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Stan Freberg - Green Chri$tma$ -- (link) - Dr.Vermin Nov 28, 11:52 [youtube]
here's a poll: what are you buying yourself for christmas? -- nm - santa claus loves mandy lane Nov 28, 11:52 15
- I'm overspending on other people and underspending on myself -- nm - Beryllium Nov 28, 11:58
- ballroom dancing lessons! -- nm - El Fandie Nov 28, 11:56
- Guitar Hero World Tour that I bought in October. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 28, 11:55
- Alzheimer tablets. -- nm - Loyola Nov 28, 11:55
- a trip somewhere. maybe Joshua Tree. -- nm - Guy Nov 28, 11:55
- probably nothing - I just bought a laptop. -- nm - Reagen Nov 28, 11:55
- maybe something banana - pigby Nov 28, 11:54
- Nothing specific, although I bought myself Weeds: Season 2 this morning. -- nm - kelly Nov 28, 11:54
- Samsung 46" LCD TV. - Dr.Vermin Nov 28, 11:53 1
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  - *jealous* -- nm - Guy Nov 28, 11:55
- 60 or 120 gig drive for the xbox -- nm - truman Nov 28, 11:52
- Probably a new TV -- nm - amoxy Nov 28, 11:52
- I think I want a waffle maker. -- nm - santa claus loves mandy lane Nov 28, 11:52
Shopping poll for Black Friday: Very last thing you bought (that wasn't food or beverage) -- nm - El Fandie Nov 28, 11:47 24
- I bought a mini-binder, 100 sheets of paper, and tabbed dividers, so I could better organize my notes at work -- nm - Beryllium Nov 28, 11:58
- Crap I can't remember. Must have alzheimers. -- nm - Loyola Nov 28, 11:55
- Oregon Scientific Thermometer. I can't find it online anywhere, but this is about as close as it gets. -- (link) - JaxSean Nov 28, 11:54
- PHotoshop tutorial CD off ebay last night -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 28, 11:52
- Hilarious christmas pictures--I got the worst one with my free coupon! -- nm - Amy Nov 28, 11:51
- oh my god. I can't remember. I bought a fabulous dress at marshall's that needs to go back (unless I get implants for christmas). iphone maybe? -- nm - santa claus loves mandy lane Nov 28, 11:51 1
  - mandy's stalker: take note. -- nm - Reagen Nov 28, 11:52
- Heh. Condoms. - Name Withheld By Request Nov 28, 11:51
- Bath stuff from Yves Rocher to mail to my sisters for Cgristmas -- nm - Roger More Nov 28, 11:50
- LG home theater surround sound system. - Dr.Vermin Nov 28, 11:50
- A leather jacket. -- nm - kelly Nov 28, 11:50 4
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    - I will be reading a few other books first. - kelly Nov 28, 11:52 2
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        The only toys he seems to like are the plush ones he can rip apart in seconds flat. - kelly Nov 28, 11:56
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  - jelly bellies ARE food, ML. And I'm sure your boyfriend will like them. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 28, 11:50
  - *bzzt* -- nm - Reagen Nov 28, 11:49 1
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- last year I probably bought some cheap blank dvds. - truman Nov 28, 11:48 3
  - no, see, the very last thing you bought.... (like, yesterday, the day before, whenever.) -- nm - El Fandie Nov 28, 11:49 1
    - oh I bought walle yesterday -- nm - truman Nov 28, 11:51
  - a cat scratching post. -- nm - Reagen Nov 28, 11:49
- Flight simulator GC as a christmas present -- nm - El Fandie Nov 28, 11:48
would a dual core processor @ 2.66 GHz run as fast as a single @ 3.0 GHz? -- nm - crash davis Nov 28, 11:45 7
- Depends what you do - Guigue Nov 28, 11:47 1
  - Exactly. Typically speaking, agmes run better on single-core CPUs, although that has been changing with newer games. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 28, 11:51
- should run faster - truman Nov 28, 11:47 2
  - Trish has either toasted her motherboard or CPU, I'm praying for the CPU as the mb is one of those weird sized proprietary HP ones. -- nm - crash davis Nov 28, 11:50 1
    - hmm, toasted motherboard, what condiments did she put on it? -- nm - truman Nov 28, 11:52
- Run processor run! -- nm - Marcel Nov 28, 11:46
- faster, I would suspect. -- nm - Reagen Nov 28, 11:46
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- *claps approvingly* -- nm - Reagen Nov 28, 11:46
It looks like the Red Sox have won the battle for Junichi Tazawa. (nm) - David Nov 28, 11:45
Does *anything* on FB generate more comments than a change in relationship status? - El Fandie Nov 28, 11:44 2
- i wouldn't know -- nm - pigby Nov 28, 11:52
- booty calls -- nm - David Nov 28, 11:45
I wonder if this is typical for Amazon - I was notified at 11AM that an item I bought at 5:00 this morning is being shipped today. - kelly Nov 28, 11:43
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- Your Boy Friend splurt? -- nm - amoxy Nov 28, 11:51
- what does you wife say about you being movies for your bf? -- nm - truman Nov 28, 11:46
- $14.99 Okami, $1.99 Wedding Crashers, and $8.99 Kung-Fu Panda. - JaxSean Nov 28, 11:44 1
  - You paid $1.99 too much for The Wedding Crashers -- nm - amoxy Nov 28, 11:52
This is a clip from the re-opening of an electronics shop in Berlin Germany, last year -- (link) - Marcel Nov 28, 11:38 [youtube] 4
- I was in a crowd like that for U2 tickets back in the day. -- nm - Loyola Nov 28, 11:43
- just looking at that gives me agita. -- nm - Reagen Nov 28, 11:42
- and this is how it looked, when the same chain opened a store in Poland -- (link) - Marcel Nov 28, 11:41 [youtube] 1
  - damn, that's scarier than Left4Dead -- nm - Beryllium Nov 28, 11:55
speaking of buying a boat and sailing away, we have a boat question. let's say jamie is married to tara and he has a boat called the tara. - santa claus loves mandy lane Nov 28, 11:37 16
- Proper sailor etiquette: Scuttle it. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 28, 11:57
- How to re-name a boat. Overkill, IMO, but sailors are a superstitious lot. -- (link) - TWuG Nov 28, 11:47
- i'd alter it, like a tattooo. The "Tara" becomes "The Tarantula" or something. -- nm - El Fandie Nov 28, 11:46 5
  - my boat would be the "Unsinkable II" -- nm - Marcel Nov 28, 11:48
  - "Wino Forever" -- nm - Reagen Nov 28, 11:47 3
    - oh, did you see? she 'lost' 125,000 worth of jewels... -- (link) - El Fandie Nov 28, 11:49 2
      - she's starting to look like Marina Sirtis. -- nm - Reagen Nov 28, 11:51 1
        
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- I read once "a boat is a fiberglass-lined hole in the water into which you throw money." - Dr.Vermin Nov 28, 11:45
- "Everyone knows that renaming your boat will bring nothing but bad luck..." -- (link) - JaxSean Nov 28, 11:43 1
  - keeping the boat with the ex's name will not bring luck with the new gf .. -- nm - Marcel Nov 28, 11:45
- Isn't there some superstition about changing a boat's name? -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 28, 11:42
- find another girl named tara. -- nm - Reagen Nov 28, 11:39
- burn it and build a new one in his basement -- nm - truman Nov 28, 11:38 2
  - *laughing* I was just gonna say burn it but you had to go all DIY on it. -- nm - Loyola Nov 28, 11:46 1
    - it's an NCIS joke -- nm - Beryllium Nov 28, 12:00
If anyone doesn't have it, amazon mp3 has A Charlie Brown Christmas sdtrk for $2. -- (link) - TFox Nov 28, 11:28 4
- TFox, I am thankful for you and for Sean for always posting these awesome amazon mp3 deals. -- nm - santa claus loves mandy lane Nov 28, 11:42
- It's amusing to me to see this climb up the eMusic chart every year until it's in the top spot. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 28, 11:33 2
  - I bought this from Amazon mp3 2 days ago for $7. - TFox Nov 28, 11:35 1
    - I don't know why you don't do eMusic. It seems like your cup of tea, music-wise. - JaxSean Nov 28, 11:40
Oh, and I actually *did* buy something today. I got a rug from Menards for 1/2 off. So, I did get seduced by a black friday ad after all. -- nm - Amy Nov 28, 11:26 6
- that reminds me of those awful old Menards commercials. Whew, that old guy was annoying. -- nm - Callisto Nov 28, 11:48
- pics? -- nm - El Fandie Nov 28, 11:27 4
  - It's just a "road" rug. It was so cheap and it will fit under the train table. -- nm - Amy Nov 28, 11:32 1
    - I had one of these in my bathroom in hellertown. I *loved* it. -- nm - santa claus loves mandy lane Nov 28, 11:45
  - i'm afraid that won't be possible -- nm - Lil Logan Nov 28, 11:27 1
    - heh. -- nm - El Fandie Nov 28, 11:28
So combining two B2 threads. I say, sentence the Iranian man to opening the doors at Walmart on Black Friday. -- nm - Redmond Nov 28, 11:24
less tax, more Hax: should ex-GF told her friend how horrible her ex was when he started dating the friend? - pigby Nov 28, 11:24 10
- No. He could have grown up over those years. -- nm - Amy Nov 28, 11:35
- Seriously though, she could have warned her but to add in the caveat that maybe he wasn't ready for a relationship back then. -- nm - Loyola Nov 28, 11:34
- i think she did the right thing - if he had been violent, an addict, etc, she should have warned her. bad behaviour, not so much. who's to say he - El Fandie Nov 28, 11:31
- No, everybody loves surprises. -- nm - Loyola Nov 28, 11:30
- Of course she should have warned her. That's first-hand experience. And yes, listening to her 'rehash' is your penance for not saying something. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Nov 28, 11:28 5
  - i say some lessons people gotta learn themselves. if she had said something, the friend would have just thought it was sour grapes - pigby Nov 28, 11:29 4
    - That's a big if. - Dr.Vermin Nov 28, 11:36 2
      - nobody listens. -- nm - El Fandie Nov 28, 11:38 1
        
        Well then, I defer. - Dr.Vermin Nov 28, 11:40
    - exactly. -- nm - kelly Nov 28, 11:34
I'm so proud of this country - where greedy mobs will happily trample someone to death to save a few bucks - Guy Nov 28, 11:23 21
- First of all, "buddy". Second, at least it wasn't over a stupid soccer game. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Nov 28, 11:29 9
  - i don't really think this is a comparison thing. (and, also, i don't think a Walmart trampling is in any way morally superior - El Fandie Nov 28, 11:32 8
    - Agreed. My point was just that mob mentalities are not country-specific. - Dr.Vermin Nov 28, 11:38 7
      - i believe there is a stark difference from a bunch of guys who just want to get drunk and fight and people who value sale prices over human life -- nm - Guy Nov 28, 11:49 4
        
        You really imagine there were people in line intending to shed blood in order to get a deal? -- nm - Dr.Vermin Nov 28, 11:52 1
        
        not to take his side, but I'd bet you'd find at least one. -- nm - Reagen Nov 28, 11:54
        
        You think the people involved in the crush aren't feeling sick about the man's death? -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 28, 11:50 1
        
        not the ones who were shoving their way past the emergency workers so they could still shop - Guy Nov 28, 11:54
      - nah - I know someone from Germany that *hates* Germans, for instance -- nm - Reagen Nov 28, 11:43 1
        
        Ah, okay. So Guy is neither prescient nor unique. - Dr.Vermin Nov 28, 11:47
- there are great immigrant worker programs in all the socialist countries. look into it! -- nm - pigby Nov 28, 11:25 3
  - I would move to another country if England would let me in. It sucks you can't pick where you want to live. -- nm - Amy Nov 28, 11:28 2
    - Why would England not let you in? -- nm - Marcel Nov 28, 11:33 1
      - I couldn't get a work permit after college. They don't need/want me. -- nm - Amy Nov 28, 11:39
- As I said on B2, the zombie apocalypse nears. Except instead of "brains", they will be hording over "stuff". -- nm - Beryllium Nov 28, 11:24 6
  - the more i hear about these sorts of thing, the more i want to give everything away and become amish. -- nm - El Fandie Nov 28, 11:26 5
    - i like your thinking, but the Amish are a bit stuffy. we should find a quiet communal farm somewhere -- nm - Guy Nov 28, 11:52
    - But you'd have no stuff! -- nm - Loyola Nov 28, 11:38 2
      - i don't like too much stuff. i spend all my time thinking of ways to get rid of stuff. - El Fandie Nov 28, 11:41 1
        
        I know what you mean. I need to de-clutter more often. -- nm - Loyola Nov 28, 11:48
    - ... the more I want to sail into the middle of nowhere ... -- nm - Beryllium Nov 28, 11:26
NWBR: I pay taxes. I enjoy having the guaranteed power to dictate where a small portion of that payment goes. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 28, 11:18 22
- I just find it funny how many people think that the money should be a right, when if they only gave ten dollars to their party of choice each year... - Name Withheld By Request Nov 28, 11:20 18
  - I think it's the difference between opt-in and opt-out programs. - Roger More Nov 28, 11:31 5
    - I'm starting to think NWBR's office is in a parallel universe, because the support on TT is pretty strong... -- nm - Guigue Nov 28, 11:36 4
      - I'm starting to think that Canada is made up of several parallel universes :) -- nm - Roger More Nov 28, 11:50
      - Well, we'll know later this weekend when the polling is unveiled, but I would bet that at least 66% are against the subsidy. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 28, 11:46
      - I think it would be the most Canadian thing ever to hjave the government fall over what can be broken down as $2 per voter per year. - Reagen Nov 28, 11:41 1
        
        Paul Wells made the point...It's not like there isn't anything important ("Is Pakistan involved in the Indian massacre?!") to discuss. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 28, 11:44
  - Also, if you're pro-subsidy, why are you slamming it and laughing at the people who support it? - Beryllium Nov 28, 11:23 3
    - I'm not laughing at people who support it. (The funny is a broad, "Isn't that funny..." thing). And while I support it, I can see the other side... - Name Withheld By Request Nov 28, 11:27 2
      - see, I don't think it really is about "the government should pay for everything". - Reagen Nov 28, 11:31
      - Ah, I see. Well, the parties would survive, but I think the chronic "Steak and a BJ" pledge drive campaigning would get annoying. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 28, 11:30
  - *gives money to Lap Dance Party* -- nm - Redmond Nov 28, 11:22
  - beer is ten dollars? Dayam. I'm glad they don't tax soda like that (yet). - Beryllium Nov 28, 11:22 6
    - On political donations up to $400, you receive a 75% tax credit. So for $10, you get $7.50 back and it costs you $2.50. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 28, 11:25 5
      - That doesn't seem very efficient - first I have to make the effort to contribute to my political party and then I have to go through more effort to cl - Roger More Nov 28, 11:33 2
        
        ... aim the refund. -- nm - Roger More Nov 28, 11:33 1
        
        It's just a check off box on your tax form. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 28, 11:43
      - So the government ends up paying 7.50 of the $10 donation? -- nm - Guigue Nov 28, 11:30
      - oh, I see. That makes more sense :) -- nm - Beryllium Nov 28, 11:25
- (Although I'll admit, I'd rather be able to go online and "configure" where I want my tax dollars to go - in support of health, social programs, and d -- nm - Beryllium Nov 28, 11:18 2
  - efense, for example) -- nm - Beryllium Nov 28, 11:18 1
    - But nobody would put any money to do tech support for the online system, it would crash, and the whole society would crumble -- nm - Guigue Nov 28, 11:20
Oh boy. Jacen has suddenly, arbitrarily, decided he *hates* diaper changes. *hates*. -- nm - TFox Nov 28, 11:17 5
- That only lasted a few weeks here. -- nm - Amy Nov 28, 11:19 4
  - He used to *love* diaper time. We'd play games, he'd be all laughs, total angel. The last week, complete and utter meltdown. -- nm - TFox Nov 28, 11:20 3
    - Yep. And Logan would grab the diaper and toss it over the edge. Daycare and I worked on it and it got better. It's just another test of the limits. - Amy Nov 28, 11:23 2
      - now i'm on to cameras. ho ho ho! -- nm - Logan Nov 28, 11:24
      - He did that too. Jacen is happily obsessed with toothbrushes. It is a daily excursion to find mine. -- nm - TFox Nov 28, 11:24
I'm still full. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Nov 28, 11:16 1
- spoilers - truman Nov 28, 11:17
dignan. dignan. dignan. dignan. dignan. -- nm - santa claus loves mandy lane Nov 28, 11:16

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