09:22
LEGO's Home One set had a full scale A-Wing. But the Cloud City set has a reduced scale Cloud Car and Slave One. *whiiiiine* -- (link) - Mop Aug 30, 09:18 1
- The Slave One coloring is... off. -- nm - Spawn Aug 30, 09:19
I've come to discover that almost every employer has an "employer discount" at Verizon of around 18% on your bill. Go to their discount your site... -- (link) - Mop Aug 30, 09:15
"Samsung is rolling out a new 8K TV line at the IFA trade show in Berlin this week." -- nm - David Aug 30, 09:14 18
- What is the limit? 16K, 32K, 256K? -- nm - Amoxy Aug 30, 09:22 12
  - short answer - until the image becomes indistinguishable from real life. the issue right now is refresh rate - 60Hz is nice, but still recognizable - colin Aug 30, 09:37 3
    - I have some content that broadcasts in both HD and 4k simultaneously ... I can mostly see the difference but it's not dramatic - Reagen Aug 30, 09:43 2
      - 4k is definitely a step up in image resolution, but even them, you're getting a very compressed version for transmission. - colin Aug 30, 09:45 1
        
        Fair enough. Re: upscales, lots of things originally aired in SD look horrendous in HD -- (edited) - Reagen Aug 30, 09:48
  - supposedly Disney is already scanning the classic movies into higher resolutions... -- nm - Remlik Aug 30, 09:37 1
    - 35mm has about a 4k resolution available. 70mm, much more, but it's rarer. Once we go beyond 4k, content is a big issue. -- nm - colin Aug 30, 09:38
  - That's a good question that gives me an excuse to email Tex, thanks! - David Aug 30, 09:29 1
    - IM: heh -- nm - mud Aug 30, 09:34
  - depends what size of display we're talking about - Reagen Aug 30, 09:28 2
    - (each pixel in the board at the Cowboys' stadium is 20mm) -- nm - Reagen Aug 30, 09:31 1
      - 20mm is the pixel pitch, but direct view LED isn't exactly apples to oranges in comparison. -- nm - colin Aug 30, 09:43
  - To infinity - Spawn Aug 30, 09:27
- *dusts off old 'look at all the content there isn't' 4K jokes* -- nm - Reagen Aug 30, 09:17
- speaking of, do we think OLED vs LED is worth it? I mean, now, at current price points. -- nm - amanda Aug 30, 09:16 2
  - I like OLED, it's very sexy, but a well made LED will perform fairly close as far as dimming zones, etc. -- nm - colin Aug 30, 09:40
  - Here. -- (link) - David Aug 30, 09:20
- *throws out all his TVs* -- nm - Mop Aug 30, 09:16
Elvis Dumervil retires -- (link) - prayformojo Aug 30, 09:13 5
- I think his agent cost him a chance at the Hall of Fame. -- nm - David Aug 30, 09:16 1
  - I agree -- nm - prayformojo Aug 30, 09:22
- So Elvis has left the building? -- nm - eag Aug 30, 09:15
- I was expecting a "shaved scrotum" first. -- nm - Spawn Aug 30, 09:15 1
  - Shorn. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 30, 11:08

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