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is the woot off dead, or just stuck? -- nm - tRuMaN Dec 9, 07:59
Budget is on the tv here; they're thinking about imposing water charges. - Loyola Dec 9, 07:57 3
- unless you have your own well, there's no reason water should be free. -- nm - mafic Dec 9, 08:00 2
  - Why not, they didn't mke it. -- nm - Loyola Dec 9, 08:01 1
    - no, but they're adding value to the system. -- nm - mafic Dec 9, 08:05
My parents in Wisc say the snow is up to their waist in front of their house -- nm - oblique Dec 9, 07:52 4
- We're supposed to get 15 - 30cm (translation ~6-12") tonight. -- nm - Shaun Dec 9, 07:55 2
  - The best weather canada can forecast for victoria is "rain or snow". -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 07:56 1
    - I'd take rain over snow. You don't have to shovel rain. -- nm - Shaun Dec 9, 07:57
- heh, on first read, I totally missed the words "front of" -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 07:53
ESPN looks at the role of brain trauma and early deaths in both the NFL & WWE. -- (link) - Will Hunting Dec 9, 07:49 1
- Chris Nowitski has been doing a lot of work on this, and got Benoit's father to donate portions of Benoit's brain for study into concussions and they - Remlik Dec 9, 08:00
my name is groiny, and I am a sex addict. nm -- nm - groiny Dec 9, 07:46 1
- does it really count if its a self-addiction? -- nm - Capstern Dec 9, 08:03
Man, I am having such a hard time with this tinnitus or ear ringing or we this is, I feel like my whole life has been upended. - Jovian Dec 9, 07:46 16
- if he doesn't go to an ear doc and see what's up. I have constant ringing due to 20 years in front of radio speakers. it sucks. -- nm - Remlik Dec 9, 08:01
- I have had it for many years. I don't think there is anything anybody can do for it. - BAD Dec 9, 07:50 7
  - depends what's causing it, I think. Mine is constant and permanent. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:51 6
    - Do you find that you can't hear certain tones? Like I can hear our door bell because it is in that tonal range. -- nm - BAD Dec 9, 08:02
    - if Jovian's is sudden-onset, hopefully it's caused by something that can be easily remedied -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 07:54 4
      - I pray to god this is the case, because I really dont see how I can spend the rest of my life with this sound. - Jovian Dec 9, 07:56 3
        
        When was the last time you took a plane somewhere warm? -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 07:57 2
        
        Havent flown since August. *shrugs* I dont know maybe its stress related, do be fair though - Jovian Dec 9, 08:01
        
        (or a plane at all, for that matter) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 07:57
- That must suck. Best of luck. -- nm - Loyola Dec 9, 07:47
- maybe your sinuses are plugged up? - groiny Dec 9, 07:47
- he may send you to the ENT. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:47 4
  - Yea that is what I am thinking too, I just hope maybe he has some answers and/or maybe some meds too. - Jovian Dec 9, 07:51
  - Doctor Treebeard? :) --nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 07:48 1
    - loser. nm -- nm - groiny Dec 9, 07:48
  - I don't see what Treebeard is going to be able to do for him. nm -- nm - groiny Dec 9, 07:48
So I guess what dano is saying is that East/West are like Clockwise/Counter-clockwise ... -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 07:45
i love snowmageddon. i wish I had a gun in my car to shoot the idiot who drove me off the road. - tRuMaN Dec 9, 07:43 2
- you're ok though right? -- nm - Remlik Dec 9, 08:03
- aww :( -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 07:44
If I'm standing on a point and go east 1 mile and then go north 1 mile and then go west 1 mile and wind up at the same point, what color is the bear? -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:40 8
- translucent, winged, and named St Peter. Walking 3 miles in the arctic? That's ludicrous. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 07:42
- spoiler. - loosilu Dec 9, 07:41
- Easy. He's pink. -- nm - Loyola Dec 9, 07:41 5
  - and he's mile north, not at the same point. :) -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 9, 07:41 4
    - oh, never mind - i thought he missed a line. - Elf Andie Dec 9, 07:42 3
      - no - you are right. If he starts at the S Pole, he can only go north, not east :) - Roger More Dec 9, 07:47 2
        
        Right. I don't believe there's any place on Earth that you can do what I described. -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:49 1
        
        oh, so the bear is brass-coloured, then. a decorative compass that *really* sucks. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 07:51
Interesting photo series. Fallen Princesses -- (link) - oblique Dec 9, 07:37 2
- The idea is interesting, but I find the photos are crap. Really bad compositing and lighting - Guigue Dec 9, 07:49
- Photographers and restaurants always have the most irritating web design. -- nm - Reagen Dec 9, 07:45
Tiger doesn't need counseling. He needs self-discipline. Therefore I suggest he hang out with Siegfried and Roy. -- nm - HdnAgnda Dec 9, 07:34 2
- Comparatively speaking, John Edwards doesn't look *that* bad now. Edwards 2012! -- nm - Loyola Dec 9, 07:39 1
  - Oh, yes he does. - Will Hunting Dec 9, 07:41
Cause I know a couple of people are interested...new Captian America shirts and shotglasses available. -- nm - Remlik Dec 9, 07:32
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if I ever get rich, remind me to have affairs with actual hot chicks..... - groiny Dec 9, 07:29 9
- the schoolteachers didn't need to be rich. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:31 1
  - whole nother issue entirely. nm -- nm - groiny Dec 9, 07:45
- at the least they are borderline average. still, you'd think he'd picking a better quality of beef. -- nm - Remlik Dec 9, 07:30 6
  - Deadspi had a story yesterday how he wasn't picking them up, the first girl who was outted was "providing" them and making huge bucks for it -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 07:31 5
    - She'll never go far in madam'ing if that's her idea of high-class callgirls. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 9, 07:36 2
      - pehaps it's a service of girls that will do....other things...than the high end ones provide. -- nm - Remlik Dec 9, 07:40 1
        
        Someone should tell these women that the paddle spanking is across the ass, not the face. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 9, 07:41
    - the Rachel chick? the one that allegedly slept with Boareanz? -- nm - Remlik Dec 9, 07:34 1
      - maybe second one (check Deadspin!) -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 07:53
ST Travel Poll -- What is the farthest you've traveled North, South, East and West? - znufrii Dec 9, 07:24 90
- North: Edmonton, AB; East: Peggy's Cove, NS; South: Las Vegas, NV, West: Vancouver Island, BC -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 9, 08:14
- Yes. -- nm - mafic SI Dec 9, 07:55
- above the arctic circle, Perth, been around the world and... - ceregon Dec 9, 07:47 1
  - nice! -- nm - znufrii Dec 9, 07:57
- How is it possible to answer the east/west part of this poll? Something is always east and west of something. -- nm - con_carne Dec 9, 07:47 3
  - pick a point of reference. your current location, Greenwich Meridian, doesn't really matter to me. -- nm - znufrii Dec 9, 07:48 2
    - also, see the discussion below. -- nm - znufrii Dec 9, 07:50 1
      - No. :) But, I do know that I'd hate to be ty97 during this poll. -- nm - con_carne Dec 9, 07:57
- West: Hawaii. South: Cuba. East, Bratislava. North, probably north of Quebec city where I lived -- nm - Guigue Dec 9, 07:46
- North - Kirkenes (Norway), South & East - Hong Kong, West - Vancouver -- nm - Rest of the World Dec 9, 07:44
- north: Kittery ME, south: Jacksonville FL, west: Disneyland, east: somewhere on Cape Cod, I guess. -- nm - kelly Dec 9, 07:38
- Newfoundland, Cuba, Nova Scotia, Zurich. -- nm - Shaun Dec 9, 07:36 5
  - I'm pretty sure NF is further east than NS. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:36 4
    - maybe we should tell you the places we've been and then you can submit our answers. -- nm - CQ Dec 9, 07:38 3
      - Apparently this is the only true correct answer to the poll. -- nm - Shaun Dec 9, 07:43
      - Tangent: I love the "Places I've Been" facebook app for this. -- nm - znufrii Dec 9, 07:39
      - don't bully me. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:39
- North: Thorhild, Alberta. West: Ucluelet, BC. East: Thorhild, AB (although Las Vegas and Tulum might be further east). South: Tulum, Mexico. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 07:33
- a little north of grise fiord, tierra del fuego, fiji, kauai. -- nm - mafic Dec 9, 07:31 1
  - I was waiting for your answer on this. heh -- nm - CQ Dec 9, 07:33
- Lanse aux Meadows NF, Jamaica, St John's NF, Toronto -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 07:30
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- north: boston, south: aruba, east: puerto rico (?), west: california -- nm - decline Dec 9, 07:29
- West, California. East, probably when I was in Boston. South, Miami. North, North Dakota. - JaxSean Dec 9, 07:29
- Whitehorse, Dubai, Honolulul, Dubai. -- nm - Reagen Dec 9, 07:29
- North: Whitehorse, YK. South: San Andres Colombia. West: Vanc Island. East: Austria? -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 9, 07:29
- London, Tasmania, and (E/W from current location), Istanbul, Darwin -- nm - Roger More Dec 9, 07:29 1
  - E/W from Greenwich, it would be Auckland and Samoa -- nm - Roger More Dec 9, 07:38
- North: Looks like Germany. East: Italy. West: California. South: Caribbean -- nm - oblique Dec 9, 07:27
- North: Stockholm. South: South Africa. West: Macau. East: India -- nm - adventy97 Dec 9, 07:27 9
  - bzzzt. Macau is further east than India. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:28 8
    - Not if he flew west to Macau and east to India....huh? Yeah, thought so..... -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 9, 07:29 7
      - nope, direction traveled doesn't count. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:29 6
        
        nope, just your point of reference. -- nm - znufrii Dec 9, 07:31 5
        
        And travelling from Chicago, Dehli is closer travelling east than west -- nm - Roger More Dec 9, 07:33 4
        
        At those distances you're more likely to go North anyway. -- nm - Ender Dec 9, 07:34 3
        
        Oh sure. But relative to Chicago, Delhi is still east -- nm - Roger More Dec 9, 07:35 1
        
        (a looooong way east, of course) -- nm - Roger More Dec 9, 07:36
        
        the Polar route? I've always wanted to do that. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:35
- Montreal, Costa Rica, Italy, Vegas, baby -- nm - CQ Dec 9, 07:26
- North: London, South: Tampa, East: Rome, West, St Louis -- nm - Ender Dec 9, 07:26
- North, Glasgow, South, Florida, East, Bosnia, West, Arizona or Vegas, whichever is westier. -- nm - Loyola Dec 9, 07:26
- Where I am right now. -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:25 45
  - Actually you can do North/South because of the polls, but East/West you can't really do. Relative to what? -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:27 39
    - It took me the longest time to realize you meant "poles." -- nm - mara Dec 9, 07:33 1
      - I'm dumb. -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:35
    - Relative to where you were born. -- nm - mara Dec 9, 07:31 27
      - Then the furthest west I've been is one step east of where I was born and the furthest east I've been is one step west of where I was born. -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:33 26
        
        The farthest east or west you can go is halfway around the world. -- nm - mara Dec 9, 07:35 20
        
        If I go east halfway around the world, I can still go east. If I go north to the north *pole* I can't go north any more. -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:37 1
        
        But then yuo start getting closer to where you started. The question is where are you the farthest away. -- nm - mara Dec 9, 07:38
        
        well, sort of, but i could walk around the world (well, you know) and be heading west the entire time. -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 9, 07:36 17
        
        Irrelevent. The question has to do to with where you're farthest away from where you started? Once you start getting closer, you're not longer at the - mara Dec 9, 07:37 16
        
        what if someone is born at the South Pole (which has happened)? how do you determine the furthest east/west they ever traveled? -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:40 15
        
        It's just interesting that north/south are absolute constructs, but east/west are relative constructs. -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:42 7
        
        but there is still an absolute upper limit on the distance from your starting point, as opposed to "distance travelled", in either direction. -- nm - znufrii Dec 9, 07:45 5
        
        There is no room for interpretation on the question of north/south, but you need more information to answer the question of east/west. - Dano Dec 9, 07:52 4
        
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        Math is philosophy. What is zero? -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 08:00 1
        
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        That's like saying that the mobius strip is unremarkable. :P -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 08:00
        
        that's why we have those two arbitrary meridians. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:43
        
        They can't travel east or west at all, can they? Is this a trick question? -- nm - mara Dec 9, 07:41 5
        
        and the entire point of my original conundrum -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:43 3
        
        Why? Were any of us born that close to a pole? -- nm - mara Dec 9, 07:51 1
        
        You need more info to answer east/west. You need no more info to answer north/south. - Dano Dec 9, 07:56
        
        another oddity is that in antarctica, you can walk a few miles and go very far east or west, whereas at the equator it might take thousands of miles. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:45
        
        of course it's a trick question! -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:42
        
        I hereby exempt such persons from having to answer this poll. :) - znufrii Dec 9, 07:41
        
        now you're just being difficult :) -- nm - znufrii Dec 9, 07:35 1
        
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        only if you were born on the date line. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:33 2
        
        (that was my answer based on mara's specific criteria) -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:35
        
        i think people are going from where they are.... -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 9, 07:34
    - I was assuming relative to Greenwich, but you can do relative to your current location as well -- nm - znufrii Dec 9, 07:29 1
      - Yep. The 0 and the 180 meridians. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:30
    - The International Date Line. -- nm - Reagen Dec 9, 07:28 5
      - So if I'm standing on the International Date Line and take one step West, then that's the farthest East I've traveled? -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:30 3
        
        that's essentially what I did. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:30 2
        
        East/West is weird. If you keep going north, you'll eventually be going south. If you keep going east, you're always going east. -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:32 1
        
        that's because north and south converge on a single point. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:33
      - which is why I put Guam for East and Hawaii for West. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:29
    - To where you normally reside. -- nm - Loyola Dec 9, 07:28
  - you've never moved from the precise spot since the day you were born? - znufrii Dec 9, 07:27 4
    - he's lying. I met him in Baltimore and we know he's been to Toronto. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:28
    - but if I keep traveling east, I will eventually wind up here. -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:27 2
      - i did it as 'travelled to', so the direction i headed to get there. -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 9, 07:31 1
        
        it is kind of fun to see how people interpret the question. :) -- nm - znufrii Dec 9, 07:33
- Anchorage, Rwanda, Guam, Hawaii. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:25
- North...boston, south, orlando, east, boston, west vegas. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 9, 07:25
Time Magazine (Techland.com really) names the top 10 Best Comics of the Decade.... - Remlik Dec 9, 07:24 3
- No Fables means FAIL. -- nm - Reagen Dec 9, 07:25 2
  - word -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 07:28
  - Yeah I might bump Invincible for that easily. maybe Blankets (that book was over rated imo.) -- nm - Remlik Dec 9, 07:28
Tiger Woods - the Skank Whisperer -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 07:21 2
- he has to refine his putts. nm -- nm - groiny Dec 9, 07:25
- What a circus; Tiger attacks his German trainer; -- (link) - Loyola Dec 9, 07:24

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