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Guy Ritchie to direct Lobo movie. -- nm - Dano Sep 2, 13:38 1
- Uh... hmmm. -- nm - Spawn Sep 2, 13:39
There are "dozens" of swine flu cases at my university recently. Is it wrong that I roll my eyes at this news? - Hotkiss Sep 2, 13:36 22
- The WHO has said that 20%-50% of the US population may be infected -- nm - con_carne Sep 2, 13:39 3
  - Remember that summer about 9 years ago when it seemed like every beachgoer was getting bitten by a shark? -- nm - Hotkiss Sep 2, 13:41 2
    - Uh... no. -- nm - Spawn Sep 2, 13:41
    - that wasn't actually true. this is. -- nm - loosilu Sep 2, 13:41
- considering universities are one of the biggest breeding grounds of infectious diseases, I wouldn't be so flippant. -- nm - loosilu Sep 2, 13:38 5
  - yeah, I think we're seeing a surge in some areas. - Callisto Sep 2, 13:41 1
    - yes, and it's nice to be healthy, but a lot of people aren't going to survive it. -- nm - loosilu Sep 2, 13:41
  - I think this is just the officials' way of suggesting less beer pong and shared wine bags -- nm - Hotkiss Sep 2, 13:40 2
    - which is a stupid idea in the first place. -- nm - loosilu Sep 2, 13:40 1
      - (the sharing part. drink all you want, I don't care) -- nm - loosilu Sep 2, 13:41
- Officials at Emory University say about 50 students with swine flu have been moved to a separate dorm. -- (link) - Banzai! Sep 2, 13:38
- But are they verified cases? -- nm - Spawn Sep 2, 13:38
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  - I hate how some people are so binary about diseases. Either we're all gonna die, or it's totally stupid to worry about it. Nothing in between. -- nm - loosilu Sep 2, 13:40 3
    - Yeah, ML!!! -- nm - nubby Sep 2, 13:41 2
      - I didn't mean ML. -- nm - loosilu Sep 2, 13:41 1
        
        Yeah, nubbles!!! -- nm - nubby Sep 2, 13:44
- excuse to skip classes! -- nm - znufrii Sep 2, 13:38 1
  - " *cough cough* " -- nm - nubby Sep 2, 13:38
- Since you're in the primary reported death-zone age demographic for it, maybe it shouldn't be waggled at so much. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 2, 13:37
- Border on caution. If it becomes bad, it could shut the school down. And that would be nearly catastrophic. -- nm - nubby Sep 2, 13:37
- Sure. Until your eyes fall out! - Dr.Vermin Sep 2, 13:37
There's some segregation going on in Rome -- (link) - ty97 Sep 2, 13:35 3
- perhaps security related -- nm - Danedukenuuk Sep 2, 13:38
- That's because USA is the most important country that deserves its own terminal -- nm - Hotkiss Sep 2, 13:37 1
  - or else it's considered a target and needs different security. -- nm - loosilu Sep 2, 13:44
Toronto trip booked - Dano Sep 2, 13:35 3
- Cat sitter next weekend booked! - Andie Sep 2, 13:40
- Run Andie, run!!! -- nm - Spawn Sep 2, 13:38 1
  - She's leaviing town to get away from me. -- nm - Dano Sep 2, 13:38
30 minutes until the Vamps draft resumes. Redmond, kelly, Strongbad will be on the clock. -- nm - TFox Sep 2, 13:27 5
- Unfriggingbelievable. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 2, 13:29 4
  - Hey, can you call me, please? -- nm - kelly Sep 2, 13:33
  - They started well after the others. -- nm - Spawn Sep 2, 13:32
  - I know. Man up and get yourself into that threesome. -- nm - con_carne Sep 2, 13:31 1
    - *throws a big mac in the pile* nm -- nm - groiny Sep 2, 13:32
I don't know how it is where you all live, but around Columbus the roads are in great shape and their are numerous improvement projects under way. - TWuG Sep 2, 13:25 2
- they seem fine to me. small town and all -- nm - CQ Sep 2, 13:32
- it varies all over the country. in my city some roads are awful. (Glebe) -- nm - loosilu Sep 2, 13:26
help a brutha out - who was the Dodgers closer before Broxton? -- nm - Guy Sep 2, 13:24 5
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  - yep. thanks! -- nm - Guy Sep 2, 13:30
  - possibly Billingsley closed some games for them too? nm -- nm - groiny Sep 2, 13:28
- Gagne, Kuo? nm -- nm - groiny Sep 2, 13:26
- Playyour Backgammon -- nm - Spawn Sep 2, 13:25
hahah, gotta love canadian politics. NWBR, if you're around, check this out. -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 2, 13:22
LYC: I just booked the exorbitant flight from Turin to London, rather than taking the 3a.m. 2-hour bus ride to Milan for the cheaper flight. - ty97 Sep 2, 13:18 7
- and (for loosi mainly) I'm flying AF via CDG. - ty97 Sep 2, 13:31 6
  - bring anything essential in a carry on. That is the worst airport and airline for losing baggage. -- nm - loosilu Sep 2, 13:34 5
    - I'm going home, they can loose my laundry for a couple of days. - ty97 Sep 2, 13:37 1
      - LOSE! (that's one of my pet peeve typos!) -- nm - ty97 Sep 2, 13:37
    - and the terminal sucks. -- nm - loosilu Sep 2, 13:34 2
      - there's gotta be a joke about conservate senators with a wide stance booking an flight immeadiately, dontcha think -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 2, 13:41 1
        
        That would be an improvement. what a shithole. -- nm - loosilu Sep 2, 13:42
OMG. This friend of mine (J) is trying to get pregnant, so she has been taking her temperature. (some TMI inside) - loosilu Sep 2, 13:13 4
- *is so glad that dudes don't have to use a thermometer to know when we're making sperm* -- nm - TFox Sep 2, 13:16
- and she's gonna pass on those smarts? huh. -- nm - CQ Sep 2, 13:14 1
  - at least she knows she's supposed to change it more than once a day. (I think) -- nm - loosilu Sep 2, 13:15
- Do you twitter? -- nm - Spawn Sep 2, 13:14
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- so that's 2 Obama gets to replace. Do you think there will be a 3rd? -- nm - Remlik Sep 2, 13:16 1
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- Wasn't this already posted? -- nm - Roger More Sep 2, 13:14
- yeah, we did. -- (link) - znufrii Sep 2, 13:14 [Backboard] 2
  - You should start linking to LAT or something, just to mix it up. No wonder you got ignored. :-P -- nm - con_carne Sep 2, 13:15
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- I saw the one clerk thing mentioned on HuffPo. -- nm - Reagen Sep 2, 13:14
I'm not reading anything so awesome as Reagen (and congrats go to him)... - Callisto Sep 2, 13:10 7
- yes indeed, congrats to Reagen (and I'm reading Underground by Kat Richardson) -- nm - crash davis Sep 2, 13:21
- You had to cheat on IJ with another book. nm - Dignan Sep 2, 13:17 2
  - I think I've cheated on it with three so far. (nm) - Callisto Sep 2, 13:20 1
    - Bookslut. -- nm - David Sep 2, 13:23
- I'd told you, right? -- nm - David Sep 2, 13:12 2
  - yep. -- nm - Callisto Sep 2, 13:13 1
    - Okay, just making sure. A lot happened since then. -- nm - David Sep 2, 13:13
Work rant: Managers at my company decided, correctly, that a certain task wasn't being done quickly enough. So, what do they do? - con_carne Sep 2, 13:09 5
- write a LONG Memo???? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Sep 2, 13:12
- The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care. -- nm - CQ Sep 2, 13:11
- Hehe, ISO. Yeah just triple the time on that task now, at least. -- nm - Shaun Sep 2, 13:11 1
  - He very happily detailed to me how he would like things to look. I did my best to tactfully tell him these things are not going to happen. UGH! -- nm - con_carne Sep 2, 13:14
- It's a bureaucracy? - OAE Sep 2, 13:10
I should know better (work rant inside) - ceregon Sep 2, 13:09 2
- okay this is a lesson learned -- nm - Epiphany Sep 2, 13:23
- Work rant ^5! -- nm - con_carne Sep 2, 13:17
Poor, poor Trotter. -- nm - CQ Sep 2, 13:09
Your country landed a man on the moon in 1969. - Beryllium Sep 2, 13:04 68
- that was a cool one-off stunt. (ok, more than one, but close enough) -- nm - loosilu Sep 2, 13:25 4
  - Yeah, everything in the US seems to be a one-off stunt. There's no long-term follow-through, no persistence of vision. - Beryllium Sep 2, 13:29 3
    - like our constitution! what a rip. -- nm - loosilu Sep 2, 13:35 2
      - It has a few ... vulnerabilities. I mean, even The Matrix had an ultimate check-and-balance. - Beryllium Sep 2, 13:36 1
        
        Depends, those damn commie-liberals keep trying to take away the reboot option too with their gun control and not allowing us to have tanks. -- nm - Ender Sep 2, 13:37
- landing on the moon was easy you only had to transport tree person there - Danedukenuuk Sep 2, 13:10
- I just don't see how we can take a sixth of our economy and make it 'non-profit' without disastrous results. - Dr.Vermin Sep 2, 13:10 47
  - Good thing that doesn't come close to describing any of the policies currently on the table. -- nm - znufrii Sep 2, 13:27 9
    - No, it describes the post I replied to. Pay attention, people. - Dr.Vermin Sep 2, 13:28 8
      - though it does highlight an unfortunately all-too-common mistake made when discussing the topic - znufrii Sep 2, 13:34 3
        
        As I say in the post I link to below, I'm all for reducing the insurance part of the equation. - Dr.Vermin Sep 2, 13:36 2
        
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        we are mostly on the same wavelength here, as indicated by the prior discussion. -- nm - znufrii Sep 2, 13:38
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        How about you just read what I write and stop there, instead of extrapolating wildly. -- (link) - Dr.Vermin Sep 2, 13:33 [Backboard] 2
        
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        It means "to spout". - Beryllium Sep 2, 13:39
  - the health industry makes a "healthy" profit in ouer "socialized" health care system - Danedukenuuk Sep 2, 13:19
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    - See, this post is funny because this thread started with talk of how the roads suck... -- nm - Ender Sep 2, 13:22 25
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        Have you seen where US education ranks compared to the rest of the industrialized world? -- nm - Ender Sep 2, 13:25 10
        
        Part of that can be laid at the feet of school boards scared shitless be religous nuts who challenge every science curiculum that treats evolution as - TWuG Sep 2, 13:28 6
        
        Yeah..... a verrrrrrrrry tiny part. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 2, 13:31 1
        
        In Ohio and Texas and Kansas they've managed to neuter science standards so kids aren't taught evolution and other "controversial" science - TWuG Sep 2, 13:35
        
        plus - Danedukenuuk Sep 2, 13:29
        
        *coughteachersunionscoughcough* -- nm - Roger More Sep 2, 13:29 2
        
        The union protects teachers it shouldn't. It doesn't argue against teaching kids. Most teachers I know would love to have stronger curicula and more - TWuG Sep 2, 13:32 1
        
        But poor teachers educating kids leads to poorly educated kids. I'm not saying it's the only factor, but it is an important one - Roger More Sep 2, 13:43
        
        But pretty much every other education system in the world is government run. So it's not government generally - it's *your* government -- nm - Roger More Sep 2, 13:27
        
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        No Child Left Be--oh look, WMDs! - znufrii Sep 2, 13:26
      - Yes. They didn't suck at first, though. They're just being neglected. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 2, 13:23 12
        
        (I did a test trip in google earth yesterday, from BC to Nova Scotia, and it recommended cutting through the US) - Beryllium Sep 2, 13:25
        
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        So what you're saying is that socialized healthcare won't suck at first, but given enough time... *NM* - Ender Sep 2, 13:24 9
        
        Compared to the healthcare you have now - the old "pre-existing condition" or "pick the one finger you want to save"? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 2, 13:26
        
        yup that is a clear and present danger - Danedukenuuk Sep 2, 13:26
        
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        That would involve me being serious in this thread, which I don't feel like doing. -- nm - Ender Sep 2, 13:27 5
        
        I often feel the same way :) (My response to Vermin, if he had provided facts about the drawbacks to regulation, would have been a joke) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 2, 13:33
        
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        Very. -- nm - Ender Sep 2, 13:32 2
        
        Slacker -- nm - Danedukenuuk Sep 2, 13:34 1
        
        *Looks up at the title of the forum* -- nm - Ender Sep 2, 13:40
  - I'm not sure if this is a lack of imagination, or too much. -- nm - Roger More Sep 2, 13:16 2
    - This is an early favorite for post of the month. nm - Dignan Sep 2, 13:18 1
      - Yeah ! Suck it, Reagen's book poll response! -- nm - Roger More Sep 2, 13:21
  - One day, you will. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 2, 13:15
  - well 1) maybe it shouldn't be a sixth and 2) the Canadian health care industry makes a tidy profit. -- nm - Reagen Sep 2, 13:12
  - And nothing says "eliminating heartlessness" like government bureaucracy! *NM* - Ender Sep 2, 13:12 3
    - It would have been covered but Aetna declared it a pre-existing condition. -- nm - Reagen Sep 2, 13:13 2
      - Unfortunately, there's an 18 month waiting list to have the procedure under the socialized system. :) -- nm - Ender Sep 2, 13:19
      - Heartlessness? Yeah, I could see that. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 2, 13:15
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  - OK, fine. Merge that number with the number of people forced into forclosure because of mortgage market deregulation. :) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 2, 13:06 12
    - (People who should not have been allowed to buy a house in the first place, I mean) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 2, 13:06 11
      - Housing industry *regulation* caused a lot of those too. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 2, 13:12 10
        
        You keep saying that, but here in Canada we have a well-regulated housing industry that refuses to grant mortgages to people who can't afford them. - Beryllium Sep 2, 13:14 9
        
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        Can you explain to me where the gov't forced either the borrower or lender to enter into shoddy contracts? - Will Hunting Sep 2, 13:19 7
        
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        I don't know enough about Frank to blame him individually, but this post is the point I was trying to make. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 2, 13:35
        
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        especially at a time when the GOP was in control of Congress. -- nm - znufrii Sep 2, 13:33
I have to think that I'm in the running for godfather. nm - Dignan Sep 2, 13:04 6
- Ohhhhh godfather, not goatf*cker. - HdnAgnda Sep 2, 13:08
- heathenfather. -- nm - Reagen Sep 2, 13:05 4
  - On what special day does the heathenfather take visitors asking for favours? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 2, 13:08 2
    - do you really *want* a favour from Dignan? -- nm - Roger More Sep 2, 13:08 1
      - Point taken. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 2, 13:09
  - *accepts* nm - Dignan Sep 2, 13:07
You think Obama is having a bad time? The Irish leader's popularity is at 15% - Loyola Sep 2, 13:04 2
- raised the beer tax? -- nm - ty97 Sep 2, 13:06 1
  - Nah. We hate all governments. Even the good ones. -- nm - Loyola Sep 2, 13:10
aha, a clean slate. -- nm - OAE Sep 2, 12:59 1
- myth -- nm - Spawn Sep 2, 13:02
People are *still* emailing? - Spawn Sep 2, 12:59 1
- I *know*. It's been almost a full month!!! -- nm - Jim Sep 2, 13:00
*splurt* -- nm - Reagen SI Sep 2, 12:58
The rabbit died! -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 2, 12:58 3
- DINNER! -- nm - lileve Sep 2, 13:08
- the rabbit done died -- nm - Spawn Sep 2, 13:06
- no, I think I saw it wiggle it's nose -- nm - old Monte Python routine Sep 2, 13:01

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