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speculative questions and ponderings on TAR (spoilerish) ... - i'm not dead yet ! Dec 1, 10:51 2
- Well, here's what I think about the chances for each: (spoils for up to this point) - The Calico Cat Coalition Dec 1, 10:57
- spoiler speculation - Buzz Dec 1, 10:55
for the roll: Africa trivia! How much does an AK-47 cost on the street in South Africa? PIR rules. -- nm - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 10:50 9
- $50 -- nm - Buzz Dec 1, 10:52
- i would go with the obligatory 312.50, but instead i'll say $68.50 -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Dec 1, 10:52
- 7500 Rand -- nm - znufrii Dec 1, 10:52
- $25 US and a case of cigarettes. -- nm - TWuG Dec 1, 10:52
- American dollars? $2.50 -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 1, 10:51
- $125 -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Dec 1, 10:51
- $ 54.34 -- nm - Pippy Dec 1, 10:51
- $75. -- nm - lileve Dec 1, 10:51
- $10. -- nm - Reagen Dec 1, 10:50
I love that Marbury is making shooting references right after the Plax thing. He's so damned clueless. -- nm - David Dec 1, 10:45 2
- I really wonder what the rest of the members of the NBAPA think about their union trying to salvage this assclown after he abandoned the team -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 1, 10:46 1
  - I think this is exactly the problem with the sports unions. - David Dec 1, 10:47
Lego (and in particular, Duplo) is evidently more popular in Europe. Many non-US exclusives. Including this mother. -- (link) - Mop Dec 1, 10:44
does anyone want to hear about Algerian Will Hunting? -- nm - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 10:43 11
- He's a fixer. He does stuff like get you Swiss chocolate, ice-cold Coke, and weed. Sweet and affable. But when you get kidnapped... - Mop Dec 1, 10:46 1
  - oh, he's totally a fixer. I sent him back to the hotel this morning to get someone who missed the bus. he was there in two minutes, literally. I was - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 10:48
- How many goat-burgers did he eat? -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 1, 10:45
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- Has he eaten eleven patties yet? -- nm - kelly Dec 1, 10:44
- *chuckles* Okay, what did he eat THIS time? -- nm - mara Dec 1, 10:44 5
  - OK, I don't know what he eats, but he is the scariest driver I have ever ridden with. He does 60mph in heavy traffice, and I mean *heavy*. Inches away - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 10:47 4
    - That's so not me. I'm a solid driver who hates tailgating. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 1, 10:50
    - OMG! It *is* Will's Algerian twin! - kelly Dec 1, 10:50 2
      - Pfft, you are just new to the area; that's not tailgaiting! - Will Hunting Dec 1, 10:51 1
        
        I know what a car length is, dear. - kelly Dec 1, 10:56
"Six Ways World of Warcraft Is Worse Than Real Life" makes it sound stupid and cool at the same time. -- (link) - mara Dec 1, 10:43 1
- "ou know how during your first month in prison you want to find a gang to join..." Tell me about it! -- nm - Mop Dec 1, 10:51
Okay, what Oscar performances are pretty much a guarantee to get nominated this year? - Will Hunting Dec 1, 10:42 10
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  - Cate Blanchett too? -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 1, 10:52
  - Quatum of Solace qualifies. -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 1, 10:50 1
    - But it's Bond, so cancels out the Dame Judy rule -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Dec 1, 10:51
- Sean Penn is likely a lock. -- nm - Reagen Dec 1, 10:43 1
  - this is my vote - he did full on retard and screwed up his chances in the past - Pippy Dec 1, 10:47
- Anne Hathaway for that wedding movie is getting mucho buzz. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 1, 10:43 2
  - Bride Wars is a lock for Best Picture in 2009! - Mop Dec 1, 10:45 1
    - Between the trailer for that and "Confessions of a Shopaholic", I don't know which one offended me more. -- nm - Diva Dec 1, 10:49
ST is soooo dirty! -- (link) - HdnAgnda Dec 1, 10:39
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this is super cute. -- (link) - santa claus loves mandy lane Dec 1, 10:29 8
- i want the snoopy ornament. - kare Dec 1, 10:31 7
  - i wish i had a little kid to give this to: (Playmobil advent calendar) -- (link) - El Fandie Dec 1, 10:33 6
    - lil miss ccc just got the Littlest Petshop Advent Calendar ( found it last year on cleerance) - The Calico Cat Coalition Dec 1, 10:47
    - that's cool! -- nm - kare Dec 1, 10:37
    - Lego has a great advent calendar. -- (link) - Mop Dec 1, 10:37
    - I read that as Playboy and thought, little kid?? -- nm - mara Dec 1, 10:35 2
      - Never too early. -- nm - Mop Dec 1, 10:37 1
        
        They just got done with nipples for milk, let them have a break! -- nm - The Calico Cat Coalition Dec 1, 10:49
poll! the silent treatment: good, bad, childish, what? - kare Dec 1, 10:29 36
- ... -- nm - David Dec 1, 10:46
- I like it. - Pippy Dec 1, 10:42
- Capital C childish. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 1, 10:42
- unuseful -- nm - znufrii Dec 1, 10:38
- From experience, childish and just about the quickest way to kill a relationship. -- nm - TWuG Dec 1, 10:37
- Its not just withholding communication, its withholding love -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 1, 10:34
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- Has it's uses. - Will Hunting Dec 1, 10:32
- *turns back to you, crosses arms, frowns* -- nm - Reagen Dec 1, 10:32
- as a punishment i think it's sort of stupid, but i agree that if the argument is going nowhere, than saying nothing for a while might help both sides. -- nm - El Fandie Dec 1, 10:32 3
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    - *gives jack the silent treatment* -- nm - TWuG Dec 1, 10:40
  - agreed -- nm - CrankYanker Dec 1, 10:33
- Childish -- nm - TFox Dec 1, 10:31
- Childish and stupid. -- nm - lileve Dec 1, 10:31 1
  - Anytime my mother has given me the silent treatment in the past few years I ask her "Are you five." - lileve Dec 1, 10:37
- Usually crappy and childish, but sometimes I have just felt unable to talk. So it wasn't that I was choosing not to talk out of petulance. -- nm - mara Dec 1, 10:31 10
  - to me that is not the same as the "silent treatment". -- nm - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 10:36
  - Personally, I think there's a difference between feeling unable to talk, and going out of your way to avoid talking to someone. -- nm - kelly Dec 1, 10:33 8
    - But I think they would seem the same, or very close, to the person observing it. -- nm - mara Dec 1, 10:34 6
      - If I am unable to talk, I say, "I'm so sorry but I'm unable to talk." I don't pretend the person doesn't exist. -- nm - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 10:36 5
        
        I had a friend in elementary/high school who used to *love* using the silent treatment, for reasons that I am still not sure of. - kelly Dec 1, 10:42
        
        though... that can be more loaded than not saying anything at all. -- nm - kare Dec 1, 10:42 3
        
        Not if it's true. Then it's just the truth, not a tactic. -- nm - TFox Dec 1, 10:44 2
        
        of course it can be loaded if it's true. it directly implies there's a problem, and possibly makes the other party wonder even *more* what's wrong. - kare Dec 1, 10:47 1
        
        with the silent treatment, sometimes you wonder whether you're imagining the whole thing. Totally Gaslight. -- nm - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 10:51
    - Yes. Once you say the sentence "I really need some time to myself", it's not the silent treatment, it's something else. -- nm - TFox Dec 1, 10:34
- Mostly good, because if you are angry at someone, silence is better than saying something you'll soon regret -- nm - con_carne Dec 1, 10:30 4
  - The silent treatment is not just withholding communication for an hour or so until you calm down, it's a persistent unwillingness to acknowledge - TWuG Dec 1, 10:40 3
    - yeah, i guess it can get to that level pretty quickly, eh. -- nm - kare Dec 1, 10:44
    - This is what the colonel used to do, and it's impossible to have any kind of adult communication. -- nm - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 10:41 1
      - It's what I did in my marriage around 5 or 6 years ago that almost cost me my wife. - TWuG Dec 1, 10:45
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  - nah, more general--any kind of relationship. work, family, etc. -- nm - kare Dec 1, 10:34 1
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- childish and destructive, IMO. -- nm - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 10:30
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- from the article, it's not clear whether CNN really did that. -- nm - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 10:31
LIR: ceregon take the prepaid rent, put it on the mortgage - zeitgeist Dec 1, 10:24 8
- I understand the power of compound interest, but paying off a mortgage is only earning 6% (less because of the deductibility of interest), of course.. - ceregon Dec 1, 10:36 4
  - I was gonna say, what investment will pay that high? -- nm - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 10:40
  - but by reducing the principle, you're getting that 6% over the entire remaining period of your mortgage. -- nm - znufrii Dec 1, 10:39 2
    - for example: if you pay down the pinciple by $10,000, you can save up to $40,000 in interest payments over the life of a 30-year mortgage - znufrii Dec 1, 10:47 1
      - (this is if you make the extra principal payment at the beginning of the loan, and still keep your monthly payments as they were) -- nm - znufrii Dec 1, 10:48
- I think everyone's telling ceregon to take the money, but I think he wants a reason not to take it. - Mop Dec 1, 10:32 1
  - let's not forget that is not free money, the roommate's half the mortgage still has to be paid monthly, interest will probably only be 150 or much les - zeitgeist Dec 1, 10:40
- Ditto! -- nm - lileve Dec 1, 10:26
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Rewatching the Baby One More Time video, Britney was never a good dancer but she could passably execute choreography. -- nm - Dano Dec 1, 10:19 9
- I looked at the video on B2, it's like her arms are super heavy -- nm - Guigue Dec 1, 10:25
- Britney's a phenom, not a singer, not a dancer... same as Madonna. -- nm - CrankYanker Dec 1, 10:22 5
  - She's a gay man's wet dream really. -- nm - lileve Dec 1, 10:23 4
    - so is Madonna ;-) -- nm - CrankYanker Dec 1, 10:24 3
      - Madonna wanted it. Brit was kinda pushed into it. -- nm - lileve Dec 1, 10:25 2
        
        Madonna has never stopped working and has always kept her body clean. No drinking or smoking, no meat. She never lost her drive. -- nm - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 10:38
        
        are you talking about being a fenom, or a gay man's wet dream? - colin Dec 1, 10:26
- i saw the Womanizer video again this weekend, and i actually thought 'hey, she looks like she knows what she's doing.' - El Fandie Dec 1, 10:21
- "cut! and again... cut! and again... cut!... we'll just CGI that" -- nm - colin Dec 1, 10:20
Food is just like any other commodity, if it's cheaper to grow and ship it from overseas than to produce it domestically, then do so. - TWuG Dec 1, 10:17 21
- The problem is: it makes growing food on our expensive land unprofitable and so we will loose all that farm land to more houses, then when transport.. - zeitgeist Dec 1, 10:29 1
  - I love the irrational and totally unsupported fear that lost farming means more houses. - TWuG Dec 1, 10:51
- ag. subsidies are extremely popular at a states level and will probably never be done away with.... - x Dec 1, 10:24 5
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    - here's the sense it makes: it's just much easier politically to continue to support those subsidies than it is to get rid of them... - x Dec 1, 10:38
    - I don't think it is. If they want to pay you to grow vegetables organically and then give them to food banks, fine. But being paid to grow nothing is - mara Dec 1, 10:34 1
      - Think of it like OPEC and production quotas. -- nm - Reagen Dec 1, 10:35
    - No, it makes no sense overall. Zero. Non. Zip. Zilch. The government is - TWuG Dec 1, 10:32
- Being dependant on other countries for oil is one thing, but it's way worst for food IMO - Guigue Dec 1, 10:22 2
  - The choice isn't ag or parking lots. It's self-sufficient ag versus fallow ground. -- nm - TWuG Dec 1, 10:29
  - At the moment, the US exports more agricultural produce than it imports. So does Canada - Roger More Dec 1, 10:27
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  - I'm a big fan of govt money actually going to those who do something; not those who don't. - Will Hunting Dec 1, 10:35
  - why? seems like he wants the general good of the people, not of the country or economy... seems about right. -- nm - colin Dec 1, 10:20 6
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      - I can't speak for TWuG, but for me I'd rather help out millions of low income earners with a few bucks a year through lower food prices rather... - Roger More Dec 1, 10:31 3
        
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        There would be three effects - first, people would pay less for food, which gives them more money to save or spend on other things. - Roger More Dec 1, 10:43
        
        I am for helping those unable to help themselves. I am NOT for helping those who don't want to help themselves. -- nm - TWuG Dec 1, 10:33
      - see what i mean! -- nm - colin Dec 1, 10:23
  - Because my socially liberal side is dominant at the national level. Find me a party that is socially liberal and fiscally conservative - TWuG Dec 1, 10:19
How many babies do you have in that class, mandy? - Inigo Dec 1, 10:16 1
- none. it makes literally no sense. at all. -- nm - santa claus loves mandy lane Dec 1, 10:42
Catching up after lunch: there is a "metal" band called Devil Wears Prada? - TFox Dec 1, 10:16 1
- they're hilarious... they play a great show, but don't take themselves seriously at all. -- nm - colin Dec 1, 10:18
loosilu dispatch: Get used to tRuMaN's monkeys. -- nm - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 10:15
Hey, Comcast just hit me with a bunch of new HD channels! Such crap, I'd rather not have them at all. - Mop Dec 1, 10:14 6
- but but but, you have more HD than the other guys, don't forget the 100 chanels of spam, promos and QVC shopping -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 1, 10:31
- My dad can't wait to ditch Direct TV. -- nm - lileve Dec 1, 10:15 4
  - Why? -- nm - con_carne Dec 1, 10:15 3
    - He doesn't like many of the channels and misses ones he had on Cablevision. Plus HD. For some reason we can't get HD because of the signal? Trees? -- nm - lileve Dec 1, 10:18 2
      - Thanks. Thinking of signing up with them, that's why I ask -- nm - con_carne Dec 1, 10:26 1
        
        Another annoying thing is that you have to take out all of the PPV channels and what not out of your channel list, manually. -- nm - lileve Dec 1, 10:32
tRuMaN dispatch: Get used to monkeys. -- nm - tRuMaN Dec 1, 10:12
Alaska Dispatch: Get used to Palin -- (link) - mara Dec 1, 10:10 8
- Alaskans love being called a backwater state. -- nm - Mop Dec 1, 10:15 5
  - Columbus, OH has more residents than the ENTIRE state of Alaska. If Columbus is a cow town.... -- nm - TWuG Dec 1, 10:18 3
    - who calls columbus a cow town? looked like an office park town to me. -- nm - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 10:21 2
      - Big city look, small town mentality. As Reagen says, we've called ourselves a cowtown for ages. -- nm - TWuG Dec 1, 10:36
      - one of Columbus's nicknames is Cowtown. -- nm - Reagen Dec 1, 10:31
  - It's one of those things that an Alaskan can say but nobody else can. -- nm - mara Dec 1, 10:18
- Sarah, have you met Geraldine Ferrero? She was the first female VP nominee, when you in high school. We didn't hear from her again for 24 years - Mr. Havens Dec 1, 10:12 1
  - yeah we did. -- nm - loosilu in Algiers Dec 1, 10:12
monkeys. -- nm - tRuMaN Dec 1, 10:10

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