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LeVar Burton added as Jeopardy Guest Host -- (link) - budice Apr 21, 12:07 2
- eeeexcellent -- nm - Baron Nefcy Apr 21, 12:18
- It's the Jeopardy version of #ReleaseTheSnyderCut -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 12:11
CarMax says the "offer" for my car is $28,000. The VW lease site says the residual value is $22,000. That's a pretty large delta. -- (edited) - Mop Apr 21, 12:00 15
- Can't forget, though... I'd still have to make up the remaining monthly payments through the end of the lease, right? So $6,000 minus $x? -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 12:10 6
  - That's why I asked for clarification below. -- nm - spamlet Apr 21, 12:13 5
    - The RV is the value listed on the website. Doesn't indicate if that's the buyout price at the end of the lease or right now. - Mop Apr 21, 12:20 4
      - That’s important to know. If you have the original lease it will list the RV and you can see. -- nm - spamlet Apr 21, 12:27 3
        
        I suppose I'll need to dig out my paperwork. -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 12:31
        
        Buyout offer would basically be the NPV of the remaining payments and residual value, more or less, if I’m understanding this correctly? - znufrii Apr 21, 12:31 1
        
        Yes but I didn't want to confuse things if he's not familiar with PV calcs :) -- nm - spamlet Apr 21, 12:44
- Yes. -- nm - pmb Apr 21, 12:03
- Yes. You could buy from VW and sell to Carmax and net $6k - spamlet Apr 21, 12:03 4
  - Cool. I learned a lot about my lease today. Thanks! -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 12:06 1
    - WAIT! Is the RV per the lease $22k or the current buyout offer? - spamlet Apr 21, 12:08
  - Luckily you don’t have to worry about sales tax rules that could complicate all of this. -- nm - spamlet Apr 21, 12:04 1
    - The tax man, always ruining things -- nm - oblique Apr 21, 12:08
- trade-in normally higher than what you get for cash sale (?) -- nm* - budice Apr 21, 12:03 1
  - Disagreed. -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 12:06
Women's World Hockey Championship cancelled for second year in a row -- (link) - Reagen Apr 21, 11:51 2
- This is the one USA normally wins anyways -- nm - budice Apr 21, 11:54
- shit -- nm - Beaker Apr 21, 11:54
Finally: Julianna Margulies admits she and George Clooney had a 'crush on each other' during ER -- (link) - budice Apr 21, 11:42 5
- So she had a work husband. -- nm - Max Apr 21, 12:38
- So, she was a heterosexual woman and he was a heterosexual male. News at 11. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 21, 12:11 2
  - could also have said "She's Julianna Margulies and he is George Clooney." I mean, look at them. -- nm - Andie Apr 21, 12:18 1
    - Their kids would have broken the universe. -- nm - spamlet Apr 21, 12:44
- duh -- nm - rollo Apr 21, 11:44
My self-administered haircut looks extremely goofy. - Beryllium Apr 21, 11:32 12
- my last professional haircut was january 2020. i think i've only given myself 2 homecuts since. thankfully, i have cut my own hair a lot in the past - Andie Apr 21, 11:41 10
  - This is my ... fifth? sixth? one. Wanted to be silly. I think I succeeded. -- (pic) - Beryllium Apr 21, 11:43 [Attachment] 9
    - "It was this moment when the dark secret behind the cult revealed itself." -- nm - Reagen Apr 21, 12:30
    - ok, reminds me of Harrison Ford in the 90's need some 'product' to make it spikyier -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 21, 11:55 1
      - I did put product in it, but just a hint -- nm - Beryllium Apr 21, 11:55
    - approved! -- nm - Andie Apr 21, 11:47 1
      - yay! :) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 21, 11:55
    - I either need some steampunk goggles, or else a colourful unbuttoned shirt and a pica shell necklace and an earring. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 21, 11:46 1
      - Or ... cyber goggles. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 21, 11:51
    - Lynchian -- nm - rollo Apr 21, 11:45 1
      - Ooh, yes, a Section 31 suit would work well. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 21, 11:46
- i can't even trim my beard -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 21, 11:40
Just had a big hail storm hit. -- nm* - Krusty Apr 21, 11:31 2
- And now it's gone and the sun is coming out. Crazy spring weather. -- nm - Krusty Apr 21, 11:34 1
  - lots of wind and clouds here but we only got rain for about 10 minutes -- nm - decline Apr 21, 12:31
You'll recall that you used to need Xbox Live Gold for Xbox party chat and in order to play your games online. No more. - Mop Apr 21, 11:30 1
- I just wish I could get the damn game Outsiders to work. it won't load -- nm - Remlik Apr 21, 11:55
MODOB - Beryllium Apr 21, 11:27 1
- What he said, Pippy! -- nm - zork Apr 21, 11:30
April 21, 1989, Nintendo released its handheld game console, Nintendo Game Boy -- (link) - budice Apr 21, 11:21 1
- And now we have one helluva hybrid system in the Nintendo Switch. -- nm - Qale Apr 21, 11:24
Unsurprisingly, there has not been one mention of the show Chad on the boards. Utter dreck that is completely embarrassing to watch. -- nm - zork Apr 21, 11:20 9
- The President of Chad died fighting rebels this week. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 21, 11:23 2
  - We never get Presidents out on the front lines any more! -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 11:45
  - That's exactly why I put the word show in my post -- nm - zork Apr 21, 11:27
- I like Nasim but the ads give it a weird uncanny valley feeling that I don't want to experience. -- nm - Max Apr 21, 11:23 3
  - The ads made go ... (spoils) - zork Apr 21, 11:25 2
    - I was unsure if it was a boy or a girl in the role. -- nm - Krusty Apr 21, 11:32 1
      - Still unsure. -- nm - Krusty Apr 21, 11:33
- The commercials were bad enough to not interest me in the show. -- nm - Krusty Apr 21, 11:22 1
  - The ads are relentless. -- nm - Baron Nefcy Apr 21, 11:24
USPS is running a 'covert operations program' that monitors Americans' social media posts -- (link) - budice Apr 21, 11:17 8
- wonder if this is something the Donald cooked up or similar to the rumor USPS is going to tax emails 1c each -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 21, 11:24
- And that is under their jurisdiction because ...? -- nm - zork Apr 21, 11:23 3
  - 45 perverted many federal agencies, esp law enforcement, IE border patrol so why not postal inspectors to nurture his paranoia -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 21, 11:27 2
    - Would love if that somehow leads to USPS arresting him for social media stuff -- nm - zork Apr 21, 11:29 1
      - how many times have we thought that *this* will bring him down, if Reagan was teflon, donald is ironman, everything just bounces off -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 21, 11:43
- Surprise! You are sharing information with the public when you post on social media! -- nm - Qale Apr 21, 11:23
- bastards -- nm - decline Apr 21, 11:22
- WHAT? -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 11:21
"Report cards are out so I entered in zeros for missing assignments. This has affected some of your marks pretty hard. [Student] in particular, you - Classroom Transcripts Apr 21, 11:13 11
- Sucks to be them. After Algebra 2, I was done with my required math. No math for me in 12th Grade! -- nm - Qale Apr 21, 11:26 3
  - this is, like, workplace math. It's literally the same thing as Grade 8 math in many places. -- nm - Reagen Apr 21, 11:36
  - Ontario still had grade 13 when I went and did three different math classes - zork Apr 21, 11:28 1
    - I barely passed Chemistry and Algebra 2 by the skin of my teeth and grace of teachers and/or lab partners. It was brutal. -- nm - Qale Apr 21, 11:33
- You don't include the decimal places when counting figures. -- nm - zork Apr 21, 11:22
- to be fair - Andie Apr 21, 11:19 3
  - I was also connecting those dots, yeah -- nm - Reagen Apr 21, 11:25 2
    - "Which math helps you convert kilograms to 8-balls? That's the one I need." -- nm - rollo Apr 21, 11:33 1
      - Classroom Transcript Classics! -- (link) - Reagen Apr 21, 11:35 [Backboard]
- they should just null this last year and make everyone redo it like it never happened. -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 21, 11:19
- Yeah, well, that's just like, your opinion, teacher man. -- nm* - Max Apr 21, 11:14
OSU QB Justin Fields has confirmed to NFL teams during the pre-draft process that he is managing epilepsy -- (link) - budice Apr 21, 11:04
President Biden just announced that the U.S. has administered 200 million COVID vaccine doses on his 92nd day in office. -- (link) - budice Apr 21, 10:51
4 days to go !!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- (link) - mud Apr 21, 10:45 1
- I SURE HOPE IF THERE'S SHOUTING THERE WILL ALSO BE EXPLOSIONS -- nm - Max Apr 21, 10:49
You know what we need? Another Fantasy Island reboot. No? Well, too bad. -- (link) - Mop Apr 21, 10:43
Yay! More Scott Rudin fallout. It's taken a while, but the snowball is starting to roll. -- (link) - Mop Apr 21, 10:37
I pinged Volvo about the XC40 Recharge on their lot, mentioned that I was under lease contract at VW until December and they said something odd. - Mop Apr 21, 10:35 10
- Ugh, yeah. That's what I suspected. Even with only a few months left, I figure the changes of coming out net positive seem low. -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 10:42 7
  - Here’s what I’d do. Get a quote from carmax (they’re free and online and typically higher than dealers) and then get the buyout amount. - spamlet Apr 21, 10:47 4
    - Thanks, I'll do that now. -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 10:55 3
      - How do I correlate my remaining payments vs. the trade-in value of a used car? -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 11:11 2
        
        It's not remaining payments. You want a buyout quote where you are buying the car the end of the lease -- nm - oblique Apr 21, 11:15 1
        
        Ah, OK. Yes, buyout quote. I can obtain that information. Thanks guys. -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 11:20
  - It's possible you get lucky between the residual value of the car as calculated by your lease vs. the current value of the car for trade - oblique Apr 21, 10:44 1
    - I've seen it happen pretty often (done it with my own car), though I stuck with the same brand and dealer. Sometimes the new dealer will pay higher - pmb Apr 21, 10:59
- I presume it would be something like: You buyout the lease and trade in the car to the new dealer. IF their trade-in value is greater than your - oblique Apr 21, 10:40
- Basically you’d buy out the lease and compare that to the value of the car. - spamlet Apr 21, 10:40
‘How I Met Your Mother’ Spinoff Straight-To-Series Order With Hilary Duff To Star -- (link) - Remlik Apr 21, 10:35 5
- well son, I had to nail alot of losers before I meant your father -- nm - Beaker Apr 21, 11:27
- I had to load up an episode and play it to the end credits to see who even owns HIMYM. 20th Century Fox Congratulations, Disney! *YOU* are the father! -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 10:58 1
  - Disney also owns Hillary Duff, so it made sense. -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 10:59
- *uses up one of his slaps* -- nm - Baron Nefcy Apr 21, 10:48 1
  - What is this feeling that's put you in your place? A hot red burning on the side of your face? - Cuzzin Todd Apr 21, 11:13
2 weeks left, bibi. You're Toast -- (link) - mud Apr 21, 10:25 2
- On the scale of Terrible to Bibi, where does this Bennett guy fall? -- nm - Mop Apr 21, 10:44 1
  - his little party he created with Skaked is just an adjunct to Likud. -- nm - mud Apr 21, 10:47
My basic interactions with car dealerships: "Do you have this model available on your lot?" "How much are you looking to spend?" - Mop Apr 21, 10:24 5
- I used websites for that, probably CarMax, maybe another one. -- nm - mara Apr 21, 11:12
- "As little as possible " -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 21, 10:42
- Dealers are incapable of hearing sentences that end in a question mark. They just take a guess as to what was said and respond. - Baron Nefcy Apr 21, 10:40
- "What color are you looking for?" -- nm - Meg Apr 21, 10:31
- I loathe the dealership experience. -- nm - TWuG Apr 21, 10:27
Poll: In honour (notice the U) of Andie's B3 post on Canadian Film Day, what's your favorite Canadian film? - Name Withheld By Request Apr 21, 10:24 34
- MY TOP TEN: -- (edited) - mud Apr 21, 11:31
- Hard Core Logo -- nm - J Apr 21, 10:59
- Reagen, flag this thread too! -- nm* - spamlet Apr 21, 10:47 3
  - too? -- nm - Reagen Apr 21, 11:38 2
    - We assume you also flag all the vexillology threads ... frysquinting.jpg -- nm - rollo Apr 21, 11:44 1
      - I'm just wondering what else I missed. I'm vexed -- nm - Reagen Apr 21, 11:49
- The Red Violin, Strange Brew -- nm - Max Apr 21, 10:47 1
  - fan of Red Violin -- nm - budice Apr 21, 11:51
- Men With Brooms -- nm - Shaun Apr 21, 10:43
- New Waterford Girl, Away From Her and Highway 61 are the ones i recommend. -- nm - Andie Apr 21, 10:41 3
  - oh, and Maudie! -- nm - Andie Apr 21, 10:50 1
    - yes -- nm - mud Apr 21, 11:05
  - those are very good. -- nm - mud Apr 21, 10:45
- The Saddest Music in the World, Goon, Les amours imaginaires -- nm - Dano Apr 21, 10:40
- Do joint efforts counts, because Triplets of Belleville is a joy. -- nm - Baron Nefcy Apr 21, 10:39
- Scanners and Exotica. -- nm - LMS Apr 21, 10:37 1
  - nice -- nm - mud Apr 21, 11:06
- Cube. -- nm - Baron Nefcy Apr 21, 10:36 2
  - Does eXistenZ qualify? -- nm - Baron Nefcy Apr 21, 11:15 1
    - yes -- nm - mud Apr 21, 11:16
- For years most all films were made in Canada, he'll Escape from New York was, famous factoid, they had to teach extras the national anthem -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 21, 10:32 5
  - made in canada, and a Canadian film, aren't the same though. (like, Netflix films so much here, they have built entire studios. but those aren't - Andie Apr 21, 10:34 4
    - Yeah, not many people would classify X-Men as a Canadian film but ... -- nm - zork Apr 21, 11:19
    - Room is also an Irish film. -- nm - LMS Apr 21, 10:39 2
      - that was a co-production, i am pretty sure. would qualify as both -- nm - Andie Apr 21, 10:42 1
        
        Yep -- nm - LMS Apr 21, 10:55
- here is a list of some for inspiration! -- (link) - Andie Apr 21, 10:30 4
  - From this I've seen - Reagen Apr 21, 11:34
  - Without digging into Andie's link, Les Invasions barbares. (NM) - Marlowe Apr 21, 10:40 1
    - Yep, that and "Stories We Tell" (NM) - Marlowe Apr 21, 10:57
  - Oo, Pontypool. -- nm - Baron Nefcy Apr 21, 10:37
- The Rocket (Maurice Richard film) and probably Bon Cop Bad Cop for something a little more high profile -- nm - Beaker Apr 21, 10:28
- Road Kill, Bye Bye Blues, Videodrome -- nm - mud Apr 21, 10:25 1
  - I regret not runnering up Videodrome. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Apr 21, 10:27
Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. trailer for Hulu -- (link*) - budice Apr 21, 10:19 [youtube] 5
- MODOFK? -- nm - Max Apr 21, 10:53
- HAHA! and it's got Nathan Fillion as Wonder Man. -- nm - Remlik Apr 21, 10:40
- Semi-Charmed Life is when it won me over. Even before it was worked into the clip itself. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Apr 21, 10:27 1
  - The 0:39-0:40 mark had me on the floor. -- nm - Baron Nefcy Apr 21, 10:34
- WTF - mud Apr 21, 10:21

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