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ToolTalk: I've learned to appreciate magnetic tips on screwdrivers and bits. Keep screws from getting away and such -- nm* - budice Jul 28, 10:41
Special Ops: Lioness. It’s not bad so far. It’s like a more glossy and fast paced zero dark 30 type of show. -- nm - Loyola Jul 28, 10:39
"It has dawned on the Republican donor class that they have bought a dead parrot." - mud Jul 28, 10:35 4
- Pierce is a National treasure and I hope that phrase catches on. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 28, 16:28
- It's not dead. It's just sleeping. -- nm - Qale Jul 28, 10:54
- LOL: "inflexible meathead who tromps on his own dick like he's trying to make dick wine out of it." - Jovian Jul 28, 10:36 1
  - you have to let ron be ron because he doesn't have enough talent to be anyone else -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 28, 10:43
Joy Ride is available on Vudu today. - David Jul 28, 10:33
Last minute call for pool participation in tonight's mega ball 2pm west coast time closing -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 28, 10:32 2
- sent -- nm - budice Jul 28, 10:46
- Sent. -- nm - whisper Jul 28, 10:44
Since the Big T(14)N couldn't count, names mean nothing anymore. - Will Hunting Jul 28, 10:26
Choose, but choose wisely: Spearmint vs. Peppermint -- nm - Bari Seldon Jul 28, 10:23 20
- I really don't like either. Sends electric shocks right into my skull. -- nm - Qale Jul 28, 10:54
- Spearmint -- nm - Beryllium Jul 28, 10:45
- Peppermint. -- nm - znufrii 🦄 Jul 28, 10:42
- Spearmint -- nm - budice Jul 28, 10:40
- Spearmint. -- nm - Loyola Jul 28, 10:40
- wintermint. -- nm - mud Jul 28, 10:38 1
  - thread win -- nm - mud Jul 28, 10:43
- neither -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 28, 10:36
- Spearmint. It is not even close -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jul 28, 10:36
- Spearmint -- nm - Jovian Jul 28, 10:35
- peppermint -- nm - decline Jul 28, 10:33
- Spearmint for gum, peppermint for everything else. -- nm - David Jul 28, 10:31
- Peppermint, except for teas. Spearmint makes a better tea. -- nm - TWuG Jul 28, 10:30
- Spear for gum, pepper for Ice cream -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 28, 10:30
- Spearmint unless I'm around mrsjax (she *hates* how it smells) -- nm - JaxSean Jul 28, 10:28
- Peppermint -- nm - spamlet Jul 28, 10:26
- Spearmint. Jesus H. nm - Dignan Jul 28, 10:25
- Spear -- nm - eag Jul 28, 10:24
- The bullet. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 28, 10:24 1
  - The bullet comes with a complimentary mojito. -- nm - Bari Seldon Jul 28, 10:26
Good news: the one Moe’s in my area reopened. The bad news: they don’t do junior burritos anymore. - spamlet Jul 28, 10:20
Happy birthday, Baron! -- nm - David Jul 28, 10:04 7
- Happy birthday! -- nm - jnine Jul 28, 14:46
- Happy Birthday! Make it a great one! -- nm - zunk takes things literally Jul 28, 10:21
- happy birthday -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 28, 10:21
- Hbd -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 28, 10:20
- You're so kind. Thank you. -- nm - Bari Seldon Jul 28, 10:13 1
  - As your birthday present, I'm sure Samara is willing to rake you over the coals in a trade! -- nm - David Jul 28, 10:31
- Happy BDay! -- nm - budice Jul 28, 10:04
Packers wished LB Jonathan Garvin a happy birthday Friday morning. Three hours later? they cut him. -- nm - budice Jul 28, 09:51 1
- bastards -- nm - decline Jul 28, 09:55
The $400 million New York Mets are sellers, and the Miami Marlins are buyers. Baseball is the best. -- nm - David Jul 28, 09:46 15
- I’m curious to see how Cohen responds to this adversity. San Diego has just doubled doubled doubled down on their weakness -- (edited) - Will Hunting Jul 28, 09:56 12
  - I want to say Cohen said the long term plan was to build up the farm system after attempting to go all in. -- nm - Tim Jul 28, 10:40
  - I think SD is about to sell hard, possibly including Soto. - David Jul 28, 09:57 10
    - They thought that was their window…and let’s be honest - before the last 12 months, Soto was at worst the 3rd most “all-Time potential” guy in basebal - Will Hunting Jul 28, 10:01 8
      - We had this discussion almost exactly a year ago! -- (link) - David Jul 28, 10:06 [Backboard] 7
        
        I look at their team stats, and there's no reason they should be this bad...they have at least 3 guys on pace for 6+ WAR - Will Hunting Jul 28, 10:13 6
        
        Alex Anthopoulos has quietly assembled a superteam of baseball quants, and the one thing he prioritizes the most is clubhouse fit. - David Jul 28, 10:30 5
        
        Plus having a few of the guys take robbery-level contracts to facilitate payroll space. - Will Hunting Jul 28, 10:34 2
        
        I feel a lot worse about Albies. I honestly wish we'd fix it. -- nm - David Jul 28, 10:37 1
        
        Albies is an underpay, but where he was at the time...it could have gone the other way within reason. - Will Hunting Jul 28, 10:49
        
        What if you don’t use analytics or care about the clubhouse? Sounds like a winning team, right? - spamlet Jul 28, 10:34 1
        
        The fact that y'all couldn't unlock Giolito is maddening. -- nm - David Jul 28, 10:35
    - Hader/Snell being talked up for dealing -- nm* - budice Jul 28, 09:59
- The Mets implosion has been particularly enjoyable this season -- nm - rollo Jul 28, 09:52 1
  - Appreciate the Angels are buyers and likely lose Ohtani and not make the playoffs -- nm - budice Jul 28, 09:55
Work has decided to switch our phone stuff to a VOIP service so we get calls through the laptop. Oh, and we aren't allowed to connect a bluetooth - sycor Jul 28, 09:03 22
- I haven't had a phone at my desk since like 2018. just mobile. they offered me one at my current place, I declined. -- nm - mafic Jul 28, 09:47
- We use Teams for just about every meeting at this point. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 28, 09:34 9
  - Teams is rare in our org. It's almost all Zoom. There was one instance of a GoToMeeting but that might be an urban legend. -- nm - Bari Seldon Jul 28, 10:12 1
    - GTM can F all the way off. Ugh. - Pippy Quintas Jul 28, 10:37
  - We’ll see about that! -- nm* - EU proposed suit against Microsoft Jul 28, 09:45
  - yes but this is for talking to clients and the public. I'm sure people will feel some kind of way if it sounds like I'm on speaker when I'm asking - sycor Jul 28, 09:41 1
    - Yeah, the no bluetooth headphones or anything is crap. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 28, 10:11
  - same and the dial-phone / call center addons for it too -- nm* - budice Jul 28, 09:38
  - *hiss*. Sign of the cross - Will Hunting Jul 28, 09:35 2
    - I hated it initially. The current version is damn near seamless for everything. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 28, 10:10 1
      - I *hate* that nothing goes away easily and I get added to teams I don't care about or am involved in. - Will Hunting Jul 28, 10:28
- I don’t know how many companies actually survive, honestly. Dumb luck, I think. -- nm* - Qale Jul 28, 09:30 3
  - We're the government. So the level of dumb is pretty normal. LOL -- nm - sycor Jul 28, 09:40 1
    - We’re the largest retailer in Texas and we have the absolute worst POS system with no tap to pay, no digital wallets, and cards go in upside down. - Qale Jul 28, 09:45
  - I'm sure it is somewhat specific to our industry but we have to provide internet service on our construction jobsites for our resident engineers - oblique Jul 28, 09:33
- Hopefully it's better than the garbage softphone we have to mirror our desk phones. -- nm - spamlet Jul 28, 09:20
- I've been lowkey looking at the same thing for a while but yeah. We'd probably be also deploying physical handsets still as some people are weirdly - oblique Jul 28, 09:19 2
  - I just don't want to yell at the laptop like I'm on speaker phone. Especially not in the office with everyone. Not deploying headsets before the - sycor Jul 28, 09:39 1
    - very -- nm - oblique Jul 28, 09:47
- no Bluetooth kinda sux. VOIP works ok, guess the install not a clean start -- nm - budice Jul 28, 09:05 2
  - I guess they didn't consider an agency of 250 people trying to install and connect all at once was a bad idea. -- nm - sycor Jul 28, 09:06 1
    - there it is, can be smooth but gotta plan better obvie -- nm - budice Jul 28, 09:07
generally in law school we were taught that this is fraud -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 28, 08:57 7
- YMMV -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 28, 10:24
- Nothing new for automakers to take a best case scenario as the stated range/mpg rating. - TWuG Jul 28, 09:55 2
  - do other automakers staff up an entire office to gaslight the cheated customers? -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 28, 10:18 1
    - You mean tell customers there's nothing wrong with their vehicles? Yes. There's nothing wrong with the range estimates (approved by the EPA, remember) - TWuG Jul 28, 10:29
- They forgot the asterisk of *in a perfect environment. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 28, 09:25
- I never went to law school, but that’s my interpretation as well. -- nm - Volnelk 🍊 Jul 28, 08:58
- but see, they weren't lying, they were just being overly optimistic. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 28, 08:58
Michelle Yeoh got married after a 19 year engagement... That seems like a long time to wait -- (link) - decline Jul 28, 08:50 5
- Oprah says what's the rush -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 28, 12:16
- Ya think? -- nm - Stedman Jul 28, 09:32
- Keep LVMH financial father around in case she needed to trade up -- nm* - budice Jul 28, 09:03
- Maybe they were trying to average out the only 52 days from meeting to proposal part of the relationship - JD Jul 28, 08:58
- She had to be sure. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 28, 08:56
sometimes i feel like we make things so hard for medical stuff - tRuMaN Jul 28, 08:17 6
- I have nerve issues from my knee surgery. No pain, but areas of numbness and when I press on some areas I feel it in a different area. - Dano Jul 28, 09:27
- you could just not press on it -- nm - decline Jul 28, 08:19 4
  - I mean, I could yes. I also wear my watch on that hand, so I guess I need to move it to my other hand. - tRuMaN Jul 28, 08:23 2
    - You could be like the Winter Soldier? -- nm - Spawn Jul 28, 08:33 1
      - i mean, I guess, if I was given a serum to make me all buff and the like. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 28, 08:55
  - Now, give him a bill for your medical advice. -- nm - Spawn Jul 28, 08:23
Also cause we are talking Poker - Atlantic City Trip is happening 9/27 to 9/31. - Pippy Quintas Jul 28, 08:16 1
- *marks his calendar* -- (edited) - znufrii 🦄 Jul 28, 08:23
Poker peeps --- etiquette question from last night (and more!) - Will Hunting Jul 28, 08:10 2
- Wtf, dude. - znufrii 🦄 Jul 28, 08:29
- He's asshole at level 10. Just count the chips!! it is not that damn hard. -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jul 28, 08:14
~Devils roll the dice, angels roll their eyes And if I bleed, you'll be the last to know~ -- nm* - Pippy Quintas Jul 28, 08:05
Weekend Plans ? -- nm - Andie Jul 28, 07:57 47
- Maybe go antiquing with the Rose at some festival of junk sale a town halfway btw us. -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 28, 10:29
- The "Funeral" part of our "2 weddings and a funeral" summer - Guigue Jul 28, 09:35
- Seeing Bryan Adams with Joan Jett opening tonight -- nm - JD Jul 28, 09:16
- I'm in the car heading out to the North Shore of LI for a relaxing weekend by the pool and some BBQ'ing. -- nm - Krusty Jul 28, 09:14
- OT tomorrow. Lego Art show on Sunday with the boys. Dinner or something tomorrow as the youngest made honor roll and the oldest passed driver's test -- nm - sycor Jul 28, 09:05
- A bike ride. Or two. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 28, 08:55
- flying to a mine in West Africa. -- nm - mafic Jul 28, 08:44 6
  - this message will self destruct in 30 seconds -- nm - oblique Jul 28, 09:20
  - what kind of mine? -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 judge jones 🏳️‍🌈 Jul 28, 09:18 1
    - only gold now that I'm no longer a consultant. my company's a dedicated gold producer. -- nm - mafic Jul 28, 09:41
  - There’s a coup in Niger and suddenly you’re flying to West Africa? - spamlet Jul 28, 09:10 1
    - unless something goes horribly wrong I shouldn't be within 800km of Niger. - mafic Jul 28, 09:45
  - and just yesterday they woke up the 46,000 year old work. I think I can see where this is going.... -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 28, 08:45
- The same thing we do every weekend, try to take over the world. - Spawn Jul 28, 08:39 1
  - do you usually get fries with that? -- nm - mud Jul 28, 08:43
- Flying to Baltimore, driving to York, PA, loading up the youngest's stuff and driving back to Tampa. - JaxSean Jul 28, 08:06 14
  - let me know if you need me to tell you where to get ice cream in york. (you can get hershey's!!!) -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 judge jones 🏳️‍🌈 Jul 28, 08:36 3
    - Unfortunately, with the short turn around it'll be land, load up, drive 15+ hours overnight pretty much. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 28, 08:39 2
      - BUT ICE CREAM. it takes ten minutes. YORK Restaurant 2965 Concord Rd, York, PA, 17402, US -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 judge jones 🏳️‍🌈 Jul 28, 09:15 1
        
        I will take this into very conscious consideration. :D -- nm - JaxSean Jul 28, 10:20
  - Which interstate? because 95 in the summer on weekends is hell. -- nm - loosilu Jul 28, 08:33
  - What is she doing in York PA? -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 28, 08:10 8
    - she's lived there for the last year with her friend and his mom. It's become...problematic. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 28, 08:30 2
      - Hope it all turns out okay... -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 28, 08:54
      - Hope everything goes well for you guys. -- nm - spamlet Jul 28, 08:54
    - she must have lost a bet -- nm - decline Jul 28, 08:15 4
      - It's where I went to school ... it's a place I wonder how it's been allowed to stay in the north. - Will Hunting Jul 28, 08:19 3
        
        I have a friend from south york county. we call it SoYoCo obvs. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 judge jones 🏳️‍🌈 Jul 28, 09:17
        
        It's the barbells, they make people stupid. -- nm - loosilu Jul 28, 08:32
        
        I've driven through many times 'Oh, we're not stopping here' -- nm - decline Jul 28, 08:20
- Bar Concert tonight, house things on Saturday + a movie, squiring my ex MIL to the Casino on Sunday -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jul 28, 08:05 3
  - I saw Bar open for Lounge back in '06. -- nm - Spawn Jul 28, 08:42
  - we're missing Nickelback this weekend unfortunately. - JaxSean Jul 28, 08:07 1
    - they are worth seeing once. I still can't believe he married/divorced Avril Lavine. -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jul 28, 08:08
- Have trainings this afternoon and tomorrow morning. Seeing Oppenheimer in 70mm tonight. Church and taking car #2 in for hail damage Sunday. -- nm - spamlet Jul 28, 08:03
- not going outside into the lying heat wave. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 28, 08:02 1
  - *giggles* - Pippy Quintas Jul 28, 08:03
- Provincetown. First time going. -- nm - MDH Jul 28, 08:02
- Mom arrives today, my cousin's baby's 1st birthday bbq tomorrow, maybe a movie with mom Sunday. -- nm - Andie Jul 28, 08:01
- start of my stay-cation vacation week. Gotta help out my mom tomorrow and then do some stuff with my plants -- (edited) - decline Jul 28, 08:01
- Nothing really. Floated the idea of watching Super Mario movie with daughter on Sunday after church. Wife will probably sleep through it (it is - oblique Jul 28, 08:01
- O’s v Yankees tonight, Oppenheimer tomorrow, flying home Sunday -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 28, 08:00 2
  - Did you catch the improv show at the Kennedy Center? -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 28, 08:01 1
    - no the last show was last Sat when I was just flying in -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 28, 08:19
- Let's see - Sam Hunt tomorrow night and helping 2 of the kids with financial planning on Sunday. Wheeeee.... -- nm - Turd Ferguson Jul 28, 07:59
- a rare weekend when all three of us are in town this summer. no real plans. work on the bathroom floor starts tomorrow -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 28, 07:59
- Staying at home, spending time at the pool, catching up on yardwork, might see a baseball game on Sunday (Reading Fightin’ Phils) -- nm - znufrii 🦄 Jul 28, 07:59

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