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Power... Wait, I'm dumb. This was the bill for the cottage. -- nm* - Reagen Oct 26, 14:03 5
- wow -- nm - 🧛 pfm in a Sipowicz mask 💀 Oct 26, 14:09
- I so wish I could have a gas dryer and hot water heater. my electric bill last month was $99.36 and I was overjoyed. -- nm - amanda jeans Oct 26, 14:05 3
  - We are one street over from having a gas line. - Reagen Oct 26, 14:07 2
    - samesies samesies. but hot water heater, dryer, fireplace, stove... as soon as it doesn't cost $7k I am switching them all. -- nm - amanda jeans Oct 26, 14:16 1
      - I loved having the BBQ directly hooked in. No more swapping tanks. -- nm - Reagen Oct 26, 14:17
Mandalorian XBox Controller from Microsoft - Beskar Steel look -- (link) - Bud S. Pumpkins 🎃 Oct 26, 13:57
Also, my discovery from the weekend, if you’re ever in Baltimore or Austin and need a good crepe, check out Crepe Crazy. -- (edited) - znoooooooo!!! Oct 26, 13:55
KFC is bringing back its "fried chicken-scented 11 Herbs & Spices Firelog" -- (link) - Bud S. Pumpkins 🎃 Oct 26, 13:46
Huh. You'd think Amazon could be me a witch's hat before Saturday. I wonder why they're so hard to come by... -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 26, 13:45 1
- lots of them at goodwill -- nm - ⏲👻 Oct 26, 14:33
Electoral-vote.com comparison versus 2016, 8 days out. -- (edited) - znoooooooo!!! Oct 26, 13:26 4
- Damn, that would have been a good question for the contest - Reagen Oct 26, 14:05 1
  - Each won 7 states with <50%. -- nm - Reagen Oct 26, 14:09
- Have to Appreciate Biden's Populist push. Making an effort to reach Independent votes. "Represent United States", "American President", "Go Vote" -- nm* - Bud S. Pumpkins 🎃 Oct 26, 13:50
- ~ LA LA LA LA LA LA LA ~ -- nm - BloodyAxeSean, Anti-Pumpkin 🚫🎃🚫 Oct 26, 13:44
Got two of my 3 office chairs that I ordered from Amazon (what's up with that?) and blew out my back as I was assembling them. - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 26, 13:21 4
- Getting old is the literal worst. -- nm - BloodyAxeSean, Anti-Pumpkin 🚫🎃🚫 Oct 26, 13:40 1
  - AGE IS COMING! -- (link) - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 26, 13:41 [Backboard]
- Back pain is the literal worst. -- nm - David Oct 26, 13:25 1
  - My back has been killing me today. Too much shoulder time for A yesterday, and three hours in the car. -- nm - znoooooooo!!! Oct 26, 13:46
Recommended - My Octopus Teacher on NF. A. It starts kind of slow and human centric but picks up with the underwater footage. Very moving at times. -- nm - 🐺Rollooooooooooooo🌕 Oct 26, 13:16
I'll tell you one thing the British got right: the electric kettle. - aRCynic (and Old Lace) Oct 26, 13:05 4
- When my last employer's office closed down, I managed to get the electric kettle. - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 26, 13:20
- I've had one for years and you are right, they are great. -- nm - Psycor Killer Oct 26, 13:13
- It works better in the UK because of 220 voltage. Like half the time. -- nm - 💀 Skully 💀 Oct 26, 13:08 1
  - I think I might have a spare 220V outlet behind the stove! - aRCynic (and Old Lace) Oct 26, 13:53
Currently at a drive-thru test site. -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 26, 12:32 14
- Don't forget to get fries with that. - Coffin Todd Oct 26, 13:05 2
  - And stick the fries up your nose. -- nm - 💀 Skully 💀 Oct 26, 13:07 1
    - "Ca... Ca... CAAAAAA!" - Roger More Oct 26, 13:56
- Youngest getting tested later this week too but probably just a cold. -- nm - Reagen Oct 26, 13:04
- I think I missed an episode. Why are at a drive through test site with other people in your car? - Psycor Killer Oct 26, 12:44 1
  - Yeah, hopefully everything is OK -- nm - BloodyAxeSean, Anti-Pumpkin 🚫🎃🚫 Oct 26, 12:46
- You just have to slow down, right? -- nm - 💀 Skully 💀 Oct 26, 12:43 2
  - The coin drop funnel is easily converted into a spitoon. -- nm - Max Oct 26, 12:43 1
    - It's like bullseyeing womp rats. -- nm - Bar N Furter 🧛‍♀️ Oct 26, 12:47
- Okay, okay, okay - they F your nose at the drive thru! Okay? -- nm - Leo Getz Oct 26, 12:36 2
  - That’s not how you collect the swab. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 26, 13:03
  - They screw you at the drive-thru -- nm - Bud S. Pumpkins 🎃 Oct 26, 12:37
- There's like 0% chance these people in the car with me have covid. They're talking too much. -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 26, 12:33 1
  - "No photography of any kind" - darn, there goes my photo a day plan. (Kidding) -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 26, 12:37
CDC is warning people to avoid eating Italian-style deli meats, such as salami, mortadella, and prosciutto -- (link) - Bud S. Pumpkins 🎃 Oct 26, 12:26 19
- As Amazon is delivering my prosciutto -- nm - jnine Oct 26, 14:04
- To be fair doctors are always telling you to lay off that stuff...sodium, fat, nitrites -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 26, 13:28
- No prosciutto?! NEVER! -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 26, 13:22
- you're not my supervisor! -- nm - Booooooker Oct 26, 12:41 1
  - Do you want mud pants? Because that's how you get mud pants. - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 26, 13:18
- Crap! I haven't had any recently but I was going to get a few at the deli this week. -- nm - Krusty Oct 26, 12:39
- *looks down at the Italian BMT I just got from Subway* -- nm - Max Oct 26, 12:33 7
  - You're Homer Simpson right now. -- (pic) - David Oct 26, 12:57 [Attachment]
  - It’s unlikely to kill you just make you sick. - spamlet Oct 26, 12:38
  - I'm sure it's fine. That meat is probably older than the meat in question. -- nm - Psycor Killer Oct 26, 12:35
  - That's not meat, you'll be fine -- nm - ty97 Oct 26, 12:34 3
    - Matches the not bread -- nm - JD Oct 26, 12:42
    - then what is it? -- nm - Bud S. Pumpkins 🎃 Oct 26, 12:36 1
      - Yoga Mats and Electrolytes. It's what the body needs. -- nm - BloodyAxeSean, Anti-Pumpkin 🚫🎃🚫 Oct 26, 12:44
- Warning seems to be for deli meats in general -- nm - ty97 Oct 26, 12:30
- bastards -- nm - decline Oct 26, 12:29
- direct link -- (link) - Bud S. Pumpkins 🎃 Oct 26, 12:28
- Twitter blocked, why? COVID or contamination from something else? -- nm - Psycor Killer Oct 26, 12:28 1
  - Listeria. -- nm - znoooooooo!!! Oct 26, 12:28
It begins -- (link) - ty97 Oct 26, 12:25 15
- For him, it makes sense even from a non-2024 idea. She’s in serious trouble. He gets to try to save a colleague and bank a chit or two. That matter. - Will Hunting Oct 26, 13:00
- Iowa is slipping away from them. By end of the week, it'll be Lean Democrat. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Oct 26, 12:51 4
  - Biden will be visiting on Friday, apparently. - znoooooooo!!! Oct 26, 13:17
  - *If* that happens, I think it's unique to this year due to Trump. Americans have short memories. - ty97 Oct 26, 12:54 2
    - No, I agree that it's not a purple state (yet). I just think that this election is breaking democratic in the right places. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Oct 26, 13:16
    - We went for Obama both times. -- nm - Coffin Todd Oct 26, 13:04
- So we've got Trump (if loses), Pompeo, Hogan, and Cotton in the running already? -- nm - MDH Oct 26, 12:49 7
  - Pence, Haley, Sasse, DeSantis, Cruz, one of the spawn... -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 26, 13:01
  - Josh Hawley? -- nm - znoooooooo!!! Oct 26, 12:57
  - Presumably Haley -- nm - ty97 Oct 26, 12:55 1
    - Haley, Hawley. Hawley, Haley. -- nm - Bar N Furter 🧛‍♀️ Oct 26, 12:57
  - Pompeo? The Dems would only have to put up Dora The Explorer to crush him. -- nm - Max Oct 26, 12:54 2
    - This is low key amazing, and deserves a bigger response. -- nm - MDH Oct 26, 13:45 1
      - The mental image of it is tickling my brain. I would love an SNL skit of the two debating. -- nm - Max Oct 26, 13:55
- "Technically". Other things he only technically qualifies as include: human. -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 26, 12:30
you can just... buy teeth.. on ebay. -- (link) - colin 👻💦🍆 Oct 26, 12:20
YDC: Starting this morning, I have 33 calls already scheduled for the week. My biggest deadline is in 2.5 weeks, so I guess I'll find time to work? -- nm - MDH Oct 26, 12:17
Zeta is now a hurricane. -- nm - decline Oct 26, 12:16 5
- This makes me wonder what happened to the Catherine Joneses Alpha through Epsilon. -- nm - Reagen Oct 26, 12:23 1
  - Their badonkadonks betrayed them at the laser tripwires -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 26, 12:28
- Track -- (pic) - decline Oct 26, 12:17 [Attachment] 1
  - Louisiana knows what it did. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 26, 13:14
- that's insane -- nm - colin 👻💦🍆 Oct 26, 12:17
work gripe - tRu🦇aN Oct 26, 12:13
Ron Rivera completed treatment -- (link) - Bud S. Pumpkins 🎃 Oct 26, 12:13
Okay, I'm finally doing it - getting a go bag. Here's what I'm ordering... - colin 👻💦🍆 Oct 26, 12:10 37
- how is it that no one has posted duct tape? -- nm - JenBro Oct 26, 14:59
- Canada will give you all of that free when you get to the border. -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 26, 13:20 4
  - I wonder if I can name my brother as my caregiver and move to Nova Scotia? -- nm - 👻MonsterMeg💀 Oct 26, 13:29
  - Right before they turn us back? -- nm - 💀 Skully 💀 Oct 26, 13:21 2
    - They'll let you in only if you agree to be treated like a refugee. But a refugee in Canada. Not a refugee in the U.S. - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 26, 13:31
    - "oh, no, no, you can't come in. But look, we get it, it's rough down there. Here are a few survival tools." -- nm - Canada Oct 26, 13:25
- It looks like you're planning to 'go' into the forest, in which case you should pack a fire extinguisher. - Max Oct 26, 12:51
- Top it off with some Psycho, Jet, and Rad-X and you should be great. -- nm - Qale Oct 26, 12:46
- candles. hand sanitizer. paper / marker. -- nm - Andie Oct 26, 12:23
- Oh and maybe get a USB flash drive with back ups of photos and electronic documents you wouldn't want to lose. -- nm - Psycor Killer Oct 26, 12:21
- Is this for a hurricane? -- nm - 💀 Skully 💀 Oct 26, 12:20
- Some of those gold bars they use in John Wick -- nm - Reagen Oct 26, 12:19 1
  - oh shoot, yeah. a token to get me into an elite hotel as well. -- nm - colin 👻💦🍆 Oct 26, 12:19
- I've thought about getting one, but realistically, I don't live in an area that would really require one. - Psycor Killer Oct 26, 12:18 14
  - Yeah, my plan is basically to call around and go crash with someone. Unrelated, can I have your phone number? -- nm - 💀 Skully 💀 Oct 26, 12:32 1
    - Sure it's 555-867-5309 - Psycor Killer Oct 26, 12:34
  - Same. Only situation I can think of where we might conceivably need to leave in a hurry would be if something happens to the nuclear power plant. - znoooooooo!!! Oct 26, 12:23 4
    - Ours would be when the fault goes and we’d have nowhere to go. - spamlet Oct 26, 13:07
    - hmmm I'm not sure how far away the closest one is to me. I should check. - Psycor Killer Oct 26, 12:25 2
      - I just checked, and oh. I guess there are at least two within 5 miles. -- nm* - 💀 Skully 💀 Oct 26, 12:51
      - Looks like it’s a little further away from me than I thought, closer to 15 miles. -- (edited) - znoooooooo!!! Oct 26, 12:32
  - we lost power for a week or so one winter, so figure the worst it does it take up a little space; but if needed it is ready to roll -- nm - Booooooker Oct 26, 12:23 1
    - I have a gas fireplace and gas water heater and a camping stove. So if I lose power I should be good for a few days. - Psycor Killer Oct 26, 12:26
  - I had one, and took it apart. -- nm - 💀 Skully 💀 Oct 26, 12:20
  - i don't think we'll need it, but i think it's just peace of mind..everything is kind of crazy, i'd rather be prepared than running around. -- nm - colin 👻💦🍆 Oct 26, 12:19 3
    - my thing with a go bag is that you have to keep everything charged and what it I want to wear those shoes before the world ends and etc etc etc - amanda jeans Oct 26, 12:50
    - No I get it. Some people are in crazy areas with fire, flood, civil unrest. I'm really lucky and I know it. - Psycor Killer Oct 26, 12:20 1
      - Now in the winter time I do usually keep an extra bag in the car with snacks, clothes, etc just in case. - Psycor Killer Oct 26, 12:24
- I have underwear (1 pair each), socks (1 pair each) (nothing beats a clean pair of clothes to slip on) - Booooooker Oct 26, 12:17 5
  - good idea! we have lots of wool socks around we can pack in.. -- nm - colin 👻💦🍆 Oct 26, 12:17 4
    - more (we have 2 bags :) ) - Booooooker Oct 26, 12:21 3
      - i've got a camping box that covers a lot of this.. i should just combine them. -- nm - colin 👻💦🍆 Oct 26, 12:23 2
        
        big thing is it is handy and easy to transport. the 2 bags I use are backpacks that came with a 24 of beer in them; so easy-peasy to get around - Booooooker Oct 26, 12:25 1
        
        good point. i have a good hiking backpack i never use, i can fill that up. put some booze in ;) -- nm - colin 👻💦🍆 Oct 26, 12:34
- flashlight, batteries, charging cords -- nm - Roger More Oct 26, 12:14 2
  - right! added. and backup USB battery. -- nm - colin 👻💦🍆 Oct 26, 12:16 1
    - Solar charger..get some fleece thinsulate blankets, socks, homeless say that's the hardest to get, beef jerky -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 26, 13:32
“Texas has never been a red state, it’s been a non-voting state.” -- (link) - znoooooooo!!! Oct 26, 12:07 3
- Allen West: “Of course there are long lines,” he quipped. “But then there are long lines to get on a ride at Disneyland or Six Flags Over Texas.” -- nm - Guigue Oct 26, 12:22 1
  - "New: Voter Training Ride, the Insanity 2000 Rollercoaster, and over in the kids zone, challenge them to climb The Wall" - Max Oct 26, 12:42
- L.A. opened early voting stations this weekend and have over 50,000 votes so far. Of course, many more have already voted by mail. -- nm - 👻MonsterMeg💀 Oct 26, 12:12
Water on the moon means the possibility of whales on the moon. -- nm - Reagen Oct 26, 12:05 7
- Free Willzyx!!! -- nm - Kyle Broflovsky Oct 26, 12:10
- Moon water better become a fancy bottled drink in the next 5 years -- nm - decline Oct 26, 12:09
- also sharks with lasers. -- nm - tRu🦇aN Oct 26, 12:08
- and whalers who carry a harpoon! -- nm - David Oct 26, 12:06 3
  - Later, blackjack and hookers. -- nm - Reagen Oct 26, 12:09 2
    - CASINOS ON THE MOON! - Steve Austin Oct 26, 12:28
    - Even later, amazon women. -- nm - 💀SPAWN💀 Oct 26, 12:09
Accuweather says the wind is *only* gusting to 22mph but it seems a lot more. And 11% humidity which means we already have a fire in the canyons :( -- nm - 👻MonsterMeg💀 Oct 26, 11:59 1
- The fire itself is in the canyons west of the evacuation zone but people on the edge of that area are at risk. I have friends over that way :( -- (link) - 👻MonsterMeg💀 Oct 26, 12:10
Bette Midler confirms Hocus Pocus sequel -- (link) - Bud S. Pumpkins 🎃 Oct 26, 11:58 2
- Correction: Bette Midler confirms she's been asked and she's expressed interest in returning. Nothing's happening yet. -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 26, 12:02 1
  - Buy HOCU2! -- nm - Bar N Furter 🧛‍♀️ Oct 26, 12:10
Krusty - any way you can convince your mom to get something like Sling TV? it'll save so much more in the end.. -- nm - colin 👻💦🍆 Oct 26, 11:56 5
- I'm not sure. She's 85 and she's not good at learning how to use any technology. We're about to downgrade her from an iPhone to a flip phone -- nm - Krusty Oct 26, 12:01 4
  - ah, yeah. might be good to just stick with what she knows. -- nm - colin 👻💦🍆 Oct 26, 12:10 3
    - That's what I'm thinking. She had Fios before and knows the remote and how it all works. It's just so damn expensive. They need a senior discount -- nm - Krusty Oct 26, 12:16 2
      - i'd call and talk to them.. see if you can appeal to them. -- nm - colin 👻💦🍆 Oct 26, 12:18 1
        
        My sister is doing the phone talking. Even when I try not to be I can sound aggressive. Lol -- nm - Krusty Oct 26, 12:41
Roll over Beethoven -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 26, 11:56 5
- Roll the Bones -- nm - aRCynic (and Old Lace) Oct 26, 11:57 4
  - Roll in the Hay. -- nm - Bar N Furter 🧛‍♀️ Oct 26, 11:58 3
    - roll in the mud. -- nm - tRu🦇aN Oct 26, 11:59 2
      - roll with it baby -- nm - 💀SPAWN💀 Oct 26, 12:08 1
        
        __ - 🐺Rollooooooooooooo🌕 Oct 26, 13:06

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